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  Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 20, 2023 US climate envoy John Kerry bluntly summed up in one word what the planet needs to avoid a global warming catastrophe at the World Economic Forum this week: money. The annual meeting of the global elite in the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos was a chance for top government officials, CEOs, academics and campaigners to debate how to tackle the climate crisis. The bill is monumental: Kerry and others warned that trillions of dollars were needed to speed up the world's efforts to reach net-zero carbon ... read more |
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Policy levers that can push decarbonization into overdriveParis (AFP) Jan 20, 2023 Government measures to boost electric vehicle sales, the share of green ammonia in fertiliser, and public purchasing of plant proteins could help shift the decarbonisation of the global economy into high gear, researchers said Friday. ... more  
Brazil begins first operations to protect AmazonRio De Janeiro (AFP) Jan 20, 2023 Brazil this week began the first operations against Amazon deforestation since veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office, the Ibama environmental agency said Friday. ... more  
Yellen contrasts US-Africa relations with China, Russia on Senegal visitDakar (AFP) Jan 20, 2023 US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday touted the fruits of a new "mutually beneficial" economic strategy towards Africa, contrasting the damage caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and China's practices. ... more 
Forests face fierce threats from multiple industries, not just agricultural expansionShanghai, China (SPX) Jan 22, 2023 Intact forests are important climate regulators and harbors of biodiversity, but they are rapidly disappearing. Agriculture is commonly considered to be the major culprit behind forest loss, b ... more |
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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 Libya's Derna hosts theatre festival year after flash flood |
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Sudan's prized gum trees ward off drought but workers witherDemokaya, Sudan (AFP) Jan 22, 2023 A vast belt of trees vital for global production of fizzy drinks helps Sudanese farmers adapt to climate change, but in the harsh drylands many are reluctant to take up the trade. ... more  
Can Iceland feed Europe?Herzliya, Israel (SPX) Jan 19, 2023 A new study, led by Dr. Asaf Tzachor at Reichman University's School of Sustainability, in partnership with environmental and nutritional scientists from Iceland, Denmark and the UK, shows that by a ... more  
Visibility of stars in the night sky declines faster than previously thoughtPotsdam, Germany (SPX) Jan 20, 2023 People around the world are seeing fewer and fewer stars in the night sky. The change in star visibility can be explained by an increase in the sky brightness of 7-10 percent per year. The rate of c ... more  
Future-proofing ice measurements from spaceParis (ESA) Jan 20, 2023 With diminishing ice one of the biggest casualties of our warming world, it's imperative that accurate measurements continue to be made for scientific research and climate policy, as well as for pra ... more |
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Intelligent Computing: The state of the artHangzhou, China (SPX) Jan 18, 2023 Human society on the verge of transforming from an information society to an intelligent society, where optimized computing can autonomously solve practical, real-world problems. Critically, this tr ... more  
China logs nearly 13,000 Covid deaths in a weekBeijing (AFP) Jan 22, 2023 China reported nearly 13,000 Covid-related deaths in hospitals between January 13 and 19, after a top health official said the vast majority of the population had already been infected. ... more 
'Not afraid of the virus': Wuhan turns page on Covid, three years onWuhan, China (AFP) Jan 23, 2023 Residents of China's Wuhan said Monday they were hopeful for the future and no longer afraid of Covid-19, three years after the city was locked down over what was then a mysterious virus. ... more  
Search for Tibet avalanche survivors endsBeijing (AFP) Jan 21, 2023 Search and rescue operations after a devastating avalanche that engulfed travellers on a Tibetan highway have ended, Chinese state media reported, with the death toll now at 28. ... more |
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Brazil's Lula sacks army commander after anti-government riotsBrasilia (AFP) Jan 22, 2023 President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva sacked the commander of Brazil's army Saturday, two weeks after an election-denying mob loyal to his far-right predecessor ransacked the halls of power in Brasilia. ... more  
'We can't wait!': Jubilant Chinese head home for Lunar New YearOn The Shanghai-Wuhan Train, China (AFP) Jan 20, 2023 Piling onto a packed train, factory owner Wang Chunfeng was among millions of Chinese looking to make up for lost time this Lunar New Year after years of pandemic-enforced separation from his family. ... more 
Plastic pirouettes: Japan's recycled bottle balletYokohama, Japan (AFP) Jan 20, 2023 The dancers' futuristic headgear glints under the lights at a top ballet show, but just two months ago their plastic costumes were sticky bottles tossed into a Tokyo recycling bin. ... more  
UK wild camping campaigners rally in Dartmoor over court rulingCornwood, United Kingdom (AFP) Jan 22, 2023 "Nature is a human right!" declares 21-year-old Anya Wilding as she dons hiking boots and prepares to join the fight to "get it back" on Dartmoor in southwest England. ... more 
Stars disappear before our eyes, citizen scientists reportWashington DC (SPX) Jan 20, 2023 A startling analysis from Globe at Night - a citizen science program run by NSF's NOIRLab - concludes that stars are disappearing from human sight at an astonishing rate. The study finds that, to hu ... more |
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 Hereford, United States (AFP) Jan 21, 2023 
A wall of shipping containers installed just a few months ago by the then-governor of Arizona at a $100 million cost to US taxpayers was being dismantled Friday.
