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  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 Rock samples from northeastern Canada retain chemical signals that help explain what Earth's crust was like more than 4 billion years ago, reveals new work from Carnegie's Richard Carlson and Jonathan O'Neil of the University of Ottawa. Their work is published by Science. There is much about Earth's ancient crust that scientists don't understand. This is because most of the planet's original crust simply isn't around any longer to be studied directly - it has either sunk back into the planet's int ... read more |
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Recovery after 'great dying' was slowed by more extinctionsAustin TX (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 Researchers studying marine fossil beds in Italy have found that the world's worst mass extinction was followed by two other extinction events, a conclusion that could explain why it took ecosystems ... more  
Operation of ancient biological clock uncoveredUtrecht, Netherlands (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 Ten years ago, researchers discovered that the biological clock in cyanobacteria consists of only three protein components: KaiA, KaiB and KaiC. These are the building blocks - the gears, springs an ... more 
Microbes Set The Stage For First AnimalsMoffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2017 It is thought that animal life first arose during the Ediacaran Period, between 635 and 541 million years ago, but these organisms bore little resemblance to the animals we know today. That's led so ... more  
One of last vaquita porpoises found dead in MexicoMexico City (AFP) March 17, 2017 Environmentalists said Thursday they have found the body of a baby vaquita marina porpoise, one of the last of its kind, washed up dead in northern Mexico. ... more |
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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 Winds, rain lash Philippines as super typhoon nears Tornado kills six, wrecks town in Brazil |
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Syria regime bombed Damascus water source: UNGeneva (AFP) March 14, 2017 The Syrian government intentionally bombed the Ain al-Fijeh spring in December, leaving more than five million people in Damascus without access to water, a UN probe said Tuesday, branding the strike a "war crime". ... more  
Science unravels spiders' monstrous food webParis (AFP) March 14, 2017 The world's spiders eat 400-800 million tonnes of insects every year - as much meat and fish as humans consume over the same period, a study said Tuesday. ... more  
Trump budget 'cripples' environment, science, critics sayMiami (AFP) March 16, 2017 US President Donald Trump's proposed 2018 budget would slash funding for science, health and environmental programs at home and abroad, sparking an outcry Thursday among experts who say the cuts would endanger the planet. ... more  
Searching for polar bears on Alaska's North SlopeWashington (UPI) Mar 15, 2017 On a frigid March day in 2011, workers with ENI Petroleum were busy moving construction equipment on and off Spy Island, a man-made offshore drill site in the Beaufort Sea a few miles off the coast near Ooliktok Point, when a female polar bear popped out of a deep snow drift under the artificial ground. She blinked wearily at her surprised neighbors, sniffed the air, then rolled around in the snow to clean off her white fur after a five-month slumber. In less than 12 hours, the island was shut down and evacuated. ... more  
BBC team among injured in Etna volcano dramaRome (AFP) March 16, 2017 Ten people were injured by flying rock and lava after Mount Etna, Europe's biggest active volcano, burst into life on Thursday, according to a BBC journalist and others caught up in a terrifying drama on the upper slopes. ... more  
Popular weedkiller doesn't cause cancer: EU agencyBrussels (AFP) March 15, 2017 The EU's chemicals agency said Wednesday that glyphosate, one of the world's most widely used weedkillers, should not be classed as a carcinogen. ... more |
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Scientists measure Earth's rotational forces with underground laser gyroscopeWashington (UPI) Mar 14, 2017 Scientists are preparing to measure the inertial rotation of Earth using an underground laser-based gyroscope. The goal is to reveal fluctuations in Earth's rate of rotation and confirm a component of the theory of relativity known as the Lense-Thirring effect. ... more  
Pentagon chief says climate change threatens securityWashington (AFP) March 15, 2017 Unlike some in the Trump administration, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis believes climate change is real and that it poses a threat to international security, according to a US media report. ... more 
Hawaiian biodiversity began declining before humans arrivedWashington (UPI) Mar 16, 2017 New research suggests plant and animal diversity has been on the decline on all Hawaiian Islands, except for the Big Island, for several million years. ... more 
Curbing pollution can prevent 3 mn Chinese deaths a yearParis (AFP) March 14, 2017 China can avoid three million premature deaths each year if it slashes a type of fine particle air pollution to UN recommended levels, a study said Wednesday. ... more |
  Prague (AFP) March 16, 2017 
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei on Thursday slammed "shameful" politicians who ignore refugees as he launched a giant art installation centered on their fate at the National Gallery in Prague.
Called "Law of the Journey", the show features a 70-metre-long (230-foot-long) inflatable boat with 258 oversize refugee figures.
