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  Beijing (AFP) Nov 27, 2022 Angry crowds took to the streets in Shanghai early on Sunday, and videos on social media showed protests in other cities across China, as public opposition to the government's hardline zero-Covid policy mounts. A deadly fire on Thursday in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China's Xinjiang region, has spurred an outpouring of anger as many social media users blamed lengthy Covid lockdowns for hampering rescue efforts. China is the last major economy wedded to a zero-Covid strategy, with authoriti ... read more |
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Deadly Xinjiang fire stirs anger at China's zero-Covid policyBeijing (AFP) Nov 26, 2022 A deadly fire in China's northwest Xinjiang region has spurred an outpouring of anger at the country's zero-Covid policy, as Beijing fights growing public fatigue over its hardline approach to containing the coronavirus. ... more 
Protests in Shanghai as anger mounts over China's zero-Covid policyShanghai (AFP) Nov 27, 2022 Angry crowds took to the streets of Shanghai early Sunday calling for an end to lockdowns, as China grapples with mounting public protests against its zero-Covid policy. ... more  
In drought-hit Iraq, a dam threatens to swallow farmlandAl-Messahag, Iraq (AFP) Nov 27, 2022 Jamil al-Juburi, 53, has never left his village in northern Iraq, where his family has worked the land for generations - but a dam will soon swallow his home, forcing them out. ... more 
Rescuers search for missing after landslide on Italian island kills oneCasamicciola Terme, Italy (AFP) Nov 27, 2022 Italian rescuers were searching for a dozen missing people on the southern island of Ischia on Sunday after a landslide killed at least one person, as the government scheduled an emergency meeting. ... 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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New CRISPR-based tool inserts large DNA sequences at desired sites in cellsBoston MA (SPX) Nov 25, 2022 Building on the CRISPR gene-editing system, MIT researchers have designed a new tool that can snip out faulty genes and replace them with new ones, in a safer and more efficient way. Using thi ... more  
A warmer Arctic Ocean leads to more snowfall further southSapporo, Japan (SPX) Nov 25, 2022 A new model explains that water evaporating from the Arctic Ocean due to a warming climate is transported south and can lead to increased snowfall in northern Eurasia in late autumn and early winter ... more  
525-million-year-old fossil defies textbook explanation for brain evolutionTucson AZ (SPX) Nov 25, 2022 Fossils of a tiny sea creature that died more than half a billion years ago may compel a science textbook rewrite of how brains evolved. A study published in Science - led by Nicholas Strausfeld, a ... more  
Physicist strikes gold, solving 50-year lightning mysteryAdelaide, Australia (SPX) Nov 25, 2022 The chances of being struck by lightning are less than one in a million, but those odds shortened considerably this month when more than 4.2 million lightning strikes were recorded in every Australi ... more |
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Global wildlife summit approves shark protectionsPanama City (AFP) Nov 25, 2022 Delegates at a global summit on trade in endangered species on Friday approved a plan to protect 54 more shark species, a move that could drastically reduce the lucrative and cruel shark fin trade. ... more  
'Where are the mackerel?' Alarm as Bosphorus fish stocks crashIstanbul (AFP) Nov 25, 2022 Despondent Sunday anglers watch crestfallen as a trawler winches an enormous net out of the waters of the Bosphorus. ... more 
There's an ocean of difference in our water needsMadison WI (SPX) Nov 25, 2022 A new study of thousands of people reveals a wide range in the amount of water people consume around the globe and over their lifespans, definitively spilling the oft-repeated idea that eight, 8-oun ... more 
Scientists discover five new species of black corals deep below the pacific off the Great Barrier ReefWashington DC (SPX) Nov 25, 2022 The big idea: Using a remote-controlled submarine, my colleagues and I discovered five new species of black corals living as deep as 2,500 feet (760 meters) below the surface in the Great Barrier Re ... more |
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Carrefour still sells beef tied to Brazil deforestation: NGOParis (AFP) Nov 25, 2022 French retail giant Carrefour is still selling Brazilian beef products linked to destruction of the Amazon rainforest despite committing to end such sales, the US activist group Mighty Earth said Friday. ... more  
Two dead as Saudi storm closes schools, cuts main road to MeccaRiyadh (AFP) Nov 24, 2022 At least two people died on Thursday as heavy rains hit western Saudi Arabia, including the coastal city of Jeddah, delaying flights and forcing schools to close, officials said. ... more 
'Army of orphans': The price of S.Africa's AIDS scourgeJohannesburg (AFP) Nov 25, 2022 At the age of 13, Ndumiso Gamede was orphaned when his parents died at the peak of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. ... more  
Indonesian girl, 7, found dead after day-long quake rescue effortCianjur, Indonesia (AFP) Nov 25, 2022 A seven-year-old Indonesian girl who was the subject of a day-long rescue effort after an earthquake killed at least 310 people in West Java has been found dead, rescuers told AFP Friday. ... more 
China-Australia project contributes to studies on climate adaptation and disaster risk reductionBeijing, China (SPX) Nov 25, 2022 Climate change is imposing growing influences on the world, especially these developing countries which suffer most from the damaging impacts of the associating natural disasters such as floods due ... 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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 Fino Mornasco, Italy (SPX) Nov 24, 2022 
The space transportation and logistics company D-Orbit has announced the signing of a hosted payload contract with SpacePNT, a Swiss company specialized in the design and manufacturing of low cost high-accuracy GNSS receivers for the New Space satellite market.
