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February 09, 2025
OIL AND GAS
Lula pushes mega-oil project as Brazil prepares to host COP30



Sao Paulo (AFP) Feb 8, 2025
Brazil's president this week amped up pressure for a major oil project to go ahead at the mouth of the Amazon River, despite criticism from environmentalists as the country prepares to host UN climate talks in November. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 79, aspires to make Brazil a leader in the fight against global warming, but has fiercely defended oil exploration as key to the growth of Latin America's biggest economy. "We want oil because it will be around for a long time," Lula said Wedn ... read more

FROTH AND BUBBLE
Trump slams paper straws, vows 'back to plastic'
Washington (AFP) Feb 7, 2025
President Donald Trump on Friday raged against eco-friendly paper straws promoted by his predecessor Joe Biden, and pledged that the United States would return to plastic ones. ... more
ROBO SPACE
AI risks 'disaster' without 'cast-iron guarantees': expert
Paris (AFP) Feb 6, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems must come with "cast-iron guarantees" against mass harm to humans, especially as the likelihood of their integration into weapons grows, a leading expert has told AFP. ... more
OIL AND GAS
Airbus acknowledges slow progress on hydrogen plane
Paris (AFP) Feb 7, 2025
Airbus acknowledged on Friday that progress on developing an aeroplane operating on hydrogen was slower than expected, but said it was not reviewing its approach to decarbonising aviation. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Top climate scientist declares 2C climate goal 'dead'
Washington (AFP) Feb 5, 2025
Holding long-term global warming to two degrees Celsius - the fallback target of the Paris climate accord - is now "impossible," according to a stark though hotly debated new analysis published by leading scientists. ... more
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Alloy discovered that barely changes with temperature
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 04, 2025
Most metals tend to lengthen as temperatures climb. The Eiffel Tower, for instance, can stand roughly 10 to 15 centimeters taller in summer than in winter because of this thermal expansion. While su ... more
ENERGY NEWS
COP30 president urges most 'ambitious' emissions targets possible
Brasilia (AFP) Feb 6, 2025
Countries must aim as high as possible when setting new goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Andre Correa do Lago, the president of the COP30 climate conference to be hosted by Brazil in November, told AFP in an interview. ... more
WOOD PILE
Green light for AI-driven mapping of New Zealand's forests
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 06, 2025
Researchers from Flinders University and New Zealand have successfully integrated artificial intelligence and 3D laser scanning to map radiata pine plantations across much of New Zealand's North Isl ... more
CYBER WARS
Chatbot vs national security? What's going on with DeepSeek bans
Seoul (AFP) Feb 7, 2025
Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek upended the global industry and wiped billions of US tech stocks when it unveiled its R1 programme, which it claims was built on cheap, less sophisticated Nvidia semiconductors. ... more

