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October 12, 2022
EPIDEMICS
Chinese state media signals no end to zero-Covid curbs



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

THE STANS
Malala visits Pakistan on 10th anniversary of Taliban shooting
Karachi (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
WATER WORLD
Study finds half the world's coral reefs could be in 'unsuitable conditions' by 2035
Washington 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
FARM NEWS
New Zealand outlines plans to tax livestock burps, farts
Wellington (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
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Hope fading in search for Venezuela landslide survivors
Las 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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Ukraine's Zelensky urges UNESCO cultural protection for Odessa
Paris (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
SHAKE AND BLOW
Nearly a million affected by South Sudan floods: UN
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. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
UK sends police, navy ship to crime-hit Caribbean territory
London (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
WHALES AHOY
500 pilot whales dead after New Zealand mass strandings
Wellington (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
DEMOCRACY
Parliament in crisis-hit Iraq vows to elect new president
Baghdad (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
SINO DAILY
UN 'alarmed' by sentencing of minors under Hong Kong security law
Geneva (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
WEATHER REPORT
Heatwaves will make regions uninhabitable within decades: UN, Red Cross
Geneva (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
SHAKE AND BLOW
Hurricane Ian death toll climbs above 100 in Florida alone
Miami (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



EPIDEMICS
China moves to stamp out Covid outbreaks before Communist Party Congress
Shanghai (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
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Iraq drought displaces 1,200 families in parched south
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. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Climate refugees flee as Bangladesh villages washed away
Bangla 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
WATER WORLD
Why the Salton Sea is turning into toxic dust
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 shrink ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Neighbors, rescuers search for missing after Venezuela landslide
Las 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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At the gateway to the Arctic, a world in turmoil
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. ... more
WATER WORLD
Heat-resilient Red Sea reefs offer last stand for corals
Marsa Alam, Egypt (AFP) Oct 10, 2022
Beneath the waters off Egypt's Red Sea coast a kaleidoscopic ecosystem teems with life that could become the world's "last coral refuge" as global heating eradicates reefs elsewhere, researchers say. ... more
WATER WORLD
Taking salt out of the water equation
Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Oct 07, 2022
Ultrathin polymer-based ordered membranes that effectively remove salt from seawater and brine could provide a promising alternative to existing water desalination systems, a KAUST-led team demonstr ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Protesters glue hands to cover of Picasso painting
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. ... more
WHALES AHOY
250 pilot whales die in remote New Zealand stranding
Wellington (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
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GMV joins UN Global Compact
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
+ Hope fading in search for Venezuela landslide survivors
+ Ukraine's Zelensky urges UNESCO cultural protection for Odessa
+ UK sends police, navy ship to crime-hit Caribbean territory
+ Neighbors, rescuers search for missing after Venezuela landslide
+ US hurricane rebuilding rules must adapt to 'era of climate change': expert
+ NASA study finds climate extremes affect landslides in surprising ways
+ Biden tours Florida hurricane clean-up zone -- and opponent's territory
Solstar provides assured communications for deorbiting LEO satellites as FCC issues new order
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
+ Record quarterly profit for Indian software giant TCS
+ Facebook parent Meta unveils AI video generator Make-a-Video
+ Some everyday materials have memories, and now they can be erased
+ Engineers develop a new kind of shape-memory material
+ Studying yeast DNA in space may help protect astronauts from cosmic radiation
+ UAE's latest bet on tech: a ministry in the metaverse
+ Google shutting down cloud gaming service Stadia




Why the Salton Sea is turning into toxic dust
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
+ Study finds half the world's coral reefs could be in 'unsuitable conditions' by 2035
+ To save California coasts, scientists turn to the humble oyster
+ Heat-resilient Red Sea reefs offer last stand for corals
+ As oceans rise, are some nations doomed to vanish?
+ Taking salt out of the water equation
+ Solomons PM tells Australia no Chinese military presence
+ Sydney smashes annual rainfall records
At the gateway to the Arctic, a world in turmoil
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
+ US releases new Arctic strategy as climate threat grows
+ Receding ice leaves Canada's polar bears at rising risk
+ Earth from Space: Melt ponds in West Greenland
+ Glass microspheres won't save Arctic sea ice
+ Chile's distant paradise where scientists study climate change
+ Receding ice leaves Canada's polar bears at rising risk
+ Swiss glaciers melting away at record rate




Trimble's new agriculture displays provide next-generation performance and connectivity for in-field operations
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
+ New Zealand outlines plans to tax livestock burps, farts
+ 'Exceptional' year for Champagne despite record heat: producers
+ Kenya lobby groups protest lifting of ban on GM crops
+ Dutch see new hope in report to break nitrogen impasse
+ Spore the merrier: Boom in mushrooms grown on Belgian beer
+ Farmers, researchers seek ways to buttress blueberry fields against climate change
+ China dips into pork reserves as rising prices fan inflation fear
Nearly a million affected by South Sudan floods: UN
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
+ Hurricane Ian death toll climbs above 100 in Florida alone
+ Why more Americans are flocking to Florida, even as hurricanes intensify
+ Hurricane Julia slams Nicaragua, menaces Central America
+ Rising water level hampering Nigeria river rescue
+ 5.0-magnitude quake hits central Greece
+ Rain-lashed Sydney residents warned to evacuate
+ Floods to drag up to 9 million Pakistanis into poverty: World Bank




