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  Christchurch, New Zealand (SPX) Feb 15, 2023 University of Canterbury (UC) researchers have summarised the threats that future rocket launches would pose to Earth's protective ozone layer, in a new review article published in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. The ozone layer, which protects life on Earth from harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun, was severely damaged in the 1980s and 1990s due to chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) - chemicals used in aerosols and refrigeration. Thanks to coordinated global action and legislation ... read more |
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Umbra agrees to provide Maxar direct access to SAR ConstellationSpace Coast FL (SPX) Feb 15, 2023 Maxar Technologies has signed a contract for dedicated access to Umbra' Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery constellation, the companies announced February 14. SAR satellites are able to se ... more  
New technique maps large-scale impacts of fire-induced permafrost thaw in AlaskaBoca Raton FL (SPX) Feb 15, 2023 About 40 percent of interior Alaska is underlain by ice-rich permafrost - permanently frozen grounds made up of soil, gravel and sand - bound together by ice. Certain conditions, such as climate war ... more  
GEODNET offers centimeter precision and GNSS corrections for OEMS and Ag SectorToulouse, France (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 At the FIRA international agricultural robotics forum, GEODNET announces initial availability of a Real-Time Kinematic (RTK), Centimeter Precision, GNSS Corrections Service for Original Equipment Ma ... more 
Antarctica's ocean brightens cloudsSalt Lake City UT (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 The teeming life in the Southern Ocean, which encircles Antarctica, contributes to brightening the clouds that form there, according to a study published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. The cl ... 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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GMV assesses impact of Turkey earthquake from spaceMadrid, Spain (SPX) Feb 15, 2023 As part of its emergency management efforts, GMV is conducting an impact assessment of the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria in the early hours of Monday, February 6. It is already considered ... more  
UN appeals for nearly $400 mn for Syria quake victimsUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Feb 15, 2023 The United Nations launched an appeal for $397 million on Tuesday to help earthquake victims in Syria, where the disaster has killed thousands of people and left millions more in desperate need of aid. ... more 
New aid route to rebel-held Syria opens as quake toll nears 40,000Antakya, Turkey (AFP) Feb 14, 2023 An aid convoy on Tuesday passed through a newly re-opened border crossing into rebel-held north Syria, where help has been slow to arrive since last week's earthquake, which killed nearly 40,000 people in the region. ... more 
'Finding corpses is all we have': Resignation after Turkey quakeAntakya, Turkey (AFP) Feb 14, 2023 The headscarf-covered woman could not contain her rage. ... more |
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Satellites support impact assessment after Turkiye-Syria earthquakesParis (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. S ... more  
Changing climate conditions likely facilitated human migrations to the AmericasCorvallis 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 pu ... more 
Iraq dig uncovers 5,000 year old pub restaurantLagash, Iraq (AFP) Feb 15, 2023 Archaeologists in southern Iraq have uncovered the remains of a tavern dating back nearly 5,000 years they hope will illuminate the lives of ordinary people in the world's first cities. ... more  
Engineers devise a modular system to produce efficient, scalable aquabotsBoston 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 ... more |
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Rising seas threaten exodus of 'biblical' scale, warns GuterresUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Feb 14, 2023 The UN Secretary-General warned Tuesday that global warming could force a mass exodus "on a biblical scale" as people flee low-lying communities and called for legal frameworks to be implemented in preparation, especially for refugees. ... more  
Plant diversity may never fully recover from agriculture without a helping handLeipzig, 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 int ... more 
New research suggests drought accelerated empire collapseIthaca NY (SPX) Feb 10, 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 
'Lucky tiger': Fukushima fishermen pin hopes on pufferfishSoma, Japan (AFP) Feb 15, 2023 The pufferfish filling nets in Fukushima are a delicacy that can kill if wrongly prepared. But to a community devastated by a 2011 nuclear disaster, they are also a lifeline. ... more  
Biden secures 100th US judge, blunting Trump's impact on benchWashington (AFP) Feb 15, 2023 The US Senate on Tuesday confirmed the 100th federal judge appointed by President Joe Biden, as he works to dilute the impact his predecessor Donald Trump had on the courts. ... more |
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 Aleppo, Syria (AFP) Feb 14, 2023 
A Saudi Arabian plane carrying aid to quake-hit Syria landed in second city Aleppo Tuesday - the first in more than a decade of war, a transport ministry official told AFP.
Planeloads of foreign aid have landed in Syria since a 7.8-magnitude quake struck the war-torn country and neighbouring Turkey killing more than 35,000 people.
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 Manila (AFP) Feb 14, 2023 
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos summoned Beijing's ambassador Tuesday to express "serious concern" after a Chinese security vessel was accused of using a military-grade laser light against a Philippine patrol boat in the disputed South China Sea.
The confrontation marks an escalation in the diplomatic row, after the Philippine foreign ministry earlier filed a protest to the Chinese emb ... more |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) Feb 14, 2023 
The UN Secretary-General warned Tuesday that global warming could force a mass exodus "on a biblical scale" as people flee low-lying communities and called for legal frameworks to be implemented in preparation, especially for refugees.
"The danger is especially acute for nearly 900 million people who live in coastal zones at low elevations - that's one out of ten people on Earth," Antonio G ... more |
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 Ottawa (AFP) Feb 15, 2023 
The Canadian capital's iconic Rideau Canal Skateway - the largest outdoor rink in the world and a UNESCO heritage site - may not open this winter for the first time in five decades, due to a lack of ice.
Ottawa is in the grips of its third-warmest winter ever recorded, according to Environment Canada, with temperatures hovering just below freezing through most of December and January.
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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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 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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 Dakar (AFP) Feb 14, 2023 
Sahel countries need to do more to fight the trafficking of firearms, which largely originate from national stockpiles within Africa, the United Nations said Tuesday.
In a report released Tuesday, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said most of the trafficked firearms in the West African region come from elsewhere on the continent.
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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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 Dubai (AFP) Feb 14, 2023 
The Emirati oil chief leading this year's UN climate talks said Tuesday he will introduce an "inclusive" plan for the meeting in Dubai, amid criticism by activists over his appointment.
Rights group Amnesty International has said Sultan Al Jaber is "unfit" for the COP28 presidency, being the CEO of state-owned oil giant ADNOC, while Western officials have defended his role in the crucial tal ... more |
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 Ithaca 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-featured professional desktop GIS application.
Ursa Space leverages the world's most comprehensive and progressive satellite data virtual constellation, comprising synthetic aperture radar (SAR), Optic ... 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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 Osaka, Japan (SPX) Feb 15, 2023 
Semiconductors are a key component in smartphones, televisions, and other devices used in daily life using these devices generates heat, resulting in performance degradation and a shorter product life due to the rise in temperature. Therefore, there is a demand for new materials with high thermal conductivity.
Silicon carbide (SiC) is attracting significant attention as a semiconductor mat ... 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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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 15, 2023  Several hundred retirees staged a protest in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Wednesday, according to witnesses and images on social media, following local anger over reforms to the public health insurance system.
Protests are rare in China, where authorities strictly enforce public order laws and opposition is quickly snuffed out.
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 Manoko, Peru (AFP) Feb 15, 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.
But the feathered crowns and animal tooth necklaces are now stored away for special occasions as the Siekopai live scattered between villages straddling the Ecuador-Peru border, far from thei ... more |
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