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  Boston MA (SPX) Oct 07, 2022 Trying to decipher all of the factors that influence the behavior of complex ecological communities can be a daunting task. However, MIT researchers have now shown that the behavior of these ecosystems can be predicted based on just two pieces of information: the number of species in the community and how strongly they interact with each other. In studies of bacteria grown in the lab, the researchers were able to define three states of ecological communities, and calculated the conditions necessar ... read more |
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Human rights champions in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine win Nobel Peace PrizeOslo (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 A trio of human rights champions from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a highly symbolic choice of laureates drawn from three nations at the centre of the war in Ukraine. ... more  
Impact that killed the dinosaurs triggered "mega-earthquake" that lasted weeks to monthsWashington DC (SPX) Oct 07, 2022 Denver, Colo., USA: 66 million years ago, a 10-kilometer asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of the dinosaurs. New evidence suggests that the Chicxulub impact also triggered an earthquake ... more  
Egypt replants mangrove 'treasure' to fight climate change impactsHamata, Egypt (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 On Egypt's Red Sea coast, fish swim among thousands of newly planted mangroves, part of a programme to boost biodiversity, protect coastlines and fight climate change and its impacts. ... more  
Kenya lobby groups protest lifting of ban on GM cropsNairobi (AFP) Oct 6, 2022 Activists and agriculture lobby groups on Thursday urged Kenya's government to reverse its decision to lift a long-standing ban on genetically modified crops as the country struggles with a crippling drought. ... more |
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Flood-hit Spain introduces 'climate leave' for workers
'Nothing left': Flood-hit Spanish town struggles one month on At least 15 dead, 113 missing, after Uganda landslides Indonesia's North Sumatra landslide death toll rises to 27 One dead, thousands displaced as floods hit southern Thailand At least 30 feared dead after Uganda landslides: official Senegal signs off on ruling party's parliament landslide Spain govt defends flood response and offers new aid Spain govt defends flood action as it offers new aid Moderately strong quake hits off central Japan |
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The fountain of life: Water droplets hold the secret ingredient for building lifeWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 Purdue University chemists have uncovered a mechanism for peptide-forming reactions to occur in water - something that has puzzled scientists for decades. "This is essentially the chemistry b ... more  
Hazy timeframe for reaching electric plane eraNew York (AFP) Oct 6, 2022 Recent test flights suggest the era of electric airplanes is coming closer, but aviation experts caution that achieving commercial use hinges on regulatory approval which has an unknowable timeframe. ... more  
Filipinos fishing on frontline of China's battle for disputed seaCato, Philippines (AFP) Oct 5, 2022 Filipino fisherman Mariel Villamonte had spent years plying the turquoise waters of Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea for snapper and grouper - until a Chinese coast guard vessel water cannoned his boat. ... more 
Beaten and robbed: Vietnamese fisherman recounts China attacksLy Son, Vietnam (AFP) Oct 5, 2022 Vietnamese fisherman Nguyen Van Loc has been attacked by Chinese coast guard vessels so many times, he has lost count. ... more |
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Study reveals daily surface temperature of 160 lakes over Tibetan Plateau past 40 YearsBeijing, China (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 The annual surface temperature of 160 lakes across the Tibetan Plateau has increased significantly in the period of 1978-2017, according to a study on large-scale dynamic monitoring and simulation o ... more  
Study: Climate change contributed to global drought in 2022Washington DC (UPI) Oct 6, 2021 Man-made climate change exasperated global drought, fires and heat waves in 2022, according to a study by scientists representing several academic institutions and climate watchdogs. ... more  
Floods to drag up to 9 million Pakistanis into poverty: World BankIslamabad (AFP) Oct 6, 2022 Between six and nine million Pakistanis are set to be dragged into poverty as a result of cataclysmic monsoon flooding linked to climate change, the World Bank said on Thursday. ... more  
GMV joins UN Global CompactMadrid, Spain (SPX) Oct 07, 2022 As a declaration of its firm commitment to innovation-led, progress-seeking sustainable development, technology multinational GMV has joined the United Nations Global Compact, a worldwide initiative ... more |
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Nearly 200 dead in Niger floodsNiamey (AFP) Oct 6, 2022 Flooding caused by heavy rains in the West African state of Niger has claimed nearly 200 lives and affected more than a quarter of a million people, the Civil Protection Service said on Thursday, describing the toll as one of the highest on record. ... more  
Demonstrators rally in support of new Burkina Faso leaderOuagadougou (AFP) Oct 6, 2022 Demonstrators gathered in the capital of Burkina Faso on Thursday to show their support for the country's new junta leader, as rumours swirled of internal divisions in the army. ... more  
Africa sounds caution on net zero goal ahead of COP27Cape Town (AFP) Oct 5, 2022 Africa needs time and money to wean itself off fossil fuels in order to achieve net zero without jeopardising its future, its representatives are warning ahead of next month's climate talks. ... more  
Oil giants' East Africa mega-project risks causing 'unacceptable' damage: reportParis (AFP) Oct 5, 2022 A vast and controversial East African oil project led by French oil giant TotalEnergies risks inflicting "unacceptable" damage, a report by two NGOs warned on Wednesday. ... more 
Nord Stream leaked less methane than feared: atmospheric monitorParis (AFP) Oct 5, 2022 Leaks from the Nord Stream gas pipelines released some 70,000 tonnes of the powerful greenhouse gas methane, researchers said Wednesday, less than previously thought. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 06, 2022 
Climate change is driving more volatile precipitation patterns around the world - very dry stretches punctuated by storms that drop large amounts of rain or snow in a short amount of time. While wetter and drier spells may have certain effects that are easy to predict, such as on water levels in lakes and rivers, a recent study focused on California reveals that they can affect slow-moving lands ... more |
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 Santa Fe NM (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 
Solstar Space (Solstar), the company making persistent in-orbit communications available, announced its currently in development, Deke Space Communicator will provide a cost-effective and easy communications solution to support end-of-life decommissioning of spacecraft. When installed on satellites prior to initial launch, the Solstar Deke Space Communicator will give satellite operators persist ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said Friday he has assured Australia that his nation will not allow a Chinese military presence in its territory.
