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  Dar Es Salaam (AFP) Nov 23, 2022 Tanzanian authorities have started rationing electricity because of a drop in hydropower generation due to drought, the national provider said Wednesday, with some areas set to suffer nine-hour outages. The East African nation has the capacity to generate nearly 1,695 megawatts through hydropower, natural gas and other means. But it is currently facing a shortage of between 300 and 350 megawatts, Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (Tanesco) managing director Maharage Chande said. "Ther ... read more |
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British medic set to train to become first 'parastronaut'London (AFP) Nov 23, 2022 John McFall, who has become the first astronaut recruit with a disability, is a British doctor and former Paralympian who lost a leg in a motorbike accident. ... more  
Air pollution killed 238,000 Europeans prematurely in 2020: EEACopenhagen (AFP) Nov 23, 2022 Fine particle air pollution led to 238,000 premature deaths in the European Union in 2020, the bloc's environmental watchdog said Thursday, a slight rise from the previous year. ... more  
Study says the heaviest flying bird seems to self-medicate with plantsWashington DC (UPI) Nov 23, 2021 The great bustard actively seeks out medicinal plants that can kill pathogens, according to a study published Wednesday in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. ... more  
China's 'iPhone city' tightens Covid rules after violent protestsBeijing (AFP) Nov 24, 2022 China has ordered six million people into lockdown in a city where violent protests broke out at an iPhone factory over Covid isolation policies and working conditions. ... 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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Indonesia boy, 6, rescued from quake rubble after two dayswCianjur, Indonesia (AFP) Nov 24, 2022 A six-year-old boy has been pulled from the rubble of a deadly Indonesia earthquake after spending two days trapped under debris without food or water, in a "miracle" rescue. ... more  
Space belongs to humanity, come share it with ChinaBeijing (XNA) Nov 23, 2022 At the UN/China space exploration and innovation partnership conference on Monday, the China National Space Administration raised eight issues in the keynote speech delivered by its deputy director ... more  
NOAA's GOES-U completes thermal vacuum testingGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 23, 2022 NOAA's GOES-U, the final satellite in the GOES-R Series of advanced geostationary environmental satellites, recently completed thermal vacuum (TVAC) testing as part of a rigorous assessment program ... more 
NASA satellite precipitation data combined with Air Force weather systemGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 23, 2022 Rain gauges are plentiful around the United States, but that's not the case elsewhere in the world - particularly over oceans and sparsely populated areas. That means scientists and other data users ... more |
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Alzheimer's risk gene undermines insulation of brain's "wiring"Boston MA (SPX) Nov 24, 2022 It's well-known that carrying one copy of the APOE4 gene variant increases one's risk for Alzheimer's disease threefold and two copies about tenfold, but the fundamental reasons why, and what can be ... more  
US extends tariff exclusions on medical goods from ChinaWashington (AFP) Nov 23, 2022 The United States will extend exemptions from punitive tariffs for some medical products from China, the US Trade Representative said Wednesday. ... more
Indonesia quake survivors appeal for supplies as rain hampers rescueCianjur, Indonesia (AFP) Nov 23, 2022 Survivors of an Indonesian earthquake that killed at least 271 people, many of them children, appealed for food and water Wednesday as heavy rain and aftershocks hampered rescue efforts among the rubble of devastated villages. ... more  
Opposition leader Anwar named next Malaysia PMKuala Lumpur (AFP) Nov 24, 2022 Malaysia's perennial opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was named prime minister on Thursday, ending a days-long political impasse after inconclusive election results. ... more |
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Musk floats 'general amnesty' of suspended Twitter accountsSan Francisco (AFP) Nov 23, 2022 New Twitter owner Elon Musk on Wednesday polled users on whether the site should offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts, using the same method he used to handle the case of Donald Trump. ... more  
'But you're a woman': Iraqi furniture-maker carves up stereotypesBaghdad (AFP) Nov 23, 2022 With hammer and saw, Nour al-Janabi is building her latest creation, a candy-pink sofa, in the carpentry workshop she runs in male-dominated and conservative Iraq. ... more 
China's daily Covid cases highest since pandemic beganBeijing (AFP) Nov 24, 2022 China's daily Covid cases have climbed to the highest since the pandemic began, official data showed Thursday, despite the government persisting with a zero-tolerance approach involving gruelling lockdowns and travel restrictions. ... more 
China orders Covid lockdown in Zhengzhou after iPhone factory protestsBeijing (AFP) Nov 24, 2022 A central Chinese city home to a vast iPhone factory has ordered an effective Covid lockdown for several districts, after violent protests that saw demonstrators clash with police erupted at the facility. ... more 
Earth might be experiencing 7th mass extinction, not 6thRiverside CA (SPX) Nov 23, 2022 Earth is currently in the midst of a mass extinction, losing thousands of species each year. New research suggests environmental changes caused the first such event in history, which occurred millio ... more |
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 Cianjur, Indonesia (AFP) Nov 24, 2022  A six-year-old boy has been pulled from the rubble of a deadly Indonesia earthquake after spending two days trapped under debris without food or water, in a "miracle" rescue.
