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  Tampa FL (SPX) Dec 09, 2022 If you're worried about escalating human-induced climate change, consider adding fjords to your thank-you list during this season of gratitude. Fjords are long, deep arms of the sea carved by glaciers that are surrounded by breathtaking cliffs. More than just a pretty face on the planet, fjords comprise a mere 0.1 percent of the surface area of the ocean yet store a whopping 11-12 percent of the carbon stored in the ocean. In other words, they sock away 18 million tons of carbon during interglacia ... read more |
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NASA scientists map global salt marsh losses and their carbon impactGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 According to a new NASA-led study, the world has lost 561 square miles (1,453 square kilometers) of salt marshes over the past 20 years. In a recent research paper, scientists described the first co ... more  
As AI rises, lawmakers try to catch upParis (AFP) Dec 7, 2022 From "intelligent" vacuum cleaners and driverless cars to advanced techniques for diagnosing diseases, artificial intelligence has burrowed its way into every arena of modern life. ... more 
Water Mission to gauge Alaskan rivers on front lines of climate changePasadena CA (JPL) Dec 09, 2022 The upcoming Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission will provide a trove of data on Earth's water resources, even in remote locations. Alaska serves as a case study. While Alaska straddles the A ... more  
'Keeping it fresh': Greek growers use nature to clean cropsAridaea, Greece (AFP) Dec 8, 2022 Beneath a cluster of plane trees, the crystal clear waters of a stream are mustered by Greek farmers to rinse their leek crop, a time-honoured tradition that saves money and reduces its carbon footprint. ... more |
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More than 122,000 people evacuated in Malaysia due to floods
Floods displace 122,000 people in Malaysia Thailand flooding kills nine, displaces thousands Jihadists, allies breach Syria's second city in lightning assault Jihadists, allies enter Syria's second city in lightning assault Rallies mark one month since Spain's catastrophic floods Traumatised Spain marks one month since catastrophic floods Death toll from Uganda landslides rises to 20: Red Cross Floods kill 8, tens of thousands evacuate in Malaysia, Thailand Spain urged to 'build differently' after deadly floods |
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Challenging last mile for China's vaccine push after zero-Covid retreatBeijing (AFP) Dec 8, 2022 China is finally beating a retreat from its strict zero-Covid policy, but low vaccination rates among its elderly have seeded fears that the coronavirus could kill as many as 2.1 million people. ... more 
Global economic chiefs laud China's 'decisive' zero-Covid reversalHuangshan, China (AFP) Dec 9, 2022 Global economic leaders on Friday hailed China's move away from its hardline zero-Covid policy, with the IMF chief saying the "decisive actions" would help revive growth both in the country and globally. ... more  
Australian researchers find 100 million-year-old fossil in QueenslandWashington DC (UPI) Dec 7, 2021 Australian paleontologists said on Wednesday they have discovered the complete skeleton of an ancient large, long-necked marine reptile in the Queensland desert that is about 100 million years old. ... more  
MTG-I never to be seen againKourou, 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 ... more |
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Czechs say China shut two 'police stations' in PraguePrague (AFP) Dec 8, 2022 The Czech foreign minister said Thursday that China had closed two "police stations" in Prague after international uproar over claims that such centres may have been used to harass dissidents. ... more  
Chinese scientists reconstruct Qinghai-Tibet Plateau lake ice phenologyBeijing, 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 datase ... more  
Industry lobbies against biodiversity goals: researchParis (AFP) Dec 8, 2022 Lobbyists for pesticide and fertiliser producers are pushing "behind the scenes" against stronger protection for species and ecosystems at the COP15 biodiversity conference, research showed Thursday. ... more 
Scientists find 2-million year-old DNA in GreenlandCopenhagen (AFP) Dec 7, 2022 Scientists in Greenland announced Wednesday they had found DNA dating back two million years - the oldest ever extracted - in sediment from the Ice Age, opening a new chapter in paleogenetics. ... more |
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'Big crime': Pleas for wartime protection of Black SeaIstanbul (AFP) Dec 8, 2022 One of Turkey's most influential marine biologists is pleading for the creation of an "ecological corridor" to save dolphins and other sea creatures from destruction during Russia's war on Ukraine. ... more 
French foie gras in short supply, forcing farmers to adaptSamatan, France (AFP) Dec 7, 2022 Foie gras pate, the consummate delicacy of French holiday tables, might be harder to find this year and certainly pricier due to a bird flu outbreak that ravaged farms across the west and south last winter. ... more 
Canadian university identifies low carbon foods for student mealsMontreal (AFP) Dec 8, 2022 Trays in hand, Polytechnique Montreal students line up at the cafeteria and through a fogged up buffet counter glass, check out dishes that now come with information about their carbon footprint. ... more 
Canada police suspend contract with China-linked firmOttawa (AFP) Dec 8, 2022 Canada's federal police on Thursday suspended a contract with a Beijing-linked firm to supply and maintain police radio equipment - following a political backlash, the public safety minister's office said. ... more 
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 |
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 Montreal (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.
"With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction," he said, in a speech ahead of biodiversity talks in ... more |
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 Cracow, Poland (SPX) Dec 09, 2022 
Together with the Orion spacecraft of the Artemis I mission, as part of the MARE experiment, two human phantoms equipped with numerous cosmic rays detectors are to land on Earth. The information gathered by the detectors will for the first time verify the knowledge, crucial for the presence of humans in deep space, of the effects of cosmic rays on the health of the astronauts who are to live and ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Dec 9, 2022 
Deep-sea mining could have a "catastrophic" impact in the Pacific, the president of Palau told AFP, as companies forge ahead with plans to hoover up millions of tonnes of seabed in the hunt for valuable metals.
Mining companies want to scrape vast sections of the Pacific Ocean for metals such as nickel and cobalt - used in electric car batteries - and are planning to ramp up full scale ope ... 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.
On Sunday night, astronauts ... more |
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 Reykjavik (AFP) Dec 9, 2022 
In a dark auditorium in Reykjavik, bubbling orange lava flows down a slide to within inches of awe-struck visitors.
The flow, contained on both sides by black sand, lights up the room like a sunrise.
This is the Lava Show, Iceland's latest tourist attraction, that uses reheated lava from a real eruption of the island's Katla volcano more than 100 years ago.
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 Ife, Nigeria (SPX) Dec 09, 2022 
President Joe Biden is hosting the Second US-Africa Leaders Summit in mid-December 2022.
The focus will be on eight areas: economic engagement; peace, security and good governance; democracy and human rights; regional and global health security (including recovery from COVID-19 and pandemic preparedness); food security; climate change; diaspora ties; and education and youth leadership.
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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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 Boca Raton FL (SPX) Dec 09, 2022 
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP), a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, has announced the formation of a new Optical Solutions Group (OSG) focused on electro-optical (EO) satellite imaging products. The new group will concentrate on development and innovation of new EO products while offering a wide variety of custom-made and ... 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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 Montreal (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.
Delegates from across the world gathered for the December 7-19 meeting to try to hammer out a new deal for nature: a 10-year framework aimed at saving Earth's forests, oceans and species before it's too late. ... 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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 Brussels (AFP) Dec 6, 2022 
The European Union reached an agreement Tuesday to ban the import of products including coffee, cocoa and soy in cases where they are deemed to contribute to deforestation.
The draft law, which aims to ensure "deforestation-free supply chains" for the 27-nation EU, was hailed by environmental groups as "groundbreaking".
It requires companies importing into the EU to guarantee products ar ... more |
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