Les Contamines, France (AFP) Oct 19, 2023 Water surged through a desolate canyon of grey rock into a blue-grey lake, an ancient landscape only revealed to humanity in recent decades because France’s glaciers have retreated so far. The rocks bore the markings of the ice and, on an unseasonably hot day in October high above the ski resort of Chamonix, experts from the Ice and … Continue reading Retreating glaciers reveal new pastures for conservationists

Strasbourg, France (AFP) Oct 18, 2023 The European Union “cannot accept” Israel stopping water supplies to Gaza’s population, which “clearly” violates international law, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Wednesday. “Suspending the water supply to a community under siege is contrary to international law. But we can’t accept that,” he told the European Parliament in Strasbourg. That was the EU’s position whenhttp://dlvr.it/SxjHty Continue reading EU ‘cannot accept’ Israel illegally halting water to Gaza: Borrell

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 19, 2023 Not all El Nino events are created equal. Their impacts vary widely, and satellites like the U.S.-European Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich help anticipate those impacts on a global scale by tracking changes in sea surface height in the Pacific Ocean. Water expands as it warms, so sea levels tend to be higher in places with warmer water. El Ninos are … Continue reading International ocean satellite monitors how El Nino is shaping up

Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Oct 19, 2023 Research testing new technology to more effectively locate polar bear dens across the Arctic is showing promising results. Researchers from Simon Fraser University and Brigham Young University (BYU), collaborating with Polar Bears International, hope that improving detection tools to locate dens-which are nearly invisible and buried under snow-will help efforts to protect mother polar bears andhttp://dlvr.it/Sxfhg5 Continue reading Protecting polar bears aim of new and improved radar technology

Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 19, 2023 About 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals, who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years in the western part of the Eurasian continent, gave way to Homo sapiens, who had arrived from Africa. This replacement was not sudden, and the two species coexisted for a few millennia, resulting in the integration of Neanderthal DNA into the genome of Sapiens. Researchers … Continue reading The encounter between Neanderthals and Sapiens as told by their genomes

Paris (AFP) Oct 18, 2023 Breaching the global warming limits of the world’s climate goals could see the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet add more than a metre to rising sea levels, according to new research on Wednesday. But the study by an international team of researchers found there would still be hope to prevent a collapse of the ice sheet – if warming is … Continue reading Reversing warming may stop Greenland ice sheet collapse: study

Bloomington, United States (AFP) Oct 19, 2023 Linguistics experts are turning to cutting-edge technologies to revitalize threatened Native American languages – and rejuvenate generations of Indigenous tradition – through new approaches such as children’s books and smartphone apps. In one such endeavor, three Native American women rack their brains as they gather around a computer, trying to remember – and record – dozens of Apache … Continue reading Tech breathes new life into endangered Native American languages

Washington DC (UPI) Oct 17, 2023 As many as 2 million Palestinian refugees remained cut off from humanitarian aid in Egypt Tuesday as a blockade on the only viable passage out of Gaza remained in place amid Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas. The situation at the Rafah crossing was growing increasingly desperate as massive civilian crowds were still under threat of falling bombs while unable … Continue reading Palestinian refugees remain cut off from pile of aid at Gaza’s border crossing with Egypt

Lagos (AFP) Oct 17, 2023 Flooding after heavy rains in eastern Ghana have forced nearly 26,000 people to leave their homes at the request of the authorities, the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) said Tuesday. Crops have been destroyed and schools shut after two hydro-electric dams overflowed at Akosombo and Kpong. “We have moved most of the affected people to a safe haven. About 26,000 … Continue reading Ghana floods displace thousands of people

Beijing (AFP) Oct 18, 2023 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that attacks by militant group Hamas on Israel did not justify the “collective punishment” of Palestinians, and called for an immediate ceasefire. Speaking at an economic forum in China, Guterres condemned the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel that killed more than 1,400 people as “acts of terror” that could not be … Continue reading UN’s Guterres denounces ‘collective punishment’ of Palestinians