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December 22, 2024
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Commercial tea bags identified as major source of microplastics in infusions



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European project PlasticHeal by Hugo Ritmico Madrid, Spain (SPX) Dec 23, 2024 Plastic pollution continues to pose a critical challenge, with micro and nanoplastic (MNPLs) contamination emerging as a growing concern for both environmental and human health. Among the significant contributors to this contamination is food packaging, with human exposure primarily occurring through ingestion and inhalation. Research conducted by the Mutagenesis Group at the Department of Genetics and Microbiology of ... read more

FARM NEWS
Tunisia women herb harvesters struggle with drought and heat
Ain Draham, Tunisia (AFP) Dec 22, 2024
On a hillside in Tunisia's northwestern highlands, women scour a sun-scorched field for the wild herbs they rely on for their livelihoods, but droughts and rising temperatures are making it ever harder to find the precious plants. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Large earthquake hits battered Vanuatu
Sydney (AFP) Dec 22, 2024
A magnitude-6.1 earthquake rattled buildings on Vanuatu's main island early Sunday but did not appear to have caused major damage, five days after a more powerful quake wreaked havoc and killed 12 people. ... more
WHALES AHOY
Freed activist Paul Watson vows to 'end whaling worldwide'
Paris (AFP) Dec 21, 2024
Animal rights activist Paul Watson, freed this week from detention in Denmark, vowed on Saturday to end whale hunting worldwide and to stop Japan if it tried to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Death toll from Cyclone Chido rises to 76 in Mozambique
Maputo (AFP) Dec 21, 2024
Cyclone Chido, which ravaged the French archipelago of Mayotte, has claimed 76 lives in Mozambique, the National Institute of Risk and Disaster Management said Saturday. ... more
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WAR REPORT
Pope slams 'cruelty' of strike killing Gaza children
Vatican City (AFP) Dec 21, 2024
Pope Francis on Saturday condemned the bombing of children in Gaza as "cruelty", a day after the territory's rescue agency said an Israeli air strike killed seven children from one family. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Sierra Leone student tackles toxic air pollution
Freetown (AFP) Dec 21, 2024
In his small Freetown workshop, engineering student James Samba tinkered with batteries and electrical parts he hoped could help clean up Sierra Leone's polluting public transport system. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Official says Liberia to begin war crimes trials in next five years
Monrovia (AFP) Dec 21, 2024
The lawyer responsible for setting up Liberia's long-awaited war crimes court told AFP that the first trials will take place in the next five years, more than two decades after the brutal civil wars that left around 250,000 people dead. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Vanuatu reopening to commercial flights, quake toll hits 12
Port Vila, Vanuatu (AFP) Dec 21, 2024
Vanuatu said on Saturday it will lift a suspension on commercial flights to restart its vital tourism industry following an earthquake that killed at least 12 people. ... more

