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  Urbana IL (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 New research, based on two decades' worth of data, shows that in the ten years after its onset in 2000, the Southwestern North American (SWNA) megadrought caused a 30% change in gravity wave activity in Earth's upper atmosphere. More than 30 years ago, Chester Gardner of UIUC's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Chiao-Yao She of Colorado State University's Department of Physics teamed up to study Earth's middle atmosphere. Using sodium resonance laser radar (lidar), Gardner and ... read more |
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Soil in midwestern US is eroding 10 to 1,000 times faster than it forms, study findsAmherst MA (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 In a discovery that has repercussions for everything from domestic agricultural policy to global food security and the plans to mitigate climate change, researchers at the University of Massachusett ... more  
China's capital adjusts to life with Covid after policy reversalBeijing (AFP) Dec 8, 2022 The Chinese capital showed tentative signs of a return to normal Thursday after a sudden reversal of a hardline pandemic policy that hammered the world's second-biggest economy and ignited rare protests. ... more 
Grape expectations: India's biggest winemaker seeks millionsNashik, India (AFP) Dec 8, 2022 India's largest winemaker Sula Vineyards is heading to the stock market, betting on the diversifying tastebuds of a booming urban middle class in a country that has long favoured strong liquor. ... more  
'Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction,' warns UN chiefMontreal (AFP) Dec 6, 2022 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday slammed multinational corporations for turning the world's ecosystems into "playthings of profit" and warned failure to correct course would lead to catastrophic results. ... 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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Kleos partners with UP42Frankfurt, Germany (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 Kleos Space has partnered with leading geospatial developer platform and marketplace, UP42, to offer Kleos' RF geolocation data to their platform users. Under the partnership, Kleos' geospatia ... more  
Meteorites plus gamma rays could have given Earth the building blocks for lifeWashington DC (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 Even as detailed images of distant galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope show us more of the greater universe, scientists still disagree about how life began here on Earth. One hypothesis is ... more  
Zelensky accuses Russia of 'ecocide' over damage to wildlifeKyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Dec 7, 2022 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday accused Russia of "ecocide" for the devastation he said its invasion has wrought on Ukraine's wildlife. ... more 
Biodiversity talks open as UN chief calls for 'peace pact' with natureMontreal (AFP) Dec 7, 2022 High-stakes biodiversity talks opened in Montreal Wednesday, amid calls for a "peace pact with nature" to save the planet's species and ecosystems from irreversible human destruction. ... more |
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Globalstar signs commercial agreement with Wiagro to supply IoT Transmitters for Agtech sectorCovington LA (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 Globalstar, Inc. (NYSE American: GSAT) today announced a commercial agreement with Wiagro, an Agtech start-up from Argentina. Globalstar is supplying Wiagro with 2,500 ST100 satellite modem transmit ... more 
Anti-lockdown protests tip China's Xi into zero-Covid climbdownBeijing (AFP) Dec 7, 2022 Just weeks ago, Chinese leaders vowed to stick to zero-Covid come what may - but nationwide anti-lockdown protests and an economic slowdown have forced President Xi Jinping into a drastic reversal of his signature policy. ... more  
Students protest campus lockdown as China eases Covid curbsBeijing (AFP) Dec 6, 2022 Students protested against a lockdown at a university in eastern China, highlighting continued anger as huge numbers of people across the country still face restrictions despite the government easing its zero-Covid policy. ... more  
Mining for the clean energy transitionBoston MA (SPX) Dec 05, 2022 In a world powered increasingly by clean energy, drilling for oil and gas will gradually give way to digging for metals and minerals. Today, the "critical minerals" used to make electric cars, solar ... more |
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Plant on China's Shenzhou-15 spaceship begins growingBeijing (XNA) Dec 06, 2022 The Arabidopsis thaliana plant boarding on China's Shenzhou-15 manned spaceship has begun growing, the China Science and Technology Daily reported on Monday. The Shenzhou-15 spaceship was laun ... more  
After year of climate disasters, world off-track to curb warmingParis (AFP) Dec 7, 2022 Catastrophic floods, crop-wilting droughts and record heatwaves this year have shown that climate change warnings are increasingly becoming reality and this is "just the beginning", experts say, as international efforts to cut planet-heating emissions founder. ... more  
Smog-hit Pakistan city cuts school days to protect pupilsLahore, Pakistan (AFP) Dec 7, 2022 Pakistan's smog-hit Lahore will close schools for two days a week to protect children's health, with the city on Wednesday clocking in as the world's most polluted according to a global air quality index. ... more  
El Salvador rounds up 185 in major gang crackdownSan Salvador (AFP) Dec 6, 2022 El Salvador's security forces have arrested 185 suspected gangsters in a major crackdown on criminal groups spreading fear and violence in a city on the outskirts of the capital, the defense minister said Tuesday. ... more  
Falsehoods plague elections as voters tackle Trumpian tacticsWashington (AFP) Dec 7, 2022 From the United States to Brazil and Israel, a barrage of election-related misinformation hammered voters around the world in 2022, but many pushed back against the conspiracy-laden Trumpian tactic of sowing distrust in the democratic process. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Dec 6, 2022 
For thousands of years, predictions of apocalypse have borne little fruit. But with dangers rising from nuclear war and climate change, does the planet need to at least begin contemplating the worst?
