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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 In March, the Arctic sea ice pack is supposed to reach its greatest extent - but this year it's far below average, off by an area about the size of Texas and New Mexico combined. Satellite observations currently reveal how much of the ocean surface is covered by ice, but there is another critical measurement to make. Researchers are already anticipating using NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, to measure sea ice in the third dimension. Satellites have been continuously ... read more |
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Last remnant of North American ice sheet on track to vanishBoulder CO (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 The last piece of the ice sheet that once blanketed much of North America is doomed to disappear in the next several centuries, says a new study by researchers at Simon Fraser University in British ... more  
Relativistic Electrons Uncovered with NASA's Van Allen ProbesGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 16, 2017 Earth's radiation belts, two doughnut-shaped regions of charged particles encircling our planet, were discovered more than 50 years ago, but their behavior is still not completely understood. Now, n ... more  
Predicting how bad the bends will beDurham NC (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 Researchers have created a new model for predicting decompression sickness after deep-sea dives that not only estimates the risk, but how severe the symptoms are likely to be. The US Navy Diving Man ... more 
Optical fingerprint can reveal pollutants in the airGothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 More efficient sensors are needed to be able to detect environmental pollution. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have proposed a new, sophisticated method of detecting molecules with ... 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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Changing temperatures and precipitation may affect living skin of drylandsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 Arid and semiarid ecosystems are expected to experience significant changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, which may affect soil organisms in ways that cause surfaces to become lighter i ... more  
Wild sunflowers provide resilient diversityWashington DC (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 Beauty and utility in one bright package, sunflowers are one of just a few commercial crops with origins in the United States. Today, sunflowers are grown in more than 70 countries. The value of the ... more 
Extensive ice cap once covered sub-antarctic island of South GeorgiaExeter, UK (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 A new study reveals the sub-antarctic island of South Georgia - famous for its wildlife - was covered by a massive ice cap during the last ice age. The results are published in the journal Nature Co ... more 
With climate change shrubs and trees expand northwards in the SubarcticCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 Shrubs expand in the tundra in northern Scandinavia. And it is known that fixation of nitrogen from the air is in the tundra to a high degree performed by cyanobacteria associated with mosses. Also ... more  
VXS-1 Warlocks Assist NASA in Snow Pack Research CampaignPatuxent River MD (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 The Scientific Development Squadron ONE (VXS-1) "Warlocks," part of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, participated in SnowEx, a NASA-sponsored campaign, Feb. 16-26 in Colorado. The exercise ... more 
Rapid decline of Arctic sea ice a combination of climate change and natural variabilitySeattle WA (SPX) Mar 15, 2017 Arctic sea ice in recent decades has declined even faster than predicted by most models of climate change. Many scientists have suspected that the trend now underway is a combination of global warmi ... more |
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 NASA Satellite Identifies Global Ammonia 'Hotspots' 
How to conserve polar bears and maintain subsistence harvestSeattle WA (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 Polar bears are listed as a threatened species as the ice-covered ocean they depend on for hunting and transportation becomes scarce. Changes in the Arctic Ocean are also affecting the humans who ha ... more 
Study quantifies effect of 'legacy phosphorus' in reduced water qualityMadison WI (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 For decades, phosphorous has accumulated in Wisconsin soils. Though farmers have taken steps to reduce the quantity of the agricultural nutrient applied to and running off their fields, a new study ... more  
Is spring getting longerDurham NH (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 With the first day of spring around the corner, temperatures are beginning to rise, ice is melting, and the world around us is starting to blossom. Scientists sometimes refer to this transition from ... more 
How improved valves let grasses 'breathe,' cope with climate changePalo Alto, CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 New work from a joint team of plant biologists and ecologists from Carnegie and Stanford University has uncovered the factor behind an important innovation that makes grasses - both the kind that ma ... more |
  Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017 
The U.S. Coast Guard will not see the budget cuts the Trump administration planned for the branch after a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers blocked the move.
While President Donald Trump continues to push Congress to boost budgets for military branches managed by the Department of Defense, the administration sought to strip $1.3 billion in spending for the Coast Guard. The cut would hav ... more Mosul, Iraq (AFP) March 19, 2017Mosul families go against the tide to return home Mosul, Iraq (AFP) March 18, 2017Death carts carry family ripped apart by Mosul campaign  Washington (AFP) March 18, 2017Do US self-defense laws trigger more crime? |
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 Nuremberg, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 
Physicists at Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) have entered new territory with regard to the pulsing of electron beams. Their method could soon be used to develop electron microscopes suitable for ultra-short time scales such as needed for observing the motion of atoms.