The island nation has been at the centre of a diplomatic tussle in the southern Pacific Ocean between the United States, Australia and their allies on one side and an increasingly assertive China on the other.
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 06, 2022 
During spring and summer, as the air warms up and the sun beats down on the Greenland Ice Sheet, melt ponds pop up. Melt ponds are vast pools of open water that form on both sea ice and ice sheets and are visible as turquoise-blue pools of water in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image.
When snow and ice melt atop glaciers, water flows in channels and streams and collects in depressions on the ... more |
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 Nairobi (AFP) Oct 6, 2022 
Activists and agriculture lobby groups on Thursday urged Kenya's government to reverse its decision to lift a long-standing ban on genetically modified crops as the country struggles with a crippling drought.
The government of newly elected President William Ruto on Monday allowed the open cultivation and import of GM crops, saying it was in response to the drought - the worst to hit the co ... more |
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 Islamabad (AFP) Oct 6, 2022 
Between six and nine million Pakistanis are set to be dragged into poverty as a result of cataclysmic monsoon flooding linked to climate change, the World Bank said on Thursday.
Pakistan has been lashed by unprecedented monsoon rains this year which killed 1,700, devastated two million homes, and put a third of the nation underwater.
Eight million people remain displaced, living in ramsh ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 
Burkina Faso's new rulers say they seized power to better fight jihadists, but history in the Sahel suggests the coup will merely stoke turbulence and division, benefitting the insurgents, analysts say.
The poor, arid region has been wracked by jihadist insecurity since 2012.
It began in northern Mali then in 2015 spread to its centre and neighbouring Niger and Burkina Faso, claiming tho ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 3, 2021 
A Swedish scientist has been awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for his groundbreaking research that proved modern humans once procreated with ancient Neanderthals.
Svante Paabo, an evolutionary geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, received the award for sequencing the ancient genome of the human-like species that went extinct about ... more |
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 Canada (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 
Some 250 million years ago - long before dinosaurs roamed the earth - global warming and acid ocean caused by the rapid volcanic emission of the Siberian Traps led to the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, which resulted in the elimination of over 95 percent of marine and 70 percent of terrestrial life.
Then Mother Nature did what it does best - replenish itself. But why did it take her so ... more |
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 Friedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 
The development of Europe's second generation polar-orbiting weather satellites has reached another decisive milestone with the installation of the Ice Cloud Imager Instrument (ICI) onto the MetOp-SG-B satellite. The novel sensor has now been successfully integrated at Airbus' Satellite Integration Centre in Friedrichshafen, Germany. ICI is one of the five instruments on board this next generati ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 
Fish fossils dating back 440 million years are helping to "fill some of the key gaps" on how humans evolved from fish, researchers said on Wednesday.
Two fossil deposits of ancient fish in Guizhou, southern China, and Chongqing in the southwest were discovered by scientists during a field study in 2019.
The fossils "help to trace many human body structures back to ancient fishes, some 44 ... more |
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 Cape Town (AFP) Oct 5, 2022 
Africa needs time and money to wean itself off fossil fuels in order to achieve net zero without jeopardising its future, its representatives are warning ahead of next month's climate talks.
At energy conferences this week, Ghana, South Africa and the African Union have insisted the continent stands by net zero - the goal of an overall balance in heat-stoking greenhouse gases.
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 Daejeon, South Korea (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 
Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE) and Seoul National University (SNU) research team announced that they have discovered a new plasma operating mode that can improve plasma performance for fusion energy based on an analysis of plasma operations with ultra-high temperatures over 100 million degrees (Celsius) at the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR).
To generate ene ... more |
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 Ottawa (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 
Canada is failing to protect at-risk species of fish that are commercially valuable, its environment commissioner said in an audit published Tuesday, blasting bureaucrats for putting commercial interests ahead of conservation.
In a statement, commissioner Jerry DeMarco said Fisheries and Oceans Canada had shown "a bias against protecting species of commercial value under the Species At Risk ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 
Accused of peddling propaganda and even spying, Chinese cultural institutes are facing increasing resistance around the world, forcing some to close down and Beijing to make changes to their management.
China has set up hundreds of Confucius Institutes - named after the ancient Chinese philosopher - in more than 150 countries in less than two decades, according to the body that oversees th ... more |
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 Hamata, Egypt (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 
On Egypt's Red Sea coast, fish swim among thousands of newly planted mangroves, part of a programme to boost biodiversity, protect coastlines and fight climate change and its impacts.
After decades of destruction that saw the mangroves cleared, all that remained were fragmented patches totalling some 500 hectares (1,200 acres), the size of only a few hundred football pitches.
Sayed Khali ... more |
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