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Three Vietnam men survive 40 hours at sea after typhoon
Typhoon Fung-wong floods Philippine towns, leaves 5 dead in its wake Typhoon Fung-wong leaves flooded Philippine towns in its wake Typhoon exposes centuries-old shipwreck off Vietnam port Weakening Typhoon Fung-wong exits Philippines after displacing 1.4 million Super Typhoon Fung-wong makes landfall in Philippines Over 1 million evacuate as deadly Super Typhoon Fung-wong nears Philippines Dam reservoir levels drop below 3% in Iran's second city: media Philippines evacuates one million, woman dead as super typhoon nears Japan observes tiny tsunami following 6.7 magnitude quake |
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  Canberra, Australia (UPI) Feb 7, 2017 Australian energy company BHP Billiton issued a call to policymakers to do more to advance development of carbon capture technologies. The International Energy Agency described carbon capture and storage as a necessary addition to other low-carbon energy technologies meant to drive down global greenhouse gas emissions. The process involves capturing carbon dioxide from sources like power plants and storing it in such a way that it won't enter the atmosphere. To meet the benchmarks outlin ... read more |
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Beijing's mayor vows step away from coalThe mayor of Beijing said the city would move to improve air quality across the region by taking a dramatic step away from the use of coal. ... more  
Cassava carrier bags: Indonesian entrepreneur tackles plastic scourgeFrom bags washing up on Bali's beaches to food packaging scattered across roads and clogging waterways in cities, Indonesia is facing a plastic waste crisis driven by years of rapid economic growth. ... more  
Cape Town pools crack down on splashing as drought bitesCape Town on Wednesday announced a crackdown on splashing and surfer shorts at the city's swimming pools in a bid to save water as a fierce drought plagues Southern Africa. ... more  
Scientists find huge ancient landslide on Great Barrier ReefA massive underwater landslide that could have triggered a towering tsunami some 300,000 years ago has been discovered in the depths of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, scientists said Wednesday. ... more |
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Facebook adds tool for helping in times of crisisFacebook on Wednesday updated its Safety Check feature with a way for people to lend, or get, helping hands after disasters. ... more  
NASA Langley Ozone Sensor Set for Launch to Space StationBrooke Thornton has devoted eight years to a project that aims to check on the atmospheric health of the Earth. Needless to say, when NASA's Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III on the Inter ... more  
Electricity costs: A new way they'll surge in a warming worldClimate change is likely to increase U.S. electricity costs over the next century by billions of dollars more than economists previously forecast, according to a new study involving a University of ... more  
Powerful change: A profile of today's solar consumerPeople with higher incomes and better education no longer dominate demand for the domestic solar market in Queensland with a new QUT study revealing the highest uptake in solar PV systems comes from ... more  
How to recycle lithium batteriesRechargeable lithium ion batteries power our phones and tablets they drive us from A to B in electric vehicles, and have many applications besides. Unfortunately, the devices that they power can fai ... more  
Tarantulas inspire new structural color with the greatest viewing angleInspired by the hair of blue tarantulas, researchers from The University of Akron lead a team that made a structural-colored material that shows consistent color from all viewing directions. This fi ... more |
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Philippines seeks US, China help to combat sea piratesThe Philippines is seeking US and Chinese help to guard a major sea lane as Islamic militants shift attacks to international shipping, officials said Wednesday. ... more  
Ivory Coast govt in bid to end elite troops' mutinyThe Ivorian government on Wednesday pressed a bid to defuse a revolt by special forces, as fears of renewed unrest spread following weeks of protests over pay by security forces. ... more 
Researchers say climate models understate risk, ignore human factorsIn a new scientific paper, researchers argue current climate models focus too heavily on atmospheric inputs and and outputs and ignore human-related factors. As a result, scientists say many climate models understate the risk to the planet's ability to support human life. ... more  
Syngenta says profits down as ChemChina takeover loomsSwiss pesticide and seed giant Syngenta said Wednesday that restructuring costs hit 2016 earnings, even as its planned takeover by ChemChina looks set to be completed by the middle of the year. ... more |
  
Facebook on Wednesday updated its Safety Check feature with a way for people to lend, or get, helping hands after disasters.