Republican Doug Ducey ordered the huge line of shipping containers to be placed at the frontier between the United States and Mexico, during the final months of his administration, in what he said was a bid to stem illegal immigrati ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 18, 2023 
In the blazing upper atmosphere of the Sun, a team of scientists have found new clues that could help predict when and where the Sun's next flare might explode.
Using data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, researchers from NorthWest Research Associates, or NWRA, identified small signals in the upper layers of the solar atmosphere, the corona, that can help identify which regi ... more |
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 London (AFP) Jan 20, 2023 
What caused the mass death of crustaceans off the coast of northeast England in late 2021? A new finding on Friday brought relief to the government, which is developing a flagship new "freeport" in the region.
The customs-free zone in Teesside is one of several planned that are aimed at showing off Britain's "post-Brexit freedoms" in trade, according to the government.
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 London (AFP) Jan 20, 2023  Satellite mapping technology has discovered another new colony of the highly threatened Emperor penguins in Antarctica, researchers revealed Friday.
The find, announced by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) to mark Penguin Awareness Day, brings the total number of known emperor penguin breeding sites around Antarctica's coastline to 66.
It is the latest in a series of Emperor penguin bre ... more |
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 Birmingham UK (SPX) Jan 20, 2023 
Aston University has teamed up with engineering company Solargen Technologies (SGT) and the University of Nairobi through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) to develop a smart irrigation system using solar and wind energy to provide year-round watering of land to improve crop production in Kenya.
A KTP is a three-way collaboration between a business, an academic partner and a highly qu ... more |
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 Morotai, Indonesia (AFP) Jan 18, 2023 
An offshore earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 hit near eastern Indonesia's Maluku islands on Wednesday, forcing panicked residents to run into the streets and briefly triggering a tsunami warning.
There were no immediate reports of casualties but light damage was reported on at least one island.
The epicentre of the tremor was located 150 kilometres (93 miles) northwest of the eastern I ... more |
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 Bamako (AFP) Jan 19, 2023  Mali's military rulers received more warplanes and helicopters from Russia Thursday, an AFP correspondent noted, the latest in a series of deliveries from its new top military and political ally.
AFP counted eight planes and two helicopters at a ceremony attended by Russian ambassador Igor Gromyko and the head of Mali's junta, Colonel Assimi Goita.
Mali's military said the shipment inclu ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 23, 2023 
A major interdisciplinary project "Research on high-resolution sensing and electrical stimulation of sleep-wake neural electrical activity", led by Prof. CAI Xinxia from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Fudan University, Zhejiang University and Ruijin Hospital, has been approved by the National Natural Science Foundation ... more |
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 Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 20, 2023 
US climate envoy John Kerry bluntly summed up in one word what the planet needs to avoid a global warming catastrophe at the World Economic Forum this week: money.
The annual meeting of the global elite in the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos was a chance for top government officials, CEOs, academics and campaigners to debate how to tackle the climate crisis.
The bill is monumental: Kerry an ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 17, 2023 
Capella Space, a leading American satellite manufacturer and Earth observation company, has closed $60 million in growth equity financing from the U.S. Innovative Technology Fund ("USIT"). Capella will leverage this growth capital to expand its imaging capacity and develop new data products as customer demand grows for its frequent, timely and high-quality SAR imagery and analytics capabilities. ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Jan 13, 2023 
A study led by The University of Texas at Austin is providing a glimpse into dinosaur and bird diversity in Patagonia during the Late Cretaceous, just before the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct.
The fossils represent the first record of theropods - a dinosaur group that includes both modern birds and their closest non-avian dinosaur relatives - from the Chilean portion of Patagonia. The r ... more |
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 Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 19, 2023 
Holding COP28 climate talks in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates is an opportunity to ask "hard questions" on fossil fuels, the UN's climate chief told AFP on Thursday.
The UAE's decision to name the head of the national oil company as president of the COP28 talks has angered activists who fear it will undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
United Nations climate chief Sim ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Jan 19, 2023 
Electric car batteries could be used to boost power storage in the future, injecting electricity into the grid during times of scarcity or storing electricity during periods of excess, a new study found Tuesday.
Renewable energy is essential for the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below two degrees Celsius, but the need to scale up quickly and the intermittency of wi ... more |
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 Cornwood, United Kingdom (AFP) Jan 22, 2023 
"Nature is a human right!" declares 21-year-old Anya Wilding as she dons hiking boots and prepares to join the fight to "get it back" on Dartmoor in southwest England.
The photography student and thousands of others spent Saturday afternoon demonstrating for the right to camp in the open on a common within Dartmoor National Park.
The protest was sparked by a recent UK court order that an ... more |
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 Shanghai (AFP) Jan 19, 2023 
Tens of millions in China headed to their rural hometowns for Lunar New Year celebrations Thursday, though President Xi Jinping said he was "concerned" about the countryside's ability to weather a Covid surge.
China's transport authorities have predicted that more than two billion trips will be made this month into February in one of the world's largest mass movements of people.
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 Shanghai, China (SPX) Jan 22, 2023 
Intact forests are important climate regulators and harbors of biodiversity, but they are rapidly disappearing.
Agriculture is commonly considered to be the major culprit behind forest loss, but the authors of a new paper publishing on January 20 in the journal One Earth show that agriculture isn't solely to blame. For forest loss associated with the 2014 world economy, over 60% was relate ... more |
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