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  Seattle WA (SPX) Jul 26, 2017 The idea of geoengineering, also known as climate engineering, is very controversial. But as greenhouse gases continue to accumulate in our atmosphere, scientists are beginning to look at possible emergency measures. A new University of Washington study looks at the idea of marine cloud brightening, which a UW group is investigating as a promising strategy to offset global warming. The strategy would spray saltwater into the air to make marine clouds reflect more incoming solar rays. Small-s ... read more |
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NASA Solves a Drizzle RiddleGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 26, 2017 A new NASA study shows that updrafts are more important than previously understood in determining what makes clouds produce drizzle instead of full-sized raindrops, overturning a common assumption. ... more  
Allowable 'carbon budget' most likely overestimatedUniversity Park PA (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 While most climate scientists, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, implicitly define "pre-industrial" to be in the late 1800's, a true non-industrially influenced baseline is pr ... more 
New carbon-capturing membranes may reduce greenhouse gas emissionsWashington (UPI) Jul 24, 2017 Scientists in the Netherlands have developed a promising new membrane material to filter CO2 emissions. ... more  
Coral gardening is benefiting Caribbean reefsMiami FL (SPX) Jul 26, 2017 A new study found that Caribbean staghorn corals (Acropora cervicornis) are benefiting from "coral gardening," the process of restoring coral populations by planting laboratory-raised coral fragment ... more |
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Deadly Typhoon Kalmaegi ravages Vietnam, Philippines
Hurricane left millions of tons of debris in Jamaica: UN Typhoon Kalmaegi hits Vietnam after killing 140 in Philippines Vietnam evacuates thousands from coast ahead of Typhoon Kalmaegi Philippine death toll tops 140 as typhoon heads towards Vietnam CORRECTED: Philippine death toll tops 140 as typhoon heads towards Vietnam Camels replace cows as Kenya battles drought Jamaica still 'digging out' from hurricane, but Red Cross hopes toll stays low Death toll tops 100 as Philippines digs out after typhoon Typhoon death toll soars past 90 in the Philippines |
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The oldest bad boy in the worldJena, Germany (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 He's Australian, around half a centimetre long, fairly nondescript, 300 million years old, and he's currently causing astonishment among both entomologists and palaeontologists. The discovery of a b ... more  
How fear alone can cause animal extinctionMontreal, Canada (SPX) Jul 26, 2017 Fear alone may contribute to the extinction of animal populations according to a recent study. When scientists from McGill University and the University of Guelph exposed fruit flies to the scent of ... more  
Bavaria juggles support for diesel and clean city airFrankfurt Am Main (AFP) July 18, 2017 German regional economic powerhouse Bavaria agreed a slew of measures Tuesday designed to reduce harmful air pollution in cities without pulling diesel vehicles off its roads. ... more 
Vatican switches off fountains as Italy battles droughtRome (AFP) July 25, 2017 The historic fountains in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican lay empty Tuesday after the tiny city state turned them off as Italy struggles with a prolonged draught. ... more  
Eight more dead in India's worsening monsoon floodsAhmedabad, India (AFP) July 25, 2017 Worsening floods killed another eight people in 24 hours in India's Gujarat state as rescue teams raced Tuesday to reach hundreds of people marooned in stricken towns and villages. ... more  
Strength of tectonic plates may explain shape of the Tibetan PlateauChampaign IL (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 Geoscientists have long puzzled over the mechanism that created the Tibetan Plateau, but a new study finds that the landform's history may be controlled primarily by the strength of the tectonic pla ... more |
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Smart sensors could save livesThuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 In an emergency, early warning is key to escaping from a hazard, such as a forest fire or a chemical leak. Motivated to improve on safety, a team from KAUST is using 3D printing to develop a cheap, ... more 
Coastal armoring and its ecological effects in soft sediment environmentsSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 For nearly a century, the O'Shaughnessy seawall has held back the sand and seas of San Francisco's Ocean Beach. At work even longer: the Galveston seawall, built after America's deadliest hurricane ... more 
Vietnam says four fishermen wounded by Indonesian navyHanoi (AFP) July 24, 2017 Four Vietnamese fisherman were shot and wounded by Indonesia's navy over the weekend, authorities said on Monday, the latest clash to erupt over fishing in the hotly disputed South China Sea. ... more  
Scientists divulge latest in HIV preventionParis (AFP) July 25, 2017 A far cry from the 1990s "ABC" campaign promoting abstinence and monogamy as HIV protection, scientists reported on new approaches Tuesday allowing people to have all the safe sex they want. ... more |
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  Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 
In an emergency, early warning is key to escaping from a hazard, such as a forest fire or a chemical leak. Motivated to improve on safety, a team from KAUST is using 3D printing to develop a cheap, reliable system to signal danger.
