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  New Haven CT (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 A 20-year demographic study of a large chimpanzee community in Uganda's Kibale National Park has revealed that, under the right ecological conditions, our close primate relatives can lead surprisingly long lives in the wild. The study, published March 19 in the Journal of Human Evolution, establishes an average life expectancy of about 33 years in its sample of 306 chimpanzees, nearly twice as high as that of other chimpanzee communities and within the 27- to 37-year range of life expectancy at bi ... read more |
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Human skull evolved along with two-legged walking, study confirmsAustin TX (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 The evolution of bipedalism in fossil humans can be detected using a key feature of the skull - a claim that was previously contested but now has been further validated by researchers at Stony Brook ... more  
Taking Animal Magnetism to the ExtremeWashington DC (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 Each beat of your heart or burst of brain activity relies on tiny electrophysiological currents that generate minuscule ripples in the surrounding magnetic field. These field variations provide the ... more  
Microorganisms in the subsurface seabed on evolutionary standbyAarhus C, Denmark (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 Researchers at the Center for Geomicrobiology at Aarhus University, Denmark, have sequenced the genomes of several microorganisms inhabiting the subsurface seabed in Aarhus Bay. The results reveal t ... more 
Glitter helps to monitor ocean wavesParis (ESA) Mar 21, 2017 The notion of glitter might appear as somewhat frivolous, but scientists are using Sun glitter in images from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission to map the motion of the sea surface. Created by ... 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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SAGE III Achieves First Light from Space Station PerchGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 The Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III, or SAGE III, reached another in a series of major recent milestones Friday, March 17, by collecting first light data from its new home on the Intern ... more 
Beautiful science with astronaut auroraParis (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 s ... more 
Wastewater key to solving global water crisis: UNParis (AFP) March 22, 2017 Recycling the world's wastewater, almost all of which goes untreated, would ease global water shortages while protecting the environment, the United Nations said in a major report Wednesday. ... more  
New Zealand's 'green' image under threat: OECDWellington (AFP) March 21, 2017 New Zealand's strong economic growth is placing strains on the environment that threaten to undermine its "clean, green" reputation, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) warned Tuesday. ... more  
Climate change 'makes deadly China pollution worse'Paris (AFP) March 20, 2017 Global warming has boosted the frequency and severity of deadly air pollution peaks in northern China, scientists said Monday. ... more 
China's demand for medicine fuels African donkey slaughterMogosani, South Africa (AFP) March 21, 2017 Under a cloudless sky in South Africa's northwestern farming region, donkeys still amble along muddy paths, pausing to nibble on grass, oblivious to the threat from a demand for Chinese medicine. ... more |
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Chinese police 'admit torture' of dead suspectBeijing (AFP) March 21, 2017 Police in central China's Henan province have issued a rare statement admitting that some officers may have tortured a suspect who died under detention, local media reported Tuesday. ... more  
Face recognition flushes out China's toilet paper crooksBeijing (AFP) March 21, 2017 A years-long crime spree by Chinese toilet paper thieves may have reached the end of its roll after park officials in southern Beijing installed facial recognition technology to flush out bathroom bandits. ... more 
Libya rescues 420 migrants off its coast: navyTripoli (AFP) March 20, 2017 Libya has in two days rescued 420 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, a navy spokesman said Monday, but three were found dead and 30 reported missing. ... more 
Closures along iconic California highway hit tourismLos Angeles (AFP) March 21, 2017 A series of storms that pounded California this winter have forced the shutdown of the state's iconic coastal highway in several areas, spelling economic disaster for the region that relies heavily on tourism. ... more |
  Mosul, Iraq (AFP) March 19, 2017  Tens of thousands have flowed out of war-wracked Mosul in recent weeks, but Samir Hamid and 33 family members have decided to go against the tide to return home.
"We stayed with relatives for a week and now we're going back home," says the father-of-five, who has travelled with his extended family from a small town outside Mosul.
Iraqi forces have retaken several neighbourhoods in west M ... more Tripoli (AFP) March 20, 2017Libya rescues 420 migrants off its coast: navy  Beijing (AFP) March 21, 2017Face recognition flushes out China's toilet paper crooks  Los Angeles (AFP) March 21, 2017Closures along iconic California highway hit tourism |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 
In a recent article published in Physical Review Letters (PRL 118, 117202 (2017)), researchers from the Nanomagnetism group at nanoGUNE reported so-far unknown anomalies near dynamic phase transitions (DPTs).
Such anomalies do not exist in corresponding thermodynamic phase transitions (TPTs), and thus, they constitute a distinct difference between DPTs and TPTs, even though their equivalen ... more Moscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 21, 2017How fullerite becomes harder than diamond  Bethesda MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Ecosystem For Near-Earth Space Control  Warwick UK (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Why water splashes: New theory reveals secrets |
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 Aarhus C, Denmark (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 
Researchers at the Center for Geomicrobiology at Aarhus University, Denmark, have sequenced the genomes of several microorganisms inhabiting the subsurface seabed in Aarhus Bay. The results reveal the extreme evolutionary regime controlling microbial life in the deep biosphere.
