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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 27, 2023 The Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission offers the first taste of the detailed perspectives of Earth's surface water that its cutting-edge instruments will be able to capture. The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission - led by NASA and the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) - has sent back some of its first glimpses of water on the planet's surface, showing ocean currents like the Gulf Stream in unprecedented detail. SWOT is also capturin ... read more |
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The "Stonehenge calendar" shown to be a modern constructMilan, Italy (SPX) Mar 27, 2023 Stonehenge is an astonishingly complex monument, which attracts attention mostly for its spectacular megalithic circle and "horseshoe", built around 2600 BC. Over the years, several theories h ... more  
Geoscientists shed a light on life's evolution 800 million years agoBlacksburg VA (SPX) Mar 27, 2023 Is nitrate responsible for algae, flowers, and even your neighbors? A team of Virginia Tech geoscientists have unearthed evidence that may indicate yes. The team's findings, recently published in Sc ... more  
Indonesia volcano erupts, spews tower of smoke and ashJakarta (AFP) March 24, 2023 Indonesia's Mount Ili Lewotolok erupted Friday, belching a tower of smoke and ash almost a kilometre into the sky and prompting authorities to impose a no-go zone in the area. ... more  
Humanity must chart new course on water use: UN chiefUnited Nations, United States (AFP) March 24, 2023 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday delivered an urgent call for the world to modify and safeguard water resources to avert conflict and ensure future global prosperity. ... 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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14 perish in Somalia flash floodsMogadishu (AFP) March 25, 2023 At least 14 people have been killed in southern Somalia after torrential rains triggered flash floods that have caused havoc in several towns and villages. ... more  
Mississippi faces more extreme weather after tornado kills 25Rolling Fork, United States (AFP) March 27, 2023 Storm-ravaged Mississippi struggled on Sunday with the aftermath of a huge tornado that tore across the southern US state, killing at least 25 people, with devastated communities bracing for a fresh bout of extreme weather. ... more 
Cyclone Freddy record claim in the eye of the stormGeneva (AFP) March 27, 2023 Cyclone Freddy's extraordinary journey will be reviewed in minute detail to verify whether its deadly track counts as the longest-lasting tropical storm, the world extreme weather records chief told AFP. ... more  
Spain mulls options as wildfires gain in size, intensityTabara, Spain (AFP) March 27, 2023 Walking through the charred remains of the forested hillsides of Sierra de la Culebra that were devastated by Spain's worst wildfire last year, Pablo Martin Pinto is blunt. ... more |
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Biden widens net in new democracy summit as Russia, China concerns growWashington (AFP) March 27, 2023 The United States on Tuesday opens its second Summit for Democracy with its eyes firmly on the rest of the world, seeking a united front against authoritarianism as Russia attacks Ukraine and as China launches a diplomatic offensive. ... more 
Protester fighting for life after France clashes: prosecutorNiort, France (AFP) March 26, 2023 A protester with trauma to the head was fighting for his life on Sunday following clashes with police during a demonstration over water storage facilities in France, a prosecutor said. ... more  
Leaders sign deal on LatAm food crisis, migration at Ibero-American SummitSanto Domingo (AFP) March 26, 2023 Twenty-two countries signed a declaration at the Ibero-American Summit in the Dominican Republic on Saturday committing to fight food insecurity in Latin America, improve migration controls and negotiate more financial support for the region's struggling economies. ... more 
Myanmar junta chief vows continued crackdown, then electionsNaypyidaw, Myanmar (AFP) March 27, 2023 Flanked by tanks and missile launchers, Myanmar's junta chief Monday vowed no let up in a crackdown on opponents and insisted the military would hold elections - weeks after admitting it did not control enough territory to allow a vote. ... more |
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Strict rules constrain first Hong Kong protest in two yearsHong Kong (AFP) March 26, 2023 Hong Kong's first protest against a government policy in about two years went ahead on Sunday, but under strict rules including a cap on numbers and a requirement that everyone wear an identifying number tag. ... more 
"Like a war zone": volunteers travel miles to tornado-hit MississippiRolling Fork, United States (AFP) March 26, 2023 Outside, houses are torn open and trees lie with their roots in the air. Inside, stretchers are lined up in front of tables overflowing with food. ... more  
Blinken seeks US funds for UN culture agency to counter ChinaWashington (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. ... more  
Japanese immigrant's legacy paints Mexico City violetMexico City, Mexico (AFP) March 25, 2023 Each spring, as Japanese celebrate cherry blossom season, Mexicans enjoy their own version of the cherished tradition thanks to the century-old legacy of a landscape gardener from the Asian nation. ... more 
North Sea shell survey brings out volunteersMiddelkerke, Belgium (AFP) March 26, 2023 Hundreds of volunteers descended on the beaches of the North Sea coast this weekend to collect sea shells as a measure of the sea's biological diversity. ... 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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 Paris (ESA) Mar 27, 2023 
This is a version of the ESA logo like no other: seen through a microscope it measures just over 17 thousandths of a millimetre across, about half the diameter of the average human skin cell.
The logo was carved out of a piece of nickel-based space-grade alloy Inconel using Xenon atoms shot from a plasma ion beam.
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 Sydney (AFP) March 23, 2023 
China and Australia held defence talks focused on regional security issues, officials said Thursday, just days after Beijing condemned Canberra's plan to deploy a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines.
Australian defence officials hosted a team from the People's Liberation Army for the discussions in Canberra on Wednesday, an Australian defence spokesperson said.
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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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 Boston MA (SPX) Mar 27, 2023  Average crop yields in Africa are consistently far below those expected, and one significant reason is the prevalence of counterfeit seeds whose germination rates are far lower than those of the genuine ones. The World Bank estimates that as much as half of all seeds sold in some African countries are fake, which could help to account for crop production that is far below potential.
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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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 Mexico City, Mexico (AFP) March 25, 2023 
Each spring, as Japanese celebrate cherry blossom season, Mexicans enjoy their own version of the cherished tradition thanks to the century-old legacy of a landscape gardener from the Asian nation.
In Mexico, however, it is not cherry trees but blooming jacarandas that turn the capital into a sea of violet.
Admiring the blossoms has become an annual event in the Mexico City since Japanes ... more |
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 Stockholm (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.
The lawsuit, the first of its kind in the Scandinavian country, was originally filed in November 2022 by the organisation Aurora.
It argued the state "needs to do its fair share of the global work to limit globa ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 27, 2023  The Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission offers the first taste of the detailed perspectives of Earth's surface water that its cutting-edge instruments will be able to capture.
The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission - led by NASA and the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) - has sent back some of its first glimpses of water on th ... 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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 El Paso TX (SPX) Mar 27, 2023  The University of Texas at El Paso has joined a project led by NASA to leverage 3D-printing processes with the aim of manufacturing rechargeable batteries using lunar and Martian regolith, which is the top layer of materials that covers the surface of the moon and Mars.
"UTEP is a national leader in additive manufacturing for space applications," said Kenith Meissner, Ph.D., dean of the UT ... 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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 Beijing (AFP) March 25, 2023 
New Zealand has raised concerns with China over human rights abuses and growing tensions with Taiwan, Wellington's foreign minister told AFP in an interview Saturday.
Nanaia Mahuta held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang in which they discussed "challenging issues", she said, including human rights in Xinjiang, freedoms in Hong Kong and China's influence in the Pacific.
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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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