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  Washington (UPI) Sep 14, 2017 Catching an old fish has become an increasingly rare and difficult task in today's oceans. New research suggests fishing pressure around the globe has depleted stocks of older fish. The findings - detailed this week in the journal Current Biology - are worrisome, as the longer fish live, the more chances they have to reproduce and replenish a species' stock. "From our perspective, having a broad age structure provides more chances at getting that right combination of when and where to ... read more |
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130-tonne 'monster fatberg' clogs London sewerLondon (AFP) Sept 12, 2017 Sewage workers have found a 130-tonne ball of congealed fat - dubbed a "monster fatberg" - clogging a Victorian-era sewer in London, utility company Thames Water said Tuesday. ... more  
Canada, China, EU and partners push forward on Paris climate accordMontreal (AFP) Sept 15, 2017 Some 30 environment ministers will push forward on the Paris climate accord at a meeting Saturday requested by Canada, China and the European Union. ... more 
EU pledges to 'make our planet great again'(UPI) Sep 13, 2017 The EU president said in an annual address Wednesday that, with the United States stepping away, Europe will lead the global fight against climate change. ... more  
Brexit a step away from pollution commitments, U.N. envoy saysWashington (UPI) Sep 14, 2017 The British government risks sliding backwards on air quality to the detriment of human health through plans to leave the EU, a special U.N. envoy said. ... 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 Philippines flooding displaces thousands as new storm threatens |
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Research finds roots use chemical 'photos' to coordinate growthMelbourne FL (SPX) Sep 15, 2017 Though it may look haphazard, the network of intertwining plant roots snaking through the soil actually represents a deliberate process. Root growth is guided by chemical snapshots taken by the youn ... more  
'Severe' Typhoon Doksuri pounds central VietnamNghe An , Vietnam (AFP) Sept 15, 2017 Heavy rain and wind lashed Vietnam's central coast Friday as Typhoon Doksuri made landfall, prompting mass evacuations as officials predicted it could be the most powerful storm in a decade. ... more  
Tectonic plates weaker than previously thoughtOxford, UK (SPX) Sep 15, 2017 Experiments carried out at Oxford University have revealed that tectonic plates are weaker than previously thought. The finding explains an ambiguity in lab work that led scientists to believe these ... more 
Niger flooding kills 50, displaces over 100,000 since JuneNiamey (AFP) Sept 14, 2017 Flooding unleashed by three months of torrential rain in Niger has killed at least 50 people and displaced nearly 120,000, according to fresh UN data out Thursday. ... more  
Rebuilding tourism after Irma, an epic task for islandsMarigot (AFP) Sept 14, 2017 It's been over a week since hurricane Irma ripped through the Caribbean - but for paradise islands overwhelmingly dependent on the tourist trade, the damage is far from over. ... more  
Using NASA Satellite Data to Predict Malaria OutbreaksGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 15, 2017 In the Amazon Rainforest, few animals are as dangerous to humans as mosquitos that transmit malaria. The tropical disease can bring on high fever, headaches and chills and is particularly severe for ... more |
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Max threatens earthquake-hit area of Mexico with 'torrential' rainsMexico City (AFP) Sept 15, 2017 Hours after barreling into Mexico's Pacific coast as a Category One hurricane, Max was downgraded to a tropical storm Thursday, threatening parts of Mexico's southwest with inundating rains. ... more 
Trump views flooding's aftermath in hurricane-ravaged FloridaNaples, United States (AFP) Sept 14, 2017 US President Donald Trump viewed flood damage and handed out sandwiches to victims of Hurricane Irma in Florida on Thursday as utility workers redoubled their efforts to restore power after eight retirees died in a sweltering nursing home. ... more 
America asks: How did eight people die in Florida nursing home?Miami (AFP) Sept 14, 2017 Shocked Americans were struggling on Thursday to understand how eight elderly people in a Florida retirement home - directly across the street from a hospital - could have died in the days following Hurricane Irma's devastating passage. ... more 
Irma saw no borders on devastated French-Dutch islandPhilipsburg, Netherlands (AFP) Sept 14, 2017 People on the Dutch side of Saint Martin, the Caribbean island devastated by Hurricane Irma, may be wealthier than their French counterparts, but they face the same desolation and lawlessness in its wake. ... more |
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  Miami (AFP) Sept 14, 2017 
Shocked Americans were struggling on Thursday to understand how eight elderly people in a Florida retirement home - directly across the street from a hospital - could have died in the days following Hurricane Irma's devastating passage.
The matter is now in the hands of the law.
