Beijing (AFP) Nov 22, 2022 With megacities under lockdown, infection numbers climbing and sporadic protests, China’s Covid-19 policy has reached a stalemate as authorities persist with seeking to contain the virus while trying to keep the economy alive. China is the only major economy still attempting to stamp out the domestic spread of the virus, shutting down entire cities and placing contacts of infected patients … Continue reading Confusion, fear cloud China’s path out of zero-Covid

Paris (ESA) Nov 17, 2022 As part of worldwide efforts to slow climate change, the United Nations has revealed a new satellite-based system to detect methane emissions. The Methane Alert and Response System (MARS) initiative, launched at COP27, will scale up global efforts to detect and act on major emissions sources and accelerate the implementation of the Global Methane Pledge. The Sentinel-5P satellite, the firshttp://dlvr.it/SdDT84 Continue reading Sentinel-5P data used in new methane detection system

Squamish, Canada (SPX) Nov 21, 2022 Airbus invests in Carbon Engineering Ltd., a Canadian-based climate solutions company, operating the largest Direct Air Carbon Capture (DACC) Research and Development facility in the world. The investment will contribute to funding part of Carbon Engineering’s advanced direct air capture R and D technologies at the company’s Innovation Centre in Squamish, B.C., Canada. “Carbon Engineering’http://dlvr.it/SdDT83 Continue reading Airbus invests in Carbon Engineering Ltd. to support world’s largest direct air carbon capture R and D facility

Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Nov 17, 2022 Metaspectral, a software company advancing computer vision using deep learning and hyperspectral imagery, has completed a $4.7 million seed round from SOMA Capital, Acequia Capital, the Government of Canada, and multiple notable angel investors including Jude Gomila and Alan Rutledge. The company plans to use this investment to scale up its team to support the continued development and refhttp://dlvr.it/SdDT7M Continue reading Metaspectral raises $4.7M to launch fusion, a cloud-based AI platform

Zurich (AFP) Nov 21, 2022 Nespresso is launching compostable coffee capsules next year in a bid to fend off competitors trying to muscle in on the lucrative home coffee market with ever-more eco-friendly alternatives. One of Swiss food giant Nestle’s flagship brands, Nespresso – which makes home coffee machines, pods and accessories – will launch paper-based capsules that can be composted at home “in France … Continue reading Nespresso takes the plunge with compostable coffee capsules

Cianjur, Indonesia (AFP) Nov 22, 2022 Rescuers on Tuesday searched for survivors buried under rubble after an earthquake on Indonesia’s main island of Java killed 162 people, injured hundreds and left more feared trapped in collapsed buildings. The epicentre of the shallow 5.6-magnitude quake on Monday was near the town of Cianjur in Indonesia’s most-populous province West Java, where most of the victims were killed … Continue reading Hunt for buried survivors after Indonesia quake kills 162

Beijing (AFP) Nov 22, 2022 Thirty-eight people were killed and two were injured after a fire at a plant in central China, state media said Tuesday, citing local authorities. The fire broke out at a plant in Anyang City in Henan Province on Monday afternoon, news agency Xinhua reported. State media said rescue services first received reports of a fire at 4:22 pm (0822 GMT) … Continue reading 38 killed in central China fire

Sydney (AFP) Nov 22, 2022 An Australian economist released last week after nearly two years in a Myanmar jail on Tuesday told of interrogations in leg irons, squalor and the sounds of screams from tortured cellmates. Sean Turnell, who returned home to Sydney on Friday after being released as part of an amnesty of almost 6,000 prisoners, gave the first public details of his incarceration … Continue reading Australian tells of Myanmar jail squalor, torture fear

Hong Kong (AFP) Nov 22, 2022 Six senior staffers from Hong Kong’s shuttered pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily pleaded guilty to colluding with foreign forces on Tuesday, and could face a maximum sentence of life in prison. Their convictions were part of a landmark case in which the city’s sweeping national security law, imposed by Beijing in 2020 to crush dissent, was used against a news … Continue reading Six staffers from Hong Kong’s Apple Daily plead guilty to foreign collusion

Toronto, Canada (SPX) Nov 15, 2022 Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) has been contracted to support development of Clusters 7 through 11 in the HawkEye 360 radio frequency (RF) geolocation microsatellite constellation. Under the Flex Production program, SFL is designing, assembling, and integrating Cluster 9 at its Toronto headquarters and is providing technical support for the integration of Clusters 7, 8, 10 and 11 at HawkEye … Continue reading SFL contracted for 15 additional HawkEye 360 RF geolocation microsatellites