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  Washington (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 US President Joe Biden's administration released a new Arctic strategy on Friday as the strategically and environmentally important region suffers worsening effects from climate change and sees increased international competition. Global warming is melting Arctic ice, opening previously closed areas to navigation and creating new opportunities for countries such as the United States, Russia and China to vie for resources and influence. The situation is further complicated by the invasion of Ukra ... read more |
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Amazon deforestation breaks Sept record; Scientists reach tallest tree found in AmazonRio De Janeiro (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon broke the monthly record for September, according to official figures released Friday, triggering calls from environmentalists to vote far-right President Jair Bolsonaro out of office later this month. ... more  
UN seeks more money for poor countries to fight global warmingUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 The UN General Assembly appealed Friday for developing countries to receive more money to fight climate change, passing a resolution that also expressed support for Pakistan, a third of which is under water due to record monsoon rains. ... more  
Pink diamond sells for nearly $58 million in Hong KongHong Kong (AFP) Oct 8, 2022 A rare pink diamond has sold in Hong Kong for nearly $58 million, setting a record for price per carat paid at auction for any diamond or gemstone, according to Sotheby's. ... more  
'Exceptional' year for Champagne despite record heat: producersParis (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 Champagnes from 2022 are expected to be "exceptional" despite record heat and drought in France over the summer, according to producers of the prestigious sparkling wine. ... more |
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At least 15 dead, 113 missing, in Uganda landslides
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 |
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250 pilot whales die in remote New Zealand strandingWellington (AFP) Oct 8, 2022 About 250 pilot whales have died after beaching on New Zealand's remote Chatham Island where the shark risk makes attempts to refloat them too dangerous, the government said Saturday. ... more  
Doubts over Ethiopia peace talks as Kenya envoy says won't attendNairobi (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 Kenya's former president Uhuru Kenyatta, one of the key players in African Union-led efforts to bring peace to Ethiopia, said Friday he would not be attending negotiations expected to begin this weekend, raising doubts over whether the talks would go ahead. ... more 
Djibouti says seven soldiers killed in rebel attackDjibouti (AFP) Oct 8, 2022 Djibouti said seven of its soldiers were killed in an attack by a rebel group on a military barracks in the early hours of Friday, and launched a search to find six still missing. ... more 
I.Coast president sees progress in Mali troop spatAbidjan (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara on Friday hinted at a possible breakthrough in a bitter dispute with Mali, which has held 46 Ivorian soldiers for three months and branded them mercenaries. ... more |
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Bialiatski: veteran rights defender in authoritarian BelarusMoscow (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 Ales Bialiatski, the head of Belarus rights group Viasna, has battled against repression for a quarter of a century and spent years in jail for his efforts. ... more 
Rights champions in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus win Nobel Peace PrizeOslo (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 Human rights watchdogs from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, with the jury criticising Russian President Vladimir Putin's "authoritarian" regime as he waged war in Ukraine. ... more  
First minors sentenced under Hong Kong security lawHong Kong (AFP) Oct 8, 2022 The first minors convicted under Hong Kong's national security law were Saturday sentenced to detention in a training centre by a judge who said their calls to overthrow China's government must be met with deterrence. ... more 
UN rights vote Pyrrhic victory for China, say campaignersGeneva (AFP) Oct 8, 2022 The UN Human Rights Council damaged its credibility by dodging a discussion on Xinjiang, experts say, but campaigners brand it a Pyrrhic victory for China with Beijing's impunity finally dented. ... more |
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What drives ecosystems to instability?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 ecosyst ... more 
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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 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).
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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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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Oct 7, 2022  Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon broke the monthly record for September, according to official figures released Friday, triggering calls from environmentalists to vote far-right President Jair Bolsonaro out of office later this month.
In the latest worrying news on the rainforest, satellite monitoring showed 1,455 square kilometers (562 square miles) of forest cover was destroyed in the ... more |
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