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  Washington (AFP) Aug 29, 2019 The US Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday plans to roll back regulations that limit leaks of potent greenhouse gas methane from pipelines and wells, even as some industry players opposed the move. It is the latest in President Donald Trump's long battle against environmental protection rules, coming weeks after his administration made fundamental changes to a widely popular wildlife protection law and re-authorized the use of "cyanide bombs" to kill animals that prey on livestock. ... read more |
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Amazon's 'tallest tree' safe from fires, say scientistsSao Paulo (AFP) Sept 4, 2019 Intrepid Brazilian and British scientists say they have located the Amazon's tallest tree in northern Brazil, untouched by a spate of wildfires that have raged in the rainforest for weeks. ... more 
Bolsonaro accuses UN rights chief of meddling, praises PinochetBras�lia (AFP) Sept 4, 2019 Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro taunted UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet Wednesday over her father's death under 1970s Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, sparking a new international row after she raised concerns over a spike in killings by police. ... more  
Bahamas PM laments 'generational devastation' as Dorian toll mountsNassau, Bahamas (AFP) Sept 5, 2019 Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis on Wednesday lamented the "generational devastation" wrought by Hurricane Dorian, as he confirmed the storm's death toll had risen to at least 20. ... more  
'This is the fun part': the US businesses defying Dorian's wrathCharleston, United States (AFP) Sept 4, 2019 Deserted streets, boarded-up shops, closed museums: the touristic town of Charleston, a historical and architectural gem in the southeastern United States, is already feeling the financial bite of Hurricane Dorian. ... more |
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Cape Cod's gray seals attract sharks, causing summer beach closuresWashington (UPI) Aug 20, 2019 Beaches on Cape Cod, Mass., have routinely closed this summer after shark sightings, and the sharks are now regarded as a long-term threat. ... more 
Illinois engineer continues to make waves in water desalinationChicago IL (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 For the past several years, University of Illinois researcher Kyle Smith has proven his growing expertise in the field of water desalination, with a range of research results that could address the ... more  
Italy reinstates legal protection for steel plant: ArcelorMittalRome (AFP) Sept 4, 2019 Global steel giant ArcelorMittal said Wednesday that a legal issue which could have forced it to pull out of a plant in Italy had been resolved after the government changed the law. ... more  
Carbon taxes alone won't be enough to meet Paris Agreement targetsWashington (UPI) Sep 4, 2019 Carbon taxes alone won't be enough to slow climate change and limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius, according to a new study published in the journal Joule. ... more  
Tech firms, US officials talk election protection at FacebookSan Francisco (AFP) Sept 5, 2019 Facebook said technology firms and US officials met at its Silicon Valley headquarters on Wednesday to collaborate on protecting next year's presidential election from cyber threats. ... more |
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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  |
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Clash of cultures as Amazon cowboys close in on indigenous landsMonte Negro, Brazil (AFP) Sept 3, 2019 As evening falls over their Amazon home, the hunter gatherers of the Uru-eu-wau-wau people extract bamboo arrows from the flank of a wild pig and begin roasting it. ... more 
In Iraq's Baiji, mines turn farms into killing fieldsBaiji, Iraq (AFP) Sept 3, 2019 One man lost his uncle. Another is mourning for two sons. Farmers and herders in Iraq's Baiji say mines left by the Islamic State group turned their beloved orchards into killing fields. ... more  
Foreigners arrested with ivory bracelets at Kenyan airportNairobi (AFP) Aug 19, 2019 A Spanish woman has become the second foreigner in a week to be arrested at Kenya's international airport for wearing an ivory bangle, the wildlife service said Monday. ... more  
Fossils dating back 550 million years among first animal trailsBlacksburg VA (SPX) Sep 05, 2019 In a remarkable evolutionary discovery, a team of scientists co-led by a Virginia Tech geoscientist has discovered what could be among the first trails made by animals on the surface of the Earth ro ... more 
Geese change migratory flight plan to cope with climate changeWashington (UPI) Sep 3, 2019 Geese have altered their migratory flight paths over the last 25 years, according to a new study. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 4, 2019  Military installations along the U.S. Southeast coast completed preparations and evacuations ahead of Hurricane Dorian on Wednesday.
The hurricane was rated at Category 5 when it struck the Bahamas and then diminished, bringing heavy rain and wind, as it slowly moved westward toward Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 04, 2019 
For the first time, ESA has performed a 'collision avoidance manoeuvre' to protect one of its spacecraft from colliding with a satellite in a large constellation.
On Monday morning, the Agency's Aeolus Earth observation satellite fired its thrusters, moving it off a potential collision course with a SpaceX satellite in the Starlink constellation.
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 Berkeley 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 you need directly from the air - even in the hot, dry desert.
In a paper appearing this week in ACS Central Science, a journal of the American Chemical Society, UC Berkeley's Omar Yaghi and his co ... 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.
But what constitutes transformation, o ... more |
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 Coconut Grove, United States (AFP) Sept 3, 2019  Hurricane Dorian weakened slightly as it crawled towards the southeast coast of the United States on Tuesday after leaving at least five people dead and a swathe of destruction in the Bahamas.
Bahamas National Security Minister Marvin Dames said several children were among the dead in the Atlantic archipelago and "unfortunately, we will see more deaths."
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 4, 2019 
Canada announced the conclusion of its peacekeeping mission in Mali as over 200 soldiers prepared to return home.
About 1,250 Canadian Armed Forces members were deployed during the year-long mission, known as Operation Presence-Mali. Their involvement in the ongoing United Nations-led mission included medical evacuation and logistic and transport capabilities.
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 30, 2019 
Stone tools recovered from an archaeological dig in western Idaho suggest humans were living in the region at least 16,000 years ago, 1,000 years earlier than previously thought.
The discovery, published Friday in the journal Science, supports the theory that the earliest human migrations into the Americas followed a Pacific coastal route, not an inland ice-free corridor.
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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:
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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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 New York NY (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 
Light and sound waves are at the basis of energy and signal transport and fundamental to some of our most basic technologies - from cell phones to engines. Scientists, however, have yet to devise a method that allows them to store a wave intact for an indefinite period of time and then direct it toward a desired location on demand. Such a development would greatly facilitate the ability to manip ... 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 4, 2019 
Hong Kong's leader told lawmakers Wednesday she will permanently shelve an extradition bill that triggered three months of pro-democracy protests, a politician who was in the briefing told AFP.
Carrie Lam, the city's chief executive, told a group of pro-Beijing lawmakers on Wednesday afternoon that she would withdraw the legislation, Felix Chung said.
"It is confirmed that the bill will ... more |
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 Bras�lia (AFP) Sept 4, 2019 
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro taunted UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet Wednesday over her father's death under 1970s Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, sparking a new international row after she raised concerns over a spike in killings by police.
Fresh from a spat with French President Emmanuel Macron over his management of wildfires raging in the Amazon, Bolsonaro took aim at Bachelet ... more |
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