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  Port Moresby (AFP) Aug 1, 2017 American consumers may be fuelling logging linked to illegal land grabs in Papua New Guinea which have devastated local communities and the world's third largest tropical rain forest, Global Witness said Tuesday. Timber logged in the impoverished Pacific nation is exported to manufacturing hubs, mostly in China, before being sent to other countries such as the United States as wooden flooring and other commercial products in a multi-billion dollar trade. But Global Witness claimed about one-thir ... read more |
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Bangladesh doubles wildlife sanctuary to save its tigersDhaka (AFP) Aug 1, 2017 Bangladesh has more than doubled the size of the wildlife sanctuary in the world's largest mangrove forest to try to protect endangered Bengal tigers whose numbers have fallen sharply, officials said Tuesday. ... more 
Panda at French zoo expecting... twins!Saint-Aignan-Sur-Cher, France (AFP) Aug 1, 2017 French zoo officials were doubly delighted on Tuesday on learning that their pregnant panda is expecting not one but two cubs at the weekend. ... more  
Gambian environmentalists to sue 'polluting' Chinese firmBanjul, Gambia (AFP) Aug 1, 2017 Gambian conservationists are suing a Chinese firm they say polluted a lagoon by dumping waste into the sea, their lawyer told AFP Tuesday, after a government agency settled out of court with the company. ... more  
Global warming reduces protein in key crops: studyMiami (AFP) Aug 2, 2017 Rising carbon dioxide levels from global warming will drastically reduce the amount of protein in staple crops like rice and wheat, leaving vulnerable populations at risk of growth stunting and early death, experts warned Wednesday. ... 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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Florida gears up for Tropical Storm EmilyMiami (AFP) July 31, 2017 The US state of Florida braced Monday for a tropical storm as authorities declared an emergency in some areas and warned of heavy rainfall and possible flash floods. ... more  
European support for Sahel 'mutually reinforcing': GermanyBamako (AFP) Aug 2, 2017 French and German support for a regional Sahel force to battle jihadists will persuade other European nations of the benefits of backing the counter-terror measure, Germany's defence minister said Tuesday. ... more 
China opens first chamber of commerce in I.CoastAbidjan (AFP) July 31, 2017 China, Ivory Coast's third biggest trading partner, has opened its first chamber of commerce in the country, its embassy announced Monday in Abidjan. ... more  
Indonesia to deport 153 Chinese for $450 million scamJakarta (AFP) Aug 1, 2017 Indonesia will deport 153 Chinese nationals arrested for alleged involvement in a multimillion-dollar cyber fraud ring targeting wealthy businessmen and politicians in China, police said Tuesday. ... more  
China police arrest 230 over pyramid schemeBeijing (AFP) July 31, 2017 Chinese police have arrested 230 members of a suspected pyramid scheme, a week after a rare demonstration in Beijing protesting a crackdown on the group. ... more  
Methane-eating microbes may curb gas emissions as Antarctic ice sheets meltWashington (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. ... more |
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 Poland to keep logging in ancient forest: minister
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  
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 |
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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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 Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 02, 2017 
The head of Space Equipment at Airbus DS stated that SynerTech company and Russian Space Systems is planning to make up to 50 solid-state power amplifiers within the next year.
SynerTech company, a joint enterprise of Airbus Defence and Space (DS) aerospace company and Russian Space Systems, is planning to make up to 50 solid-state power amplifiers within the next year, Jean-Pierre Domenge ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 02, 2017NASA enhances online scientific tool used by hundreds Worldwide  Berkeley CA (SPX) Jul 27, 2017Making polymer chemistry 'click'  Washington (UPI) Jul 31, 2017ARCTEC receives contract for Air Force radar sites in Alaska |
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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 Sydney (AFP) July 19, 2017Risky business for fish in oil-polluted reef waters  Miami (AFP) July 17, 2017Japanese seaweed is welcome invader on US coasts: study  Paris (AFP) July 13, 2017Climate change deepens threat to Pacific island wildlife |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 31, 2017  Helheim Glacier is the fastest flowing glacier along the eastern edge of Greenland Ice Sheet and one of the island's largest ocean-terminating rivers of ice. Named after the Vikings' world of the dead, Helheim has kept scientists on their toes for the past two decades.
