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  Cambridge UK (SPX) Sep 26, 2017 Stem rust, named for the blackening pustules that infect plant stems, caused devastating crop epidemics and famine for centuries before being tamed by fungicides and resistance genes. Since the turn of the century, however, aggressive new strains have emerged - such as 'Ug99', first detected in Uganda in 1999 - that infect widely grown varieties of wheat. These diseases threaten to disperse trillions of pathogenic fungal spores on winds across countries and continents. The current global economic ... read more |
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UC research shows ticks are even tougher and nastier than you thoughtCincinnati OH (SPX) Sep 26, 2017 They carry a host of diseases that they spread by plunging their barbed mouths into you like a grisly oil derrick. They're hard to remove and even harder to kill. Is your skin crawling yet? ... more  
Going under the knife in China's plastic surgery stampedeShanghai (AFP) Sept 25, 2017 Chen Yan is 35 and fears middle age is upon her, so like all of her friends she sees cosmetic surgery as the solution: time to get a new nose. ... more  
Blame starts to fly over Mexico quake collapsesMexico City (AFP) Sept 26, 2017 Allegations of negligent construction and poor oversight began to fly Monday after deadly building collapses during Mexico's earthquake, as hope faded of finding more survivors of a disaster that killed more than 300 people. ... more  
Food aid, face masks dispatched to Bali as 57,000 flee volcanoKarangasem, Indonesia (AFP) Sept 26, 2017 Vehicles laden with food, masks and bedding have been dispatched to help more than 57,000 people who have fled a volcano on the tourist island of Bali, as rising magma and increased tremors fuel fears of an imminent eruption. ... more |
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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 Japan moves toward first new reactor since Fukushima disaster Philippines flooding displaces thousands, two missing Pakistan landslide after heavy rain kills 3, with 15 missing Landslide, heavy rain in Pakistan sweeps away cars, killing 3 Texas flood missing toll revised sharply down to three Tsunami alert lifted after powerful quakes off Russian coast Hong Kong hit by strong winds, heavy rain as Typhoon Wipha skirts past |
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Researchers take on atmospheric effects of Arctic snowmeltFairbanks AK (SPX) Sep 21, 2017 Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute are exploring the changing chemistry of the Arctic's atmosphere to help answer the question of what happens as snow and ice b ... more  
Pandas rebounding, but their habitat isn't: studyParis (AFP) Sept 25, 2017 China's fiercely protected giant panda had a smaller habitat in 2013 than when it was declared endangered more than 20 years earlier, researchers said Monday. ... more  
Ancient human DNA in sub-Saharan Africa lifts veil on prehistoryBoston MA (SPX) Sep 25, 2017 The first large-scale study of ancient human DNA from sub-Saharan Africa opens a long-awaited window into the identity of prehistoric populations in the region and how they moved around and replaced ... more  
Two Vietnamese fishermen dead in Philippine navy chaseManila (AFP) Sept 25, 2017 Two Vietnamese fishermen were found dead with gunshot wounds and five others were arrested after the Philippine navy chased suspected poachers in the South China Sea at the weekend, authorities said Monday. ... more  
American oaks share a common northern ancestorWashington DC (SPX) Sep 21, 2017 If you had been in northern Canada 45 million years ago, you might have encountered the distant ancestor of all of the oaks in the Americas. That single species gave rise to 220 more and two distinc ... more 
Brazil scraps bid to mine Amazon natural reserveBras�lia (AFP) Sept 26, 2017 The Brazilian government backed off a controversial proposal to authorize private companies to mine a sprawling Amazon reserve Monday after blistering domestic and international criticism. ... more |
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 Thousands evacuated from Vanuatu island as volcano erupts 
Puerto Rico governor fears 'humanitarian crisis' over slow US aidSan Juan (AFP) Sept 26, 2017 Puerto Rico's Governor Ricardo Rossello said Monday he fears a "humanitarian crisis" on the island if the United States does not take "swift action" to help the US territory, which was devastated by deadly Hurricane Maria last week. ... more 
Rapid imaging of granular matterZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 25, 2017 Even in our modern world full of highly technological machines and devices it is still impossible to predict when rockslides, such as the recent one in Graubunden, or earthquakes will occur and how ... more  
Antarctica: The wind sublimates snowflakesLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 26, 2017 Researchers have observed and characterized a weather process that was not previously known to occur in Antarctica's coastal regions. It turns out that the katabatic winds that blow from the interio ... more  
Papua New Guinea supermarket fire kills 10: reportsSydney (AFP) Sept 25, 2017 Ten people believed to be Chinese died when a supermarket caught fire in Papua New Guinea while they were sleeping, reports and officials said Monday. ... more |
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  Roseau, Dominica (AFP) Sept 23, 2017 
It's been less than a week since Hurricane Maria largely destroyed the Caribbean island of Dominica - but despite cut-off supplies and extreme conditions, its inhabitants remain optimistic in the face of devastation.
