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  Miami (AFP) Aug 23, 2017 Levels of arsenic in the groundwater of eastern Pakistan are "alarmingly high" and pose a significant health hazard to tens of millions of people who drink the water, researchers said Wednesday. The study in the journal Science Advances is the first to create a comprehensive map of arsenic in the groundwater across Pakistan, and follows earlier, smaller studies that showed high arsenic levels in some places. Groundwater samples were taken from nearly 1,200 sites throughout the country, and resea ... read more |
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Brazil's opening of Amazon to mining sets off alarmRio De Janeiro (AFP) Aug 25, 2017 When most of the world talks about the riches of the Amazon they mean the unique rainforest and so-called lungs of the planet. ... more  
Myanmar's startups map past, shape future with virtual realityYangon (AFP) Aug 23, 2017 Gasps echo across the hall as the Myanmar school kids trial virtual reality goggles, marveling at a device that allows some of Asia's poorest people to walk on the moon or dive beneath the waves. ... more  
Death toll from South Asia flooding tops 1,000New Delhi (AFP) Aug 24, 2017 The death toll from floods sweeping South Asia has climbed above 1,000, officials said Thursday, as rescue teams try to reach millions stranded by the region's worst monsoon disaster in recent years. ... more 
Millions brace as Hurricane Harvey menaces Texas, LouisianaChicago (AFP) Aug 25, 2017 Millions of people in the US Gulf Coast states of Texas and Louisiana braced for the arrival of Hurricane Harvey as it intensified to category two with winds whipping up to 100 miles (160 kilometers) an hour. ... more |
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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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Searches resume for 8 missing in Swiss Alps landslideBondo, Switzerland (AFP) Aug 25, 2017 Rescue workers on Friday resumed their search for eight people still missing after a massive landslide in the Swiss Alps while dozens of evacuees waited to return home. ... more  
S.Africa's first online rhino horn auction sparks angerJohannesburg (AFP) Aug 23, 2017 South Africa's first online auction of rhino horn opened Wednesday, despite conservation groups protesting that the legal, domestic sale would encourage poachers. ... more 
The secret life of dodos, revealedParis (AFP) Aug 24, 2017 Has any animal suffered greater ignominy than the ill-fated dodo? ... more 
Biodiversity does not always mean more fundingWashington (UPI) Aug 23, 2017 Researchers have found that the investments and resources allotted for conservation do not match up with the levels of biodiversity in the European Union. ... more 
Female squirrels align births to increase survival of youngWashington (UPI) Aug 24, 2017 A study by the University of Alberta showed that female squirrels align their reproduction to take advantage of food-rich years to ensure pup survival. ... more 
Bangladesh police declare world-heritage forest "pirate free"Dhaka (AFP) Aug 24, 2017 Bangladesh police declared Thursday that rampant piracy in the Sundarbans was a thing of the past, crediting a gun buyback scheme for reducing crime and tiger poaching in the vast mangrove forest. ... more |
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 Dora no Explorer: TV network axes Philippine resort plan after outcry  
Go fetch! Drones help Swiss rescue dogs find the missingWinterberg, Switzerland (AFP) Aug 25, 2017 Capo, a golden retriever wearing a bright orange rescue harness, runs with his handler in tow towards a body sprawled in the high grass as a giant drone whirrs overhead. ... more 
Typhoon Hato leaves scores dead after lashing southern ChinaMacau (AFP) Aug 24, 2017 The death toll from Severe Typhoon Hato rose to at least 16 Thursday after the storm left a trail of destruction across southern China, blacking out Macau's mega-casinos and battering Hong Kong's skyscrapers. ... more 
Candlelit march as Amatrice bells toll for Italy quake deadRome (AFP) Aug 24, 2017 At exactly 3:36 am on Thursday, the town clock in Amatrice rang 249 times in memory of the number of people who died there last year in an earthquake that devastated central Italy at exactly that moment. ... more  
Hong Kong independence duo fail to regain parliament seatsHong Kong (AFP) Aug 25, 2017 Two Hong Kong independence activists saw their final bid to appeal the decision that ousted them from parliament thrown out by the city's top court on Friday. ... more |
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  Rome (AFP) Aug 23, 2017 
As Italy reels from another earthquake, experts warned Wednesday that widespread illegal construction is putting millions across the country at risk of being killed.
