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  United Nations, United States (AFP) Nov 7, 2022 Are eight billion humans too many for planet Earth? As we reach this milestone on November 15, most experts say the bigger problem is the overconsumption of resources by the wealthiest residents. "Eight billion people, it is a momentous milestone for humanity," said United Nations Population Fund chief Natalia Kanem, hailing an increase in life expectancy and fewer maternal and child deaths. "Yet, I realize this moment might not be celebrated by all. Some express concerns that our world is over ... read more |
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COP27 summit racing against the climate clockSharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 6, 2022 The COP27 summit kicks off Sunday in Egypt with nearly 200 countries struggling to outpace increasingly dire climate impacts in a world upended by war and economic turmoil. ... more 
Egypt's COP27 climate summit a 'watershed moment'Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 4, 2022 Leaders buffeted by the geopolitical crosswinds or war and economic turmoil meet in Egypt Monday at a climate summit tasked with taming the terrifying juggernaut of global warming. ... more 
Scientists urge COP27 PR agency to drop fossil fuel firmsParis (AFP) Nov 4, 2022 Over 420 scientists on Friday urged the public relations firm representing upcoming climate talks to drop its fossil fuel clients, including Saudi Aramco, Shell and ExxonMobil. ... more  
At 'African COP', continent's climate needs may go unmetParis (AFP) Nov 4, 2022 It is being billed as the "African COP" but scientists and campaigners on the continent least responsible for climate change fear the UN summit that begins on Sunday in Egypt will once again leave them sidelined. ... more |
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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 Indonesia digs out as flooding, landslide death toll hits 20 16 dead, seven missing in Indonesia flood: disaster agency Storm Bert bring widespread flooding in Britain |
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Arctic fires could release catastrophic amounts of C02: studyWashington (AFP) Nov 4, 2022 Global warming is responsible for bigger and bigger fires in Siberia, and in the decades ahead they could release huge amounts of carbon now trapped in the soil, says a report out Thursday. ... more  
One killed, scores missing after tornadoes hit southern USWashington (AFP) Nov 5, 2022 At least one person was killed and multiple others were missing after powerful tornadoes hit the southern US states of Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas, officials said Saturday. ... more  
Terran Orbital receives $100M investment from Lockheed MartinBoca Raton FL (SPX) Nov 01, 2022 Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP), a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the United States and Allied aerospace and defense industries, announced that it has entered i ... more  
The mystery of how Earth acquired its waterWashington DC (SPX) Nov 07, 2022 Each year, hundreds of meteorites - rocky bodies left over from the formation of the solar system - bombard Earth, delivering minerals, metals and water to our planet. Analyzing the crevices and min ... more |
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Ground Survey Datasets Released to Validate Satellite-based Remote Sensing DataBeijing, China (SPX) Nov 07, 2022 Recently, the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has released the second batch of ground survey datasets through its Common Application support ... more 
World leaders gather for climate talks under cloud of crisesSharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 7, 2022 World leaders gathered Monday for climate talks in Egypt facing pressure to deepen cuts in emissions and financially back developing countries already devastated by the effects of rising temperatures. ... more
'Why are we here?': Climate activists shunted to COP27 sidelinesSharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 7, 2022 Ugandan youth activist Nyombi Morris arrived in Egypt for the UN's COP27 climate summit with high hopes of being part of the campaign for environmental justice. ... more  
China virus cases at six-month high despite grinding lockdownsBeijing (AFP) Nov 7, 2022 China reported its highest daily Covid caseload in six months Monday, despite grinding lockdowns that have heavily disrupted manufacturing, education and day-to-day life. ... more |
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Ethiopia peace deal leaves unanswered questions and concernsAddis Ababa (AFP) Nov 4, 2022 The breakthrough deal signed by Ethiopia's government and Tigrayan rebels has been hailed as a crucial step to ending two years of war, but much remains unclear, observers say, raising questions about whether it will lead to a durable peace. ... more 
Landslides and floods kill seven in eastern VenezuelaPuerto La Cruz, Venezuela (AFP) Nov 5, 2022 Landslides and floods caused by heavy rains have killed at least seven people in the coastal state of Anzoategui in eastern Venezuela, regional authorities announced on Friday. ... more  
Space for the future: green steel, sweet air, happy plantsParis (ESA) Nov 03, 2022 For decades, satellites have been instrumental in monitoring our changing climate and improving our understanding of the processes that drive it. But to achieve our climate goals and make Europe the ... more  
No 'easy road' for Brazil's Lula, as world awaits Amazon actionRio De Janeiro (AFP) Nov 3, 2022 Brazil's president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is facing a tough battle to halt the destruction of the Amazon, with the weight of global expectation on his shoulders before he even takes office. ... more  
A home for the dead: The quest for burials in flood-stricken ChadN'Djamena (AFP) Nov 3, 2022 First came the torrential rains, which burst river banks, swept away homes and upended hundreds of thousands of lives. ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 2, 2021 
As most of the United States prepares to fall back from daylight saving time on Sunday, a new study claims year-round daylight would save nearly 37,000 deer that would otherwise die every year in traffic collisions.