Making the drama even more shocking, the deaths could perhaps have been prevented by hooking up an emergency ... moreNaples, United States (AFP) Sept 14, 2017Trump views flooding's aftermath in hurricane-ravaged Florida Marigot (AFP) Sept 14, 2017Rebuilding tourism after Irma, an epic task for islands  Havana (AFP) Sept 14, 2017Long road to recovery for Irma-ravaged Cuba |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 15, 2017 
Infostellar has announced a $7.3 million Series A investment, led by Airbus Ventures, with additional funds from WERU Investment, D4V, Sony Innovation Fund, and existing investors, FreakOut Holdings, and 500 Startups Japan. This financing will be used to fund the launch of Infostellar's flagship platform, StellarStation, expand its network of partner antennas, and hire additional talented team m ... more Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Sep 14, 2017Two new satellites now operational to expand US space situational awareness  Los Angeles CA (Sputnik) Sep 13, 2017Ultrathin spacecraft will collect, deposit orbital debris  Chennai, India (IANS) Sep 12, 2017192 Indian space objects currently in orbit |
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 Kiel, Germany (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 
The Labrador Sea in the North Atlantic is one of the few areas in the world ocean where cold, saline seawater sinks to large depths and forms deep water. This convection process also transports oxygen into the deep sea.
A team of scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (San Diego, California), Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) and GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 12, 2017NASA team find evidence of sea level 'fingerprints' London (AFP) Sept 12, 2017130-tonne 'monster fatberg' clogs London sewer  Beer-Sheva, Israel (SPX) Sep 13, 2017Man-made reefs: A compelling diving alternative |
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 Paris (AFP) Sept 13, 2017 
Asia's mountain glaciers will lose at least a third of their mass through global warming by century's end, with dire consequences for millions of people who rely on them for fresh water, researchers said Wednesday.
This is a best-case scenario, based on the assumption that the world manages to limit average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial le ... more Umea, Sweden (SPX) Sep 13, 2017Reindeer grazing protects tundra plant diversity in a warming climate  Washington (UPI) Sep 12, 2017Ancient tree exposes cause of hike in Arctic temperature  Birmingham, UK (SPX) Sep 07, 2017Experts call for added focus on the impact of glacier mass loss on downstream systems |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 8, 2017 
Fans of French cheeses in China have received news they may find hard to digest: the country's food hygiene authorities have turned their noses up at some people's favourite fare, blocking imports of Camembert, Brie and Roquefort.
"We haven't been able to get our orders through customs for three weeks," Vincent Marion, co-founder of Cheese Republic, one of China's leading online cheesemonger ... more Riga (AFP) Sept 10, 2017Latvia tweets no room for mushroom hunters on army base  Beijing (AFP) Sept 11, 2017EU chamber urges China to lift cheese ban  Washington (AFP) Sept 12, 2017Climate change threatens Latin America coffee producers |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 13, 2017 
A striking finding of the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake (Mw 9.0) is that more than 50 meters of coseismic fault slip reached the trench axis. In addition to this, seismological studies found a clear depth-dependent variation in the source location between high- and low-frequency seismic energy radiation. However, structural features that may control the slip behavior in the rupture zone have not be ... moreNiamey (AFP) Sept 14, 2017Niger flooding kills 50, displaces over 100,000 since June  Rome (AFP) Sept 12, 2017Italian couple and son die after falling into volcanic crater Nghe An , Vietnam (AFP) Sept 15, 2017'Severe' Typhoon Doksuri pounds central Vietnam |
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 Warri, Nigeria (AFP) Sept 10, 2017 
Pro-Biafra supporters clashed with troops in southeast Nigeria on Sunday, with claims that five people were killed, although the army quickly denied any loss of life.
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement claimed in a statement that five of its members were killed when soldiers and police tried to kill its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, at his home in Umuahia.
The IPOB is demanding a sep ... more Kinshasa (AFP) Aug 29, 2017DRCongo troops chasing reporter 'force entry' at UN base  Luanda (AFP) Aug 23, 2017Angolans vote as Dos Santos ends 38-year rule  Freetown (AFP) Aug 19, 2017Death toll in SLeone flood disaster reaches 441 |
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 New York NY (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 
In a study analyzing the genomes of 210,000 people in the United States and Britain, researchers at Columbia University find that the genetic variants linked to Alzheimer's disease and heavy smoking are less frequent in people with longer lifespans, suggesting that natural selection is weeding out these unfavorable variants in both populations.
Researchers further find that sets of genetic ... more Washington (UPI) Sep 6, 2017Groups are more likely to lie than individuals, new study shows  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 31, 2017Human settlement in the Americas may have occurred in the late Pleistocene  Washington (UPI) Sep 5, 2017Humans are still evolving, study suggests |
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 Durham NC (SPX) Sep 13, 2017 
Many tropical or subtropical regions could see sharp increases in natural temperature variability as Earth's climate warms over coming decades, a new Duke University-led study suggests.
