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  Sendai, Japan (SPX) Nov 29, 2022 A collaborative research group has succeeded, for the first time, in measuring the speed of sound of pure iron under pressures similar to the Earth's inner core boundary. It may be surprising, but we do not have much information about the center of the planet that we live on. One can dig down a few kilometers, and volcanoes and plate tectonics can bring up material from depths of a few hundred km, but what lies beneath, down to the center of the Earth, some 6000 km beneath our feet, is not well un ... read more |
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Fresh clashes in south China as authorities warn of 'crackdown'Beijing (AFP) Nov 30, 2022 Fresh clashes have broken out between police and protesters in a southern Chinese city, part of a wave of Covid lockdown-sparked demonstrations across the country that have morphed into demands for political freedoms. ... more  
Great Barrier Reef risks 'in danger' World Heritage listingSydney (AFP) Nov 29, 2022 Australia's Great Barrier Reef should be added to a list of "in danger" World Heritage sites, according to UN experts who warned the fading wonder has been "significantly impacted" by climate change. ... more 
All regions experienced water extremes in 2021: UNGeneva (AFP) Nov 29, 2022 All regions of the world saw water extremes last year - both floods and droughts - and billions of people had insufficient freshwater, the United Nations said on Tuesday. ... more  
UN experts to contribute in Zambian lead poisoning caseJohannesburg (AFP) Nov 25, 2022 A top South African court Friday granted UN experts a role in proceedings against mining giant Anglo American, which is being sued for alleged lead poisoning in Zambia. ... 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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At least 20 tornadoes hit southern USHouston (AFP) Nov 30, 2022 At least 20 tornadoes hit the southern United States on Wednesday, cutting power and damaging homes, the National Weather Service said, urging residents to seek shelter. ... more 
China warns of 'crackdown' after major protestsShanghai (AFP) Nov 29, 2022 China's top security body called for a "crackdown" against "hostile forces" on Tuesday, after a weekend of protests in major cities opposing Covid lockdowns and demanding greater political freedoms. ... more  
China says to accelerate push to vaccinate elderly against Covid-19Beijing (AFP) Nov 29, 2022 China said Tuesday it would speed up a push to vaccinate people aged 60 and older against Covid-19 after the country posted record daily case numbers in recent days. ... more 
Canada police investigating broad China interferenceOttawa (AFP) Nov 29, 2022 Canadian federal police are investigating widespread interference by China in Canadian affairs, including its "democratic processes," the nation's top cop has said in a letter to a parliamentary committee but without detailing the allegations. ... more |
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Hawaii volcano shoots lava fountains 200 feet high: USGSLos Angeles (AFP) Nov 29, 2022 Fountains of lava up to 200 feet (60 meters) high have been fired into the air from Hawaii's Mauna Loa, geologists say, generating rivers of molten rock from the world's largest active volcano. ... more  
Phytoplankton may be abundant under Antarctic sea iceGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 29, 2022 A decade ago, scientists on a NASA-sponsored ocean expedition found massive populations of phytoplankton blooming beneath sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. Now scientists using underwater instruments and ... more 
Houston under boil water order after treatment plant failureHouston (AFP) Nov 28, 2022 Authorities in the US city of Houston ordered residents to boil their water before drinking it after a power outage at a treatment plant, leaving classes and other activities canceled Monday. ... more  
Italy landslide death toll rises to 8, warnings 'ignored'Rome (AFP) Nov 28, 2022 Search parties on Monday recovered the body of an eighth victim of a landslide on the small Italian island of Ischia, as a former mayor said his calls for an evacuation had been ignored. ... more |
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Four killed in Sao Tome's failed coup bid: state mediaLibreville (AFP) Nov 27, 2022 Four people were killed in a failed coup attempt on Sao Tome, the state news agency STP-Press said on Sunday reporting a toll from the armed forces chief of staff. ... more 
UK summons China envoy after arrest of BBC journalist; China a 'systemic challenge' says SunakLondon (AFP) Nov 29, 2022 Britain on Tuesday summoned the Chinese ambassador in London for a rebuke after the arrest and alleged assault of a BBC journalist covering Covid protests. ... more  
Colombia sending troops to southern border to fight drug gangsBogota (AFP) Nov 29, 2022 Colombia is to deploy 400 soldiers to fight drug traffickers operating across its rural southern borders, after a recent spike in killings and internal displacement, the South American country's government said Monday. ... more  
European broadcasters condemn Chinese 'intimidation' of mediaGeneva (AFP) Nov 28, 2022 The European Broadcasting Union on Monday condemned the "intolerable" intimidation of news crews in China reporting on the rare protests that have broken out across the country. ... more 
Belarus Nobel winner facing long jail term for 'smuggling': NGOMoscow (AFP) Nov 28, 2022 Jailed Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski, who was co-awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize, faces up to 12 years in prison on smuggling charges, the Viasna rights centre said Monday. ... more |
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 Casamicciola Terme, Italy (AFP) Nov 27, 2022  Italy declared a state of emergency on the southern island of Ischia on Sunday after a landslide killed at least seven people and left several others missing.