Microbial evolution is arrested in the subsurface seabed as cells are buried in under a continuously growing laye ... more Durham NC (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Predicting how bad the bends will be  Washington (UPI) Mar 21, 2017Study: Amazon River is at least 9 million years old  Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Diving with the sharks |
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 Seattle 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 warming and natural climate variability.
A new study finds that a substantial chunk of summer sea ice loss in recent decades was due to natural variability in the atmosphere over the Arctic Ocean. Th ... more Exeter, UK (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Extensive ice cap once covered sub-antarctic island of South Georgia  Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Last remnant of North American ice sheet on track to vanish  Seattle WA (SPX) Mar 17, 2017How to conserve polar bears and maintain subsistence harvest |
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 Mogosani, South Africa (AFP) March 21, 2017 
Under a cloudless sky in South Africa's northwestern farming region, donkeys still amble along muddy paths, pausing to nibble on grass, oblivious to the threat from a demand for Chinese medicine.
The gelatin found in the animals' skin has made them a target, leading to a growing wave of donkey slaughtering in several African countries, as gangs seek to fuel a lucrative, and in South Africa i ... more Washington DC (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Wild sunflowers provide resilient diversity  Wellington (AFP) March 21, 2017New Zealand's 'green' image under threat: OECD Bras�lia (AFP) March 20, 2017China bans Brazil meat in health scare: Brasilia |
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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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 Abuja (AFP) March 21, 2017  A Nigerian rights group on Tuesday called for an investigation into "attacks" on the Amnesty International office in Abuja following heavy criticism by the country's military.
Protesters had surrounded the Amnesty office in the Nigerian capital on Monday and Tuesday, demanding that the London-based rights group leave the country immediately.
The demonstration comes less than a month af ... more Bamako (AFP) March 19, 2017Rags, not riches, defining Africa's urban explosion  Conakry (AFP) March 13, 2017Senegal extradites Guinean soldier wanted over massacre Addis Ababa (AFP) March 10, 2017.africa joins the internet |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 
The evolution of bipedalism in fossil humans can be detected using a key feature of the skull - a claim that was previously contested but now has been further validated by researchers at Stony Brook University and The University of Texas at Austin.
Compared with other primates, the large hole at the base of the human skull where the spinal cord passes through, known as the foramen magnum, ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017Human skull and bipedalism evolved side-by-side  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 |
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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 Geneva (AFP) March 21, 20172017 already marked by climate extremes: UN  Durham NH (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Is spring getting longer  Paris (AFP) March 20, 2017Climate change 'makes deadly China pollution worse' |
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 Los Alamos NM (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 
The inner Van Allen belt has less radiation than previously believed, according to a recent study in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Observations from NASA's Van Allen probes show the fastest, most energetic electrons in the inner radiation belt are actually much rarer and harder to find than scientists expected.
This is good news for spacecraft that are orbiting in the region and can ... more Paris (ESA) Mar 21, 2017Beautiful science with astronaut aurora  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017SAGE III Achieves First Light from Space Station Perch  Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 17, 2017NASA Satellite Identifies Global Ammonia 'Hotspots' |
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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 Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Copper-bottomed deposits  Chicago IL (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Research proposes new theories about nature of Earth's iron  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 ... moreParis (AFP) March 17, 2017CO2 stable for 3rd year despite global growth: IEA  Sussex, UK (SPX) Mar 15, 2017New research urges a rethink on global energy subsidies  Wellington, New Zealand (UPI) Feb 21, 2017New Zealand lauded for renewables, but challenges remain |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 
Like a potter shaping clay as it spins on a wheel, physicists use magnetic fields and powerful particle beams to control and shape the plasma as it twists and turns through a fusion device. Now a physicist has created a new system that will let scientists control the energy and rotation of plasma in real time in a doughnut-shaped machine known as a tokamak.
"When designing fusion machines, ... more Graz, Austria (SPX) Mar 21, 2017TU Graz researchers show that enzyme function inhibits battery ageing Nuremberg, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Exhaust fumes as a resource  Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Non-toxic material that generates electricity through hot and cold |
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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 New Haven CT (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Wild chimpanzees have surprisingly long life spans  Bremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2017When the sea ice melts, juvenile polar cod may go hungry  Beirut (AFP) March 18, 2017Lebanon rescues 3 Siberian tiger cubs en route to Syria |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) March 21, 2017  Hong Kong will see a creative surge as Art Basel comes to town, but there's a push for a more permanent change to the visual landscape of the city better known for its business hustle than its art scene.
Asia's largest art fair unveils its first preview Tuesday and has boosted Hong Kong's artistic credentials since it first launched in the city four years ago.
A vibrant, wide-ranging "ar ... more Beijing (AFP) March 21, 2017Chinese police 'admit torture' of dead suspect  Hong Kong (AFP) March 17, 2017Warhol Mao portrait goes under the hammer in Hong Kong  Hong Kong (AFP) March 17, 2017Hong Kong protesters jailed for 3 years for anti-China clashes |
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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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