Existing early warning systems rely on satellite monitoring, watch towers or expensive fixed sensors. The system, developed by a team led by Associate Professor ... more Kathmandu (AFP) July 21, 2017Cheap 3D printed prosthetics could be game changer for Nepal  Tokyo (AFP) July 23, 2017Robot finds possible melted fuel inside Fukushima reactor  Oxford UK (SPX) Jul 18, 2017The last survivors on Earth |
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 Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 
Scientists at Nagoya University have developed a new way to make stimuli-responsive materials in a predictable manner. They used this method to design a new material, a mixture of carbon nanorings and iodine, which conducts electricity and emits white light when exposed to electricity. The team's new approach could help generate a range of reliable stimuli-responsive materials, which can be used ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 21, 2017Cleanup Time: Russia Launches Satellite to Remove Space Junk from Orbit  Chicago IL (SPX) Jul 24, 2017Using water displacement as the 3-D shape sensor for complex objects  Santa Barbara CW (SPX) Jul 21, 2017A plastic planet |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 
An MIT study published in Nature Climate Change finds that the Indian summer monsoons, which bring rainfall to the country each year between June and September, have strengthened in the last 15 years over north central India.
This heightened monsoon activity has reversed a 50-year drying period during which the monsoon season brought relatively little rain to northern and central India. Si ... more University of New South WalesA super-algae to save our seas Miami FL (SPX) Jul 26, 2017Coral gardening is benefiting Caribbean reefs Hanoi (AFP) July 24, 2017Vietnam says four fishermen wounded by Indonesian navy |
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 Fairbanks AK (SPX) Jul 26, 2017 
A University of Alaska Fairbanks study looking at the physics of tidewater glaciers has yielded new insights into what drives their retreat-and-advance cycles and the role that climate plays in these cycles.
Lead author and UAF geophysics doctoral student Douglas Brinkerhoff said the study in Nature Communications reveals that shifting sediments drive the cycles among tidewater glaciers in ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 25, 2017NASA flights gauge summer sea ice melt in the Arctic  Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jul 21, 2017Thawing permafrost releases old greenhouse gas  Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jul 12, 2017Microbe study highlights Greenland ice sheet toxicity |
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 Paris (AFP) July 22, 2017 
Knocked off course by a cold spring snap, French wine production from Bordeaux to Alsace has dropped dramatically this year and could hit "a historic low", according to the agriculture ministry.
"At 37.6 million hectolitres (993.3 million gallons) the 2017 harvest is set to come in 17 percent lower than in 2016, and 16 percent below the average of the past five years," the ministry's statist ... more Los Angeles (AFP) July 13, 2017Disneyland China falls a-fowl of huge turkey leg demand  Crocodile Jaw Bridge, Kenya (AFP) July 20, 2017Kenyan cattle herders defend 'necessary' land invasions  Sede Boqer, Israel (SPX) Jul 13, 2017Using treated graywater for irrigation is better for arid environments |
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 Wellington (AFP) July 23, 2017  Flood-hit regions of New Zealand were warned to expect more wild weather Sunday after a deluge forced evacuations and emergency declarations in parts of South Island.
The military was called in to help as some towns experienced three times their average monthly rainfall in just two days, topping 250 millimetres (10 inches) near Dunedin.
Rivers burst their banks and landslides closed majo ... more Yangon (AFP) July 24, 2017Floodwaters swallow Myanmar pagoda  Kos, Greece (AFP) July 22, 2017Greek holiday island battles to recover from deadly quake Ahmedabad, India (AFP) July 25, 2017Eight more dead in India's worsening monsoon floods |
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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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 Buffalo NY (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 
In saliva, scientists have found hints that a "ghost" species of archaic humans may have contributed genetic material to ancestors of people living in Sub-Saharan Africa today.
The research adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that sexual rendezvous between different archaic human species may not have been unusual.
Past studies have concluded that the forebears of modern hum ... more Seattle WA (SPX) Jul 21, 2017Artifacts suggest humans arrived in Australia earlier than thought  Aspen, United States (AFP) July 19, 2017Startup touts neuro-stimulation as 'medicine for the brain'  Washington (UPI) Jul 18, 2017Father's presence encourages sibling bonding among baboons |
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 Exeter UK (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 
Fluctuations in sea surface temperature are a factor in causing persistent droughts in North America and around the Mediterranean, new research suggests.
