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  Beijing (AFP) Dec 5, 2022 Once dominated by doom and gloom coverage of the dangers of the virus and scenes of pandemic chaos abroad, China's tightly controlled media has dramatically shifted tone as the country tentatively moves away from zero-Covid. Long anchored to a hardline strategy of mass lockdowns, forced quarantine in centralised facilities and mass testing for millions, Beijing is dialling down curbs in the wake of nationwide protests calling for an end to lockdowns and greater political freedoms. That policy sh ... read more |
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Indonesia's Mount Semeru erupts, forcing thousands to fleeLumajang, Indonesia (AFP) Dec 4, 2022 Indonesia's Mount Semeru erupted Sunday spewing hot ash clouds a mile high and rivers of lava down its side while sparking the evacuation of nearly 2,000 people exactly one year after its last major eruption killed dozens. ... more  
NASA Researcher's AI 'Eye' could help robotic data-gatheringGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 When it comes to making real-time decisions about unfamiliar data - say, choosing a path to hike up a mountain you've never scaled before - existing artificial intelligence and machine learning tech ... more  
Climate change supercharges threat from forest-eating bugHelsinki (AFP) Dec 5, 2022 Deep in the Finnish woods, the moss and blueberry shrubs hide a deadly threat to the boreal forests that are as important to the planet as the Amazon rainforest. ... more 
Flash flood kills 14 at Johannesburg church ritualJohannesburg (AFP) Dec 4, 2022 Flash flooding that followed heavy rains has killed at least 14 people taking part in religious rituals in Johannesburg, with others still missing, emergency services said Sunday. ... 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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NASA to cancel GeoCarb Mission, expands greenhouse gas portfolioGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 NASA announced Monday it intends to cancel development of its GeoCarb mission, and instead implement a plan for pursuing alternate options to measure and observe greenhouse gases. Newer option ... more 
Chinese cities relax testing rules as zero-Covid policy easesBeijing (AFP) Dec 5, 2022 Businesses reopened and testing requirements were relaxed in Beijing and other Chinese cities on Monday as the country tentatively eases out of a strict zero-Covid policy that sparked nationwide protests. ... more 
Death Valley's Ubehebe Crater reveals volcanic hazard areas are underestimatedBuffalo NY (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 When magma bubbles up toward Earth's surface and meets groundwater, steam pressure builds, sometimes bursting into eruptions that spew currents of hot ash, potentially burning and asphyxiating peopl ... more  
New program will boost restoration of ecologically vulnerable areasBeijing, China (SPX) Dec 05, 2022 Five Young Scientist Projects supported by the National Key R and D Program "Ecosystem Protection and Restoration for Typical Ecologically Vulnerable Areas" were launched in Beijing on November 27, ... more |
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Silent synapses are abundant in the adult brainBoston MA (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 MIT neuroscientists have discovered that the adult brain contains millions of "silent synapses" - immature connections between neurons that remain inactive until they're recruited to help form new m ... more 
NASA responds to Independent Review of Earth System ObservatoryWashington DC (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 NASA shared a response Wednesday on an independent review board established to assess plans and goals for the next generation of Earth-observing satellites: NASA's Earth System Observatory, a cuttin ... more 
China's two meteorological satellites put into operationBeijing (XNA) Dec 05, 2022 Two meteorological satellites, along with their ground application systems, have officially started operation, said the China Meteorological Administration on Thursday. The trial operation of ... more  
A targeted approach to reducing the health impacts of crop residue burning in IndiaBoston MA (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 To clear the way for planting wheat in November, a farmer in Punjab, India, sets aflame the leftover straw, or stubble, of a harvested rice paddy crop in October. The burning residue fills the air w ... more |
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Glacier calving and a whole lot of mixingParis (ESA) Dec 02, 2022 It's no surprise that when a massive lump of ice drops off the edge of a glacier into the sea, the surface waters of the ocean get pretty churned up. However, in addition to causing tsunamis at the ... more  
US company turns air pollution into fuel, bottles and dressesSkokie, United States (AFP) Dec 2, 2022 At LanzaTech's lab in the Chicago suburbs, a beige liquid bubbles away in dozens of glass vats. ... more 
All churned up: Austrian oat milk ad draws farmers' ireVienna (AFP) Dec 1, 2022 Austrian farmers were left fuming after an advert for winter tourism featured oat - instead of cow's - milk, in what industry representatives sourly slammed as an "affront to Tyrolean farmers". ... more 
How bringing back lost species revives ecosystemsWashington (AFP) Dec 1, 2022 Scientists often study the grim impacts of losing wildlife to hunting, habitat destruction and climate change. But what happens when endangered animals are brought back from the brink? ... more 
NGOs take aim at Indonesia over orangutans, academic freedomJakarta (AFP) Dec 2, 2022 More than a dozen NGOs have issued a letter accusing Indonesia of stymieing scientific research, after Jakarta banned a group of foreign academics who opposed an official claim that orangutan numbers are increasing. ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Dec 1, 2022 
Natural and man-made catastrophes have caused $268 billion of economic losses so far in 2022, chiefly driven by Hurricane Ian and other extreme weather disasters, reinsurance giant Swiss Re estimated Thursday.
