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  Arlington TX (SPX) Apr 12, 2023 A University of Texas at Arlington researcher is working to create a process that uses seawater to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Erika La Plante, assistant professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, received a $125,000 subgrant from the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) as part of a larger Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy grant for the work. The UCLA team developed a continuous electrolytic pH pump that uses high-alkalin ... read more |
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Where did the first sugars come from?La Jolla CA (SPX) Apr 14, 2023 Two prominent origin-of-life chemists have published a new hypothesis for how the first sugars-which were necessary for life to evolve-arose on the early Earth. In a paper that appeared on Apr ... more  
The hidden culprit behind nitrogen dioxide emissionsPohang, South Korea (SPX) Apr 14, 2023 Nitrogen dioxide is one of the criteria air pollutants that plays an important role as a precursor gas of fine particulate matter and ozone. NO2 emissions are known to be primarily generated by indu ... more  
How did the Andes Mountains get so hugeCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Apr 14, 2023 How did the Andes - the world's longest mountain range - reach its enormous size? This is just one of the geological questions that a new method developed by researchers at the University of Copenha ... more  
Cyclone hits Australia bringing 'record-breaking' wind speedsSydney (AFP) April 14, 2023 A severe tropical cyclone lashed northwestern Australia Friday bringing the strongest winds the country has ever recorded, but officials said towns and cities appeared to have escaped the worst of the storm. ... more |
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Magnitude 6.1 offshore quake hits near Indonesian island: USGS Stuck in eternal drought, UAE turns to AI to make it rain Latin American classics get the streaming treatment Santorini seismic activity down but schools stay shuttered: Greece Fishermen, sailing champions clean up trash-covered Rio island CORRECTED: Two jailed for 18 years over tower block collapse in Turkey quake Two jailed for 18 years over tower block collapse in Turkey quake Islanders keen to return to Santorini even as quakes continue UN watchdog chief visits Fukushima as Japan returns to nuclear power |
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'Flash drought' frequency increasing due to climate change: studyWashington (AFP) April 13, 2023 Dry-spells known as flash droughts, with a surprisingly rapid onset and often devastating impact, are becoming more frequent as human activity warms the planet, according to a study published Thursday. ... more  
Critical observations of sinking coastsBlacksburg VA (SPX) Apr 13, 2023 It's been said that a rug can really tie a room together. In a similar fashion, Manoochehr Shirzaei and his research team are hoping that weaving together millions of data points into terrain-coveri ... more  
California bursts into 'super bloom' after wet winterCorona, United States (AFP) April 13, 2023 An explosion of oranges, yellows, purples and whites has covered California's hillsides, as a rare "super bloom" bursts into life in the wake of a very wet winter. ... more  
Tunisia drought threatens 'catastrophic' grain harvestMedjez El Bab, Tunisia (AFP) April 13, 2023 A severe drought in North Africa has left Tunisian farmers bracing for a catastrophically poor harvest, imperilling food security in the cash-strapped country. ... more |
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Planet joins Ursa Space's Virtual Constellation and Partner NetworkIthaca NY (SPX) Apr 06, 2023 Ursa Space Systems, a global satellite intelligence infrastructure provider, has announced that Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, will join its V ... more  
Humans need Earth-like ecosystem for deep-space livingIthaca NY (SPX) Apr 13, 2023 Can humans endure long-term living in deep space? The answer is a lukewarm maybe, according to a new theory describing the complexity of maintaining gravity and oxygen, obtaining water, developing a ... more 
Weather scientists say conditions 'favorable' for return of El NinoWashington DC (UPI) Apr 13, 2023 Scientists now expect the El Nino weather phenomenon to affect climate conditions and temperatures during the next six months, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday. ... more  
Germany vows further support for Sahel after Mali exitBerlin (AFP) April 12, 2023 Germany will stay committed to security in the Sahel after the planned withdrawal of its troops from Mali, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said Wednesday as he embarked on his first visit to the region. ... more |
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Sniff test: Japan declares war on hayfever woesTokyo (AFP) April 14, 2023 Japan's prime minister vowed Friday to tackle an insidious enemy that causes enormous economic damage and misery for the country's citizens each year: pollen. ... more 
Unsound climate studies sneak into print: scientistsParis (AFP) April 14, 2023 Misleading studies sowing doubt about climate change are getting into peer-reviewed journals, scientists warn, citing recent papers linked to a lawsuit in Germany whose authors denied conflicts of interest. ... more 
Calm returns to Ethiopian region hit by protestsAddis Ababa (AFP) April 13, 2023 Calm has returned to Ethiopia's protest-hit Amhara region, residents told AFP on Thursday, after several days of public demonstrations against government plans to dismantle regional military forces. ... more 
Earthquake strikes off Canada's west coastOttawa (AFP) April 13, 2023 A shallow 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of western Canada Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, but there was no tsunami threat and no immediate reports of damage or injuries. ... more  
Indigenous protesters free 17 kidnapped Colombian soldiersCauca, Colombia (AFP) April 13, 2023 Indigenous protesters have released 17 soldiers they had taken hostage in southwestern Colombia in retaliation for a failed attempt to arrest a member of their community, authorities said. ... more |
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 Tsukuba, Japan (SPX) Apr 07, 2023 
Ionizing radiation from nuclear disasters are known to be harmful to the natural environment. The Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant meltdown that occurred in 2011 is a prominent example of such a disaster in recent memory. Even a decade after the incident, concerns remain about the long-term effects of the radiation. In particular, it is not clear how the residual low-dose radiation might a ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Apr 14, 2023 
Intelsat, operator of one of the world's largest integrated satellite and terrestrial networks and leading provider of inflight connectivity (IFC), ordered a Mission Extension Pod (MEP) from Northrop Grumman Corporation's SpaceLogistics, which will add life to an Intelsat satellite and provide uninterrupted services to many customers.
