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  Beijing (AFP) Feb 17, 2023 France has dropped Covid testing restrictions imposed on travellers from China, the French embassy in Beijing said. Since January, visitors aged 11 and over travelling from China to France have had to present a negative test taken 48 hours before the flight to board the plane. The restrictions were introduced as China experienced a wave of coronavirus infections after lifting its stifling zero-Covid policy in December. "Travellers from China to France are no longer required to present the re ... read more |
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Turkey quake tests Erdogan's all-powerful ruleKahramanmaras, Turkey (AFP) Feb 16, 2023 When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan assumed sweeping powers in 2018, he swore the state would deliver more under a centralised system that his critics compare to one-man rule. ... more  
Turkey-Syria death toll passes 41,000 as UN appeals for quake aidIstanbul (AFP) Feb 16, 2023 The death toll from the earthquake that has devastated parts of Turkey and Syria exceeded 41,000 on Friday as the United Nations appealed for $1 billion to address a growing humanitarian crisis. ... more 
U.S. has 'blind spots' in its preparations for zoonotic diseases, experts warnWashington DC (UPI) Feb 16, 2023 The United States, where more zoonotic diseases have originated than any other country in the world, has "blind spots" in its strategies for preparing for such threats, according to an analysis published by experts on Thursday. ... more  
Deep-sea black carbon comes from hydrothermal ventsSapporo, Japan (SPX) Feb 13, 2023 Hydrothermal vents have been identified as a previously undiscovered source of dissolved black carbon in the oceans, furthering the understanding of the role of oceans as a carbon sink. The oc ... 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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A second chance to protect wetlandsMontreal, Canada (SPX) Feb 13, 2023 Wetlands are among the most threatened ecosystems in the world. A new study, published in Nature, has found that the loss of wetland areas around the globe since 1700 has likely been overestimated. ... more  
Earth from Space: Swedish landscapeParis (ESA) Feb 13, 2023 Agricultural fields that surround the cities of Lund and Malmo in Sweden are pictured in this image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 ... more 
Tracking ocean microplastics from spaceAnn 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 spotti ... more 
Ozone depletion leads to Antarctic upper-stratospheric warming in winterBeijing, China (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 Since the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole in the 1980s, numerous studies have pointed out that this depletion of ozone in the Antarctic has important impacts on global climate change, and that ... more |
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Researchers build more detailed picture of the movement of Greenland Ice SheetCambridge 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 ... more  
Conspiracy theories on '15-minute cities' flourishParis (AFP) Feb 15, 2023 Urban planners are fending off abuse fuelled by conspiracy theories about their "15-minute city" regeneration projects which suspicious social media users claim are the road to "climate lockdowns". ... more 
'Abandoned': Turkish town awaits help 11 days after quakeSamandag, Turkey (AFP) Feb 16, 2023 Dozens of arms frantically reach for heaters and blankets handed out by a private donor, illustrating the desperation and rage gripping swathes of Turkey 11 days after its disastrous quake. ... more 
Quake fallout inflames migrant tensions in Turkey disaster zoneAntakya, Turkey (AFP) Feb 16, 2023 A Turkish volunteer runs down a pile of rubble, dragging a Syrian man with a bloodied face as anger builds and migrant tensions soar across quake-shattered regions. ... more |
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Syrian family of seven dies in fire after surviving quakeIstanbul (AFP) Feb 17, 2023 Five Syrian children and their parents died on Friday in a fire that struck a Turkish home they moved to after surviving last week's earthquake, local media reported. ... more  
'I thought I was going to die' S.African flood survivorNkomazi, South Africa (AFP) Feb 16, 2023 Khanyisile Hlekwa, 33, screamed for help as floodwaters surged into the windows of her home in northeastern South Africa, where she and her four children were trapped by the deluge. ... more  
New insight into the relationship between slow slip events and the build-up and release of tectonic strainKobe, Japan (SPX) Feb 13, 2023 The Japanese archipelago is actively undergoing seismic shifts due to interactions between the oceanic plate and the continental plate. At the plate boundaries located directly beneath areas of Japa ... more 
Toddler among dead as New Zealand storm toll mounts; international help to comeNapier, New Zealand (AFP) Feb 17, 2023 A New Zealand mum has recounted the heartbreak of watching her two-year-old daughter being swept away in floodwaters unleashed by Cyclone Gabrielle, which has killed at least eight people. ... more 
Original COVID-19 vaccine could attack boosters given too soon, Mixed results for latest Moderna mRNA flu trialWashington DC (UPI) Feb 16, 2023 A new study from Northwestern Medicine suggests that the original COVID-19 vaccine worked so well that it actually hurt boosters given too soon by "mopping up" the new shots before they can become effective. ... 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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 Harwell UK (SPX) Feb 16, 2023 
Astroscale has won funding from the MOD Defence Science and Technology Laboratory funding to explore space-based space domain awareness (SB-SDA) mission concepts for launch in the 2030s.
Astroscale Ltd. formed the winning consortium teaming with Raytheon NORSS and SJE Space Ltd for the project. The aim of the study is to advance knowledge of space-based space domain awareness (SB-SDA) thro ... more |
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 Onna, Japan (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 
Destruction of key hydrothermal vents by deep-sea mining could have knock-on impacts for vent fields hundreds of kilometers away, suggests a new paper published in Ecology and Evolution.
The study, which was conducted by scientists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), in collaboration with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), and the U ... more |
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 Boca 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 warming, have intensified tundra wildfires which have profound implications for permafrost thaw.
Surface vegetation plays a dominant role in protecting permafrost from summer warmth, so any alterat ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 15, 2023  Dropped over their target by drone, dozens of tiny wooden "robots" twirl through the air in a balletic freefall before hitting the ground, where the work begins for these experimental self-burying seeds on an aerial replanting mission.
Inspired by natural seeds that have a curved tail to help them burrow into the soil, a study published Wednesday unveiled prototype human-designed seed carrie ... 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.
"While there is evidence of long-range firearms tr ... more |
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 Bologna, Italy (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 
It is called Radiocarbon 3.0: it is the newest method developments in radiocarbon dating, and promises to reveal valuable new insights about key events in the earliest human history, starting with the interaction between Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals in Europe. This is shown by the combination of updated radiocarbon pretreatment, the latest AMS instrumental advances, and the application of the B ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 16, 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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 Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 
Satellite Applications Catapult, SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), and the UK Government have announced a new space supply chain mapping tool to showcase the United Kingdom (UK) and Australian space sector capabilities. Enabled by the Space Bridge, an alliance between the UK and Australia that enhances cooperation across both nations to boost respective space industries, this mapping t ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 16, 2023 
A large dinosaur print discovered by a local archeologist in Burniston Bay, England, in 2021, likely belonged to a "Megalosaurus-like Theropod," according to research findings published in a report in the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Thursday.
The print was discovered by local archeologist Marie Woods, a co-author of Thursday's report, while she explored the area. It ... 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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 Providence RI (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 
In mountainous western North America, vegetation cover has moved upward at a rapid rate over the past several decades, according to a study published in PLOS Climate by James R. Keller at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States and colleagues. Understanding such shifts in species distribution could provide insights on the velocity of climate change and aid conservation planning ... 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.
But expressions of public anger do sometimes emerge, ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 
Rice University scientists have figured out a way to engineer wood to trap carbon dioxide through a potentially scalable, energy-efficient process that also makes the material stronger for use in construction.
Structural materials like steel or cement come at a high cost both in dollars and carbon dioxide emissions; building construction and use accounts for an estimated 40% of emissions. ... more |
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