A team from the universities of Exeter, Montpellier and Wageningen analysed data from 1957-2002 and found sea surface temperatures in the North Pacific and North Atlantic became increasingly variable, and extremes lasted for longer.
... moreWashington (UPI) Jul 24, 2017New carbon-capturing membranes may reduce greenhouse gas emissions  Seattle WA (SPX) Jul 26, 2017Could spraying particles into marine clouds help cool the planet Rome (AFP) July 25, 2017Vatican switches off fountains as Italy battles drought |
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 Miami FL (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 
In a new study, scientists found that aerosol particles released into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels are a primary driver of changes in rainfall patterns across the globe.
The results of the climate system-model simulations conducted by researchers Brian Soden and Eui-Seok Chung from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science revealed ... moreGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 26, 2017NASA Solves a Drizzle Riddle  Stevenage UK (SPX) Jul 21, 2017Airbus built Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite ready for launch  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 20, 2017Early Airborne Results Address South Korean Air Quality |
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 Konstanz, Germany (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 
Using the largest and most informative molecular phylogenetic dataset ever analysed, evolutionary biologists were able to construct a new phylogenetic tree of jawed vertebrates. This new tree resolves several key relationships that have remained controversial, including the identification of lungfishes as the closest living relatives of land vertebrates.
The evolution of jawed vertebrates ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 21, 2017Link between continental breakup, volcanic carbon emissions may influence evolution Jena, Germany (SPX) Jul 25, 2017The oldest bad boy in the world  Paris (SPX) Jul 20, 2017Our ancestors were already warm-blooded before PT extinction event |
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 University Park PA (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 
While most climate scientists, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, implicitly define "pre-industrial" to be in the late 1800's, a true non-industrially influenced baseline is probably further in the past, according to an international team of researchers who are concerned because it affects the available carbon budget for meeting the 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit ... more Lincoln UK (SPX) Jul 24, 2017India must rethink infrastructure needs for 100 new 'smart' cities to be sustainable  Edinburgh UK (SPX) Jul 24, 2017Sparkling springs aid quest for underground heat energy sources  Washington (AFP) July 7, 2017Google's 'moonshot' factory spins off geothermal unit |
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 College Park MD (SPX) Jul 25, 2017 
Engineers at the University of Maryland have invented an entirely new kind of battery. It is bio-compatible because it produces the same kind of ion-based electrical energy used by humans and other living things.
In our bodies, flowing ions (sodium, potassium and other electrolytes) are the electrical signals that power the brain and control the rhythm of the heart, the movement of muscles ... more Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jul 25, 2017First basic physics simulation of impact of neutrals on turbulence  Raleigh NC (SPX) Jul 25, 2017High-temperature superconductivity in B-doped Q-carbon  Jerusalem (SPX) Jul 24, 2017First direct observation and measurement of ultra-fast moving vortices in superconductors |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Jul 26, 2017 
Fear alone may contribute to the extinction of animal populations according to a recent study. When scientists from McGill University and the University of Guelph exposed fruit flies to the scent of a praying mantis, a known predator, they found that the risk of extinction increased up to seven fold. The increased risk of extinction occurred because at small population sizes, as the flies spent ... more Mexico City (AFP) July 19, 2017Star chefs in Mexico to defend biodiversity  Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2017Bacteria passed from mom to offspring is most beneficial, study shows  Niamey (AFP) July 13, 2017Villagers in Niger 'massacre' 27 hippos |
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 Gaborone, Botswana (AFP) July 25, 2017 
Botswana on Tuesday confirmed it will allow the Dalai Lama to visit next month as "a foreign dignitary" in the face of China's fierce opposition to the Tibetan spiritual leader.
Beijing views the Dalai Lama as a dangerous separatist campaigning for Tibetan independence and consistently condemns foreign governments who welcome him.
Botswana Foreign Minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi told law ... more Beijing (AFP) July 22, 2017Chinese police guard late dissident's home, empty or not  Beijing (AFP) July 24, 2017China anti-graft watchdog probes Politburo member Shenyang, China (AFP) July 15, 2017Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo's ashes buried at sea |
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 New 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 goals such as the Paris Accord targets.
The study, published this week in the journal Science, found that in Uganda, offering small financial incentives to landowners cut deforestation in half. ... more Lisbon (AFP) July 20, 2017Eucalyptus gets the chop after deadly Portugal forest fires  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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