A new "Community Help" feature provides a forum at the leading social network where assistance can be offered to victims of floods, earthquakes, fires or other kinds of natural or accidental tragedy, according to Facebook vice president of social good Naomi Gleit.
... more Afghans dig with 'any tools possible' for avalanche survivors Six cosmic catastrophes that could wipe out life on Earth Radiation level in Fukushima plant at record high |
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  University of Rochester researchers have developed a novel beam pattern that promises to lend unprecedented sharpness to ultrasound and radar images.
The beam's mathematical pattern yields wavelengths that momentarily collapse in on themselves, briefly forming a precise and powerful beam of sound or light waves.
"All the energy fits together in time and space so it comes together ... more Anatomy of a debris incident Japan's troubled 'space junk' mission fails New material that contracts when heated holds great industrial potential |
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One of the main obstacles in the production of hydrogen through water splitting is that hydrogen peroxide is also formed, which affects the efficiency stability of the reaction and the stability of the production. Dutch and Israelian researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology and the Weizmann Institute have succeeded in controlling the spin of electrons in the reaction and thereby almos ... more Scientists find huge ancient landslide on Great Barrier Reef Size matters for marine protected areas designed to aid coral Great Barrier Reef building coral under threat from poisonous seaweed |
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A University of Wyoming researcher contributed to a paper that determined a "Snowball Earth" event actually took place 100 million years earlier than previously projected, and a rise in the planet's oxidation resulted from a number of different continents - including what is now Wyoming - that were once connected.
"Isotopic dating of the Ongeluk large igneous province, South Africa, reveal ... moreStudy shows planet's atmospheric oxygen rose through glaciers Coal mine dust lowers spectral reflectance of Arctic snow by up to 84 percent Scientists unravel the process of meltwater in ocean depths |
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Swiss pesticide and seed giant Syngenta said Wednesday that restructuring costs hit 2016 earnings, even as its planned takeover by ChemChina looks set to be completed by the middle of the year.
Last year, Syngenta raked in a net profit of $1.2 billion (1.1 billion euros), which was 12 percent lower than a year earlier, blaming ballooning restructuring and impairment charges, including costs ... more Miracle crop: Can quinoa help feed the world? Students brew beer using 5,000-year-old recipe from China Persistent tropical foraging in the New Guinea highlands |
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  Ankara's outspoken mayor on Tuesday warned that outside forces could be using sophisticated technology to try to trigger a manmade earthquake in a deliberate bid to harm Turkey's fragile economy.
Melih Gokcek, who has been mayor of the Turkish capital since 1994, made the outlandish claims on Twitter where he regularly updates his more than 3.7 million followers, often writing in capital le ... more Prediction of large earthquakes probability improved Can underwater sonar canons stop a tsunami in its tracks? Researcher proposes novel mechanism to stop tsunamis in their tracks |
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The Ivorian government on Wednesday pressed a bid to defuse a revolt by special forces, as fears of renewed unrest spread following weeks of protests over pay by security forces.
The authorities went into talks with protesters from the elite special forces - the latest troops to mutiny in recent weeks - while sharply condemning the soldiers who fired in the air in the army barracks town o ... more Somalia to elect president amid security, drought woesElite I.Coast troops fire protest shots at two bases A struggle for land and survival in Kenya's restive highlands |
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New research indicates that Baltic hunter-gatherers were not swamped by migrations of early agriculturalists from the Middle East, as was the case for the rest of central and western Europe. Instead, these people probably acquired knowledge of farming and ceramics by sharing cultures and ideas - rather than genes - with outside communities.
