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  Ottawa (AFP) Dec 23, 2022 Polar bears are disappearing fast from the Western part of Hudson Bay, on the southern tip of the Canadian Arctic, according to a new government survey. The number of female bears and cubs in particular has seen a dramatic decline. Researchers have flown over the region - which includes the town of Churchill, a tourist destination touted as the "polar bear capital of the world" - every five years to count the number of bears and extrapolate population trends. During the last survey in late ... read more |
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Male panda at Dutch zoo turns out to be female; Mystery of glass frog transparencyThe Hague (AFP) Dec 23, 2022 A two-year-old giant panda at a Dutch zoo has caused a stir by turning out to be a female and not a male as initially thought. ... more  
Malaysia campsite landslide search ends with 31 deadKuala Lumpur (AFP) Dec 24, 2022 Rescuers have called off the search for bodies after a massive, predawn landslide blanketed a campsite north of Malaysia's capital killing 31 people, officials said on Saturday. ... more  
Chinese city seeing half a million Covid cases a day: officialBeijing (AFP) Dec 24, 2022 Half a million people in a single Chinese city are being infected with Covid-19 every day, a senior health official has said, in a rare and quickly censored acknowledgement that the country's wave of infections is not being reflected in official statistics. ... more 
China's propaganda machine sputters in zero-Covid reversalBeijing (AFP) Dec 24, 2022 China's state media is struggling and censors are working overtime as Beijing gropes for a coherent narrative in the wake of the sudden reversal of its hallmark zero-Covid policy. ... more |
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Shifting tales renew pressure on Spain flood region leader
Over 20 missing after avalanche in Indian Himalayas: rescuers Over 40 missing after avalanche in Indian Himalayas: rescuers Proposed 'weather control' bans surge across US states Indonesia residents run outside as shallow quake hits Magnitude 6.1 offshore quake hits near Indonesian island: USGS Stuck in eternal drought, UAE turns to AI to make it rain Latin American classics get the streaming treatment Santorini seismic activity down but schools stay shuttered: Greece Fishermen, sailing champions clean up trash-covered Rio island |
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Eighteen trapped in Xinjiang gold mine collapseBeijing (AFP) Dec 25, 2022 Rescuers were working Sunday to reach 18 people trapped underground after a cave-in at a gold mine in northwest China's Xinjiang region, state media reported. ... more 
China to stop publishing daily Covid figures-NHCBeijing (AFP) Dec 25, 2022 China will no longer publish daily figures for Covid-19 cases and deaths, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Sunday, ending a practice that began in early 2020. ... more  
Deadly blizzard leaves US in Christmas weekend deep freezeNew York (AFP) Dec 25, 2022 A fearsome winter storm continued to pummel parts of the United States with blizzard conditions Saturday evening after its powerful Arctic winds left over a million customers without power earlier in the day and caused Christmas travel nightmares. ... more  
Togo president sacks army minister and army chiefLome (AFP) Dec 23, 2022 Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe has sacked the country's armed forces minister and appointed a new chief of staff as part of a major military reshuffle announced on state television. ... more |
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Two rangers killed in attack in famed DR Congo reserveGoma, Dr Congo (AFP) Dec 24, 2022 Two rangers have been killed and another wounded by suspected militiamen in the world famous Virunga National Park in DR Congo's volatile east, authorities said on Saturday. ... more  
'Give me my youth back': students return to forefront of China protestsBeijing (AFP) Dec 22, 2022 Students played a major role in recent nationwide rallies that sprouted up across China, upholding a long tradition of campus protest in the country and challenging the cliche that their generation is more apolitical than the last. ... more  
Building on Landsat's legacy is NASA and USGS's next goalGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 22, 2022 With a trio of smaller satellites that can each detect 26 wavelengths of light and thermal energy, the Landsat Next mission is expected to look very different from its predecessors that have been ob ... more  
Should we tax robotsBoston MA (SPX) Dec 22, 2022 What if the U.S. placed a tax on robots? The concept has been publicly discussed by policy analysts, scholars, and Bill Gates (who favors the notion). Because robots can replace jobs, the idea goes, ... more |
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Carbon, soot and particles from combustion end up in deep-sea trenchesOdense, Denmark (SPX) Dec 22, 2022 The Earth's deep-sea trenches are some of the least explored places on Earth - as they are very difficult to access, are pitch black and the pressure is extremely high. Collecting samples and making ... more  
Early forests did not significantly change the atmospheric CO2Nottingham (SPX) Dec 22, 2022 Scientists have discovered that the atmosphere contained far less CO2 than previously thought when forests emerged on our planet, the new study has important implications for understanding how land ... more 
More than half of Antarctica's plant and animals could disappear due to climate changeWashington DC (UPI) Dec 22, 2021 More than half of Antarctica's native species will likely disappear by the end of the century if global warming continues at its current pace, according to new research published Thursday. ... more 
Arctic storm brings holiday travel chaos to USChicago (AFP) Dec 23, 2022 A "once-in-a-generation" winter storm with temperatures as low as -40 degrees Fahrenheit (Celsius) caused Christmas travel chaos in the United States on Thursday, with thousands of flights cancelled and major highways closed. ... more  
China authorities take over medical supplies production as Covid surgesBeijing (AFP) Dec 23, 2022 China has requisitioned medical supplies production across the country as millions struggle to obtain basic drugs and testing kits in the face of a surge in Covid-19 cases. ... more |
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 Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Dec 24, 2022 
Rescuers have called off the search for bodies after a massive, predawn landslide blanketed a campsite north of Malaysia's capital killing 31 people, officials said on Saturday.
