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  Davis CA (SPX) Aug 07, 2017 Desert tortoises pace back and forth and can overheat by roadside fencing meant to help them, according to a study published in the journal Biological Conservation by the University of California, Davis, and the University of Georgia. The Mojave Desert tortoise is a threatened species and icon of California's southern deserts. The tortoise currently faces intense pressure as its habitat is eyed for solar and wind energy development. Loss of habitat comes at a time when biologists are working to re ... read more |
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Origin of human genus may have occurred by chanceWashington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2017 An often cited claim that humans, who are smarter and more technologically advanced than their ancestors, originated in response to climate change is challenged in a new report by a Center for the A ... more 
The biology of colorDavis CA (SPX) Aug 07, 2017 Scientists are on a threshold of a new era of color science due largely to an explosion of technologies, but key questions remain for the field, according to a study in the journal Science by an int ... more  
Alaska's North Slope snow-free season is lengtheningBoulder CO (SPX) Aug 07, 2017 On the North Slope of Alaska, snow is melting earlier in the spring and the snow-in date is happening later in the fall, according to a new study by CIRES and NOAA researchers. Atmospheric dynamics ... more 
Lizards demonstrate rapid evolution in the face of extreme coldWashington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2017 By studying a population of lizards before and after a sudden cold snap that struck the U.S., scientists have observed how the surviving population underwent rapid adaptation in response to the even ... 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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Skin-ditching gecko inexplicably leaves body armor behind when threatenedGainesville FL (SPX) Aug 07, 2017 When trouble looms, the fish-scale geckos of Madagascar resort to what might seem like an extreme form of self-defense - tearing out of their own skin. Their unusually large, overlapping scale ... more 
Animals have it all over us when it comes to colorBrisbane, Australia (SPX) Aug 07, 2017 University of Queensland researchers have developed new knowledge on how animals see and use colour, and how their colour vision has evolved. The Queensland Brain Institute's Professor Justin ... more 
How do birds get their colorsChicago IL (SPX) Aug 07, 2017 Birds' feathers, or plumage, are some of the most strikingly variable animal characteristics that can be observed by the naked eye. The patterns that we see in birds' feathers are made up of intrica ... more  
4,500 families, major dam affected by Venezuela floodingCaracas (AFP) Aug 8, 2017 Torrential rain in southeast Venezuela has affected 4,500 families and is sending floodwaters gushing through the country's major hydroelectric dam, authorities and local media said on Monday. ... more  
Payments to rural communities offer a new opportunity to restore China's native forestsWashington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2017 Despite massive efforts at reforestation, China's native forests continue to be displaced by plantations. A new study by researchers from the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Kunming Institute of ... more 
Marine reserves can help commercial fishermen catch more fish, avoid bycatchWashington (UPI) Aug 7, 2017 Marine reserves protect portions of the ocean from commercial fishing and other extractive activities, like oil and gas exploration. But even as they leave fisherman with fewer places to fish, new research suggests marine reserves may actually be a boon to commercial fishermen. ... more |
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Hong Kong cleans up greasy beaches after palm oil spillHong Kong (AFP) Aug 7, 2017 A clean-up operation was under way in Hong Kong Monday after a massive palm oil spillage from a ship collision in mainland Chinese waters clogged some of its most popular beaches. ... more 
Algae blooms irk Canaries beachgoersTenerife, Spain (AFP) Aug 7, 2017 Microalgae blooms proliferating in hot weather in Spain's Canary Islands are irritating beachgoers, who should avoid direct contact with them, local authorities said Monday. ... more  
Government report sees drastic climate change impact in US: NYTWashington (AFP) Aug 8, 2017 Average US temperatures have risen dramatically and fast, with recent decades the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a draft federal government report cited by The New York Times on Tuesday. ... more  
Typhoon Noru brings heavy rain to Japan, injures 51Tokyo (AFP) Aug 8, 2017 Typhoon Noru dumped heavy rain on Japan Tuesday as it moved back out to sea, causing flooding and property damage while the number of injured reportedly rose to 51. ... more |
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  Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Aug 6, 2017 
Thousands of Brazilian army troops raided Rio de Janeiro slums in a pre-dawn crackdown on crime gangs Saturday, leaving parts of the city looking like a war zone on the first anniversary of the opening of the Olympic Games.
Five favelas were targeted by around 1,300 police and 3,600 troops in a sweep starting at 4 am (0700 GMT), the Rio state security service said in a statement.
