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  Montreal (AFP) Dec 11, 2022 The world's next global pact for nature is doomed without clear mechanisms for implementing targets, conservation groups said Saturday on the sidelines of UN talks, as hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Montreal demanding greater action. Similar factors were widely blamed for the failure of the last 10-year biodiversity deal, adopted in 2010 in Aichi, Japan, which was unable to achieve nearly any of its objectives. "Strong text that commits countries to review progress against global ... read more |
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PETA takes UK military to court for rejecting fake fur hatsLondon (AFP) Dec 9, 2022 Animal rights group PETA said Friday it is taking legal action against the UK defence ministry over its refusal to test a fake fur version of the distinctive bearskin hats worn by ceremonial guards. ... more  
Human activity playing role in endangering thousands of marine speciesWashington DC (UPI) Dec 9, 2021 Human activity including illegal fishing and pollution, along with climate change and disease, are threatening tens of thousands of marine species around the world with more than 42,000 facing extinction, according to a report released Friday by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. ... more  
Biden tries to reboot US brand in Africa amid China, Russia inroadsWashington (AFP) Dec 11, 2022 When Barack Obama welcomed African leaders to Washington in 2014, many viewed the summit as historic, not just due to the US president's background but for the pledges to make the partnership deeper and such events routine. ... more 
Sea cows, abalone, pillar coral now threatened with extinctionMontreal (AFP) Dec 9, 2022 Dugongs - large herbivorous marine mammals commonly known as "sea cows" - are now threatened with extinction, according to an official list updated Friday. ... 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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US sanctions China-based fishing firms over rights abusesWashington (AFP) Dec 9, 2022 The US Treasury Department on Friday announced sanctions against China-based fishing firms Dalian Ocean Fishing Co and Pingtan Marine Enterprise, along with affiliated entities, over alleged human rights abuses. ... more 
Experts urge caution over biotech that can wipe out insect pestsParis (AFP) Dec 9, 2022 Dozens of scientists, experts and campaigners called for a ban on the release of genetically-edited organisms into the wild, in a statement Friday warning of potentially severe risks to the world's pollinators. ... more  
Lascar volcano in Chile stirs, sending plume skywardSantiago (AFP) Dec 10, 2022 A volcano in the Andes in Chile's north rumbled to life early Saturday, triggering minor earth tremors and sending a plume of smoke and ash 6,000 meters (nearly 20,000 feet) into a clear sky. ... more 
Let the lava flow! Iceland's volcano show is a hitReykjavik (AFP) Dec 9, 2022 In a dark auditorium in Reykjavik, bubbling orange lava flows down a slide to within inches of awe-struck visitors. ... more |
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Palau leader warns of 'catastrophic' consequences of deep-sea miningSydney (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. ... more  
Post-lockdown auto emissions can't hide in the grassRiverside CA (SPX) Dec 06, 2022 University of California scientists have a new way to demonstrate which neighborhoods returned to pre-pandemic levels of air pollution after COVID restrictions ended. Vehicle emissions are the ... more  
Tributes pour in for whistleblower doctor after China's zero-Covid U-turnBeijing (AFP) Dec 8, 2022 Hundreds of Chinese internet users have paid tribute to "martyr" doctor Li Wenliang, who first blew the whistle on the coronavirus outbreak, in the wake of a dramatic reversal of strict Covid rules by the government. ... more  
The art teacher who showed the world China's protestsRome (AFP) Dec 9, 2022 Just a few months ago, he was an ordinary Chinese art teacher who posted his personal thoughts and paintings online. ... more |
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Burkina Faso to raise 150 million euros for war fundOuagadougou (AFP) Dec 10, 2022 The Burkina Faso government has announced plans to raise 152 million euros for a "fund to support the war" against a bloody jihadist insurgency. ... more  
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai jailed over lease violationHong Kong (AFP) Dec 10, 2022 Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai received a fresh jail sentence of five years and nine months on Saturday after being found guilty of fraud in a contractual dispute. ... more 
Top China expert says Covid 'spreading rapidly' after rules easingBeijing (AFP) Dec 11, 2022 One of China's top health experts has warned of a surge in Covid-19 cases, state media said Sunday, in the wake of the government's decision to abandon its hardline coronavirus strategy. ... more  
US slaps sanctions on Chinese officials over Tibet rightsWashington (AFP) Dec 9, 2022 The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on two senior Chinese officials over "serious human rights abuse" in Tibet, including alleged torture and killings of prisoners and forced sterilization. ... more  
Climate activists storm runways at two German airportsBerlin (AFP) Dec 8, 2022 Climate protesters glued themselves to a runway at Munich airport on Thursday morning and also managed to storm a runway at Berlin-Brandenburg, airport authorities said. ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 
ICEYE, the global leader in satellite persistent monitoring of the planet and an expert in natural catastrophe solutions, has announced the start of a multi-year framework contract with the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) to support their efforts in managing various aspects of maritime operations with SAR data.
Among its many missions, the European Maritime Safety Agency, a European ... 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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 Pasadena 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 Arctic Circle and is covered by vast expanses of frozen land, the state also has a lot of liquid water. In fact, Alaska holds about 40% of U.S. surface water resources. This includes more than 12,000 r ... 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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 Covington 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 transmitters for their Smart Silobag, which allows for the remote monitoring of grain conditions stored in silo bags. The partnership is effective immediately with completion of deployment anticipated through ... 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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 Washington (AFP) Dec 11, 2022 
When Barack Obama welcomed African leaders to Washington in 2014, many viewed the summit as historic, not just due to the US president's background but for the pledges to make the partnership deeper and such events routine.
The sequel took eight years - the equivalent of two presidential terms - but on Tuesday, Joe Biden will host a second US-Africa summit.
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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.
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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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