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  Washington (UPI) Jul 31, 2017 Studies have shown that as ice sheets in Antarctica melt, trapped methane gasses will be released. But new research suggests methane-eating microbes will limit gaseous emissions. When researchers analyzed water and sediment samples from Antarctica's subglacial Whillans Lake - a first - they determined microbes consume 99 percent of methane released into the lake. Some climate scientists have argued global warming predictions fail to account for the greenhouse gas effect of methane rele ... read more |
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Poland to keep logging in ancient forest: ministerBrussels (AFP) July 31, 2017 Poland will keep logging in the ancient forest of Bialowieza despite an order from the EU's top court to halt the practice, the country's environment minister said Monday. ... more  
Pollution clouds Gambia's efforts to woo ChinaGunjur, Gambia (AFP) July 30, 2017 The Gambia is courting Beijing's attention after re-establishing diplomatic relations last year, but villagers and activists say Chinese investment is a double-edged sword as they fight a firm accused of dumping waste. ... more  
Small odds of reaching 2 C climate goal: researchersParis (AFP) July 31, 2017 There is a five-percent chance of limiting average global warming to under two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the target set in the 2015 climate-rescue Paris Agreement, researchers said on Monday. ... more  
Tech advances will lead to MH370 discovery - Malaysia AirlinesSydney (AFP) Aug 1, 2017 The resting place of missing flight MH370 will eventually be found but it will require advances in science and technology, including artificial intelligence, Malaysia Airlines' chief said Tuesday. ... more |
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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 Flooding from storm Wipha cuts off hundreds in Vietnam Pakistan landslide after heavy rain kills 5, with 15 missing |
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Dinosaur-era plant found growing in Wisconsin lakesWashington (UPI) Jul 31, 2017 Scientists have found a surprise algae species growing in Wisconsin lakes, a species most thought was existent from the Americas. ... more  
On-chip pumps achieve high-speed sorting of large cellsNagoya, Japan (SPX) Jul 31, 2017 The sorting of individual cells is necessary for many biological applications, including the isolation of specific cell types from cell suspensions. A fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) has ... more  
Ancient DNA to help solve mysteries of the CanaanitesWashington (UPI) Jul 27, 2017 The Bible mentions the Canaanites, a people of the Ancient Near East, several times. Archaeologists use the word to describe a group of settlers and pastoral nomads living among the southern Levant - in present day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan - during the late 2nd millennium BC. ... more 
Zambia arrests 3 Chinese for rhino horn traffickingLusaka (AFP) July 30, 2017 Zambian authorities on Sunday said they had arrested three Chinese nationals and two locals found carrying pieces of rhino horn at the border with Mozambique. ... more 
Some 'invasive' species have been around for a long timeWashington (UPI) Jul 31, 2017 Until now, scientists believed, Chrysocoma cilliata, a flowering plant colonizing degraded land in the Lesotho Highlands, was an invasive species. But new research suggests the plant, a member of the daisy family, has been around for at least 4,000 years. ... more 
Poles revive ancient tradition of timber floatingGassy, Pologne (AFP) July 30, 2017 A group of Poles have assembled tree trunks into a long raft and are streaming down the country's longest river, the Vistula, to revive the ancient tradition of timber floating. ... more |
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 Lightning kills 21 as India reels from floods  
Taiwan hit by second storm after Nesat injures 111Taipei (AFP) July 30, 2017 Taiwan was hit Sunday by its second major storm in two days after Typhoon Nesat battered the island, leaving at least 111 injured while causing flooding and widespread power outages. ... more 
Elephants, tigers kill one human a day in IndiaNew Delhi (AFP) Aug 1, 2017 Endangered elephants and tigers are killing one person a day in India as humans put a growing squeeze on their habitat, according to new government figures. ... more 
The story of how a worm turned... into a bringer of medical miraclesPloemeur, France (AFP) July 31, 2017 For centuries, the only use humans found for the lugworm - dark pink, slimy and inedible - was on the end of a fish hook. ... more  
Senegal ruling party coalition claims election landslideDakar (AFP) July 31, 2017 The ruling coalition of Senegal's President Macky Sall won a widely expected landslide in a legislative election, his prime minister said Monday, bolstering Sall's prospects for re-election in 2019. ... more |
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  New Delhi (AFP) Aug 1, 2017 
Endangered elephants and tigers are killing one person a day in India as humans put a growing squeeze on their habitat, according to new government figures.
But man is in turn killing a leopard a day as the man-animal tussle for space reaches new heights.
India has lost vast swathes of forests to urbanisation in recent decades, forcing animals into human-occupied zones.
