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  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 Examining conditions within the Earth's interior is crucial not only to give us a window back to Earth's history but also to understand the current environment and its future. This study, published in Nature Communications, offers an explanation of carbon's descent into the deep Earth. "The stability regions of carbonates are key to understanding the deep carbon cycle and the role of the deep Earth in the global carbon cycle." says Leonid Dubrovinsky, from the University of Bayreuth. This is ... read more |
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Paying farmers not to cut down trees in Uganda helps fight climate changeNew Haven CT (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 A new study finds that simply paying landowners in the developing world to not cut down trees can significantly reduce carbon in the atmosphere. It may also be a very cost-effective way to help meet ... more  
Crustal limestone platforms feed carbon to many of Earth's arc volcanoesWashington DC (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 A new analysis suggests that much of the carbon released from volcanic arcs, chains of volcanoes that arise along the tectonic plates of a subduction zone, comes from remobilizing limestone reservoi ... more  
Dust deposits give new insights into the history of the SaharaBochum, Germany (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 The Sahara is the world's largest desert and dust source with significant impacts on trans-Atlantic terrestrial and large-scale marine ecosystems. Remote Saharan dust influences the earth's radiatio ... more  
Building the Safe Genes ToolkitWashington DC (SPX) Jul 20, 2017 DARPA created the Safe Genes program to gain a fundamental understanding of how gene editing technologies function; devise means to safely, responsibly, and predictably harness them for beneficial e ... more |
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Four dead, eight missing in China landslide after heavy rain
4 dead, 8 missing in north China landslide after heavy rain Three drones detected in Japan nuclear plant Hundreds protest over water shortages in drought-hit Iraq Boats bring Philippine flood victims to safety as death toll rises Boats bring food, safe passage for Philippine flood victims Magnitude 6.6 quake hits off Samoa coast: USGS Philippines shuts schools, scraps flights as Typhoon Co-May nears Downpours from storm Wipha kill three in Vietnam Adopted in US, Greek Cold War kids find long-lost families |
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Thawing permafrost releases old greenhouse gasPotsdam, Germany (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 The thawing permafrost soils in the Arctic regions might contribute to the greenhouse effect in two respects: On the one hand rising temperatures lead to higher microbial methane production close to ... more  
Soil filters out some emerging contaminants before reaching groundwaterUuniversity PA (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 There is considerable uncertainty surrounding emerging contaminants in aquatic ecosystems and groundwater, and a recent Penn State study of compounds from pharmaceuticals and personal care products ... more  
New algorithm, metrics improve autonomous underwater vehicles' energy efficiencyCorvallis OR (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 Robotics researchers have found a way for autonomous underwater vehicles to navigate strong currents with greater energy efficiency, which means the AUVs can gather data longer and better. AUV ... more  
Our ancestors were already warm-blooded before PT extinction eventParis (SPX) Jul 20, 2017 For how long have warm-blooded animals existed? The time at which this character first appeared in the ancestors of mammals has long been debated. Now, dating analyses carried out on 90 fossils by a ... more  
Artifacts suggest humans arrived in Australia earlier than thoughtSeattle WA (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 When and how the first humans made their way to Australia has been an evolving story. While it is accepted that humans appeared in Africa some 200,000 years ago, scientists in recent years h ... more 
Startup touts neuro-stimulation as 'medicine for the brain'Aspen, United States (AFP) July 19, 2017 They look like a set of fancy headphones. But a set of spikes inside the band act as electrodes to stimulate the brain. ... more |
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 MH370 search reveals hidden undersea world 
Eucalyptus gets the chop after deadly Portugal forest firesLisbon (AFP) July 20, 2017 Portugal is to reduce the number of eucalyptus groves after the highly flammable plant was blamed for last month's deadly forest fires. ... more 
Fewer 'good air' days in China despite official effortsBeijing (AFP) July 20, 2017 Chinese cities had fewer "good air" days in the first half of 2017 compared to the same period last year despite government efforts to curb incessant smog, according to official data. ... more  
Kenyan cattle herders defend 'necessary' land invasionsCrocodile Jaw Bridge, Kenya (AFP) July 20, 2017 Close by a narrow, rickety bridge in Kenya's central Laikipia highlands two herders sit on blistering hot rock next to the muddy trickle of the Ewaso Nyiro river to explain why they routinely break the law, invading private land to graze their cattle. ... more 
Two killed in 6.7-magnitude quake off Greece and Turkey resortsBodrum, Turkey (AFP) July 21, 2017 At least two people were killed on the Greek island of Kos Friday when a magnitude 6.7 earthquake shook the popular summer resort holiday destinations of the Dodecanese Islands in Greece and the Aegean coast of Turkey. ... more |
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  Debaga, Iraq (AFP) July 18, 2017  Adel, 15, hasn't seen his parents for the past nine months, but that was the price to pay to escape the brutal rule of Islamic State group jihadists in his northern Iraqi hometown.
