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  Bethlehem PA (SPX) Apr 02, 2023 Lehigh Engineering researcher Arup SenGupta has developed a novel way to capture carbon dioxide from the air and store it in the "infinite sink" of the ocean. The approach uses an innovative copper-containing polymeric filter and essentially converts CO2 into sodium bicarbonate (aka baking soda) that can be released harmlessly into the ocean. This new hybrid material, or filter, is called DeCarbonHIX (i.e., decarbonization through hybrid ion exchange material), and is described in a paper recently ... read more |
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Emissions cuts can slash heat deaths in Mideast, N. Africa: studyParis (AFP) April 3, 2023 Meeting world targets to limit climate change would avert hundreds of thousands of heat-related deaths in the Middle East and North Africa, scientists said on Tuesday, urging the region to adapt better. ... more  
Video probe shows internal damage to Fukushima reactorTokyo (AFP) April 5, 2023 Fresh images from inside a crippled reactor at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant revealed heavy damage to its foundation and significant debris, its operator said. ... more  
Quake anger ebbs in Erdogan stronghold ahead of voteKahramanmaras, Turkey (AFP) April 5, 2023 Latif Dalyan offers shirts and sweatpants at knock-down prices to Turkey's earthquake victims from a storefront surrounded by piles of debris. ... more  
EUMETSAT's Data Lake - key element of DestinE has been kicked offWarsaw, Poland (SPX) Mar 30, 2023 Data Lake, a massive repository of data managed by EUMETSAT, will provide the foundation for "Destination Earth" - a European Union's flagship initiative of digital Earth modelling contributing to t ... 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 Finland snowstorm leaves tens of thousands without power |
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Easy, tiger: study maps big cats' personalitiesParis (AFP) April 4, 2023 Ask any pet owner if their beloved companion has a personality and you'll most often get an emphatic "yes". But now tiger researchers can nod along too - a study published Wednesday reveals that the world's largest felines have individual character traits. ... more  
UK govt unveils new water plan after sewage discharges outcryLondon (AFP) April 4, 2023 The UK government on Tuesday announced its latest plan to better protect England's water supplies, amid a long-running scandal over privatised water firms pumping raw sewage into rivers and onto seashores. ... more 
Tackling overfishing from Senegal's skiesDakar (AFP) April 4, 2023 Swooping over a cloud of seagulls off Senegal's sparkling shores, a French military airplane veers past a fishing trawler, the naval officers onboard keeping a watchful eye out for illegal activity. ... more 
Snailfish sets Guinness World Record for deepest observed and caught fishWashington DC (UPI) Apr 4, 2023 Researchers in Japan set a new record for the deepest-caught and observed fish in the world, Guinness World Records confirmed Tuesday. ... more |
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Fire breaks out at Chinese dam construction camp in PakistanPeshawar, Pakistan (AFP) April 4, 2023 A fire ripped through the camp of a Chinese company managing the construction of a remote hydropower dam in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, officials said. ... more  
Raw sewage blights once-idyllic beaches on Isle of WightRyde, United Kingdom (AFP) April 4, 2023 On the Isle of Wight, one of England's most popular seaside holiday destinations since Victorian times, a pipeline stretches out from the shore to pump raw sewage into coastal waters. ... more  
Residents near Colombian volcano evacuatedBogota (AFP) April 4, 2023 About 120 residents living near Colombia's Nevada del Ruiz volcano were being evacuated Monday, officials said, after increased seismic activity. ... more 
Turkey police tortured earthquake looting suspects: rights groupsParis (AFP) April 5, 2023 Turkish security forces have subjected suspects arrested on suspicion of looting in the aftermath of the devastating February earthquake to torture and other forms of ill treatment, rights groups said Wednesday. ... more |
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In flood-hit South Sudan, women harness power of plantsBentiu, South Sudan (AFP) April 5, 2023 Roda Nyawuy took great risks to gather firewood for her family in flood-ravaged South Sudan, wading into murky waters with unseen dangers lurking beneath the surface. ... more 
Iraqis in asylum limbo in Jordan fashion their futureAmman (AFP) April 4, 2023 In a Jordanian church, Sarah Nael sews a shirt for a project that has provided scores of women who fled violence in neighbouring Iraq with skills to earn a living. ... more  
Avalanche in Indian Himalayas kills sevenGangtok, India (AFP) April 4, 2023 At least seven people were killed Tuesday when an avalanche in the Indian Himalayas struck on the road to a popular tourist destination at the Chinese border, officials said. ... more 
Earthquake of 6.3 magnitude hits off Pacific coast of Panama: USGSPanama City (AFP) April 4, 2023 A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck off Panama's Pacific coast on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of fatalities or damage. ... more  
What caused the record-low Antarctic sea ice in austral summer 2022Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 02, 2023 Antarctic sea ice is an important component of the climate system, and may act as an early indicator of climate change. Under global warming, significant changes in Antarctic sea ice have been obser ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) April 5, 2023  Fresh images from inside a crippled reactor at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant revealed heavy damage to its foundation and significant debris, its operator said.
Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) on Tuesday released a series of video clips from a robotic survey inside Fukushima Daiichi plant's Reactor 1, one of three that suffered core meltdowns in 2011.
