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  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 We often think of the Amazon rainforest as a vast expanse of nature untouched by humans. But a new study in Science suggests that's not true - in fact, today's rainforest is shaped by trees that were cultivated by indigenous peoples thousands of years ago. "Some of the tree species that are abundant in Amazonian forests today, like cacao, acai, and Brazil nut, are probably common because they were planted by people who lived there long before the arrival of European colonists," says Nigel Pitman, ... read more |
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Woolly mammoths experienced a genomic meltdown just before extinctionWashington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 Dwindling populations created a "mutational meltdown" in the genomes of the last wooly mammoths, which had survived on an isolated island until a few thousand years ago. Rebekah Rogers and Montgomer ... more  
100,000-year-old human skulls from east Asia reveal complex mix of trends in time, spaceSt. Louis, MO (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 Two partial archaic human skulls, from the Lingjing site, Xuchang, central China, provide a new window into the biology and populations patterns of the immediate predecessors of modern humans in eas ... more 
Catalog of 208 human-caused minerals bolsters argument to declare 'Anthropocene Epoch'Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 Human industry and ingenuity has done more to diversify and distribute minerals on Earth than any development since the rise of oxygen over 2.2 billion years ago, experts say in a paper. The work bo ... more  
More bang for the buckSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 Land-based pollutants have been linked to the degradation of several Hawaiian reefs. Take West Maui, for instance, where coral ecosystems are so impacted that reefs and watersheds have been recogniz ... more |
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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 Philippines evacuates hundreds of thousands as super typhoon nears |
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Magic cover crop carpetWashington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 Organic farmers have to make hard choices between protecting soil from erosion and controlling weeds. For example, large-scale organic farming relies heavily on tillage. Tilling breaks up the soil t ... more 
Hand-picked specialty crops 'ripe' for precision agriculture techniquesChampaign IL (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 Timing the harvest and transport of highly perishable, hand-picked crops such as strawberries so these delicate products reach consumers at peak flavor and freshness is an intricate dance that partn ... more  
World's oldest fossils unearthedLondon, UK (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 Remains of microorganisms at least 3,770 million years old have been discovered by an international team led by UCL scientists, providing direct evidence of one of the oldest life forms on Earth. Ti ... more  
Iron dissolved by air pollution may increase ocean potential to trap carbonBirmingham UK (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 Iron particles generated by cities and industry are being dissolved by man-made air pollution and washed into the sea - potentially increasing the amount of greenhouse gases that the world's oceans ... more 
Mollusk graveyards are time machines to oceans' pristine pastGainesville FL (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 A University of Florida study shows that mollusk fossils provide a reliable measure of human-driven changes in marine ecosystems and shifts in ocean biodiversity across time and space. Collect ... more  
Taking earth's inner temperatureCape Cod MA (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 The temperature of Earth's interior affects everything from the movement of tectonic plates to the formation of the planet. A new study led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) suggests th ... more |
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Biochemical 'fossil' shows how life may have emerged without phosphateWashington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 One major mystery about life's origin is how phosphate became an essential building block of genetic and metabolic machinery in cells, given its poor accessibility on early Earth. In a study publish ... more 
Mid-Mesozoic beetle in amber stirs questions on rise of flowering plants and pollinatorsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 Named for Charles Darwin, the only known specimen of a newly discovered beetle, Darwinylus marcosi, died in a sticky gob of tree sap some 105 million years ago in what is now northern Spain. A ... more  
New USGS Maps Identify Potential Ground-Shaking Hazards in 2017Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 New USGS maps identify potential ground-shaking hazards in 2017 from both human-induced and natural earthquakes in the central and eastern U.S., known as the CEUS. This is the second consecutive yea ... more  
NASA study improves forecasts of summer Arctic sea iceGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 The Arctic has been losing sea ice over the past several decades as Earth warms. However, each year, as the sea ice starts to melt in the spring following its maximum wintertime extent, scientists s ... more |
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Orolia subsidiary McMurdo secured a contract to enhance existing search-and-rescue technology for the U.K. Maritime and Coastguard Agency, the company announced Thursday.
Under the contract, the company will work to enable U.K. search-and-rescue workers to operate using the new Medium-altitude Earth Orbit Search and Rescue satellites, or MEOSAR, currently being deployed.