The tremor that shook the island of Ischia on Monday, toppling houses and killing two women, has sparked much soul-searching in a country with a weakness for rule-breaking - particularly when it comes to building or renovating ... more Bunia, Dr Congo (AFP) Aug 21, 2017Death toll in DR Congo landslide climbs to 140 Bondo, Switzerland (AFP) Aug 25, 2017Searches resume for 8 missing in Swiss Alps landslide  New Delhi (AFP) Aug 24, 2017Death toll from South Asia flooding tops 1,000 |
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A new study led by Michael P. Burke, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has identified the significance of a new class of chemical reactions involving three molecules that each participate in the breaking and forming of chemical bonds. The reaction of three different molecules is enabled by an "ephemeral collision complex," formed from the collision of two mol ... more Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Aug 23, 2017Can 'large stars' anti-aging research' help future memory devices  Bristol, UK (SPX) Aug 17, 2017The critical point in breaking the glass problem  Saint Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Aug 23, 2017Nanoparticle ink produces glowing holograms with simple inkjet printer |
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Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that largemouth bass whose cortisol levels rise after stress are harder to catch by angling.
The study, published today in the Journal of Experimental Biology, could impact recreational fishing if anglers are mainly catching fish whose stress levels determine if they are likely to strike at a lure.
"We could poten ... more Manila (AFP) Aug 23, 2017Dora no Explorer: TV network axes Philippine resort plan after outcry  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 |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Aug 22, 2017 
Antarctic researchers from Rice University have discovered one of nature's supreme ironies: On Earth's driest, coldest continent, where surface water rarely exists, flowing liquid water below the ice appears to play a pivotal role in determining the fate of Antarctic ice streams.
The finding, which appears online this week in Nature Geoscience, follows a two-year analysis of sediment cores ... more Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Aug 23, 2017Satellite photos reveal gigantic outburst floods  Oslo, Norway (SPX) Aug 23, 2017Methane hydrate is not a smoking gun in the Arctic Ocean  Indianapolis IN (SPX) Aug 21, 2017Study validates East Antarctic ice sheet to remain stable even if western ice sheet melts |
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Looking at leaves to peer into the future might seem the stuff of superstition, but is actually the essence of research conducted by scientists from Texas A and M AgriLife and the University of Southern California.
"Our study was based on observations that the more successful crops in areas typically affected by drought are usually protected by a thicker layer of leaf wax than other plants ... more Lancaster UK (SPX) Aug 21, 2017Ray of hope for more abundant wheat crops  Newark DE (SPX) Aug 21, 2017Adding silicon to soil to strengthen plant defenses  Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Aug 23, 2017Wild sheep grazed in the Black Desert 14,500 years ago |
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By simulating earthquakes in a lab, engineers at Caltech have documented the evolution of friction during an earthquake - measuring what could once only be inferred, and shedding light on one of the biggest unknowns in earthquake modeling.
Before an earthquake, static friction helps hold the two sides of a fault immobile and pressed against each other. During the passage of an earthquake r ... moreChicago (AFP) Aug 25, 2017Millions brace as Hurricane Harvey menaces Texas, Louisiana  Macau (AFP) Aug 24, 2017Typhoon Hato leaves 16 dead after lashing southern China Rome (AFP) Aug 23, 2017Italy mourns Amatrice, where quake wounds still weep |
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 Luanda (AFP) Aug 23, 2017 
Angolans voted on Wednesday in an election marking the end of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos's 38-year reign, with his MPLA party set to retain power despite an economic crisis.
The MPLA, which has ruled since Angola's independence from Portugal in 1975, is expected to defeat opposition parties stifled by Dos Santos's authoritarian regime.
Dos Santos's unexpected retirement - reporte ... more Freetown (AFP) Aug 19, 2017Death toll in SLeone flood disaster reaches 441  Washington (UPI) Aug 21, 2017Africa Endeavor 2017 communications conference starts in Malawi  New Delhi (AFP) Aug 12, 2017Dalai Lama cancels Botswana trip with 'exhaustion' |
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 Lund, Sweden (SPX) Aug 22, 2017 
Copying the behaviour of others makes us effective learners and allow skills, knowledge and inventions to be passed on from one generation to the next. Imitation is therefore viewed as the key cognitive ability that enabled human culture to grow and create such things as language, technology, art and science.
