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  Boston MA (SPX) Feb 09, 2023 On a cold winter day, the warmth of the sun is welcome. Yet as humanity emits more greenhouse gases, the Earth's atmosphere traps more and more of the sun's energy, which steadily increases the Earth's temperature. One strategy for reversing this trend is to intercept a fraction of sunlight before it reaches our planet. For decades, scientists have considered using screens or other objects to block just enough of the sun's radiation - between 1 or 2 percent - to mitigate the effects of global warm ... read more |
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Turkey, Syria quake toll tops 16,000 as cold compounds miseryAntakya, Turkey (AFP) Feb 9, 2023 Freezing temperatures deepened the misery Thursday for survivors of a massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria that killed more than 16,000 people, as rescuers raced to save countless people still trapped under rubble. ... more  
Antarctic ice hits record low for January: climate monitorParis (AFP) Feb 8, 2023 The Antarctic Ocean area covered by ice was the lowest on record for January, exposing Earth to even more planet-warming heat, scientists reported Wednesday. ... more  
WHO warns of worse secondary health crisis in quake zoneGeneva (AFP) Feb 8, 2023 The WHO warned Wednesday of a secondary health crisis threatening to strike Turkey and Syria in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake, which could be worse than the quake itself. ... more 
UN pleads for access to deliver quake relief to NW SyriaDamascus (AFP) Feb 8, 2023 A leading United Nations official on Wednesday called for the facilitation of aid access to rebel-held areas in Syria's northwest, warning that relief stocks will soon be depleted. ... 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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Fleeing war, Syrians lose adopted homes in Turkey quakeDiyarbakir, Turkey (AFP) Feb 8, 2023 Ridwan Gurre had the instincts to hide from roaring warplanes when he lived in Syria during its civil war. ... more 
DLR supports emergency responders in TurkeyBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 09, 2023 The German Aerospace Center is supporting rescue teams in areas affected by the recent earthquakes in Turkey. Two researchers from the DLR Institute of Optical Sensor Systems arrived in the area on ... more 
Turkish quake survivors face big freeze in cars, tentsGaziantep, Turkey (AFP) Feb 9, 2023 Temperatures in the quake-stricken Turkish city of Gaziantep plunged to minus five degrees Celsius early Thursday but thousands of families spent the night in cars and makeshift tents - too scared or banned from returning to their homes. ... more  
Researchers team up to break down, upcycle low-quality, rejected plastic wastesAmes IA (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 Researchers are integrating tried-and-true technologies (let's unleash bacteria on the biodegradables then heat up the leftovers) and developing new ones (let's try plasma that shoots "bullet" elect ... more |
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Esri joins the Overture Maps Foundation to help build interoperable open map dataRedlands CA (SPX) Feb 07, 2023 In an increasingly digital and automated world, geospatial data plays a critical role in understanding the physical environment and powering the next generation of location technologies. For geospat ... more 
UConn study clears up cloudy data for improved satellite imageryStorrs CT (SPX) Feb 07, 2023 A cloudy day can ruin a trip to the beach, a scenic picnic, and lots of other outdoor activities. But clouds in satellite imagery are also a big issue for remote sensing and land change scient ... more  
International group of scientists warns nuclear radiation has devastating impacts on ecosystemsFort Collins CO (SPX) Feb 07, 2023 Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened the use of "tactical" nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine, but nuclear weapons of any kind would cause widespread devastation, according to a new po ... more  
Biosensors change the way water contamination is detectedEvanston IL (SPX) Feb 09, 2023 Scientists from Northwestern University have collaborated on the implementation of an accurate, low-cost and easy-to-use test for detecting toxic levels of fluoride in water. The new biosensor ... more |
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Artificial sweetener as wastewater tracerVienna, Austria (SPX) Feb 09, 2023 Acesulfame is a sweetener in sugar-free drinks and foods. As it cannot be metabolised in the human body, the sweetener ends up in wastewater after consumption and remains largely intact even in sewa ... more  
Battle rages against Chile forest fires one week inConcepcion, Chile (AFP) Feb 8, 2023 Forecasts of persistent high temperatures and strong winds bode ill Wednesday for drought-stricken Chile as dozens of forest fires - several of them deadly - showed no signs of abating. ... more  
Dire study finds 40% of animals, 34% of plants face extinctionWashington DC (UPI) Feb 6, 2021 Biodiversity in the United States is in a state of extreme tumult and a study from nonprofit organization NatureServ paints a dire picture of environmental collapse. ... more 
Tropical French territory battles green monkey invasionMarigot (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. ... more 
One in 3 schoolchildren lacks access to drinking water: UNParis (AFP) Feb 8, 2023 One in three children worldwide does not have access to clean drinking water while at school, impacting their health and ability to learn, the United Nations said Wednesday. ... more |
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 Gaziantep, Turkey (AFP) Feb 9, 2023 
Temperatures in the quake-stricken Turkish city of Gaziantep plunged to minus five degrees Celsius early Thursday but thousands of families spent the night in cars and makeshift tents - too scared or banned from returning to their homes.