"I miss my family, nine months is too long," said the teenager, among hundreds of youngsters separated from their parents because of IS and the months-long battle that has expelled the jihadists from Mosul, the ma ... more Leogane, Haiti (AFP) July 18, 2017Haiti's army reborn 20 years after it was demobilized  Oxford UK (SPX) Jul 18, 2017The last survivors on Earth  Washington (AFP) July 12, 2017Civilian deaths soar in Iraq, Syria: monitoring group |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 21, 2017 
A new satellite developed by a group of students at the Moscow State University of Mechanical Engineering has been fitted with metallic reflectors and will be able to remove space junk circling the Earth. Radio Sputnik talked to the head of high technology developing at 12-Digital, Nikita Yershov.
The probe is part of a flotilla of 73 artificial orbital bodies aboard the Soyuz rocket, which was ... more Chapel Hill NC (SPX) Jul 21, 2017Breakthrough tool predicts properties of theoretical materials  Warsaw, Poland (SPX) Jul 21, 2017Semiliquid chains pulled out of a sea of microparticles  Santa Barbara CW (SPX) Jul 21, 2017A plastic planet |
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 Corvallis OR (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 
Robotics researchers have found a way for autonomous underwater vehicles to navigate strong currents with greater energy efficiency, which means the AUVs can gather data longer and better.
AUVs such as underwater gliders are valuable research tools limited primarily by their energy budget - every bit of battery power wasted via inefficient trajectories cuts into the time they can spend wor ... more Sydney (AFP) July 20, 2017MH370 search reveals hidden undersea world  Sydney (AFP) July 19, 2017Risky business for fish in oil-polluted reef waters  Tokyo (AFP) July 18, 2017World's northernmost coral reef in Japan bleached |
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jul 12, 2017 
The Greenland ice sheet is often seen as a pristine environment, but new research has revealed that may not be the case. A Danish-led study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, examined how microbes from the ice sheet have the potential to resist and degrade globally-emitted contaminants such as mercury, lead, PAH and PCB.
Dr Aviaja Hauptmann, from the University of Gr ... morePotsdam, Germany (SPX) Jul 21, 2017Thawing permafrost releases old greenhouse gas  Paris (ESA) Jul 13, 2017Sentinel satellite captures birth of behemoth iceberg  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 13, 2017Massive iceberg |
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 Crocodile Jaw Bridge, Kenya (AFP) July 20, 2017 
Close by a narrow, rickety bridge in Kenya's central Laikipia highlands two herders sit on blistering hot rock next to the muddy trickle of the Ewaso Nyiro river to explain why they routinely break the law, invading private land to graze their cattle.
"The reason we go there is not to grab the land, we go for pasture, nothing else," says Lemerigi Letimalo, a 28-year-old Samburu herder in a M ... more Los Angeles (AFP) July 13, 2017Disneyland China falls a-fowl of huge turkey leg demand  Sede Boqer, Israel (SPX) Jul 13, 2017Using treated graywater for irrigation is better for arid environments  Los Angeles (AFP) July 12, 2017Disneyland China falls a-fowl of huge turkey leg demand |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 
A new analysis suggests that much of the carbon released from volcanic arcs, chains of volcanoes that arise along the tectonic plates of a subduction zone, comes from remobilizing limestone reservoirs in the Earth's crust.
Previous research suggested carbon was sourced from the mantle as a result of the subduction process.
The discovery ultimately impacts the amount of organic carbon ... moreBodrum, Turkey (AFP) July 21, 2017Two killed in 6.7-magnitude quake off Greece and Turkey resorts  Ahmedabad, India (AFP) July 18, 2017Seven killed as India floods death toll rises to 83 Washington (AFP) July 18, 20177.7-magnitude quake hits off Russia: US scientists |
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 Toubacouta, Senegal (AFP) July 20, 2017  In Senegal's southern Casamance region, new houses dot a landscape once dominated by abandoned ruins full of bullet holes, though the spectre of a 35-year conflict still haunts its villages.
Separatist rebels of the Mouvement des Forces Democratiques de Casamance (MFDC) began fighting for independence more than three decades ago but have long ceased once frequent attacks on the Senegalese ar ... more Nairobi (AFP) July 13, 2017Rwandan forces killing suspects without trial: HRW  Addis Ababa (AFP) July 5, 2017AU chair questions US stance on African peacekeeping  Bamako (AFP) July 6, 20173 killed in north Mali clashes as UN condemns violence |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 
When and how the first humans made their way to Australia has been an evolving story.
While it is accepted that humans appeared in Africa some 200,000 years ago, scientists in recent years have placed the approximate date of human settlement in Australia further and further back in time, as part of ongoing questions about the timing, the routes and the means of migration out of Africa. ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 18, 2017Father's presence encourages sibling bonding among baboons Aspen, United States (AFP) July 19, 2017Startup touts neuro-stimulation as 'medicine for the brain'  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 11, 2017Towards a High-Resolution, Implantable Neural Interface |
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 Bochum, Germany (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 
The Sahara is the world's largest desert and dust source with significant impacts on trans-Atlantic terrestrial and large-scale marine ecosystems. Remote Saharan dust influences the earth's radiation budget and tropical North Atlantic ocean-atmosphere temperature variability that might even attenuate Hurricane activity.
