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  Mansfield CT (SPX) Jan 27, 2023 The Latest Permian Mass Extinction (LPME) was the largest extinction in Earth's history to date, killing between 80-90% of life on the planet, though finding definitive evidence for what caused the dramatic changes in climate has eluded experts. An international team of scientists, including UConn Department of Earth Sciences researchers Professor and Department Head Tracy Frank and Professor Christopher Fielding, are working to understand the cause and how the events of the LPME unfolded by focus ... read more |
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Meteorites reveal likely origin of Earth's volatile chemicalsLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 27, 2023 Meteorites have told Imperial researchers the likely far-flung origin of Earth's volatile chemicals, some of which form the building blocks of life. They found that around half the Earth's inv ... more  
Giant iceberg breaks away from Antarctic ice shelfParis (ESA) Jan 27, 2023 Satellite imagery confirms an enormous iceberg, around five times the size of Malta, has finally calved from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf. The new berg, estimated to be around 1550 sq km and around ... more  
$500 mn pledged for jihadist-torn Lake ChadNiamey (AFP) Jan 27, 2023 States in western Africa's Lake Chad region and international donors have pledged more than $500 million to help civilians threatened by jihadist insurgents and climate change, the organisers said on Friday. ... more 
Outlook for the blue economyAustin TX (SPX) Jan 27, 2023 A handful of hyper-productive fisheries provide sustenance to a billion people and employ tens of millions. These fisheries occur on the eastern edges of the world's oceans - off the West Coast of t ... more |
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More than 122,000 people evacuated in Malaysia due to floods
Floods displace 122,000 people in Malaysia Thailand flooding kills nine, displaces thousands Jihadists, allies breach Syria's second city in lightning assault Jihadists, allies enter Syria's second city in lightning assault Rallies mark one month since Spain's catastrophic floods Traumatised Spain marks one month since catastrophic floods Death toll from Uganda landslides rises to 20: Red Cross Floods kill 8, tens of thousands evacuate in Malaysia, Thailand Spain urged to 'build differently' after deadly floods |
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Fiji suspends national police chiefSydney (AFP) Jan 27, 2023 Fiji suspended its police chief "effective immediately" on Friday, shunting aside an ally of the former prime minister who was defeated in general elections last month. ... more  
France to probe microplastic pellet pollution on Atlantic beachesBrest, France (AFP) Jan 27, 2023 French prosecutors said on Friday they would investigate the appearance of vast quantities of tiny toxic plastic pellets along the Atlantic coast that endanger marine life and the human food chain. ... more  
Looking back at the Tonga eruptionSapporo, Japan (SPX) Jan 27, 2023 A new analysis of seismic data recorded after the massively violent eruption of the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, on January 15, 2022, has revealed new and useful information on the ... more 
Death toll from Madagascar storm rises to 22Antananarivo (AFP) Jan 27, 2023 The death toll from a tropical storm that lashed parts of northeastern Madagascar last week has climbed to 22, the government's disaster management office announced Friday, revising its earlier tally. ... more |
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Death toll in Afghanistan cold snap rises to 166, official saysKabul (AFP) Jan 28, 2023 At least 166 people have died in a wave of bitterly cold weather sweeping Afghanistan, an official said Saturday, as extreme conditions heaped misery on the poverty-stricken nation. ... more 
Authorities raise alert level around Lascar volcano in northern ChileSantiago (AFP) Jan 28, 2023 Authorities in Chile on Saturday raised the alert level and limited access to the area around the Lascar volcano, after an increase in seismic activity raised fears of a possible eruption. ... more 
Three dead, one missing after record rain in New ZealandWellington (AFP) Jan 28, 2023 Record levels of torrential rain in Auckland left three dead with a fourth person missing, New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said Saturday after flooding devastated the country's largest city. ... more 
5.9-magnitude quake in Iran kills two, injures hundredsTehran (AFP) Jan 29, 2023 A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck northwest Iran near the border with Turkey late Saturday, killing at least two people and injuring hundreds, state media said. ... more |
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France extends Covid tests for travellers from ChinaParis (AFP) Jan 28, 2023 France on Saturday said it had extended until February 15 Covid tests for travellers arriving from China due to the "evolving situation". ... more 
'Drought' has New Yorkers asking: 'Where's the snow?'New York (AFP) Jan 29, 2023 The idea of New York in wintertime conjures up images of Manhattan's Times Square and Central Park shrouded in snow. Not this year. ... more  
Endangered tree kangaroo born at UK zooLondon (AFP) Jan 26, 2023 Conservationists at a UK zoo have captured the moment a rare tree kangaroo popped out of its mother's pouch for the first time, part of research aimed at helping the endangered species survive in the wild. ... more  
Indigenous land rights help protect Brazil's forestsParis (AFP) Jan 26, 2023 Territories in Brazil's fragmented Atlantic Forest where Indigenous peoples enjoy secure land rights have seen measurably less deforestation than similar areas in which land tenure is weak or non-existent, researchers reported Thursday. ... more 
One third of Amazon 'degraded' by human activity, drought: studyWashington (AFP) Jan 26, 2023 More than one third of the Amazon rainforest may have been degraded by human activity and drought, researchers said Thursday, and action is needed to protect the critically important ecosystem. ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Jan 26, 2023 
Natural disasters cost French insurers 10 billion euros ($10.9 billion) last year, a two-decade high as such events become more frequent and intense, the head of the sector's federation said Thursday.
