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  Taipei (AFP) Nov 19, 2022 A panda that China gifted to Taiwan 14 years ago as a symbol of what were then warmer ties died on Saturday, after suffering a spate of seizures, Taipei Zoo said. Tuan Tuan and his breeding mate Yuan Yuan were given to Taiwan by Beijing in late 2008, at a time when relations between the two were more cordial. China views Taiwan as part of its territory and has vowed to one day bring the self-ruled democratic island into the fold, by force if necessary. "Our medical team has confirmed that Tu ... read more |
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Nations vote to extend protection to over 50 shark speciesWashington DC (UPI) Nov 18, 2021 Nearly 200 countries have voted to extend protection to more than 50 species of sharks at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Tuna and Flora (CITIES), the world's largest wildlife summit. ... more  
Climate fund breakthrough offers 'hope' at UN COP27 talksSharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 19, 2022 COP27 host Egypt scrambled to salvage UN climate talks Saturday with the European Union signalling a breakthrough over the contentious issue of "loss and damage" funding for climate vulnerable nations. ... more  
NOAA adopts Finland's CubeSat-proven space weather monitorParis (ESA) Nov 18, 2022 An advanced X-ray monitoring instrument tested for space aboard an ESA CubeSat will serve as an operational space weather payload on the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space We ... more  
Vast phytoplankton blooms may be lurking beneath Antarctic iceAuckland, New Zealand (SPX) Nov 17, 2022 Until now, we thought the packed sea ice of the Southern Ocean blocked all light from reaching the sea beneath, preventing phytoplankton - tiny algae which are the base of aquatic food webs - from g ... more |
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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 are Storms bring chaos to Ireland, France, UK |
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Climate change 'main threat' for world heritage sitesParis (AFP) Nov 18, 2022 One of the world's first cities came close to being wiped off the map during tragic floods this summer in Pakistan. Though Mohenjo Daro survived, it has become a symbol of the threat global warming poses to humanity's cultural heritage. ... more 
UN climate talks go into overtimeSharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 18, 2022 UN climate talks that were supposed to end Friday were extended by a day in an effort to break a deadlock over creating a fund for developing countries devastated by the fallout from global warming. ... more 
Don't abandon 1.5C warming limit, says Paris accord architectSharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 17, 2022 The world is in danger of blasting past its goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, said climate champion Laurence Tubiana, slamming a "flagrant" lack of global leadership. ... more  
Microsoft and Planet to provide AI and satellite data for African climate projectsSan Francisco CA (SPX) Nov 17, 2022 Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, and Microsoft Corp. announced an expanded partnership to apply artificial intelligence (AI) technology and sate ... more |
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Lockheed Martin, NVIDIA to build digital twin of current global weather conditions for NOAADenver CO (SPX) Nov 18, 2022 Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and NVIDIA has announced a collaboration to build an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven Earth Observations Digital Twin that will provide the National Oceanic and Atmosp ... more 
China launches Yaogan 34 remote sensing satelliteJiuquan (XNA) Nov 17, 2022 China successfully sent a new remote sensing satellite of the Yaogan 34 series into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China at 9:38 am (Beijing Time) on Tuesday. The ... more  
Wearing a mask can impact ability to recognize others, study saysWashington DC (UPI) Nov 16, 2021 Wearing a face mask during the COVID-19 pandemic presented identification issues at airports and with smartphones, but a new study finds those wearing a mask are also impacted when it comes to recognizing friends and co-workers - even if those people have nothing covering their face. ... more  
Preserving animal habitat could prevent future pandemics, study saysWashington DC (UPI) Nov 17, 2021 New research is calling for the preservation and restoration of natural habitats to prevent future pandemics. ... more |
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'A shock': divers fish for waste to preserve Greece's Aegean shoresNaxos, Greece (AFP) Nov 16, 2022 On the Greek island of Naxos, two divers reeled in not the catch of the day but a jumble of cable, rope, fishing nets and old clothes from the seafloor. ... more  
Rising temperatures boost olive growing in BosniaLjubuski, Bosnia And Herzegovina (AFP) Nov 17, 2022 Winemaker and olive grower Jure Susac's land in Bosnia used to be blanketed with frost or even snow by autumn's end, but years of rising temperatures now mean balmy weather late into the year. ... more  
Climate change fuelled rains behind deadly Nigeria floods: studyParis (AFP) Nov 16, 2022 Heavy rains behind floods that killed over 600 people in Nigeria this year were about 80 times likelier because of human-induced climate change, scientists reported Wednesday. ... more  
Germany to pull troops from Mali by end 2023: govt sourceBerlin (AFP) Nov 16, 2022 Germany will end its participation in a UN peacekeeping mission in Mali by the end of next year, a government source told AFP on Wednesday after months of operational snags. ... more 
WFP says its first aid convoy since Ethiopia peace deal enters TigrayAddis Ababa (AFP) Nov 16, 2022 The World Food Programme (WFP) said its first aid convoy since the signing of a landmark peace deal between Ethiopia's government and Tigrayan rebels had arrived in the war-torn Tigray region on Wednesday. ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Nov 14, 2022 
The United Nations and the Red Cross on Monday called on countries to commit to curbing the use of explosive weapons in populated areas.
