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October 31, 2024
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Kong-rey among biggest typhoons to hit Taiwan in decades



Keelung, Taiwan (AFP) Oct 31, 2024
Super Typhoon Kong-rey made landfall in Taiwan on Thursday as one of the biggest storms to hit the island in decades, whipping up 10-metre waves, triggering floods and claiming at least one life. Packing maximum wind speeds of 184 kilometres per hour (114 miles per hour), Kong-rey slammed into eastern Taiwan on Thursday afternoon, the Central Weather Administration said. It was the same strength as Typhoon Gaemi, which was the most powerful storm to hit Taiwan in eight years when it made landfa ... read more

SHAKE AND BLOW
Spain races to save victims as floods kill 95
Sedavi, Spain (AFP) Oct 30, 2024
Spain braced for a heavier human toll on Wednesday after 95 people died in flash floods that launched muddy waters through towns, tossed cars and wreaked transport havoc. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Spain races to save victims as floods kill 95
Sedavi, Spain (AFP) Oct 31, 2024
Rescuers raced Thursday to find survivors and victims of once-in-a-generation floods in Spain that killed at least 95 people and left towns submerged in a muddy deluge with overturned cars scattered in the streets. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Flooding from Storm Trami kills five in Vietnam
Hanoi (AFP) Oct 31, 2024
Flash flooding in central Vietnam killed five people, damaged hundreds of homes and destroyed crops, disaster authorities said Thursday, after Tropical Storm Trami dumped heavy rain across the country. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
'Peace among ourselves' crucial to save nature: UN chief
Cali, Colombia (AFP) Oct 30, 2024
UN chief Antonio Guterres called Wednesday for "peace among ourselves" in order to save the planet, as devastating wars rage in Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon and Sudan. ... more
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Smog beset Pakistan megacity curbs rickshaws, restaurants
Lahore, Pakistan (AFP) Oct 30, 2024
Pollution puffing rickshaws and barbeque restaurants were banned from operating in parts of Pakistan's second-largest city of Lahore on Wednesday, as public health officials battle choking smog. ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Solar energy integration in animal cells achieved by Japanese scientists
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 31, 2024
Japanese researchers have successfully introduced photosynthetic capabilities into animal cells, a feat previously considered impossible. In an innovative study at the University of Tokyo, chloropla ... more
TECH SPACE
Seeking our future in the deep past
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 31, 2024
Used to be, societies would recycle building materials. In Rome, St. Peter's Basilica was made from the stones of the Colosseum. The Inca reused stones from one project to the next. Today we rarely ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Scientists develop satellite tool to track plastic on beaches
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Oct 31, 2024
Australian researchers have unveiled a novel satellite-based method to detect plastic waste on beaches, demonstrating the tool's capabilities in a remote region. The new technology, developed by sci ... more

