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  Paris (AFP) Feb 7, 2023 Containing and cleaning up environmental pollution, especially in waterways, is crucial to controlling increasingly bullet-proof superbugs which could kill tens of millions by mid-century, a new UN report said Tuesday. Superbugs - strains of bacteria resistant to antibiotics - are estimated to have killed 1.27 million people in 2019, and the World Health Organization says antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the top global health threats on the near-term horizon. Up to 10 million deaths c ... read more |
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Children pulled from rubble as Turkey-Syria quake toll tops 9,500Antakya, Turkey (AFP) Feb 8, 2023 Heartrending scenes of a newborn plucked alive from the rubble and a broken father clutching his dead daughter's hand have laid bare the human cost of the earthquake in Syria and Turkey that by Wednesday had claimed over 9,500 lives. ... more  
No new variants in weeks after China ended zero-Covid: studyParis (AFP) Feb 7, 2023 No new variants of Covid-19 emerged in Beijing in the weeks after China ended its zero-Covid policy late last year, a new study said on Wednesday. ... more  
Faster, more accurate 3D modelling recreates a landscape's digital twin down to the pixelMontreal, Canada (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 Concordia researchers have developed a new technique that can help create high-quality, accurate 3D models of large-scale landscapes - essentially, digital replicas of the real world. While more wor ... more 
World powers rush to offer Turkey, Syria aid over quakeParis (AFP) Feb 7, 2023 Countries around the world have mobilised rapidly to send aid and rescue workers after a massive earthquake killed more than 7,000 people in Turkey and Syria. ... more |
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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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New areas under threat as Chile fires rage and mercury risesConcepci�n, Chile (AFP) Feb 7, 2023 Forest fires that have killed 26 people and left thousands homeless in south-central Chile in the past week threatened new regions Tuesday as temperatures soared. ... more 
Chile battles raging wildfiresParis (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 Deadly wildfires continue to ravage south-central Chile, destroying hundreds of thousands of hectares of land. Satellite images from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on February 4th reveal the ongo ... more  
At least 20 killed in second day of Somaliland clashesMogadishu (AFP) Feb 7, 2023 Heavy fighting in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland continued into a second day on Tuesday, leaving at least 20 people dead as the UN urged a probe into the clashes. ... more  
Brazil deploys police as miners flee Yanomami territoryRio De Janeiro (AFP) Feb 6, 2023 Brazil said Monday it was deploying hundreds of police and soldiers in preparation to evict gold miners accused of causing a humanitarian crisis on the Yanomami Indigenous reservation, as thousands of the illegal miners fled. ... more |
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Gunmen kidnap Iraqi environmental activist: familyBaghdad (AFP) Feb 5, 2023 A prominent Iraqi activist campaigning for the preservation of the famed Mesopotamian marshes has been kidnapped by armed men south of the capital Baghdad, his family said Sunday. ... more  
North Korea ruling party to hold key meeting on agricultureSeoul (AFP) Feb 6, 2023 North Korea's ruling party will hold a key meeting this month to discuss agricultural development, citing the need for "radical change", state media reported Monday. ... more 
US says helping quake-hit Syria but not AssadWashington (AFP) Feb 8, 2023 The United States said Tuesday it was working with partners to provide earthquake relief in Syria but would stand firm against working with the Damascus government. ... more 
'Waiting for our dead': Anger builds at Turkey's quake responseGaziantep, Turkey (AFP) Feb 8, 2023 With every passing moment, Ebru Firat knows the chances dim of finding her cousin alive under the rubble of a flattened building in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep. ... more |
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Aleppo buries its dead as quake imperils cross-border aid to SyriaAleppo, Syria (AFP) Feb 7, 2023 Umm Ibrahim was anxiously waiting for news of her seven children trapped since Monday under the rubble in Syria's second city, after a powerful earthquake that has killed thousands. ... more  
South Africa rhino poachers spread from national parksJohannesburg (AFP) Feb 6, 2023 Rhino poaching in South Africa fell just slightly last year as increased patrols in national parks forced more hunters seeking horns to target provincial parks and private reserves, the government said Monday. ... more 
Scientists track tropical landslide creeping below an African cityPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 03, 2023 Creeping from just a finger's width up to a few feet per year, slow-moving landslides occur naturally throughout the world. They typically are detected inching downslope in rocky areas with high sea ... more  
UN experts alarmed at child 'forced assimilation' in TibetGeneva (AFP) Feb 6, 2023 Around a million Tibetan children have been separated from their families and put through "forced assimilation" at Chinese residential schools, three United Nations experts said Monday. ... more  
Scholar, lawmakers and journalist among Hong Kongers on trialHong Kong (AFP) Feb 6, 2023 Hong Kong's largest national security trial opened Monday with 47 pro-democracy figures accused of trying to topple the government. ... more |
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 Gaziantep, Turkey (AFP) Feb 8, 2023  With every passing moment, Ebru Firat knows the chances dim of finding her cousin alive under the rubble of a flattened building in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep.
And with that fading hope, the 23-year-old's grief is being replaced by rage at the government's earthquake response.