Electron microscopes have opened up a whole new world to researchers: state-of-the-art scanning an ... more Washington DC (SPX) Mar 17, 2017The strangeness of slow dynamics  Bethesda MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Ecosystem For Near-Earth Space Control  Toulouse, France (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Airbus ships first high-power all-electric EUTELSAT 172B satellite to Kourou for Eutelsat |
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Researchers have created a new model for predicting decompression sickness after deep-sea dives that not only estimates the risk, but how severe the symptoms are likely to be. The US Navy Diving Manual may incorporate the model into its next update, as will commercial products intended to help recreational divers plan their ascents to avoid "the bends." The results appear online in the journal P ... more Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Diving with the sharks  Madison WI (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Study quantifies effect of 'legacy phosphorus' in reduced water quality  Paris (AFP) March 15, 2017Great Barrier Reef may never recover from bleaching: study |
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After the relative quiet of the long dark winter months, the Arctic will be a tad busier over the coming weeks as numerous researchers descend on this harsh, yet fragile environment. Their aim is not to disturb its beauty, but to join forces in an all-out effort to measure ice on land and sea.
Environmental changes in the Arctic are no longer only of interest to scientists. The need to und ... more Seattle WA (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Rapid decline of Arctic sea ice a combination of climate change and natural variability  Paris (AFP) March 18, 2017Preserving the memory of glaciers  Exeter, UK (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Extensive ice cap once covered sub-antarctic island of South Georgia |
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Beauty and utility in one bright package, sunflowers are one of just a few commercial crops with origins in the United States. Today, sunflowers are grown in more than 70 countries. The value of the global sunflower crop is estimated to be over $20 billion.
But the world's fifth largest oilseed crop is facing a genetic challenge. As sunflowers were domesticated, breeders selected traits su ... more Palo Alto, CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2017How improved valves let grasses 'breathe,' cope with climate change  Munich, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Molecular mechanism responsible for blooming in spring identified  Chapel Hill NC (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Increasing plant yield in wake of looming phosphate supply limits |
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The first computer model to simulate the whole chain of events triggered by offshore mega subduction earthquakes could reduce losses to life and property caused by disasters like the huge earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan six years ago this Saturday (11 March).
This pioneering new model has been developed by the CRUST (Cascading Risk and Uncertainty Assessment of Earthquake Shaking ... more Lima (AFP) March 19, 2017More rain looms as Peru struggles with disastrous floods  Sendai, Japan (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Dissection of the 2015 Bonin deep earthquake  Lima (AFP) March 18, 2017Flash floods take dramatic toll in Lima and northern Peru |
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 Bamako (AFP) March 19, 2017 
Anarchic architecture, unchecked pollution and high costs of living are the lot of African city dwellers, experts warn, as living standards fail to keep pace with rapid urban growth on the continent.
The Bamako Forum, a pan-African think tank, recently considered the phenomenon of African urbanisation against the backdrop of a city living the results of rural flight clashing with poor urban ... more Conakry (AFP) March 13, 2017Senegal extradites Guinean soldier wanted over massacre  Addis Ababa (AFP) March 10, 2017.africa joins the internet  Abuja (AFP) March 8, 2017Nigerian military to probe rights abuse claims |
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New research by anthropologists at Stony Brook University and the University of Texas at Austin confirm the human skull and bipedalism co-evolved.
Scientists have previously linked bipedalism with the emergence of a key feature of the human skull, but the finding was contested. The latest analysis confirmed the link and suggests the correlation is found among all bipedal mammals.
