London (AFP) Dec 11, 2020 The family of a nine-year-old London girl who died after a spate of severe asthma attacks will find out next week if poor air quality caused her death, a coroner’s inquest was told on Friday. Assistant coroner for Inner South London Philip Barlow said he would give his ruling on how Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah died at 1100 GMT on Wednesday. Barlow … Continue reading Decision next week on London girl’s ‘air pollution’ death: coroner

Clickwrap transaction platforms, which serve to replace electronic signatures, are emerging as a valuable tool to help businesses navigate the increased volume of online transactions. Instead of signing, users click to check a box, or click on a button with a label such as ‘I Agree’ or ‘Accept’. That action authorizes the included consent language.http://dlvr.it/RnWJTT Continue reading Clickwrap Technology Brings Speed, Efficiency to Digital Transactions

Brussels (AFP) Dec 11, 2020 EU leaders resolved a bitter dispute with Poland and Hungary to salvage the bloc’s landmark coronavirus recovery plan, but argued overnight and into Friday on fighting climate change. Europe’s 1.8-trillion-euro ($2.1-trillion) budget and coronavirus recovery package had been blocked by Hungary and Poland over an attempt to link the disbursement of funds to respect for the rule of law. Thttp://dlvr.it/RnR5Tz Continue reading EU leaders save landmark budget, but spar over climate

Stockholm (AFP) Dec 10, 2020 Winter days are typically short in Scandinavia, but Stockholm has been unusually dark this December, yet to log a single hour of sunlight thus far, Sweden’s meteorological institute said Thursday. At this time of year the sun only rises above the horizon for about six hours a day in the Swedish capital, but this month – already bleak as the … Continue reading Stockholm sunless so far in December

Washington DC (UPI) Dec 10, 2020 Though a majority of the world’s insects regularly take to the air, a sizable minority have given up the ability. On the small islands found halfway between Antarctica and Australia, nearly all of the insects have abandoned flight. Like some many evolutionary phenomena, Charles Darwin had a theory for why insects eventually forgo flight. New research, published this week … Continue reading Island insects abandon the ability to fly, and Darwin knew why

Washington DC (UPI) Dec 8, 2020 Land-surface air temperatures recorded between October 2019 and September 2020 show the Arctic experienced the second warmest year since record-keeping began in 1900. The near-record, detailed in the latest edition of NOAA’s annual Arctic Report Card, fits into a broader pattern of rising temperatures, shrinking ice sheets, melting sea ice and declining snow coverage. “Taken as ahttp://dlvr.it/RnMHpr Continue reading Arctic experiences second warmest year since 1900

Washington DC (UPI) Dec 09, 2020 To protect their nests from the wrath of giant hornets, honeybees in Vietnam spread the dung of buffalo and other animals around the entrances to their hives. According to a new paper, published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, the scent of animal dung prevents deadly raids by teams of hungry hornets. Though recognized by local beekeepers, the defense … Continue reading Honeybees ward off giant hornets with animal dung

During any holiday season, consumers have a tough time wrestling with each other for best-selling products, but now times have become even tougher, thanks to the proliferation of online “scalper” bots. These robot shoppers, unleashed by cybercriminals, emulate the activity of ticket scalpers in the real world.http://dlvr.it/RnMHlh Continue reading ‘Scalper’ Bots Hoarding Hottest Products from Consumers

Chelmsford UK (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 Teledyne e2v’s Space Imaging team, a part of the Teledyne Imaging Group, has secured funding from the UK Space Agency’s National Space Innovation Programme (NSIP) that will demonstrate and help support intelligent image processing platforms. The funding is in response to the 2020/2021 NSIP theme for “Earth Observation to Tackle Climate Change” and will be jointly delivered with Craft … Continue reading Teledyne e2v wins UK grant to develop AI processes for intelligent EO detection systems

Paris (ESA) Dec 09, 2020 In early 2020, ESA launched a contest asking the general public to submit ideas on how Earth observation data can help monitor the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, one of the winning ideas has been integrated into the ‘Rapid Action on COVID-19 with Earth observation’ dashboard – a joint initiative from ESA and the European Commission. This new idea … Continue reading Monitoring European air traffic with Earth observation