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China coal surge held back warming: studyWashington (AFP) July 5, 2011 China's soaring coal consumption in the last decade held back global warming as sulfur emissions served as a coolant, according to a study that takes head-on a key argument of climate skeptics. While 2005 and 2010 are tied as the hottest years on record, skeptics have charged that an absence of a steady rise from 1998 to 2008 disproves the view that people are heating up the planet through greenhouse gas emissions. Robert Kaufmann, a professor at Boston University, said he was motivated to condu ... read more |
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  NASA Flies Greenhouse Gas Mission Over Nevada Salt Flat Scientists from NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., joined a multi-institute team of researchers June 17-27, 2011, to investigate carbon dioxide and methane gas emissions from a dry ... more | .. |
  Flying dinosaurs, birds co-existed Flying dinosaurs were not driven to extinction by birds as once thought but continued to evolve for millions of years, a British researcher says. ... more | .. |
 India Remote Sensing Data Policy Revised New Delhi, India (SPX) Jul 07, 2011 Recognising that Remote Sensing data provides much essential and critical information - which is an input for developmental activities at different levels, and i ... more | .. |
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 Sudanese deployments tracked from space Sudan's ongoing civil conflicts are being monitored from space. ... more | .. |
  Islands of Life, Part II On Monday, we headed over the coastal mountains, up out of Antofagasta, in a pair of rented pickup trucks. Our ultimate goal was the Yungay Desert Research Station, located in an unnamed salar (salt ... more | .. |
 Square Kilometer Array telescope may help make contact with aliens The Square Kilometer Array (SKA), the world's most powerful radio telescope in development, may help make contact with aliens, if there is any, Australia's leading astronomer Fred Watson said on Tue ... more | .. |
  Huge quake sparks tsunami scare in N.Z., Tonga A powerful 7.6-magnitude undersea earthquake triggered tsunami alerts for New Zealand and Tonga Thursday but warnings were cancelled as the quake proved less destructive than feared. ... more |
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 Sulfur emissions 'mask' global warming The cooling effect of sulfur emissions resulting from China's massive rise in coal-fired power stations has served to mask the impact of global warming during the last 10 years, a new study indicates. ... more | .. |
 Sulfurous Signs of Life Any sulfurous molecules that astronomers spot on alien worlds might be a way to reveal whether or not those distant planets host life, researchers suggest. On Earth, microbes can live off the ... more | .. |
  Outside View: Arab Spring and Iran As Syrian President Bashar Assad continues to defy the demands of the Syrian people for change and maintains a policy of massacring his own people, evidence has arisen of a dangerous external influence in Syria. ... more | .. |
  Australia moves on head-covering laws A second Australian state is considering a law that would require a woman wearing a burqa to remove it when requested by police. ... more |
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  Inconclusive data on salt, heart deaths A review of research on the effect reducing salt consumption has on heart disease produced inconclusive results, the authors of a U.S. journal article said. ... more | .. |
 Massive dust storm engulfs US city A massive dust storm engulfed the southwestern US city of Phoenix late Tuesday, blotting out the sun and knocking down electricity poles, local media reported. ... more | .. |
 Iceland's Hekla volcano 'ready to erupt': experts One of Iceland's most feared volcanoes looks ready to erupt, with measurements indicating magma movement, Icelandic experts said Wednesday, raising fears of a new ash cloud halting flights over Europe. ... more | .. |
  Mongolia herder on mission to tackle mining firms The destruction of Mongolia's grasslands to access a wealth of mineral riches has sparked an anti-mining movement led by a nomadic herder who says force can be used to bring polluting firms to heel. ... 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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  Russia to claim Arctic border expansion Russia will submit a claim to the United Nations to expand its Arctic borders, a top official said Wednesday, as scientists embarked on a new expedition to prove its ownership of energy-rich territory. ... more | .. |
  Somali insurgents seek help for drought victims Somalia's Al Qaeda-linked rebels, who banned foreign aid groups in regions under their control two years ago, have appealed for help for thousands of people devastated by a severe drought. ... more | .. |
 Chad ready to discuss French troop presence Chad on Wednesday signalled readiness to negotiate the French military presence on its soil after France's foreign minister said Paris was mulling a troop withdrawal from its former central African colony. ... more | .. |
Somalis fleeing drought face wait for aid in Kenya Thousands of Somalis fleeing a bruising drought in the Horn of Africa are facing a long wait to enter overcrowded camps and receive aid when they cross into neighbouring Kenya. ... more |
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 DR Congo villagers spurn raped wives After being raped by government troops, women in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo face the further pain and humiliation of being repudiated by their husbands. ... more | .. |
  Bahamas bans shark fishing The Bahamas on Tuesday announced a ban on shark fishing, becoming the latest country to protect the ancient sea predator which is considered at risk due to demand for its fins in Chinese cuisine. ... more | .. |
  Swazis question rangers' special powers in poaching battle A teenage rhino calf died of stress and hunger last week in Swaziland after poachers slaughtered its mother, the first rhino killed in the tiny kingdom in two decades. ... more | .. |
  Red Cross controversy threatens China philanthropy A young Chinese woman who flaunted her wealth online and appeared to have links with the nation's Red Cross has sparked huge controversy and stoked widespread public suspicion over how donations are used. ... 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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  Farm animal disease to increase with climate change Researchers looked at changes in the behaviour of bluetongue - a viral disease of cattle and sheep - from the 1960s to the present day, as well as what could happen to the transmission of the virus ... more | .. |
 Climate change could turn oxygen-free seas from a blessing to a curse for zooplankton Zooplankton can use specialised adaptations that allow them to hide from predators in areas of the ocean where oxygen levels are so low almost nothing can survive - but they may run into trouble as ... more | .. |
  Sounding rockets study how winds in space drive currents in the upper atmosphere Some 50 miles up in the sky begins a dynamic region of the atmosphere known as the ionosphere. The region is filled with charged particles created by extreme ultraviolet radiation from the sun. ... more | .. |
 Down-under digestive microbes could help lower methane gas from livestock The discovery that a bacterial species in the Australian Tammar wallaby gut is responsible for keeping the animal's methane emissions relatively low suggests a potential new strategy may exist to tr ... more |
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 Study: Australian volcanoes 'overdue' Australian researchers studying the age of volcanoes in Western Victoria and South Australia say the regions are overdue for an eruption. ... more | .. |
 Record low Danube levels cut down bird populations: WWF The record low levels of the Danube this summer have caused a drastic drop in bird populations along the Bulgarian and Romanian stretch of the river, environmental group WWF said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Japan minister quits over gaffe in fresh blow to PM Japan's embattled Premier Naoto Kan suffered another blow Tuesday as his disaster reconstruction minister quit, having caused a furore with scathing remarks to leaders of tsunami-hit regions. ... more | .. |
Violence, drought spark 'human tragedy' in Somalia: UN Persistent violence compounded by a serious drought have forced 54,000 Somalis to flee in June, bringing the total number of displaced Somalis to a quarter of the country's population, the UNHCR said Tuesday. ... more |
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