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  Ithaca NY (SPX) Oct 07, 2022 Growing nutritious, protein-dense microalgae in onshore, seawater-fed aquaculture systems - particularly along the coasts of the Global South - could help increase food production by more than 50% and feed a projected 10 billion people by 2050. New research describes how growing algae onshore could close a projected gap in society's future nutritional demands while also improving environmental sustainability. "We have an opportunity to grow food that is highly nutritious, fast-growing, and w ... read more |
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Africa in space: continent has a lot to gain, but proper plans must be put in placeIle-Ife, Nigeria (The Conversation) Oct 06, 2022 Every year in October nearly 100 countries organise activities to mark World Space Week. The theme this year is space and sustainability. In this interview, Adejuwon Soyinka, West Africa regional ed ... more  
US hurricane rebuilding rules must adapt to 'era of climate change': expertWashington (AFP) Oct 9, 2022 After an extreme weather event, such as Hurricane Ian which devastated parts of Florida last month, most Americans choose to rebuild rather than move to less hazardous areas. ... more  
Why more Americans are flocking to Florida, even as hurricanes intensifyCape Coral, United States (AFP) Oct 9, 2022 There's nothing in the world that would convince Cape Coral resident Kenneth Lowe to leave - not even having to empty his home of flood water a week after Hurricane Ian pummeled the city. ... more  
Zero-Covid in China key to Xi legacy as he eyes third termBeijing (AFP) Oct 6, 2022 For many in China, years of gruelling lockdowns and privacy invasions aimed at extinguishing Covid have caused misery. ... 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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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  
'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  
Climate change 'kills on grand scale': expertLondon (AFP) Oct 6, 2022 Climate change and air pollution are already killing people "on a grand scale", a top global warming expert warned Thursday at an energy conference in London. ... more 
Climate change made 2022 drought 'at least 20 times likelier'Paris (AFP) Oct 5, 2022 Human-caused climate change made this summer's drought across the Northern Hemisphere at least 20 times more likely, according to a rapid analysis released Wednesday that warns such extreme dry periods will become increasingly common with global heating. ... more |
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22 dead, more than 50 missing in Venezuela landslideLas Tejerias, Venezuela (AFP) Oct 9, 2022 A landslide in central Venezuela left at least 22 people dead and more than 50 missing after a river overflowed, officials said Sunday, in the latest deadly disaster caused by heavy rains to hit the country. ... more 
Rain-lashed Sydney residents warned to evacuateSydney (AFP) Oct 9, 2022 Australian emergency services on Sunday issued flood evacuation orders for neighbourhoods in Sydney and beyond as river levels climbed after days of heavy rain. ... more 
Rising water level hampering Nigeria river rescueLagos (AFP) Oct 9, 2022 High water levels caused by heavy flooding are hampering efforts to rescue people missing after a boat accident in southeast Nigeria, emergency services said on Sunday. ... more 
Hurricane Julia slams Nicaragua, menaces Central AmericaBluefields, Nicaragua (AFP) Oct 9, 2022 Hurricane Julia raked across Nicaragua Sunday, lashing the country with winds and heavy rain and bringing potentially life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides to much of Central America and southern Mexico. ... more |
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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  
Easter Island blaze chars famous moai statuesSantiago (AFP) Oct 6, 2022 A forest fire that tore through part of Easter Island has charred some of its fabled monumental carved stone figures, known as moai, authorities said Thursday. ... more 
Dutch see new hope in report to break nitrogen impasseThe Hague (AFP) Oct 5, 2022 Dutch farmers and politicians cautiously welcomed a set of new environmental proposals put forward on Wednesday aimed at slashing nitrogen emissions, including possible buyouts, after government plans previously sparked weeks of angry demonstrations. ... more  
After the floods, a wave of disease plagues PakistanJohi, Pakistan (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 His head haloed by a whirlwind of mosquitoes, Aamir Hussain stands on the roof of his home in southern Pakistan surveying the fetid floodwaters all around. ... more  
More than 1 million displaced since Myanmar coup: UNYangon (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 More than one million people have been displaced in Myanmar since the military coup last year, the United Nations children's agency has said. ... more |
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 Madrid, 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. With this step, GMV takes up and assumes the legacy of one of its subsidiaries, which joined the Global Compact in 2014.
The Global Compact is the world's leading corporate sustainability init ... 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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 Bluefields, Nicaragua (AFP) Oct 9, 2022 
Hurricane Julia raked across Nicaragua Sunday, lashing the country with winds and heavy rain and bringing potentially life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides to much of Central America and southern Mexico.
Maximum sustained winds were estimated at 85 miles (140 kilometers) per hour when the storm made landfall near the Laguna de Perlas area at 0715 GMT, the country's weather agency sai ... more |
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 Ouagadougou (AFP) Oct 8, 2022  Haulier Aziz falters as he describes how jihadists attacked a convoy of lorries laden with food for a starving town in northern Burkina Faso on September 26, events which contributed to the country's latest coup.
Aziz was driving his lorry carrying rice and grain near the back of the 207-vehicle convoy under military escort when gunfire broke out near Gaskinde.
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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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 Sydney (AFP) Oct 9, 2022 
Two climate activists glued their hands to the perspex cover of Picasso's anti-war painting "Massacre in Korea" in a Melbourne art gallery on Sunday, police, protesters and the gallery said.
The painting emerged unscathed.
The black-clad activists were shown with their hands pressed against the painting in a room of the National Gallery of Victoria in images shared on social media by the ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Oct 10, 2022 
Satellite Vu, the British Earth Observation company set to become the world's thermometer from space with its planned constellation of high-resolution thermal imaging satellites, has been selected in Tech Nation's inaugural Net Zero X cohort.
The Net Zero X programme focuses on scaling and growth of the later-stage climate technology scaleups within its cohort. The six-month programme, in ... 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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 Zurich (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 
The world will meet its goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions nearly two decades later than planned at its current investment rates, Swiss Re said in a report Friday.
The reinsurer calculated that since nations set the goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 in the 2015 Paris agreement, only two percent of the needed investments have been made.
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 Pohang, South Korea (SPX) Oct 07, 2022 
The number of newly registered electric vehicles (EVs) in Korea surpassed 100,000 units last year alone. Norway is the only other country to match such numbers. The core materials that determine the battery life and charging speed of now commonly seen EVs are anode materials. Korea's domestic battery industry has been committed to finding revolutionary ways to increase the battery capacity by in ... more |
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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 ... 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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