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  Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 8, 2022 The UN's chief called Tuesday for an end to a "toxic cover-up" by companies as a sweeping report said they cannot claim to be net zero if they invest in new fossil fuels, cause deforestation or offset emissions instead of reducing them. Antonio Guterres said businesses as well as cities and regions should update their voluntary net zero pledges within a year to comply with the recommendations by UN experts, as he trained his sights on fossil fuel firms and "their financial enablers". "Using bogu ... read more |
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Next-gen space-based positioning tech plannedBeijing (XNA) Nov 07, 2022 China plans to establish a next-generation space-based navigation and positioning system by 2035, said a government official overseeing the sector. Ran Chengqi, director of the China Satellite Navig ... more  
Inspiring with STEM: Intelsat begins application process for STEM Program in AfricaMcLean VA (SPX) Nov 09, 2022 Intelsat, operator of the world's largest integrated satellite and terrestrial networks and leading provider of inflight connectivity (IFC), is accepting applications to its Space STEM (science, tec ... more  
Spire Global unveils solution for dark shipping detectionVienna VA (SPX) Nov 08, 2022 Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) has unveiled a dark shipping detection solution to track vessels that manipulate their reported position in order to conceal nefarious activities. The Automatic ... more  
Earth's oldest stromatolites and the search for life on MarsBoulder CO (SPX) Nov 08, 2022 The earliest morphological traces of life on Earth are often highly controversial, both because non-biological processes can produce relatively similar structures and because such fossils have often ... more |
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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 Landslide kills nine in DR Congo |
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Stem cells could save Sumatran rhino from extinction, scientists sayWashington DC (UPI) Nov 9, 2021 A team of scientists in Berlin is on the brink of giving the nearly extinct Sumatran rhinoceros a new chance at life by successfully growing stem cells from a deceased rhino's skin. ... more  
Ancient statues uncovered in Italy could rewrite part of historyWashington DC (UPI) Nov 8, 2021 Archaeologists in Italy have discovered more than 20 bronze statues dating back over 2,000 years, which could help rewrite a part of history, Italy's cultural ministry confirmed Tuesday. ... more  
Eager beaver: dams improve quality of river water hit by climate changeParis (AFP) Nov 8, 2022 Hotter, drier weather means beaver populations are spreading in the western United States, and their dams are helping to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on river water quality, according to a new study on Tuesday. ... more  
Twitter takeover raises fears of climate misinfo surgeParis (AFP) Nov 8, 2022 Climate deniers looking to block action and "greenwashing" companies could have free rein on Twitter after Elon Musk's takeover, analysts warned as leaders pursued anti-warming efforts at the COP27 summit. ... more |
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Eco warriors: S.Africa school puts green issues at heart of teachingPaarl, South Africa (AFP) Nov 9, 2022 The sound of chirping birds drowns out the noise of passing cars near a school on the southern tip of Africa, where pupils plant cabbages, mix compost and climb trees. ... more  
Smart farming tech offers sprout of hope in GreecePlaty, Greece (AFP) Nov 8, 2022 Eyes glued to his mobile phone, farmer Sotiris Mournos pores over the latest microclimate and humidity data about his fields on the plain of Imathia in northern Greece. ... more  
Floods in Central Africa leave fishermen strandedBangui, Central African Republic (AFP) Nov 9, 2022 Dawn is just breaking over the Central African Republic's capital Bangui as Pacome Koyeke glides his dug-out canoe over the silent misty waters of the Ubangui river. ... more 
Six killed in Nepal earthquakeKathmandu (AFP) Nov 9, 2022 Six people were killed in a 5.6-magnitude earthquake that struck western Nepal in the early hours Wednesday, causing tremors as far away as New Delhi, authorities said. ... more |
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Thinning Greenland ice sheet may mean more sea level rise: studyParis (AFP) Nov 9, 2022 Part of Greenland's ice sheet is thinning further inland than previously believed, which will likely lead to greater sea level rise by the end of this century, a new study found Wednesday. ... more  
Beijing loyalists in Hong Kong criticise court ruling on Lai's UK lawyerHong Kong (AFP) Nov 10, 2022 A Hong Kong court's decision to allow a senior British lawyer to represent jailed pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai sparked a chorus of condemnation from powerful Beijing loyalist voices on Thursday. ... more 
Hong Kong jails first person for insulting national anthemHong Kong (AFP) Nov 10, 2022 A Hong Konger who waved a colonial-era flag while watching a public broadcast of the Tokyo Olympics became the first person to be jailed for insulting China's national anthem, local media reported Thursday. ... more  
Jailed Egypt dissident's death in 'no one's interest', sister saysSharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 7, 2022 The possible death of jailed British-Egyptian dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah in prison is "in no one's interest", his sister Sanaa Seif said, nearly two days after he started refusing water. ... more 
Egypt rights activists in COP27 spotlight worry about day afterSharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 9, 2022 The UN climate summit in Egypt has afforded local rights defenders rare visibility, but some fear a backlash after global attention shifts away from President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's regime. ... more |
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 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 8, 2022 
A fast-heating world "cannot afford a single gunshot", Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the UN climate summit on Tuesday, arguing that Russia's invasion threatened international efforts to tackle global warming.