The contract covers the integration of a new GNSS receiver prototype into ION Satellite Carrier, D-Orbit's proprietary orbital tra ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 25, 2022 
The big idea: Using a remote-controlled submarine, my colleagues and I discovered five new species of black corals living as deep as 2,500 feet (760 meters) below the surface in the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea off the coast of Australia.
Black corals can be found growing both in shallow waters and down to depths of over 26,000 feet (8,000 meters), and some individual corals can live f ... 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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 Al-Messahag, Iraq (AFP) Nov 27, 2022 
Jamil al-Juburi, 53, has never left his village in northern Iraq, where his family has worked the land for generations - but a dam will soon swallow his home, forcing them out.
Tens of thousands of Iraqis are threatened by the Makhoul dam, which the government hopes will be operational on the mighty Tigris in five years.
"I was born here and I grew up here," said Juburi, whose village o ... 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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 Kinshasa (AFP) Nov 24, 2022 
DR Congo's army once absorbed rebels into its ranks as a way to end conflict, but as the country struggles with an offensive by the M23 militia in the east, experts caution against reviving the policy.
A mostly Congolese Tutsi rebel group, the M23 has staged a raging comeback after laying dormant for years.
Its combatants took up arms again in late 2021, claiming that the Democratic Rep ... 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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 Paris (AFP) Nov 25, 2022 
Experts and activists were hoping UN climate talks would end last week with a prominent mention of biodiversity in the final text. They walked away disappointed.
Some say delegates at the COP27 summit missed a key opportunity to acknowledge the connection between the twin climate and nature crises, which many believe have been treated separately for too long.
Failing to address both coul ... more |
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 Greenbelt 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 to ensure the satellite can withstand the harsh conditions of launch and orbiting 22,236 miles above Earth's equator. The testing is taking place at Lockheed Martin Space's Littleton, Colorado, facili ... more |
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 Tallahassee FL (SPX) Nov 23, 2022 
A decline in the element molybdenum across the planet's oceans preceded a significant extinction event approximately 183 million years ago, new research from Florida State University shows.
The decrease may have contributed to the mass extinction, in which up to 90% of species in the oceans perished, and it suggests that much more organic carbon was buried in the extinction event than had ... more |
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 Ottawa (AFP) Nov 24, 2022 
The Canadian government on Thursday unveiled a CAN$1.6 billion (US$1.2 billion) plan to help the country deal with the looming dangers of a warming world, such as floods, wildfires and extreme heat.
The so-called climate adaptation strategy will fund programs to help Canadians shield themselves from heat waves, protect coastlines from rising seas and safeguard infrastructure, including in th ... 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 25, 2022 
A global wildlife summit that ends Friday passed resolutions to protect hundreds of threatened species, including sharks, reptiles, turtles as well as trees.
Here are some highlights of the two-week meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Panama.
1) Sharks steal the show
No longer just the villains of the deep, these ancient predators were th ... 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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 Abidjan (AFP) Nov 24, 2022 
Ivory Coast, which has lost nearly all its forests in the last half century, has launched a major project to triple its cover by 2030, the government announced Thursday.
The Forests Investment Project aims to cover 6.5 million hectares (16 million acres) - or 20 percent of the country - said the World Bank, which is financing the 143-million-euro ($149 million) scheme.
The project woul ... more |
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