... more University Park PA (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Nose form was shaped by climate  Tanjung Gusta, Indonesia (AFP) March 17, 2017Indonesian tribes gather amid push to protect homelands  Binghamton NY (SPX) Mar 15, 2017400,000-year-old fossil human cranium is oldest ever found in Portugal |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 
Global warming is driven by the Earth's energy imbalance (EEI): our planet traps more and more heat due to continuous increasing greenhouse gases. From the energy perspective, the global warming is actually ocean warming, since ocean stores more than 90% of the trapped heat. Therefore, ocean heat content (OHC) change is a fundamental indicator of global warming, thus direct measurement of OHC wi ... more Durham NH (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Is spring getting longer  Baden-Baden, Germany (AFP) March 18, 2017US climate scepticism clouds G20 meet  Nairobi (AFP) March 15, 201713 killed in Kenya in drought-related violence |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 21, 2017 
Some of the most wonderful pictures taken by astronauts from space are of aurora dancing over our planet. Now the photos are more than just pretty pictures thanks to an ESA project that makes them scientifically usable.
Aurora offer a visual means to study space weather, the conditions in the upper regions of our atmosphere. These colourful displays are produced when electrically charged p ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017SAGE III Achieves First Light from Space Station Perch  Los Alamos NM (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Less radiation in inner Van Allen belt than previously believed  Paris (ESA) Mar 21, 2017Glitter helps to monitor ocean waves |
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 Austin 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 around the globe millions of years to recover.
The extinction events are linked to climate change caused by massive volcanic activity, according to the study published in the journal PLOS ONE o ... more Chicago IL (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Research proposes new theories about nature of Earth's iron  Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Copper-bottomed deposits  College Park MD (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Early Earth had a hazy, methane-filled atmosphere |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017 
Through the use of more natural gas and renewables, the United States and China, the lead world economies, helped keep global emissions flat, the IEA said.
The International Energy Agency reported Friday that global energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas, were flat in 2016 for the third year in a row, even as the global economy grew.
"These three year ... more Sussex, UK (SPX) Mar 15, 2017New research urges a rethink on global energy subsidies  Paris (AFP) March 17, 2017CO2 stable for 3rd year despite global growth: IEA  Wellington, New Zealand (UPI) Feb 21, 2017New Zealand lauded for renewables, but challenges remain |
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 Graz, Austria (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 
It has been known in biology for a long time that the excited oxygen molecule singlet oxygen is the main cause of ageing in cells. To counter this, nature uses an enzyme called superoxide dismutase to eliminate superoxide as a free radical.
Superoxide also occurs in cell respiration for energy production and is the preliminary stage and thus source of singlet oxygen. TU Graz's Stefan Freun ... more Sydney (AFP) March 15, 2017Headphone batteries explode on flight to Australia  Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Mar 21, 2017New feedback system could allow greater control over fusion plasma Nuremberg, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Exhaust fumes as a resource |
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 
New research by Professor Beth Shapiro of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and University of Alberta Professor Duane Froese has identified North America's oldest bison fossils and helped construct a bison genealogy establishing that a common maternal ancestor arrived between 130,000 and 195,000 years ago, during a previous ice age.
Shapiro, Froese and colleagues used new techniques for ... more Beirut (AFP) March 18, 2017Lebanon rescues 3 Siberian tiger cubs en route to Syria  Washington (UPI) Mar 15, 2017Study: Some bed bugs climb better than others  London, UK (SPX) Mar 17, 2017New plant research solves a colorful mystery |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) March 17, 2017 
An Andy Warhol portrait of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong will be auctioned in Hong Kong in a landmark sale that could fetch $15 million - but mainland buyers may be wary of putting in a bid.
The classic 1973 screen print by the legendary US pop artist will go under the hammer at Sotheby's next month with the highest estimate the auction house has ever seen for a painting in Asia.
It ... more Hong Kong (AFP) March 17, 2017Hong Kong protesters jailed for 3 years for anti-China clashes  Hong Kong (AFP) March 18, 2017Fashion renaissance: from slick city to hip Hong Kong  Beijing (AFP) March 14, 2017'Tell it like it is': China delegate rips meek Congress |
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 Santiago (AFP) March 18, 2017 
Douglas Tompkins's widow vividly remembers the suspicions the late billionaire raised when he started buying up land in Patagonia, the natural paradise at the bottom of South America.
Some accused him of preparing a storage site for American nuclear waste, she says. Others said he was starting a cult, still others that he wanted to launch a Jewish state - even though he was raised Episcopal ... more Washington DC (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Did humans create the Sahara desert?  Washington (UPI) Mar 14, 2017Louisiana wetlands hurting from accelerated sea level rise  Sydney (AFP) March 13, 2017Huge swathe of Australian mangroves 'die of thirst' |
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