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Land barons seen behind Amazon activist killingsNova Ipixuna, Brazil (AFP) June 19, 2011 Nearly a month after the murder in Brazil's Amazon of an activist couple believed to have been threatened by land and logging barons, the investigation has gone nowhere. The killing of the activists, who had denounced illegal logging, was the latest in a string of deadly attacks on environmentalists, murders allegedly linked to powerful corporate interests in the vast South American jungle. Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva, 52, and his wife Maria do Espirito Santo da Silva, 51, were shot dead in an ... read more |
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  Afforestation will hardly dent warming problem: study Schemes to convert croplands or marginal lands to forests will make almost no inroads against global warming this century, a scientific study published on Sunday said. ... more | .. |
  Life after Snowball Earth The first organisms to emerge after an ancient worldwide glaciation likely evolved hardy survival skills, arming themselves with tough exteriors to weather a frozen climate. Researchers at MIT ... more | .. |
 Pesticide Impact: Comparing Lab, Field-Scale Results Assessing the environmental risk of pesticide use is an important, complex task that requires knowledge of the equilibrium sorption parameter. This helps researchers assess the risk of pesticides le ... more | .. |
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  TEPCO to open second Fukushima reactor building Tokyo Electric Power Co. Sunday said it would open a second reactor building at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant to send repair crews inside for the first time since it was crippled. ... more | .. |
  Egypt military to try journalists over torture claim Military prosecutors in Egypt are to try a newspaper editor and a journalist over comments in an article on torture attributed to a military official, a military source said on Sunday. ... more | .. |
  Chile lifts evacuation order as volcano quiets down Thousands of evacuated Chileans were allowed to return home Sunday two weeks after the eruption of the Puyehue volcano, which sent a huge ash cloud into the sky and disrupted air travel in the southern hemisphere. ... more | .. |
  Baylor Study Finds Golden Algae Responsible for Killing Millions of Fish Less Toxic in Sunlight A new Baylor University study has found that sunlight decreases the toxicity of golden algae, which kills millions of fish in the southern United States every year. While golden algae is prima ... more |
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Oxford team unveils air-powered robots that synchronize without electronics
Teaching robots to map large environments
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  Family genetic research reveals the speed of human mutation A team of researchers have discovered that, on average, thirty mutations are transmitted from each parent to their child, revising previous estimations and revolutionizing the timescale we use to ca ... more | .. |
  NASA/NOAA GOES Project Releases 2 Week Movie of Chilean Volcanic Eruption The NASA/NOAA GOES satellite Project released a satellite animation of two-weeks of eruptions from the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano in Chile. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satel ... more | .. |
 Landsat 5 Satellite Helps Emergency Managers Fight Largest Fire in Arizona History The largest fire in the history of the state of Arizona continues to burn and emergency managers and responders are using satellite data from a variety of instruments to plan their firefighting cont ... more | .. |
 Landsat 5 Satellite Sees Mississippi River Floodwaters Lingering On May 19, 2011, the Mississippi River reached a historic crest at Vicksburg. According to the Advanced Hydrological Prediction Service (AHPS) of the U.S. National Weather Service, the river reached ... more |
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 Earth from Space: A gush of volcanic gas This image shows the huge plume of sulphur dioxide that spewed from Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Caulle Volcanic Complex, which lies in the Andes about 600 km south of Santiago. After lying dormant ... more | .. |
  Dating an ancient episode of severe global warming Using sophisticated methods of dating rocks, a team including University of Southampton researchers based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, have pinned down the timing of the start o ... more | .. |
 As climate talks sputter, UN scientists vet 'Plan B' On the heels of another halting round of talks on climate change, UN scientists this week will review quick-fix options for beating back the threat of global warming that rely on technology rather than political wrangling. ... more | .. |
  China arrests 19 over riots Authorities in China have arrested 19 people suspected of "provoking incidents" during three days of riots in the country's southern industrial heartland, state media said Saturday. ... more |
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European Response to Escalating Space Security Crisis
BlackSky to deliver advanced Gen-3 tactical ISR capabilities to international customer
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Japan suspends waste water nuclear operation Tokyo Electric Power Co. Saturday halted an operation to clean highly contaminated waste water at a crippled Japanese nuclear plant due to higher-than-expected radiation levels. ... more | .. |
 Putin critics pitch camp for different Russia With a packed programme from environment lectures to self defence classes, Russia's beleaguered opposition is staging its first camp to rival the annual summer get-together of Vladimir Putin's supporters. ... more | .. |
 Tough month for Chile's Pinera It hasn't been a good month for Chilean President Sebastian Pinera, the country's first center-right leader since the Gen. Augusto Pinochet left power in 1990. ... more | .. |
 Euro ministers to seek forests agreement European ministers agreed this week in Norway to open negotiations on a legally binding international treaty on sustainable forest resources management. ... more |
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 Indonesia to review dolphin release plan: official Indonesia said Friday it would consider rehabilitating captive dolphins before releasing them into the wild, after animal welfare activists criticised a plan to dump them directly into the sea. ... more | .. |
China says corrupt officials flee with $120 bn Corrupt Chinese officials siphoned more than $120 billion out of the country in less than two decades, the central bank has said in a study highlighting the widespread scourge of government graft. ... more | .. |
 Peru's capital declares itself a GMO-free zone Peru's capital Lima declared itself a "GMO-free zone" in a municipal ordinance on Thursday in response to a controversial government decree that critics feared would see the country flooded with genetically modified organisms. ... more | .. |
WWF says Croatia is destroying 'Europe's Amazon' Croatia's waterway management plans, being enforced as the country closes in on European Union membership, could destroy Europe's largest river protected area, nature defenders WWF said Friday. ... more |
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Bezos's Blue Origin postpones rocket launch over weather
SpaceX launches 29 satellites after fireball spotted in the sky
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  Denmark to hand over 24 pirates to Kenya for trial Twenty-four pirates arrested in May off the Somali coast and held on a Danish warship will be handed over to face trial in Kenya, the Danish foreign ministry said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Flights resume as ash moves off New Zealand Flights between Australia and New Zealand were returning to normal Friday after an ash cloud spewed by a Chilean volcano moved away, almost a week after causing trans-Tasman havoc. ... more | .. |
Climate chief pleads for 'high-level' push on Kyoto New talks on global warming ended here Friday with the UN's climate chief calling on world leaders to help resolve the fate of the Kyoto Protocol ahead of a key meeting six months down the road. ... more | .. |
  Storm kills 10 in India, 33 fishing boats missing Ten people died and 33 fishing boats went missing on Friday during monsoon storms in eastern India which flattened hundreds of homes and flooded the city of Kolkata, officials said. ... more |
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 More than one million evacuated in China floods More than one million people in China have been evacuated following downpours that have raised water levels in rivers to critical highs, and triggered floods and landslides, the government has said. ... more | .. |
 Unique Gene Combinations Control Tropical Maize Response to Day Lengths Tropical maize proves to be a valuable genetic resource, containing genetics not found in USA Corn Belt maize. Most tropical maize varieties respond to the long summer day lengths that occur in U.S. ... more | .. |
Chilean ash cloud returns to Australia An ash cloud created by a volcanic eruption in Chile more than two weeks ago was again set to disrupt flights in Australia after looping the globe and returning Down Under, forecasters said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Japan quake impact stronger than expected: IMF The impact from Japan's March earthquake was stronger than expected and has led the IMF to revise its economic outlook to predict negative growth there this year, the Fund said Friday. ... more |
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