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  Beijing (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 China's state media on Wednesday signalled no let-up in its strict zero-Covid policy, publishing an editorial - the fourth this week ahead of the Communist Party Congress - vowing to never "lie flat" on virus controls. The messaging dashes widespread hopes from the Chinese public and overseas observers that the strategy might be relaxed after the congress, a twice-a-decade political reshuffle which begins Sunday and will set the blueprint for the country's development. China is the last major ... read more |
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Malala visits Pakistan on 10th anniversary of Taliban shootingKarachi (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday returned to her native Pakistan to meet flood victims, 10 years after a Taliban assassination attempt against her. ... more  
Study finds half the world's coral reefs could be in 'unsuitable conditions' by 2035Washington DC (UPI) Oct 11, 2021 Half the world's coral reefs could be facing "unsuitable conditions" by the year 2035 if climate change continues at its current pace, according to new research published on Tuesday. ... more  
New Zealand outlines plans to tax livestock burps, fartsWellington (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 New Zealand on Tuesday unveiled plans to tax the greenhouse gas emissions from farm animals, in a controversial proposal designed to tackle climate change. ... more  
Hope fading in search for Venezuela landslide survivorsLas Tejerias, Venezuela (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 Hopes were fading Tuesday of finding alive any of 56 people missing after a devastating landslide swept through a Venezuelan town with 36 confirmed deaths to date. ... 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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Ukraine's Zelensky urges UNESCO cultural protection for OdessaParis (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday officially requested that UNESCO add the historic port city of Odessa to its World Heritage List in a bid to protect it from Russian air strikes. ... more  
Nearly a million affected by South Sudan floods: UNNairobi (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 Around 909,000 people have reportedly been affected by flooding in South Sudan, the UN's emergency response agency said Tuesday, more than doubling estimates released last month as torrential rains ravage crops and destroy homes. ... more 
UK sends police, navy ship to crime-hit Caribbean territoryLondon (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 The UK government said Tuesday it had dispatched armed police and a Royal Navy support ship to its Caribbean territory of Turks and Caicos to quell surging "gang violence". ... more  
500 pilot whales dead after New Zealand mass strandingsWellington (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 About 500 pilot whales have died in mass strandings on New Zealand's remote Chatham Islands, the government said Tuesday after ruling out a rescue effort in the area's shark-filled waters. ... more |
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Parliament in crisis-hit Iraq vows to elect new presidentBaghdad (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 Iraq's parliament will meet Thursday to "elect the president", speaker Mohammed al-Halbussi's office said, in a surprise move seen as trying to end months of political impasse. ... more  
UN 'alarmed' by sentencing of minors under Hong Kong security lawGeneva (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 The United Nations said Tuesday it was "alarmed" by the sentencing of four minors and an adult under Hong Kong's national security law. ... more  
Heatwaves will make regions uninhabitable within decades: UN, Red CrossGeneva (AFP) Oct 10, 2022 Heatwaves will become so extreme in certain regions of the world within decades that human life there will be unsustainable, the United Nations and the Red Cross said Monday. ... more 
Hurricane Ian death toll climbs above 100 in Florida aloneMiami (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 The death toll from Hurricane Ian, one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the United States, soared above 100 in Florida alone on Monday, officials said. ... more |
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China moves to stamp out Covid outbreaks before Communist Party CongressShanghai (AFP) Oct 10, 2022 China recorded more than 2,000 Covid cases on Monday, its highest level for a month, as officials imposed new lockdowns and restrictions to stop outbreaks from spreading to the capital ahead of the Communist Party Congress. ... more  
Iraq drought displaces 1,200 families in parched southNasiriyah, Iraq (AFP) Oct 10, 2022 Some 1,200 Iraqi families have been forced out of southern marshes and farmlands over the past six months, a local official told AFP, as drought ravages swathes of the country. ... more 
Climate refugees flee as Bangladesh villages washed awayBangla Bazar, Bangladesh (AFP) Oct 10, 2022 For generations Paban Baroi's family guarded a temple to Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction, until Bangladesh's mighty Padma river wreaked havoc of its own, wiping out the shrine, their home, and 200 other houses in their village. ... more 
Why the Salton Sea is turning into toxic dustRiverside CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2022 The Salton Sea, California's most polluted inland lake, has lost a third of its water in the last 25 years. New research has determined a decline in Colorado River flow is the reason for that shrink ... more
Neighbors, rescuers search for missing after Venezuela landslideLas Tejerias, Venezuela (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 Neighbors helped rescue teams comb through mud and debris Monday for signs of dozens of people missing after a landslide swept through a town in Venezuela, killing at least 36. ... 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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 Riverside CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2022 
The Salton Sea, California's most polluted inland lake, has lost a third of its water in the last 25 years. New research has determined a decline in Colorado River flow is the reason for that shrinking.
