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  Nairobi (AFP) Oct 14, 2022 A Kenyan lawyer said Friday he has filed a court challenge to a decision by the new government to lift a decade-old ban on genetically modified crops. Paul Mwangi wants the High Court to set aside last week's cabinet order allowing the open cultivation and importation of GM crops to Kenya, which is currently in the grip of its worst drought in four decades. "The hasty removal of all regulatory protocols... is neither rational nor reasonable," Mwangi said in court documents dated October 13. ... read more |
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Pfizer says Omicron booster is effective against BA.5 COVID-19 subvariantWashington DC (UPI) Oct 13, 2021 Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech announced on Thursday that their Omicron booster shots substantially increased antibody protection against the BA.5 subvariant of COVID-19 in preliminary tests. ... more  
Research mission to probe Santorini volcano that blew up the worldAthens (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 A team of scientists will in December use a drill ship to trace the geological history of the southern Aegean, including the volcanic eruption that reshaped the Greek island of Santorini, a mission member said Wednesday. ... more  
John Deere announces Request for Proposals for satellite communications opportunityMoline IL (SPX) Oct 05, 2022 Deere and Company (NYSE: DE) announced it has issued a satellite communications (SATCOM)-focused request for proposals to secure a cutting-edge solution that will further connect its fleet of intell ... more  
Earth Blox announces no-code SaaS offering for data analysts at Google's Geo for Good Summit 2022Mountain 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 re ... 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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Opening the eye of the stormTokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 11, 2022 For the first time, high-energy muon particles created in the atmosphere have allowed researchers to explore the structures of storms in a way that traditional visualization techniques, such as sate ... more  
US releases new Arctic strategy as climate threat growsWashington (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. ... more  
Wildlife populations plunge 69% since 1970: WWFParis (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 Wild populations of monitored animal species have plummeted nearly 70 percent in the last 50 years, according to a landmark assessment released Thursday that highlights "devastating" losses to nature due to human activity. ... more  
Biden heads west to talk environment, economy ahead of midtermsWashington (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 US President Joe Biden traveled to Colorado Wednesday at the start of a three-state swing through the American West to promote his record with less than a month to go before the crucial midterm elections. ... more |
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UK told to change behaviour to meet climate targetsLondon (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 Britain's approach to changing public travel, heating and food habits is "inadequate" to meet its net zero and environment targets, a parliamentary committee warned Wednesday. ... more  
Dozens still missing four days after Venezuela landslideLas Tejerias, Venezuela (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 Thousands of rescuers and residents were engaged in an increasingly desperate search through thick mud Wednesday for 56 people still missing after a devastating landslide swept through a Venezuelan town, killing dozens. ... more 
Half the world unprepared for disasters: UNGeneva (AFP) Oct 13, 2022 Even as extreme weather and climate disasters are multiplying, half of countries lack the advanced early warning systems needed to save lives, the United Nations warned Thursday. ... more 
Nigeria floods kill 500, displace 1.4 million peopleAbuja (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 About 500 people have died in Nigeria's worst floods in a decade and 1.4 million others been displaced from their homes since the start of the rainy season, the government said. ... more |
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Floods, landslides kill 48 in NepalKathmandu (AFP) Oct 13, 2022 Major flooding and landslides caused by monsoon rains in Nepal have killed 48 people in the past two weeks, with 13 others missing after being swept away by a river, officials said Thursday. ... more 
Floods swallow cars, swamp houses in 'major' Australian emergencyMelbourne (AFP) Oct 14, 2022 Flash floods swamped hundreds of homes in southeastern Australia Friday with waterlogged residents now facing a "nerve-wracking" wait to assess the damage. ... more 
Italy court blames quake victims for own deaths: reportsRome (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 An Italian court has ruled some of the victims of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake were partly to blame for their own deaths and compensation for their relatives should be reduced, media reports said Wednesday. ... more  
Myanmar junta courts prolong Japanese journalist, Suu Kyi jail termsYangon (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 Myanmar's junta on Wednesday jailed a Japanese journalist arrested while filming an anti-coup protest for three more years for violating immigration law, a diplomatic source told AFP. ... more  
Crisis-hit Iraq makes latest bid to elect presidentBaghdad (AFP) Oct 13, 2022 Lawmakers in crisis-hit Iraq meet Thursday for their fourth attempt this year to elect a state president and break a year-long gridlock marred by deadly violence that has deepened economic woes. ... more |
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 Las Tejerias, Venezuela (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 
Thousands of rescuers and residents were engaged in an increasingly desperate search through thick mud Wednesday for 56 people still missing after a devastating landslide swept through a Venezuelan town, killing dozens.
At the last official count, 43 bodies had been found after disaster struck Las Tejerias, a town of some 50,000 people nestled in the mountains about 50 kilometers (30 miles) ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 13, 2022 
NASA has selected two companies - Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) USA of Denver and SpaceLink Corporation of McLean, Virginia - to develop capability studies to explore and demonstrate communications and navigation services in support of Artemis missions to the Moon.
The awards, under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 (NextSTEP-2) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA ... 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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 Nairobi (AFP) Oct 14, 2022 
A Kenyan lawyer said Friday he has filed a court challenge to a decision by the new government to lift a decade-old ban on genetically modified crops.
Paul Mwangi wants the High Court to set aside last week's cabinet order allowing the open cultivation and importation of GM crops to Kenya, which is currently in the grip of its worst drought in four decades.
"The hasty removal of all reg ... more |
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 Athens (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 
A team of scientists will in December use a drill ship to trace the geological history of the southern Aegean, including the volcanic eruption that reshaped the Greek island of Santorini, a mission member said Wednesday.
"It's the first time that an oceanographic mission of this scope is carried out in Greece," Olga Koukousioura, a micropalaeontology researcher at Aristotle University of The ... more |
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 Bamako (AFP) Oct 8, 2022 
Mali's army announced Saturday it had opened an investigation into the alleged killing of 53 villagers in the centre of the country, while at the same time denouncing "disinformation".
The announcement follows media reports in September of abuses by Malian troops and the mercenaries from Russia's Wagner group reportedly working with them.
The probe had been opened "to confirm or deny rep ... 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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 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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 Taiyuan, China (XNA) Oct 13, 2022 
China launched a new satellite for disaster reduction, emergency management, and environment monitoring from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi province early Thursday.
A Long March-2C rocket carrying the satellite S-SAR01 lifted off at 6:53 am (Beijing Time).
The satellite has entered the preset orbit. Its primary users will be the Ministry of Emergency Managemen ... 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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 Paris (AFP) Oct 12, 2022 
Wild populations of monitored animal species have plummeted nearly 70 percent in the last 50 years, according to a landmark assessment released Thursday that highlights "devastating" losses to nature due to human activity.
Featuring data from 32,000 populations of more than 5,000 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish, the WWF Living Planet Index shows accelerating falls ac ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Oct 6, 2022 
Xi Jinping's China has dragged millions out of extreme poverty, sent spacecraft to the Moon and committed itself to cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
On the brink of securing a third term, the president can boast of several achievements in his first 10 years in power, though some do come with caveats.
Here AFP looks at some of the key advances made under Xi:
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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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