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  Edinburgh, UK (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 West Antarctica's vast ice sheet conceals what may be the largest volcanic region on earth, research has revealed. The continent's ice covers almost 100 newly discovered volcanoes, the largest of which is as tall as the Eiger in Switzerland, a study has found. Geologists and ice experts say the range has many similarities to East Africa's volcanic ridge, which is currently acknowledged to be the densest concentration of volcanoes in the world. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh remotely ... read more |
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ASU graduate student leads study estimating oxygen loss in ancient global oceanTempe AZ (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 A loss of oxygen in global ocean seawater 94 million years ago led to a mass extinction of marine life that lasted for roughly half a million years. Scientists have found several potential explanati ... more  
Oceans possess vast, untapped potential for sustainable aquacultureSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 Covering 70 percent of Earth's surface, the world's oceans are vast and deep. So vast, in fact, that nearly every coastal country has the potential to meet its own domestic seafood needs through aqu ... more 
Efforts to reduce pollution from agriculture paying off slowlyWaterloo, UK (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 Efforts by farmers to reduce the amount of fertilizer that reaches drinking water sources can take years to have a positive impact, according to a new study from the University of Waterloo. Th ... more  
Greece asks EU for air support to battle firesAthens (AFP) Aug 15, 2017 Greece on Tuesday pleaded for assistance from European neighbours to help battle wild fires including a blaze ravaging a forest near Athens. ... 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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New technique offers clues to measure the deoxygenation of the oceanCape Cod MA (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 The living, breathing ocean may be slowly starting to suffocate. More than two percent of the ocean's oxygen content has been depleted during the last half century, according to reports, and marine ... more  
At least 221 dead in India, Bangladesh, Nepal floodsSaptari, Nepal (AFP) Aug 15, 2017 At least 221 people have died and more than 1.5 million have been displaced by monsoon flooding across India, Nepal and Bangladesh, officials said Tuesday, as rescuers scoured submerged villages for the missing. ... more 
Hurricane Gert churns up dangerous swells on US east coastMiami (AFP) Aug 15, 2017 Hurricane Gert is miles off the US east coast and heading into the open Atlantic, but still dangerous enough to generate life threatening coastal conditions, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday. ... more 
Sierra Leone appeals for urgent help after deadly floodsFreetown (AFP) Aug 16, 2017 Sierra Leone's president issued a desperate appeal for help, a day after flooding ravaged the country's capital, killing more than 300 people and leaving hundreds more missing. ... more 
New plate adds plot twist to ancient tectonic taleHouston TX (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 A microplate discovered off the west coast of Ecuador adds another piece to Earth's tectonic puzzle, according to Rice University scientists. Researchers led by Rice geophysicist Richard Gordon disc ... more  
Arrival of modern humans in Southeast Asia questionedBrisbane, Australia (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 Humans may have exited out of Africa and arrived in Southeast Asia 20,000 years earlier than previously thought, a new study involving University of Queensland researchers suggests. Findings f ... more |
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 Ozone treaty taking a bite out of US greenhouse gas emissions 
New 13-million-year-old infant skull sheds light on ape ancestryWashington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 The discovery in Kenya of a remarkably complete fossil ape skull reveals what the common ancestor of all living apes and humans may have looked like. The find, announced in the scientific journal Na ... more 
'Inefficient' sailing fleet keeps oyster fishery aliveExeter UK (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 Oyster stocks in a Cornish fishery are sustained thanks to "inefficient" traditional fishing methods, new research suggests. The Fal oyster fishery is home to the only sail-driven commercial fishing ... more  
Deep-sea animals eating plastic fibers from clothingWashington (UPI) Aug 15, 2017 Far beneath the ocean waves lies the benthic zone - the cold dark region at the bottom of the sea that is home to some of the most important marine organisms, called meiofauna. No larger than a few grains of table salt, the tiny creatures live in and around seabed sediment and play a crucial role breaking down organic matter in the deep ocean and recycling nutrients throughout the marine food chain. ... more 
Chinese fishers held in Ecuador over endangered sharksQuito (AFP) Aug 15, 2017 A court in Ecuador remanded in custody the Chinese crew of a fishing boat suspected of catching endangered sharks in the Galapagos Islands marine reserve, a minister said. ... more |
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  Washington (UPI) Aug 14, 2017 
New analysis of flow rates and precipitation totals suggest flooding in urban areas is intensifying while rural areas dry up.