Decades of research has shown that apes, in spite of their proverbial aping abili ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 17, 2017Research reveals how neurons communicate  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2017New 13-million-year-old infant skull sheds light on ape ancestry  Washington (UPI) Aug 18, 2017To teach kids morals, read books with humans not animals |
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 Paris (SPX) Aug 21, 2017 
New data provides the first proof that the Earth has a natural thermostat which enables the planet to recover from extremes of climate change - but the recovery timescales are significant. This work was presented at the Goldschmidt conference in Paris, and has just been published in the peer-reviewed journal Geochemical Perspectives Letters*.
The idea of a natural temperature thermostat wa ... more Washington DC (SPX) Aug 17, 2017Incomplete drought recovery may be the new normal  Washington (UPI) Aug 17, 2017Asian Development Bank finds new climate finance stream  Washington (UPI) Aug 14, 2017Heat map showcases extreme temperatures in Southern Europe |
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Wallops Island, VA (SPX) Aug 24, 2017
A NASA rocket mission to study disturbances in the upper atmosphere that interfere with communication and technology systems will form night-time white artificial clouds visible by residents of the Republic of the Marshall Islands during two rocket flights to occur between August 29 and September 9.
The Waves and Instabilities from a Neutral Dynamo, o ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 13, 2017Nickel key to Earth's magnetic field, research shows  Boston MA (SPX) Aug 21, 2017How future volcanic eruptions will impact Earth's ozone layer  Beijing, China (SPX) Aug 21, 2017Identifying individual atmospheric equatorial waves from a total flow field |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 23, 2017 
Researchers at Midwestern University have discovered that the muscles that control the unique mammalian perineal structures follow an ancient pattern.
The study, published today in Scientific Reports, showed that despite the perineum's structural complexity, the muscles of the mammalian perineum show a reemergence of a pattern of body wall layering that has its origins more than 360 mil ... more Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Aug 21, 2017Mechanisms explaining positional diversity of the hindlimb in tetrapod evolution  Chicago IL (SPX) Aug 17, 2017First winged mammals from the Jurassic period discovered  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2017Experiments cast doubt on how the Earth was formed |
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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 24, 2017 
A new study by the University of Houston offers promise for the use of magnesium batteries as a safer alternative to problem-plagued lithium ion batteries.
High voltage lithium ion batteries are the current standard but they are expensive and can develop breaches in their internal structure, known as dendrite growths, causing them to catch on fire, which has become an increasing problem ... more Liverpool, UK (SPX) Aug 23, 2017ULEMCo plans a fuel cell approach to extend range of electric vans  Boston MA (SPX) Aug 21, 2017Researchers clarify mystery about proposed battery material  London UK (SPX) Aug 21, 2017Candy cane supercapacitor could enable fast charging of mobile phones |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 24, 2017 
Has any animal suffered greater ignominy than the ill-fated dodo?
"A strange and grotesque specimen of bird... bearing a ridiculous bent bill," was the verdict of early 17th century Dutch admiral and explorer Wybrand van Warwijck.
Subsequent expeditions of sailors feasted on the helpless fowl even as they disparaged the flavour of its flesh as "the devil's chicken".
By 1680, the dodo ... moreWashington (UPI) Aug 24, 2017Female squirrels align births to increase survival of young  Washington (UPI) Aug 22, 2017Scientists uncover two-layer identification among soil bacteria Washington (UPI) Aug 23, 2017Biodiversity does not always mean more funding |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 22, 2017 
With hair newly shaven in accordance with Hong Kong prison rules, jailed pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was in court again Tuesday on more protest-related charges.
Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow were sent to prison last Thursday for their leading role in the initial protest that sparked the months-long Umbrella Movement of 2014 - demonstrations and street blockades calling for democrati ... moreHong Kong (AFP) Aug 25, 2017Hong Kong independence duo fail to regain parliament seats  Beijing (AFP) Aug 25, 2017Beijing bricks up shops: Beauty or 'hideous'  Beijing (AFP) Aug 24, 2017At Beijing book fair, publishers admit self-censorship |
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 New York NY (SPX) Aug 23, 2017 
In the megacities that are home to nearly 10 percent of the world's 7.5 billion people, trees provide each city with more than $500 million each year in services that make urban environments cleaner, more affordable and more pleasant places to live.
In a recent study published in the online journal Ecological Modelling, an international team of researchers reported that in the 10 megacitie ... moreDhaka (AFP) Aug 24, 2017Bangladesh police declare world-heritage forest "pirate free"  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 21, 2017Tropical trees maintain high carbon accumulation rates into old age Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Aug 25, 2017Brazil's opening of Amazon to mining sets off alarm |
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