Speaking by video-link to the COP27 climate talks in Egypt, Zelensky itemised the environmental fallout from the Russian assault on his country - from compelling countrie ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Nov 09, 2022 
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation ("EO") data collection, has announced the completion of an ~5% investment in Officina Stellare ("OS"). This includes an option for Satellogic to expand its ownership to up to 12% in the next 36 months and the appointment of Emiliano Kargieman, CEO and Co-Founder of Satellogic, to the OS Board of Directors.
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 Birmingham UK (SPX) Nov 08, 2022 
Water security in mountain regions relies on a broader understanding of the complex interlinks of water supply and demand that goes far beyond the study of glacier melt.
Current information on how the communities which depend on water from mountain snow and ice will be affected by climate change is limited, according to new research published in Nature Sustainability.
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 Paris (AFP) Nov 3, 2022  Glaciers at many UNESCO World Heritage sites including Yellowstone and Kilimanjaro National Park will likely vanish by 2050, the UN agency warned Thursday, urging leaders to act fast to save the rest.
The warning followed a study of 18,600 glaciers at 50 World Heritage sites - covering around 66,000 square kilometres (25,000 square miles) - which found glaciers at a third of the sites were ... more |
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 Urbana IL (SPX) Nov 08, 2022 
After more than 9,000 years in cultivation, annual paddy rice is now available as a long-lived perennial. The advancement means farmers can plant just once and reap up to eight harvests without sacrificing yield, an important step change relative to "ratooning," or cutting back annual rice to obtain second, weaker harvest.
A new report in Nature Sustainability chronicles agronomic, economi ... more |
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 Bangui, Central African Republic (AFP) Nov 9, 2022 
Dawn is just breaking over the Central African Republic's capital Bangui as Pacome Koyeke glides his dug-out canoe over the silent misty waters of the Ubangui river.
The tributary of the mighty Congo often floods during the rainy season, but this year the water levels have been catastrophic for the nation at the heart of the African continent.
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 Toulon, France (AFP) Nov 9, 2022 
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday announced that France was ending its Barkhane anti-jihadist mission in Africa after over a decade, saying a new strategy would be worked out with African partners.
The declaration came in a wide-ranging speech reviewing France's strategy where the president also underlined the importance of its nuclear deterrent, as well as relations with Germany ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 8, 2021  Archaeologists in Italy have discovered more than 20 bronze statues dating back over 2,000 years, which could help rewrite a part of history, Italy's cultural ministry confirmed Tuesday.
The 24 Etruscan figures were discovered inside an ancient Tuscan Thermal spring in San Casciano die Bagni, about 100 miles north of Rome, the ministry said in a statement.
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 Johannesburg, South Africa (SPX) Nov 08, 2022 
Under the threat of climate change, mountain landscapes all over the world have the risk of becoming more hazardous to communities surrounding them, while their accelerated evolution may bring further environmental risks to surrounding areas.
This is according to a scientist from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, who, on the eve of the COP27 climate meeting ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 08, 2022 
New research uses NASA satellite observations and advanced computing to chronicle wetlands lost (and found) around the globe.
From Lake Pontchartrain to the Texas border, Louisiana has lost enough wetlands since the mid-1950s to cover the entire state of Rhode Island. Using a first-of-its-kind model, NASA-funded researchers quantified those wetlands losses at nearly 21 square miles (54 squ ... more |
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 Blacksburg VA (SPX) Nov 08, 2022 
A new study by Virginia Tech geobiologists traces the cause of the first known mass extinction of animals to decreased global oxygen availability, leading to the loss of a majority of animals present near the end of the Ediacaran Period some 550 million years ago.
The research spearheaded by Scott Evans, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Geosciences, part of the Virginia Tech ... more |
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 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 8, 2022 
The UN's chief called Tuesday for an end to a "toxic cover-up" by companies as a sweeping report said they cannot claim to be net zero if they invest in new fossil fuels, cause deforestation or offset emissions instead of reducing them.
Antonio Guterres said businesses as well as cities and regions should update their voluntary net zero pledges within a year to comply with the recommendation ... more |
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 Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Nov 09, 2022 
Nuclear fusion has drawn more attention in the era of carbon neutrality because of no carbon dioxide production during power generation and no generation of high-level radioactive wastes. A tokamak, a torus-shaped nuclear fusion device, needs an electric current in the plasma to produce magnetic field around the torus for confining fusion plasmas. Plasma current is conventionally generated by el ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 9, 2021 
A team of scientists in Berlin is on the brink of giving the nearly extinct Sumatran rhinoceros a new chance at life by successfully growing stem cells from a deceased rhino's skin.
The Max Delbruck Center, which develops stem-cell-associated techniques, or SCAT, as part of its BioRescue project, announced its progress on Wednesday. Scientists said they plan to turn the stem cells into ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Nov 10, 2022 
Chinese dissident Bao Tong, a top Communist Party official imprisoned in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests who became a vocal critic of Beijing, has died at 90 years old, his son said on Twitter.
Bao had spent much of the past three decades under home surveillance or in prison following the Chinese military's violent crackdown on the student movement, which called for democratic ... more |
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 Resistencia, Argentina (AFP) Nov 8, 2022 
Dwarfed by its more prestigious sibling, the Amazon, South America's second largest forest is a little-known victim of 25 years of gradual invasion by agriculture.
The Gran Chaco indigenous forest that spans one million square kilometers (386,000 square miles) across Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia is at the mercy of ravenous soybean and sunflower crops, as well as pasture land.
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