The dramatic rescue captured on camera Wednesday evening revived hopes that survivors could still be pulled alive from the wreckage days after the strong tremor that hit the West Java town of Cianjur on Monday, killing ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 23, 2022 
As the number of rocket launches, planetary missions and satellite activities continues to grow, so does junk in space, and many have been pondering the question of how to reduce the amount of debris orbiting Earth. Now, China may have found a solution with its newly deployed "sail" technology.
Hundreds of millions of items of human-made debris are continually circling Earth, including bro ... more |
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 Barcelona (AFP) Nov 22, 2022 
Barcelona will impose water use restrictions such as banning swimming pools from being filled due to a drought affecting large parts of Spain, local officials said Tuesday.
The city and its surrounding area will as of Friday be put under a "drought alert", joining other parts of the northeastern region of Catalonia.
"Months of little rain has forced us to take new decisions in order to m ... more |
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 Shanghai, China (SPX) Nov 23, 2022 
From September to October of 2015, a 60-person team were gathering on the Guliya ice cap in the Kunlun Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau, with the purpose to retrieve the world's oldest ice. In a FEATURES article published in Science (29/01/2016) entitled "Tibet's Primeval Ice: the quest for the world's oldest ice could yield a Rosetta Stone for how Asia responds to a changing climate", it was wr ... more |
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Nov 22, 2022 
The wastewater draining from massive pools of sewage sludge has the potential to play a role in more sustainable agriculture, according to environmental engineering researchers at Drexel University. A new study, looking at a process of removing ammonia from wastewater and converting it into fertilizer, suggests that it's not only technically viable, but also could help to reduce the environmenta ... more |
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 Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Nov 23, 2022 
Researchers at The University of Queensland have used satellites with radar imaging sensors to see through clouds and map flooding and say the technique could provide faster, more detailed information to keep communities safe.
Professor Noam Levin from UQ's School of Earth and Environmental Sciences said the project combined images from optical satellites with information from imaging rada ... more |
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 Berlin (AFP) Nov 22, 2022 
Germany will withdraw its troops from the UN's peacekeeping mission in Mali by May 2024, a government spokesman said Tuesday, becoming the latest country to announce its pullout from the jihadist-hit country.
The government will propose to parliament that Germany's commitment to the MINUSMA operation be extended "in May 2023 for the last time by a year, in order to bring this mission to a st ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Nov 24, 2022 
It's well-known that carrying one copy of the APOE4 gene variant increases one's risk for Alzheimer's disease threefold and two copies about tenfold, but the fundamental reasons why, and what can be done to help patients, remain largely unknown. A study published by an MIT-based team Nov. 16 in Nature provides some new answers as part of a broader line of research that has demonstrated APOE4's c ... 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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 East Lansing MI (SPX) Nov 23, 2022 
A dead zone in the ocean is as bad as it sounds. Being clueless about dead zones scope and path is worse. Scientists at Michigan State University (MSU) have discovered a birds-eye method to predict where, when and how long dead zones persist across large coastal regions.
"Understanding where these dead zones are and how they may change over time is the first crucial step to mitigating thes ... 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.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 23, 2022 
Along with bitterly cold temperatures, winter usually brings dry air and the occasional zap of static electricity. Those shocks might be annoying, but researchers are working to harness that otherwise wasted energy with triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) to power everyday devices.
Now, in ACS Omega, a team describes an easy way to manufacture these tiny generators out of materials as sim ... 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 23, 2022 
Violent protests have broken out around Foxconn's vast iPhone factory in central China, as workers clashed with security personnel over pay and living conditions at the plant.
In videos shared with AFP or circulated on social media, hundreds of workers can be seen marching on a road and confronted by riot police as well as people wearing hazmat suits.
Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn on Wedn ... 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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