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UK backs deep-sea mining moratorium to protect oceans![]() ![]() London (AFP) Oct 30, 2023 Britain on Monday backed international efforts to temporarily suspend the awarding of deep-sea licences for mineral exploration in order to boost marine biodiversity and protect the world's oceans. The announcement was timed to coincide with the first day of negotiations of the Jamaica-based International Seabed Authority (ISA), an intergovernmental body tasked with protecting the seabed. "The UK government has announced its support for a moratorium on the granting of exploitation licences for d ... read more |
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![]() Sydney (AFP) Oct 31, 2023 China's spending spree throughout the South Pacific is drying up as Beijing instead seeks to cement its footprint in a smaller number of "friendly states", Australian researchers said Tuesday. ... more ![]() ![]() Davis CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 Adding crushed volcanic rock to cropland could play a key role in removing carbon from the air. In a field study, scientists at the University of California, Davis, and Cornell University found the ... more ![]() ![]() Abu Dhabi (AFP) Oct 30, 2023 Upcoming UN climate talks in Dubai will be open to the private sector on an unprecedented scale, the conference's chief said on Monday, calling it a chance to "reimagine entire economies". ... more ![]() ![]() Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 Through satellite imaging a new AI driven mapping of biomass and CO2 storage from the University of Copenhagen shows that a huge number of trees are overlooked in Europe's urban, rural, and agricult ... more |
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![]() ![]() Finding Argoland: how a lost continent resurfaced ![]() ![]() London, UK (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 Scientists ran simulations on the UK's national supercomputer to investigate ocean-driven melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: how much is unavoidable and must be adapted to, and how much meltin ... more |
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![]() Texel, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 Meltwater that runs along the east coast of Greenland, hardly enters the open ocean before reaching the western side of the island. That is one of the conclusions NIOZ PhD-candidate Elodie Duyck dra ... more ![]() ![]() London, UK (The Conversation) Oct 30, 2023 Seaweed isn't something that generally features today in European recipe books, even though it is widely eaten in Asia. But our team has discovered molecular evidence that shows this wasn't always t ... more ![]() ![]() Washington DC (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 Diamonds contain evidence of the mantle rocks that helped buoy and grow the ancient supercontinent Gondwana from below, according to new research from a team of scientists led by Suzette Timmerman-f ... more ![]() ![]() San Salvador (AFP) Oct 31, 2023 Central American nations braced Monday for Tropical Storm Pilar, with authorities in El Salvador reporting two deaths linked to heavy rains and wind preceding the arrival of the tempest. ... more |
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![]() ![]() As Otis toll climbs, Mexicans criticize government response ![]() ![]() Wellington (AFP) Oct 31, 2023 The New Zealand firm that managed a volcanic island which erupted killing 22 people in 2019, was on Tuesday found guilty of failing to adequately protect visitors. ... more |
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![]() Washington DC (UPI) Oct 30, 2023 A new study suggests that a prolonged dust cloud may have played a larger role than previously thought in the extinction of dinosaurs approximately 66 million years ago. ... more ![]() ![]() London (AFP) Oct 30, 2023 Police arrested 62 climate activists in London Monday after they disrupted traffic with a "slow march", at the start of a new wave of promised action over Britain's oil and gas policies. ... more ![]() ![]() New York (AFP) Oct 30, 2023 A prolonged drought is shrinking livestock herds and driving beef prices to record highs in the US, even as consumption is growing stronger. ... more ![]() ![]() Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 30, 2023 Four former student leaders of a Hong Kong university were jailed for two years Monday for inciting others to wound police after they "glorified" a knife attack on an officer, said a judge. ... more |
![]() ![]() Producing more food and storing more carbon ![]() ![]() Muttersholtz, France (AFP) Oct 29, 2023 No grave, nor a wreath. Instead, eternal rest in an urn buried at the foot of a tree. ... more |