As the lake dries up, the concentration of salt and chemicals in the remaining water has increased dramatically, causing a mass die-off of fish and birds, including endangered species. The ... more |
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 Churchill, Canada (AFP) Oct 10, 2022 
Sled dog breeder David Daley lives at the gateway to the Canadian Arctic, occupying a front-row seat to the march of global warming, and he senses calamity ahead.
"For all the devastation that we're doing to her, she's not going to sit still, our planet Mother Earth will punish us," Daley says.
Daley's hometown of Churchill is an isolated settlement at the edge of the Hudson Bay where gl ... more |
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 Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 
Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) has introduced its next-generation displays for precision agriculture applications-the Trimble GFX-1060 and GFX-1260 displays. Trimble's portfolio of innovative displays enables farmers to complete in-field operations quickly and efficiently while also mapping and monitoring field information in real time with precision. With a range of functionality and price points, farm ... more |
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 Nairobi (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 
Around 909,000 people have reportedly been affected by flooding in South Sudan, the UN's emergency response agency said Tuesday, more than doubling estimates released last month as torrential rains ravage crops and destroy homes.
The world's newest nation is reeling from four consecutive years of flooding, with the disaster now affecting nine out of ten states, the Office for the Coordinatio ... 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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 Nasiriyah, Iraq (AFP) Oct 10, 2022 
Some 1,200 Iraqi families have been forced out of southern marshes and farmlands over the past six months, a local official told AFP, as drought ravages swathes of the country.
The Mesopotamian Marshes, a UNESCO World Heritage site, have been battered by low rainfall and reduced flows in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers due to dams built upstream in Turkey and Iran.
Oil-rich Iraq, battere ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 
Earth Blox, the no-code Earth observation platform for data analysts, has announced a low-touch SaaS offering at Google's Geo for Good Summit in Mountain View, California and invited delegates to register for early access.
Launching early in the new year, the program will give data scientists and analysts access to the software for free for a limited time. Participants will be asked to par ... 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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 Geneva (AFP) Oct 11, 2022 
Climate change risks undermining global energy security unless the use of renewables is dramatically scaled up, the UN warned Tuesday, suggesting the Ukraine conflict's ripple effects could speed up the green transition.
Not only is the energy sector a major source of the carbon emissions that drive climate change, it is also increasingly vulnerable to the shifts that come with a heating pla ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Oct 11, 2022 
NASA researchers are making progress with developing an innovative battery pack that is lighter, safer, and performs better than batteries commonly used in vehicles and large electronics today.
Their work - part of NASA's commitment to sustainable aviation - seeks to improve battery technology through investigating the use of solid-state batteries for aviation applications such as electric ... 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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 Beijing (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 
Intercontinental missiles, disinfection robots and a piece of the Moon - China's Communist Party on Wednesday flaunted the fruits of its decade under President Xi Jinping ahead of a key meeting expected to extend his rule.
Thousands of people thronged an exhibition in Beijing celebrating Xi's "New Era" just days before a Party Congress at which the country's political elite are expected to ... 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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