"It was an annus horribilis," France Assureurs president Florence Lustman told Europe 1 radio, citing the hailstorms, floods and droughts that hit the country last year.
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Jan 26, 2023 
At first glance, mica is something quite ordinary: it is a common mineral, found in granite for example, and has been extensively studied from geological, chemical and technical perspectives.
One might think that nothing new can be discovered from such an everyday material. But now a team from the Vienna University of Technology has presented a study in the journal Nature Communications, i ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Jan 27, 2023 
A handful of hyper-productive fisheries provide sustenance to a billion people and employ tens of millions. These fisheries occur on the eastern edges of the world's oceans - off the West Coast of the U.S., the Canary Islands, Peru, Chile, and Benguela. There, a process called upwelling brings cold water and nutrients to the surface, which in turn supports large numbers of larger sea creatures t ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 27, 2023 
Satellite imagery confirms an enormous iceberg, around five times the size of Malta, has finally calved from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf. The new berg, estimated to be around 1550 sq km and around 150 m thick, calved when the crack known as Chasm-1 fully extended northwards severing the west part of the ice shelf.
This crack was first revealed to be extending in early 2012 after having be ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Jan 24, 2023  The EU on Tuesday announced proposals to try to reverse an "alarming decline" in the number of bees - and other insects that pollinate the bloc's crops - including by rewarding organic farming.
The European Commission said a review of a 2018 EU Pollinators Initiative showed there were gaps, and "significant challenges" needed to be addressed with revised measures.
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 Sapporo, Japan (SPX) Jan 27, 2023 
A new analysis of seismic data recorded after the massively violent eruption of the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, on January 15, 2022, has revealed new and useful information on the sequence of events. Kotaro Tarumi and Kazunori Yoshizawa at Hokkaido University discuss their methods and findings in an article in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
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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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 Brasilia (AFP) Jan 24, 2023 
Brazilian federal police are investigating a "genocide" against the Yanomami people after it emerged that nearly a hundred children from the Indigenous group had died, the Justice Ministry said Tuesday.
The announcement came after a government report revealed Saturday that 99 Yanomami children living on Brazil's largest Indigenous reservation - all under the age of five - died last year fr ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Jan 26, 2023 
Climate extremes in the Amazon rainforest are directly affecting those in the Tibetan Plateau, scientists said Thursday, warning that the Himalayan region crucial for the water security of millions was close to a potentially disastrous "tipping point".
Planet-heating pollution from human activities is raising global temperatures and scientists have said this is pushing crucial ecosystems ... more |
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 San Diego CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2023 
ASTERRA and ACME Lithium, Inc. (ACME) jointly announced their teaming agreement and collaboration in which ASTERRA satellite-based technology was used in the discovery of the highest values of lithium to date in Fish Lake Valley, Nevada.
The use of ASTERRA technology produced a large number of locations of lithium value of above 100 parts per million (ppm), while traditional methods of exp ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 27, 2023 
In two separate studies, researchers identify nucleosynthetic isotope anomalies in the volatile elements potassium (K) and zinc (Zn) in meteorites, which constrain the origins of the material that formed Earth. According to both studies, roughly 90% of Earth's mass was contributed by non-carbonaceous (NC) material from the inner Solar System and about 10% by carbonaceous chondrite (CC) material ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Jan 26, 2023 
Consumption patterns in wealthy European Union countries are having detrimental environmental impacts in poorer EU nations, a study Thursday found, exposing harmful inequalities on the continent.
The study looked at 10 key environmental impacts - including greenhouse gas emissions, toxins in water and soil, air pollution and land use - in supply chain countries and stacked them up against ... more |
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 Urbana IL (SPX) Jan 26, 2023 
Researchers have made a significant leap forward in developing insect-sized jumping robots capable of performing tasks in the small spaces often found in mechanical, agricultural and search-and-rescue settings.
A new study led by mechanical sciences and engineering professor Sameh Tawfick demonstrates a series of click beetle-sized robots small enough to fit into tight spaces, powerful eno ... more |
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 London (AFP) Jan 26, 2023 
Conservationists at a UK zoo have captured the moment a rare tree kangaroo popped out of its mother's pouch for the first time, part of research aimed at helping the endangered species survive in the wild.
The elusive Goodfellow's tree kangaroo is much smaller than the better known Australian kangaroo species. It is native to the mountainous rainforests of Papua New Guinea, where they are un ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 26, 2023 
President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered a two-year extension of a program allowing Hong Kong residents in the United States - many of whom fled repressive Chinese rule - to stay beyond the expiry of their visas.
The extension, just days before the program was due to run out, was likely to add to tensions between Beijing and Washington, already high over Taiwan, trade disputes, and Chinese ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Jan 26, 2023 
Territories in Brazil's fragmented Atlantic Forest where Indigenous peoples enjoy secure land rights have seen measurably less deforestation than similar areas in which land tenure is weak or non-existent, researchers reported Thursday.
The findings, published in the journal PNAS Nexus, are the first to quantify the benefits of enhanced Indigenous land rights for Brazil's tropical rainforest ... more |
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