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  Berkeley CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2022 Weather and climate modelers understand pretty well how seasonal winds and ocean currents affect El Nino patterns in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, impacting weather across the United States and sometimes worldwide. But new computer simulations show that one driver of annual weather cycles in that region - in particular, a cold tongue of surface waters stretching westward along the equator from the coast of South America - has gone unrecognized: the changing distance between Earth and the s ... read more |
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Evolution of tree roots may have driven mass extinctionsBloomington IN (SPX) Nov 14, 2022 The evolution of tree roots may have triggered a series of mass extinctions that rocked the Earth's oceans during the Devonian Period over 300 million years ago, according to a study led by scientis ... more  
Carbon emissions hit new high, Earth's time to contain warming 'running out'Washington DC (UPI) Nov 11, 2021 Driven by oil, global carbon emissions hit a new high in 2022 according to new estimates from the Global Carbon Project. ... more  
Study sheds light on rebirth code of Lop NurBeijing, China (SPX) Nov 14, 2022 Protecting and restoring the degraded arid lakes are globally urgent issues. Lop Nur, known as the "Sea of Death", is located in the Tarim River basin, the largest inland basin in China, and is one ... more  
Brazil sets new Amazon deforestation record for OctoberBrasilia (AFP) Nov 11, 2022 Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest broke the monthly record for October, with the destruction of 904 square kilometers (350 square miles), official figures showed Friday. ... more |
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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 Storms bring chaos to Ireland, France, UK |
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Study uncovers widespread and ongoing clearcutting of Swedish old forestsLund, Sweden (SPX) Nov 14, 2022 Almost one fourth of Sweden's last unprotected old-growth forest was logged between 2003 and 2019. At this rate, all of these ecologically unique and valuable forests will be lost in about 50 years. ... more  
Tenchijin develops a land surface temperature product with next level resolution and frequencyTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 14, 2022 As the result of the NEDO SBIR acceleration program, Tenchijin, Inc, a JAXA accredited space venture successfully developed their Land Surface Temperature Product with high resolution and frequency. ... more 
Northrop Grumman-built NOAA satellite launches with enhanced data trackingDulles VA (SPX) Nov 14, 2022 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) spacecraft, built by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), successfully launched aboar ... more  
Ice loss from Northeastern Greenland significantly underestimatedKongens Lyngby, Denmark (SPX) Nov 10, 2022 Ice is continuously streaming off Greenland's melting glaciers at an accelerating rate, dramatically increasing global sea levels. New results published [DATE] in Nature indicate that existing model ... more |
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Future terrestrial ecosystem will produce more oxygen for atmosphereLanzhou, China (SPX) Nov 10, 2022 This study is led by Dr. Lei Ding and Prof. Jianping Huang (College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University). They found future terrestrial ecosystem will prod ... more 
China sends multirole satellite into orbitBeijing (XNA) Nov 11, 2022 China launched a Long March 6A carrier rocket to send a multirole satellite into orbit on Saturday morning, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. The State-owned space cont ... more  
Climate change can put more insects at risk for extinctionMoffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 10, 2022 New NASA research models are shedding light on how insect populations may respond to severe changes in temperature that are likely climate change. In a study recently published in Nature Climate Cha ... more 
Planet and Justdiggit enable nature-based solutions to regreen the landSan Francisco CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2022 Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today shared that Justdiggit, a Dutch non-profit organization dedicated to supporting land restoration in sub-S ... more |
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EcoMatcher brings tree planting to Microsoft TeamsHong Kong (SPX) Nov 10, 2022 EcoMatcher is proud to announce the EcoMatcher app for Microsoft Teams, bringing the benefits of tree-planting directly into Microsoft Teams. Teams users can now plant trees, track them through sate ... more 
A thirsty COP27 climate summit plagued by glitchesSharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 12, 2022 Wheelchair struggles, scarce drinking water, $15 sandwiches and hotel price-gouging at the COP27 climate summit have sparked anger and forced host country Egypt into damage-control mode, participants at the two-week meet said. ... more  
UN chief tells Myanmar junta to get democracy 'back on track'Phnom Penh (AFP) Nov 12, 2022 UN chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday urged the Myanmar junta to immediately return to democracy, saying it was the only way to stop the "unending nightmare" engulfing the country. ... more 
At COP27, hundreds march behind hunger striker's sisterSharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 12, 2022 Chants of "free them all" and "no climate justice without human rights" rang out between the halls of COP27 Saturday, in the largest protest since the UN climate summit began. ... more  
China says committed to climate fight at UN summitSharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 8, 2022 China's top climate envoy told a UN summit Tuesday his country would not retreat from the fight against global warming, a day after Beijing and Washington were urged to boost efforts. ... more |
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 Fort Myers, United States (AFP) Nov 12, 2022  Hour by hour, day by day, hurricane-devastated southwest Florida is starting to get back on its feet - and the workers doing the hard labor are largely undocumented migrants.
