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  Boston MA (SPX) Mar 09, 2023 A wildfire can pump smoke up into the stratosphere, where the particles drift for over a year. A new MIT study has found that while suspended there, these particles can trigger chemical reactions that erode the protective ozone layer shielding the Earth from the sun's damaging ultraviolet radiation. The study, which appears in Nature, focuses on the smoke from the "Black Summer" megafire in eastern Australia, which burned from December 2019 into January 2020. The fires - the country's most devasta ... read more |
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Major North American oil source yields clues to one of earth's deadliest mass extinctionsCollege Park MD (SPX) Mar 09, 2023 The Bakken Shale Formation-a 200,000-square-mile shale deposit below parts of Canada and North Dakota-has supplied billions of barrels of oil and natural gas to North America for 70 years. A new dis ... more  
Caterpillars easy prey in artificial light: studyParis (AFP) March 8, 2023 Artificial light is providing predatory insects with an unfair advantage in hunting caterpillars, potentially decimating butterflies and moth populations already suffering from a global insect decline, according to a study published Wednesday. ... more 
Gabriela Schlau-Cohen: Illuminating photosynthesisBoston MA (SPX) Mar 09, 2023 During photosynthesis, chlorophyll in plants absorbs packets of energy called photons from the sun's rays. This energy is then transferred to a series of other chlorophyll molecules organized by pro ... more  
NASA to measure forest health from aboveGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 08, 2023 In places across the U.S., tree cover is shrinking - forests are burned by wildfires on the West Coast and drowned by rising sea levels along the East. From the ground, it's hard to assess the scale ... 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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Brazil's new Indigenous affairs chief sets sights on illegal goldBrasilia (AFP) March 9, 2023 Joenia Wapichana is used to charting new territory: the first Indigenous woman to earn a law degree in Brazil, she was also the first elected to Congress. ... more  
ALMA traces history of water in planet formation back to the interstellar mediumCharlottesville VA (SPX) Mar 09, 2023 Scientists studying a nearby protostar have detected the presence of water in its circumstellar disk. The new observations made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) mark the ... more  
Health warnings as Bangkok chokes on pollutionBangkok (AFP) March 9, 2023 Nearly 200,000 people in Thailand have been admitted to hospital because of air pollution this week, officials have said, with Bangkok shrouded in a harmful haze. ... more  
NASA engages US farmers to bring satellite data Down to EarthGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 09, 2023 Since the launch of the first Landsat satellite in 1972, NASA and its partners have mapped agriculture worldwide and provided key input into global supply outlooks that bolster the economy and food ... more |
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Kenyan innovators turn e-waste to bio-robotic prostheticNairobi (AFP) March 8, 2023 Two portraits of Albert Einstein hang on the walls of a makeshift laboratory on Nairobi's outskirts, inspiring a pair of self-taught Kenyan innovators who have built a bio-robotic prosthetic arm out of electronic scrap. ... more 
US requests consultations with Mexico over anti-GMO policyWashington (AFP) March 6, 2023 The United States said Monday that it was requesting "technical consultations" with Mexican officials over the country's agricultural policies, amid a dispute that threatens the corn trade between both sides. ... more  
Use post-quake goodwill to boost Syria peace process: UNGeneva (AFP) March 8, 2023 The post-earthquake goodwill that helped unblock aid deliveries in Syria should be applied at the political level to help advance efforts to end the country's 12-year conflict, the UN said Wednesday. ... more  
Guinea opposition delays protest to spur peace talksConakry (AFP) March 9, 2023 Guinea's opposition said Wednesday it had postponed a demonstration against the ruling junta by a week to give upcoming peace talks a greater chance of success. ... more |
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Austin and Sisi reaffirm US-Egypt military ties: presidencyCairo (AFP) March 8, 2023 US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi reaffirmed their countries' close military ties Wednesday, Sisi's office said, during the Cairo leg of Austin's regional tour. ... more  
Hong Kong women's march called off after police meetings: organisersHong Kong (AFP) March 8, 2023 A Hong Kong women's rights group said Wednesday it had called off what would have been a rare authorised protest after its representatives had been summoned numerous times for meetings with the police. ... more  
Antarctic sea ice cover at record low: EU monitorParis (AFP) March 8, 2023 Sea ice in Antarctica shrank to the smallest area on record in February for the second year in a row, continuing a decade-long decline, the European Union's climate monitoring service said Tuesday. ... more 
Pincered at sea, lobsters get new hope on land in UKWhitby, United Kingdom (AFP) March 7, 2023 The tiny lobsters are safe from predators - including each other - as they eddy in large white plastic tanks swirling with artificial currents. ... more  
Tens of thousands flee Somaliland into drought-hit EthiopiaAddis Ababa (AFP) March 7, 2023 An estimated around 100,000 people have fled fighting in Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region into a remote drought-hit area of Ethiopia, UN and Ethiopian refugee agencies said on Tuesday. ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) March 4, 2023 
The UN on Saturday urged countries to speed up taking Syrian refugees from earthquake-hit zones in Turkey, saying they were facing the trauma of loss and displacement all over again.