Maria killed 15 people when it tore through the "Nature Island" - population 72,000 - as a Category Five storm, leaving its once-luscious green mountains stripped to dirt. ... more Mexico City (AFP) Sept 23, 2017Frida, the four-legged heroine of Mexico's quake rescues  Mexico City (AFP) Sept 23, 2017Psychologists help Mexico deal with double trauma of quake Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 25, 2017NASA Tech Aids Search Following Mexico Quake |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Sep 24, 2017 
Charged particles may be small, but they matter to astronauts. NASA's Human Research Program (HRP) is investigating these particles to solve one of its biggest challenges for a human journey to Mars: space radiation and its effects on the human body.
"One of our biggest challenges on a mission to Mars is protecting astronauts from radiation," said NASA Space Radiation Element Scientist Lis ... more Houston TX (SPX) Sep 21, 2017Space radiation is risky business for the human body  Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2017Corrosion in real time  Karlsruher, Germany (SPX) Sep 22, 2017Self-healing gold particles |
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 New York (AFP) Sept 24, 2017 
Veolia's hopes of taking advantage of municipal privatizations and promised Trump administration public works projects to expand its US presence, are being strained by its role in water crises in Flint, Michigan and other cities.
The French water and waste management giant has targeted five percent revenue growth in North America in 2017, with the United States expected to lead the way. In 2 ... more San Juan (AFP) Sept 24, 2017Puerto Rico rushes to evacuate many amid fears dam will burst  Seattle WA (SPX) Sep 21, 2017Wave Glider surfs across stormy Drake Passage in Antarctica Manila (AFP) Sept 25, 2017Two Vietnamese fishermen dead in Philippine navy chase |
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 Fairbanks AK (SPX) Sep 21, 2017 
Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute are exploring the changing chemistry of the Arctic's atmosphere to help answer the question of what happens as snow and ice begin to melt.
The research, led by chemistry professor William R. Simpson, is concerned with the Arctic's reactive bromine season, which is the period of time when bromine is consuming ozone, pr ... more Hong Kong, China (SPX) Sep 21, 2017Impact of Arctic amplification on East Asian winter climate  Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 21, 2017Wind, Warm Water Revved Up Melting Antarctic Glaciers  Lincoln NE (SPX) Sep 21, 2017Ice age may have clipped bird migration |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Sep 26, 2017 
Stem rust, named for the blackening pustules that infect plant stems, caused devastating crop epidemics and famine for centuries before being tamed by fungicides and resistance genes.
Since the turn of the century, however, aggressive new strains have emerged - such as 'Ug99', first detected in Uganda in 1999 - that infect widely grown varieties of wheat. These diseases threaten to dispers ... more New York (AFP) Sept 20, 2017Food labeling pact aims to cut food waste  Paris (AFP) Sept 21, 2017Syngenta chief calls for debate on 'sustainable agriculture'  Dubai (AFP) Sept 19, 2017At Dubai expo, Chinese firms look to tap lucrative halal market |
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 Mexico City (AFP) Sept 24, 2017 
A new earthquake sowed panic in Mexico City on Saturday, forcing a brief pause in rescue operations to free survivors from the more powerful tremor this week that devastated parts of the capital.
The latest quake, with a magnitude of 6.1, was smaller and further south than the 7.1-magnitude one that struck on Tuesday, killing more than 300 people and toppling 39 buildings in the capital.
... more San Juan (AFP) Sept 24, 2017Conditions growing dire in hurricane-hit Puerto Rico  Karangasem, Indonesia (AFP) Sept 24, 2017Tens of thousands flee rumbling Bali volcano Karangasem, Indonesia (AFP) Sept 26, 2017Food aid, face masks dispatched to Bali as 57,000 flee volcano |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 22, 2017  The Central African Republic's president urged the United Nations on Friday to send more peacekeepers to his strife-torn country and ease an arms embargo in the way of equipping his weak army.
Addressing the UN General Assembly, President Faustin-Archange Touadera said a recent upsurge in violence was linked to a battle for control of the country's natural resources, implicitly rejecting the ... more Bamako (AFP) Sept 21, 2017New ceasefire signed by armed groups  Lagos (AFP) Sept 23, 2017Nigerian journalist detained over report on flood camp protest  On Board The Dixmude, Senegal (AFP) Sept 20, 2017West Africa steps up battle against pirates and poachers |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Sep 25, 2017 
The first large-scale study of ancient human DNA from sub-Saharan Africa opens a long-awaited window into the identity of prehistoric populations in the region and how they moved around and replaced one another over the past 8,000 years.
The findings, published Sept. 21 in Cell by an international research team led by Harvard Medical School, answer several longstanding mysteries and uncove ... more Grand-Lahou, Ivory Coast (AFP) Sept 24, 2017Helping Ponso, sole survivor of 'Chimpanzee Island' in I. Coast  Washington DC (SPX) Sep 21, 2017Cell phone data coupled with sewage testing show drug use patterns  Washington (UPI) Sep 15, 2017Royal tomb of ancient Mayan ruler found in Guatemala |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Sep 21, 2017 
In the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, many claims have been made that science denial, particularly as it relates to climate change, is primarily a problem of the political right.