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France withdraws first contingent of soldiers from Chad: N'Djamena
N'Djamena (AFP) Dec 20, 2024
France began withdrawing soldiers from Chad on Friday, the country's defence ministry said, after N'Djamena last month abruptly ended military cooperation with the former colonial power. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
DR Congo president makes changes at top of armed forces
Kinshasa (AFP) Dec 20, 2024
President Felix Tshisekedi has replaced the army chief as part of a reshuffle within the armed forces who are battling a rebel advance in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. ... more
WATER WORLD
Australia agrees deal to strengthen Solomons police
Sydney (AFP) Dec 20, 2024
Australia said Friday it had agreed to boost Solomon Islands' police force with a multi-year funding, training and infrastructure package for the Pacific nation, which has fostered close ties with China. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Japan inspects US air base over chemical spill
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 20, 2024
Japanese authorities on Friday carried out an inspection of a US military base in Tokyo, a government spokesman said, after being informed by the American side of a chemical leak. ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Trump triumph, Assad fall, Olympic joy... key events in 2024
Paris (AFP) Dec 20, 2024
Donald Trump's US presidential election win, the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, and the Paris Olympics were among the news events that marked 2024. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Sri Lanka navy rescues boat of 100 Rohingya refugees
Colombo (AFP) Dec 20, 2024
Sri Lanka's navy said Friday it had rescued 102 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar adrift in a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation, bringing them safely to port. ... more
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CLIMATE SCIENCE
White House unveils new climate goals weeks before Trump's return
Washington (AFP) Dec 19, 2024
President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday unveiled an ambitious new climate target under the landmark Paris accord, just weeks before Donald Trump's return to the White House threatens to upend US efforts to combat global warming. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Mali junta renames colonial French street names
Bamako (AFP) Dec 18, 2024
Mali followed fellow junta-ruled Burkina Faso and Niger on Wednesday in renaming streets and squares in its capital to get rid of their French colonial names. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Russian oil spill contaminates 50km of Black Sea beaches
Moscow (AFP) Dec 18, 2024
Russia Wednesday expanded an operation to clean up thousands of tonnes of oil that spilt into the sea and contaminated 50 kilometres of beaches after tanker ships were wrecked in a storm. ... more
ENERGY TECH
DR Congo sues Apple over alleged illegal mineral exploitation
Paris (AFP) Dec 17, 2024
DR Congo on Tuesday filed a criminal case against European subsidiaries of tech giant Apple, accusing them of illegally using "blood minerals" in its supply chain. ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Critically endangered elephant found dead in Bali river
Badung, Indonesia (AFP) Dec 17, 2024
A critically endangered elephant living at a zoo on the Indonesian resort island of Bali was found dead in a river Tuesday after being swept away by strong currents following days of torrential rain, officials said. ... more
IRAQ WARS
Iraq's prohibition zeal threatens Baghdad's boozy subculture
Baghdad (AFP) Dec 22, 2024
The smell of dampness rises through the dust at a private club in central Baghdad, one of many shut in a crackdown on alcohol sales in Iraq. ... more
EXO WORLDS
New study uncovers variety in Arctic Ocean hydrothermal vent systems
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 20, 2024
A recent investigation into Earth's northernmost hydrothermal system reveals a greater diversity of vent styles than previously known, offering critical insights into their origins and potential glo ... more
EXO WORLDS
Living in the deep, dark, slow lane: Insights from the first global appraisal of microbiomes in Earth's subsurface environments
Woods Hole MA (SPX) Dec 20, 2024
Which microbes thrive below us in darkness - in gold mines, in aquifers, in deep boreholes in the seafloor - and how do they compare to the microbiomes that envelop the Earth's surfaces, on land and ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
First results from 2021 rocket launch shed light on aurora's birth
Fairbanks AK (SPX) Dec 23, 2024
Newly published results from a 2021 experiment led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist have begun to reveal the particle-level processes that create the type of auroras that dance rapidly ... more
EARLY EARTH
Virginia Tech research unveils a new timeline of life stretching back 1.5 billion years
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 20, 2024
A groundbreaking Virginia Tech study has expanded our understanding of the evolution of life, extending the chart of species diversity to nearly 2 billion years ago, deep into the Proterozoic Eon. T ... more
EARLY EARTH
Massive eruptions did not trigger dinosaur extinction
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 20, 2024
Massive volcanic eruptions in India, once theorized as a potential cause of dinosaur extinction, likely played a minimal role in their demise, according to new research by climate scientists at Utre ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Introducing Wherobots Raster Inference to unleash innovation with Earth imagery
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2024
Wherobots, the Spatial Intelligence Cloud founded by the original creators of Apache Sedona, has announced the general availability of Raster Inference for WherobotsAI. Designed to simplify the anal ... more
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Changes in store for atmospheric rivers
Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 23, 2024
Communities up and down the West Coast of the United States can expect the potent storms known as atmospheric rivers to evolve as the climate warms. But residents in Southern California will see muc ... more
WATER WORLD
Cutting edge satellite monitors water levels in Ohio River Basin
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2024
The Ohio River Basin, spanning from Pennsylvania to Illinois, covers an area nearly as large as France and is home to over 25 million people. A collaborative effort between NASA and the French space ... more
WATER WORLD
Surface-based sonar system could rapidly map the ocean floor at high resolution
Boston MA (SPX) Dec 20, 2024
On June 18, 2023, the Titan submersible was about an hour-and-a-half into its two-hour descent to the Titanic wreckage at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean when it lost contact with its support ship. ... more
FARM NEWS
Early warning system aims to curb locust swarms
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 20, 2024
Desert locusts, known for their devastating impact on crops, typically live solitary lives until environmental triggers like intense rainfall prompt them to form massive swarms. A single swarm spann ... more
FARM NEWS
Russia-Ukraine War's unexpected casualties: Hungry people in distant nations
East Lansing MI (SPX) Dec 23, 2024
The war in Ukraine is causing hunger thousands of miles from the battlefields, according to a new study. Nearly three years of war in the "breadbasket of the world" has left croplands destroyed and ... more
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