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☆ Indonesia volcano: Tsunami alert issued after Mount Ruang erupts on remote island
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Kathleen Magramo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Indonesian authorities on Wednesday ordered hundreds of villagers to evacuate following multiple eruptions of a remote island volcano, raising fears it could collapse into the sea and trigger a tsunami. Mount Ruang, a 725-meter (2,400-foot) conical stratovolcano on Ruang Island, North Sulawesi, has erupted at least five times since Tuesday night, spewing fiery lava and ash plumes thousands of feet into the sky, the country’s volcanology agency said. Mount Ruang spewed hot lava and ash columns into the night sky on April 17, 2024, as seen from Sitaro, North Sulawesi. Ruang Island is home to about 800 residents, who have temporarily relocated to neighboring Tagulandang Island, according to authorities. Indonesia, a Southeast Asian archipelago of 270 million people, has over 120 active volcanoes – more than anywhere else in the world.

Persons: Ruang, Hendra Gunawan Organizations: CNN, Indonesian, Agency, Mount, North Sulawesi . Center, Volcanology, Getty Locations: North Sulawesi, Sitaro, Ruang, Tagulandang, Indonesia

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials announced Wednesday they will consider adding 10 new species to the Endangered Species Act, including a big bumble bee that serves as a key pollinator across the United States. Fish and Wildlife Service officials said they had completed 90-day reviews of petitions to add the species to the list and determined that listing may be warranted. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2022 to include the bee on the Endangered Species List. The agency included Eastern hellbenders who live in Missouri on the Endangered Species List in 2021. More than 1,300 species are listed as either endangered or threatened in the U.S. under the Endangered Species Act.

Persons: It's Organizations: Fish, Wildlife Service, Biological Diversity, U.S . Fish, Lockes, Lockes Wildlife Management, West Virginia . Locations: MADISON, Wis, United States, U.S, Southern, Midwest, Texas, North Dakota, Florida, Queens, Oklahoma, Alabama and Mississippi, Borneo, North Carolina, Lockes Wildlife, Nye County , Nevada, Arizona, Kentucky , Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, West Virginia . U.S, Eastern, Missouri

☆ Experts say they warned of dangers of climbing Indonesia's Mt. Marapi after 13 die in eruption
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Mount Marapi volcano spews volcanic ash as seen from Nagari Batu Palano in Agam, West Sumatra province, Indonesia, December 4, 2023, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. The 2,891-metre high volcano in West Sumatra erupted on Sunday, spewing gray clouds of ash as high as 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) into the sky. Search operations for 10 missing climbers were under way on Tuesday, local authorities said, with about 200 local rescuers involved. For more than a decade, Indonesia's volcanology agency had sent monthly letters warning the environment ministry and local conservation agency that climbers should keep a safe distance from the volcano's peak, said agency head Hendra Gunawan. The volcano erupted several times in January and February 2023, but its relatively infrequent eruptions during the past decade have made it difficult to analyse, said Ahmad Basuki of the volcanology agency.

Persons: Antara, el, Indonesia's, Hendra, Rescuers, Marapi, Ahmad Basuki, Ananda Teresia, Kate Lamb Organizations: Rights, Reuters, West, Thomson Locations: Batu, Agam , West Sumatra, Indonesia, Rights JAKARTA, West Sumatra, West Sumatra's, Mt

☆ Geothermal energy has high barriers to entry: Barito Renewables Energy
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailGeothermal energy has 'very high barriers to entry': Barito Renewables EnergyHendra Soetjipto Tan, CEO of Barito Renewables Energy, discusses what's behind its initial public offering and the challenges of building geothermal power plants.

Persons: Soetjipto Tan Organizations: Barito Renewables, Barito Renewables Energy

[1/2] A worker cleans an electric-powered car Neta V, that is displayed during the Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show in Tangerang, near Jakarta, Indonesia, August 10, 2023. Dody Hartono, a visitor at the auto show who plans to buy his first EV by 2024, said he wants a better deal. Indonesia has ambitious EV growth plans as it races Thailand and India to build out an EV industry as an alternative to China, the world's largest producer. CONFIDENCE ISSUESToyota (7203.T), its affiliate Daihatsu, and Honda (7267.T) account for two-thirds of auto sales in Indonesia but have been slow to pivot to EVs. Toyota has said it has no plans yet to build an EV in Indonesia.