Work wil ... more Les Cayes, Haiti (AFP) Feb 27, 2017Haitians' ire over carnival spending amid hurricane's ruins  Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Feb 24, 2017Carnival helps Rio put crime, recession on back burner  Ottawa (AFP) Feb 25, 2017Canada conservationist warns of 'cyber poaching |
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Our constantly-changing sun sometimes erupts with bursts of light, solar material, or ultra-fast energized particles - collectively, these events contribute to space weather. In a study published Jan. 30, 2017, in Space Weather, scientists from NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, in Boulder, Colorado, have shown that the warning signs of one type of space weather even ... more Berkeley CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2017When Rocket Science Meets X-ray Science  Denver CO (SPX) Feb 28, 2017York Space partners with Metropolitan State for Denver satellite facility  Espoo, Finland (SPX) Feb 28, 2017New use for paper industry's sludge and fly ash in plastics |
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A team of international researchers led by University of Freiburg hydrologist Dr. Andreas Hartmann suggests that inclusion of currently missing key hydrological processes in large-scale climate change impact models can significantly improve our estimates of water availability.
The study shows that groundwater recharge estimates for 560 million people in karst regions in Europe, the Middle ... more Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Mar 03, 2017More bang for the buck  London, UK (SPX) Mar 01, 2017First direct measurements of Pacific seabed sediments reveal strong methane source  Miami (AFP) Feb 27, 2017New urgency in fight to restore Florida Everglades |
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Humans may have been altering Arctic sea ice longer than previously thought, according to researchers studying the effects of air pollution on sea ice growth in the mid-20th Century. The new results challenge the perception that Arctic sea ice extent was unperturbed by human-caused climate change until the 1970s.
Scientists have observed Arctic sea ice loss since the mid-1970s and some cli ... more Paris (AFP) March 1, 2017UN reports Antarctica's highest temperatures on record  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 03, 2017NASA study improves forecasts of summer Arctic sea ice  Newark DE (SPX) Feb 28, 2017International team reports ocean acidification spreading rapidly in Arctic Ocean |
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Timing the harvest and transport of highly perishable, hand-picked crops such as strawberries so these delicate products reach consumers at peak flavor and freshness is an intricate dance that partners Mother Nature with manual labor.
However, many of the "smart farming" techniques and technologies that help growers harvest more of what they sow faster and more efficiently have focused pri ... more Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2017Researchers propose using CRISPR to accelerate plant domestication  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2017Magic cover crop carpet  Boca Raton FL (SPX) Feb 27, 2017SpaceX delivers BAM-FX to ISS for Zero Gravity Solutions |
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Mount Etna, the famous Sicilian volcano, has erupted for the first time in more than year.
The highest volcano in Europe burst into life on Monday evening and continued to produce fountains of bright orange lava into Tuesday.
The relatively small eruption was not sufficiently powerful to cause any problems for residential centres near the peak, on the eastern side of the island, and ... more Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2017New USGS Maps Identify Potential Ground-Shaking Hazards in 2017  Santiago (AFP) Feb 27, 2017Water slowly restored in Chile capital after deadly floods  Miami FL (SPX) Feb 28, 2017Study targets warm water rings that fuel hurricane intensification |
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The Congolese army said Wednesday it had killed 20 fighters from the M23 militia group and lost two soldiers in clashes with the rebels since the end of January.
General Leon Mushale told reporters in the eastern city of Goma that a further 25 rebels either were captured or surrendered and that six soldiers had been injured.
The clashes occurred in the eastern part of DR Congo, on an ... more Dar Es Salaam (AFP) March 1, 2017Tanzania bans booze sachets  Niamey (AFP) Feb 26, 2017France sends backup to Niger after 16 troops killed  Bangui, CAR (AFP) Feb 26, 2017UN airstrikes in C.Africa target 'heavily armed' militia |
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According to new research, a chimp's grooming behaviors are instilled by his or her mother, and the ingrained behaviors last a lifetime.
"I think what it really shows is how strong the maternal influence is," Richard Wrangham, a professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University, told the Harvard Gazette. "It's very charming, really - our oldest-known son was almost 40 years ol ... more St. Louis, MO (SPX) Mar 03, 2017100,000-year-old human skulls from east Asia reveal complex mix of trends in time, space  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2017Catalog of 208 human-caused minerals bolsters argument to declare 'Anthropocene Epoch'  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2017Newfound primate teeth take a big bite out of the evolutionary tree of life |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 28, 2017 
Even Punxsutawaney Phil can't be blamed for being baffled this year and hightailing it back to his burrow. He predicted six more weeks of winter on Feb 2, but by then spring was already springing well ahead of historical norms in much of the USA.
