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  Paris (ESA) Mar 07, 2017 The ESA-developed Sentinel-2B satellite was launched today, doubling the coverage of high-resolution optical imaging in the Sentinel-2 mission for the European Union Copernicus environmental monitoring system. The 1.1 tonne satellite was carried into orbit on a Vega rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana at 01:49 GMT on 7 March (02:49 CET; 22:49 local time, 6 March). The first stage separated 1 min 55 sec after liftoff, followed by the second stage and fairing at 3 min 39 se ... read more |
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Tree growth model assists breeding for more woodPullman WA (SPX) Mar 07, 2017 A meeting in a forest between a biologist and a mathematician could lead to thicker, faster growing trees. "Mathematicians like translating biological processes into numbers," said Andrei Smertenko, ... more  
The cold exterminated all of themGeneva, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 07, 2017 The Earth has known several mass extinctions over the course of its history. One of the most important happened at the Permian-Triassic boundary 250 million years ago. Over 95% of marine species dis ... more 
Study shows US grasslands affected more by atmospheric dryness than precipitationStanford CA (SPX) Mar 07, 2017 A new study showing dryness of the atmosphere affects U.S. grassland productivity more than rainfall could have important implications for predicting how plants will respond to warming climate condi ... more  
Underwater mountains help ocean water rise from abyssBoston MA (SPX) Mar 07, 2017 At high latitudes, such as near Antarctica and the Arctic Circle, the ocean's surface waters are cooled by frigid temperatures and become so dense that they sink a few thousand meters into the ocean ... more |
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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 Tornado kills six, injures 750 as it wrecks southern Brazil town |
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Study shows how skates, rays and sharks sense electrical fieldsSan Francisco CA (SPX) Mar 07, 2017 Sharks, rays and skates can hunt for prey hidden in the sandy sea floor by "listening" for faint traces of bioelectricity - they can literally sense their prey's heart beating. The basic anatomy of ... more  
Solar storms remove electrons from large portions of Earth's atmosphereCopenhagen, Denmark (UPI) Mar 3, 2017 New research shows solar storms leave large portions of Earth's atmosphere without electrons. ... more 
How nature creates forest diversityVienna, Austria (SPX) Mar 07, 2017 Forests, especially tropical forests, are home to thousands of species of trees - sometimes tens to hundreds of tree species in the same forest - a level of biodiversity ecologists have struggled to ... more 
Evidence disproving tropical 'thermostat' theoryWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Mar 07, 2017 New research findings show that as the world warmed millions of years ago, conditions in the tropics may have made it so hot some organisms couldn't survive. Longstanding theories dating to the 1980 ... more  
Humans May Quickly Evolve on Mars, Biologist ClaimsHouston (Sputnik) Mar 03, 2017 An evolutionary biologist has suggested that human colonists on Mars could go through rapid evolution, eventually becoming an entirely new human species. Scott Solomon, an evolutionary biologist wit ... more 
EagleView announces Pictometry imagery integration with ArcGIS ProBothell, WA (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 EagleView is pleased to announce that their patented Pictometry imagery now integrates with ArcGIS Pro, Esri's desktop application. Pictometry for ArcGIS Pro is an add-in application that allows cus ... more |
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War-scarred Syrian children may be 'lost to trauma': aid groupUnited Nations, United States (AFP) March 6, 2017 Syrian children terrified by shelling and airstrikes are showing signs of severe emotional distress and could grow up to be a generation "lost to trauma," Save the Children warned Monday. ... more 
Poachers kill rare giant elephant in KenyaNairobi (AFP) March 6, 2017 One of Africa's oldest and largest elephants was killed by poachers in Kenya on Monday, according to a conservation group that protects the dwindling group of giant "tuskers". ... more  