Persons: Willy Kurniawan, Dody, EVs, Hartono, China's, Hendra Pratama, Hendra Budi, –, Johan Purnomo, Stefanno Sulaiman, Kevin Krolicki, Himani Organizations: REUTERS, Hyundai, HK, Air EV Lite, Daihatsu, Huawei, Toyota, Honda, Mitsubishi Motors, Thomson Locations: Indonesia, Tangerang, Jakarta, Thailand, India, China, Southeast Asia

☆ Panji Gumilang: Islamic preacher arrested for blasphemy in world's largest Muslim-majority country
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Heather Chen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Unlike other Islamic boarding schools in Indonesia, its prayer sessions do not follow gender segregation, angering some religious groups. Police did not specify what Panji had said or done that constituted blasphemy but said they were acting on public complaints. In June, Indonesia’s Islamic Clerical Council said it was investigating Al-Zaytun for “misguided religious practices,” according to CNN affiliate CNN Indonesia. “He is after all, a public figure with millions of supporters… With all this happening, we don’t know what could happen,” he told CNN Indonesia. There is nothing wrong with him (a Muslim cleric) promoting women’s rights – something is terribly wrong with blasphemy laws,” he added.

Persons: Panji Gumilang, Djuhandhani Rahardjo, ” Djuhandhani, ”, Panji, Al, Hendra Effendy, Andreas Harsono, ” Andreas Organizations: CNN, Indonesian National Police, Criminal Investigation Agency, “, Police, Islamic Clerical, CNN Indonesia, Human Rights Watch, Rights Locations: Indonesia, Indramayu, West Java, Jakarta, Aceh, Islam, Chinese

☆ The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( David Quammen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

But as the researchers describe it, these apparent contradictions were simply a reflection of their fast-evolving views. It showed that such an RBD had evolved in the wild and might well have gotten into SARS-CoV-2 by recombination, the natural gene-swapping process. The genome was 96.2 percent identical to the SARS-CoV-2 genome as sampled from people during the early days of the pandemic. RaTG13 has attained renown, not just because it constituted strong evidence of SARS-CoV-2’s ancestry in bat viruses but also because the Mojiang mine figures in some of the more lurid scenarios for a lab-leak origin. The inference is that Shi’s team, a year after the mine workers died, may have taken the virus back to Wuhan.

Persons: Andersen, ”, Slack, Matt Wong, ” Andersen, Zhengli Shi, Shi, RaTG13 Organizations: Twitter, Nature, Wuhan Institute of Virology Locations: Houston, Yunnan Province, Wuhan, Tongguan, Mojiang, Yunnan

[1/2] A woman casts her ballot during regional elections amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Sleman, Yogyakarta province, Indonesia December 9, 2020. Antara Foto/Hendra Nurdiyansyah via REUTERS/File PhotoJAKARTA, June 15 (Reuters) - Indonesia's Constitutional Court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit seeking a change to the country's election ballot system, clearing a hurdle that could have complicated an election just eight months away. Indonesia is set to hold simultaneous legislative and presidential elections in February 2024. Responding to the decision, PDI-P legislator Arteria Dahlan said the party would abide by the ruling. Eight out of nine parties represented in parliament, including those allied with the ruling PDI-P, had denounced the petition.

Persons: Antara, Nurdiyansyah, Suhartoyo, Arteria Dahlan, Critics, Joko Widodo, Kanupriya Kapoor, Martin Petty Organizations: REUTERS, Democratic Party of Struggle, Thomson Locations: Sleman, Yogyakarta province, Indonesia, JAKARTA

☆ Bats carry killer viruses. Scientists suggest ways to cope.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

“I have to think on a landscape scale.”Research in Australia also is deepening scientists’ understanding of bats. Flying foxes travel long distances in search of food, dispensing seeds and pollinating trees along the way. As deforestation destroyed habitats and further disrupted the food supply, the bats have increasingly formed year-round roosts near people, they noticed. Native gums flowering around Gympie lured the flying foxes away from horse paddocks and more urban areas. In fact, the most dangerous areas for spillover aren’t rare, pristine habitats absent of humans, scientists say.

