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  Brazzaville (AFP) March 23, 2023 Devastation in southern Africa wrought by Cyclone Freddy is raising "major health risks," including the spread of cholera, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. In a statement, the United Nations agency said that torrential downpours and flooding had destroyed over 300 health facilities in Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique. Cyclone Freddy dissipated last week after leaving a trail of destruction across southern Africa and causing hundreds of deaths. Infrastructure damage has incre ... read more |
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How Vietnam is trying to stop rice warming the planetCan Tho, Vietnam (AFP) March 24, 2023 As a child, Dong Van Canh watched while the rice fields of Vietnam's Mekong Delta were set alight to make way for the next crop, blackening the sky and flooding the air with potent greenhouse gases. ... more  
Disinformation attack targeted key Sahel state Niger: AFP investigationParis (AFP) March 23, 2023 A wave of disinformation attacks has hit Niger, a country that has become a linchpin in western strategy in the jihadist-torn Sahel, an AFP investigation has found. ... more  
UN's global disaster alert systems goal faces uphill climbUnited Nations, United States (AFP) March 24, 2023 How can anyone seek shelter from a natural disaster they don't even know is coming? Last year the United Nations called for every person on the planet to be covered by early warning systems by 2027 - but months into the effort it is becoming clear that the project will require more data and expertise. ... more  
Huge river restoration effort launched at UN water summitUnited Nations, United States (AFP) March 23, 2023 Several African and Latin American countries on Thursday launched a major initiative to restore 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles) of rivers by 2030, as well as lakes and wetlands degraded by human activity. ... more |
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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 Finland snowstorm leaves tens of thousands without power |
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Moo-ving rescue: California firefighters pluck cows from mudLos Angeles (AFP) March 23, 2023 Firefighters in California pulled cows and other farm animals from deep mud where they had become stuck after days of heavy rain, as a winter of wild weather continues to batter the state. ... more 
China lifts temporary ban on Brazilian beef ahead of Lula visitBrasilia (AFP) March 23, 2023 China's government on Thursday lifted a ban on Brazilian beef just days before the South American country's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva heads to Beijing on an official visit, Brazil's agriculture ministry said. ... more  
Metaspectral Selected to join leading Australian Space ProgramAdelaide, Australia (SPX) Mar 23, 2023 Metaspectral, a remote sensing software company advancing computer vision using deep learning and hyperspectral imagery, is announcing that it has been selected to join Venture Catalyst Space. ... more 
NRO awards contracts to BlackSky and Planet Labs for hyperspectral capabilitiesWashington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2023 The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has awarded contracts to BlackSky Technology and Planet Labs Federal for the exploration of commercial hyperspectral image capabilities under the Strategic C ... more |
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Adtran and Satelles partner to deliver Satellite Time and Location alternative to GNSSHuntsville AL (SPX) Mar 14, 2023 Adtran, Inc and Satelles, Inc.,jave announced a strategic partnership. The collaboration will enable operators of critical infrastructure to safeguard their timing networks with Satellite Time and L ... more 
China boosts South Pacific influence with Solomons port dealSydney (AFP) March 22, 2023 A state-backed Chinese company has won a contract to develop a key port in Solomon Islands, a major victory in Beijing's quest to gain a strategic toe-hold in the South Pacific. ... more  
Netanyahu vows unity as Israelis mass against justice reformsTel Aviv (AFP) March 23, 2023 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Thursday to restore unity in Israel where divisions have widened over his government's judicial reform programme and police fired water cannon at protesters blocking a highway in Tel Aviv. ... more 
UT Austin leads review of world water resourcesAustin TX (SPX) Mar 21, 2023 A recent review study led by The University of Texas at Austin provides an overview of the planet's freshwater supplies and strategies for sustainably managing them. Published in Nature Review ... more |
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How to take coastal rubble mound structures to the next levelWashington DC (SPX) Mar 21, 2023 Dr Louay A Mohammad-former researcher, academic, design consultant, owner representative, engineering manager, and designer-combines theory with practice in his new book A Practical Design Guide for ... more  
Biden protects two giant US wilderness areasWashington (AFP) March 21, 2023 President Joe Biden on Tuesday designated two giant wilderness areas in Nevada and Texas as national monuments and said a new marine sanctuary could be created in the Pacific. ... more 
Disaster-hit Vanuatu hopes for 'historic' UN climate change resolutionUnited Nations, United States (AFP) March 23, 2023 A resolution enlisting the UN's top court in tackling climate change, spearheaded by Vanuatu, would be a "historic" step if adopted, its climate minister said Thursday, as he laid out the existential threat facing his Pacific island nation. ... more  
Swedish court agrees to hear climate lawsuit against stateStockholm (AFP) March 21, 2023 A Swedish court agreed on Tuesday to hear a class action lawsuit brought against the state by 300 young people including activist Greta Thunberg, accusing it of climate inaction. ... more  
Dust storms cause air pollution spike across north ChinaBeijing (AFP) March 22, 2023 Air pollution soared in Beijing on Wednesday as the Chinese capital was hit by a huge sandstorm, and dust also shrouded other parts of the country in a sickly orange haze. ... more |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) March 24, 2023 
How can anyone seek shelter from a natural disaster they don't even know is coming? Last year the United Nations called for every person on the planet to be covered by early warning systems by 2027 - but months into the effort it is becoming clear that the project will require more data and expertise.