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TRADE WARS
US halts China small parcel suspension after stoking trade fear; but Shein, Temu begin adapting
Washington (AFP) Feb 7, 2025
The US Postal Service (USPS) said Wednesday it would continue accepting packages from China and Hong Kong, hours after an order to suspend shipments over President Donald Trump's new tariffs sparked fears of major trade disruptions. ... more
CARBON WORLDS
Physicists measure a key aspect of superconductivity in "magic-angle" graphene
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 06, 2025
Superconducting materials are similar to the carpool lane in a congested interstate. Like commuters who ride together, electrons that pair up can bypass the regular traffic, moving through the mater ... more
TRADE WARS
Trump's trade tempest: Week one
Paris (AFP) Feb 7, 2025
In just one week, US President Donald Trump's turbulent trade tussle with rivals and allies triggered tit-for-tat moves, more tariff threats and tense talks, leaving the world bracing for more. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
No new clothes: S. Korean climate activist targets hyperconsumption
Seoul (AFP) Feb 5, 2025
Recovering South Korean shopaholic-turned-climate activist Lee So-yeon used to buy new clothes almost daily - until a $1.50 winter coat triggered an awakening that stopped her shopping entirely. ... more
TRADE WARS
Hong Kong to file complaint with WTO over US tariffs; Colombia to boost China trade after Trump tensions
Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 7, 2025
Hong Kong will file a complaint with the World Trade Organization in response to heightened US tariffs on its goods, a government spokesperson said Friday, days after Beijing announced a similar move. ... more
TRADE WARS
EU seeks new import fee on e-commerce packages
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Feb 5, 2025
The European Commission announced Wednesday it would seek to impose new fees on e-commerce imports, as part of efforts to tackle a surge of "harmful" products into the bloc - the bulk of them from China. ... more
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Big Tech's AI spending rattles markets
San Francisco (AFP) Feb 7, 2025
E-commerce giant Amazon reported strong earnings Thursday but, like its big tech peers Microsoft and Google, saw its stock price fall on concerns over high AI investment costs. ... more
FAST TRACK
Venice sleeper setback indicates EU train troubles
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Feb 6, 2025
The maiden run of a sleeper train from Brussels to Venice ended well short of its destination on Thursday, in a telling tale of the troubles of cross-Europe rail travel. ... more
DEMOCRACY
Indian PM's party celebrates landslide New Delhi win
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 8, 2025
India's Hindu-nationalist ruling party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated a landslide victory Saturday in key elections in the capital province Delhi, with the former chief minister suffering a crushing defeat. ... more
TRADE WARS
'Lottery ticket': Crypto investors brace for bumpy ride under Trump
London (AFP) Feb 7, 2025
Nick was enjoying his Saturday off work in Pennsylvania when he received an unexpected and alarming message: cryptocurrencies, buoyed since Donald Trump's November 5 election win, were in freefall. ... more
CIVIL NUCLEAR
UK to quicken rollout of mini-nuclear reactors
London (AFP) Feb 6, 2025
Britain's Labour government on Thursday said changes to planning laws will speed up the country's rollout of mini-nuclear reactors aimed at providing cheaper and cleaner energy. ... more
SUPERPOWERS
Japan's 'geeky' PM Ishiba to navigate Trump relations
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 6, 2025
Days after Donald Trump's 2016 election victory, Japan's then-prime minister Shinzo Abe rushed to deliver him a gold-plated golf club, becoming the first leader to visit and setting the tone for a relationship both men said was close. ... more
CARBON WORLDS
UK MPs warn billions spent on carbon capture may hit bills
London (AFP) Feb 7, 2025
British MPs on Friday called on the government to assess the impact on energy bills of its multibillion-pound investment into "risky" technology to capture and store carbon. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Novel algorithm taps global fibre networks to enhance earthquake warnings
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 04, 2025
Early earthquake detection could be markedly improved by using the planet's sprawling fibre optic infrastructure, thanks to a newly presented algorithm. Researchers propose that existing communicati ... more
ROBO SPACE
UK engineers warn on AI risks to environment
London (AFP) Feb 7, 2025
Governments need to start acting over the environmental risks, including potential water shortages, posed by the development of artificial intelligence, a UK body advising on engineering policy warned Friday. ... more
INTERNET SPACE
Google halts workplace diversity push
San Francisco (AFP) Feb 6, 2025
Google parent company Alphabet has stopped making diversity and inclusion a workplace priority, according to a filing Wednesday with US regulators. ... more
TRADE WARS
China inflation picks up after Lunar New Year spending boost
Shanghai (AFP) Feb 9, 2025
Inflation picked up in China last month, official figures showed Sunday, as the Lunar New Year holiday boosted January spending. ... more
OIL AND GAS
US sanctions network delivering Iranian oil to China
Washington (AFP) Feb 6, 2025
The US Treasury announced financial sanctions on Thursday, the first under the new administration of Donald Trump, that target an "international network" accused of shipping Iranian oil to China to fund Tehran's military activities. ... more
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MIT engineers help multirobot systems stay in the safety zone
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 04, 2025
Drone shows are an increasingly popular form of large-scale light display. These shows incorporate hundreds to thousands of airborne bots, each programmed to fly in paths that together form intricat ... more
ROBO SPACE
Scientists' conference kicks off global AI summit in Paris
Paris (AFP) Feb 6, 2025
Global experts will debate threats from artificial intelligence (AI) at a gathering in Paris on Thursday and Friday, ahead of a summit of world leaders on the fast-moving technology. ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Quantum factors elevate plant energy transport efficiency
Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 05, 2025
For countless engineers, converting sunlight into easily stored chemical energy stands as an enduring goal. Yet nature perfected this challenge billions of years ago. A recent study reveals that qua ... more
WATER WORLD
Trump-ordered water release wasted billions of gallons: experts
Los Angeles, United States (AFP) Feb 4, 2025
Donald Trump's demand for billions of gallons (liters) of water to be released in California, in what he said was a move to help combat fires in Los Angeles, was wasteful and pointless, experts say. ... more
FIRE STORM
Energized vortex launcher could reshape firefighting strategies
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 05, 2025
Scientists have created a lightweight apparatus designed to enhance fire suppression methods, potentially reducing the hazards faced by firefighting teams. This new tool for extinguishing flames aim ... more
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