The impact of munitions use in built-up areas will be the focus of a conference of countries in Ireland this week expected to endorse a declaration committing to restrict the use of explosives in such settings.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 16, 2022 
Over 50 years ago, NASA captured the world's imagination and inspired generations with the Apollo 11 Moon landing. NASA's then-young Deep Space Network (DSN) was crucial to tracking and communicating with that mission, as it will also be essential to NASA's next push to the Moon: Artemis. In the half-century between those two lunar efforts, the network has expanded to support dozens of robotic s ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 18, 2021 
Nearly 200 countries have voted to extend protection to more than 50 species of sharks at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Tuna and Flora (CITIES), the world's largest wildlife summit.
The measure, which was introduced by host nation Panama, offers protection to approximately two-thirds of the species that are targeted in the global shark fin trade. Th ... more |
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 Auckland, New Zealand (SPX) Nov 17, 2022 
Until now, we thought the packed sea ice of the Southern Ocean blocked all light from reaching the sea beneath, preventing phytoplankton - tiny algae which are the base of aquatic food webs - from growing there.
The less light available, the less the phytoplankton can photosynthesize and therefore the less phytoplankton there will be, heavily restricting life beneath the ice. But research ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2022 
Large comprehensive experiments that integrate satellite, airplane, and ground-based observations were conducted at the Sanjiang Plain in northeast China from May to October to boost the black soil protection and use, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Northeast China, one of the world's three major black soil regions, is reg ... more |
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 Chandan Mori, Pakistan (AFP) Nov 16, 2022  Pakistani three-year-old Afshan's trip to school is a high-wire balancing act as she teeters across a metal girder spanning a trench of putrid floodwater, eyes fixed ahead.
After record monsoon rain flooded her classroom in the southeastern town of Chandan Mori, this is the route Afshan and her siblings now traverse to a tent where her lessons take place.
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 Addis Ababa (AFP) Nov 16, 2022 
The World Food Programme (WFP) said its first aid convoy since the signing of a landmark peace deal between Ethiopia's government and Tigrayan rebels had arrived in the war-torn Tigray region on Wednesday.
Restoring aid deliveries to Tigray was a key part of the agreement signed in South Africa on November 2 to silence the guns in a two-year conflict that has killed untold numbers of people ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 16, 2021 
Wearing a face mask during the COVID-19 pandemic presented identification issues at airports and with smartphones, but a new study finds those wearing a mask are also impacted when it comes to recognizing friends and co-workers - even if those people have nothing covering their face.
New research from York University, published Wednesday in the journal Cognitive Research: Principles an ... more |
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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 ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Nov 17, 2022 
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, and Microsoft Corp. announced an expanded partnership to apply artificial intelligence (AI) technology and satellite data to support African climate adaptation projects. This technology collaboration is in support of Microsoft's recently-announced first global expansion of its AI for Good Labs into Nairobi, Ke ... 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 15, 2022 
Wealthy and developing countries set the stage Tuesday for a showdown at UN climate talks over demands for rich polluters to compensate vulnerable nations for damages caused by natural disasters.
The COP27 conference in Egypt has been dominated by calls for wealthy nations to provide financing to developing nations least responsible for global warming for deadly and costly climate impacts. ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Nov 18, 2022 
The heat miles beneath our feet-deep geothermal energy-could provide more than enough clean, renewable energy to meet world demand as we transition away from fossil fuels, according to a presenter at the inaugural TEDX Boston Planetary Stewardship Event held November 13-14.
Timed to align with the United Nations' Climate Change Conference, the TEDX Boston event was "designed to spotlight a ... more |
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 Gorica, Albania (AFP) Nov 18, 2022 
In mountains overlooking an azure lake in southeast Albania, wildlife experts are tracking the Balkan lynx as part of last-gasp efforts to save the species from extinction.
The "forest ghost" which lives in tree-covered mountains straddling Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia, is now among the world's most endangered mammals, scientists warn.
The victim of deforestation and poaching, the ... 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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 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 17, 2022 
UN climate talks got a boost Wednesday after Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva vowed to fight Amazon deforestation and global leaders reaffirmed key pledges.
While G20 leaders meeting in Indonesia issued a final communique committing to pursue the more ambitious limits on global heating, action on the sidelines of fraught COP27 negotiations in Egypt generated momentum at th ... more |
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