☆ How Reuters pinpointed bat-virus risk zones worldwide
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +12 min

Areas where conditions are similar are more prone to spillover, scientists say. The Reuters analysis, which assessed spillover risk through 2020, has proven to have some predictive power. Similar statistical models are used widely to analyze data in ecology, and researchers use them to understand spillover risk. More than one of every five people on the planet is living in areas where the risk is highest for spillover. Using epidemic modeling software called GLEAMviz, the news agency simulated a worldwide pandemic originating from the spillover of a theoretical novel virus.

☆ Bat lands worldwide are besieged, seeding risk of a new pandemic
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +16 min

This collision – bats and humans competing for resources on territory long the domain of the bats – could trigger the next pandemic. As people destroy bat habitats worldwide, they are unwittingly helping bat-borne viruses mutate, multiply, and infect other species, including homo sapiens. For millennia, bat viruses lurked across the forests of West Africa and in other undisturbed parts of the world but posed little threat to humanity. They’re potent proliferators: Some roost tightly together and in close quarters with other bat species. Each of the bat viruses analyzed by Reuters has epidemic potential, according to the World Health Organization.

☆ The High Seas Treaty, Explained
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Haphazard Authority On Ocean Resources | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +12 min

Global News Changing Tides The first international agreement to protect the world's oceans aims to create “international parks” in the high seas. The high seas represent 95% of the world’s total habitat by volume, but the nautical world remains largely unexplored. “A sentiment we often encountered was that there’s not much in terms of biodiversity out there in the high seas,” he said. MPAs that already exist mostly occupy exclusive economic zones and only make up about 3% of the high seas. A 2016 Pew study on mapping governance in the high seas showed 19 governing bodies with a high seas mandate.

☆ Indonesia's Mount Merapi erupts, spews clouds of ash
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Jeremy Schultz | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

An aerial view of houses covered with volcanic ash at an area affected by the eruption of Mount Merapi volcano in Magelang, Central Java province, Indonesia, March 13. Antara Foto/Hendra Nurdiyansyah

☆ Indonesia’s Mount Semeru erupts, burying homes in volcanic debris
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Mount Semeru in Lumajang district in East Java province spewed thick columns of ash nearly 5,000 feet into the sky Sunday. Villages and nearby towns were blanketed with falling ash, blocking out the sun, but no casualties have been reported. Hundreds of rescuers were deployed Monday in the worst-hit villages of Sumberwuluh and Supiturang, where houses and mosques were buried to their rooftops by tons of volcanic debris. The government moved about 2,970 houses out of the danger zone, including from Sumberwuluh village. People were advised to keep off the southeastern sector along the Besuk Kobokan River, which is in the path of the lava flow.

Mount Semeru, which lies around 640 kilometers (400 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, began erupting at 2:46 a.m. local time Sunday (2:46 p.m. Pyroclastic flow rolls down the slope of Mount Semeru during an eruption in Lumajang, East Java. Standing at 3,676 meters (12,060 feet), Mount Semeru is the tallest volcano on Java – and one of its most active ones. People take shelter at a community hall in Candipuro village following Mount Semeru's volcanic eruption in Lumajang, East Java on December 4, 2022. Rescue workers monitor the flow of volcanic materials from the eruption of Mount Semeru, in Lumajang, East Java, Indonesia, on December 4, 2022.

☆ 24 de noi coronavirusuri descoperite la lilieci; Unul este foarte apropiat genetic de SARS-CoV-2, virusul pandemiei
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-12 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Sursa foto: Jurnal.md24 de noi coronavirusuri descoperite la lilieci; Unul este foarte apropiat genetic de SARS-CoV-2, virusul pandemieiCercetătorii chinezi au anunțat că au descoperit o serie de noi coronavirusuri la liliecii dintr-o regiune restrânsă a Chinei, dintre care unul este, din punct de vedere genetic, foarte apropiat de virusul SARS-CoV-2, care a declanșat pandemia. Descoperirea, care a fost făcută într-o singură regiune mică din provincia Yunnan, în sud-vestul Chinei, demonstrează cât de multe coronavirusuri există în lilieci și potențialul lor de a se răspândi la om, spun cercetătorii. Ei au făcut teste de urină și fecale de la acești lilieci și au colectat și probe de salivă. Unul dintre ele este foarte asemănător, din punct de vedere genetic, cu virusul SARS-CoV-2 care a provocat pandemia, un eșantion viral denumit RpYN06, luat de la o specie de liliac-potcoavă denumită Rhinolophus pusillus. În afară de lilieci și oameni, coronavirusurile pot infecta o serie de animale sălbatice și domestice, inclusiv porci, vite, șoareci, pisici, câini, găini, căprioare, arici", au mai notat autorii raportului.