But what happens when scientific conclusions challenge liberals' attitudes on public policy issues, such as gun control, nuclear power or immigration?
A new study from social psychologists at the Univer ... more Ottawa (AFP) Sept 20, 2017Canada Tory MP called out for referring to minister as 'climate Barbie'  Washington (AFP) Sept 17, 2017US looks to work with Paris climate accord 'partners': Tillerson  San Diego CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2017Climate risk classification created to account for potential 'existential' threats |
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 Canberra, Australia (SPX) Sep 21, 2017 
Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have produced the best estimate of Earth's elemental composition which will help them understand how the Earth formed 4.6 billion years ago.
The solar system began as a dense blob in a molecular cloud of hydrogen gas and dust that collapsed under its own gravity, forming the early Sun, Earth and other planets.
Co-researcher Assoc ... more Plesetsk, Russia (ESA) Sep 19, 2017Sentinel-5P launch preparations in full swing  Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 22, 2017Ball Aerospace Completes Spectrometer Testing and Verification on NASA's TEMPO Program  Nairobi (XNA) Sep 22, 2017Experts set to meet in Kenya on space science |
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 New York NY (SPX) Sep 25, 2017 
Exceptionally preserved trilobite fossils from China, dating back to more than 500 million years ago, have revealed new insights into the extinct marine animal's digestive system. Published in the journal PLOS ONE, the new study shows that at least two trilobite species evolved a stomach structure 20 million years earlier than previously thought.
"Trilobites are one of the first types of a ... more Washington (UPI) Sep 22, 2017Strange species found in Turkmenistan cave  Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 25, 2017The surprising, ancient behavior of jellyfish  New York NY (SPX) Sep 25, 2017Scientists sequence asexual tiny worm - whose lineage stretches back 18 million years |
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 Menlo Park CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2017 
A project led by the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will combine artificial intelligence with massive amounts of data and industry experience from a dozen U.S. partners to identify places where the electric grid is vulnerable to disruption, reinforce those spots in advance and recover faster when failures do occur.
The eventual goal is an autonomous grid that s ... more Beojing, China (SPX) Sep 04, 2017Scientists propose method to improve microgrid stability and reliability  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 |
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 Richmond, Canada (SPX) Sep 13, 2017 
Corvus Energy is pleased to announce that it has been selected by Norwegian maritime electronics firm Elmarin AS as the supplier of lithium ion based energy storage systems (ESS) for three new hybrid fishing vessels. The Orca Energy ESS from Corvus will supply electrical power to the fishing vessels' propulsion systems and electrical networks to enable environmentally-friendly and lower cost ope ... more Berkeley CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2017Graphene-wrapped nanocrystals make inroads towards next-gen fuel cells  Seattle WA (SPX) Sep 15, 2017UW shatters long-range communication barrier for near-zero-power devices  Chicago IL (SPX) Sep 13, 2017Researchers challenge status quo of battery commercialization |
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 Paris (AFP) Sept 25, 2017  China's fiercely protected giant panda had a smaller habitat in 2013 than when it was declared endangered more than 20 years earlier, researchers said Monday.
What living space they had was much more fragmented, and often in areas under threat from earthquakes, road construction, tourism or global warming, they wrote in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Last year, the International ... more Washington (UPI) Sep 15, 2017Study finds wolves understand cause and effect better than dogs  Boston MA (SPX) Sep 21, 2017Mathematics predicts a sixth mass extinction  Boston MA (SPX) Sep 21, 2017Imagining a world without species |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 23, 2017  Universities have become the latest battleground over freedoms in Hong Kong as a ban on signs on campuses advocating independence from China sparks fresh fears that the city's liberties are under threat.
As term kicked off earlier this month, posters and banners calling for semi-autonomous Hong Kong to split from the mainland were plastered on walls and bulletin boards after a tense summer ... more Beijing (AFP) Sept 25, 2017China gives Tianjin ex-mayor 12 years for graft  Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 21, 2017Patten on egg tarts and the future of Hong Kong  Datang, China (AFP) Sept 21, 2017An ancient Chinese fishing community washes ashore |
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 Bras�lia (AFP) Sept 26, 2017 
The Brazilian government backed off a controversial proposal to authorize private companies to mine a sprawling Amazon reserve Monday after blistering domestic and international criticism.
President Michel Temer's office will issue a new decree Tuesday that "restores the conditions of the area, according to the document that instituted the reserve in 1984," the Ministry of Mines and Energy s ... moreWashington DC (SPX) Sep 21, 2017American oaks share a common northern ancestor  Montreal, Canada (SPX) Sep 15, 2017Forest fires are not limited to hot or temperate climates  Washington (UPI) Sep 19, 2017Harvard report details the threats faced by New England forests |
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