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EARTH OBSERVATION
NASA, NOAA rank the 2024 Ozone Hole as 7th-smallest since recovery began
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 31, 2024
Healing continues in the atmosphere over the Antarctic: a hole that opens annually in the ozone layer over Earth's southern pole was relatively small in 2024 compared to other years. Scientists with ... more
ICE WORLD
Large volumes of meltwater found within Greenland Ice Sheet during summer
London, UK (SPX) Oct 31, 2024
A new study featured in 'Nature' reveals that a considerable amount of meltwater accumulates and is temporarily stored within the Greenland Ice Sheet during the summer months. For the first time, an ... more
EARLY EARTH
Carbon dioxide release from deep magma may have driven Earth's ancient climate shifts
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2024
An international team of geoscientists, led by Rutgers University-New Brunswick, has revealed that ancient volcanic regions continued emitting carbon dioxide (CO2) from Earth's deep magma long after ... more
SOLAR DAILY
Solving interface mystery in organic solar cells makes them more efficient
Raleigh NC (SPX) Oct 31, 2024
New research from North Carolina State University provides a deeper understanding of precisely what is happening in organic solar cells as light is converted into electricity. Researchers developed ... more
FIRE STORM
Spire Global and OroraTech join NASA to develop space-based wildfire monitoring
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) has secured a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory contract to explore the development of an advanced wildfire detection and monitoring system via space-based technology. I ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Lancet calls for urgenet shift in fossil fuel investment to tackle climate health impacts
London, UK (SPX) Oct 30, 2024
The Lancet: Health threats of climate change reach record-breaking levels, as experts call for trillions of dollars spent on fossil fuels to be redirected towards protecting people's health, lives a ... more
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Papua New Guinea to boycott 'waste of time' UN climate summit
Sydney (AFP) Oct 31, 2024
Papua New Guinea on Thursday declared a boycott of next month's UN climate summit, branding the global warming negotiations a "waste of time" full of empty promises from big polluters. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Climate-scarred Australia faces fiercer fires, floods, droughts
Sydney (AFP) Oct 30, 2024
Australia's oceans are turning more acidic, bushfires are raging longer, and droughts are becoming more severe, according to a major new climate report released Thursday by government researchers. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Ship with suspected toxic waste returns to Albania
Durres, Albania (AFP) Oct 28, 2024
A ship carrying hundreds of tonnes of possibly toxic industrial waste returned to Albania's largest seaport of Durres on Monday, months after setting sail to dispose of the material in Thailand. ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Funding hurdle at world's biggest nature protection summit
Cali, Colombia (AFP) Oct 30, 2024
With two just days to go to the closure of UN talks in Colombia on ways to halt and reverse nature loss, delegates were at odds Wednesday on how best to finance the endeavor. ... more
TIME AND SPACE
It's not to be. Universe too short for Shakespeare typing monkeys
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 31, 2024
A popular thought experiment suggests that a monkey randomly typing on a keyboard indefinitely would eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare by chance. This concept, known as the Infini ... more
WOOD PILE
Veea Amazon and AECOM partner to build the Internet of Forests in Colombia
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024
In a groundbreaking partnership, Veea (NASDAQ: VEEA) has joined forces with O.N.E. Amazon and AECOM to deploy a sophisticated technology platform known as the Internet of Forests (IoF) across a prot ... more
WATER WORLD
FAU receives DOE grant to explore offshore ocean current energy near Palm Beach
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024
Imagine the potential of tapping into ocean currents for clean, renewable energy along Southeast Florida's coast. Florida Atlantic University's Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center (SNM ... more
WHITE OUT
SNOWWI completes successful airborne tests for NASA snow measuring program
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024
In the mountainous areas of the western United States, summer heat triggers snowmelt from peaks, sending vital water flows into rivers and reservoirs that supply fresh water to millions of people. I ... more
EARLY EARTH
Gold-colored fossil arthropod reveals evolutionary insights in pyrite preservation
London, UK (SPX) Oct 30, 2024
A research team led by Associate Professor Luke Parry from the University of Oxford's Department of Earth Sciences has uncovered a strikingly preserved, 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod, now cl ... more
CARBON WORLDS
Reactor developed at Rice could cut energy costs in direct air capture
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024
Rice University researchers have created an electrochemical reactor aimed at lowering energy demands for direct air capture, a method that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere directly. This a ... more
DEMOCRACY
New Indonesia defence chief harks back to dictator's rule
Jakarta (AFP) Oct 30, 2024
When riots broke out in Indonesia's capital in 1998 leading to dictator Suharto's downfall, activists were detained, women raped, and stores owned by ethnic Chinese ransacked in unrest many say was stoked by the army. ... more
WATER WORLD
Oceanographers record the largest predation event ever observed in the ocean
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024
There is power in numbers, or so the saying goes. But in the ocean, scientists are finding that fish that group together don't necessarily survive together. In some cases, the more fish there are, t ... more
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CARBON WORLDS
Newly isolated cyanobacteria strain shows promise for carbon capture
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024
An international research team from the United States and Italy has identified a new strain of cyanobacteria, nicknamed "Chonkus," discovered off Sicily's Vulcano Island, showing remarkable potentia ... more
ICE WORLD
NASA helps find thawing permafrost adds to near-term global warming
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024
A new study, co-authored by NASA scientists, details where and how greenhouse gases are escaping from the Earth's vast northern permafrost region as the Arctic warms. The frozen soils encircling the ... more
WATER WORLD
No 'island of garbage' here, Puerto Rico's new marine reserve
Cali, Colombia (AFP) Oct 30, 2024
The Caribbean US territory of Puerto Rico, likened to a "floating island of garbage" at a Republican rally in New York, on Wednesday announced the creation of a new marine reserve to protect manatees and other species. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Shells to surfboards: how wildlife has adapted to plastic
Bangkok (AFP) Oct 31, 2024
A hermit crab trundles across a beach in Japan's Okinawa, carrying its home on its back: not a shell, but a disintegrating plastic yellow measuring spoon. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Volcanoes 'hidden source' of CO2 in past climate change: study
Paris (AFP) Oct 30, 2024
Massive fields of magma underneath ancient volcanoes spewed out carbon dioxide long after eruptions on the surface had ended, potentially explaining why past global warming episodes lasted longer than expected, a study said Wednesday. ... more
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