According to ... moreSydney (AFP) Aug 1, 2017Tech advances will lead to MH370 discovery - Malaysia Airlines  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 25, 2017New phase change mechanism could lead to new class of chemical vapor sensors  Tokyo (AFP) July 23, 2017Robot finds possible melted fuel inside Fukushima reactor |
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 Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Jul 31, 2017 
A team of researchers from AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland funded materials science centre based in Trinity College Dublin, have made a breakthrough in the area of material design - one that challenges the commonly held view on how the fundamental building blocks of matter come together to form materials.
Professor John Boland, Principal Investigator in AMBER and Trinity's School of ... more Nashville TN (SPX) Jul 25, 2017Multitasking monolayers  Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Jul 25, 2017A new material emits white light when exposed to electricity  Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 25, 2017Writing with the electron beam: Now in silver |
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 Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Jul 31, 2017 
A study of lead service lines in Flint's damaged drinking water system reveals a Swiss cheese pattern in the pipes' interior crust, with holes where the lead used to be.
The findings - led by researchers at the University of Michigan - support the generally accepted understanding that lead leached into the system because that water wasn't treated to prevent corrosion. While previous studie ... more Seville, Spain (SPX) Jul 31, 2017One of the first examples of a local nautical map from Hispanic America  Rome (AFP) July 26, 2017Health risk alarm over water rationing in Rome  Sydney (AFP) July 19, 2017Risky business for fish in oil-polluted reef waters |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 31, 2017 
Studies have shown that as ice sheets in Antarctica melt, trapped methane gasses will be released. But new research suggests methane-eating microbes will limit gaseous emissions.
When researchers analyzed water and sediment samples from Antarctica's subglacial Whillans Lake - a first - they determined microbes consume 99 percent of methane released into the lake.
Some climate s ... more Fairbanks AK (SPX) Jul 26, 2017A new model yields insights into glaciers' retreats and advances  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 |
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 Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 31, 2017 
Swiss farmers practiced various different methods of animal farming as early as 5,400 years ago, as demonstrated by a study by researchers from the University of Basel, as well as research institutions from Germany and the UK. The study focused on the settlement Arbon Bleiche 3 on the south bank of Lake Constance. The academic journal PLOS ONE has published the results.
The Arbon Bleiche 3 ... more Washington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2017Adjusting fertilizers vital in claypan ag soils  Los Angeles (AFP) July 13, 2017Disneyland China falls a-fowl of huge turkey leg demand  Paris (ESA) Jul 27, 2017One plant at a time is precise |
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 New Delhi (AFP) July 31, 2017  Lightning killed 21 people in eastern India as large swathes of the country reel under the worst floods in years that have left hundreds dead and millions displaced, officials said Monday.
Eighteen people were killed in Odisha state, authorities there said. Another three died in Jharkhand state further north.
About 10 people were injured by the widespread bolts as storms erupted over ric ... moreTaipei (AFP) July 29, 2017Floods and power-outages as Taiwan battered by Typhoon Nesat  Ahmedabad, India (AFP) July 26, 201725 found dead as toll from Indian floods nears 120: officials Taipei (AFP) July 30, 2017Taiwan hit by second storm after Nesat injures 111 |
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 Dakar (AFP) July 31, 2017 
The ruling coalition of Senegal's President Macky Sall won a widely expected landslide in a legislative election, his prime minister said Monday, bolstering Sall's prospects for re-election in 2019.
The Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY) coalition swept all but three of the country's 45 electoral departments, Prime Minister Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne told the public Senegalese press agency APS ahead ... more Bamako (AFP) July 27, 2017Mali broadcaster, govt critic, gets jail for 'incitement' Banjul, Gambia (AFP) July 27, 2017Adama Barrow: how do you solve a problem like The Gambia?  Bamako (AFP) July 26, 2017Two German UN peacekeepers killed in Mali helicopter crash |
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 Johannesburg, South Africa (SPX) Jul 31, 2017 
The flexibility and ability to adapt to changing climates by employing various cultural innovations allowed communities of early humans to survive through a prolonged period of pronounced aridification.
The early human techno-tradition, known as Howiesons Poort (HP), associated with Homo sapiens who lived in southern Africa about 66 000 to 59 000 years ago indicates that during this period ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 26, 2017How did early humans survive aridity and prolonged drought in Africa  College Station TX (SPX) Jul 31, 2017Shedding light deeper into the human brain  Jena, Germany (SPX) Jul 31, 2017Identifying major transitions in human cultural evolution |
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 Paris (AFP) July 31, 2017 
There is a five-percent chance of limiting average global warming to under two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the target set in the 2015 climate-rescue Paris Agreement, researchers said on Monday.