According to police, 92 people, including dozens of children, were sleeping at the unlicensed campsite at an organic farm in Batang Kali, Selangor state on December 16 when tonnes of soil and mud thundered down a hil ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 20, 2022 
NASA's Near Space Network enables spacecraft exploring the solar system and Earth to send back essential science data for researchers and scientists to investigate and make profound discoveries.
Now, the network has integrated four new global antennas to further support science and exploration missions. In December 2022, antennas in Fairbanks, Alaska; Wallops Island, Virginia; Punta Arenas ... more |
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 Odense, Denmark (SPX) Dec 22, 2022 
The Earth's deep-sea trenches are some of the least explored places on Earth - as they are very difficult to access, are pitch black and the pressure is extremely high. Collecting samples and making reliable measurements of the processes that regulate the turnover of organic material in the deep is therefore difficult.
In recent years, however, researchers from the Danish Center for Hadal ... more |
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 Ottawa (AFP) Dec 23, 2022 
Polar bears are disappearing fast from the Western part of Hudson Bay, on the southern tip of the Canadian Arctic, according to a new government survey.
The number of female bears and cubs in particular has seen a dramatic decline.
Researchers have flown over the region - which includes the town of Churchill, a tourist destination touted as the "polar bear capital of the world" - every ... more |
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 Wellington (AFP) Dec 21, 2022 
New Zealand's government on Wednesday outlined changes to controversial plans to tax the farts and burps of livestock, but a leading farmers group said it was still opposed to the emissions reduction scheme.
New Zealand is planning a "world first" levy on emissions of methane and nitrous oxide, produced by the nation's six million cows and 26 million sheep as a step towards tackling climate ... more |
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 Kuala Krai, Malaysia (AFP) Dec 21, 2022 
At least five people were killed and more than 70,000 rushed to evacuation centres in Malaysia after monsoon-triggered floods inundated the country's north, authorities said Wednesday.
More than 31,000 people have fled their homes in Kelantan state while more than 39,000 residents have been evacuated to temporary shelters in neighbouring Terengganu after flooding began over the weekend, the ... more |
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 Bamako (AFP) Dec 23, 2022 
An Ivory Coast delegation arrived in Mali on Thursday for talks on a five-month-old row sparked by the detention of 46 Ivorian soldiers, Malian officials said.
The West African bloc ECOWAS has given Mali until year's end to release the troops, whom the ruling junta has branded "mercenaries".
The dispute erupted on July 10, when 49 Ivorian soldiers were arrested upon arrival at Mali's air ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 21, 2021  Archeologists have discovered 168 new geoglyphs in the area around Nazca, Peru. The discovery adds significantly to the UNESCO world heritage site's 190 previously discovered markings.
The geoglyphs portray humans, birds, cats, snakes, alpacas and whales, and are believed to have been created between 100 B.C. and 300 A.D. The images average between 6 and 19 feet in length, while previou ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Dec 21, 2022 
University biology textbooks in the United States have less content about climate change than they did a decade ago, according to research published on Wednesday.
The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, also found that climate change has been consistently pushed further towards the back of textbooks over the last five decades.
The authors of the study argued that understanding cli ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Dec 22, 2022 
A new study involving UCL has uncovered how magnetic waves are transmitted past a standing shock wave, known as the bow shock, that forms ahead of Earth as a result of the solar wind hitting our magnetic bubble (magnetosphere).
Shock waves occur in air when a plane travels faster than the speed of sound and also occur in plasma (a fourth state of matter that makes up 99% of the visible Uni ... more |
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 Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Dec 22, 2022 
An international team of researchers has uncovered an extremely rare piece of evidence that dinosaurs ate mammals. The foot of a small mammal about the size of a mouse was found preserved inside the gut contents of a Microraptor zhaoianus, a small feathered dinosaur from the early Cretaceous period, according to a new study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. There is a lone ear ... more |
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 Montreal (AFP) Dec 19, 2022  Before a historic agreement to protect biodiversity was sealed at the COP15 summit in Montreal on Monday, the United Nations identified 10 flagship projects that have already been helping to restore nature across the world.
Together, the initiatives aim to restore more than 68 million hectares - an area bigger than France - and create nearly 15 million jobs, according to the UN.
Here ... more |
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Dec 20, 2022 
To meet the growing energy needs of the internet of things (IoT) and wireless communication systems, University of Central Florida researchers have developed a technology for converting radio frequency signals into direct current electricity.
The technology can reduce the electronic industry's reliance on batteries and broaden the expansion of the internet of things and its energy needs. ... more |
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 Johannesburg (AFP) Dec 22, 2022 
South Africa plans to carry out lie detector tests on staff working at its game reserves in a bid to fight rampant wildlife poaching, a national parks management agency said Thursday.
Poachers, sometimes operating in cahoots with crooked park employees, have decimated the country's population of endangered rhinos in recent years.
To tackle the problem, South African National Parks autho ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Dec 20, 2022 
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong on Tuesday urged the release of citizens held in China, as she prepared to embark on a landmark visit to Beijing.
Wong is set to be the first top Australian diplomat to visit China in four years, a trip aimed at thawing troubled relations.
She will depart Australia on Tuesday for a meeting with Chinese state councilor and minister of foreign affairs ... more |
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 Berlin (AFP) Dec 21, 2022 
German activists chopped the top off a Christmas tree next to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Wednesday, their latest protest pushing for greater action to combat the climate crisis.
Two women from campaign group "Last Generation" used a mechanical platform to ascend to the top of the 15-metre (49-foot) tree and sawed off a two-metre section.
A banner attached to the platform read: "T ... more |
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