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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 01, 2023 A specialized laboratory setup at JPL removes the chemical influence of modern organisms so scientists can study the chemistry that may have led to life's emergence. In the Origins and Habitability Lab at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, you can find a world in a test tube - specifically, a simplified simulation of early Earth. By re-creating the conditions that would have been found on our planet roughly 4 billion years ago, scientists can narrow down the possible chemical reactions that could h ... read more |
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Tree count in Africa drylands could improve conservation: studyParis (AFP) March 1, 2023 A first count of trees in Africa's drylands has enabled scientists to calculate how much carbon they store and could help devise better conservation strategies for the region and beyond, a study said Wednesday. ... more  
UN head says high seas treaty must be 'ambitious'United Nations, United States (AFP) March 1, 2023 United Nations chief Antonio Guterres urged countries Wednesday to agree a "robust and ambitious" treaty to protect the high seas, as time starts to run out for negotiators. ... more 
Rising seas eating away at Honduran fishing villageCedeno, Honduras (AFP) March 1, 2023 The coastline of Cedeno, a fishing village in southern Honduras, looks like it was hit by an earthquake. Houses, businesses and clubs stand in ruins. Forsaken. ... more 
Gabonese village fights to save forest from loggingMakokou, Gabon (AFP) March 1, 2023 Under the green canopy of the ancient Massaha forest in northeastern Gabon, Arsene Ibaho leads a group of visitors towards a tree that he says is sacred and speaks to his people. ... 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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La Nina ending but warming El Nino may strike soon: UNGeneva (AFP) March 1, 2023 An exceptionally long La Nina weather phenomenon that intensified drought and flooding is finally ending, the United Nations said Wednesday - but what comes next might bring its own problems. ... more  
Toilet paper adding to 'forever chemicals' in wastewater: studyParis (AFP) March 1, 2023 Toilet paper is an unexpected source of potentially harmful "forever chemicals" in wastewater across the globe and could be leaching into soils via sewage, a new study on Wednesday said. ... more  
Kim says N. Korea must meet grain production goals 'without fail'Seoul (AFP) March 2, 2023 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged government officials to make sure the country meets its grain production goals "without fail", state media said Thursday, amid reports Pyongyang's food shortage is worsening. ... more  
WHO chief visits rebel-held Syria for first time after quakeBab Al-Hawa, Syria (AFP) March 1, 2023 World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday urged the international community to help earthquake-hit northwest Syria, on his first ever visit to rebel-held areas of the war-ravaged country. ... more |
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Cyclone Judy lashes VanuatuPort Vila, Vanuatu (AFP) March 1, 2023 Fierce winds uprooted trees and driving rain flooded roads in Vanuatu on Wednesday, as Cyclone Judy tore through the South Pacific nation. ... more  
Cow manure fuels French tractorsBeaumontois-En-Perigord, France (AFP) Feb 28, 2023 A French farmer steps away from his barn and fills up a tractor with fuel made from the manure of his cows, an attempt to put their climate-damaging methane to good use. ... more  
UN chief on 'solidarity' visit to IraqBaghdad (AFP) March 1, 2023 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was in Iraq Wednesday for talks with senior officials in a show of "solidarity" after a drawn-out political crisis. ... more 
Wars, poverty fuel spike in Iraqi child labourBaghdad (AFP) March 1, 2023 Haydar Karar spends eight hours a day tidying a carpentry shop and lugging wooden beams, forced like many other Iraqi children into work by poverty and conflict. ... more |
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Snow blankets Mallorca as cold grips SpainMadrid (AFP) Feb 28, 2023 Snow blanketed Spain's holiday island of Mallorca on Tuesday as a winter storm brought strong winds and freezing temperatures to large parts of the country. ... more 
Erdogan says May election to go ahead despite Turkey quakeIstanbul (AFP) March 1, 2023 President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday ruled out any delay in elections after the devastating quake that killed tens of thousands in Turkey, saying the vote would push ahead on May 14 as planned. ... more  
Hong Kong scraps one of world's last Covid mask mandatesHong Kong (AFP) Feb 28, 2023 Hongkongers will finally be able to leave home without a face mask from Wednesday, nearly 1,000 days after the pandemic mandate was imposed. ... more 
Quake killed more than 50,000 in Turkey, Syria: revised tollBeirut (AFP) Feb 28, 2023 A devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria killed more than 50,000 people, in a toll revised by AFP that includes figures from both government and rebel-controlled parts of war-torn Syria. ... more  
Sea ice in Antarctic at record low: US data centerWashington (AFP) Feb 27, 2023 Antarctic sea ice likely shrunk to a record low last week, US researchers said Monday, its lowest extent in the 45 years of satellite record-keeping. ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) March 1, 2023 
Haydar Karar spends eight hours a day tidying a carpentry shop and lugging wooden beams, forced like many other Iraqi children into work by poverty and conflict.
Now 13, Karar has been working with his carpenter uncle in the capital Baghdad since the age of eight, his childhood marred by the troubles that have ravaged his country.