When the world rang in 2022, few would have expected the year to feature the US president speaking of the risk of doomsday, following Russia's threats to go nuclear in its invasion of Ukraine. ... more |
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 Westminster CO (SPX) Dec 06, 2022 
Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR), provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence, has announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has modified Maxar's remote sensing license to enable the non-Earth imaging (NEI) capability for its current constellation on orbit as well as its next-generation WorldView Legion satellite ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Dec 5, 2022 
At least 2,500 endangered seals have been found dead along Russia's Caspian Sea coast, the local environment ministry said.
Investigators are still working to explain why the seals washed up on beaches in Dagestan, southern Russia.
Authorities are leaning towards suffocation from gas released from the seafloor as the "main" cause of death, said Svetlana Radionova, the head of the Russia ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 
Chinese scientists have reconstructed a complete dataset of the lake ice phenology of 132 lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from 1978 to 2016, said the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The dataset was recently presented on the data-sharing platform China's National Tibetan Plateau Data Center (TPDC).
Lake ice phenology is a perceptible indicator reflecting changes in lake thermodynamics ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 08, 2022 
Feat will help scientists find sustainable food source for long-term exploration missions
Chinese astronauts of the Shenzhou XIV mission have returned with the world's first rice seeds produced in orbit, a feat that will allow scientists to probe the effects of microgravity on rice growth and find a sustainable food source for long-term space explorations.
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 Jakarta (AFP) Dec 8, 2022 
A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia's main island of Java on Thursday with no immediate reports of damage, less than a month after another quake in the same province killed more than 300 people.
The quake struck at 07:50 am local time (0050 GMT) around 15 kilometres from the town of Cianjur, epicentre of November's devastating tremor, the United States Geological Survey said.
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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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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 6, 2021  South African archaeologists say they have proof that a close relative of humans used fire for both light and cooking meat, despite having a much smaller brain than ours.
The claims around Homo naledi haven't been published or peer-reviewed yet, but the discovery made by paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his team is drawing a lot of attention to the small Rising Star cave system in Sou ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Dec 7, 2022 
Catastrophic floods, crop-wilting droughts and record heatwaves this year have shown that climate change warnings are increasingly becoming reality and this is "just the beginning", experts say, as international efforts to cut planet-heating emissions founder.
The year did see some important climate progress, with major new legislation particularly in the United States and Europe as well as ... more |
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 Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Dec 08, 2022 
As preparations to launch Europe's first Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite continue, the team at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, has bid farewell to their precious satellite as it was sealed from view within the Ariane 5 rocket's fairing. This all-new weather satellite is set to take to the skies on 13 December.
Since its arrival at the spaceport in mid-October, MTG-I ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 
Even as detailed images of distant galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope show us more of the greater universe, scientists still disagree about how life began here on Earth. One hypothesis is that meteorites delivered amino acids - life's building blocks - to our planet.
Now, researchers reporting in ACS Central Science have experimentally shown that amino acids could have formed in ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Dec 7, 2022  Europe is likely to scrape through this winter without cutting off gas customers despite reduced Russian supplies, but even adjusting to colder homes and paying more may not be enough in coming years, analysts say.
"I like a hot house, I have to admit... I really used a lot of gas," said Sofie de Rous, who until this year kept her home on the Belgian coast at a toasty 21 degrees Celsius (70F ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Dec 05, 2022 
In a world powered increasingly by clean energy, drilling for oil and gas will gradually give way to digging for metals and minerals. Today, the "critical minerals" used to make electric cars, solar panels, wind turbines, and grid-scale battery storage are facing soaring demand - and some acute bottlenecks as miners race to catch up.
According to a report from the International Energy Agen ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 5, 2021 
Researchers in Australia have located the preserved remains of the last-known Tasmanian tiger, after they were misplaced for decades.
The remains of the thylacine were kept inside a cupboard in a Tasmanian museum for years, before recently being properly identified.
The last captive animal died in the Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, Australia, on its island state of Tasmania in 1936, a ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Dec 6, 2022  Sirens wailed across China as the Communist Party eulogised late leader Jiang Zemin Tuesday, hailing him as a patriot who "dedicated his life" to the country.
China's rulers orchestrated a day of mourning across the country, with security services ensuring there were no large gatherings on the streets following rare protests in recent weeks.
Jiang died in Shanghai last Wednesday at the ... 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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