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  Paris (AFP) Dec 29, 2022 An explosion of Covid-19 cases in China as the country lifts its zero-Covid measures could create a "potential breeding ground" for new variants to emerge, health experts warn. China announced this week that incoming travellers would no longer have to quarantine from January 8, the latest major reversal of strict restrictions that have kept the country largely closed off to the world since the start of the pandemic. While the country's National Health Commission has stopped issuing daily case nu ... read more |
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Travel misery grinds on as US digs out from superstormBaltimore (AFP) Dec 29, 2022 Thousands more flights were canceled across the United States on Wednesday, with no end in sight to days of travel misery as the country digs out from a deadly superstorm. ... more  
After huge storm, Mississippi capital hit by another water crisisWashington (AFP) Dec 28, 2022 Tens of thousands of residents in Jackson, the capital of the southern US state of Mississippi, were stuck without running water Wednesday, after frozen pipes burst following a monster winter storm that hit most of the country over the holidays. ... more  
They survived the hunters: now king penguins face climate changePossession Island, France (AFP) Dec 29, 2022 Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the thousands of king penguins that densely congregate on the remote Possession Island each year now face a new threat: climate change. ... more 
What is the link between winter storms and global warming?Washington (AFP) Dec 29, 2022 The world is getting warmer, winters included. The United States, however, has experienced severe winter storms in recent years, and experts are taking a closer look at the link between these extreme cold events and climate change. ... 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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Global alarm grows over China's Covid surgeBeijing (AFP) Dec 29, 2022 The United States has joined a growing number of countries in imposing restrictions on visitors from China after Beijing announced it would remove curbs on overseas travel as Covid cases surge at home. ... more 
US to impose China Covid testing as virus surge jangles global nervesBeijing (AFP) Dec 28, 2022 The United States and Italy announced mandatory Covid-19 testing for travellers from China as Beijing's sudden abandonment of tough measures to contain the coronavirus - and surge in virus cases - caused jitters around the world. ... more  
Caring with Covid: Infected doctors battle China virus surgeTianjin, China (AFP) Dec 28, 2022 Doctors working despite being infected, beds filled with dozens of elderly straining to breathe - on the front lines of China's worst-ever Covid outbreak, hospitals are struggling. ... more  
China launches new Earth observation satelliteBeijing (XNA) Dec 29, 2022 China launched the Gaofen 11-04 Earth-observation satellite on Tuesday afternoon, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. The satellite was lifted into orbit on a Long March ... more |
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Pygmy elephant gores handler to death in MalaysiaKuala Lumpur (AFP) Dec 29, 2022 A pygmy elephant gored its handler to death at a wildlife park in Malaysia's eastern Sabah state in a Christmas Day tragedy, conservation officials said Thursday. ... more 
US digs out from monster storm as death toll passes 50Buffalo (AFP) Dec 28, 2022 The monster storm that killed dozens in the United States over the Christmas weekend continued to inflict misery on New York state and air travelers nationwide Tuesday, as stories emerged of families trapped for days during the "blizzard of the century." ... more 
Holy icy chill, Batman! Freezing bats saved in TexasHouston (AFP) Dec 29, 2022 It was a rescue worthy of Batman. ... more 
'It just dies': Yellow-band disease ravages Thailand's coral reefsBan Ko Samaesan, Thailand (AFP) Dec 28, 2022 Underneath the calm turquoise waters off eastern Thailand, a rapidly spreading disease is killing corals over vast stretches of the sea floor, and scientists fear it may be getting worse because of climate change. ... more |
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2022 UK's hottest year on record: provisional Met Office figuresLondon (AFP) Dec 28, 2022 This year is set to be the UK's warmest on record, according to provisional figures released by the Met Office on Wednesday. ... more  
Rare hail brings winter white to desert hotspot KuwaitKuwait City (AFP) Dec 28, 2022 Kuwait, one of the hottest countries on Earth, has been hit by a rare hail storm that delighted children and their parents, with images of the winter white shared widely on social media Wednesday. ... more  
Death toll from Philippine floods, landslides climbs to 33Manila (AFP) Dec 29, 2022 One person died and three others were missing in the southern Philippines after being hit by a landslide, police said Thursday, taking the nationwide death toll from recent rains to at least 33. ... more 
Weather extremes becoming 'new normal', warns UK's National TrustLondon (AFP) Dec 28, 2022 Britain's National Trust on Wednesday said nature and wildlife at the charity's sites had been harmed by extreme weather in the past year and warned it could become the "new normal". ... more 
Bering Land Bridge formed surprisingly late during last ice age, study findsSanta Cruz CA (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 A new study that reconstructs the history of sea level at the Bering Strait shows that the Bering Land Bridge connecting Asia to North America did not emerge until around 35,700 years ago, less than ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 
U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper applauded Senate passage of his Orbital Sustainability (ORBITS) Act, a bipartisan bill to establish a first-of-its-kind demonstration program to reduce the amount of space junk in orbit. The bill passed the Senate unanimously.