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 04, 2023 
In 2020, the thrusters on ESA's Integral spacecraft failed. To keep the scientific mission alive, the Integral team at ESA's ESOC mission control centre quickly set to work developing a new series of specialised manoeuvres that would enable them to continue flying the spacecraft using only its reaction wheels - the rotating wheels inside a satellite that allow it to store and use angular momentu ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 04, 2023 
Runoff and river discharge are important components in Earth's water cycle, but as climate change tightens its grip, heatwaves and instances of drought are increasingly hitting the Runoff: not as you might thinks. One would assume that this hotter weather leads to reduced water runoff, but an innovative way of using information from satellites suggests that this isn't always the case.
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 02, 2023 
Antarctic sea ice is an important component of the climate system, and may act as an early indicator of climate change. Under global warming, significant changes in Antarctic sea ice have been observed. Specifically, it experienced a slow increase during 1979-2014, but a rapid decline thereafter. Despite a modest recovery after the record minimum in 2017, the sea ice area during austral summer 2 ... more |
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 Norwich UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2023 
On bright chilly mornings you can either snuggle down under the duvet or leap up and seize the day.
However, for photosynthesising plants, this kind of dawn spells danger, so they have evolved their own way of making cold mornings tolerable.
Research led by the John Innes Centre has discovered a cold "coping" mechanism that is under the control of the plant biological clock and could ... more |
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 Panama City (AFP) April 4, 2023  A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck off Panama's Pacific coast on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of fatalities or damage.
The quake was relatively shallow, at a depth of 12 kilometers (seven miles), the US agency said.
Panama's civil protection agency Sinaproc said the quake had a magnitude of 6.7, hit 72 km from the coast and was felt in much o ... more |
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 Goma, Dr Congo (AFP) April 2, 2023 
South Sudanese soldiers arrived in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, an AFP journalist saw, joining a regional military force in an area battered by the M23 rebellion.
At least 45 soldiers touched down in the city of Goma in the late morning, with further contingents expected to arrive at later dates.
The South Sudanese soldiers are part of the seven-nation East African Co ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Mar 31, 2023 
Routine tasks that require working memory, like baking, involve remembering both some general rules (e.g., read the oven temperature and time from the recipe and then set them on the oven) and some specific content for each instance (e.g., 350 degrees for 45 minutes for a loaf of rye, but 325 degrees for eight minutes for cookies). A new study provides a novel explanation for how the brain disti ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) April 3, 2023 
Meeting world targets to limit climate change would avert hundreds of thousands of heat-related deaths in the Middle East and North Africa, scientists said on Tuesday, urging the region to adapt better.
A modelling study published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal found slashing carbon emissions to limit the rise in Earth's average temperature to two degrees Celsius would reduce heat-re ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2023 
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) has signed an agreement to acquire the business of Holding Sinergise d.o.o. ("Sinergise"), a leading developer platform for earth observation (EO) data. By reducing the complexity of analysis and insights extraction, as well as the cost of EO data storage, Planet aims to continue expanding into new vertical markets with products and applications where EO data is highly ... more |
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 Johannesburg, South Africa (SPX) Mar 30, 2023 
Ancient 2m-long amphibians swam like crocodiles long before true crocodiles existed, according to a study published March 29, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by David P. Groenewald of the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and colleagues.
During the Late Permian Period, just over 250 million years ago, South Africa was home to rhinesuchid temnospondyls, large predatory ... more |
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 London (AFP) April 3, 2023 
Just five percent of Britain's top firms have issued net-zero plans that would be "credible" under government guidelines, according to a study published on Monday.
Consultancy EY revealed the key finding after examining net-zero ambitions of companies listed on London's benchmark FTSE 100 index.
Britain is targeting carbon neutrality by 2050 and wants businesses to outline how they will ... more |
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 Bangalore, India (SPX) Apr 02, 2023 
Researchers at the Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics (IAP), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), have designed a novel ultramicro supercapacitor, a tiny device capable of storing an enormous amount of electric charge. It is also much smaller and more compact than existing supercapacitors and can potentially be used in many devices ranging from streetlights to consumer electronics, ... more |
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 Tel-Aviv, Israel (SPX) Mar 31, 2023 
Global breakthrough: for the first time in the world, researchers at Tel Aviv University recorded and analyzed sounds distinctly emitted by plants. The click-like sounds, similar to the popping of popcorn, are emitted at a volume similar to human speech, but at high frequencies, beyond the hearing range of the human ear.
The researchers: "We found that plants usually emit sounds when they ... more |
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 Brasilia (AFP) March 25, 2023  Brazil's leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who was due to head to China for key talks with President Xi Jinping, has indefinitely postponed his trip to recover from pneumonia, the government said Saturday.
Lula, who succeeded the far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro at the start of the year, had hoped to use the trip next week to reclaim his country's role in global diplomacy, with discus ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 02, 2023 
Increasing summer heat and drought are affecting European forests - some years, trees brown prematurely and some even start to die back. Researchers from ETH Zurich and the WSL are showing how exceptional weather conditions over several years are turning forests brown.
It was as though autumn had arrived in July. Anyone hiking through the Swiss or German forests in the summer of 2018 could ... more |
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