The United Nations made the call as 89 Syrian refugees arrived in Madrid from Turkey.
The 7.8-magnitude earthquake on February 6 killed over 45,000 people in Turkey and thousands more in neighbouring Syria a ... more |
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 Melbourne FL (SPX) Mar 09, 2023 
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has announced a contract from Maxar Technologies to design and build reflector antennas for two geostationary communication satellites.
The two nine-meter unfurlable mesh reflector antennas will provide high-power signals and improved service quality across the satellites' coverage areas. Similar to an umbrella, the flexible architecture of the antenna mak ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Mar 09, 2023 
Scientists studying a nearby protostar have detected the presence of water in its circumstellar disk. The new observations made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) mark the first detection of water being inherited into a protoplanetary disk without significant changes to its composition. These results further suggest that the water in our Solar System formed billions of ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 8, 2023 
Sea ice in Antarctica shrank to the smallest area on record in February for the second year in a row, continuing a decade-long decline, the European Union's climate monitoring service said Tuesday.
On February 16, the ocean surface covered by ice around the frozen continent shrank to 2.09 million square kilometres (nearly 800,000 square miles), the lowest level since satellite records began, ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 09, 2023 
Since the launch of the first Landsat satellite in 1972, NASA and its partners have mapped agriculture worldwide and provided key input into global supply outlooks that bolster the economy and food security.
Now NASA is increasing its decades-long investment in U.S. agriculture through the launch of NASA Acres, a new consortium that will unite physical, social, and economic scientists with ... more |
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 Antananarivo (AFP) March 7, 2023 
The death toll from Cyclone Freddy's second coming to Madagascar climbed to eight on Tuesday, as the storm strengthened while moving towards Mozambique, authorities said.
The UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said that Freddy, which began life off northwestern Australia in the first week in February, was set to become the longest-lasting tropical cyclone on record.
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 Cairo (AFP) March 8, 2023 
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi reaffirmed their countries' close military ties Wednesday, Sisi's office said, during the Cairo leg of Austin's regional tour.
Sisi highlighted "Egypt's eagerness to strengthen its strategic partnership with the United States", particularly in military and security cooperation, presidential spokesman Ahmed Fahmy sa ... more |
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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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 Addis Ababa (AFP) March 7, 2023 
An estimated around 100,000 people have fled fighting in Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region into a remote drought-hit area of Ethiopia, UN and Ethiopian refugee agencies said on Tuesday.
Citing authorities in Doolo, located in the southeastern tip of the country, more than 1,300 kilometres (more than 800 miles) from the capital Addis Ababa, the UN refugee agency said it believes more tha ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 07, 2023 
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, a major space contractor, is planning to deploy a remote-sensing satellite network in low-altitude orbits, according to a project leader.
Song Xiaoming, president of the CASIC Second Academy, said that China intends to establish a space-based, high-performance infrastructure system for global remote-sensing operations.
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 College Park MD (SPX) Mar 09, 2023 
The Bakken Shale Formation-a 200,000-square-mile shale deposit below parts of Canada and North Dakota-has supplied billions of barrels of oil and natural gas to North America for 70 years. A new discovery reveals that the rocks also open a uniquely informative window into Earth's complicated geological history.
A research team, which included geologists from the University of Maryland, Geo ... more |
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 Nairobi (AFP) March 8, 2023 
The United States' candidate to head the World Bank, Ajay Banga, on Wednesday called for a revamp of the development model to better meet the challenge of climate change.
Banga, who is on trip to Kenya, said the world cannot continue to "pursue the prior model of (an) emission heavy growth system," and rallied for adaptation.
"We cannot afford it, our children cannot afford it," he told ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2023 
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a conductive polymer coating - called HOS-PFM - that could enable longer lasting, more powerful lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.
"The advance opens up a new approach to developing EV batteries that are more affordable and easy to manufacture," said Gao Liu, a senior scientist in Berkeley Lab's Ene ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Mar 09, 2023 
During photosynthesis, chlorophyll in plants absorbs packets of energy called photons from the sun's rays. This energy is then transferred to a series of other chlorophyll molecules organized by protein scaffolds, funneling the energy into the next stage of photosynthesis.
Those early light-harvesting stages of photosynthesis involve repeated excitation of pigments, as photons are passed b ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 4, 2023 
China's rubber-stamp parliament kicks off nine days of meetings Sunday, with lawmakers set to hand Xi Jinping a third term as president as well as unveil fresh growth targets and an increase in defence spending.
There will be few surprises at the carefully choreographed National People's Congress, analysts say, with thousands of politicians flown in from across China to vote on laws and pers ... more |
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 Brasilia (AFP) March 9, 2023 
Joenia Wapichana is used to charting new territory: the first Indigenous woman to earn a law degree in Brazil, she was also the first elected to Congress.
But she faces one of her biggest challenges yet in her new job as the first native person to lead Brazil's Indigenous affairs agency, FUNAI, which she said was dismantled for the past four years under far-right then-president Jair Bolsonar ... more |
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