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  Sao Paulo (AFP) Sept 2, 2019 Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro vowed Monday to defend his controversial Amazon policy at this month's UN General Assembly even if he had to do so "in a wheelchair." "I will appear before the UN even in a wheelchair, on a stretcher. I will appear because I want to talk about the Amazon," Bolsonaro told reporters outside his official residence in Brasilia. Bolsonaro is due to undergo surgery next Sunday to correct an incisional hernia, his fourth operation since he was stabbed nearly a year ago ... read more |
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Fires not the only threat facing AmazonLima (AFP) Aug 31, 2019 Raging wildfires have drawn the world's attention to the Amazon but immolation is just one of the dangers facing the world's largest rain forest, environmental experts across the region say. ... more  
Brazil's Amazon basin fires keep surgingSao Paulo (AFP) Sept 1, 2019 The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon basin is still on the rise, even though the government has banned burning, officials said Saturday. ... more  
China warns 'end is coming' to HK students; As arrests soar in XinjiangHong Kong (AFP) Sept 2, 2019 Thousands of black-clad students rallied in central Hong Kong Monday at the start of a two-week university boycott, piling pressure on the city's leaders to resolve months of increasingly violent anti-government protests that show no sign of easing. ... more  
Ancient die-off greater than the dinosaur extinctionStanford CA (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 Clues from Canadian rocks formed billions of year ago reveal a previously unknown loss of life even greater than that of the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, when Earth lost ne ... more |
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Hong Kong director says protests could suddenly calmVenice (AFP) Sept 2, 2019 Hong Kong's prince of sensual cinema praised the territory's love of freedom Monday but said he hoped unrest there could calm as quickly as it did after an anti-colonial revolt in 1967. ... more  
High above Greenland glaciers, NASA looks into melting ocean iceOn A Nasa Dc3 Above Greenland, Greenland (AFP) Aug 29, 2019 Skimming low over the gleaming white glaciers on Greenland's coast in a modified 1940s plane, three NASA scientists, led by an Elvis-impersonating oceanographer, waited to drop a probe into the water beneath them. ... more  
NASA Ocean Ecosystem Mission Moves ForwardGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 28, 2019 After passing a key review hurdle, NASA's newest mission to study the health of Earth's ocean ecosystems and atmosphere is ready to move from design to reality. The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, o ... more 
Water harvester makes it easy to quench your thirst in the desertBerkeley CA (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 With water scarcity a growing problem worldwide, University of California, Berkeley, researchers are close to producing a microwave-sized water harvester that will allow you to pull all the water yo ... more  
Air pollution under clear skies reduces sunlight reaching the Earth's surfaceBeijing, China (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 Scientists have found that the air pollution absorbs and disperses sunlight and thereby reduces the amount that reaches the Earth's surface. The latest study, published in Advances in Atmospheric Sc ... more |
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Farmers and animals struggle in drought-hit BotswanaMaun, Botswana (AFP) Aug 30, 2019 A calf struggles neck-high in the stew-like mud, kicking frantically to make its way across the mire. ... more  |
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Deep snow cover in the Arctic region intensifies heat waves in EurasiaSapporo, Japan (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 Persistent abnormally hot weather can cause negative impacts on human health, agriculture, and natural environments. A heat wave - a spell of hot days with the mercury rising much higher than the av ... more  
Desperate calls for help from Bahamas; As Floridians flee or bunker downPort Saint Lucie, United States (AFP) Sept 2, 2019 The message was desperate, despondent and urgent. ... more  
7 dead after 'out of nowhere' flood in Kenya; 8 Dead in Morocco football floodHell'S Gate National Park, Kenya (AFP) Sept 2, 2019 A tourist who lost his wife and four other family members in a flash flood in Kenya told AFP Monday the wall of water surged "out of nowhere" as they hiked to a popular gorge. ... more  
Deep-sea sediments reveal solar system chaos: An advance in dating geologic archivesManoa HI (SPX) Aug 30, 2019 A day is the time for Earth to make one complete rotation on its axis, a year is the time for Earth to make one revolution around the Sun - reminders that basic units of time and periods on Earth ar ... more  
Iceland commemorates first glacier lost to climate changeReykjavik (AFP) Aug 19, 2019 Iceland on Sunday honoured the passing of Okjokull, its first glacier lost to climate change, as scientists warn that some 400 others on the subarctic island risk the same fate. ... more |
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 Port Saint Lucie, United States (AFP) Sept 2, 2019  The message was desperate, despondent and urgent.
"Anybody who can help me, this is Kendra Williams. I live in Heritage. We are under water; we are up in the ceiling.
"Can someone please assist us or send some help. Please."
"Me and my six grandchildren and my son, we are in the ceiling."
The text message was forwarded to AFP by Yasmin Rigby, a resident of Freeport. Authorities ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 
Film, animation, illustration, computer science and even game design majors are integral to one of NASA Glenn's most visually-adept laboratories.
