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  Ottawa (AFP) March 7, 2023 Plastics companies on Tuesday went to court to seek to effectively overturn Canada's new single-use plastics ban, arguing that their products have been wrongly labelled as toxic. The companies bringing the case - Dow Chemical Canada, Imperial Oil and Nova Chemicals, backed by Alberta and Saskatchewan provinces - were expected to argue that Ottawa failed to provide scientific evidence to justify the regulations. They will also try to convince the court that the federal government overstepped it ... read more |
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Freddy may break tropical cyclone record: UNGeneva (AFP) March 10, 2023 Freddy is on track to break the record as the longest-lasting tropical cyclone, the United Nations said Friday as the killer storm was set to hit Mozambique once again. ... more  
'More important than rainforests': UK pioneers peat partnershipBewcastle, United Kingdom (AFP) March 9, 2023 On a windswept hillside in a remote corner of northern England, a peatland restoration plan pooling public and private money is underway which proponents claim provides a model for climate change mitigation. ... more  
Carbon Mission takes stock of CO2 emissionsPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 08, 2023 A NASA Earth-observing satellite has helped researchers track carbon dioxide emissions for more than 100 countries around the world. The pilot project offers a powerful new look at the carbon dioxid ... more  
Disaster to destination: Fukushima woos tourists with snowBandai, Japan (AFP) March 9, 2023 Tourist Benjamin Tuffy's family spent their winter holidays in Japan's picture-perfect snow. But they weren't at the country's famed ski resorts in Hokkaido or Nagano - they picked Fukushima. ... more |
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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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The technology fighting Rwanda's silent killer of womenKigali (AFP) March 10, 2023 When Rwandan villager Lillian was diagnosed with cervical cancer, the 30-year-old feared that her life was over. But a new gadget aimed at patients in low-income countries offered her hope. ... more  
China launches two new Earth-observation satellitesBeijing (XNA) Mar 10, 2023 China placed two Earth-observation satellites in space on Friday morning, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. The State-owned space giant said the Tianhui 6A and 6B satel ... more 
ATLAS triples in size following integration with Viasat Real-Time EarthTraverse City MI (SPX) Mar 10, 2023 ATLAS Space Operations, the leading Ground Software as a Service (GSaaS) provider, has announced a new partnership with Viasat Real-Time Earth (RTE). The partnership between ATLAS and Viasat RTE mak ... more  
California readies for yet another big stormLos Angeles (AFP) March 9, 2023 Another big storm was headed for California on Thursday, the latest in a winter parade that has already brought near-record snowfall and heavy rains. ... more |
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'Bittersweet story': joy, pain of nations casting off UN poorest tagDoha (AFP) March 9, 2023 There will be jubilation in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan this year when it quits the club of the world's poorest countries, while others still have a mountain to climb. ... more  
Who is China's President Xi JinpingBeijing (AFP) March 10, 2023 When Xi Jinping took power in 2012, some observers predicted he would be the most liberal Communist Party leader in China's history, based on his low-key profile, family backstory and perhaps a degree of misguided hope. ... more  
Navigation Lab exploring Galileo's future - and beyondParis (ESA) Mar 09, 2023 Would you like to know the future of satellite navigation? Try ESA's Navigation Laboratory. This is a site where navigation engineers test prototypes of tomorrow's user receivers, using simulated ve ... more  
Georgia's geopolitical future at the heart of its protestsParis (AFP) March 9, 2023 The protests in Georgia reflect internal political turmoil over its geopolitical destiny in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, analysts say. ... more |
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Myanmar junta hints at further election delayYangon (AFP) March 10, 2023 Myanmar will hold a national census late next year, state media reported Friday, hinting at another delay in elections the junta has pledged to hold to end the crisis sparked by its coup. ... more 
Kazakh ex-defence minister gets 12 years over riotsAstana, Kazakhstan (AFP) March 9, 2023 A Kazakhstan court sentenced a former defence minister to 12 years in jail for his handling of deadly riots in 2022, the Central Asian country's official news agency said Thursday. ... more 
20 years after US invasion, Iraq far from 'liberal democracy'Baghdad (AFP) March 10, 2023 Twenty years after the US-led invasion of Iraq toppled Saddam Hussein, the oil-rich country remains deeply scarred by the conflict and, while closer to the United States, far from the liberal democracy Washington had envisioned. ... more 
Prominent Hong Kong union leader arrested by national security policeHong Kong (AFP) March 9, 2023 A high-profile Hong Kong union leader was arrested Thursday by national security police, a police source told AFP, with local media footage showing her being led into an unmarked van outside the prison where her husband is being held. ... more 
Ceres Imaging expands its agriculture data analytics solutions to EuropeLisbon, Portugal (SPX) Mar 08, 2023 Ceres Imaging, the data analytics company that builds precision agriculture solutions to reduce risk and improve sustainability outcomes, is announcing its expansion into Portugal and Spain. C ... more |
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 Fort Lauderdale FL (SPX) Mar 06, 2023 
FocusPoint International (FocusPoint), the critical event management company that specializes in Emergency Response as a Service (ERaaS), announced that it has secured $20M in committed financing from Dalton Capital. The capital raised by FocusPoint is in response to an increase in demand from a growing customer base in the satellite emergency notification device (SEND) vertical, with an emphasi ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 08, 2023 
Kids worldwide unleash their creativity every day as they build and explore their own blocky worlds within the Minecraft universe. Now, they can build and launch a rocket and blast off on an adventure to the Moon through a new Artemis-inspired set of worlds, developed through a partnership between Minecraft Education and NASA.
Just like the real NASA Artemis team working to return humans t ... 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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 Dubai, UAE (SPX) Mar 10, 2023 
EMURGO Africa and Kepple Africa Ventures has announced the establishment of a business joint venture EMURGO Kepple Ventures to further accelerate its strategic partnership investing in African Web3 businesses. EMURGO Africa and Kepple signed an MoU in September 2022 to jointly spearhead Web3 investment opportunities including token investments in Africa. Despite recent challenges such as the cry ... 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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 Paris (AFP) March 9, 2023 
With his moustache caked in icicles and frozen droplets, glaciologist Peter Neff shows his 220,000 TikTok followers a sample of old ice excavated from Antarctica's Allan Hills.
The drop-shaped fragment encapsulates tiny air bubbles, remnants of 100,000-year-old atmosphere.
The greenhouse gases trapped inside carry precious information on Earth's past climate, explains @icy_pete as he br ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 07, 2023 
In the office of remote sensing scientist Liu Shaochuang, there is a huge photograph of a camel he snapped a decade ago in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Wearing camouflage clothing, he crouched for hours by a pool of water in the Gobi Desert to capture an image of the wild animal. This is the subject of his research.
Since 2012, he has led a team in tracking and studying wild camel ... more |
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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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 Hong Kong (AFP) March 8, 2023 
Markets sank Wednesday, the dollar held big gains and oil struggled to recover from hefty losses after Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell opened the door to a quicker pace of interest rate hikes as officials battle to tame inflation.
In much-anticipated testimony to US lawmakers, Powell dealt a hammer blow to traders who had held faint hopes that the central bank could pause its tightening c ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 08, 2023 
Forests hold a vast amount of Earth's terrestrial carbon and play an important role in offsetting anthropogenic emissions of fossil fuels. Since 2015, the world's tropical forests can be observed regularly at an unprecedented 6 to 12 day interval thanks to the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission.
Millions of gigabytes of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data are acquired both day and night, regard ... more |
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