Earth News, Earth Sciences, Energy and Environment. http://www.terradaily.com/index.html Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:23:49 GMT Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:23:49 GMT en-us North Carolina braced for a "long night" of strong winds and driving rain as Hurricane Dorian moved near the US state's coast Friday after devastating the northern Bahamas, where it left at least 30 people dead and thousands homeless. Authorities in the state of Florida - which was largely spared by the storm - blamed six more deaths on the hurricane, US media reported, though they occurre]]> Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:23:49 GMT A six-year-old boy was among four people killed after severe flooding hit India's financial hub Mumbai, resulting in dozens of cancelled or delayed flights, officials said Thursday. Mumbai - home to 20 million people - has been hit by torrential downpours over the past two months amid the annual monsoon deluge. Non-stop rain over several hours on Wednesday paralysed traffic, halted tra]]> Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:23:49 GMT "That's it, time to go!" As a rising swell of muddy water creeps towards his house in Niger's capital Niamey, Mamoudou Barkire is finally leaving. Deadly floods have swamped several parts of the city and the rest of the country, forcing thousands to flee as it demolished homes and turned streets into rivers. And the 63-year-old retiree, propped on crutches, is joining them. But leavi]]> Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:23:49 GMT In the desolation left after Hurricane Dorian carved a murderous path across the northern Bahamas, six men dressed in immaculate white overalls zip a corpse into a body bag. Hands and face protected by latex gloves and masks, they hoist their grim discovery onto an old flatbed truck alongside other victims, hopping on board themselves. The truck makes its sad journey through Marsh Harb]]> Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:23:49 GMT Aurora-watchers gazing at spectacular displays over the Labor Day weekend may have been seeing more than the northern lights. They may have been dazzled by STEVE as well. STEVE is short for the Strong Thermal Emissions Velocity Enhancement, a celestial phenomenon auroral researchers, citizen-scientists and photography enthusiasts first introduced to the world in 2016. STEVE's narrow ]]> Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:23:49 GMT The historic deal between the US and the Taliban leaves unresolved the fate of Afghan women, whose fragile gains could come under threat as the brutally repressive insurgents seek to expand their influence. Strictly patriarchal Afghanistan has long been one of the world's worst places for women, but for a relatively small group - mainly in urban cores like Kabul - key freedoms such as educ]]> Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:23:49 GMT Paleontologists have unearthed the near complete skeleton of a new species of duck-billed dinosaur in northern Japan. The 72-million-year-old remains were recovered from marine shelf deposits comprising the Upper Cretaceous Hakobuchi Formation, located near the town of Mukawa on the island of Hokkaido. Researchers compared the specimen's 350 bones with those of 70 types of duck-b]]> Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:23:49 GMT Tethered between pastel-coloured wooden houses in the Greenlandic village of Kulusuk and on hills nearby, the island's famous sled dogs wait through the summer for the ice to form so their hunting season can begin. Greenlanders prize the dogs for their endurance, using them to pull their sleds to hunt seals, whales and polar bears in the winter months when temperatures can drop to minus 35 d]]> Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:23:49 GMT Democrats seeking to oust climate skeptic Donald Trump from the White House are placing the "existential threat" of a warming planet front and center for the 2020 presidential contests. With a rampaging Hurricane Dorian not far from the minds of many Americans, 10 Democratic presidential hopefuls have unveiled detailed plans of action on climate change. At a marathon televised forum Wedn]]> Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:23:49 GMT Soon, Jamal's voice will no longer ring out over the mountain slopes he's roamed for years with his herd in northern Cyprus. To feed the concrete demands of hotels, holiday homes and road-building, quarries are eating away at the mountains where his goats graze. "I will have to leave because I don't have a future here," said the 55-year-old herder and lover of poetry. From Cyprus to ]]> Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:23:49 GMT A common greenhouse gas could be repurposed in an efficient and environmentally friendly way with an electrolyzer that uses renewable electricity to produce pure liquid fuels. The catalytic reactor developed by the Rice University lab of chemical and biomolecular engineer Haotian Wang uses carbon dioxide as its feedstock and, in its latest prototype, produces highly purified and high conce]]> Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:23:49 GMT A new understanding of how an important methane-producing microorganism creates methane and carbon dioxide could eventually allow researchers to manipulate how much of these important greenhouse gases escape into the atmosphere. A new study by Penn State researchers proposes an updated biochemical pathway that explains how the microorganism uses iron to more efficiently capture energy when]]> Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:23:49 GMT Securing enough energy to meet human needs is one of the greatest challenges society has ever faced. Previously reliable sources - oil, gas and coal - are degrading air quality, devastating land and ocean and altering the fragile balance of the global climate, through the release of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. Meanwhile, earth's rapidly industrializing population is projected to reach 10 bil]]> Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:23:49 GMT Tokyo 2020 Olympic chiefs have already rolled out everything from misting stations to flowerbeds to beat the heat at next year's games, and now they want to let it snow. Organisers confirmed Thursday that they plan to test the use of artificial snow at a canoe event later this month as they look for novel ways to keep spectators and athletes cool during Tokyo's notoriously steamy summer mont]]> Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:23:49 GMT Though Hurricane Dorian was churning away from South Carolina late Thursday, some residents chose to play it safe and spend one more night in a shelter with their families - and pets. As the storm approached, Eric McKinney, 36, his grandmother and his black-and-white Chihuahua "Baby" arrived at a shelter in North Charleston the day before. "I walk her every couple of hours," he said ]]> Fri, 06 Sep 2019 09:23:49 GMT