Scientists extracted ancient DNA from a number of ... more Brain-computer interface allows completely locked-in people to communicate Study finds genetic continuity between modern East Asia people and their Stone Age relatives Girls less likely to associate 'brilliance' with their own gender |
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In a new scientific paper, researchers argue current climate models focus too heavily on atmospheric inputs and and outputs and ignore human-related factors. As a result, scientists say many climate models understate the risk to the planet's ability to support human life.
The paper was published in the journal National Science Review.
Environmental, climate, and economic policies ... more Cape Town pools crack down on splashing as drought bites Shifting monsoon altered early cultures in China The ancient Indus civilization's adaptation to climate change |
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An international team has, for the first time, developed a way of combining anonymised data from mobile phones and satellite imagery data to create high resolution maps to measure poverty.
The researchers, led by WorldPop at the University of Southampton and the Flowminder Foundation, have worked with Telenor Research and mobile phone company Grameenphone to examine rates of poverty and it ... more NASA Taking Stock of Phytoplankton Populations in the Pacific Why the Earth's magnetic poles could be about to swap places An application of astronomy to save endangered species |
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Reach back far enough in the family tree of a snail or a clam and you'll find a spiny little slug with tiny teeth, wearing a helmet. Scientists have unearthed the 480-million-year-old remains of a creature that reveals the earliest stages in the evolution of mollusks, a diverse group of invertebrates that includes squids, octopuses, snails, and clams. The discovery was announced in a paper publi ... more Spiny, armored slug reveals ancestry of molluscs Low level of oxygen delayed evolution for 2 billion years Study: Biodiversity of Ordovician radiation unrelated to asteroid breakup |
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Climate change is likely to increase U.S. electricity costs over the next century by billions of dollars more than economists previously forecast, according to a new study involving a University of Michigan researcher.
The study shows how higher temperatures will raise not just the average annual electricity demand, but more importantly, the peak demand. And to avoid brownouts and absorb t ... more Republican ex-top diplomats propose a carbon taxClimate change may overload US electrical grid: study Action is needed to make stagnant CO2 emissions fall |
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Superconductivity, where electrical currents course unhindered through a material, is one of modern physics' most intriguing scientific discoveries. It has many practical uses. Governments, industries, and health care and science centers all make use of superconductivity in applications extending from MRIs in hospitals to the cavities of particle accelerators, where scientists explore the fundam ... more How to recycle lithium batteries Building a better microbial fuel cell - using paper Researchers flip script for Li-Ion electrolytes to simulate better batteries |
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For decades scientists have wondered whether electromagnetic waves might play a role in intra- and inter-cell signaling. Researchers have suggested since the 1960s, for example, that terahertz frequencies emanate from cell membranes, but they've lacked the technology and tools to conduct reproducible experiments that could prove whether electromagnetic waves constitute purposeful signals for bio ... more New research on why plant tissues have a sense of direction Tiny organisms with a massive impact Killing off rivals makes for happy families, bacteria study finds |
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  The mysterious case of a billionaire who went missing from Hong Kong last week, reportedly abducted by mainland security agents, has underscored the precarious lives of China's ultra rich.
Local media say financier Xiao Jianhua was last seen at his apartment in Hong Kong's Four Seasons hotel and is under investigation in connection with China's 2015 stocks crash.
There is no shortage of ... more Missing Chinese billionaire targeted over stocks crash: report 'Abduction' of China tycoon sparks fear in Hong KongHong Kong leadership favourite testifies in corruption trial |
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Over the past three years, Honduras has lost a quarter of its pine forests to a plague of bark-munching beetles.
Now though, after a long campaign that saw soldiers wielding chainsaws to contain the bug invasion, a little green is growing back.
In mountains north of the capital that were stripped bare, trees replanted by students from the National University's forest sciences department ... more Amazon forest was transformed by ancient people: study Coastal wetlands excel at storing carbon Wetlands play vital role in carbon storage, study finds |
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