Inside the Graphics and Visualization Laboratory, known as GVIS, people with various creative educational backgrounds help weave data and analyses from engineers and scientists into colorful, engaging projects using virtual reality, augmented rea ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
To investigate the vastly unexplored oceans covering most our planet, researchers aim to build a submerged network of interconnected sensors that send data to the surface - an underwater "internet of things." But how to supply constant power to scores of sensors designed to stay for long durations in the ocean's deep?
MIT researchers have an answer: a battery-free underwater communication ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 29, 2019 
Ice fronts have retreated, rocky peaks are more exposed, fewer icebergs drift to the ocean: the branching network of glaciers that empty into Greenland's Sermilik Fjord has changed significantly in the last half century. Comparing Landsat images from 1972 and 2019, those changes and more come into view.
The glaciers appear brownish grey in this true-color Landsat 8 satellite image from Aug ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 
Humans' ability to transform the natural environment is often considered a modern phenomenon, from increasing deforestation, soil erosion and greenhouse gas emissions. This year, an international group of geologists deemed the start of the Anthropocene - the time of humans' most far-reaching effects on the Earth - to be the middle of the 20th century.
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 Miami (AFP) Aug 29, 2019  US President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled a trip to Poland as Hurricane Dorian bore down on Florida, where it could make landfall as a dangerous Category 4 storm.
Trump, who had been scheduled to attend World War II anniversary commemorations in Poland this weekend, said he would focus instead on preparations for the approaching hurricane.
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 Yokohama, Japan (AFP) Aug 30, 2019 
Japanese and African leaders Friday stressed the importance of "affordable" investment in the continent, in an apparent swipe at China whose Belt and Road policy has been accused of saddling poor countries with debt.
A joint statement wrapping up a three-day Africa development summit said: "We believe that quality infrastructure, that guarantees affordability with respect to life-cycle costs ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 28, 2019 
The discovery of a rare 3.8-million-year-old hominin skull unearthed in Ethiopia promises to offer fresh insights into the complexities of early human evolution.
The fossil's jaw and teeth suggest it belongs to the species Australopithecus anamensis, an ancestor of the famed Lucy hominin, Australopithecus afarensis. Researchers have previously found only fragments of A. anamensis, most ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 26, 2019 
The Amazon basin cradles the largest rainforest in the world, and plays an essential role in regulating regional and even global climates.
Here are some facts about the region:
- Deforestation -
Continued destruction of its tropical forests - measured in tens of thousands of square kilometres per year - could transform much of the Amazon into dry savannah, with massive impact ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 
NASA's P-3B science aircraft soared into the skies over the Philippines on Aug. 25 to begin a nearly two-month-long investigation on the impact that smoke from fires and pollution have on clouds, a key factor in improving weather and climate forecasts.
The Cloud, Aerosol, and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex) is the most comprehensive field campaign to date in Maritime Sou ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 
Clues from Canadian rocks formed billions of year ago reveal a previously unknown loss of life even greater than that of the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, when Earth lost nearly three-quarters of its plant and animal species.
Rather than prowling animals, this die-off involved miniscule microorganisms that shaped the Earth's atmosphere and ultimately paved the way ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
What types of electricity storage could have the biggest impact globally for a low-carbon energy future? Can humanity simultaneously de-carbonize energy and extend heat, lighting and transportation to more than a billion people now living with without modern energy services?
These are the types of big-picture questions that are being answered by the research that fits into a new academic d ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 
Hope has been restored for the rechargeable lithium metal battery - a potential battery powerhouse relegated for decades to the laboratory by its short life expectancy and occasional fiery demise while its rechargeable sibling, the lithium-ion battery, now rakes in more than $30 billion a year.
A new coating could make lightweight lithium metal batteries safe and long lasting, a boon for d ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Aug 22, 2019  Wildlife-supporting countries on Thursday backed regulating international trade in giraffes in a bid to offer more protection to the gentle giants, feared to be facing a "silent extinction".
The vote in Geneva by parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) recognises for the first time that international trade is part of the threat facing giraffes.
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 2, 2019  Denise Ho has been pulled from concerts, her records are banned in China and she has been smeared as "poison", but the Cantopop star says standing with the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement outshines all the damage to her career.
The short-haired 42-year-old is a rare and instantly recognisable face among the masked crowds at this summer's huge rallies.
She marches with the masses, gives ... more |
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 Lima (AFP) Aug 31, 2019  Raging wildfires have drawn the world's attention to the Amazon but immolation is just one of the dangers facing the world's largest rain forest, environmental experts across the region say.
The Amazon, covering 5.5 million square kilometers (2.1 million square miles) over nine countries, faces ever more serious threats from encroaching crop and livestock farming, mining, land occupations an ... more |
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