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![]() Boston MA (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 In agriculture today, robots and drones can monitor fields, temperature and moisture sensors can be automated to meet crop needs, and a host of other systems and devices make farms more efficient, r ... more ![]() ![]() Muscat (AFP) Oct 31, 2023 In a muddy wetland in Oman's capital, environmental scientist Zakiya al-Afifi measures the bark of a mangrove tree, estimating its capacity to absorb the carbon dioxide that is slowly heating the planet. ... more ![]() ![]() Rety, France (AFP) Oct 30, 2023 For decades heavy industry around Dunkirk in northern France has belched out millions of tonnes of climate-heating gases. ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (AFP) Oct 30, 2023 Can a country well versed in reducing its greenhouse gas emissions "sell" its efforts to a bad actor? Critics fear Article Six of the Paris Agreement will mean an increase in greenwashing. ... more |
![]() Paris (AFP) Oct 30, 2023 Paris, 2015 and the warnings of climate breakdown were growing ever louder. ... more ![]() ![]() Beijing (AFP) Oct 31, 2023 Tens of millions of people across northern China were under severe pollution warnings Tuesday, with authorities urging them to reduce outdoor activities as a greyish smog enveloped the region. ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (AFP) Oct 30, 2023 Two of pop's biggest disruptors, Bjork and Rosalia, have teamed up to fight industrial fish farms in Iceland, with a duet, "Oral", to be released on November 9. ... more ![]() ![]() Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Oct 31, 2023 With its massive output of soybeans, beef, cotton and now corn, Brazil has become one of the world's top agricultural powers. But its agribusiness industry also faces criticism, especially over destruction of the Amazon rainforest. ... more |
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![]() Hanoi (AFP) Oct 31, 2023 Three people died after days of heavy rain in central and north Vietnam that flooded homes and submerged roads, disaster management authorities said Tuesday. ... more ![]() ![]() Bangkok (AFP) Oct 27, 2023 A multinational group on Antarctic conservation failed to break a years-long deadlock and agree new marine reserves in the region, despite record low ice, environmental groups said Friday. ... more ![]() ![]() San Diego CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 A new Antarctic ice sheet modeling study from scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggests that meltwater flowing out to sea from beneath Antarctic glaciers is making th ... more ![]() ![]() Josselin, France (AFP) Oct 29, 2023 Stephane Dahirel doesn't exactly say eat chicken and save the planet, but that is what he's hinting at as he opens a shed door on his intensive farm in Brittany, western France. ... more |
![]() Beijing (AFP) Oct 27, 2023 Former Chinese premier Li Keqiang, a reform-minded bureaucrat once tipped as the country's future leader only to be eclipsed by President Xi Jinping, died Friday. He was 68. ... more ![]() ![]() Nanyuki, Kenya (AFP) Oct 28, 2023 When he was barely a teenager, Kenyan goatherder Lisoka Lesasuyan lost both arms to an unexploded bomb while crossing a field used in joint military exercises with the British army. ... more ![]() ![]() Beijing (AFP) Oct 27, 2023 One of China's foremost virus experts died on Friday, Beijing's top disease-control body said, after he helped shepherd the country through a hardline zero-Covid policy and its ultimately chaotic end. ... more ![]() ![]() Berlin (AFP) Oct 27, 2023 Fridays for Future's German branch was under growing pressure on Friday to cut ties with the international climate movement over controversial social media posts about the Israel-Hamas conflict. ... more |
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![]() Stockholm (AFP) Oct 29, 2023 A passenger ferry that ran aground in the Baltic Sea last weekend causing a large oil spill has sprung a new leak of oil, the Swedish coast guard said Sunday. ... more ![]() ![]() Ames IA (SPX) Oct 23, 2023 David Miles, a University of Iowa associate professor of physics and astronomy, recently took over as the principal investigator on a satellite mission that will study the near-Earth orbit. Miles is ... more ![]() ![]() Brazzaville (AFP) Oct 26, 2023 Twelve years after its first edition, a second summit devoted to the world's three major tropical forest basins - essential for climate regulation - opened in Brazzaville on Thursday. ... more ![]() ![]() La Teste-De-Buch, France (AFP) Oct 26, 2023 Last year, ferocious wildfires destroyed thousands of hectares of one of France's most picturesque forests. ... more |
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