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Here's why experts don't think cloud seeding played a role in Dubai's downpour

Hindustan Times 18 Apr 2024

Meteorologists and climate scientists said the extreme rainfall is akin to what the world expects with human-caused climate change, and one way to know for certain that it was not caused by tinkering ...

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Did cloud seeding lead to unprecedented floods in Dubai?

NBC Bay Area 18 Apr 2024

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Climate change: Deadly African heatwave 'impossible' without warming

RNZ 18 Apr 2024

A new analysis from scientists ... While a warmer world would see droughts like this occur once every ten years, the scientists found that droughts were twice as likely to occur in an El Ni�o year.

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Here’s why experts don’t think cloud seeding played a role in Dubai’s downpour

Wtop 18 Apr 2024

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"Despite challenges, our scientists shown that Bharat can be the Space Ace": Admiral Hari Kumar

Beijing News 18 Apr 2024

"So despite countless challenges, resource constraints and denial of technology, our space scientists have shown to the world that we have the will wisdom and wherewithal to be the space ace," Admiral Kumar said.

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Taste-testing the world’s first lab-grown sausage — is it a banger?

The Times/The Sunday Times 18 Apr 2024

... is made of pork but without a pig needing to meet its untimely demise? Food scientists in the Netherlands believe they have found a way, and will soon be offering it to barbecuers around the world.

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The Latest Breakthroughs in Quantum Computing

Sify 18 Apr 2024

While there’s really nothing like the quantum world to make you feel unintelligent, it’s good to know that there are scientists around the world to whom this stuff makes sense.

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Your morning coffee may be more than a half million years old

The Philadelphia Inquirer 18 Apr 2024

Using genes from coffee plants around the world, researchers built a family tree for the world’s most popular type of coffee, ...

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Shape-shifting cancer cell discovery reveals two potential drug targets against skin cancer

Pharmiweb 18 Apr 2024

Scientists have discovered how skin cancer cells shapeshift based on their environment – enabling them to spread through the body and cause a metastatic cancer ... Scientists and clinicians at The ...

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Pune scientist discovers beetle species, helps detect time of death

Indian Express 18 Apr 2024

Published in the New Zealand-based peer-reviewed international journal Zootaxa , this beetle has been discovered by an Indian scientist Dr ... She is the first Indian scientist who is working on trogidae beetles and has described 2 new species.

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Deadly African Heatwave “Impossible” Without Climate Change, Claims BBC

The Daily Sceptic 18 Apr 2024

A new analysis from scientists involved with the World Weather Attribution group suggests the high day time and night time temperatures would not have been possible without the world’s long term ...

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Risk of bird flu spreading to humans is ‘enormous concern’, says WHO

The Guardian 18 Apr 2024

Chief scientist voices fears about H5N1 variant that has ‘extraordinarily high’ mortality rate in humans ...

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Lethal heatwave in Sahel worsened by fossil fuel burning, study finds

AOL 18 Apr 2024

The full death toll is hard to calculate due to a lack of data from the countries affected, but the study, by a team of international scientists, said there had probably been hundreds or possibly thousands of other heat-related deaths.

photo: AP / Ben Curtis

A young girl carries an empty container as she walks across the sands to fill it from a well in Barrah, a desert village in the Sahel belt of Chad, Friday, April 20, 2012. UNICEF estimates that 127,000 children under 5 in Chad's Sahel belt will require lifesaving treatment for severe acute malnutrition this year, with an estimated 1 million expected throughout the wider Sahel region of West and Central Africa in the countries of Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Senegal and Mauritania

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Deadly Sahel heatwave caused by ‘human-induced’ climate change: Study

Al Jazeera 18 Apr 2024

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Anguish over the future at Our Ocean Conference

Ekathimerini 18 Apr 2024

Politicians, scientists and organizations from all over the world expressed similar concerns ... The picture became somewhat more concrete about two new Greek marine parks ... .