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Late snow storm sucker-punches US northeastNew York (AFP) April 23, 2012 Just as the US northeast was easing from a mild winter into a historically warm spring, a storm left thousands without power and prematurely leafy trees sagging under snow. The spring storm that started Sunday and moved slowly through on Monday left tens of thousands of people without electricity, including nearly 25,000 in New York state, Governor Andrew Cuomo said. "Outage numbers are likely to continue to climb," his office said. The hard-hit areas ranged from upstate New York and Pennsyl ... read more |
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  7,000 workers strike at Brazil's Amazon dam project Some 7,000 workers at a contested dam in Brazil's Amazon region went on strike Monday demanding better working conditions, the consortium in charge of the project said. ... more | .. |
  Breaking the Ice on Icebergs Icebergs are a natural and beautiful part of Earth's cryosphere, and are closely monitored and studied by scientists around the world. We asked JPL research scientists Ben Holt and Michael Schodlok ... more | .. |
  Investigation on Envisat continues Optical, radar and laser observations of the Envisat satellite show that it is still in a stable orbit. Efforts to regain contact with the satellite have been under way since 8 April, when it unexpe ... more | .. |
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  Genetically modified corn affects its symbiotic relationship with non-target soil organisms An increasing number of crops commercially grown today are genetically modified (GM) to resist insect pests and/or tolerate herbicides. Although Bt corn is one of the most commonly grown GM crops in ... more | .. |
  Improved Loblolly Pines Better for the Environment More than 50 years of genetics work to increase loblolly pine production in the Southeast has improved the trees' ability to act as carbon sinks that mitigate climate change, according to a new stud ... more | .. |
 Saving forests? Take a leaf from insurance industry's book A group of environmental scientists say a problem-ridden economic model designed to slow deforestation can be improved by applying key concepts from the insurance industry. REDD (Reduced Emiss ... more | .. |
  CU research shows warming climate threatens ecology at mountain research site west of Boulder A series of papers published this month on ecological changes at 26 global research sites - including one administered by the University of Colorado Boulder in the high mountains west of the city - ... more |
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Planned dams in Amazon may have largely negative ecosystem impact The Andean Amazon is becoming a major frontier for new hydroelectric dams, but an analysis of the potential impacts of these planned projects suggests that there may be serious ecological concerns t ... more | .. |
  Evidence for a geologic trigger of the Cambrian explosion The oceans teemed with life 600 million years ago, but the simple, soft-bodied creatures would have been hardly recognizable as the ancestors of nearly all animals on Earth today. Then somethi ... more | .. |
 Boeing Releases DataMaster 5.1 Geospatial Data Management Tool Boeing has announced the release of DataMaster 5.1, an advanced version of its geospatial data tool that offers defense and Intelligence Community customers improved map, terrain and full-motion vid ... more | .. |
 Study finds evidence nanoparticles may increase plant DNA damage Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) have provided the first evidence that engineered nanoparticles are able t ... more |
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 Scientists call for Arctic fishing moratorium, rules Scientists on Monday urged Arctic rim nations to set fishing regulations for the Arctic Ocean, and order a moratorium on fishing until stocks are assessed, before trawlers soon start dropping nets in the pristine waters. ... more | .. |
  China punishes eight ex-officials of rebel village China has punished eight former officials of Wukan for corruption, including the previous Communist party chief, state media said Monday after their land grabs sparked an unprecedented uprising. ... more | .. |
  Chinese researchers eye anti-AIDS gel Chinese researchers said Monday they have discovered an HIV-blocking agent that could be developed into a gel to limit the sexual transmission of AIDS. ... more | .. |
 Millions face hunger in Sahel as NGOs struggle to raise aid Aid agencies said Monday they are facing a multi-million dollar funding shortage to deal with a food crisis in the Sahel where people are resorting to increasingly desperate measures to survive. ... more |
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Top U.S. defense contractor L3 Tech to pay $62M to settle claims of deceptive practices
North Korean warship has 'serious accident' at launch
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 China probes Bo family's H.K. investments: report The Chinese government has sent a team to Hong Kong to investigate the business interests of suspended Politburo member Bo Xilai and his family, a report said Monday. ... more | .. |
  How WWII codes on Twitter thwarted French vote law Twitter users turned Sunday's French presidential election into a battle between a green Hungarian wine and a red Dutch cheese in a bid to get round tough laws banning result predictions. ... more | .. |
 Marine Le Pen: the new, and old, face of French far right Marine Le Pen, who made a spectacular French presidential election debut Sunday, has sought to transcend the bigoted image of the National Front she inherited from her firebrand father Jean-Marie. ... more | .. |
 Warming set to make corn prices pop Climate change will more than quadruple US corn prices in years of peak volatility, environmental scientists said on Sunday. ... more |
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 Arctic Ocean could be source of greenhouse gas: study The Arctic Ocean could be a significant contributor of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, scientists reported on Sunday. ... more | .. |
  Kenya flash food kills one, six missing One person was killed and six others went missing in Kenya when a flash flood in a gorge at a national park caught a church youth group off guard, rangers said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Use less water, producing energy and fertilizer at the same time Water is a valuable resource. New technologies are making it easier to handle drinking water responsibly, purify wastewater effectively and even recover biogas and fertilizer. Fraunhofer researchers ... more | .. |
 Cod has a key role in the whole Baltic Sea A new investigation put in evidence the key role of cod as regulator of the whole Baltic Sea ecosystem. The study shows that when the cod population in the central Baltic increases, it spreads into ... more |
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SpaceX mega-rocket Starship 9 cleared for launch following earlier mission failures
Rocky road geology reveals billion year story inside Martian crater
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 Scientists Trace Evolutionary History of What Mammals Eat The feeding habits of mammals haven't always been what they are today, particularly for omnivores. Some groups of mammals almost exclusively eat meat--take lions and tigers and other big cats as exa ... more | .. |
  Meat eating led to earlier weaning, helped humans spread across globe When early humans became carnivores, their higher-quality diet allowed mothers to wean babies earlier and have more children, with potentially profound effects on population dynamics and the course ... more | .. |
  Advances in personalized medicine for lung cancer Several new studies that may help doctors tailor lung cancer treatment to the characteristics of individual patients and of their tumors are being presented at the 3rd European Lung Cancer Conferenc ... more | .. |
 Jellyfish on the rise Jellyfish are increasing in the majority of the world's coastal ecosystems, according to the first global study of jellyfish abundance by University of British Columbia researchers. In a study ... more |
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  Green-glowing fish provides new insights into health impacts of pollution Understanding the damage that pollution causes to both wildlife and human health is set to become much easier thanks to a new green-glowing zebrafish. Created by a team from the University of Exeter ... more | .. |
 Sunlight plus lime juice makes drinking water safer Looking for an inexpensive and effective way to quickly improve the quality of your drinking water? According to a team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and th ... more | .. |
  Helicopter transport improves trauma patient survival compared to ground transport If you are severely injured, a helicopter flight to a top-level trauma center will boost your chance of survival over ground transport. That's the conclusion of a rigorous, national comparison of th ... more | .. |
  Orangutan nest building shows high degree of sophistication Orangutans may be smarter than previously thought if a new study into the sophisticated way they build nests is any indication. Scientists at The University of Manchester spent a year observin ... more |
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