In a new research study an international team of geoscientists reconst ... more Los Angeles (AFP) July 18, 2017California extends tough climate policy measures to 2030  Manila (AFP) July 14, 2017ADB warns climate change 'disastrous' for Asia  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 12, 2017Scientists upgrade database tracking global temperatures across millennia |
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Europe's pollution monitoring satellite Sentinel-5 Precursor is ready to leave Airbus' Stevenage site for launch on a Rokot rocket from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia.
Sentinel-5 Precursor is part of the global monitoring programme "Copernicus", a joint European Commission-ESA undertaking which aims to acquire continuous and accurate Earth observation data and provide services to improve the ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 13, 2017Nickel key to Earth's magnetic field, research shows  Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2017Great Plains to see more dust storms in second half of the 21st century  Wurzburg, Denmark (SPX) Jul 13, 2017Quantum mechanics inside Earth's core |
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 Paris (SPX) Jul 20, 2017 
For how long have warm-blooded animals existed? The time at which this character first appeared in the ancestors of mammals has long been debated. Now, dating analyses carried out on 90 fossils by an international collaboration including the Laboratoire de Geologie de Lyon - Terre, Planetes, Environnement have shown that warm-blooded species first appeared among our ancestors during the Late Per ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 18, 2017T. rex was probably pretty slow, scientists claim  Austin TX (SPX) Jul 18, 2017Fossil site shows impact of early Jurassic's low oxygen oceans  University Park PA (SPX) Jul 18, 2017Ancient plankton-like microfossils span 2 continents |
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 Washington (AFP) July 7, 2017 
Google parent Alphabet is spinning off a little-known unit working on geothermal power called Dandelion, which will begin offering residential energy services.
The announcement Thursday took the wraps off one of the secretive projects at the Alphabet unit X, known notably for its work on self-driving cars and internet balloons.
Dandelion chief executive Kathy Hannun said her team had bee ... more San Diego CA (SPX) Jun 27, 2017Fighting global warming and climate change requires a broad energy portfolio  (UPI) Jun 12, 2017Low-carbon trajectory is the only option, European leaders say Washington (UPI) Jun 8, 2017Divestment streak continues for British energy company Centrica |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 13, 2017 
No matter how much you diet and hit the gym, muscle cells turn to fat as the body ages. Toned bods inevitably become flabby. Blame it on the cilia.
New research shows the tiny cellular antennae plays a key role in the muscle-to-fat transformation process. While the realization is unlikely to unlock the fountain of youth, it could help scientists develop new types of regenerative therapi ... more Livermore CA (SPX) Jul 18, 2017Optimizing hydrogen-powered passenger ferries focus of Sandia Labs study  Atlanta GA (SPX) Jul 14, 2017Using the stairs just got easier with energy-recycling steps  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 14, 2017Giant charge reversal observed for the first time |
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 Mexico City (AFP) July 19, 2017 
Star chefs from around the world gathered in Mexico City's ancient floating gardens for a symposium on saving the world's threatened biodiversity, a bleak subject they peppered with breaks to savor the local cuisine.
Joan Roca of Spain, Michel Bras of France and Gaston Acurio of Peru were among the big-name chefs who took part in the event Tuesday at Xochimilco, a UNESCO World Heritage Site ... more Niamey (AFP) July 13, 2017Villagers in Niger 'massacre' 27 hippos  Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2017Bacteria passed from mom to offspring is most beneficial, study shows  Washington (UPI) Jul 14, 2017To avoid getting eaten, spiders walk like ants |
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 Shenyang, China (AFP) July 15, 2017 
The ashes of China's late Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo were buried at sea on Saturday, depriving his supporters of a place to pay tribute to the pro-democracy dissident.
Officials showed a video in which his wife, Liu Xia, and relatives lowered a white round urn into the water off the northeastern coastal city of Dalian, two days after the democracy advocate died of liver cancer aged 61 while i ... more Hong Kong (AFP) July 14, 2017Anti-Beijing Hong Kong lawmakers disqualified from parliament  Shenyang, China (AFP) July 14, 2017China hits back at criticism over Nobel laureate's death  Shenyang, China (AFP) July 14, 2017China under pressure to free dissident's widow |
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 Lisbon (AFP) July 20, 2017 
Portugal is to reduce the number of eucalyptus groves after the highly flammable plant was blamed for last month's deadly forest fires.
Parliament voted for the measure Wednesday as part of ongoing forest law reforms that started in April, before the blaze in the central Pedrogao Grande region that killed 64 people and injured more than 250.
Prime Minister Antonio Costa last week urged m ... moreNew Haven CT (SPX) Jul 21, 2017Paying farmers not to cut down trees in Uganda helps fight climate change  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 18, 2017Amazon Makes Its Own Rainy Season  Brussels (AFP) July 13, 2017EU hauls Poland to top court over ancient forest logging |
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