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  Minneapolis, MN (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 Mercury is very toxic and can cause long-term health damage, but removing it from water is challenging. To address this growing problem, University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Sciences (CFANS) Professor Abdennour Abbas and his lab team created a sponge that can absorb mercury from a polluted water source within seconds. Thanks to the application of nanotechnology, the team developed a sponge with outstanding mercury adsorption properties where mercury contaminations can ... read more |
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Dead zones may threaten coral reefs worldwidePanama City, Panama (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 Dead zones affect dozens of coral reefs around the world and threaten hundreds more according to a new study by Smithsonian scientists published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. W ... more 
Study of non-rainfall water in Namib Desert reveals unexpected originsIndianapolis IN (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 In a study conducted in one of the world's oldest and most biologically diverse deserts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis scientists explore the origins of water other than rainfall ... more  
Under the dead sea, warnings of dire droughtNew York NY (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 Nearly 1,000 feet below the bed of the Dead Sea, scientists have found evidence that during past warm periods, the Mideast has suffered drought on scales never recorded by humans - a possible warnin ... more  
Making 'mulch' ado of ant hillsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 Ants can be annoying little insects. In your home, they make army-like lines to any crumbs on your floor. In your home's frame, carpenter ants can do a job of eating away your walls. But what about ... 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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SES is enabling disaster response and connecting affected communitiesLuxembourg (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 SES offers a broad range of solutions to support humanitarian and disaster relief efforts across the globe. Some of them were showcased during the Humanitarian ICT (Information and Communications Te ... more  
Italy fishermen down rods in dolphin disputeRome (AFP) March 22, 2017 Italian fishermen on Wednesday announced plans for two days of strikes in protest over crafty dolphins they accuse of pinching their catch and threatening to put them out of business. ... more 
Video game study suggests people will remain calm as the world endsWashington (UPI) Mar 20, 2017 Many assume the world will end in chaos, a complete breakdown of the social order. The results of a new video game study suggest otherwise. ... more 
Cloaked in rags and dust, Somalis flee looming famineBaidoa, Somalia (AFP) March 20, 2017 Mariam Ibrahim, her seven children and two neighbouring families were the last to leave their village in southwestern Somalia. ... more 
US military helping op to seize strategic dam near Syria's RaqaWashington (AFP) March 22, 2017 The US military provided air and artillery support - and transported local forces - in an offensive for a vitally important dam near the Islamic State group's stronghold of Raqa in Syria, officials said Wednesday. ... more 
Microbes adapt to colonize different body partsWashington (UPI) Mar 20, 2017 Different microbes specialize in colonizing different parts of the human body. New research by Duke scientists shows microbes diverged into new species as they adapted to new organs and body parts - including mouths, noses, genitalia and guts. ... more |
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 Hong Kong leader must cooperate with China: Li Ka-shing  
Almond-crop fungicides are harmful to honey beesWashington (UPI) Mar 21, 2017 Almond growers face a dilemma. They need to keep their almond trees fungus free, but new research shows almond-crop fungicides harm honey bees, the nut tree's chief pollinator. ... more 
Water carriers in Madagascar bear brunt of global crisisAntananarivo (AFP) March 22, 2017 As usual, they get up before dawn and, one by one, place their cans in a neat row at the base of the water pump, ready for another long day of waiting and carrying. ... more 
India grants sacred rivers status of 'legal persons'Dehradun, India (AFP) March 21, 2017 Two of India's holiest but most polluted rivers have been recognised as a "legal person" in a landmark court ruling that could see the sacred waterways restored to health. ... more  
Chinese police arrest dinosaur-egg banditBeijing (AFP) March 20, 2017 Chinese police have arrested a man accused of stealing dozens of fossilised dinosaur eggs, state media said Monday, but some eggs are apparently still unaccounted for. ... more |
  Luxembourg (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 
SES offers a broad range of solutions to support humanitarian and disaster relief efforts across the globe. Some of them were showcased during the Humanitarian ICT (Information and Communications Technology) Forum organised by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC), and held on the 21 and 22 March in Mountain V ... 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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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 
Berkeley Lab-led research raises new questions about properties of dust in local and distant reaches of Milky Way. Consider that the Earth is just a giant cosmic dust bunny-a big bundle of debris amassed from exploded stars. We Earthlings are essentially just little clumps of stardust, too, albeit with very complex chemistry.
