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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 For 15 days starting on March 7, 2017, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, returned visible light images of a yolk-like spotless sun. This is the longest stretch of spotlessness since the last solar minimum in April 2010, indicating the solar cycle is marching on toward the next minimum, which scientists predict will occur between 2019-2020. The sun goes through a natural 11-year cycle marked by two extremes: solar maximum and solar minimum. Sunspots are dark regions of complex magnet ... read more |
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Unravelling Earth's magnetic fieldParis (ESA) Mar 23, 2017 ESA's Swarm satellites are seeing fine details in one of the most difficult layers of Earth's magnetic field to unpick - as well as our planet's magnetic history imprinted on Earth's crust. Earth's ... more  
Germany pushing e-mobility optionsWashington (UPI) Mar 20, 2017 German energy company E.ON said Monday it was working within a government program to advance charging points for electric-powered mobility options. ... more  
Community in chaotic Jakarta goes green to fight evictionJakarta (AFP) March 20, 2017 Brightly coloured wooden and brick houses line a clean riverside path amid trees and vegetable gardens, a tranquil scene in the normally chaotic Indonesian capital Jakarta. ... more  
Japan court rules government liable for Fukushima disasterTokyo (AFP) March 17, 2017 A Japanese court on Friday ruled for the first time that the government bears responsibility for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and ordered it and the plant operator to pay damages, officials and news reports said. ... 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  
Unforeseen impacts of the fair trade movementNewark DE (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 Fair trade certified coffee is the kind of phrase that sounds good on a Whole Foods shelf, the type of marketing that merges first world affluence with third world resource. For the average consumer ... more 
In Iraq's Mosul, a school becomes a field hospitalMosul, Iraq (AFP) March 26, 2017 Fifteen-year-old Mohammed enthusiastically helps the staff of a makeshift hospital set up in the bullet-scarred school in west Mosul where he himself studied before jihadists seized Iraq's second city. ... more  
Brazil tainted meat: Three key markets resume importsBrasilia (AFP) March 25, 2017 Brazil won a major victory Saturday in the fight to restore credibility amid a tainted meat scandal, with key markets China, Egypt and Chile lifting their bans on its products. ... more  
Mosul exodus as air strikes kill 'dozens'Near Mosul, Iraq (AFP) March 25, 2017 Air strikes have killed dozens of civilians in west Mosul in recent days, officials said Saturday, as the number of people fleeing fighting against jihadists in the area topped 200,000. ... more  
Brexit plunges EU fishing into troubled watersBrussels (AFP) March 26, 2017 EU fishing fleets are increasingly anxious about their future access to teeming British waters as Britain prepares to trigger the two-year countdown to its exit from the bloc. ... more |
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 Dead dictators draw Hong Kong art crowds  
Chinese police detain care centre head after 21 deathsBeijing (AFP) March 23, 2017 A care centre director in southern China, where 21 people including a 15-year-old autistic boy died over winter, is now in police custody, local media reported Thursday, amid public outrage. ... more 
Beijing favourite Lam wins Hong Kong leadershipHong Kong (AFP) March 26, 2017 Beijing favourite Carrie Lam was selected as Hong Kong's new leader on Sunday by a mainly pro-China committee, in an election dismissed as a sham by democracy activists who fear the loss of the city's cherished freedoms. ... more  
Operations against Kony's LRA 'coming to an end': US generalWashington (AFP) March 24, 2017 The US military is wrapping up operations against the Lord's Resistance Army in central Africa, even though its leader Joseph Kony is still at large, a top US general said Friday. ... more  
Photographer captures world's glacier melt over decadeChicago (AFP) March 25, 2017 For the last decade, American photographer James Balog has been on a mission to document climate change through his camera lens. ... more |
  Dhaka (IANS) Mar 27, 2017 
Bangladesh has signed an agreement with India to formally join New Delhi's 'South Asia Satellite' initiative, through which the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will launch a communication satellite for serving the South Asia region.
