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  Urbana IL (SPX) Jan 24, 2023 According to national USDA statistics, no-till and conservation tillage are on the rise, with more than three quarters of corn and soybean farmers opting for the practices to reduce soil erosion, maintain soil structure, and save on fuel. However, these estimates are based primarily on farmer self-reporting and are only compiled once every five years, potentially limiting accuracy. In a new study, University of Illinois scientists demonstrate a way to accurately map tilled land in real time by int ... read more |
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UK to offer 600m pounds in pollution-cutting support for steelmakers: mediaLondon (AFP) Jan 23, 2023 Britain will offer grants to help its two largest steelmakers replace dirty blast furnaces with less carbon-intensive technology, media reported Monday. ... more  
Saving Earth-based explorers and enabling explorationGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 24, 2023 In 2022, NASA-developed Search and Rescue technologies enabled rescue personnel to save 397 lives in the U.S. region. Since 1979, NASA has provided technical expertise to the Cospas-Sarsat program, ... more  
Utah researcher to lead study of clouds in cleanest air on EarthSalt Lake City UT (SPX) Jan 24, 2023 The Southern Ocean is a remote region of the world that holds significant influence over the Earth's climate. Compared with other areas on Earth, its atmosphere is relatively untouched by atmospheri ... more  
Vast iceberg breaks off near UK Antarctic baseLondon (AFP) Jan 23, 2023 A huge iceberg nearly the size of Greater London has broken off the Antarctic ice shelf near a research station, the second such split in two years, researchers announced Monday. ... 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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Cyprus issues first-ever fines for poisoning wild birdsNicosia (AFP) Jan 23, 2023 Cypriot authorities have for the first time issued fines for the killing of rare wild birds using poison baits, conservationists on the Mediterranean island said Monday. ... more  
NASA measures underground water flowing from Sierra to Central ValleyPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 24, 2023 In a recent study, scientists found that a previously unmeasured source - water percolating through soil and fractured rock below California's Sierra Nevada mountains - delivers an average of 4 mill ... more  
Star visibility eroding rapidly as night sky gets brighterWashington (AFP) Jan 19, 2023 Light pollution is growing rapidly and in some places the number of stars visible to the naked eye in the night sky is being reduced by more than half in less than 20 years, according to a study released Thursday. ... more  
Rare opportunity to study short-lived volcanic island reveals sulfur-metabolizing microbesBoulder CO (SPX) Jan 23, 2023 In 2015, a submarine volcano in the South Pacific erupted, forming the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai island, destined to a short, seven-year life. A research team led by the University of Colorado Bould ... more |
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Satellite mapping finds new colony of Emperor penguinsLondon (AFP) Jan 20, 2023 Satellite mapping technology has discovered another new colony of the highly threatened Emperor penguins in Antarctica, researchers revealed Friday. ... more  
Western climate subsidies risk hitting emerging markets: IMFDavos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 20, 2023 The head of the IMF warned Friday that Western subsidies to combat climate change and encourage the transition to clean energy sources risked hitting the economies of the developing world. ... more  
New research shows porpoises not harmed by offshore windfarmsParis, France (AFP) Jan 18, 2023 Researchers in Scotland have developed a tool to help ensure porpoises are not being harmed by the construction of offshore wind farms, which are crucial for scaling up renewable energy globally. ... more  
The black hell of Albania's ageing oil fieldsZharrez, Albania (AFP) Jan 19, 2023 The people of Zharrez in central Albania live amid a stinking apocalyptic landscape of leaking oil wells and rusting storage tanks, the soil blackened from spills of crude that seep into their water. ... more |
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Thunberg says Davos elite 'fuelling destruction of planet'Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 19, 2023 Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg slammed business and political leaders attending the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, saying it was "absurd" to listen to them while they fuelled "the destruction of the planet". ... more 
Arizona dismantles shipping container wall on US-Mexico borderHereford, 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. ... more 
Greenland at its warmest in 1,000 years: studyCopenhagen (AFP) Jan 20, 2023 Temperatures in parts of Greenland are warmer than they have been in 1,000 years, the co-author of a study that reconstructed conditions by drilling deep into the ice sheet told AFP on Friday. ... more 
New pathogen likely culprit for mass crab deaths: UK studyLondon (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. ... more  
Zero-Covid left in dust as Chinese revellers fuel travel boomDali, China (AFP) Jan 19, 2023 Armed with selfie sticks and freshly recovered from Covid, Chinese tourists ambled through bar streets in the country's backpacker haven of Dali, partying the stress of the past three years into oblivion. ... 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 23, 2023  A huge iceberg nearly the size of Greater London has broken off the Antarctic ice shelf near a research station, the second such split in two years, researchers announced Monday.
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said the formation of the new iceberg - in a natural process called "calving" - was not due to climate change, which is accelerating the loss of sea ice in the Arctic and parts o ... 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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 Dakar (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.
"The United States is all in on Africa, and all in with Africa," she said during a visit to Senegal, part of a push by President Joe Biden's administration to boost relations with a ... 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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 York UK (SPX) Jan 19, 2023 
Scientists have shed new light on the 'self-cleaning' capacity of the atmosphere.
This process of self-cleaning is essential to remove gaseous pollutants and regulate greenhouse gases such as methane from the atmosphere.
Researchers were already aware that the atmosphere had this 'self-cleaning' ability, but in a new study from the University York, experts have now shown a new proce ... 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 
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg slammed business and political leaders attending the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, saying it was "absurd" to listen to them while they fuelled "the destruction of the planet".
Two days after police briefly detained her at a protest against a coal mine in Germany, Thunberg and other young campaigners took part in a debate on the sidelines o ... more |
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Jan 18, 2023 
This confirmed their own findings from 2016, when Haase and his team developed an experimental method based on magnetic resonance that can measure changes that are relevant to superconductivity in the structure of materials. They were the first team in the world to identify a measurable material parameter that predicts the maximum possible transition temperature - a condition required to achieve ... more |
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 Nicosia (AFP) Jan 23, 2023 
Cypriot authorities have for the first time issued fines for the killing of rare wild birds using poison baits, conservationists on the Mediterranean island said Monday.
Fines totalling 21,000 euros (almost $23,000) were last week ordered for an individual after three birds of prey were found dead at a rural property in the southern Limassol district, the group BirdLife Cyprus said.
The ... 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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 Rio 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.
On the campaign trail before his October election victory - when he defeated far right climate change skeptic Jair Bolsonaro - Lula promised to end deforestation by 2030.
The Amazon rainforest suffered during B ... more |
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