Новости за 10.03.2023

Berlin (AFP) March 9, 2023
Germany on Thursday presented controversial plans to ban the installation of new oil and gas boilers from 2024 to speed up the switch to renewable technologies. The planned change in household heating was "urgent", Economy Minister Robert Habeck told reporters at a press conference. Germany had to "catch up in a short time" on the lag it had built up in the switch to renewable heating, t

Rio De Janeiro (AFP) March 9, 2023
Latin America is poised to become a major renewable energy producer, with nearly a billion solar panels' worth of large-scale clean-electricity projects slated to come online in the next seven years, a report found Thursday. In welcome good news for the climate-change race, researchers said Latin American countries had more than 319 gigawatts of utility-scale solar- and wind-power projects d

Beijing (AFP) March 8, 2023
Chinese schoolchildren are turning to AI bot ChatGPT to slash their homework time - vaulting the country's "Great Firewall" to write book reports and bone up on their language skills. With its ability to produce A-grade essays, poems and programming code within seconds, ChatGPT has sparked a global gold rush in artificial intelligence tech. But it has also prompted concern from teachers

Boston MA (SPX) Mar 10, 2023
There's a lot riding on farmers' ability to fight weeds, which can strangle crops and destroy yields. To protect crops, farmers have two options: They can spray herbicides that pollute the environment and harm human health, or they can hire more workers. Unfortunately, both choices are becoming less tenable. Herbicide resistance is a growing problem in crops around the world, while widespr

Paris (AFP) March 9, 2023
Plastic pollution in the world's oceans has reached "unprecedented levels" over the past 15 years, a new study has found, calling for a legally binding international treaty to stop the harmful waste. Ocean plastic pollution is a persistent problem around the globe - animals may become entangled in larger pieces of plastic like fishing nets, or ingest microplastics that eventually enter the

Washington (AFP) March 9, 2023
US President Joe Biden is poised to decide whether to pull the plug on a massive oil drilling project on Alaska's North Slope or allow it to go ahead. With the decision imminent, environmentalists have ramped up pressure on the White House, urging Biden to live up to the climate change pledges he made during his campaign. During the 2020 presidential race, the Democratic candidate vowed

Beijing (XNA) Mar 07, 2023
In the office of remote sensing scientist Liu Shaochuang, there is a huge photograph of a camel he snapped a decade ago in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Wearing camouflage clothing, he crouched for hours by a pool of water in the Gobi Desert to capture an image of the wild animal. This is the subject of his research. Since 2012, he has led a team in tracking and studying wild camel

Sydney, Australia (VOA) Mar 07, 2023
Australia's space industry is warning that China is increasing its satellite surveillance. The warning comes as Australia's Defense Space Command says it is working on a plan to acquire so-called soft-kill technology to take out enemy satellites. In February, the United States shot down a giant Chinese balloon that it said had been spying on key military sites across America. Beijing, howe

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 06, 2023
In 2023, the German Aerospace Centerwill provide significant research support for the development and rapid application of sustainable technologies. The aim is to make the best possible use of innovations in aeronautics, space, energy, transport, and security to transition towards a climate-neutral society. This is intended to strengthen Germany's position as a prime location for green technolog

Riverside CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2023
A terrestrial planet hovering between Mars and Jupiter would be able to push Earth out of the solar system and wipe out life on this planet, according to a UC Riverside experiment. UCR astrophysicist Stephen Kane explained that his experiment was meant to address two notable gaps in planetary science. The first is the gap in our solar system between the size of terrestrial and giant

Cleveland OH (SPX) Mar 06, 2023
Since the dawn of the 21st century, civilization has evolved into a high-speed digital society with networks of fiberoptics, Wi-Fi, and internet protocols connecting users across the globe. As NASA prepares to journey back to the Moon with Artemis, the agency will introduce a similar concept of internet networks in space to connect astronauts to each other on the surface and researchers ba

Austin TX (SPX) Mar 09, 2023
Two-dimensional semiconductors have a chance to galvanize significant advances in electronic device capabilities, replacing silicon-based chips. However, many problems continue to hold back these devices. A major problem is carrier mobility, or how fast electrons can move through the semiconductors. These 2D semiconductors are notoriously slow in this area, limiting the ability for improv

Fort Lauderdale FL (SPX) Mar 06, 2023
FocusPoint International (FocusPoint), the critical event management company that specializes in Emergency Response as a Service (ERaaS), announced that it has secured $20M in committed financing from Dalton Capital. The capital raised by FocusPoint is in response to an increase in demand from a growing customer base in the satellite emergency notification device (SEND) vertical, with an emphasi

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 09, 2023
Since the launch of the first Landsat satellite in 1972, NASA and its partners have mapped agriculture worldwide and provided key input into global supply outlooks that bolster the economy and food security. Now NASA is increasing its decades-long investment in U.S. agriculture through the launch of NASA Acres, a new consortium that will unite physical, social, and economic scientists with

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 08, 2023
In places across the U.S., tree cover is shrinking - forests are burned by wildfires on the West Coast and drowned by rising sea levels along the East. From the ground, it's hard to assess the scale of the losses and the effects disappearing trees have on atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and climate change. NASA research scientist Jon Ranson is working to improve new technologies for stud

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 08, 2023
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) made the first-ever measurement of heavy atomic oxygen in Earth's upper atmosphere. Heavy oxygen is so called because it has 10 neutrons, rather than the normal eight of "main" oxygen, the form we breathe. Heavy oxygen is seen as a signature of biological activity, common in the lower atmosphere. Both forms are byproducts of phot

Maxwell AFB AK (SPX) Mar 09, 2023
The Department of the Air Force launched a toolkit March 8, 2023, providing a supplemental resource for commanders to tailor training specifically oriented to the United States' pacing challenge. Developed by Air University's China Aerospace Studies Institute, or CASI, the China Toolkit contains a repository of Department of Defense and external videos, presentations, articles and studies

Jaren Jackson Jr. #13 of the Memphis Grizzlies drives to the basket against the Golden State Warriors. Photo: Jesse D. Garrabrant / NBAE / Getty Images / Getty Images via AFP

Kerala govt asks health workers visit homes in affected areas conduct surveys

Xi Jinping has been awarded a third five-year term as China's president, adding to signs he might stay in power for life at a time of severe economic challenges and rising tensions with the U.S. and others. Xi’s unanimous endorsement Friday by the ceremonial National People’s Congress was a foregone conclusion. During his two terms in office, Xi has sidelined potential challengers and filled the top ranks of the Communist Party with loyalists. He broke with tradition in October to give himself a third five-year term as party leader. Читать дальше...

Chinese Taipei and Italy are deadlocked in a 7-7 tie after Yu Chang belted a home run.

KUANTAN: A teenager is missing and feared drowned while four of his friends managed to swim to safety after being swept away by strong waves while swimming at Pantai Cempaka here this evening (Mar 10).

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