The agreement was inked by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Shahjahan Mahmood and Indian High Commissioner Harsh Va ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2017Video game study suggests people will remain calm as the world ends  Luxembourg (SPX) Mar 23, 2017SES is enabling disaster response and connecting affected communities  Tokyo (AFP) March 17, 2017Japan court rules government liable for Fukushima disaster |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Mar 27, 2017 
There are few ways for astronauts to know exactly when the outside of their spacecraft has been damaged, but that may change in the future with an invention that acts like a sensory skin to pick up signs of damage in real-time. The invention uses a series of several technologies to create circuits printed on thin layers and that can be embedded in a spacecraft's structure, scientists behind the ... more Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 23, 2017Rare-earths become water-repellent only as they age  Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2017New study maps space dust in 3-D  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 27, 2017Ancient Art of Weaving Ready to Head to Mars and Beyond |
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 Exeter, UK (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 
Important microscopic creatures which produce half of the oxygen in the atmosphere can rapidly adapt to global warming, new research suggests. Phytoplankton, which also act as an essential food supply for fish, can increase the rate at which they take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen while in warmer water temperatures, a long-running experiment shows.
Monitoring of one species, a green ... more Dehradun, India (AFP) March 21, 2017India grants sacred rivers status of 'legal persons'  Brussels (AFP) March 26, 2017Brexit plunges EU fishing into troubled waters  Indianapolis IN (SPX) Mar 23, 2017Study of non-rainfall water in Namib Desert reveals unexpected origins |
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 Chicago (AFP) March 25, 2017 
For the last decade, American photographer James Balog has been on a mission to document climate change through his camera lens.
His effort has taken him to the farthest reaches of the world, from Antarctica to the northern ends of Greenland, where he has captured the movements and melts of immense glaciers.
The results of his work were on display at Chicago's Museum of Science and Indus ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 23, 2017Researchers ponder conundrum of disappearing Arctic caribou  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 23, 2017Sea ice extent sinks to record lows at both poles  Seattle WA (SPX) Mar 17, 2017How to conserve polar bears and maintain subsistence harvest |
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 Washington (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.
Lab tests at Texas A&M University show the fungicide iprodione significantly diminishes the survivability rate of western honey bees, Apis mellifera, the world's most common honey bee species.
"Given that ... more Brasilia (AFP) March 25, 2017Brazil tainted meat: Three key markets resume imports  Wellington (AFP) March 21, 2017New Zealand's 'green' image under threat: OECD  Brasilia (AFP) March 20, 2017China bans Brazil meat in health scare: Brasilia |
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 Huarmey , Peru (AFP) March 21, 2017 
Stranded on their rooftops by flooding and mudslides, residents of Huarmey, Peru ironically need the one thing they see everywhere they look: water.
As AFP toured the waist-deep rivers of mud that were once Huarmey's streets, people in the small coastal city shouted from their rooftops, "Water, we want water!"
Last Wednesday, the rain that has been pummeling Peru for a week sent a series ... more Luanda (AFP) March 23, 2017Flooding kills 11 in Angola  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 |
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 Washington (AFP) March 24, 2017 
The US military is wrapping up operations against the Lord's Resistance Army in central Africa, even though its leader Joseph Kony is still at large, a top US general said Friday.
"This thing is coming to an end," said General Thomas Waldhauser, head of the US military's Africa Command.
A self-styled mystic and prophet, Kony launched a bloody rebellion three decades ago seeking to impose ... more Abuja (AFP) March 21, 2017Nigerian rights group denounces 'attacks' on Amnesty office  Bamako (AFP) March 19, 2017Rags, not riches, defining Africa's urban explosion  Conakry (AFP) March 13, 2017Senegal extradites Guinean soldier wanted over massacre |
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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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 Baidoa, Somalia (AFP) March 20, 2017  Mariam Ibrahim, her seven children and two neighbouring families were the last to leave their village in southwestern Somalia.
They loaded their combined belongings - blankets, cooking pots, sleeping mats, jerry cans, clothes - onto a hired donkey cart and walked beside it for 20 kilometres (12 miles) to Baidoa, the closest city.
"There is nobody left now," said the 28-year-old.