The MEP "jet pack" will be installed by SpaceLogistics' ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 13, 2023  Scientists now expect the El Nino weather phenomenon to affect climate conditions and temperatures during the next six months, the NOAA said Thursday. The administration's Climate Prediction Center issued a warning for the climate pattern officially known as the El Nino-Southern Oscillation. "The most recent [International Research Institute] plume favors a transition to El Nino, beginning June-August 2023 and persisting into the winter," ... more |
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 Cincinnati OH (SPX) Apr 10, 2023 
At least five ice ages have befallen Earth, including one 635 million years ago that created glaciers from pole to pole.
Called the Marinoan Ice Age, it's named for the part of Australia where geologic evidence was first collected in the 1970s.
Scientists say the Marinoan Ice Age was one of the most extreme in the planet's history, creating glacial ice that persisted for 15 million y ... more |
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 Lima, 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.
Soy and wheat crops were halved this year, while corn yield was cut by more than a third, according to official projections, slashing Argentina's exports in a sector crucial for the public purse.
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 Washington (AFP) April 13, 2023  Dry-spells known as flash droughts, with a surprisingly rapid onset and often devastating impact, are becoming more frequent as human activity warms the planet, according to a study published Thursday.
Though droughts are generally thought of as long-term phenomena, some can occur quite suddenly, in a matter of weeks, when the conditions are right.
Global warming is a recipe for increasi ... more |
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 Addis Ababa (AFP) April 13, 2023 
Calm has returned to Ethiopia's protest-hit Amhara region, residents told AFP on Thursday, after several days of public demonstrations against government plans to dismantle regional military forces.
Authorities had imposed restrictions, including a curfew and curbs on movement in five cities in Amhara, earlier this week following the protests over moves to integrate regional military forces ... more |
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 Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Apr 11, 2023 
Sixty years ago the animated series The Jetsons finished its first and only season before being cancelled. Just 24 episodes were broadcast between September 1962 and March 1963. Despite this the cartoon has achieved huge influence in popular culture, with countless reruns, a reboot in the mid-1980s (51 episodes over two seasons) and a feature-length movie in 1990.
The Jetsons was created b ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) April 14, 2023 
Misleading studies sowing doubt about climate change are getting into peer-reviewed journals, scientists warn, citing recent papers linked to a lawsuit in Germany whose authors denied conflicts of interest.
Observers have long questioned the growing number of research journals that take fees from eager academics but often publish their work without rigorous review.
Biased authors, they s ... more |
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 Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Apr 13, 2023 
Metaspectral, a remote sensing software company advancing computer vision using deep learning and hyperspectral imagery, has executed a Letter of Intent ("LOI") with SkyFi, a company providing on-demand satellite imagery from a growing network of over 70 satellites.
Once integrated, SkyFi Earth observation data will be made available to users of Metaspectral Fusion. Fusion is a cloud-based ... more |
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 La Jolla CA (SPX) Apr 14, 2023 
Two prominent origin-of-life chemists have published a new hypothesis for how the first sugars-which were necessary for life to evolve-arose on the early Earth.
In a paper that appeared on April 13, 2023, in the journal Chem, the chemists from Scripps Research and the Georgia Institute of Technology propose that key sugars needed for making early life forms could have emerged from reaction ... more |
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 Lund, Sweden (SPX) Apr 12, 2023 
Dense urban areas amplify the effects of higher temperatures, due to the phenomenon of heat islands in cities. This makes cities more vulnerable to extreme climate events. Large investments in the electricity network will be necessary to cool us down during heatwaves and keep us warm during cold snaps, according to a new study led by Lund University in Sweden.
"Unless we account for extrem ... more |
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 Niversity Park PA (SPX) Apr 11, 2023 
A research lab at Penn State will equally share a three-year, $2.55 million grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) with three other teams at Carnegie Mellon University and the Adolphe Merkle Institute of the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. The multidisciplinary research collaboration aims to develop a framework for the design and production of soft, self-charging, ... more |
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 Colombo (AFP) April 12, 2023 
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is considering exporting up to 100,000 endangered monkeys to China, the agriculture minister said Wednesday, raising concerns among conservationists.
The toque macaque is endemic to Sri Lanka and common on the island but is classed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list.
Sri Lanka bans almost all live animal exports and ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 14, 2023  Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is set to forge closer ties with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting in Beijing on Friday, a day after he lashed out at the power of the US dollar and the IMF.
The veteran leftist, whose government recently announced a deal with Beijing to trade in their own currencies - ditching the dollar as an intermediary - is in China to boost ties ... more |
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 Los Alamos CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2023 
Ponderosa pine forests in the Sierra Nevada that were wiped out by western pine beetles during the 2012-2015 megadrought won't recover to pre-drought densities, reducing an important storehouse for atmospheric carbon.
"Forests store huge amounts of atmospheric carbon, so when western pine beetle infestations kill off millions of trees, that carbon dioxide goes back into the atmosphere," sa ... more |
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