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  Paris (AFP) Feb 13, 2023 The world's biggest and richest companies are failing to deliver on their climate pledges, according to an in-depth analysis released Monday that calls on governments to crack down on corporate greenwashing. Under growing pressure from shareholders, governments and consumers, companies are racing to roll out strategies to reduce the carbon emissions of their operations, along with their products and services. Twenty-four multinationals examined have all endorsed the Paris treaty target of cappin ... read more |
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Long-term air pollution exposure raises depression risk: studiesWashington (AFP) Feb 10, 2023 Long-term exposure to air pollution raises the risk of depression, according to a pair of new studies published in the JAMA network of scientific journals. ... more  
Brazil's Amazon deforestation down 61% in JanuaryBrasilia (AFP) Feb 10, 2023 Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest was down 61 percent in January - Leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's first month back in the job - compared with the same period last year, according to an official report published on Friday. ... more  
Flights grounded, power cut as storm lashes N.ZealandWellington (AFP) Feb 13, 2023 Tens of thousands of homes in New Zealand were without power and hundreds of flights were cancelled Monday as a tropical storm lashed the north of the country. ... more  
Argentina issues health warnings amid record heatBuenos Aires (AFP) Feb 11, 2023 Suffering under the worst heat wave in more than six decades, Argentina has issued health warnings to nine southern and central provinces, the National Meteorological Service, said Saturday. ... more |
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Japan marks 30th anniversary of deadly Kobe quake
Hundreds of homes evacuated as Patagonia fires grow in Argentina Japan panel says 'megaquake' probability up to 82% Quake-stricken Vanuatu heads to polls in snap election 'Survival mode' for families displaced by Ethiopia quakes Moroccan activist jailed for criticism of earthquake response 6.8-magnitude quake prompts Japan tsunami alert Tropical storm Dikeledi hits Mozambique 6.8 magnitude quake strikes Japan, prompts tsunami alert Cyclone-battered region sees storm Dikeledi leave Mayotte for Mozambique |
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UN admits aid failure for Syria as quake toll tops 35,000Kahramanmaras, Turkey (AFP) Feb 12, 2023 The United Nations decried Sunday the failure to ship desperately needed aid to war-torn regions of Syria, while warning the death toll of more than 33,000 from the earthquake that also struck Turkey is set to rise far higher. ... more 
Miracle rescues a week after Turkey-Syria quakeKahramanmaras, Turkey (AFP) Feb 13, 2023 Rescuers pulled more survivors from the rubble a week after an earthquake struck Turkey and Syria leaving more than 33,000 dead, as the UN warned the toll was set to rise far higher. ... more 
Insulated from war, quake brings 'first catastrophe' to Syria cityJableh, Syria (AFP) Feb 11, 2023 Syria's coastal city of Jableh, a regime heartland, was largely spared the worst of war but a massive quake has now joined it in misery with the rest of the battle-scarred country. ... more 
White Helmets slam UN quake response in rebel areas of SyriaSarmada, Syria (AFP) Feb 10, 2023 The White Helmets rescue group accused the United Nations on Friday of botching its response in rebel-held areas of northwestern Syria to this week's devastating quake. ... more |
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Climate change may have toppled Hittite Empire: studyParis (AFP) Feb 9, 2023 Three years of extreme drought may have brought about the collapse of the mighty Hittite Empire around 1200 BC, researchers have said, linking the plight of the fallen civilisation to the modern world's climate crisis. ... more 
Israeli rescue team leaves Turkey over security fearsIstanbul (AFP) Feb 12, 2023 An Israeli emergency relief organisation said Sunday it had suspended its earthquake rescue operation in Turkey and returned home because of a "significant" security threat to its staff. ... more  
Somaliland accuses Somalia of attacks despite truceNairobi (AFP) Feb 12, 2023 The separatist region of Somaliland on Sunday accused Somalia of attacking its soldiers, despite a ceasefire imposed after heavy fighting in a contested border town earlier in the week. ... more 
NZ one of few island nations with potential to produce enough food in a nuclear winterDunedin, New Zealand (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 New Zealand is one of only a few island nations that could continue to produce enough food to feed its population in a nuclear winter, researchers have found. In a new study Professor Nick Wil ... more |
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Super Bowl snack hurting Colombian farmers, environmentPijao, Colombia (AFP) Feb 11, 2023 During the Super Bowl between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, millions of armchair fans will tuck into a tasty snack of tortilla chips and guacamole. ... more 