While we've known for a over a decade now that climate change is variably advancing the onset of spring across the United States, a new set of ma ... more Mogadishu (AFP) Feb 28, 2017Somali president declares 'national disaster' over drought  Exeter, UK (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Warming ponds could accelerate climate change  Quixeramobim, Brazil (AFP) Feb 21, 2017Brazil's poorest region suffers worst drought in a century |
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 
Transshipment, the transfer of goods from one boat to another, is a major pathway for illegally caught and unreported fish to enter the global seafood market. It has also been associated with drug smuggling and slave labor. Illegal in many cases, transshipment has been largely invisible and nearly impossible to manage, because it often occurs far from shore and out of sight. Until now.
Tod ... more Paris (ESA) Mar 03, 2017Sentinel-2B poised for liftoff  Canberra, Australia (SPX) Feb 28, 2017The Long Shot: Photographing A Milk Carton 3500 Kilometres Away  San Francisco CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2017MDA to Acquire DigitalGlobe |
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Millions of years ago something happened, allowing early Homo sapiens to branch out from the primitive hominoid family tree. Was this crucial turn in human evolution partly driven by seaweed and its particular content of essential nutrients?
Over the past 2.5 - 2 million years human brains have gone through the most significant development, and as a result modern-day humans are left with a ... more London, UK (SPX) Mar 03, 2017World's oldest fossils unearthed  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 01, 2017The oldest fossil giant penguin  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2017Mid-Mesozoic beetle in amber stirs questions on rise of flowering plants and pollinators |
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 Wellington, New Zealand (UPI) Feb 21, 2017  Even with international praise for its renewable energy strategy, New Zealand's government said there is room for improvement.
An annual review of the New Zealand energy sector from the International Energy Agency described the country as a "success story" for its ability to advance on low-carbon options like hydro-electric power and geothermal energy, all without government subsidies. ... more Strasbourg, France (AFP) Feb 15, 2017EU parliament backs draft carbon trading reforms  Taipei (AFP) Feb 12, 2017Taiwan lantern makers go green for festival of lights  Washington (AFP) Feb 8, 2017Republican ex-top diplomats propose a carbon tax |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2017 
Scientists led by a team at Caltech have developed a new method for potentially removing nearly all sulfur compounds from gas and diesel fuel. Sulfur compounds in fuels such as gasoline and diesel create air pollution when the fuel is burned.
To address that challenge, large-scale oil refinery processes remove the majority of sulfur from fuel down to a government-mandated level. The new te ... more Houston TX (SPX) Mar 03, 2017New path suggested for nuclear fusion  Vernon CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2017Romeo Power expands EV battery pack production in Southern California  Richland WA (SPX) Mar 03, 2017Tweaking electrolyte makes better lithium-metal batteries |
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Elephants hardly ever sleep in the wild, getting around two hours of shut-eye per night and only in the wee hours of the morning, researchers said Wednesday.
The findings in the journal PLOS ONE are based on two female wild African elephants - living in Botswana's Chobe National Park - who appear to sleep the least of any known mammals to date.
Researchers fitted the elephants' tru ... more Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2017Woolly mammoths experienced a genomic meltdown just before extinction  Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 28, 2017Dogs, toddlers show similarities in social intelligence  Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2017Recovering predators and prey |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 1, 2017 
A nerve centre for migrant workers who stream in from around the country in search of a better life, Black Bridge Village is a place of industry and desperation.
Posters on the wall offer easy money for blood donations: 400 ml - almost one US pint - earns between 400 and 500 yuan, enough to pay the rent for a small room.
Ramshackle structures of brick, corrugated iron and wood have mu ... more Hong Kong (AFP) March 1, 2017Hong Kong rebel lawmakers fight parliament ban  Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 27, 2017Activists gatecrash meeting of Hong Kong leadership hopeful  Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 28, 2017China's favourite wins strong backing in Hong Kong leadership race |
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About 600 mostly indigenous Hondurans held a protest in front of the Supreme Court on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of murdered activist Berta Caceres and further her campaign against a hydroelectric company.
"Long live Berta. The struggle continues," yelled the crowd, which included workers, villagers, women and rights activists.
The demonstration was held nearly a year after th ... more Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2017Ancient peoples shaped the Amazon rainforest  Bristol, UK (SPX) Feb 28, 2017Forests to play major role in meeting Paris climate targets  Stirling, UK (SPX) Feb 24, 2017Forests worldwide threatened by drought |
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