In an effort to identify links between rising global temperatures and river flow patterns, scientists at the University of New South Wales surveyed flow rate and rainfall data from 5,300 river monitoring sites and 43,000 rain gauges in 160 different countries. ... more New Delhi (AFP) Aug 12, 2017Hunter fells elephant that killed 15 in India New Delhi (AFP) Aug 11, 2017Shoot-to-kill: India hunts serial killer elephant  Tripoli (AFP) Aug 10, 2017Libya navy bars foreign ships from migrant 'search and rescue' zone |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 
Archinaut, a NASA Technology Demonstration Mission (TDM) project developing cutting-edge technology to build and assemble complex hardware and supersized structures on demand in space, achieved an unprecedented milestone this summer.
"To our knowledge, this is the first time additive manufacturing has been successfully tested on such a large scale in the vacuum and temperature conditions o ... more Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Aug 07, 2017Nature provides a key to repelling liquids  Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Aug 07, 2017Heat-conducting plastic could lead to lighter electronics, cars  Menlo Park, CA (SPX) Aug 07, 2017Scientists watch 'artificial atoms' assemble into perfect lattices with many uses |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 14, 2017 
This past week marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of a revolutionary ocean research vessel - a space "ship." As the NASA/CNES Topex-Poseidon satellite ascended into orbit, it ushered in a new era of oceanography with the first highly accurate, global measurements of sea levels.
That mission and its three successors, all named Jason, have continuously mapped global ocean currents and ... moreCape Cod MA (SPX) Aug 16, 2017New technique offers clues to measure the deoxygenation of the ocean  Hagatna, Guam (AFP) Aug 14, 2017Guam leader backs 'punch in the nose' for Pyongyang Quito (AFP) Aug 15, 2017Chinese fishers held in Ecuador over endangered sharks |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 09, 2017 
A new study by scientists at Portland State University and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder has found that the effects of climate change, which are apparent in other parts of the Antarctic continent, are not yet observed for glaciers in the western Ross Sea coast.
Published online ahead of print for the journal Geology, the study found tha ... more Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 09, 2017Extreme melt season leads to decade-long ecosystem changes in Antarctic polar desert  Newcastle UK (SPX) Aug 09, 2017Researchers crack the 'Karakoram anomaly'  Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 07, 2017Alaska's North Slope snow-free season is lengthening |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 
Covering 70 percent of Earth's surface, the world's oceans are vast and deep. So vast, in fact, that nearly every coastal country has the potential to meet its own domestic seafood needs through aquaculture. In fact, each country could do so using a tiny fraction of its ocean territory.
So finds a study led by scientists from UC Santa Barbara and including researchers from the Nature Conse ... moreWaterloo, UK (SPX) Aug 16, 2017Efforts to reduce pollution from agriculture paying off slowly Exeter UK (SPX) Aug 16, 2017'Inefficient' sailing fleet keeps oyster fishery alive  Paris (AFP) Aug 14, 2017Can offshore fish farming feed a hungry world? |
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 Kathmandu (AFP) Aug 14, 2017  At least 165 people have died and thousands have fled their homes as monsoon floods swept across Nepal, India and Bangladesh, officials said Monday, warning the toll could rise as the extent of the damage becomes clear.
Three days of relentless downpours sparked flash floods and landslides that have killed at least 70 people in Nepal, 73 across northern and eastern India and 22 in Bangladesh ... moreMiami (AFP) Aug 15, 2017Hurricane Gert churns up dangerous swells on US east coast  Jiuzhaigou, China (AFP) Aug 10, 2017China combs through quake region for victims  Jiuzhaigou, China (AFP) Aug 10, 2017Tourism a major casualty of China quake |
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 New Delhi (AFP) Aug 12, 2017 
The Dalai Lama has cancelled a trip next week to Botswana because of "exhaustion" after Beijing expressed anger at the African country for allowing the visit.
The 82-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader, who lives in exile in India, was to speak at a three day conference in Botswana's capital Gaborone, which begins on August 17.