Mozambique floods kill four in capital areaMaputo (AFP) Feb 11, 2023 Four people have died in floods following days of incessant rains in southern Mozambique, the country's institute for risk management said on Saturday. ... more  
Texans of Chinese descent fret that 'dreams have been smashed'Houston (AFP) Feb 12, 2023 With his hat, big belt buckle and cowboy boots, Ly looks the part of a Texan and even speaks with a twang. He's served in the US Navy but on Saturday, he was doing battle on a different front - against a proposed law that would bar Chinese citizens from owning property in Texas. ... more  
Biden, Lula vow to defend democracy in AmericasWashington (AFP) Feb 11, 2023 President Joe Biden and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Friday at the White House that the two biggest countries in the Americas have successfully seen off attacks on their democracies and will now work together on fighting the climate crisis. ... more  
France's lynx at high risk of extinction: studyParis (AFP) Feb 13, 2023 The elusive Eurasian lynx is at risk of vanishing completely from France, according to a study Monday that called for urgent measures to boost the population of isolated wild cats. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 13, 2023 
Following the magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 earthquakes that struck southern Turkey and western Syria Feb. 6, NASA is working to share its aerial views and data from space in ways that can aid relief and recovery workers in the region, as well as improve its ability to model and predict such events.
"NASA's hearts and minds are with those impacted by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria," said NASA ... 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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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Feb 13, 2023 
Researchers have found that the movement of glaciers in Greenland is more complex than previously thought, with deformation in regions of warmer ice containing small amounts of water accounting for motion that had often been assumed to be caused by sliding where the ice meets the bedrock beneath.
The international team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, used computer model ... more |
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 Pijao, Colombia (AFP) Feb 11, 2023 
During the Super Bowl between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, millions of armchair fans will tuck into a tasty snack of tortilla chips and guacamole.
But unbeknown to them, in far away Colombia, local farmers are paying the price for their gastronomic pleasure, while environmentalists are warning of water pollution.
The explosion of avocado plantations in centra ... more |
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 Wellington (AFP) Feb 13, 2023 
Tens of thousands of homes in New Zealand were without power and hundreds of flights were cancelled Monday as a tropical storm lashed the north of the country.
A state of emergency was declared in five regions on the North Island, covering almost one-third of New Zealand's entire population of 5.1 million.
Although the storm was downgraded from a cyclone before it made landfall, high wi ... more |
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 Nairobi (AFP) Feb 12, 2023  The separatist region of Somaliland on Sunday accused Somalia of attacking its soldiers, despite a ceasefire imposed after heavy fighting in a contested border town earlier in the week.
Somaliland, which has claimed independence from Somalia since 1991, has never been recognised internationally but is often seen as a beacon of stability in a chaotic region.
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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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 Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Feb 09, 2023 
New information about an emerging technique that could track microplastics from space has been uncovered by researchers at the University of Michigan. It turns out that satellites are best at spotting soapy or oily residue, and microplastics appear to tag along with that residue.
Microplastics-tiny flecks that can ride ocean currents hundreds or thousands of miles from their point of entry ... 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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 Houston (AFP) Feb 12, 2023  With his hat, big belt buckle and cowboy boots, Ly looks the part of a Texan and even speaks with a twang. He's served in the US Navy but on Saturday, he was doing battle on a different front - against a proposed law that would bar Chinese citizens from owning property in Texas.
About 300 protesters marched through Houston's Chinatown on Saturday, shouting "Stop Chinese hate" and "Texas is ... more |
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 Brasilia (AFP) Feb 10, 2023  Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest was down 61 percent in January - Leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's first month back in the job - compared with the same period last year, according to an official report published on Friday.
Satellite images from the DETER monitoring system showed an area of 167 square kilometers had been destroyed, according to the INPE space researc ... more |
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