They have names like Jael, Juan and Francisco Antonio, and they flooded into Florida from other Gulf Coast states, and even from Mexico, to take on work.
Many are perpetual nomadic workers, traveling from one natur ... 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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 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 12, 2022 
Wheelchair struggles, scarce drinking water, $15 sandwiches and hotel price-gouging at the COP27 climate summit have sparked anger and forced host country Egypt into damage-control mode, participants at the two-week meet said.
Organising a UN climate conference - which brings together up to 35,000 people from 195 countries each year - is a world-class logistical challenge, and veterans of ... more |
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 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark (SPX) Nov 10, 2022 
Ice is continuously streaming off Greenland's melting glaciers at an accelerating rate, dramatically increasing global sea levels. New results published [DATE] in Nature indicate that existing models have underestimated how much ice will be lost during the 21st century. Hence, its contribution to sea-level rise will be significantly higher.
By 2100, the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream will ... more |
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 Maracaibo, Venezuela (AFP) Nov 11, 2022 
A "plague" of giant African snails that pose potential health risks to humans is causing alarm in Venezuela where sustained rains have facilitated their proliferation.
The first colonies of the sub-Saharan Achatina fulica snail were discovered at the beginning of November on the shores of Lake Maracaibo in western Venezuela.
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Nov 11, 2022 
Large magma eruptions have produced great floods of basalt lava on the continents during Earth's history. Conventionally, the largest flood basalt eruptions are thought to be possible only in regions where the continental tectonic plates are unusually thin, so that deep mantle material is able to rise close to the Earth's surface. In such low-pressure environments, melting of hot mantle can gene ... more |
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 Ouagadougou (AFP) Nov 12, 2022 
Burkina Faso's government on Saturday announced an investigation into allegations that the army opened fire on villages in the north earlier in the week, killing several civilians. .
Troops fired shells at four villages near their military camp, according to a statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) addressed to the government in Ouagadougou.
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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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 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 10, 2022  The Ukraine war has shown the heavy toll military conflict takes not just on people but also on the planet, say experts at the UN climate summit in Egypt.
From the emissions caused by diesel-powered tanks, fighter jets and missile blasts to urban and forest fires and massive waves of refugees, the conflict has also spewed out huge amounts of greenhouse gases.
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 London (SPX) Nov 08, 2022 
Airbus HAPS Connectivity Business (Airbus HAPS) has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Space Compass Corporation of Japan (Space Compass) for a cooperation agreement to service the Japanese market with mobile connectivity and earth observation services from the Stratosphere with Airbus' record breaking Zephyr platform.
Samer Halawi, Chief Executive of Airbus HAPS, commented on the agreem ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 14, 2022 
The Devonian Period, 419 to 358 million years ago, was one of the most turbulent times in Earth's past and was marked by at least six significant marine extinctions, including one of the five largest mass extinctions ever to have occurred.
Additionally, it was during the Devonian that trees and complex land plants similar to those we know today first evolved and spread across the landscape ... more |
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 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 8, 2022 
China's top climate envoy told a UN summit Tuesday his country would not retreat from the fight against global warming, a day after Beijing and Washington were urged to boost efforts.
"Energy and food crises have hit the world one after another, and the climate action process is facing serious challenges," Xie Zhenhua said at the gathering of some 100 world leaders at the United Nations COP2 ... more |
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 Notre Dame, IN (SPX) Nov 09, 2022 
Yanliang Zhang, associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and collaborators Alexander Dowling and Tengfei Luo have developed a machine-learning assisted superfast new way to create high-performance, energy-saving thermoelectric devices.
The novel process uses intense pulsed light to sinter thermoelectric material in less than a second (con ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Nov 10, 2022 
World leaders will not attend high-stakes UN biodiversity talks in Montreal next month, a top official said Thursday, despite fears their absence could scupper major breakthroughs at the meeting.
Hopes are high that a new global biodiversity framework will be agreed at the talks, dubbed COP15, despite a long list of targets that have yet to be agreed.
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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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 Brasilia (AFP) Nov 11, 2022 
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest broke the monthly record for October, with the destruction of 904 square kilometers (350 square miles), official figures showed Friday.
The grim news comes less than two months before far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's four-year term ends.
The former army captain is a climate change skeptic and has been heavily criticized over policies s ... more |
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