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August 07, 2023
FARM NEWS
NASA data helps Bangladeshi farmers save water, money, energy



Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 04, 2023
With nearly 170 million residents, Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated nations in the world. Nearly half of its residents work on or live around farms, and rice crops are critical to feeding that population. So when researchers from the University of Washington and Bangladesh's Ministry of Agriculture joined forces to use data from NASA and its partners to help the country's rice farmers, the potential benefit was substantial. Through their IRAS program, short for the Integrated Rice A ... read more

EARTH OBSERVATION
Ionospheric study reveals surprising protection by Earth's magnetic field
Sendai, Japan (SPX) Aug 04, 2023
The ionosphere, that expansive layer suspended between 60 and over 600 kilometers above Earth, plays a pivotal role in safeguarding crucial communication systems, satellites, and the vital ozone lay ... more
FIRE STORM
Counting wildfires across the globe
Paris (ESA) Aug 03, 2023
In recent weeks, devastating wildfires have spread in Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Algeria, Tunisia and Canada, causing human casualties as well as massive environmental and economic damage. ... more
IRON AND ICE
Earth's most ancient impact craters are disappearing
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 03, 2023
Earth's oldest craters could give scientists critical information about the structure of the early Earth and the composition of bodies in the solar system as well as help to interpret crater records ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Dune patterns reveal environmental change on Earth and other planets
Stanford CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2023
Dunes, the mounds of sand formed by the wind that vary from ripples on the beach to towering behemoths in the desert, are incarnations of surface processes, climate change, and the surrounding atmos ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION


IBM collaborates with NASA to launch Geospatial AI on Hugging Face

WOOD PILE
Relief and despair: repeal of logging ban divides Kenya
Molo, Kenya (AFP) Aug 7, 2023
It was the news Kenya's timber industry had waited over five years to hear: a ban on logging was over, and the country's forests were once again open for business. ... more
WATER WORLD
Water-stressed Iraq dries up fish farms
Al-Bu Mustafa, Iraq (AFP) Aug 7, 2023
Iraqi villager Omar Ziad gazes at the cracked and barren earth where his fish farm once stood, lost to water conservation efforts during a devastating four-year drought. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Dozens of swimmers fall ill after UK triathlon competition
London (AFP) Aug 6, 2023
At least 57 people suffered from diarrhoea and vomiting after swimming in the sea during the UK leg of the World Triathlon Championship Series, health officials have said. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
23 injured, buildings collapse as 5.4 quake hits east China
Pingyuan, China (AFP) Aug 6, 2023
At least 23 people were injured and dozens of buildings collapsed, state media reported, after a shallow 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck eastern China in the early hours of Sunday. ... more
WEATHER REPORT
Flash floods, landslides kill eight in northern Vietnam
Hanoi (AFP) Aug 7, 2023
Flash floods and landslides have killed at least eight people across northern Vietnam, disaster officials said Monday. ... more

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SHAKE AND BLOW


Typhoon forces Japan atomic bomb commemorations inside

DISASTER MANAGEMENT
After heatwave, typhoon forces S. Korea to evacuate scout jamboree
Seoul (AFP) Aug 7, 2023
Organisers of the World Scout Jamboree asked host South Korea Monday to "urgently" evacuate tens of thousands of children from their campsite ahead of a typhoon, just days after a heatwave caused mass scout illnesses. ... more
WEATHER REPORT
Three-quarters of children in South Asia face extreme heat: UN
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 7, 2023
Three-quarters of children in South Asia are already facing dangerously high temperatures, the highest level worldwide, as the impact of climate change grows, the United Nations warned Monday. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
14 dead in north China rains
Beijing (AFP) Aug 6, 2023
At least 14 people are dead after torrential rain hit China's northeastern Jilin province, state media reported Sunday, the latest fatalities from more than a week of weather-related disasters across the country. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Sudan rains wreck hundreds of homes: state media
Wad Madani, Sudan (AFP) Aug 7, 2023
Torrential rains have destroyed more than 450 homes in Sudan's north, state media reported Monday, validating concerns voiced by aid groups that the wet season would compound the war-torn country's woes. ... more
WHALES AHOY
Huge blue whale washes ashore in southern Chile
Santiago (AFP) Aug 6, 2023
An enormous blue whale, considered the largest animal on Earth, has washed up onto a beach in southern Chile, probably after dying at sea, local authorities said Sunday. ... more
FIRE STORM


