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  Bremen, Germany (SPX) Mar 13, 2023 Deep down in the ocean at tectonic plate boundaries, hot fluids rise from so-called hydrothermal vents. The fluids are devoid of oxygen and contain large amounts of metals such as iron, manganese or copper. Some may also transport sulfides, methane and hydrogen. When the hot water mixes with the cold and oxygenated surrounding seawater, so-called hydrothermal plumes develop containing smoke-like particles of metal sulfide. These plumes rise hundreds of meters off the seafloor and disperse thousand ... read more |
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Indonesia's Merapi volcano erupts, covers villages in ashYogyakarta, Indonesia (AFP) March 11, 2023 Indonesia's Mount Merapi, one of the world's most active volcanoes, erupted on Saturday, spewing out smoke and ash that blanketed villages near the crater. ... more  
Alaska study compares ground motion from satellites and seismic recordsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 13, 2023 When it comes to making a rapid estimate of ground motion and moment magnitude for an earthquake, using data from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) might be a good alternative or addition t ... more  
Cheetahs back in wild in India after seven decadesNew Delhi (AFP) March 12, 2023 Two Namibian cheetahs relocated to India last year were released into the wild, more than seven decades after the world's fastest land animal was declared extinct in the South Asian country. ... more  
Shetland sanctuary fights to save seals as pollution takes tollShetland, United Kingdom (AFP) March 13, 2023 On the edge of a coastal pool on one of Scotland's Shetland Islands, Pixie, a plump grey seal grunts and rolls towards the water to retrieve a fish that's been left for its lunch. ... 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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Climate-stressed Iraq says will plant 5 million treesBasra, Iraq (AFP) March 12, 2023 Iraq's prime minister on Sunday announced a campaign to combat the severe impacts of climate change on the water-scarce country, including by planting five million palms and trees. ... more  
Governments to vet crucial UN climate science reportParis (AFP) March 13, 2023 Diplomats from nearly 200 nations and top climate scientists begin a week-long huddle in Switzerland Monday to distill nearly a decade of published science into a 20-odd-page warning about the existential danger of global warming, and what to do about it. ... more  
Indonesian farmers fight for their land in nickel mining boomWawonii, Indonesia (AFP) March 13, 2023 Three women with machetes stood guard at their farm hilltop on Indonesia's Wawonii Island, directing their blades towards the nickel miners working in the forest clearing below. ... more 
Dutch farmer party hopes to reap election gainsBathmen, Netherlands (AFP) March 13, 2023 At "Piggy's Palace", his farm in the Dutch countryside, Erik Stegink watches his pigs cavort in the mud and fight over chunks of broccoli, lines of worry etched on his face. ... more |
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Nearly 130,000 facing starvation in Horn of Africa: WHOGeneva (AFP) March 10, 2023 Nearly 130,000 people in the Greater Horn of Africa are "staring death in the eyes" from catastrophic hunger, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Friday. ... more 
Micronesia president accuses China of bribery, 'political warfare'Majuro (AFP) Marshall Islands (AFP) March 10, 2023 Micronesia's president has accused China of bribery, harassment and "political warfare", in an explosive letter to his country's legislature obtained by AFP on Friday. ... more 
Record deforestation in Brazilian Amazon in FebruaryRio De Janeiro (AFP) March 10, 2023 Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon and fragile Cerrado savanna hit record highs in February, according to government figures released Friday, showing the challenges President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva faces to reverse surging environmental destruction. ... more  
Ozone pollution linked to increased heart disease: studyParis (AFP) March 10, 2023 Ozone air pollution is linked to a higher rate of hospitalisations for heart diseases, according to a large study released Friday, the latest warning of the health dangers posed by greenhouse gases. ... more |
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Earth Map and users work together for an eco-friendly worldWashington DC (SPX) Mar 13, 2023 Rapid access to information is one of the largest barriers we have to deal with as a group of people in the Internet Age. Earth Map is a free application designed to be easily used and accessible to ... 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  
Senegalese recyclers seek solutions in fight against plasticDakar (AFP) March 9, 2023 Discarded containers and bags are an eyesore in many towns, while beaches are covered by debris - Senegal's notorious problem of plastic pollution is not going away. ... more  
Latest California storm leaves at least two dead, breaks leveePajaro, United States (AFP) March 12, 2023 Another powerful storm pummeled California overnight into Saturday, forcing thousands to evacuate and resulting in at least two deaths, while causing a levee to give way in coastal Monterey County. ... more 
Heavy rains hit Mozambique as Cyclone Freddy lands againMaputo (AFP) March 12, 2023 Heavy rains and winds lashed parts of Mozambique on Saturday as Tropical Cyclone Freddy hit the country for the second time in two weeks, authorities and aid agencies said. ... more |
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 Doha (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.
