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  Dubai (AFP) Jan 12, 2023 The head of the United Arab Emirates' national oil company was named Thursday as president of this year's COP28 climate talks, prompting fierce criticism from environmental activists. Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, who heads up the UAE's Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), will be the first CEO to take the role at the UN summit, said a statement carried by the official WAM news agency. "We will bring a pragmatic, realistic and solutions-oriented approach that delivers transformative progress for cli ... read more |
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UN confirms 2022 among eight hottest years on recordGeneva (AFP) Jan 12, 2023 The past eight years were the hottest since records began, the United Nations confirmed Thursday, despite the cooling influence of a drawn-out La Nina weather pattern. ... more  
Cloned horse raises hopes for equestrian sports in ChinaBeijing (AFP) Jan 12, 2023 A Chinese company presented a cloned horse to the public on Thursday that is the first of its kind born in the country and approved for equestrian sport. ... more  
Western Australia struggles back from huge floodsSydney (AFP) Jan 12, 2023 Flood-hit swathes of Western Australia faced a long path to recovery Thursday as muddy waters receded to expose the full scale of recent damage to homes, roads and livestock. ... more  
US west coast girds for more damaging stormsLos Angeles (AFP) Jan 12, 2023 Western US states were readying Thursday for yet more torrid weather as so-called atmospheric rivers lined up to dump heavy rain across the already soaked region. ... 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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Regional force leaves key Tigray city under peace deal: armyNairobi (AFP) Jan 12, 2023 A regional force which backed the Ethiopian government in its brutal two-year war against Tigrayan rebels has withdrawn from a strategic city in Tigray, the army said Thursday. ... more  
Bonobos, unlike humans, are more interested in the emotions of strangers than individuals they knowAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Jan 12, 2023 As humans, we share many characteristics with bonobos, who together with chimpanzees are the ape species that are most closely related to us. There are a lot of similarities in our social behaviour, ... more  
New discovery of sunscreen-like chemicals in fossil plants reveals UV radiation played a part in mass extinction eventsNottingham UK (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 New research has uncovered that pollen preserved in 250 million year old rocks contain compounds that function like sunscreen, these are produced by plants to protect them from harmful ultraviolet ( ... more  
Sentinel-1 and AI uncover glacier crevassesParis (ESA) Jan 10, 2023 Scientists have developed a new Artificial Intelligence, or AI, technique using radar images from Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite mission, to reveal how the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue in W ... more |
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Vegetation has a substantial impact on the movement of energy in the ArcticLemont IL (SPX) Jan 12, 2023 A new paper shows that vegetation type is an important predictor of energy exchange between land and the atmosphere in the Arctic summer. Since 1979, the Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster t ... more  
Petition against shark-fin trading passes 1 mn namesBrussels (AFP) Jan 11, 2023 A petition against trading in shark and rays' fins in Europe has reached more than a million signatures, forcing the European Commission to investigate the issue, the EU said Wednesday. ... more 
Trapped sediment in dams 'endangers' water supplies: UNParis (AFP) Jan 11, 2023 Thousands of the world's large dams are so clogged with sediment that they risk losing more than a quarter of their storage capacity by 2050, UN researchers said Wednesday, warning of the threat to water security. ... more 
Graves sink, fisheries shrink as climate change hits FijiTogoru, Fiji (AFP) Jan 12, 2023 The sea has already swallowed the village graveyard in Togoru, Fiji, and long-time resident Lavenia McGoon is dreading the day it claims her house. ... more |
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Scientists sound alarm as ocean temperatures hit new recordParis (AFP) Jan 11, 2023 The world's oceans, which have absorbed most of the excess heat caused by humanity's carbon pollution, continued to see record-breaking temperatures last year, according to research published Wednesday. ... more 
Moving water and earthBoston MA (SPX) Jan 12, 2023 As a river cuts through a landscape, it can operate like a conveyer belt, moving truckloads of sediment over time. Knowing how quickly or slowly this sediment flows can help engineers plan for the d ... more 
Study offers most detailed glimpse yet of planet's last 11,000 summers and wintersBoulder CO (SPX) Jan 12, 2023 By analyzing Antarctic ice cores, CU Boulder scientists and an international team of collaborators have revealed the most detailed look yet at the planet's recent climactic history, including summer ... more 
Looking to the past to prepare for an uncertain futureBoston MA (SPX) Jan 12, 2023 Aviva Intveld, an MIT senior majoring in Earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences, is accustomed to city life. But despite hailing from metropolitan Los Angeles, she has always maintained a love f ... more  
Rice breeding breakthrough to feed billionsDavis CA (SPX) Jan 11, 2023 An international team has succeeded in propagating a commercial hybrid rice strain as a clone through seeds with 95 percent efficiency. This could lower the cost of hybrid rice seed, making high-yie ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Jan 11, 2023 
NATO and the EU on Wednesday announced a "joint taskforce" aimed at bolstering the protection of critical infrastructure in the face of threats from Russia.
The move comes after a sabotage attack on the underwater Nord Stream gas pipelines last year and as the two organisations seek to bolster cooperation in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 12, 2023  While it could take more than a decade to develop, state-owned Swedish mining company LKAB said Thursday it uncovered Europe's largest known deposit of rare-earth elements, elements that are central components for the energy transition.