Insured losses covered $122 billion - less than half - of the total economic losses to date this year, said the Zurich-based group, which acts as an insurer for insurers.
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 New York NY (SPX) Dec 01, 2022 
at AWS re:Invent 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that it successfully ran a suite of AWS compute and machine learning (ML) software on an orbiting satellite, in a first-of-its-kind space experiment. The experiment, conducted over the past 10 months in low Earth orbit (LEO), was designed to test a faster, more efficient method for customers to collect and analyze valuable space data dir ... more |
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 Port Vila, Vanuatu (AFP) Dec 1, 2022 
Vanuatu is drawing up plans to relocate "dozens" of villages within the next two years, as they come under threat from rising seas, the Pacific nation's climate chief told AFP Thursday.
Climate Change Minister Ralph Regenvanu said dealing with the impact of global warming was a major challenge facing Vanuatu's 300,000 inhabitants who live on a chain of islands strung out between Australia an ... more |
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 Tromso, Norway (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 
During the last ice age, the Eurasian Ice Sheet was immense - the third largest on Earth spanning over 5,500 km from temperate conditions in southern Britain to the frigid polar regions of Svalbard and Siberia. Until now, the influence of this ice on Europe's landscape has not been fully realized, but a new study led by Dr Henry Patton and published in Nature Communications, brings a brand-new p ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 
To clear the way for planting wheat in November, a farmer in Punjab, India, sets aflame the leftover straw, or stubble, of a harvested rice paddy crop in October. The burning residue fills the air with carbon monoxide, ozone, and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) that will make it harder to breathe for days afterward and for miles around. It's a scene that's replicated on about 2 million farms in ... more |
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 Lumajang, Indonesia (AFP) Dec 4, 2022  Indonesia's Mount Semeru erupted Sunday spewing hot ash clouds a mile high and rivers of lava down its side while sparking the evacuation of nearly 2,000 people exactly one year after its last major eruption killed dozens.
The burst from the highest mountain on Indonesia's main island of Java, around 800 kilometres (500 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, prompted authorities to raise t ... more |
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 Bamako (AFP) Dec 1, 2022 
Mali's communications authority said Thursday it had lifted the suspension of one of the Sahel country's main news channels, taken off the air a month ago over criticism of the junta.
The channel had on October 13 been put on notice over a September 30 editorial by Mohamed Halidou Attaher.
On November 3, the High Authority for Communication (HAC) suspended Joliba TV for two months, accus ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 
MIT neuroscientists have discovered that the adult brain contains millions of "silent synapses" - immature connections between neurons that remain inactive until they're recruited to help form new memories.
Until now, it was believed that silent synapses were present only during early development, when they help the brain learn the new information that it's exposed to early in life. Howeve ... more |
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 Boston (AFP) Dec 3, 2022 
Prince William honored climate change innovators during a star-studded ceremony in Boston Friday at the culmination of a US trip overshadowed by a race row and estranged brother Harry's Netflix series.
Britain's heir to the throne rewarded five entrepreneurs with Pounds 1 million each ($1.2 million) as part of his Earthshot Prize initiative to support efforts to save the planet from warming temper ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space-as-a-Service company focused on mission critical hardware manufacturing combined with commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection, has secured U.S. regulatory approval to provide global data services from its upcoming LizzieSat-1 mission through a Tier 1 license granted by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration ... 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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 Paris (AFP) Dec 2, 2022 
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has driven countries across the world to boost energy efficiency, creating "huge potential" to tackle high prices, security and climate change, the IEA said on Friday.
Governments have scaled up fossil fuel subsidies to cushion the impact of rising energy costs on households in the wake of the Ukraine conflict, which has disrupted gas supplies and stoked prices. ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Dec 05, 2022 
"Aqueous ZIBs hold great potential as competitive candidates for next-generation energy storage devices," said corresponding author Ying Bai, professor at School of Materials Science and Engineering in Beijing Institute of Technology. "Thanks to their high theoretical capacity, low cost, and high security."
Bai explained that among various anode materials, the direct adoption of Zn anode c ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Dec 05, 2022 
Five Young Scientist Projects supported by the National Key R and D Program "Ecosystem Protection and Restoration for Typical Ecologically Vulnerable Areas" were launched in Beijing on November 27, 2022, among which two projects are undertook by research teams with the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
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 Beijing (AFP) Dec 1, 2022 
Chinese police have deployed sophisticated surveillance tools in a push to stamp out a nationwide wave of unrest, using facial recognition software and location data to track down and detain protesters.
Frustration over prolonged Covid restrictions has boiled over, triggering protests demanding an end to lockdowns and greater political freedoms at a scale unseen in decades.
As Beijing an ... more |
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 Helsinki (AFP) Dec 5, 2022 
Deep in the Finnish woods, the moss and blueberry shrubs hide a deadly threat to the boreal forests that are as important to the planet as the Amazon rainforest.
With chunks of their bark peeling off and needles falling from dying branches, more and more trees are being killed by the spruce bark beetle, which is venturing further and further north with climate change.
The tiny brown inse ... more |
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