And because outer space is a very dusty place, that makes things ... more Bethesda MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Ecosystem For Near-Earth Space Control  Toronto, Canada (SPX) Mar 21, 2017'Flying saucer' quantum dots hold secret to brighter, better lasers  Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Transparent ceramics make super-hard windows |
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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 Dehradun, India (AFP) March 21, 2017India grants sacred rivers status of 'legal persons'  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 |
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 Exeter, 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 Communications. South Georgia, the remote UK territory where Sir Ernest Shackleton landed during his dramatic voyage from Antarctica to rescue the team of his Endurance expedition, is home to various sp ... more Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Last remnant of North American ice sheet on track to vanish  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 17, 2017NASA's ICESat-2 to Provide More Depth to Sea Ice Forecasts  Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Mar 17, 2017With climate change shrubs and trees expand northwards in the Subarctic |
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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  Washington (UPI) Mar 21, 2017Almond-crop fungicides are harmful to honey bees |
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 Lima (AFP) March 19, 2017 
Peruvians struggled on Sunday to cope with avalanches, mudslides and extensive flash flooding caused by torrential downpours, and forecasters predicted still more rain ahead, prolonging the country's woes.
It has been a bad year for flooding in Peru, and the toll including from the latest dangerous weather now stands at 75 since January, the government said. Devastating damage reports contin ... more 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  London, UK (SPX) Mar 15, 2017CRUST adds new layer of defense against earthquakes and tsunamis |
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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 University Park PA (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Nose form was shaped by climate  Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017Human skull and bipedalism evolved side-by-side  Tanjung Gusta, Indonesia (AFP) March 17, 2017Indonesian tribes gather amid push to protect homelands |
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 Geneva (AFP) March 21, 2017 
Extreme weather and climate conditions, including Arctic "heatwaves", are continuing this year, after 2016 topped the global temperature charts and saw shrinking sea ice and surging sea levels.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned Tuesday that the drastic shifts seen in the global climate system that resulted in a range of alarming records last year appear to be continuing unab ... more Baidoa, Somalia (AFP) March 20, 2017Cloaked in rags and dust, Somalis flee looming famine  New York NY (SPX) Mar 23, 2017Under the dead sea, warnings of dire drought  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  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Changing temperatures and precipitation may affect living skin of drylands |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 20, 2017 
Chinese police have arrested a man accused of stealing dozens of fossilised dinosaur eggs, state media said Monday, but some eggs are apparently still unaccounted for.
The man surnamed Wang allegedly stole 80 of the eggs from a collector in the eastern province of Zhejiang on the night of January 9 with the help of three accomplices, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Wang had p ... more Chicago IL (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Research proposes new theories about nature of Earth's iron  Austin TX (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Recovery after 'great dying' was slowed by more extinctions  College Park MD (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Early Earth had a hazy, methane-filled atmosphere |
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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 Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017Emissions flat for three years in a row, IEA says  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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 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 New Haven CT (SPX) Mar 23, 2017New gel-like coating beefs up the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries  Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Non-toxic material that generates electricity through hot and cold  Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Mar 21, 2017New feedback system could allow greater control over fusion plasma |
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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 twic ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2017Microbes adapt to colonize different body parts  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2017Making 'mulch' ado of ant hills  Beirut (AFP) March 18, 2017Lebanon rescues 3 Siberian tiger cubs en route to Syria |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) March 21, 2017  Ko Oi-sum's simple village home on the northwestern edge of Hong Kong is surrounded by trees planted by her mother - she dries the leaves to make tea, espousing their health benefits.
But this ramshackle rural community of narrow alleyways, humble houses and freely roaming cats and dogs, is now under threat.
Residents have been served an eviction notice by the government, asking them to ... more Hong Kong (AFP) March 21, 2017Art for art's sake: Calls for Hong Kong to get more creative Hong Kong (AFP) March 22, 2017Hong Kong leader must cooperate with China: Li Ka-shing  Beijing (AFP) March 21, 2017Chinese police 'admit torture' of dead suspect |
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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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