Rare-earth elements such as lithium are essential for the batteries that power electric vehicles and other low-carbon technologies, though most of that ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jan 12, 2023 
As a river cuts through a landscape, it can operate like a conveyer belt, moving truckloads of sediment over time. Knowing how quickly or slowly this sediment flows can help engineers plan for the downstream impact of restoring a river or removing a dam. But the models currently used to estimate sediment flow can be off by a wide margin.
An MIT team has come up with a better formula to cal ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 10, 2023 
Scientists have developed a new Artificial Intelligence, or AI, technique using radar images from Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite mission, to reveal how the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue in West Antarctica is being damaged by squeezing and stretching as it flows from the middle of the continent to the coast. Being able to track fractures and crevasses in the ice beneath the overlying snow ... more |
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 Davis CA (SPX) Jan 11, 2023 
An international team has succeeded in propagating a commercial hybrid rice strain as a clone through seeds with 95 percent efficiency. This could lower the cost of hybrid rice seed, making high-yielding, disease resistant rice strains available to low-income farmers worldwide. The work was published Dec. 27 in Nature Communications.
First-generation hybrids of crop plants often show highe ... more |
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 Jakarta (AFP) Jan 9, 2023 
A strong 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit deep under the ocean off Indonesia and East Timor early Tuesday, the US Geological Survey reported.
The epicentre of the quake was 427 kilometres (265 miles) south of the Indonesian island of Ambon at a depth of 95 kilometres, USGS said.
Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reported some aftershocks at a magnitude of 5.5. ... more |
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 Bamako (AFP) Jan 8, 2023 
Forty-six Ivorian soldiers detained in Mali since July arrived home late Saturday, according to an AFP reporter at the airport, a day after they were pardoned by the neighbouring country's junta.
The troops, whose detention triggered a bitter diplomatic row between the countries, were arrested on July 10, 2022, after arriving in the Malian capital Bamako.
Mali accused them of being merce ... more |
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 Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Jan 12, 2023 
As humans, we share many characteristics with bonobos, who together with chimpanzees are the ape species that are most closely related to us. There are a lot of similarities in our social behaviour, but also some remarkable differences. New research from Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam, in collaboration with the Apenheul, shows that both bonobos and humans are more interested i ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 10, 2023 
The US Federal Reserve "will not be a 'climate policymaker,'" Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday, adding that it would be inappropriate to use the central bank's tools for climate goals.
Speaking at a symposium on central bank independence in Stockholm, Powell said some analysts have raised the idea of incorporating climate change risks in bank supervision.
But Powell stressed that decisio ... more |
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 Boca Raton FL (SPX) Jan 10, 2023 
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP), a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, has announced its GEOStare SV2 spacecraft completed a commercial data services imagery contract for Lockheed Martin.
Throughout the duration of the contract, Terran Orbital's operations team successfully demonstrated the ability to rapidly re-task th ... more |
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 Nottingham UK (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 
New research has uncovered that pollen preserved in 250 million year old rocks contain compounds that function like sunscreen, these are produced by plants to protect them from harmful ultraviolet (UV-B) radiation. The findings suggests that a pulse of UV-B played an important part in the end Permian mass extinction event.
Scientists from the University of Nottingham, China, Germany and th ... more |
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 Frankfurt, Germany (AFP) Jan 4, 2023 
Germany used more renewable energy than ever in 2022 but again failed to reach its CO2-reduction goal as Russia's war in Ukraine prompted a return to more coal and oil use, a think tank reported Wednesday.
Europe's biggest economy emitted 761 million tonnes of greenhouse gases last year, just one tonne fewer than in 2021 and overshooting the target of 756 million tonnes, the energy think tan ... more |
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 Lemont IL (SPX) Jan 11, 2023 
The Geospatial Energy Mapper is an interactive online mapping tool that can help identify areas across the country that are suitable for wind, solar, and other clean energy infrastructure projects.
It can be hard to remember, or for some to even imagine, what life was like before most of us carried around a dynamic mapping platform in our back pocket. Being able to quickly map out the most ... more |
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 Quito (AFP) Jan 5, 2023 
Scientists have discovered a new species of dwarf boa in the Ecuadoran Amazon and named it after an Indigenous activist.
Up to 20 centimeters (7.8 inches) long and with skin coloring similar to those of the boa constrictor - the previously unknown snake was named Tropidophis cacuangoae.
The second part of the name honors early 20th century Indigenous rights activist Dolores Cacuango, ac ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 6, 2023 
An LGBT activist who was detained last month after some of China's biggest protests in years was released on bail this week, their mother said, but 11 more demonstrators remain in custody.
Yang Zijing, 25, was released from police detention in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou on Tuesday, mother Gao Xiusheng told AFP, declining to add further details for fear of retribution.
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 Balikpapan, Indonesia (AFP) Jan 11, 2023 
The twisting road that leads to Indonesia's future capital is lined with dense rainforest and pockets of plantations, punctuated every so often with monkeys enjoying a laze out on the tarmac.
Located in eastern Borneo - the world's third-largest island - Nusantara is set to replace sinking and polluted Jakarta as Indonesia's political centre by late 2024.
But the two-hour drive from Ba ... more |
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