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January 05, 2016

Why the real King Kong became extinct
Paris (AFP) Jan 4, 2016
The largest ape to roam Earth died out 100,000 years ago because it failed to tuck into savannah grass after climate change hit its preferred diet of forest fruit, scientists suggest. Gigantopithecus - the closest Nature ever came to producing a real King Kong - weighed five times as much as an adult man and probably stood three metres (nine feet) tall, according to sketchy estimates. In its heyday a million years ago, it inhabited semi-tropical forests in southern China and mainland Southeast ... read more

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Blizzard kills 15,000 cows in Texas A freak blizzard killed at least 15,000 dairy cows in the US state of Texas and for almost two days kept farmers from milking some of those that survived, officials said Monday. ... more		US towns at risk as levees fail amid rare winter floods Rare winter flooding continued to wreak havoc in the US states of Illinois and Missouri Monday as waterlogged levees strained to hold back frigid river waters that have claimed the lives of 25 people. ... more		Guatemala warily monitors erupting volcano Guatemalan authorities Monday warily monitored the eruption of a volcano near its capital that spewed columns of ash up to seven kilometers (four miles) high. ... more
				Nine dead as strong quake hits northeast India At least nine people were killed and scores injured Monday when a strong 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck northeast India, sending panicked residents fleeing into the streets even hundreds of kilometres away in Bangladesh. ... more		Natural catastrophe losses total $90 bn in 2015: Munich Re Financial losses from natural catastrophes totalled $90 billion in 2015, the lowest level since 2009, German reinsurer Munich Re said on Monday. ... more

Sub-zero weather kills 21 in Poland over weekend Twenty-one people died over the weekend in Poland because of freezing weather amid one of the country's deadliest cold spells, the government said Monday. ... more		Restoring natural habitats across farms will boost CO2 sinks New research into the potential for sparing land from food production to balance greenhouse gas emissions has shown that emissions from the UK farming industry could be largely offset by 2050. This ... more		Rise of the robots: the promise of physical AI Amazon robotics lead casts doubt on eye-catching humanoids 'Western tech dominance fading' at Lisbon's Web Summit		The Amazon's future Harvard researchers are challenging the widely-held theory that climate change could cause Amazon forests to rapidly change from forests to savannah. A new model, based on the effect of water stress ... more
				Antarctic sea ice melt released carbon from oceans as ice age ended A new study reconstructing conditions at the end of the last ice age suggests that as the Antarctic sea ice melted, massive amounts of carbon dioxide that had been trapped in the ocean were released ... more		Large and increasing methane emissions from northern lakes Methane is increasing in the atmosphere, but many sources are poorly understood. Lakes at high northern latitudes are such a source. However, this may change with a new study published in Nature Geo ... more

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Manure applications elevate nitrogen accumulation and loss Nitrogen (N) is an essential nutrient for plant growth, and nitrogen fertilization - including the application of manures - is a major management strategy in agriculture across the globe. However, t ... more		Traces of Icelandic volcanoes in a northeastern German lake Traces of volcanic ash originating from islandic volcanoes have been found in the sediments of Laker Tiefer See in the Nossentiner-Schwinzer Heide natural park in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. This allows ... more		'The war of tomorrow will begin in space': Macron UN watchdog calls on Iran to urgently allow 'long overdue' uranium stockpile verification How drones are altering contemporary warfare		Botanical survey helps understand changes in wild flora Volunteers in the north-east of England have created a benchmark survey of common plants with which to identify change in the countryside, its result and causes. This survey will be used in future t ... more
Climate change altering Greenland ice sheet and accelerating sea level rise The Greenland ice sheet has traditionally been pictured as a bit of a sponge for glacier meltwater, but new research has found it is rapidly losing the ability to buffer its contribution to rising s ... more		Frictional heat helps trigger explosive volcanic eruptions A new study into magma ascent by geoscientists at the University of Liverpool has found that temperature may be more important than pressure in generating gas bubbles which trigger explosive volcani ... more		A far from perfect host Biologists at the universities of York and Exeter have published new research which shows that an ancient symbiosis is founded entirely on exploitation, not mutual benefit. The researchers concluded ... more		ASA Awards Letter Contract for Landsat 9 Imager-2 NASA has awarded a sole source letter contract to Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation, Boulder, Colo., to build the Operational Land Imager-2 instrument for the Landsat 9 project. The ... more

	Meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet releasing faster The firn layers of the Greenland ice sheet might store less meltwater than previously assumed. Researchers from the USA, Denmark and the University of Zurich fear that this could lead to increased r ... more		Hong Kong leader 'very concerned' over missing booksellers Hong Kong's leader said he was "very concerned" Monday over the disappearance of five booksellers known for publications critical of the Chinese government after a prominent lawmaker accused mainland security officers of kidnapping the men. ... more

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Frustrated youth push for power in Taiwan elections		Search for more victims as deadly US floods stress levees		India's smog-shrouded capital pulls cars off roads		Body recovered from river as UK reels from storms		Wolf hunting begins in central Sweden

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India's smog-shrouded capital pulls cars off roads

Europe's winter warmth puts nature in tailspin

Fears of more deaths, devastation in flood-ravaged Missouri

Freak heatwave pushes winter North Pole above freezing

Paraguay villagers heap sandbags as flood threatens

Hundreds of flights grounded as snow blankets Istanbul

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River ecosystems show 'incredible' initial recovery after dam removal

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Expelled French journalist warns of dark days for media in China

China Communist Party expels former vice environment minister

IU scientists create 'nano-reactor' for the production of hydrogen biofuel

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