Sh ... more New York (AFP) March 23, 2017Tillerson alias emails from his ExxonMobil era prove elusive  New York NY (SPX) Mar 23, 2017Under the dead sea, warnings of dire drought  Geneva (AFP) March 21, 20172017 already marked by climate extremes: UN |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2017 
One of our planet's few exposed lava lakes is changing, and artificial intelligence is helping NASA understand how. On January 21, a fissure opened at the top of Ethiopia's Erta Ale volcano - one of the few in the world with an active lava lake in its caldera. Volcanologists sent out requests for NASA's Earth Observing 1 (EO-1) spacecraft to image the eruption, which was large enough to begin re ... more Beijing (XNA) Mar 27, 2017China to launch new weather satellite in second half of 2017  Paris (ESA) Mar 23, 2017Unravelling Earth's magnetic field  Paris (ESA) Mar 21, 2017Beautiful science with astronaut aurora |
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 Cambridge, UK (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 
More than a century of theory about the evolutionary history of dinosaurs has been turned on its head following the publication of new research from scientists at the University of Cambridge and Natural History Museum in London. Their work suggests that the family groupings need to be rearranged, re-defined and re-named and also that dinosaurs may have originated in the northern hemisphere rathe ... more Beijing (AFP) March 20, 2017Chinese police arrest dinosaur-egg bandit  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 |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 24, 2017 
Metrics measuring consumer demand for fuels and related products in the United States were indicative of an improving economy, a trade group said.
The American Petroleum Institute reported total petroleum deliveries, a measure of demand, gained 0.1 percent to 19.7 million barrels per day, its highest level since 2008. Total motor gasoline deliveries, a measure of consumer demand, was up ... more New York (AFP) March 26, 2017New York skyscrapers adapt to climate change  Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017Emissions flat for three years in a row, IEA says  Paris (AFP) March 17, 2017CO2 stable for 3rd year despite global growth: IEA |
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 Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 
Thanks to the discovery of a new material by University of Utah engineers, jewelry such as a ring and your body heat could generate enough electricity to power a body sensor, or a cooking pan could charge a cellphone in just a few hours.
The team, led by University of Utah materials science and engineering professor Ashutosh Tiwari, has found that a combination of the chemical elements cal ... more Graz, Austria (SPX) Mar 21, 2017TU Graz researchers show that enzyme function inhibits battery ageing  New Haven CT (SPX) Mar 23, 2017New gel-like coating beefs up the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries  Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Mar 21, 2017New feedback system could allow greater control over fusion plasma |
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 Washington (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.
"Over the last decade, there has been significant interest in developing probiotics and transplants of beneficial bacteria to treat a wide varie ... more San Salvador (AFP) March 21, 2017Bone surgery for El Salvador's last male jaguar  Millbrook NY (SPX) Mar 23, 2017It's a fish eat tree world  Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2017What triggers salmon migrations? |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) March 23, 2017 
Huang Xiaoshuai and his wife last year splashed out $70,000 for a large painting of fish by Oscar-winning actor Adrien Brody - part of a growing clique of young, affluent Chinese art enthusiasts building their own high-end collections.
The picture now hangs in their Shanghai home and the couple, along with other mainland collectors, have flown in to attend VIP events at this week's Art Bas ... more Hong Kong (AFP) March 21, 2017Distraught Hong Kong villagers battle to save their homes  Hong Kong (AFP) March 26, 2017Beijing favourite Lam wins Hong Kong leadership  Hong Kong (AFP) March 23, 2017China watches Hong Kong vote as protests threatened |
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 Bogor, Indonesia (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 
Forests and trees play a major role on water cycles and cooler temperatures, contributing to food security and climate change adaptation. In recent decades, the climate change discourse has looked at forests and trees mostly as carbon stocks and carbon sinks, but now scientists are calling for more attention on the relation between trees and water in climate change.
Scientists suggest that ... more Santiago (AFP) March 18, 2017Late US billionaire's record land gift lays Chile row to rest  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Did humans create the Sahara desert?  Washington (UPI) Mar 14, 2017Louisiana wetlands hurting from accelerated sea level rise |
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