Parents walked the streets of the city - close to the epicentre of Monday's earthquake that has left more than 12,000 dead - carrying their children in b ... 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.
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 8, 2023 
One in three children worldwide does not have access to clean drinking water while at school, impacting their health and ability to learn, the United Nations said Wednesday.
"Globally, almost one in three schools has no drinking water from an improved source," the UN cultural agency UNESCO said in a new report.
"One in three schools worldwide has no basic sanitation," meaning a toilet an ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 8, 2023 
The Antarctic Ocean area covered by ice was the lowest on record for January, exposing Earth to even more planet-warming heat, scientists reported Wednesday.
Last month was also the third warmest January on record in Europe, with temperatures on New Year's Day reaching all-time highs on some parts of the continent, according to European Union's Copernicus climate monitor (C3S).
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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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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Feb 09, 2023 
Cornell University researchers have unearthed precise, microscopic clues to where magma is stored, offering a way to better assess the risk of volcanic eruptions.
In recent years, scientists have used satellite imagery, earthquake data and GPS to search for ground deformation near active volcanoes, but those techniques can be inaccurate in locating the depth of magma storage.
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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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 Corvallis OR (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 
Researchers have pinpointed two intervals when ice and ocean conditions would have been favorable to support early human migration from Asia to North America late in the last ice age, a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows.
The findings align with a growing body of evidence that the most likely path for the first Americans was a Pacific coastal r ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 8, 2023 
Whether out-of-the-box thinking or a sign of desperation, scientists on Wednesday proposed the regular transport of moon dust to a gravity point between Earth and Sun to temper the ravages of global warming.
Ideas for filtering solar radiation to keep Earth from overheating have been kicking around for decades, ranging from giant space-based screens to churning out reflective white clouds. ... more |
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 Montreal, 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 work is required before the researchers achieve their goal, they recently outlined their new automated method in the Nature journal Scientific Reports.
The framework reconstructs the geometry, stru ... 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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 Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 
Because GHG emissions are causing harmful climate change, scientists and philosophers have been wrestling with who has the right to produce greenhouse gases at all, and to what extent. Ever since this debate began in the 1990s, most people have been in agreement that while it is both fair and reasonable for people to refrain from inessential consumption, you cannot require people to stop produci ... 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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 Cincinnati OH (SPX) Feb 09, 2023 
Caribou have been using the same Arctic calving grounds for more than 3,000 years, according to a new study by the University of Cincinnati. Female caribou shed their antlers within days of giving birth, leaving behind a record of their annual travels across Alaska and Canada's Yukon that persists on the cold tundra for hundreds or even thousands of years. Researchers recovered antlers that have ... more |
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 London (AFP) Feb 8, 2023 
British banks, namely HSBC and Standard Chartered, are "complicit" in China's "gross human rights abuses of Hongkongers" by refusing them access to pensions after they fled to the UK, lawmakers concluded Wednesday.
An inquiry by Britain's All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) showed "many Hongkongers have been denied access to their pensions and personal finances, meaning that they are unable ... more |
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 Jyvaskyla, Finland (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 
Forests contribute to human well-being by providing a wide variety of ecosystem services to the society. The boreal biome is experiencing rapid changes both with the highest rates of warming on the planet and continued increase in demand for forest products. It is a real challenge to manage and adapt boreal forests to future warmer conditions and growing demands of forest products. A new study p ... more |
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