"I was expelled from school because of a fight," he said. ... more |
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 Calgary, Canada (SPX) Feb 28, 2023 
North American Helium Inc. report in late 2022 and January of 2023 it successfully brought two additional helium purification facilities on production. One facility is located approximately 20km southeast of Consul, Saskatchewan and the second is located approximately 15km southwest of Eastend, Saskatchewan.
Commenting on this operational achievement, Mr. Marlon McDougall, President and CO ... more |
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 Nasiriyah, Iraq (AFP) Feb 26, 2023 
Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers have witnessed a sharp decrease in their levels in the south of the country, officials said Sunday, pledging to take urgent measures to ease water shortages.
In Nasiriyah, capital of the southern province of Dhi Qar, an AFP photographer saw the river bed of the mighty Euphrates dry in patches.
The water ministry blamed the situation in some southern pro ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 27, 2023 
Antarctic sea ice likely shrunk to a record low last week, US researchers said Monday, its lowest extent in the 45 years of satellite record-keeping.
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder said that Antarctica's sea ice fell to 1.79 million square kilometers (691,000 million square miles) on February 21.
That exceeded the previous record low s ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) March 2, 2023 
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged government officials to make sure the country meets its grain production goals "without fail", state media said Thursday, amid reports Pyongyang's food shortage is worsening.
The isolated, nuclear-armed nation - which is under multiple sets of sanctions over its weapons programmes - has long struggled to feed itself.
North Korea has also been under ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 27, 2023  Known as COWVR and TEMPEST, the duo is demonstrating that smaller, less expensive science instruments can play an important role in weather forecasting.
NASA recently built two weather instruments to test the potential of small, low-cost sensors to do some of the work of bulkier, pricier satellites. Both instruments have exceeded expectations as trial runs, and they are already delivering ... more |
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 Libreville (AFP) March 1, 2023  France's President Emmanuel Macron began a tour of Central Africa on Wednesday in a diplomatic drive to test a new "responsible relationship" with the continent as anti-French sentiment runs high in some former colonies.
He landed in Gabon's capital Libreville on Wednesday and will later head to Angola, Congo-Brazzaville and the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
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 Najaf, Iraq (AFP) March 1, 2023 
Tombstones stretch as far as the eye can see across Iraq's Wadi-al-Salam cemetery, often described as the world's biggest, which bears silent witness to life and death over 14 centuries.
Flowers, photographs and religious banners honour many of the millions buried in the ochre desert sands of the "Valley of Peace" - victims of war and disease, accidents and old age.
"Oh my father!" lame ... more |
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 Davis CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2023 
People often say things like Phoenix has always been dry; Seattle has always been wet; and San Francisco has always been foggy. But "always" is a strong word.
A study from the University of California, Davis, synthesizes climate trends across the Western U.S. during a relatively young period of Earth's history - the Holocene Era, which stretches from the present day to the past 11,000 yea ... more |
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 Westminster CO (SPX) Feb 28, 2023 
Maxar Technologies (TSX:MAXR) has been awarded Phase 3b of the U.S. Army's One World Terrain (OWT) prototype Other Transaction Agreement contract.
The OWT program delivers 3D global terrain capability and associated information services that support a fully accessible virtual representation of the physical Earth through the Army network. OWT is a key component of the Army's Synthetic Train ... more |
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 Oxford UK (SPX) Feb 27, 2023  Researchers have used nearly half a million fossils to solve a 200-year-old scientific mystery: why the number of different species is greatest near the equator and decreases steadily towards polar regions. The results - published in the journal Nature - give valuable insight into how biodiversity is generated over long timescales, and how climate change can affect global species richness.
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 Milan (AFP) March 1, 2023 
Italy's deficit on Wednesday was revised up significantly for the past three years to take into account government tax credit schemes, including one to make homes more energy efficient.
The deficit was 8.0 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2022 - compared to the government's goal of 5.6 percent - and was revised upwards from 7.2 percent to 9.0 percent in 2021, according to the Ist ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Feb 24, 2023 
A team from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Florida State University has designed a new blueprint for solid-state batteries that are less dependent on specific chemical elements, particularly critical metals that are challenging to source due to supply chain issues. Their work, reported recently in the journal Science, could advance solid-state batteries that are efficie ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 1, 2023  Conservationists were celebrating Wednesday the first sightings in 24 years of the dusky tetraka, a yellow-throated songbird native to Madagascar for which ornithologists had feared the worst.
A expedition to remote regions of the island nation confirmed two recent sightings of the bird.
Scientists also learned something about the petite bird's behaviour that could help explain how it es ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 27, 2023 
Chinese billionaire Bao Fan is "cooperating in an investigation" by authorities, his company said, almost two weeks after his disappearance sparked fears of a renewed crackdown on the nation's financial services industry.
The China Renaissance chairman rose to fame as a key player in the emergence of some of the country's biggest tech giants, supervising blockbuster IPOs and a landmark merg ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 1, 2023 
A first count of trees in Africa's drylands has enabled scientists to calculate how much carbon they store and could help devise better conservation strategies for the region and beyond, a study said Wednesday.
The number of trees in the vast region - the count came to nearly 10 billion - has not been known up to now, and the new data could prove crucial for slowing or preventing desertifi ... more |
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