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February 22, 2016

Death toll rises as Fiji cleans up after 'strongest ever' cyclone
Suva, Fiji (AFP) Feb 21, 2016
Fiji began a massive clean-up on Sunday after the most powerful cyclone in the Pacific nation's history left a trail of destruction, killing six people, flattening scores of homes and crippling infrastructure. The super-storm lashed the popular tourist destination overnight Saturday, packing wind gusts of 325 kilometres (202 miles) per hour, according to the UN humanitarian agency OCHA. OCHA said six people were killed during severe tropical cyclone Winston, the first-ever storm system to hit Fi ... read more

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				Monkey colony in Florida eats less human food than thought There may be fewer rhesus macaque monkeys in central Florida than previously thought, and far less of their diets is made up of food given to them by humans, according to a study in Silver Springs State Park. ... more		Moderate 5.9 magnitude quake hits NW Pakistan A moderate 5.9-magnitude earthquake shook northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, with tremors felt in different cities, but officials said there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. ... more

Contested waters in NATO's new Aegean migrant mission In its new mission in the Aegean to help Europe tackle its worst migration crisis in 60 years, NATO is wading into one of the world's most contested seas. ... more		Kenya lions 'back in park' after city visit: rangers Four lions who went on the prowl in Kenya's capital Nairobi after escaping from a national park have returned to the reserve, rangers said Saturday, after a day-long hunt for the big cats. ... more		Advanced air filter could enable building vents to capture carbon and reduce energy use MIT physicists observe key evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene New lightweight polymer film can prevent corrosion		Kenya army says it killed Shebab intelligence chief Kenya's army said Thursday it had killed the intelligence chief of the Shebab Islamist insurgent group and 10 other commanders in an air strike in Somalia. ... more
				One dead in Swiss Alps avalanche: police One person was killed and another injured on Sunday when an avalanche in the Swiss Alps swept away six off-piste skiers, police said. ... more		Colombian army kills seven guerrillas amid rising tension The Colombian military has killed seven leftist guerrillas and captured an eighth in an operation near the Venezuelan border, President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday amid a sharpening conflict with the country's second-largest guerrilla group. ... more

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New technique for turning sunlight into hydrogen A team of Korean researchers, affiliated with UNIST has recently pioneered in developing a new type of multilayered (Au NPs/TiO2/Au) photoelectrode that boosts the ability of solar water-splitting t ... more		How climate change will affect western groundwater By 2050 climate change will increase the groundwater deficit even more for four economically important aquifers in the western U.S., reports a University of Arizona-led team of scientists. The new r ... more		Mapping the world for climate sensitivity By developing this method, the international team of researchers has been able to map which areas are most sensitive to climate variability across the world. "Based on the satellite data gathe ... more		DNA evidence shows that salmon hatcheries cause substantial, rapid genetic changes A new study on steelhead trout in Oregon offers genetic evidence that wild and hatchery fish are different at the DNA level, and that they can become different with surprising speed. The research, p ... more

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