"From satellite communications to rockets carrying humans into deep space, space debris is a massive threat to space operations," said ... 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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 Norwich UK (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 
Researchers have discovered a process that can contribute to the melting of ice shelves in the Antarctic. An international team of scientists found that adjacent ice shelves play a role in causing instability in others downstream.
The study, led by the University of East Anglia in the UK, also identified that a small ocean gyre - a system of circulating ocean currents - next to the Thwaite ... more |
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 Edinburgh, Scotland (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 
High fertiliser prices could put an additional 100 million people at risk of undernourishment, a study suggests.
The war in Ukraine has led to the blockade of millions of tonnes of wheat, barley and corn, but reduced food exports from the region are less of a driver of food price rises than feared, researchers say.
Instead, a modelling study led by University of Edinburgh researchers ... more |
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 Manila (AFP) Dec 28, 2022 
The death toll from floods in the Philippines has risen to 25, officials said Wednesday, with storms expected to dump more rain over the hardest-hit southern and central regions.
Tens of thousands of people were forced to flee their homes as heavy rain submerged rural villages, towns and highways on Christmas Day, dampening festivities on the most important holiday in the mainly Catholic na ... more |
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 Lome (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.
The presidential decrees, announced late Thursday, specify no reasons for the reshuffle, but the changes come as the small West African country faces a growing threat from jihadist groups.
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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 28, 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 progress, with major new legislation particularly in the United States and Europe as well as a deal a ... more |
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 London (AFP) Dec 28, 2022 
Britain's National Trust on Wednesday said nature and wildlife at the charity's sites had been harmed by extreme weather in the past year and warned it could become the "new normal".
The heritage conservation charity's climate change adviser Keith Jones said it was a "stark illustration of the sort of difficulties many of our species will face if we don't do more to mitigate rising temperatu ... 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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 Kramatorsk, Ukraine (AFP) Dec 20, 2022 
It has become a daily struggle for Ukrainian technicians: mending pipes damaged by Russian airstrikes in a desperate bid to keep the energy grid working in freezing temperatures, even as attacks continue.
"We repair. And if they destroy, we will repair it again. That's the job," Oleksandr, who declined to give his full time, told AFP while completing a welding task for a municipal company in ... 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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 Bangkok (AFP) Dec 27, 2022 
A top Thai conservation official was arrested on corruption charges on Tuesday, with police saying he was caught receiving a bribe and that $144,000 in cash was found in his office.
Rutchada Suriyakul na Ayutya, director-general of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, was appointed in February.
He managed efforts to protect the kingdom's environment and enda ... 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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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 
As the first country, Rwanda can now present a national inventory based on a mapping of the carbon stock of each individual tree. Researchers at University of Copenhagen have developed a method to achieve this task in collaboration with Rwandan authorities and researchers.
"Large uncertainties exist for the current forest assessments internationally. By mapping the carbon stock of all indi ... more |
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