Between 2000 and 2005, Helheim quickly increased the rate at which it dumped ice to the sea, while also rapidly retreating ... moreWashington (UPI) Jul 31, 2017Methane-eating microbes may curb gas emissions as Antarctic ice sheets melt  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 |
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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 ... moreMiami (AFP) Aug 2, 2017Global warming reduces protein in key crops: study Los Angeles (AFP) July 13, 2017Disneyland China falls a-fowl of huge turkey leg demand  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2017Adjusting fertilizers vital in claypan ag soils |
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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 ... moreMiami (AFP) July 31, 2017Florida gears up for Tropical Storm Emily Taipei (AFP) July 30, 2017Taiwan hit by second storm after Nesat injures 111 Taipei (AFP) July 29, 2017Floods and power-outages as Taiwan battered by Typhoon Nesat |
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 Abidjan (AFP) July 31, 2017 
China, Ivory Coast's third biggest trading partner, has opened its first chamber of commerce in the country, its embassy announced Monday in Abidjan.
It will house some 40 separate businesses involved in a range of projects, from supplying drinking water to Abidjan, to the expansion of the city's port and the construction of the stadium at Ebimpe, near Abidjan.
Other projects include the ... more Dakar (AFP) July 31, 2017Senegal ruling party coalition claims election landslide Bamako (AFP) Aug 2, 2017European support for Sahel 'mutually reinforcing': Germany Banjul, Gambia (AFP) July 27, 2017Adama Barrow: how do you solve a problem like The Gambia? |
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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 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  Washington (UPI) Jul 26, 2017How did early humans survive aridity and prolonged drought in Africa |
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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 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  Los Angeles (AFP) July 28, 2017Al Gore: I've given up on climate 'catastrophe' Trump |
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 Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Aug 01, 2017 
Arianespace has launched two Earth observation satellites for civil and military applications: OPTSAT-3000 for the Italian Ministry of Defence; and Venus, a mission of the Israel Space Agency (ISA) - a government body sponsored by the country's Ministry of Science and Technology - and the French CNES space agency (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales).
The launch took place on Tuesday, Augus ... more Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Aug 01, 2017Aalto-1 satellite sends first image back to VTT Finland  Washington (UPI) Jul 13, 2017Nickel key to Earth's magnetic field, research shows  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 26, 2017NASA Solves a Drizzle Riddle |
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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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 Kobe, Japan (SPX) Jul 27, 2017 
When certain materials are cooled below a critical temperature they become superconductors, with zero electrical resistance. An international research team observed an unusual electronic state in new superconductor chromium arsenide. This finding could prove useful in future superconductor research and material design. The study was published on June 5 in Nature Communications.
These disco ... more Jerusalem (SPX) Jul 24, 2017First direct observation and measurement of ultra-fast moving vortices in superconductors  Houston TX (SPX) Jul 31, 2017Scientists map ways forward for lithium-ion batteries for extreme environments  Raleigh NC (SPX) Jul 25, 2017High-temperature superconductivity in B-doped Q-carbon |
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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 ... more Lusaka (AFP) July 30, 2017Zambia arrests 3 Chinese for rhino horn trafficking Saint-Aignan-Sur-Cher, France (AFP) Aug 1, 2017Panda at French zoo expecting... twins! Dhaka (AFP) Aug 1, 2017Bangladesh doubles wildlife sanctuary to save its tigers |
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 Beijing (AFP) July 31, 2017 
Chinese police have arrested 230 members of a suspected pyramid scheme, a week after a rare demonstration in Beijing protesting a crackdown on the group.
The scheme, known as Shanxinhui or "philanthropic exchange", is under investigation and the group's founder Zhang Tianming, along with several employees, was arrested earlier this month.
But in an unusual display of public disobedience, ... more Shenyang, China (AFP) July 15, 2017Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo's ashes buried at sea  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 |
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 Port Moresby (AFP) Aug 1, 2017 
American consumers may be fuelling logging linked to illegal land grabs in Papua New Guinea which have devastated local communities and the world's third largest tropical rain forest, Global Witness said Tuesday.
Timber logged in the impoverished Pacific nation is exported to manufacturing hubs, mostly in China, before being sent to other countries such as the United States as wooden floorin ... more Brussels (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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