With a relatively low price tag of $3.1 billion, the UN's plan hopes to implement the simp ... more |
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 Helsinki, Iceland (SPX) Mar 17, 2023 
ReOrbit, a leading provider of software-defined satellites, and SatixFy Communications Ltd. (NYSE AMERICAN: SATX), a leader in next-generation satellite communication systems based on in-house developed chipsets, announced today a purchase deal of a communication subsystem for ReOrbit's Gluon platform.
Gluon is a highly flexible software-defined satellite platform, capable of accommodating ... more |
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 College Park MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2023  Water makes up 71% of Earth's surface, but no one knows how or when such massive quantities of water arrived on Earth.
A new study published in the journal Nature brings scientists one step closer to answering that question. Led by University of Maryland Assistant Professor of Geology Megan Newcombe, researchers analyzed melted meteorites that had been floating around in space since the so ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 19, 2023 
A detailed "body scan" of Malaspina Glacier, one of Alaska's most iconic glaciers, revealed that its bulk lies below sea level and is undercut by channels that may allow ocean water to gain access, should its coastal barrier erode. This makes the glacier more vulnerable to seawater intrusion than previously thought and may cause it to retreat faster than predicted.
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 Los Angeles (AFP) March 23, 2023 
Firefighters in California pulled cows and other farm animals from deep mud where they had become stuck after days of heavy rain, as a winter of wild weather continues to batter the state.
Footage filmed by local news crews showed the creatures chest deep, unable to move and clearly in some distress in Muscoy, around 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Los Angeles.
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 Bentiu, South Sudan (AFP) March 22, 2023 
It had not rained properly for months but the floods kept coming, inching up the mud-earth fortifications that stood between Bentiu's marooned and starving people and the endless water beyond.
Four straight years of flooding, an unprecedented phenomenon linked to climate change, has swamped two-thirds of South Sudan but nowhere more dramatically than Bentiu, a northern city besieged by water ... more |
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 Addis Ababa (AFP) March 22, 2023  Ethiopia's parliament on Wednesday removed the rebel Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) from an official list of terrorist groups, a key step in the peace process that ended a brutal conflict in the country's north.
"The house has approved the decision to lift the TPLF's terrorist designation with a majority vote," the parliament said on Facebook.
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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 20, 2023  From leaders of islands threatened by rising seas to climate activists and diplomats, many of those reacting to Monday's UN report on climate change said it's a wake up call for world leaders.
The UN's climate panel warned the world is set to cross the key 1.5-degree Celsius global warming limit in about a decade, but noted it's not too late to take action.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Mar 21, 2023 
"MIT is a place where dreams come true," says Cesar Terrer, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Here at MIT, Terrer says he's given the resources needed to explore ideas he finds most exciting, and at the top of his list is climate science. In particular, he is interested in plant-soil interactions, and how the two can mitigate impacts of climate chan ... more |
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 Cologne, Germany (SPX) Mar 21, 2023 
Trilobites, prehistoric sea creatures, had so-called median eyes, single eyes on their foreheads, in addition to their compound eyes, research conducted by Dr Brigitte Schoenemann at the University of Cologne's Institute of Zoology and Professor Dr Euan Clarkson at the University of Edinburgh has now found out. Such single eyes are found in all arthropods and also in many relatives of the extinc ... more |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) March 20, 2023  UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on wealthy countries Monday to move up their goals of achieving carbon neutrality as close as possible to 2040, mostly from 2050 now, in order to "defuse the climate time bomb."
Introducing a capstone report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the impacts and trajectory of global warming, Guterres delivered a blunt assessment of th ... more |
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 Mainz, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2023 
Whether in an e-car, cell phone, or cordless screwdriver, many devices used on a daily basis now use rechargeable batteries. However, the trend also has its downsides. For example, certain cell phones were banned from being carried on airplanes, or e-cars
caught fire. Modern commercial lithium ion batteries are sensitive to mechanical stress.
So-called "solid-state batteries" could provid ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 21, 2023 
President Joe Biden on Tuesday designated two giant wilderness areas in Nevada and Texas as national monuments and said a new marine sanctuary could be created in the Pacific.
Biden said in a speech at the Department of the Interior that preserving the lands meant "protecting the heart and soul of our national pride, protecting pieces of history."
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 Washington (AFP) March 22, 2023 
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Wednesday on Congress to agree to $150 million to rejoin the UN culture agency UNESCO, saying the US absence was letting China write rules on artificial intelligence.
Congress, then fully controlled by Blinken's Democratic Party, in December paved the way for the United States to restore funding to the Paris-based agency that was suspended in 2011 ... more |
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 Brasilia (AFP) March 22, 2023 
Norway's environment minister, Espen Barth Eide on Wednesday reiterated his country's commitment to an Amazon protection fund during a visit to Brazil.
Barth Eide said Norway, which contributes more than 90 percent of the Amazon Fund, would also help Brazil find new donors.
The fund is worth more than three billion reis (around $530 million) according to the Brazilian government.
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