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  Brasilia (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 Climate change and unchecked construction in flood- and landslide-prone areas are making disasters like the violent storm that killed at least 48 people in southeastern Brazil ever more frequent, according to a leading expert. Francis Lacerda, a researcher at Brazil's IPA Climate Change Laboratory, spoke with AFP about the forces driving disasters like the one that hit the coast of Sao Paulo state last weekend, and what can be done to stop them. What is causing so many tragedies like this in Bra ... read more |
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Turkey expands probe into construction sector after quakeAnkara (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 Turkish authorities have expanded a criminal probe into individuals responsible for buildings levelled by a deadly earthquake with 564 suspects identified, the interior minister has announced. ... more 
EU eases Syria sanctions to speed up quake aidBrussels (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 The European Union said Thursday it is temporarily easing sanctions on Syria to speed up aid deliveries to the country two weeks after a devastating earthquake. ... more  
Call opens for ESA's twelfth Earth ExplorerParis (ESA) Feb 22, 2023 Understanding Earth's delicate natural balance and how it is being altered by human activity is not only key to advancing science but also fundamental to acting on environmental issues, the climate ... more 
Planet and ASU expand partnership to build global scale solutions for sustainabilitySan Francisco CA (SPX) Feb 23, 2023 Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today announced that they have solidified a Strategic Partnership with Arizona State University (ASU) to facili ... 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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Munich Re profits soar despite Hurricane Ian, Ukraine warFrankfurt, Germany (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 German reinsurance giant Munich Re said Thursday that it booked a better-than-expected profit in 2022, despite costly claims for natural disasters and the war in Ukraine. ... more  
Bosnian furniture sector spurs economic growthTesanj, Bosnia And Herzegovina (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 The screech of chainsaws echoes through a Bosnian forest edged by snowy peaks, where lumber is to be crafted into high-end furniture to adorn European or South Korean homes. ... more  
Global wildlife contaminated by 'forever chemicals'Paris (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 From pandas to sea lions to tigers, hundreds of wildlife species across the globe are contaminated by potentially harmful "forever chemicals", according to a review of hundreds of peer-reviewed studies. ... more  
Lake Garda tourists flock to island reconnected by droughtManerba Del Garda, Italy (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 On foot or by bike, visitors stream across the narrow path connecting the small island to the edge of Lake Garda, a symbol of the winter drought hitting northern Italy. ... more |
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When men won't 'get dirty', Nicaraguan women dig for cocklesAserradores , Nicaragua (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 From a young age, Elena Martinez and other female residents of Aserradores, a small fishing community in eastern Nicaragua, learn to navigate the dense mangrove forest to extract a black mollusc from deep under the mud. ... more 
Brazil suspends beef exports to China over mad cow caseBrasilia (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 Brazil, the world's biggest beef producer, suspended exports to China Thursday after detecting a case of mad cow disease, though experts believe it is the less-dangerous "atypical" variant, said Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro. ... more  
Big freeze and a heat wave: Wild weather hits the USLos Angeles (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 Californians more used to flip flops and shorts were wrapping up warm Thursday as a rare winter blizzard - the first in more than 30 years - loomed over Los Angeles, even as the US east coast basked in summer-like temperatures. ... more  
Cyclone Freddy death toll rises to 7 in MadagascarAntananarivo (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 The death toll from Cyclone Freddy in Madagascar climbed to seven on Thursday as the winds that have battered the Indian Ocean for days started to ease before hitting Mozambique. ... more |
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6.8-magnitude quake hits eastern Tajikistan: USGSDushanbe, Tajikistan (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit in the east of mountainous ex-Soviet Tajikistan on Thursday without producing victims or damage, officials said. ... more  
From his farm to Alaska, Jimmy Carter leaves environmental legacyPlains, United States (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 Several thousand solar panels bake under an unseasonably warm February sun in Plains, Georgia, one of the many projects that bolster the environmental record of local icon and former US president Jimmy Carter. ... more  
'Watched my father die': Tech firms face ire over legal shieldWashington (AFP) Feb 19, 2023 Poring over family photographs, Jessica Watt Dougherty voices anguish over her father's death - which she attributes to misinformation on an online platform, an issue at the heart of a knotty US debate over tech regulation. ... more  
12 army volunteers killed in jihadist-hit Burkina FasoOuagadougou (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 A dozen civilian volunteers with Burkina Faso's armed forces were killed in a fresh attack in the country's jihadist-torn north, security sources and locals said on Thursday. ... more  
Hong Kong martial arts coach jailed for inciting subversionHong Kong (AFP) Feb 24, 2023 A martial arts teacher accused of running an armed movement to overthrow Hong Kong and China's governments was jailed for five years on Friday under the city's national security law. ... more |
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 Ankara (AFP) Feb 23, 2023  Turkish authorities have expanded a criminal probe into individuals responsible for buildings levelled by a deadly earthquake with 564 suspects identified, the interior minister has announced.