Deadly Burkina jihadist attack, catalyst for latest coup
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. The ambush, claimed by Al- ... more
+ Mali's army launches probe into alleged killings of civilians
+ I.Coast president sees progress in Mali troop spat
+ Doubts over Ethiopia peace talks as Kenya envoy says won't attend
+ Africa in space: continent has a lot to gain, but proper plans must be put in place
+ Sahel military coups only help jihadists: analysts
+ Demonstrators rally in support of new Burkina Faso leader
+ Traore officially named Burkina Faso president after coup
Swedish scientist's study on Neanderthal genes wins Nobel Prize for medicine
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
+ A "golden era" to study the brain
+ Chimpanzee stone tool diversity
+ Study: Injured brain's ability to heal may hinge on time of day, circadian rhythms
+ Researchers identify neurons that specialize in remembering speed and location
+ New fossil found in China answers some questions about apes' evolutionary chain
+ Archaeologists say skeleton shows earliest surgical amputation 31,000 years ago
+ Neolithic culinary traditions uncovered




Iraq drought displaces 1,200 families in parched south
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
+ Protesters glue hands to cover of Picasso painting
+ Climate refugees flee as Bangladesh villages washed away
+ UN seeks more money for poor countries to fight global warming
+ Study: Climate change contributed to global drought in 2022
+ Ottawa research demonstrates connection between climate and Earth's ability to renew
+ Month before COP27, host Egypt faces heat over rights, climate action
+ Climate change 'kills on grand scale': expert
Earth Blox announces no-code SaaS offering for data analysts at Google's Geo for Good Summit 2022
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
+ Satellite Vu selected in inaugural Net Zero X cohort
+ Opening the eye of the storm
+ Uploading the Cloud Imager
+ Esri partners with Digital Earth Africa to support sustainable growth
+ NASA, USGS map minerals to understand Earth makeup, climate change
+ Satellite Monitoring for Agribusiness: The White Label Solution
+ BlackSky customer Skytec integrate dynamic monitoring data through Esri ArcGIS




Fish fossils found in China offer clues on human evolution: researchers
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
+ New Curtin-led research discovers the heart of our evolution
+ 541-million-year-old 3D fossil algae reveal modern-looking ancestry of the plant kingdom
+ What killed dinosaurs and other life on earth?
+ Discovery of new types of microfossils may answer an age-old scientific question
+ Ancient landslide destroyed area size of Cincinnati
+ Crucial evidence explains anomalously fast convergence between India and Asia in Mesozoic
+ Comet impacts formed continents when Solar System entered galactic arms
UN urges 'complete transformation' of global energy system
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
+ Step up investment to meet 2050 net-zero: Swiss Re
+ Space to boost secure sustainable energy supplies
+ Rwanda agrees with IMF on aid under new climate change fund
+ Africa sounds caution on net zero goal ahead of COP27
+ Energy crisis feared by Europe long a reality in Iraq
+ Developing states urge more climate funding at pre-COP27 in DR Congo
+ King Charles III won't attend COP27 after Truss reportedly 'objected'




NASA's solid-state battery research exceeds initial goals, draws interest
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
+ The battery that runs 630 km on a single charge
+ 80-year-old mystery in static electricity finally solved
+ A new high-temperature plasma operating mode for fusion energy discovered at the Korean Artificial Sun, KSTAR
+ The process of waves carrying plasma heat is observed for the first time in the world
+ CoBra supports the thermal transition in industry
+ Recycling materials: turning old batteries into new ones
+ Mongolia completes rail crossing with China to boost coal exports
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 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
+ Singapore makes biggest seizure of rhino horn
+ Canada not protecting certain at-risk fish: audit
+ Australia lists small wallaby among new endangered species
+ Nature's cleaners: Cyprus returns rare vultures to wild
+ 'Extraordinary' elephant that survived poaching dies in drought-hit Kenya
+ Scientists unveil first-ever 'atlas' describing links between fungi, cancers
+ Taiwan's pangolins suffer surge in feral dog attacks
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China celebrates President Xi in massive exhibition
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
+ UN 'alarmed' by sentencing of minors under Hong Kong security law
+ UN rights vote Pyrrhic victory for China, say campaigners
+ Poverty, climate, space: China's progress in 10 years under Xi
+ First minors sentenced under Hong Kong security law
+ Hong Kong online radio host jailed for 'seditious' broadcasts
+ 'Malign influence': China's cultural institutes under growing scrutiny
+ Who is China's President Xi Jinping?
Amazon deforestation breaks Sept record; Scientists reach tallest tree found in Amazon
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
+ Egypt replants mangrove 'treasure' to fight climate change impacts
+ Romania cracks down on illegal logging
+ Mexican mangroves have been capturing carbon for 5,000 years
+ Brazil reports more Amazon fires so far this year than all of 2021
+ Leading scientists develop space tech platform to track carbon in every tree
+ MEPs toughen EU law on deforestation
+ Indonesia, Norway ink deal to reward rainforest protection






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