The University of Washington study, published Wednesday in the journal Current Biology, estimates permanent daylight saving time would also save dozens of people involved in ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 04, 2022 
SpiderOak, the leader in complete cybersecurity solutions for next generation space systems, has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to deliver the company's OrbitSecure zero-trust protocol on-orbit. The project will demonstrate end-to-end cybersecurity for the Department of Defense's future Hybrid Space Architecture, an initiative the U.S. Congress has begun referr ... more |
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 Cairo (AFP) Nov 6, 2022 
Jailed Egyptian dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah has stopped drinking water, his family said Sunday, escalating his hunger strike as world leaders arrive in the country for the COP27 climate summit.
A major figure in the 2011 revolt that toppled longtime president Hosni Mubarak, British-Egyptian Abdel Fattah is currently serving a five-year sentence for "broadcasting false news", having already s ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 03, 2022 
From the window of a NASA Gulfstream III research aircraft, Alaska looks like a pristine wilderness untouched by humans. The land is covered in lush, green vegetation and dotted with bright blue lakes. Snow-capped mountains reach toward the sky, and chocolate milk-colored rivers snake across the landscape. The obvious signs of human activity - cities, roads, infrastructure - are hard to spot. ... more |
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 London (AFP) Nov 1, 2022 
Pope Francis I could help reduce global carbon emissions by urging Catholics to return to not eating meat on Fridays, UK researchers said Tuesday.
A team at Cambridge University looked at the impact of a call by bishops in England and Wales in 2011 to reinstate the practice.
They found that despite only about a quarter of Catholics changing their dietary habits, more than 55,000 tonnes o ... more |
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 Belize City (AFP) Nov 2, 2022  The northern part of Central America was on high alert Wednesday for the passage of Hurricane Lisa, with warnings of devastating winds, downpours and flash floods also affecting Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) has issued a hurricane warning for Honduras' Bay Islands, the coast of Belize and Mexico's Yucatan area stretching from Chetumal to Puerto Costa Maya ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Nov 3, 2022  Ethiopia's government and the rebel authorities in the Tigray region said Wednesday they had signed a deal to cease hostilities after two years of brutal conflict.
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres heralded the announcement as a "welcome first step" in ending the fighting.
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) Nov 7, 2022 
Are eight billion humans too many for planet Earth? As we reach this milestone on November 15, most experts say the bigger problem is the overconsumption of resources by the wealthiest residents.
"Eight billion people, it is a momentous milestone for humanity," said United Nations Population Fund chief Natalia Kanem, hailing an increase in life expectancy and fewer maternal and child deaths ... more |
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 London (AFP) Nov 2, 2022  Britain's new prime minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday announced he will join the UN climate conference in Egypt after all, having provoked anger for refusing to attend the global event early into his tenure.
Sunak had argued that "pressing domestic commitments" would keep him away from COP27 in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh - after inheriting an economic crisis from predecessor Liz ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Nov 03, 2022 
Since its launch seven months ago, the German Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program (EnMAP) satellite has been busy collecting data. It has recorded more than 11.4 million square kilometres of Earth's surface flr-german-environmental-mapping-and-analysis-program-enmapan area larger than Europe flr-german-environmental-mapping-and-analysis-program-enmapfrom an altitude of approximately 650 k ... more |
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 Leeds UK (SPX) Nov 03, 2022 
There are several theories about how the Earth and the Moon were formed, most involving a giant impact. They vary from a model where the impacting object strikes the newly formed Earth a glancing blow and then escapes, through to one where the collision is so energetic that both the impactor and the Earth are vaporized.
Now scientists at the University of Leeds and the University of Chicag ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Nov 4, 2022  It is being billed as the "African COP" but scientists and campaigners on the continent least responsible for climate change fear the UN summit that begins on Sunday in Egypt will once again leave them sidelined.
As the toll of climate-linked disasters mounts in debt-ridden countries across Africa, governments are demanding that rich polluters pay for the harm their emissions have already ca ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Nov 03, 2022 
Fusion, which promises practically unlimited, carbon-free energy using the same processes that power the sun, is at the heart of a worldwide research effort that could help mitigate climate change.
A multidisciplinary team of researchers is now bringing tools and insights from machine learning to aid this effort. Scientists from MIT and elsewhere have used computer-vision models to identif ... more |
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 Wellington (AFP) Nov 3, 2022 
From Colombia to Sweden, applicants are lining up for what has been touted as a dream job in the ruggedly beautiful New Zealand wilderness watching over a shy flightless bird.
The job, like the bird, hardly got off the ground when it was first advertised by New Zealand's Department of Conservation last month, attracting just three applicants.
But then word seeped out that the position of ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Nov 3, 2022 
Canada's public broadcaster said it has closed its China news bureau after more than 40 years of operating in the country, saying their journalist's "repeated requests" for a work visa had been ignored.
CBC News Editor-in-Chief Brodie Fenlon wrote in a blog post on Wednesday that the China correspondent for French-language counterpart Radio-Canada had not received a visa since applying in O ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 03, 2022 
Biomass, the European Space Agency's (ESA) forest measuring satellite has left the Airbus Defence and Space site in Stevenage and is on its way to Toulouse for final testing ahead of launch.
The comprehensive environmental test programme for the spacecraft will include thermal vacuum tests, mechanical vibration, acoustic and electromagnetic compatibility testing to replicate the conditions ... more |
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