Persons: Weifeng Shi Organizations: Universitatea Shandong, Cell Locations: Chinei, Yunnan, Africa, Asia, Marburg, Ebola

☆ China anunță că a descoperit noi coronavirusuri în rândul liliecilor
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-11 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Cercetătorii chinezi au publicat joi un studiu în care anunță că au identificat noi coronavirusuri în rândul liliecilor, inclusiv unul care ar fi al doilea cel mai apropiat genetic de COVID-19 identificat până acum, relatează CNN, citată de Hotnews. Potrivit cercetătorilor, descoperirile au fost făcute într-o singură regiune mică din provincia Yunnan din sud-vestul Chinei și arată cât de multe coronavirusuri există în rândul liliecilor și cât de multe dintre acestea s-ar putea transmite la oameni. "În total am construit 24 de noi genomuri ale unor noi coronavirusuri de la diferite specii de lilieci, inclusiv patru noi coronavirusuri SARS-CoV2", a spus Weifeng Shi. Experții au susținut că unul dintre acestea, numit RpYN06 și găsit la specia de liliac Rhinolophus pusillus, a avut o genă asemănătoare cu SARS-CoV-2, virusul care a ucis peste 3,5 milioane de oameni la nivel mondial. Potrivit acestora, RpYN06 ar fi cel mai apropiat coronavirus de SARS-CoV-2 descoperit până acum, cu excepția unor diferențe genetice la proteina țepușă folosită de virus pentru a se atașa de celulă.

Persons: Experta, Shi, Shi . Organizations: CNN, Universitatea Shandong Locations: Yunnan, Chinei, Marburg, Ebola, Wuhan

☆ Cutremur devastator în Indonezia: Cel puțin 34 de morți şi sute de răniți (VIDEO)
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-15 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Cel puţin 34 de persoane au murit și alte câteva sute au fost rănite în urma unui cutremur cu magnitudinea 6,2 produs în insula indoneziană Sulawesi. Sunt pacienţi şi angajaţi ai spitalului prinşi sub dărâmături, iar noi încercăm să-i evacuăm”, a spus Arianto, un responsabil al operaţiunilor de salvate din Mamuju. „Drumurile sunt avariate şi mai multe clădiri s-au prăbuşit”, a spus Hendra, un bărbat de 28 de ani, care locuieşte la Mamuju. „Cutremurul a fost foarte puternic. În 2018, un cutremur cu magnitudinea de 7,5, urmat de un tsunami pe insula Sulawesi, a făcut peste 4.300 de morţi şi dispăruţi.

Persons: Seismul Organizations: Agerpres Locations: Sulawesi, Insulei Sulawesi, Mamuju, ţărm

☆ Cutremur de 6,2 în Indonezia: Cel puțin 34 de morți, sute de răniți; Printre clădirile prăbușite se află și un spital
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-15 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Bilanţul ar putea creşte, multe cadavre sunt îngropate sub dărâmături”, a spus Ali Rahman, şeful agenţiei locale pentru gestionarea catastrofelor. Alte opt au murit în Majene, o altă localitate din regiunea Mamuju, a indicat un alt responsabil local al agenţiei. „Drumurile sunt avariate şi mai multe clădiri s-au prăbuşit”, a spus Hendra, un bărbat de 28 de ani, care locuieşte la Mamuju. În 2018, un cutremur cu magnitudinea de 7,5, urmat de un tsunami pe insula Sulawesi, a făcut peste 4.300 de morţi şi dispăruţi. Arhipelagul indonezian se află pe Cercul de foc al Pacificului, o zonă cu o puternică activitate seismică.

Persons: Ali Rahman Locations: Insulei Sulawesi, Mamuju, Majene, ţărm, Sulawesi

Persons: Ali Rahman Locations: Insulei Sulawesi, Mamuju, Majene, ţărm, Sulawesi

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