Their m ... more Rome (AFP) Aug 2, 2017Italy parliament approves Libya naval mission  Sydney (AFP) Aug 1, 2017Tech advances will lead to MH370 discovery - Malaysia Airlines  New Delhi (AFP) Aug 1, 2017Elephants, tigers kill one human a day in India |
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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 Sendai, Japan (SPX) Jul 27, 2017A new synthesis route for alternative catalysts of noble metals  Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jul 27, 2017Synthetic materials systems that can "count" and sense their size  Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Jul 31, 2017Scientists discover new magnet with nearly massless charge carriers |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 4, 2017 
Leidos Innovations is receiving a $7.2 million modification to an existing contract for spare parts and support services for the U.S. Navy's AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 undersea warfare system on surface ships.
The modification applies towards the system used by the U.S. Navy and foreign military sales. The work will be conducted in Norfolk, Va. and is expected to be completed by July 2018.
... moreWashington (UPI) Aug 7, 2017Marine reserves can help commercial fishermen catch more fish, avoid bycatch  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2017Current threats to our oceans are revealed Caracas (AFP) Aug 8, 20174,500 families, major dam affected by Venezuela flooding |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Aug 03, 2017 
It seems counterintuitive, but over the eons, glaciers may have made Earth warmer, according to a Rice University professor.
Mark Torres, an assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, took a data-driven dive into the mechanics of weathering by glaciation over millions of years to see how glacial cycles affected the oceans and atmosphere and continue to do so.
... moreBoulder CO (SPX) Aug 07, 2017Alaska's North Slope snow-free season is lengthening  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2017Rusting fool's gold in glaciers a sign of increased carbon  Washington (UPI) Aug 2, 2017N.Y. Air National Guard pilots train for arctic operations with LC-130 ski-planes |
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 Rome (AFP) Aug 4, 2017  Italy's annual wine harvest, the biggest in the world, is off to its earliest start in a decade as the country swelters in a heatwave following months of drought.
Winemakers have also had to contend with spring frosts and hailstorms this year and the country's agri-food agency Coldiretti is anticipating a 10-15 percent fall in volumes.
But producers say a good year for drinkers is still ... more Paris (AFP) Aug 4, 2017Paris's urban rooftop hives hope to preserve honeybees  Urbana IL (SPX) Aug 03, 2017New system could remove two water pollutants from ag fields  Los Angeles (AFP) July 13, 2017Disneyland China falls a-fowl of huge turkey leg demand |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Aug 6, 2017 
Strong typhoon Noru brought heavy rain and strong winds to southwest Japan, killing two people, local officials said Sunday as they warned of landslides and floods.
A man in his 60s on the remote island of Yakushima died Saturday after strong gusts made him fall hard and hit his head, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said.
A man in his 80s on neighbouring Tanegashima island drowne ... moreTokyo (AFP) Aug 8, 2017Typhoon Noru brings heavy rain to Japan, injures 51  Washington (UPI) Aug 7, 2017Increased risk of eruption measured for Ecuador's Cotopaxi volcano  New York NY (SPX) Aug 03, 2017New images from under Alaska seafloor suggest high tsunami danger |
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 Harare (AFP) Aug 4, 2017 
Zimbabwean security forces confirmed Friday that soldiers and police fought on the streets of Harare earlier this week, as nationwide tensions grow under 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe.
Witnesses told local media about a hundred uniformed soldiers wielding batons and whips charged into a bus terminus on Tuesday night and beat up police officers, leaving many prostrate on the ground.
... more Nairobi (AFP) Aug 7, 2017Calls for peace on eve of tense Kenya election  Kigali (AFP) Aug 4, 2017Rwanda's Kagame in landslide poll win with around 98% of votes  Bamako (AFP) Aug 2, 2017European support for Sahel 'mutually reinforcing': Germany |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2017 
An often cited claim that humans, who are smarter and more technologically advanced than their ancestors, originated in response to climate change is challenged in a new report by a Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology researcher at George Washington University.
Many scientists have argued that an influx, described as a "pulse," of new animal species appear in the African fo ... more Johannesburg, South Africa (SPX) Jul 31, 2017Cultural flexibility was key to surviving extreme dry periods 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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 Washington (AFP) Aug 4, 2017 
The United States announced Friday it would still take part in international climate change negotiations in order to protect its interests, despite its planned withdrawal from the Paris accord on global warming.
