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  Kahramanmaras, Turkey (AFP) Feb 14, 2023 Among the rubble, hundreds of thousands of homeless people face cold and hunger as authorities in Turkey and Syria tackle the dire humanitarian disaster caused by the earthquake that has left more than 35,000 dead. As hopes of finding people alive under the debris fade more than a week after the quake struck, the focus has switched to providing food and shelter to the vast numbers of survivors. According to the Turkish government, about 1.2 million people have been housed in student residences, ... read more |
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UN Security Council meets on aid to quake-hit SyriaUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Feb 13, 2023 The UN Security Council meets behind closed doors Monday to address ways to boost humanitarian assistance to Syria following the devastating recent earthquake, amid growing calls to open new border crossings to deliver aid. ... more 
'Are we going to die?': Trauma haunts Turkish kids after quakeKahramanmaras, Turkey (AFP) Feb 13, 2023 Serkan Tatoglu is haunted by the question his six-year-old keeps asking since their house collapsed in last week's earthquake in Turkey. ... more 
NASA's satellites help with Turkey, Syria earthquake responsePasadena 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 re ... more  
Syria's health workers hit by double tragedy after quakeHarim, Syria (AFP) Feb 13, 2023 While his wife and two daughters lay under the rubble after Syria's earthquake, Abdelbaset Khalil tended to hundreds of patients who flooded into his hospital. ... 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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Space Daily retools to AI/ML centric Content Management SystemGerroa, Australia (SPX) Feb 09, 2023 SpaceDaily.com, a pioneer in the field of technology and science news for over 25 years, has announced the launch of a new AI/ML-centric Content Management System (CMS) that will take its newsroom operations to the next level. ... more 
Syria to open 2 crossings for quake aid; Assad pleads for help as Saudi aid plane landsUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Feb 13, 2023 The UN chief said Monday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has agreed to open two more border crossings to allow in aid to help victims of the earthquake that has left more than 35,000 dead in the region. ... more 
Mexico hails 'heroic' rescue dog that died in TurkeyMexico City (AFP) Feb 13, 2023 Mexico on Monday paid tribute to a military rescue dog that died while searching for survivors buried under the rubble of the earthquake in Turkey. ... more 
Cyclone-battered New Zealand declares national emergencyAuckland (AFP) Feb 14, 2023 Cyclone Gabrielle swept away roads, inundated homes and left 225,000 people without power in New Zealand Tuesday, as a national state of emergency was declared. ... more |
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Kenyan troops crackdown on bandits; Mass trial opens in Chad; 19 killed in BurkinaNairobi (AFP) Feb 14, 2023 Kenya will deploy troops in the country's drought-stricken north on Wednesday, the government announced, accusing bandits and cattle rustlers of killing scores of people. ... more  
Once home to civilisations, fabled Antioch left in ruinsAntakya, Turkey (AFP) Feb 13, 2023 The smashed dome of the ancient mosque, considered to be Turkey's oldest, covers rubble that used to be a prayer hall. ... more  
New models shed light on life's originRochester NY (SPX) Feb 13, 2023 The first signs of life emerged on Earth in the form of microbes about four billion years ago. While scientists are still determining exactly when and how these microbes appeared, it's clear that th ... more  
Chicken of the seaSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Feb 14, 2023 We love our chicken. We love our salmon. Thanks to how we farm these two popular proteins, their environmental footprints are surprisingly similar. The key is in the feed, said UC Santa Barbar ... more |
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Ancient fossilized fruit was ancestor of coffee and potatoes and survived the dinosaursLawrence 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-da ... more 
Fossil discovery reveals complex ecosystems existed on Earth much earlier than previously thoughtMontreal, 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 spe ... more  
Ursa Space launches Python Toolbox API on Esri ArcGIS Pro SoftwareIthaca NY (SPX) Feb 14, 2023 Ursa Space Systems, a leading satellite-analytics-as-a-service provider, has announced the release of a Python toolbox for satellite analytic and data ordering within Esri ArcGIS Pro, a full-feature ... more 
EagleView expands imagery archive and resolution options for all enterprise customersRochester NY (SPX) Feb 14, 2023 EagleView, a leading provider of aerial imagery, data, and analytics announces the expansion of its EagleView Cloud offering to all customers following a successful launch to Government customers. E ... more 
S.Africa declares national disaster as floods kill 7Johannesburg (AFP) Feb 13, 2023 South Africa declared a national disaster on Monday as floods hit seven of its nine provinces, damaging roads and bridges and leaving at least seven people dead. ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 14, 2023 
Turkiye and Syria are reeling from one of the worst earthquakes to strike the region in almost a century. Tens of thousands of people have been killed with many more injured in this tragedy.
Satellite data are being used to help emergency aid organisations, while scientists have begun to analyse ground movement - aiding risk assessments that authorities will use as they plan recovery and r ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Feb 14, 2023 
Widely tunable mid-and long-wave infrared (8-12 um) laser belongs to the atmospheric window range and the human eye safety range and has important application requirements in the field of Lidar.
A study published in Scientific Reports describes a high-efficiency mid- and long-wave optical parametric oscillator pump source: Ho: YAG laser, the system achieves high-efficiency 2.1 um laser out ... 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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 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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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Feb 14, 2023 
Santa Barbara Channel's natural oil seeps are a beach-goer's bane, flecking the shores with blobs of tar. But the leaking petroleum also creates fascinating geologic and biologic features. About 10 miles off the coast of Santa Barbara, several jet-black mounds interrupt the featureless sea floor. These asphalt volcanoes, virtually unique in the world, provide a rare habitat in a region known for ... more |
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 Cape Town (AFP) Feb 13, 2023 
A Russian military frigate docked in Cape Town harbour on Monday ahead of controversial military drills with South Africa and China, coming as Moscow is about to mark one year since its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
The Russian consulate in Cape Town tweeted a photo of the ship, the "Admiral Gorshkov", in the harbour, saying it was on "its way to Durban where it will take part in joint... dri ... 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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 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 ... 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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 Paris (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.
There are at most 150 adult lynx hidden in the mountains of northeastern France, cut off from healthier wild cat populations in Germany and Switzerland, according to the scientists behind the genetic study publish ... 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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