Spain on heat alert as wildfires burn

CLIMATE SCIENCE
Top fundraiser offers defense of climate protests; Pope tells youths to tackle crisis
New York (AFP) Aug 5, 2023
For years, Margaret Klein Salamon labored behind the scenes to try to convince politicians about the existential threat posed by climate change. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Scores dead across northern China in wide scale flooding
Beijing (AFP) Aug 6, 2023
Six people are dead and four are missing after torrential rain hit China's northeastern Jilin province, state media reported Sunday, the latest fatalities from more than a week of weather-related disasters across the country. ... more
WATER WORLD
Loch Ness struggles with Scotland's shifting climate
Inverness, United Kingdom (AFP) Aug 4, 2023
Around Scotland's Loch Ness, famous for hosting a mythical monster in its murky depths, another prolonged dry spell earlier this year has heightened fears of a different kind. ... more
WOOD PILE
Lula to host S.American summit on saving the Amazon
Belem, Brazil (AFP) Aug 5, 2023
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will host a regional summit next week with planetary stakes, as leaders of the countries that share the Amazon seek a roadmap to save the world's biggest rainforest. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Opposition mounts in Nigeria over possible Niger intervention
Lagos (AFP) Aug 5, 2023
Political leaders in Nigeria are urging President Bola Tinubu to reconsider a threatened military intervention against junta leaders in neighbouring Niger, ahead of a Sunday deadline to reinstate the country's elected government. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
21 injured, buildings collapse as 5.4 quake hits east China
Pingyuan, China (AFP) Aug 6, 2023
A shallow 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck eastern China in the early hours of Sunday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, with state media reporting at least 21 people injured and dozens of buildings collapsed. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
At least 16 killed in landslide in Georgia
Tbilisi (AFP) Aug 5, 2023
At least 16 people were killed and dozens were missing after a landslide at a resort town in northwestern Georgia, officials said Saturday. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
China says natural disasters caused 147 deaths or disappearances in July
Beijing (AFP) Aug 4, 2023
China said Friday that natural disasters had caused 147 deaths or disappearances in July, after the heaviest rains since records began hit the country's capital at the end of the month. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Record floods 'worst natural disaster' in Slovenia in over 30 years: PM
Ljubljana (AFP) Aug 5, 2023
Clean-up operations in Slovenia were in full flow Saturday after torrential rains and severe floods brought havoc to the Alpine country in its worst natural disaster since independence, officials said. ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Two men arrested over wolf shooting in Hungary
Budapest (AFP) Aug 4, 2023
Two men have been arrested in Hungary over the shooting of a wolf, officials said Friday, with the nine-year-old son of one of them suspected of having killed the protected animal. ... more
WHITE OUT
German city deploys snowploughs after hail storm
Frankfurt, Germany (AFP) Aug 5, 2023
A Germany city had to deploy snowploughs at the height of northern hemisphere summer after a violent storm dumped huge quantities of hail in the streets. ... more
WEATHER REPORT
US, UK scouts abandon heatwave-hit South Korean jamboree
Buan, South Korea (AFP) Aug 5, 2023
American and British scouts pulled out of the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea Saturday citing scorching temperatures, as organisers vowed the event would continue despite criticism of dire campsite conditions. ... more
FIRE STORM
Fire near Spain's border with France spreading rapidly
Madrid (AFP) Aug 4, 2023
A forest fire on Spain's Mediterranean coast near the French border was spreading rapidly on Friday, fed by strong winds and surrounding a popular tourist site. ... more
DEMOCRACY
Abortion standoff leaves top US Army job unfilled
Washington (AFP) Aug 4, 2023
The US Army's chief of staff stepped down Friday, leaving a second military branch without a confirmed leader as a lawmaker stalls the approval of Pentagon nominations to protest efforts to aid abortion access for troops. ... more
WATER WORLD
World's oceans set new surface temperature record: EU monitor
Paris (AFP) Aug 4, 2023
The world's oceans set a new temperature record this week, raising concerns about knock-on effects on the planet's climate, marine life and coastal communities. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Tunisian brand turns sea plastic into green couture
Kerkennah, Tunisia (AFP) Aug 6, 2023
The two men in bright overalls rooting for plastic on a Tunisian beach do so to make a living, but also in the knowledge that they are helping the environment. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Discarded plastic blights Honduran mangrove island
Isla De Los Pajaros, Honduras (AFP) Aug 4, 2023
A heron chick flutters clumsily after hatching in a nest on a mangrove island littered with plastic waste in the Gulf of Fonseca, along the Pacific Coast of Central America. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Clearcut logging leads to more frequent flooding, including extreme floods
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Aug 04, 2023
Loss of forest cover is associated with more frequent extreme flooding, as well as more frequent floods of any size, according to new UBC research. While it's widely thought that loss of fores ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Hawaii's undersea volcano Kama'ehu erupted five times in past 150 years
Manoa HI (SPX) Aug 04, 2023
Kama'ehuakanaloa (formerly Lo'ihi Seamount), a submarine Hawaiian volcano located about 20 miles off the south coast of the Big Island of Hawaii, has erupted at least five times in the last 150 year ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
UN vows more 'transparency' of climate talks attendance
Paris (AFP) Aug 2, 2023
The UN is promising to publish more details of participants of high-stakes COP climate talks, amid criticism from campaigners that the negotiations are attracting surging numbers of fossil-fuel lobbyists. ... more
WOOD PILE
Lula says 'world must help' Brazil save the Amazon
Brasilia (AFP) Aug 2, 2023
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday the "world must help" Brazil protect the Amazon, ahead of a summit next week on the world's biggest rainforest, a key buffer against climate change. ... more
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