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  Washington DC (UPI) Apr 6, 2023 A new study, looking back to the last ice age thousands of years ago, has revealed an alarming rate of ice melt, raising new concerns about future ice sheet retreat and rising sea levels. Researchers say the data, released Wednesday in the journal Nature, confirms a large ice sheet covering Eurasia - between 15,000 and 19,000 years ago - retreated at the rate of 2,000 feet per day, which is 20 times faster than any retreat rate measured from satellites over the last 50 years. Scientist ... read more |
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Man charged after taking platypus on train ride, shopping tripSydney (AFP) April 6, 2023 Forget the Hollywood thriller "Snakes on a Plane", an Australian man is in trouble for taking a platypus on a train. ... more 
Ailing Pakistan elephant survives jumbo diagnosisKarachi (AFP) April 5, 2023 International vets "nearly lost" a 17-year-old elephant in Pakistan on Wednesday after knocking her out to perform diagnostic tests, but they now hope to treat multiple issues that have left her crippled for months. ... more  
Bold talk, slow walk as Brazil's Lula sets out to save AmazonRio De Janeiro (AFP) April 6, 2023 When it comes to what some call his most important job - saving the Amazon rainforest - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been talking the talk, vowing "Brazil is back" in the fight against climate change. ... more  
Drought pushes Kenya's refugee mega-camp to 'breaking point'Dadaab, Kenya (AFP) April 6, 2023 Ugash Adan Abdulahi shook a jerry can. Inside rattled a few grains of sorghum - the only food to last his family another 10 days in Kenya's overwhelmed Dadaab refugee camp. ... 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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'Infecting minds': US book sent to teachers seeks to sow climate doubtWashington (AFP) April 6, 2023 From crops to corals, a book circulated by a controversial US think tank is riddled with misleading claims about established climate science, in what campaigners slam as a bid to "infect" young minds. ... more 
March heat, Antarctic ice close to records: monitorParis (AFP) April 6, 2023 Earth had its joint second-warmest March on record with Antarctic sea ice shrinking to its second-lowest extent for that month, the EU's climate monitoring agency said on Thursday. ... more  
China appoints Shanghai bishop without Vatican nodVatican City (AFP) April 5, 2023 China has appointed a new bishop of Shanghai, the country's largest Catholic diocese, in a unilateral move that violates a landmark agreement to coordinate with the Vatican. ... more  
Historic drought adds to Argentina's economic woesLima, Argentina (AFP) April 6, 2023 Argentina's already fragile economy is now taking a beating from nature, as the worst drought in almost 100 years decimates critical soy, wheat and corn production. ... more |
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Five killed after tornado hits MissouriWashington (AFP) April 5, 2023 A tornado that struck the Midwestern US state of Missouri early Wednesday morning killed at least five people, according to local authorities. ... more  
Antakya's quake victims doubt Erdogan's rebuilding pledgeAntakya, Turkey (AFP) April 6, 2023 Retired construction worker Ali Cimen looked at the pile of rubble raising dust over his former neighbourhood and scoffed at the idea that Turkey's earthquake disaster zone could be rebuilt in a year. ... more  
Climate change spurring surge in dengue, chikungunya: WHOGeneva (AFP) April 5, 2023 The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that dengue and other diseases caused by mosquito-borne arboviruses were spreading far faster and further amid climate change, warning global outbreaks could be looming. ... more  
AI better than humans at key heart test: studyParis (AFP) April 5, 2023 Artificial intelligence is better than humans at assessing heart ultrasounds, the main test of overall cardiac health, the most rigorous trial yet conducted on the subject found on Wednesday. ... more |
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New cabinet unveiled for Ethiopia's TigrayAddis Ababa (AFP) April 5, 2023 A 27-member cabinet for Ethiopia's war-scarred Tigray was unveiled on Wednesday, official media in the region reported, the latest step in a peace process to end two years of brutal conflict. ... more  
Led by China, more countries targeting citizens abroad: US studyWashington (AFP) April 6, 2023 A rising number of countries are turning to abductions, violence or deportations against citizens abroad to silence dissent, with China the biggest violator, a US democracy research group said Thursday. ... more  
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei launches new London showLondon (AFP) April 5, 2023 China feels it has the "right to redefine the global world order", Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei told AFP on Wednesday ahead of the opening in London of his first design-focused exhibition. ... more  
Satellogic announces integration with SkyFiNew York NY (SPX) Mar 29, 2023 Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation ("EO") data collection, has announced its partnership and integration with SkyFi, a leading provider of EO data. Th ... more  
Path to net-zero carbon capture and storage may lead to oceanBethlehem 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 c ... more |
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 Amman (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.
Many of the women escaped the extreme violence carried out by the Islamic State group's self-declared "caliphate" that cut across swathes of Iraq and Syria, before they eventually ended up in Jordan - where they found themselves ... more |
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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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 Washington 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.
Researchers, from the University of Western Australia and Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, observed a Pseudoliparis, or snailfish, at a depth of 27,349 feet in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench off the coast of Japan.
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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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 Dadaab, Kenya (AFP) April 6, 2023  Ugash Adan Abdulahi shook a jerry can. Inside rattled a few grains of sorghum - the only food to last his family another 10 days in Kenya's overwhelmed Dadaab refugee camp.
Every day hundreds of desperate people arrive at Dadaab seeking food and shelter, most from across the border in Somalia, where violent instability and a record-bad drought has made life impossible for many.
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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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 London (AFP) April 5, 2023 
China feels it has the "right to redefine the global world order", Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei told AFP on Wednesday ahead of the opening in London of his first design-focused exhibition.
The show at the capital's Design Museum features hundreds of thousands of objects collected by the Chinese artist since the 1990s, from Stone Age tools to Lego bricks, and draws on his love of artefa ... 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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