And chances of meeting the lower, aspirational 1.5 C goal, also listed in the 196-nation pact, were a mere one percent, they wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change.
A US-based ex ... more Los Angeles (AFP) July 28, 2017Al Gore: I've given up on climate 'catastrophe' Trump  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 25, 2017Could a geoengineering cocktail control the climate  Seattle WA (SPX) Jul 26, 2017Could spraying particles into marine clouds help cool the planet |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Aug 01, 2017 
The photograph was taken with the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland developed hyperspectral camera's secondary camera.
Launched on the morning of 23 June from India, the Aalto-1 satellite's first month in space has gone according to plan.
'We have run checks on the majority of the satellite's systems and found that the devices are fully functional,' Aalto University's Professo ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 26, 2017NASA Solves a Drizzle Riddle  Washington (UPI) Jul 13, 2017Nickel key to Earth's magnetic field, research shows  Miami FL (SPX) Jul 21, 2017Manmade aerosols identified as driver in shifting global rainfall patterns |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 27, 2017 
A team of Australian and British palaeontologists have rediscovered the lost burial site of Austrosaurus mckillop, a long-necked sauropod first found in 1932.
Found on an isolated sheep station in Queensland, the dinosaur's origins were lost to time and dust in the wake of the specimen's excavation. Attempts in the 1970s and 90s to relocate the dig site failed.
More recently, res ... moreWashington (UPI) Jul 31, 2017Dinosaur-era plant found growing in Wisconsin lakes  Washington (UPI) Jul 26, 2017Large-mouthed fish dominated the seas following mass extinction  Konstanz, Germany (SPX) Jul 25, 2017The puzzle of evolutionary relationships among vertebrates |
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 Lincoln UK (SPX) Jul 24, 2017 
Plans to create 100 new 'smart' cities in India to support the country's rapidly growing urban population could have a significant detrimental impact on the environment unless greater emphasis is placed on providing new supporting infrastructure and utilities, according to a major new study.
Professor Hugh Byrd, a specialist in urban planning from the University of Lincoln, UK, conducted a ... more University Park PA (SPX) Jul 25, 2017Allowable 'carbon budget' most likely overestimated  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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 Houston TX (SPX) Jul 31, 2017 
Lithium-ion batteries are popular power sources for cellphones and other electronics, but problematic in extreme heat or cold. A Rice University laboratory has suggested ways to extend their range.
Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan and members of his lab have published a review that analyzes recent progress in lithium-ion technology and suggests how to make the batteries more adapta ... more Raleigh NC (SPX) Jul 25, 2017High-temperature superconductivity in B-doped Q-carbon  College Park MD (SPX) Jul 25, 2017UMD engineers invent the first bio-compatible, ion current battery  Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jul 25, 2017First basic physics simulation of impact of neutrals on turbulence |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 31, 2017 
Until now, scientists believed, Chrysocoma cilliata, a flowering plant colonizing degraded land in the Lesotho Highlands, was an invasive species. But new research suggests the plant, a member of the daisy family, has been around for at least 4,000 years.
The Lesotho Highlands are formed by the intersection of the Drakensberg and Maloti mountain ranges in Lesotho, a small, landlocked co ... moreLusaka (AFP) July 30, 2017Zambia arrests 3 Chinese for rhino horn trafficking  Saint-Aignan-Sur-Cher, France (AFP) July 26, 2017Bienvenue! French zoo announces first ever panda pregnancy Johannesburg (AFP) July 26, 2017Woman held at S.Africa airport for rhino horn smuggling |
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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 Gaborone, Botswana (AFP) July 25, 2017Botswana confirms Dalai Lama visit despite China anger  Beijing (AFP) July 20, 2017Chinese city leadership shake-up signals Xi power play  Beijing (AFP) July 27, 2017Chinese police detain suspected pyramid scheme protesters |
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 Brussels (AFP) July 28, 2017 
The European Union's top court has ordered Poland's right-wing government to suspend logging in the ancient Bialowieza forest pending a final judgement, a spokesman said Friday.
Bialowieza, straddling Poland's eastern border with Belarus, includes one of the largest surviving parts of the primeval forest that covered the European plain 10,000 years ago.
The UNESCO World Heritage site al ... moreBrussels (AFP) July 31, 2017Poland to keep logging in ancient forest: minister Gassy, Pologne (AFP) July 30, 2017Poles revive ancient tradition of timber floating  Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Jul 31, 2017Trees can make or break city weather |
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