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  Washington (AFP) Jan 13, 2023 At least six people were killed on Thursday when a tornado and powerful storms ravaged the southern US state of Alabama, rescue officials confirmed. The storms continued east to rake the neighboring state of Georgia, where the National Weather Service maintained tornado warnings in the early evening. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey tweeted that she was "sad to have learned that six Alabamians were lost to the storms." The victims were killed in Autauga County, deputy director of emergency service ... read more |
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Snowless ski slopes from spaceParis (ESA) Jan 13, 2023 Europe has kicked off the new year with an intense winter heatwave. The warm temperatures and lack of snowfall in the Alps and the Pyrenees has left several ski resorts with little or no snow. The d ... more  
California downpours won't fix decades of drought: scientistsLos Angeles (AFP) Jan 13, 2023 Near-record rainfall has battered California for weeks, sparking floods and landslides as the state struggles to cope with so much water. ... more 
UAE names oil chief as president of COP28 climate talksDubai (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. ... more  
Global piracy acts drop to 14-year low: reportBrest, France (AFP) Jan 9, 2023 Worldwide acts of piracy fell to their lowest level last year since statistics were first established in 2008, a maritime security body said on Monday. ... more |
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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 Storm Bert wreaks havoc across UK and Ireland IMF sees 'limited' impact of floods on Spain GDP growth |
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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  
Terran Orbital's GEOStare SV2 completes commercial imaging contract for Lockheed MartinBoca 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 co ... more 
Planet Labs completes acquisition of Salo SciencesSan Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 10, 2023 Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, has announced the completion of its acquisition of Salo Sciences, a San Francisco-based climate technology comp ... more |
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NASA space missions pinpoint sources of CO2 emissions on EarthPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 10, 2023 A duo of Earth-observing missions has enabled researchers to detect and track carbon dioxide (CO2) emission changes from a single facility, using the world's fifth-largest coal-fired power plant as ... more  
Trapped sediment robbing world's large dams of vital water storage capacityHamilton, Canada (SPX) Jan 12, 2023 Trapped sediment has robbed roughly 50,000 large dams worldwide of an estimated 13% to 19% of their combined original storage capacity, and total losses will reach 23% to 28% by 2050, UN research wa ... more 
Significant reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions still possibleMontreal, Canada (SPX) Jan 12, 2023 About a quarter of the world's electricity currently comes from power plants fired by natural gas. These contribute significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions (amounting to 10% of energy-relat ... more  
Sunlight pulps the plastic soupTexel, Netherlands (SPX) Jan 12, 2023 UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean's surfaces. Floating microplastic is broken down into ever smaller, invisible nanoplastic particles that spread across the entire water ... more |
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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  
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  
'Not necessary' to dwell on Covid death tally, Chinese experts sayBeijing (AFP) Jan 11, 2023 Chinese health officials said Wednesday it was "not necessary" to dwell on the exact number of Covid deaths in the country, days after the World Health Organization criticised authorities' accounting of a surge in cases there. ... more  
Myanmar junta hits ethnic rebels with air strikes near India borderYangon (AFP) Jan 11, 2023 Myanmar's junta has carried out air strikes on an ethnic armed group's base near the border with India, the rebels and media said Wednesday, with one bomb landing close to the international boundary. ... more 
Brasilia rioters: Who are they?Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Jan 11, 2023 They are a diverse bunch - black and white, rich and poor, young and old. But the Bolsonaro-backing rioters who invaded and defaced the symbols of Brazil's democracy are united by one thing: a visceral hatred of "communism." ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 10, 2023 
The United States experienced 18 billion-dollar weather-related disasters in 2022, as climate change continues to cause severe weather events, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report released Tuesday.
The 18 disasters are tied for third-most in a year, behind only 2021 and 2020. The total damages for the 18 events reached about $165 billion, with Hurricane ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Jan 11, 2023 
Dodging the kind of meteorite strike that forced Russia to plan a space station rescue mission is nearly impossible, yet the greater threat to spacecraft is actually the man-made debris in orbit, experts say.
Russian announced on Wednesday a February mission to the International Space Station to pick up crew members left stranded after a strike damaged the capsule that was to take them home. ... 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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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2023 
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, and NASA Harvest, the federal space agency's Global Food Security and Agriculture Program, has announced a partnership to further support the joint Food Security and Agricultural Monitoring Solution. The offering aims to deliver policy-grade agricultural monitoring and assessments of potential threats to globa ... more |
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 Sydney (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.
In the deluged town of Fitzroy Crossing - home to about 1,000 people - the waters collapsed the main bridge, swept away road surfaces and damaged homes over the last week.
The floods created a vast inland lake in ... more |
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 Addis Ababa (AFP) Jan 11, 2023 
Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said Wednesday that Africa should have a greater voice in the UN Security Council and other international bodies, long a demand of the continent's leaders.
Qin made the call in a statement issued as he met the head of the African Union Commission who voiced frustration at what he said was the exclusion of Africa from international governance.
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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.
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 10, 2023 
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, has announced the completion of its acquisition of Salo Sciences, a San Francisco-based climate technology company that provides cutting-edge solutions to measure Earth's constantly changing ecosystems. In December, Planet announced it had signed an agreement to acquire Salo Sciences.
With the purchase o ... 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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 Paris (AFP) Jan 10, 2023 
The extinction risk to Madagascar's mammals, including unique species like the lemur, threatens a biodiversity crisis that would take more than 20 million years to heal, scientists warned Tuesday.
The southern Indian Ocean island has been cut off from the African continent for over 80 million years - a separation that has developed an extraordinary array of plants and animals, many of which ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 6, 2023 
Shanghai engineer Roy Wang has a pressing task now that the border between Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland is being reopened - rekindling his long-distance relationship after a painful separation.
"There were so many quarrels with my girlfriend. It was really miserable to handle," Wang, 23, told AFP on Wednesday.
His wish to visit her was granted the very next day.
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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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