A wave of mud and debris crashed through the small town of Casamicciola Terme on Saturday morning, engulfing at least one house and sweeping cars down to the sea, local media and emergency services said.
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 Dallas TX (SPX) Nov 29, 2022 
Texas Instruments (TI) (Nasdaq: TXN) has announced an expansion in its portfolio of space-grade analog semiconductor products in highly reliable plastic packages for a diverse range of missions. TI developed a new device screening specification called space high-grade in plastic (SHP) for radiation-hardened products and introduced new analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) that meet the SHP qualifi ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Nov 29, 2022 
Australia's Great Barrier Reef should be added to a list of "in danger" World Heritage sites, according to UN experts who warned the fading wonder has been "significantly impacted" by climate change.
A UNESCO-tasked report said on Monday warming seas and agricultural pollution had put the reef at risk and that its resilience had been "substantially compromised".
The Great Barrier Reef is ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 29, 2022 
A decade ago, scientists on a NASA-sponsored ocean expedition found massive populations of phytoplankton blooming beneath sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. Now scientists using underwater instruments and a NASA satellite have found evidence of potentially significant blooms beneath the sea ice encircling Antarctica. The findings were recently published in the scientific journal Frontiers.
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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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 Cianjur, Indonesia (AFP) Nov 27, 2022 
The death toll from an earthquake that hit Indonesia's island of Java this week has risen to 321 as rescuers found more bodies on Sunday, the national disaster mitigation agency said.
The shallow 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit the West Java town of Cianjur on Monday, where most of the victims were killed as buildings collapsed or landslides were triggered.
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 Libreville (AFP) Nov 27, 2022 
Four people were killed in a failed coup attempt on Sao Tome, the state news agency STP-Press said on Sunday reporting a toll from the armed forces chief of staff.
The military, which on Friday thwarted a coup bid in the tiny Portuguese-speaking archipelago off central Africa considered a beacon of democracy, announced "four human lives were lost" after "exchanges of fire" at a military site ... 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.
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 29, 2022 
With liftoff now scheduled for 13 December, Europe's first Meteosat Third Generation Imager (MTG-I1) satellite has been fuelled - a critical and extremely hazardous milestone on the road to launch. Once in geostationary orbit 36,000 km above the equator, this all-new weather satellite will provide state-of-the art observations of Earth's atmosphere and realtime monitoring of lightning events, ta ... more |
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 Tucson 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 Regents Professor in the University of Arizona Department of Neuroscience, and Frank Hirth, a reader of evolutionary neuroscience at King's College London - provides the first detailed description of ... more |
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 London (AFP) Nov 28, 2022  Britain on Monday unveiled an energy-saving campaign to encourage lower consumption this winter - a policy U-turn - and increased financial help for home insulation.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative government announced the publicity blitz just two months after his short-lived predecessor, Liz Truss, ruled out such a move and ran into immediate criticism from opposition politician ... 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 29, 2022  China's top security body on Tuesday called for a "crackdown" on "hostile forces" after the country saw protests in major cities opposing Covid lockdowns and demanding greater political freedoms.
The ruling Communist Party's Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, which oversees all domestic law enforcement in China, said it was "necessary to crack down on infiltration and sabotage a ... more |
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 Le Chenit, Switzerland (AFP) Nov 30, 2022 
Stroking a tiny spruce sapling, Swiss forest ranger Francois Villard fears the tree will not withstand global warming and live to a ripe old age like its ancestors.
The Risoud Forest, covering the border between France and Switzerland some 1,200 metres (3,900 feet) up in the Jura mountains, is filled with spruce trees which are hundreds of years old.
Their wood is perfect for crafting ac ... more |
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