A tribute to the thousands who have drowned crossing the Mediter ... more Kathmandu (AFP) March 14, 2017Nepal police demolish camp for earthquake displaced  Hamam Al-Alil, Iraq (AFP) March 14, 2017After fleeing homes, Iraqis near Mosul wait for tents  Tokyo (AFP) March 17, 2017Japan court rules government liable for Fukushima disaster |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 13, 2017 
Physicists from MIPT have predicted the existence of transparent composite media with unusual optical properties. Using graphics card based simulations, scientists studied regular volume structures composed of two dielectrics with close parameters, and found that the optical properties of these structures differ from both those of natural crystals and artificial periodic composites, which are cu ... more Saint-Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Mar 13, 2017New application of the selective laser melting method  Raleigh, NC (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Researchers offer overview of composite metal foams and potential applications  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Solid metal has 'structural memory' of its liquid state |
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 Paris (AFP) March 15, 2017 
Australia's Great Barrier Reef may never recover from last year's warming-driven coral bleaching, said a study Wednesday that called for urgent action in the face of ineffective conservation efforts.
Record-high temperatures in 2015 and 2016 drove an unprecedented bleaching episode, which occurs when stressed corals expel the algae that live in their tissue and provide them with food.
Bl ... more Stanford CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Seawater threat to California Central Coast aquifers  Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 15, 2017Could Leftover Heat from Last El Nino Fuel a New One  Washington (UPI) Mar 16, 2017Hawaiian biodiversity began declining before humans arrived |
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 Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Mar 15, 2017 
Atmospheric CO2 concentrations swung over a range of 100 ppm (parts per million, by volume) during the ice ages. The exact processes behind this variation have been difficult to pinpoint, but it is known that changes in the storage of carbon by photosynthetic organisms played an important role.
"When we took a close look at measurements from ice cores, we noticed that atmospheric CO2 conce ... more Boston MA (SPX) Mar 15, 2017A perfect storm of fire and ice may have led to snowball Earth  Washington (UPI) Mar 15, 2017Searching for polar bears on Alaska's North Slope  Hanover NH (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Increased water availability may release more nutrients into soil in Antarctica |
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Scientists at Ohio State University found honey bees living in the outer suburbs - where residential development transitions into agricultural land - tend to forage on farms, not in urban gardens.
Researchers tracked the feeding habits of honey bees from colonies in an apiary located in a suburban cemetery in central Ohio.
The study, conducted in 2014, lasted from late summer t ... more Brussels (AFP) March 15, 2017Popular weedkiller doesn't cause cancer: EU agency  Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Microbes measure ecological restoration success  Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 13, 2017This small molecule could have a big future in global food security |
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 Antananarivo (AFP) March 14, 2017 
A cyclone that slammed into Madagascar last week killed 78 people and affected 400,000, the authorities said on Tuesday as they classed the event a national disaster.
A quarter of a million of people were displaced from their homes, 18 are listed as missing and 250 as injured, the National Bureau for Risk and Catastrophe Management (BNGRC) said in a statement.
A previous toll, released o ... more Rome (AFP) March 16, 2017BBC team among injured in Etna volcano drama  Houghton, MI (SPX) Mar 13, 2017Volcano breath: Measuring sulfur dioxide from space  Tokyo (AFP) March 11, 2017Japan recalls tsunami, nuclear tragedy six years on |
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 Conakry (AFP) March 13, 2017 
A Guinean soldier wanted over the massacre of more than 150 people in a Conakry stadium has been extradited, ending years on the run in neighbouring Senegal and paving the way for his trial.
Aboubakar Sidiki Diakite, also known as Toumba Diakite, was an aide de camp to Guinean coup leader Dadis Camara when 157 people were killed in September 2009 at an opposition rally.
Witnesses reporte ... more Addis Ababa (AFP) March 10, 2017.africa joins the internet  Abuja (AFP) March 8, 2017Nigerian military to probe rights abuse claims  Bamako (AFP) March 5, 201711 Malian soldiers killed in attack on border base |
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 Binghamton NY (SPX) Mar 15, 2017 
A large international research team, directed by the Portuguese archaeologist Joao Zilhao and including Binghamton University anthropologist Rolf Quam, has found the oldest fossil human cranium in Portugal, marking an important contribution to knowledge of human evolution during the middle Pleistocene in Europe and to the origin of the Neandertals.
The cranium represents the westernmost hu ... more Columbia SC (SPX) Mar 13, 2017Widespread platinum may help solve Clovis people mystery  Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Mar 09, 2017Aboriginal hair shows 50,000 years connection to country  Paris (AFP) March 9, 2017China's elderly live longer, but are less fit: study |
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 Nairobi (AFP) March 15, 2017
Thirteen people, mostly women and children, have been killed in central Kenya this week in a cycle of violence between rival farming tribes hit by drought, police and the Red Cross said.
