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  Newcastle UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 Fifteen million people around the world are at risk from flooding caused by glacial lakes, with just four countries accounting for more than half of those exposed. An international team of scientists led by Newcastle University, UK, has produced the first global assessment of areas at greatest risk of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods and identified priority areas for mitigation. As the climate gets warmer, glaciers retreat and meltwater collects at the front of the glacier, forming a lake. These lakes ... read more |
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General forest management critical for ecosystem services even with climate changeJyvaskyla, 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 ... more  
New research suggests drought accelerated empire collapseIthaca NY (SPX) Feb 09, 2023 The collapse of the Hittite Empire in the Late Bronze Age has been blamed on various factors, from war with other territories to internal strife. Now, a Cornell University team has used tree ring an ... more  
New method helps scientists better predict when volcanos will eruptIthaca 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 h ... more  
Caribou have been using same Arctic calving grounds for 3,000 yearsCincinnati 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 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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WHO chief says heading for Syria as aid reaches Syria rebel-held areasGeneva (AFP) Feb 9, 2023 World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday that he was heading to Syria which has been hit, along with neighbouring Turkey, by a massive earthquake which has left over 21,000 people dead. ... more 
After the silence, body bags: Turkish town counts its deadNurdagi, Turkey (AFP) Feb 9, 2023 During an "agonising" 10- minute wait, the jackhammers and excavators fell silent, traffic on a four-lane highway next to the pile of rubble came to a standstill with car engines switched off. ... more 
Death toll tops 21,000 from Turkey-Syria quake as hopes fadeBab Al-Hawa Border Crossing, Syria (AFP) Feb 9, 2023 The death toll from the massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria kept on climbing Thursday, topping 21,000 as the first UN aid reached Syrian rebel-held zones but hopes of finding more survivors faded. ... more  
'Shame on you!': Erdogan faces voter fury in quake zoneAdiyaman, Turkey (AFP) Feb 10, 2023 Hakan Tanriverdi has a simple message for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan days after Turkey suffered its worst disaster in generations: "Don't come here asking for votes." ... more |
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Chile declares curfew in fire-ravaged regionsConcepci�n, Chile (AFP) Feb 9, 2023 Chile on Thursday announced a nighttime curfew in south-central regions where forest fires have raged for more than a week, leaving at least 24 people dead. ... more 
Global wetland loss lower than previous estimates: studyParis (AFP) Feb 8, 2023 The world has lost about 20 percent of its natural wetlands since 1700, a new study found Wednesday, showing that previous loss estimates may have been largely overblown. ... more 
Uprooted: Amazonian Siekopai people battle for return to ancestral landManoko, Peru (AFP) Feb 10, 2023 They call themselves "the multicolored people," or Siekopai, after the eye-catching traditional body paint and adornments they used to wear in their ancestral home in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. ... more  
Canada says no seabed mining unless new 'rigorous' rulesVancouver (AFP) Feb 10, 2023 Canada's government on Thursday announced it would not permit mining of seabeds under its jurisdiction until a "rigorous regulatory structure" is put in place. ... more |
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Emissions from fertilisers could be slashed by 2050: studyParis (AFP) Feb 9, 2023 The production and use of nitrogen fertilisers accounts for five percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, which can be massively reduced with a few available interventions, a new study said Thursday. ... more  
Foot-and-mouth variant hits Iraq buffaloes, threatening livelihoodsBadush, Iraq (AFP) Feb 9, 2023 Despite vaccinating his entire herd against foot-and-mouth disease, Iraqi farmer Saadoun Roumi has lost five of his 15 buffaloes to a variant never before seen in the country. ... more  
Domestic violence, child marriages soar in drought-hit EthiopiaGode , Ethiopia (AFP) Feb 9, 2023 Forced into marriage by her family, 14-year-old Bisharo stayed only five days with her abusive new husband before fleeing his home, fending for herself in drought-stricken southern Ethiopia. ... more 
Army chief ousted in jihadist-torn MaliBamako (AFP) Feb 9, 2023 Six senior Malian military officers, including the army chief of staff and head of the national guard, were relieved of their functions on Wednesday, the country's junta-run government said. ... more  
Exiled Tibetans place hopes in historyWashington (AFP) Feb 10, 2023 As China shows no compromise and the Dalai Lama ages, the elected leader of Tibetans in exile is looking to history as he plans for the future. ... 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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 Gode , Ethiopia (AFP) Feb 9, 2023  Forced into marriage by her family, 14-year-old Bisharo stayed only five days with her abusive new husband before fleeing his home, fending for herself in drought-stricken southern Ethiopia.
Bisharo, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, sought help at a newly opened clinic for survivors of sexual violence at a hospital in Gode, a town in Ethiopia's dust bowl Somali region. ... 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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 Southampton UK (SPX) Feb 10, 2023 
Humans are artificially expanding cities' coastlines by extending industrial ports and creating luxury residential waterfronts. Developers have added over 2,350 square kilometers of land (900 square miles, or about 40 Manhattans) to coastlines in major cities since 2000, according to a new study.
The study reports the first global assessment of coastal land reclamation, which is the proces ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Feb 10, 2023 
About 250 million years ago, the Permian-Triassic mass extinction killed over 80 per cent of the planet's species. In the aftermath, scientists believe that life on earth was dominated by simple species for up to 10 million years before more complex ecosystems could evolve. Now this longstanding theory is being challenged by a team of international researchers - including scientists from McGill ... 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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 Raleigh NC (SPX) Feb 09, 2023 
A new North Carolina State University study, performed in collaboration with battery testing researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, shows that extremely short pulses from a high-powered laser can cause tiny defects in lithium-ion battery materials - defects that can enhance battery performance.
The technique, called nanosecond pulsed laser annealing, ... 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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 Washington (AFP) Feb 10, 2023 
As China shows no compromise and the Dalai Lama ages, the elected leader of Tibetans in exile is looking to history as he plans for the future.
Penpa Tsering was elected in 2021 as the second-ever leader, or sikyong, of the Tibetan government-in-exile in India, part of a plan by the now 87-year-old Dalai Lama - the globally recognizable face of Tibet - to pass the baton.
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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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