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  Cianjur, Indonesia (AFP) Nov 22, 2022 Rescuers searched for survivors buried under rubble on Tuesday as relatives started to bury their loved ones after an earthquake on Indonesia's main island of Java killed 252 people. As body bags emerged from crumpled buildings in Indonesia's most populous province, West Java, rescue efforts turned to any survivors still under debris in areas made hard to reach by the mass of obstacles thrown onto the roads by the quake. The epicentre of the shallow 5.6-magnitude quake on Monday was near the tow ... read more |
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'Like a shotgun': Tongan eruption is largest ever recordedWellington (AFP) Nov 21, 2022 A deadly volcanic eruption near Tonga in January was the largest ever recorded with modern equipment, a New Zealand-led team of scientists revealed Monday. ... more 
Strong quake rattles Solomon IslandsHoniara (AFP) Nov 22, 2022 A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Solomon Islands on Tuesday, swaying buildings, hurling items off shelves and briefly knocking out power in parts of the capital Honiara. ... more  
Confusion, fear cloud China's path out of zero-CovidBeijing (AFP) Nov 22, 2022 With megacities under lockdown, infection numbers climbing and sporadic protests, China's Covid-19 policy has reached a stalemate as authorities persist with seeking to contain the virus while trying to keep the economy alive. ... more 
Beijing sees record Covid cases as China outbreak spiralsBeijing (AFP) Nov 22, 2022 China's capital Beijing posted a record number of new Covid cases on Tuesday, with the city hunkering down under a tightening chokehold of restrictions that have sent schools online, closed many restaurants and forced employees to work from home. ... more |
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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 are Storms bring chaos to Ireland, France, UK |
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Rapid fluctuations in oxygen levels coincided with Earth's first mass extinctionTallahassee FL (SPX) Nov 18, 2022 Rapid changes in marine oxygen levels may have played a significant role in driving Earth's first mass extinction, according to a new study led by Florida State University researchers. About 4 ... more  
Sentinel-5P data used in new methane detection systemParis (ESA) Nov 17, 2022 As part of worldwide efforts to slow climate change, the United Nations has revealed a new satellite-based system to detect methane emissions. The Methane Alert and Response System (MARS) initiative ... more  
Airbus invests in Carbon Engineering Ltd. to support world's largest direct air carbon capture R and D facilitySquamish, Canada (SPX) Nov 21, 2022 Airbus invests in Carbon Engineering Ltd., a Canadian-based climate solutions company, operating the largest Direct Air Carbon Capture (DACC) Research and Development facility in the world. The inve ... more  
Metaspectral raises $4.7M to launch fusion, a cloud-based AI platformVancouver, Canada (SPX) Nov 17, 2022 Metaspectral, a software company advancing computer vision using deep learning and hyperspectral imagery, has completed a $4.7 million seed round from SOMA Capital, Acequia Capital, the Government o ... more |
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Zebrafish are smarter than we thoughtBoston MA (SPX) Nov 18, 2022 A new study from MIT and Harvard University suggests that the brains of the seemingly simple zebrafish are more sophisticated than previously thought. The researchers found that larval zebrafish can ... more 
Turtles and see-through frogs on agenda at wildlife summitPanama City (AFP) Nov 22, 2022 A global wildlife summit in Panama will decide whether to take measures to protect the translucent glass frog and 12 types of freshwater turtles in its final week, which kicked off Monday. ... more  
Health or jobs: Peruvian mining town at a crossroadsLa Oroya, Peru (AFP) Nov 22, 2022 The Peruvian mining city of La Oroya, one of the most polluted places in the world, is seeking to reopen a heavy metal smelter that poisoned residents for almost a century. ... more  
No way to run a COP: climate summit host Egypt gets bad marksSharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 20, 2022 Almost from the start, Egypt came under fire over its handling of the UN COP27 climate talks tasked with responding to the growing threat of global warming. ... more |
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Nespresso takes the plunge with compostable coffee capsulesZurich (AFP) Nov 21, 2022 Nespresso is launching compostable coffee capsules next year in a bid to fend off competitors trying to muscle in on the lucrative home coffee market with ever-more eco-friendly alternatives. ... more  
Six staffers from Hong Kong's Apple Daily plead guilty to foreign collusionHong Kong (AFP) Nov 22, 2022 Six senior staffers from Hong Kong's shuttered pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily pleaded guilty to colluding with foreign forces on Tuesday, and could face a maximum sentence of life in prison. ... more  
38 killed in central China fireBeijing (AFP) Nov 22, 2022 Thirty-eight people were killed and two were injured in a fire at a factory in central China, state media said Tuesday, with authorities blaming workers for illegal welding. ... more 
Australian tells of Myanmar jail squalor, torture fearSydney (AFP) Nov 22, 2022 An Australian economist released after nearly two years in a Myanmar jail has told of interrogations in leg irons, squalor and the sounds of screams from tortured cellmates during his time behind bars. ... more  
Colombia resumes talks with powerful ELN guerrilla groupCaracas (AFP) Nov 22, 2022 Colombia's government and the National Liberation Army (ELN), the last recognized rebel group in the country, resumed formal peace talks in Venezuela Monday for the first time since they were suspended in 2019. ... more |
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 Nusa Dua, Indonesia (AFP) Nov 15, 2022 
The United States is pressing China and other G20 members to do more on debt relief for the world's poorest countries, a senior US official said Tuesday.