11 Malian soldiers killed in attack on border baseBamako (AFP) March 5, 2017 At least 11 soldiers were killed in Mali on Sunday in an attack on an army base near the border with Burkina Faso, as rival armed factions surrounded the flashpoint city of Timbuktu. ... more  
French storm Zeus leaves two dead, 600,000 homes without powerParis (AFP) March 6, 2017 Winds gusting up to hurricane force battered west and central France on Monday, leaving two people dead and 600,000 homes without electricity, authorities said. ... more |
  London (UPI) Mar 2, 2017 
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) March 6, 2017War-scarred Syrian children may be 'lost to trauma': aid group  Tripoli (AFP) March 3, 2017115 migrants rescued, 25 missing: Libya navy  Mosul, Iraq (AFP) March 5, 2017Thousands flee anti-IS offensives in Iraq and Syria |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 07, 2017 
Aireon has announced that Thales has officially begun the testing and validation of the Aireon space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B) data. Initially signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in June of 2015, the start of data validation marks a major milestone for Aireon and Thales' efforts to ensure the successful integration of space-based ADS-B into the TopSky-ATC ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 03, 2017Scientists demonstrate improved particle warning to protect astronauts  Washington (UPI) Feb 27, 2017Raytheon gets $1 billion radar contract for Qatar  Espoo, Finland (SPX) Feb 28, 2017New use for paper industry's sludge and fly ash in plastics |
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At high latitudes, such as near Antarctica and the Arctic Circle, the ocean's surface waters are cooled by frigid temperatures and become so dense that they sink a few thousand meters into the ocean's abyss.
Ocean waters are thought to flow along a sort of conveyor belt that transports them between the surface and the deep in a never-ending loop. However, it remains unclear where the deep ... more Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Mar 03, 2017More bang for the buck  Tuwayhina, Syria (AFP) March 5, 2017Syrian farmers fear IS to flood villages near Euphrates  London, UK (SPX) Mar 01, 2017First direct measurements of Pacific seabed sediments reveal strong methane source |
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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 still struggle to estimate exactly how much ice they expect will disappear through the melt season. Now, a new NASA forecasting model based on satellite measurements is allowing researchers to make bet ... more Paris (AFP) March 1, 2017UN reports Antarctica's highest temperatures on record  Washington DC (SPX) Feb 28, 2017Air pollution may have masked mid-20th Century sea ice loss  Newark DE (SPX) Feb 28, 2017International team reports ocean acidification spreading rapidly in Arctic Ocean |
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 Champaign 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 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  Guerima, Colombia (AFP) March 4, 2017Colombia's 'drug triangle' puts hope in chocolate |
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 Washington 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 year both types of hazards are forecasted, as previous USGS maps only identified hazards from natural earthquakes. This research was published this week in Seismological Research Letters.
Approxima ... more Manila (AFP) March 5, 2017Powerful aftershock hits quake-stricken Philippine city  Harare (AFP) March 3, 2017Zimbabwe seeks aid after floods kill over 240 in 3 months  Catania, Italy (AFP) March 1, 2017After year of calm, Mt Etna bursts into life |
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 Maputo (AFP) March 3, 2017 
Mozambican opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama on Friday extended a truce between his rebel Renamo group and the government and said peace talks would resume next week.
The move prolongs a truce that Renamo fighters announced unilaterally the day before Christmas last year. It has been observed with only minor breaches, according to Dhlakama.
"We will extend the truce by 60 days to allow u ... more Bamako (AFP) March 5, 201711 Malian soldiers killed in attack on border base Dakar (AFP) March 4, 2017Senegal and Gambia announce new era of ties  Goma, Dr Congo (AFP) March 1, 201722 dead in DR Congo army clashes with M23 rebels |
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 St. 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 eastern Eurasia.