An official statement released late Friday said the Dalai Lama ... more Maiduguri, Nigeria (AFP) Aug 12, 2017UN says Nigeria relations 'intact' after unauthorised raid  Kano, Nigeria (AFP) Aug 11, 2017Nigerian forces in 'unauthorised search' of UN camp  Nairobi (AFP) Aug 10, 2017Kenyan opposition demands Odinga be 'declared president' |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 
The discovery in Kenya of a remarkably complete fossil ape skull reveals what the common ancestor of all living apes and humans may have looked like. The find, announced in the scientific journal Nature on August 10th, belongs to an infant that lived about 13 million years ago. The research was done by an international team led by Isaiah Nengo of Stony Brook University-affiliated Turkana Basin I ... moreBrisbane, Australia (SPX) Aug 16, 2017Arrival of modern humans in Southeast Asia questioned  Washington (UPI) Aug 9, 2017Ancient infant skull yields insights into human-ape lineage  Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Aug 09, 2017New look at archaic DNA rewrites human evolution story |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 14, 2017 
A new heat map published by the European Space Agency offers a colorful, bird's-eye-view of last week's heatwave in Southern Europe.
As showcased by the swath of organs and red hues blanketing much of the Mediterranean, much of Southern Europe experienced highs near 105 degrees Fahrenheit.
During the string of extreme highs, ESA's Earth-observing and weather satellites helped tra ... more Seoul (AFP) Aug 9, 2017UNEP chief urges China to do more on climate  Beijing (SPX) Aug 09, 2017Warm periods in the 20th century are not unprecedented during the last 2,000 years  Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 09, 2017Can poor air quality mask global warming's effects |
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 Toulouse, France (SPX) Aug 14, 2017 
MetOp-C is the third and final satellite of the first generation of MetOp polar-orbiting meteorological satellites.
The payload module of MetOp-C, developed and built by Airbus in Germany, was delivered to Toulouse after it completed a series of tests at ESTEC, the technical centre of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
The satellite, weighing in at four to ... more Washington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2017Ozone treaty taking a bite out of US greenhouse gas emissions  Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 14, 2017Successful filming of fastest aurora flickering  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 14, 2017Teledyne Brown Engineering and Oakman Aerospace, Inc. to partner on MUSES Platform |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 
New geochemical research indicates that existing theories of the formation of the Earth may be mistaken. The results of experiments to show how zinc (Zn) relates to sulphur (S) under the conditions present at the time of the formation of the Earth more than 4 billion years ago, indicate that there is a substantial quantity of Zn in the Earth's core, whereas previously there had been thought to b ... moreTempe AZ (SPX) Aug 16, 2017ASU graduate student leads study estimating oxygen loss in ancient global ocean  Washington (UPI) Aug 9, 2017Scientists unearth largest dinosaur species in Patagonia  Vienna, Austria (SPX) Aug 03, 2017What flowers looked like 100 million years ago |
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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 7, 2017 
How can scientists protect the structures that house fusion reactors?
Scientists in Belgium have showed that vapor clouds of liquid metal can successfully reflect heat during extreme temperature flux.
Today, fusion energy is only an ambitious idea. Researchers continue to build and test fusion reactors, but self-sustaining fusion has not yet been achieved. Still, some scientists ... more Washington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2017A battery-inspired strategy for carbon fixation  Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Aug 16, 2017Updated computer code improves prediction of particle motion in plasma experiments  Binghamton NY (SPX) Aug 09, 2017Saliva-powered battery could be helpful in extreme conditions |
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 Dhaka (AFP) Aug 13, 2017  Bangladeshi conservationists introduced two rare river-dwelling crocodiles to potential mates Sunday in a last-ditch attempt to save the critically-endangered species from extinction.
A 36-year-old female gharial - a fish-eating crocodile once native to rivers across the Indian subcontinent - was brought from a zoo in northeast Bangladesh to the capital Dhaka, where it is hoped she will ma ... 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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 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) Aug 11, 2017Anger over calls to limit air-con for Hong Kong maids  Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 11, 2017Hong Kong pro-democracy supporter says 'abducted' by Chinese agents  Phnom Penh (AFP) Aug 9, 2017Hundreds of Cambodian maids to work in Hong Kong |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 09, 2017 
The report finds that hydraulic failure, which is the inability of a plant to move water from roots to leaves to be almost universally present when trees died, while carbon starvation was a contributing factor roughly half of the time.
"Droughts are increasing in frequency and severity, and their impact on plants and humans, is becoming more intense," says research co-author, Dr Melanie Ze ... more Jena, Germany (SPX) Aug 07, 2017Humans have been altering tropical forests for at least 45,000 years  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2017Payments to rural communities offer a new opportunity to restore China's native forests  Brussels (AFP) Aug 7, 2017EU demands Polish 'reassurance' over ancient forest |
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