The issue will be highlighted in the final joint statement when the summit in the Indonesian resort island of Bali ends this week, the official said, but there will not be unanimity.
"What you're going to see in the G20 statement is tha ... more |
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 Oslo, Norway (SPX) Nov 18, 2022 
The Royal Norwegian Air Force has selected the Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) TPY-4 next generation ground-based air surveillance radar to enhance the country's long-range surveillance capability.
"We are grateful to be selected to help protect the safety of Norwegians. The TPY-4 is a continued advancement of our 21st Century Security vision supporting joint all domain operations for the Unit ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 16, 2022 
New results show average sea level rise approaching the 1-foot mark for most coastlines of the contiguous U.S. by 2050. The Gulf Coast and Southeast will see the most change.
By 2050, sea level along contiguous U.S. coastlines could rise as much as 12 inches (30 centimeters) above today's waterline, according to researchers who analyzed nearly three decades of satellite observations. The r ... 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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 Ljubuski, 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.
It was 28 degrees Celsius (82 Fahrenheit) as his family and friends used plastic rakes to help harvest olives in the last days of October, under a radiant sky.
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 Goma, Dr Congo (AFP) Nov 19, 2022 
Two days of flooding and landslides in eastern DR Congo have claimed more than 20 lives, officials and police said Saturday.
At least 13 people were killed Friday at an illegal gold mine at Rubaya, in the North Kivu province territory of Masisi.
"The victims were 'diggers' who were in wells and people who were nearby," Jean-Paul Barindikije, secretary of an association of artisanal miner ... more |
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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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 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 20, 2022  Vulnerable nations least responsible for planet-heating emissions have been battling for three decades to get wealthy polluters to pay for climate damages.
Their final push took barely two weeks.
The "loss and damage" inflicted by climate-induced disasters was not even officially up for discussion when UN talks in Egypt began.
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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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 Tallahassee FL (SPX) Nov 18, 2022 
Rapid changes in marine oxygen levels may have played a significant role in driving Earth's first mass extinction, according to a new study led by Florida State University researchers.
About 443 million years ago, life on Earth was undergoing the Late Ordovician mass extinction, or LOME, which eliminated about 85% of marine species. Scientists have long studied this mass extinction and con ... more |
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 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 20, 2022 Vulnerable nations least responsible for planet-heating emissions have been battling for three decades for wealthy polluters to cough up the cash for climate damages.
Their final push took barely two weeks.
The "loss and damage" inflicted by climate-induced disasters was not even officially up for discussion when UN talks in Egypt began.
But a concerted effort among developing countr ... more |
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 East Lansing MI (SPX) Nov 22, 2022  Michigan State University's Andrew Christlieb is leading a massive U.S. Department of Energy project to help deliver on the not-yet-realized promise of nuclear fusion. That promise? To create an unmatched source of affordable and sustainable energy.
Christlieb, an MSU Foundation Professor in the College of Natural Science, is now the director of a Mathematic ... more |
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 Panama City (AFP) Nov 22, 2022 
A global wildlife summit in Panama will decide whether to take measures to protect the translucent glass frog and 12 types of freshwater turtles in its final week, which kicked off Monday.
Conservation experts and delegates from more than 180 nations began the week with a decision to maintain a ban on the trade of white rhinoceros horn, despite a request from Eswatini that was backed by Japa ... 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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 Beelitz, Germany (AFP) Nov 17, 2022 
Once a sea of green, thousands of spruces with brown crowns and charred trunks now stand in a forest in eastern Germany, testament to one of the most ferocious forest fires to have ravaged the region in years.
Germany recorded its worst bout of forest fires in 2022, and experts believe such calamities will only intensify in the coming years because of climate change.
Foresters are now ra ... more |
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