A 7.8-magnitude tremor on February 6 and its aftershocks have killed more than 43,000 people in Turkey and left millions without homes.
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 22, 2023 
Axelspace Corporation has successfully developed a Ka-band radio for Earth observation microsatellites. The radio operates with less than half the power consumption of conventional radio. The collaborative research was jointly developed with Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech). With key collaborators Atsushi Shirane of the Laboratory for Future Interdisciplinary Research of Science and Pr ... more |
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 Santiago (AFP) Feb 18, 2023 
In international waters off the coasts of Chile and Peru, the ocean teems with plant and animal species - some do not exist anywhere else and many are endangered.
Urgently seeking to prevent biodiversity loss in these waters, Chile is pushing for a new marine protected area (MPA) to be created, and hoping to seal the deal during an upcoming summit at UN headquarters in New York.
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 
Under global warming, the Arctic has warmed almost four times faster than the rest of the globe, and the sea-ice extent and thickness have significantly decreased and thinned over the past four decades. The Northeast Passage (see the orange line in the figure below for a sketch map), which serves as a new conduit for marine trade linking Northeast Asia and Europe, has grown in importance in term ... more |
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 Aserradores , Nicaragua (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 
From a young age, Elena Martinez and other female residents of Aserradores, a small fishing community in eastern Nicaragua, learn to navigate the dense mangrove forest to extract a black mollusc from deep under the mud.
Every few days, they leave home at dawn to row about two kilometers (1.2 miles) in a fishing boat to the mangroves, where they crawl through gnarly branches knee-deep in mud, ... more |
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 Sao Sebastao, Brazil (AFP) Feb 22, 2023 
Rescuers in southeastern Brazil scrambled Tuesday to find survivors among dozens of people still missing after record rainfalls caused flooding and mudslides that killed at least 46 people over the weekend.
Some 680 millimeters (26 inches) of rain - more than double the expected monthly amount - fell in 24 hours around the popular beach city of Sao Sebastiao, some 200 kilometers (120 miles ... more |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) Feb 22, 2023  UN chief Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that 2022 was the deadliest year for civilians in Somalia since 2017, largely because of an increase in mass-casualty attacks by the Al-Shabaab jihadist group.
The troubled Horn of Africa nation - also confronting a calamitous drought - has witnessed a surge in attacks as government forces and allied militias wage an "all-out" war against the Al-Qae ... 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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 Nairobi (AFP) Feb 23, 2023  The calamitous drought in the Horn of Africa looks certain to persist with a sixth consecutive failed rainy season, a regional climate monitoring body warned Wednesday, fearing worse conditions than a decade ago when some 260,000 people died in Somalia alone.
Forecasts for the 2023 March-May rainy season point "towards depressed rainfall and high temperatures," the Intergovernmental Authorit ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 22, 2023 
Understanding Earth's delicate natural balance and how it is being altered by human activity is not only key to advancing science but also fundamental to acting on environmental issues, the climate crisis, and preparing for their societal impact. With their hallmark of demonstrating novel space technologies and returning scientific excellence, ESA's family of Earth observing Earth Explorer resea ... more |
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 Lincoln NB (SPX) Feb 23, 2023 
Scientists continue to refine techniques for understanding present-day changes in Earth's environmental systems, but the planet's distant past also offers crucial information to deepen that understanding. A geological study by University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientist Matt Joeckel and colleagues provides such information.
Scientific research in recent decades has confirmed that major change ... 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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 Neuchatel, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 
Yesterday, 80 handpicked guests inaugurated CSEM's new Battery Innovation Hub (BIH) in Neuchatel. At the site, interdisciplinary teams will work on the "battery of tomorrow" in close partnership with local companies. This facility is the only one of its kind in the country - and is therefore an important guarantee for Switzerland's competitiveness.
According to the joint study by the Europ ... more |
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 Plains, United States (AFP) Feb 23, 2023 
Several thousand solar panels bake under an unseasonably warm February sun in Plains, Georgia, one of the many projects that bolster the environmental record of local icon and former US president Jimmy Carter.
They are located on a plot of land belonging to Carter that now produces green energy rather than the region's cash crops such as peanuts, cotton and corn.
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 18, 2023 
With China's dropping of its "zero-Covid" policy, makeshift quarantine centres and testing booths are being repurposed as mini-libraries, information points or even housing.
Since Beijing suddenly abandoned its hardline virus control measures in December after almost three years, cities across China have been left with tens of thousands of the temporary structures.
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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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