Police spokesman George Kinoti said the violence broke out on Monday when Ilchamus herdsmen, a sub-group of the Tugen people, launched an attack on members of the Pokot tribe seeking to steal their cattle. ... more Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Cold climates and ocean carbon sequestration  Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Vicious circle of drought and forest loss in the Amazon  Washington (AFP) March 15, 2017Pentagon chief says climate change threatens security |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 15, 2017 
Researchers in Italy hope to measure Earth's rotation using a laser-based gyroscope housed deep underground, with enough experimental precision to reveal measurable effects of Einstein's general theory of relativity. The ring laser gyroscope (RLG) technology enabling these Earth-based measurements provide, unlike those made by referencing celestial objects, inertial rotation information, reveali ... more Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Mar 15, 201715 years of GRACE: Satellite mission flies thrice its planned time  Washington (UPI) Mar 14, 2017Scientists measure Earth's rotational forces with underground laser gyroscope  Washington (UPI) Mar 10, 2017How Arctic weather can improve mid-latitude forecasts |
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 College Park MD (SPX) Mar 15, 2017 
More than 2.4 billion years ago, Earth's atmosphere was inhospitable, filled with toxic gases that drove wildly fluctuating surface temperatures. Understanding how today's world of mild climates and breathable air took shape is a fundamental question in Earth science.
New research from the University of Maryland, the University of St. Andrews, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Universi ... more Austin TX (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Recovery after 'great dying' was slowed by more extinctions  Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Microbes Set The Stage For First Animals  New York NY (SPX) Mar 15, 2017New study identifies ancient shark ancestors |
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 Paris (AFP) March 17, 2017 
Global carbon dioxide emissions from the energy sector held stable for the third straight year in 2016 despite the global economy continuing to expand, the International Energy Agency said Friday.
By far the main culprit in global warming, carbon dioxide emissions stood at 32.1 billion tonnes last year, the IEA estimated.
This was the same level as the same as the previous two years, des ... more Wellington, New Zealand (UPI) Feb 21, 2017New Zealand lauded for renewables, but challenges remain  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 |
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 Sydney (AFP) March 15, 2017  A woman whose headphones caught fire on a plane suffered burns to her face and hands, Australian officials said Wednesday as they warned about the dangers of battery-operated devices in-flight.
The passenger was listening to music on her own battery-operated headphones as she dozed about two hours into the trip from Beijing to Melbourne on February 19 when there was a loud explosion.
"As ... moreNuremberg, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Exhaust fumes as a resource  Sydney (AFP) March 12, 2017Australia PM, Musk discuss offer to fix power woes  Ames IA (SPX) Mar 13, 2017Discovery in new material raises questions about theoretical models of superconductivity |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 15, 2017 
Fish on the South Pacific island of Rarotonga have evolved the ability to survive out of water and leap about on the rocky shoreline because this helps them escape predators in the ocean, a ground-breaking new study shows.
"Avoiding predators might be an explanation of why some animals move from their ancestral homes into starkly different environments, but evidence for this is rare becaus ... more Champaign IL (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Milkweed losses may not fully explain monarch butterfly declines  Hanoi (AFP) March 14, 2017Vietnam seizes 100 kgs of rhino horn from Kenya  Paris (AFP) March 14, 2017Science unravels spiders' monstrous food web |
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 Washington (AFP) March 13, 2017 
With North Korea's drive to field a nuclear-armed missile rapidly emerging as President Donald Trump's first foreign crisis, his top diplomat is heading to a nervous region.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, a former oil executive with no government experience, has yet to make an impact in Washington, where he has not even appointed a senior staff.
But this week he will head as emissa ... more Beijing (AFP) March 14, 2017'Tell it like it is': China delegate rips meek Congress  Hong Kong (AFP) March 14, 2017Hong Kong leadership rivals clash ahead of 'unfair' vote  Beijing (AFP) March 13, 2017China lawmakers draft rules against defaming 'heroes' |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 15, 2017 
New research investigating the transition of the Sahara from a lush, green landscape 10,000 years ago to the arid conditions found today, suggests that humans may have played an active role in its desertification.
The desertification of the Sahara has long been a target for scientists trying to understand climate and ecological tipping points. A new paper published in Frontiers in Earth Sc ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 14, 2017Louisiana wetlands hurting from accelerated sea level rise  Sydney (AFP) March 13, 2017Huge swathe of Australian mangroves 'die of thirst'  Vienna, Austria (SPX) Mar 07, 2017How nature creates forest diversity |
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