The tiny state, famed for its Gross National Happiness index, will on December 13 become only the seventh nation to graduate from the band of Least Developed Countries set up by the United Nations in 1971.
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 Hatfield UK (SPX) Mar 13, 2023 
Antenova Ltd, the UK-based manufacturer of antennas and RF antenna modules for M2M and the IoT, is to reveal its latest compact high precision GNSS module at Embedded World. The new product, GNSSNova M20072, is a GNSS receiver with integrated GNSS antenna and greatly reduced power consumption.
M20072 uses a MediaTek 12nm low energy chip with 1.8V power supply which uses 70% less power than ... more |
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 Majuro (AFP) Marshall Islands (AFP) March 10, 2023 
Micronesia's president has accused China of bribery, harassment and "political warfare", in an explosive letter to his country's legislature obtained by AFP on Friday.
"Simply put, we are witnessing political warfare in our country," outgoing leader David Panuelo warned lawmakers, detailing allegations of Chinese espionage, coercion of government officials and "direct threats" against his pe ... 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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 Tel Aviv, Israel, (SPX) Mar 10, 2023 
Agmatix, a start-up AgTech business specializing in turning agronomic big data into powerful models and insights, has announced a partnership with NASA Harvest - NASA's global Food Security and Agriculture Consortium - to support crop production in a sustainable way at the field level and mitigate the impact of climate change.
A combination of ground sampling and remote sensing data will b ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) March 10, 2023 
Tropical storm Freddy is on track to break the record as the longest-lasting cyclone of its kind, the United Nations said Friday, as the killer storm was set to hit Mozambique once again.
"Freddy is continuing its incredible and dangerous journey," Clare Nullis, spokeswoman for the UN's World Meteorological Organization, told reporters in Geneva.
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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 13, 2023 
Diplomats from nearly 200 nations and top climate scientists begin a week-long huddle in Switzerland Monday to distill nearly a decade of published science into a 20-odd-page warning about the existential danger of global warming, and what to do about it.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's synthesis report - to be released on March 20 - will detail observed and projected ch ... more |
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 Traverse 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 makes 10 new antennas within the Viasat network immediately available to ATLAS clients, with two additional antennas available by the end of the year.
For ATLAS, the partnership with Viasat represe ... 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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 London (AFP) March 10, 2023  Britain on Friday announced a 20-year plan to capture carbon and commit to nuclear energy as it strengthens energy supplies and seeks a net zero economy by mid-century.
The project's investment worth 20 billion pounds ($24 billion) will help to create 50,000 jobs, according to a statement.
Finance minister Jeremy Hunt was set to outline more details in his budget announcement on Wednesday, it ... 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 11, 2023  Li Qiang, one of Chinese President Xi Jinping's most trusted allies, was confirmed as premier on Saturday, as Xi cements his influence on the country's top leadership.
Li, the former Shanghai party chief who oversaw the city's gruelling two-month lockdown last spring, was named the successor of outgoing premier Li Keqiang at a meeting of the country's rubber-stamp parliament.
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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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