Two months after President Donald Trump announced the United States would abandon the 2015 global pact, his administration confirmed it had informed the United Nations of its "intent ... moreWashington (AFP) Aug 8, 2017Government report sees drastic climate change impact in US: NYT  Paris (AFP) July 31, 2017Small odds of reaching 2 C climate goal: researchers  Seattle WA (SPX) Jul 26, 2017Could spraying particles into marine clouds help cool the planet |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 04, 2017 
The U.S. and Brazil are teaming up to study scintillation in the ionosphere, a phenomena that affects radio signals, disrupting communications and GPS navigation. Aerospace is providing a sensor for this international CubeSat mission, dubbed SPORT, that will be deployed off the International Space Station. The ionosphere is a portion of Earth's atmosphere where radiation from the sun creates a l ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 04, 2017NOAA's GOES-S and GOES-T satellites coming together  Washington (UPI) Jul 13, 2017Nickel key to Earth's magnetic field, research shows  Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Aug 01, 2017Aalto-1 satellite sends first image back to VTT Finland |
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Aug 03, 2017 
Flowering plants with are by far the most diverse group of plants on Earth. Flowering plants arose only about 140 million years ago, but since then have diversified spectacularly. No one knows exactly how this happened, the origin and early evolution of them remains one of the biggest enigmas in biology. A new study in Nature Communications reconstructs the evolution of flowers and sheds new lig ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 3, 2017Well-preserved Canadian fossil reveals dinosaur armor like no other  Washington (UPI) Jul 27, 2017Scientists rediscover lost burial site of famed long-necked sauropod  Washington (UPI) Jul 31, 2017Dinosaur-era plant found growing in Wisconsin lakes |
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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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 Washington (UPI) Aug 4, 2017  BAE Systems of Great Britain is starting to install a new combined heat and power plant at the Royal Navy base in Portsmouth, England.
The plant will be completed at the end of next year and will recycle energy, reduce carbon footprint and save the Ministry of Defense as much as $4.7 million in annual energy costs, BAE said.
"By developing this new facility we will be able to rec ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 7, 2017Metal clouds to protect fusion reactor walls from heat flux  Moscow, Russia (SPX) Aug 07, 2017How the electrodes of lithium-air batteries become passivated  Los Alamos NM (SPX) Aug 07, 2017Study reveals exactly how low-cost fuel cell catalysts work |
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 Gainesville FL (SPX) Aug 07, 2017 
When trouble looms, the fish-scale geckos of Madagascar resort to what might seem like an extreme form of self-defense - tearing out of their own skin.
Their unusually large, overlapping scales flake off so easily that one biologist in the late 1800s tried collecting the geckos with cotton, but even with careful handling, few fish-scale gecko specimens have been preserved with all scales i ... moreDavis CA (SPX) Aug 07, 2017The biology of color  Sydney (AFP) Aug 3, 2017Idle spiders' epic sea journey from Africa to Australia  Saint-Aignan-Sur-Cher, France (AFP) Aug 5, 2017Surviving baby panda in 'perfect health' says French zoo |
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 Singapore (AFP) Aug 8, 2017  A prominent scholar of Chinese studies said Tuesday he had appealed against a decision to expel him from Singapore for allegedly working as "an agent of influence" for a foreign state.
Huang Jing, a US citizen of Chinese descent who worked at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, had his permanent residence status revoked by authorities last week.
His wife Shirley Yang Xiuping, whom ... more Shenyang, China (AFP) July 15, 2017Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo's ashes buried at sea  Geneva (AFP) Aug 2, 2017Chinese man pays $10,000 for whisky shot at Swiss bar Beijing (AFP) Aug 3, 2017China accused of 'enforced disappearance' of Liu Xiaobo's widow |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2017 
Despite massive efforts at reforestation, China's native forests continue to be displaced by plantations. A new study by researchers from the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB), Princeton University, and Sun Yat-sen University argues that rural communities could help reverse this trend if they were given incentives to protect and restore native forests on their ... more Brussels (AFP) Aug 7, 2017EU demands Polish 'reassurance' over ancient forest  Jena, Germany (SPX) Aug 07, 2017Humans have been altering tropical forests for at least 45,000 years Columbia, MO (SPX) Aug 03, 2017Financial incentives could conserve tropical forest diversity |
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