These local changes could occur even though Earth's global mean surface air temperature (GMST) is likely to become less variable, the study shows.
"This new finding runs counter to the popular notion ... more (UPI) Sep 13, 2017EU pledges to 'make our planet great again' Montreal (AFP) Sept 15, 2017Canada, China, EU and partners push forward on Paris climate accord Washington (AFP) Sept 9, 2017Series of potent hurricanes stokes scientific debate |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Sep 13, 2017 
For a few weeks over the summer in 2011, teams of scientists from around the world converged on a small patch of ponderosa pine forest in Colorado to carry out one of the most detailed, extended survey of atmospheric chemistry ever attempted in one place, in many cases using new measurement devices created especially for this project. Now, after years of analysis, their comprehensive synthesis o ... more Beijing, China (SPX) Sep 13, 2017Who is the chief culprit of dust concentrations over East Asia?  El Segundo CA (SPX) Sep 14, 2017Boeing to Design and Build Seven Medium Earth Orbit Satellites for SES  Toulouse, France (SPX) Sep 12, 2017Airbus to reshape Earth observation market with its Pleiades Neo constellation |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Sep 13, 2017 
When most people hear the word fossil, they probably think of gigantic leg bones or sharp teeth. But, given the right conditions, after an animal dies even delicate body coverings like skin, hair and feathers can be preserved.
New research led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that when it comes to preserving these body parts, fossilized hair is rare - five times rarer than fe ... more Atlanta GA (SPX) Sep 07, 2017Was the primordial soup a hearty pre-protein stew?  Sendai, Japan (SPX) Sep 04, 2017Techniques used in forensic science help discover new molecular fossils  Riverside CA (SPX) Aug 31, 2017Volcanic eruptions drove ancient global warming event |
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 Beojing, China (SPX) Sep 04, 2017 
The power it takes to bring a Boeing 747 from a resting state on the airport tarmac to speeding across the sky is enormous. The jet can continue in its active state for as long as its fuel lasts. A Frisbee, in contrast, takes far less energy to go airborne, but with no energy supply, it falls almost immediately.
The same principle can be extended to the traditional power system and decentr ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 29, 2017ADB: New finance model needed for low-carbon shift in Asia  Beijing (AFP) Aug 28, 2017China merges energy giants into global leader  Miami (AFP) Aug 28, 2017Power demand to peak in Europe summers, not winters: study |
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 Adelphi MD (SPX) Sep 13, 2017  Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University of Maryland have developed for the first time a lithium-ion battery that uses a water-salt solution as its electrolyte and reaches the 4.0 volt mark desired for household electronics, such as laptop computers, without the fire and explosive risks associated with some commercially available non-aqueous lithium-ion batteries.
... more Moscow, Russia (SPX) Sep 07, 2017Researchers devise a new way of producing hydrogen fuel  Boston MA (SPX) Sep 15, 2017Firebricks offer low-cost storage for carbon-free energy  Cambridge UK (SPX) Sep 07, 2017Why US battery startups fail and how to fix it |
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 Shanghai (AFP) Sept 14, 2017 
The world's oldest captive giant panda has died at the ripe old age of 37 - more than 100 in human years - her handlers in China said on Thursday as they gave "Basi" an emotional send-off.
The Straits Giant Panda Research and Exchange Center in southeastern China, where she has lived for 33 years, bid a heartfelt farewell to the bear, with a memorial service that featured Basi's body surro ... more Washington DC (SPX) Sep 13, 2017When not to eat your kids  Paris (AFP) Sept 13, 2017Elephants hide by day, forage at night to evade poachers  Mexico City (AFP) July 19, 2017Star chefs in Mexico to defend biodiversity |
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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) Sept 7, 2017Student backlash in Hong Kong independence row  Shanghai (AFP) Sept 6, 2017'Oldest jazz band' a constant in fast-modernising Shanghai  Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 5, 2017Hanergy tycoon gets 8-year ban in Hong Kong |
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 Warsaw (AFP) Sept 13, 2017  Poland on Wednesday accused the EU's top court of taking sides in a lawsuit lodged by the European Commission against it for logging in the Bialowieza Forest, Europe's last primeval woodland.
Warsaw and the Commission argued their cases on Monday before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg, where Poland is accused of commercial logging in the protected UNESCO World Heritage site ... more Salem NC (SPX) Sep 13, 2017Hidden Inca treasure: Remarkable new tree genus discovered in the Andes  Abidjan (AFP) Sept 13, 2017Chocolate industry driving deforestation of Ivory Coast: report  Ithaca NY (SPX) Sep 07, 2017Deforestation long overlooked as contributor to climate change |
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