Monday's 7.8-magnitude pre-dawn tremor killed more than 7,800 people across swathes of Turkey and Sy ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 07, 2023 
NASA's Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) has successfully completed its critical space environment tests. Planned for launch to the International Space Station, AWE will study gravity waves in Earth's atmosphere to gain a deeper knowledge of the connections caused by climate systems throughout our atmosphere and between the atmosphere and space.
From its unique vantage point on the Intern ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 07, 2023 
Underwater structures that can change their shapes dynamically, the way fish do, push through water much more efficiently than conventional rigid hulls. But constructing deformable devices that can change the curve of their body shapes while maintaining a smooth profile is a long and difficult process. MIT's RoboTuna, for example, was composed of about 3,000 different parts and took about two ye ... more |
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 Laramie WY (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 
Receding glaciers in the northern Antarctic Peninsula are uncovering and reexposing black moss that provides radiocarbon kill dates for the vegetation, a key clue to understanding the timing of past glacier advances in that region.
A University of Wyoming researcher led a study that determined the black moss kill dates coincide with evidence of glacier advances from other studies that foun ... more |
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 
Agriculture is considered a major disturbance for ecological systems - the recovery of degraded or formally used agricultural land might take a long time. However, without any active restoration interventions, this recovery can take an exceedingly long time and is often incomplete, as shown by a team of researchers led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig Un ... more |
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 Hatay, Turkey (AFP) Feb 7, 2023 
Rescuers in Turkey and Syria braved freezing darkness, aftershocks and collapsing buildings Tuesday, as they dug for survivors buried by a string of earthquakes that killed at least 4,800 people.
Disaster agencies said several thousand buildings were flattened in cities across a vast border region - pouring misery on an area already plagued by war, insurgency, refugee crises and a recent ch ... more |
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 Bamako (AFP) Feb 7, 2023 
Two Malian police officers and a gendarme were killed Tuesday in an attack on a checkpoint in western Mali, a country facing jihadist violence, sources told AFP.
The attack was carried out at a checkpoint in the western town of Nara, near the border with Mauritania, a local official told AFP.
The attackers were "suspected jihadists" who were repelled by security services, a police source ... more |
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 Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 
New research has revealed that the process of 'peopling' the entire continent of Sahul - the combined mega continent that joined Australia with New Guinea when sea levels were much lower than today - took 10,000 years.
New, sophisticated models combined recent improvements in demography and models of wayfinding based on geographic inference to show the scale of the challenges faced by the ... more |
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 University Park PA (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 
Rocks, rain and carbon dioxide help control Earth's climate over thousands of years - like a thermostat - through a process called weathering. A new study led by Penn State scientists may improve our understanding of how this thermostat responds as temperatures change.
"Life has been on this planet for billions of years, so we know Earth's temperature has remained consistent enough for the ... more |
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 Luxembourg (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 
Kleos Space has reached the milestone of daily product delivery collected from a strategically critical area of interest to its early adopter customers. RF data is collected by the Vigilance Mission (KSF1) satellites and is then processed through Kleos systems to generate intelligence products.
The Vigilance Mission RF data collection satellites are in a sun synchronous low Earth orbit ena ... more |
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 Lawrence KS (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 
The discovery of an 80-million-year-old fossil plant pushes back the known origins of lamiids to the Cretaceous, extending the record of nearly 40,000 species of flowering plants including modern-day staple crops like coffee, tomatoes, potatoes and mint.
Brian Atkinson, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas and curator of paleobotany at the KU ... more |
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 Johannesburg (AFP) Feb 3, 2023 
Already struggling without electricity for hours a day, many South Africans are now having to do also without water, as power outages batter the supply system.
A power failure at a pump station feeding reservoirs and water towers caused taps to run dry in parts of Johannesburg and Pretoria, provincial utility Rand Water said this week.
This further aggravated residents who for months h ... more |
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 San Jose CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 
AiDash, a leading provider of vegetation management and other satellite- and AI-powered operations, maintenance, and sustainability solutions, has announced the launch of its joint grid resilience offering with Schneider Electric. The new solution will address modern day infrastructure and environmental challenges, such as aging power grids, decarbonization and distributed power generation, vege ... more |
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 Marigot (AFP) Feb 6, 2023 
French officials on the Caribbean island of Saint-Martin are seeking ways to battle an invasion of green monkeys, blamed for threatening the tropical tourism hotspot's fragile biodiversity, local authorities said.
The primates, which originate from Africa, are reproducing at an alarming rate, threatening the survival of some indigenous species, they said.
The island of Saint-Martin, spli ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 3, 2023 
The trial of 47 of Hong Kong's most prominent pro-democracy figures begins on Monday, in the largest prosecution under a national security law that has crushed dissent in the city.
The proceedings are expected to last more than four months, and the defendants face sentences of up to life imprisonment if convicted.
Authorities have accused the 47 of trying to topple Hong Kong's China-appr ... more |
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Feb 6, 2023 
Brazil said Monday it was deploying hundreds of police and soldiers in preparation to evict gold miners accused of causing a humanitarian crisis on the Yanomami Indigenous reservation, as thousands of the illegal miners fled.
Justice Minister Flavio Dino said authorities estimate at least 15,000 people have illegally invaded the protected Amazon rainforest reservation, where Indigenous leade ... more |
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