"The biological nature of the immediate predecessors of modern humans in eastern Eurasia has been poorly known from the human fossil record," said Erik Trinkaus, a corresponding au ... more Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2017Catalog of 208 human-caused minerals bolsters argument to declare 'Anthropocene Epoch'  Cambridge, Mass. (UPI) Mar 1, 2017Mothers dictate lifelong grooming habits in chimps  Boston MA (SPX) Feb 24, 2017Tiny fibers open new windows into the brain |
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 Voi, Kenya (AFP) March 5, 2017 
In a wildlife sanctuary in southern Kenya the relentless sun has bleached savannah grasses and dried up rivers, turning water holes first into muddy pits and now, dust bowls.
Herds of elephant, buffalo and zebra have gathered near one of the holes, where for six months, pea farmer Patrick Mwalua has been delivering water to them in a rented blue truck.
After the rains failed for the thir ... more Washington (AFP) March 3, 2017Trump team divided over Paris climate agreement  Washington DC (SPX) Feb 28, 2017Just how early is spring arriving in your neighborhood  Mogadishu (AFP) Feb 28, 2017Somali president declares 'national disaster' over drought |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 07, 2017 
Rainfall from spring-like downpours in the U.S. from February 25 to March 1 were analyzed at NASA using data from the Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM satellite. Record breaking warm temperatures this winter have caused plants to bloom early in the eastern United States. Unfortunately this has also resulted in the formation of spring-like severe thunderstorms and deadly tornadoes. ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 07, 2017Flashy first images arrive from NOAA's GOES-16 lightning mapper  Stanford CA (SPX) Mar 07, 2017Study shows US grasslands affected more by atmospheric dryness than precipitation  Paris (ESA) Mar 07, 2017Second 'colour vision' satellite for Copernicus launched |
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 Odense M, Denmark (SPX) Mar 01, 2017 
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Mar 07, 2017Evidence disproving tropical 'thermostat' theory  Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 07, 2017The cold exterminated all of them  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 01, 2017The oldest fossil giant penguin |
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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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 Oxford UK (SPX) Mar 07, 2017 
Satellite-powering technology that was abandoned decades ago has been reinvented to potentially work with traditional power stations to help them convert heat to electricity more efficiently, meaning we would need less fossil fuel to burn for power. A new study in Nano Energy presents a prototype energy converter, which uses graphene instead of metal, making it almost seven times more efficient. ... more Livermore CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2017Confined nanoparticles improve hydrogen storage materials performance  Richland WA (SPX) Mar 03, 2017Tweaking electrolyte makes better lithium-metal batteries  Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2017Getting rid of the last bits of sulfur in fuel |
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 Nairobi (AFP) March 6, 2017 
One of Africa's oldest and largest elephants was killed by poachers in Kenya on Monday, according to a conservation group that protects the dwindling group of giant "tuskers".
Richard Moller of the Tsavo Trust told AFP that Satao II, named after another famed giant killed in 2014, was found dead on Monday and was believed to have been shot with a poisoned arrow, however this had not been con ... more San Francisco CA (SPX) Mar 07, 2017Study shows how skates, rays and sharks sense electrical fields  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2017Woolly mammoths experienced a genomic meltdown just before extinction  Davis, Calif. (UPI) Mar 3, 2017Study explains why the panda is black and white |
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 Shanghai (AFP) March 3, 2017 
Shanghai has impounded thousands of brightly coloured bikes placed on city streets by cycle-sharing companies, in the latest sign of impatience with an explosion of the haphazardly-parked two-wheelers.
The bike-sharing sector has become one of the fastest-growing industries in the country, with users typically renting the bicycles for short periods by first unlocking them through the use of ... more Beijing (AFP) March 1, 2017Beijing's shanties: Towns of hope and despair  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 |
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Mar 07, 2017 
Forests, especially tropical forests, are home to thousands of species of trees - sometimes tens to hundreds of tree species in the same forest - a level of biodiversity ecologists have struggled to explain.
In a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and thei ... more Pullman WA (SPX) Mar 07, 2017Tree growth model assists breeding for more wood  Bangkok (AFP) March 2, 2017The battle to save Bangkok's 'Green Lung'  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2017Ancient peoples shaped the Amazon rainforest |
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