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October 12, 2017
EARLY EARTH
Long-ignored ichthyosaur determined to be new species



Washington (UPI) Oct 10, 2017
Fresh analysis of a long-ignored ichthyosaur - relegated to museum storage closets for decades - revealed the fossil specimens to represent a new species. The ichthyosaur, a dolphin-like marine reptile, was originally discovered in 1979 by British palaeontologist Robert Appleby, who named the new species Protoichthyosaurus. But Appleby's peers dismissed his discovery, suggesting the species was identical to a common ichthyosaur named Ichthyosaurus. When a team of paleontologists from E ... read more

FLORA AND FAUNA
Tree-dwelling, coconut-cracking giant rat discovered in Solomon Islands
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 05, 2017
Remember the movie The Princess Bride, when the characters debate the existence of R.O.U.S.es (Rodents of Unusual Size), only to be beset by enormous rats? That's kind of what happened here. M ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Non-native species from Japanese tsunami aided by unlikely partner: Plastics
Newport OR (SPX) Oct 05, 2017
A new study appearing this week in Science reports the discovery of a startling new role of plastic marine debris - the transport of non-native species in the world's oceans. Co-authored by Or ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Do earthquakes have a tell sign
Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 09, 2017
Researchers have long had good reason to believe that earthquakes are inherently unpredictable. But a new finding from Northwestern University might be a seismic shift for that old way of thinking. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Old Faithful's geological heart revealed
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Oct 09, 2017
Old Faithful is Yellowstone National Park's most famous landmark. Millions of visitors come to the park every year to see the geyser erupt every 44-125 minutes. But despite Old Faithful's fame, rela ... more
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FLORA AND FAUNA
Scientists complete conservation puzzle, shaping understanding of life on earth
Oxford UK (SPX) Oct 10, 2017
An international team of scientists have completed the 'atlas of life' - the first global review and map of every vertebrate on Earth. Led by researchers at the University of Oxford and Tel Av ... more
WATER WORLD
How global warming is drying up the North American monsoon
Princeton NJ (SPX) Oct 10, 2017
Researchers have struggled to accurately model the changes to the abundant summer rains that sweep across the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, known to scientists as the "North Am ... more
WOOD PILE
Global kids study: More trees, less disease
Burlington VT (SPX) Oct 10, 2017
A University of Vermont-led study of 300,000 children in 35 nations says kids whose watersheds have greater tree cover are less likely to experience diarrheal disease, the second leading cause of de ... more
WOOD PILE
Italy's high-rise forests take root around the world
Milan (AFP) Oct 8, 2017
As balconies bristle with tree branches and sunshine dapples the leaves of thousands of plants, two apartment buildings in the heart of Milan have almost disappeared under lush forest. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Trump environment chief: US to end Obama climate plan
Washington (AFP) Oct 9, 2017
The head of the US Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that President Donald Trump's administration will move to repeal his predecessor Barack Obama's plan to restrict greenhouse gas emissions. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Cheaper to invest in climate change fight than to rebuild; EPA chief rolls back US plans
Washington (UPI) Oct 10, 2017
Investments necessary to reduce climate change risks may be less than what's needed to rebuild after related disasters, U.N. leaders said from Tehran. ... more


Long-term truants make nervy school return in Iraq's Mosul

DISASTER MANAGEMENT
New military op in gang-plagued Rio favela
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Oct 10, 2017
Some 500 soldiers, some in armored vehicles, swept into Rio de Janeiro's Rocinha favela Tuesday to support a police raid after gun fights broke out between rival drug gangs. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Locals warned to stay away as Japanese volcano erupts
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 11, 2017
Mount Shinmoedake in southern Japan erupted for the first time in six years Wednesday, shooting a plume of ash several hundred metres into the air and sparking warnings to local residents. ... more
WHALES AHOY
Scientists study whale's blow hole microbes with the help of a drone
Washington (UPI) Oct 10, 2017
Scientists have for the first time surveyed the unique community of microorganisms - the microbiome - living inside the blowhole of a humpback whale. They did so with the help of a six-rotor hexacopter. ... more
ICE WORLD
Formation of coal almost turned our planet into a snowball
Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Oct 10, 2017
While burning coal today causes Earth to overheat, about 300 million years ago the formation of that same coal brought our planet close to global glaciation. For the first time, scientists show the ... more





India's top court bans firecracker sales before Diwali
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 9, 2017
India's top court ordered a temporary ban on the sale of firecrackers in New Delhi on Monday, ahead of the Diwali festival that leaves the city shrouded in toxic smog. The decision comes a little over a week before Diwali - the Hindu festival of lights - when Delhi fills with acrid smoke from celebratory firecrackers set off day and night. The onset of winter usually worsens the situat ... more
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Oct 10, 2017
New military op in gang-plagued Rio favela
Preston, United Kingdom (AFP) Oct 7, 2017
Hurricane survivors swap Caribbean seas for English peas
Tunis (AFP) Oct 9, 2017
At least 8 migrants drown as boat collides with navy vessel: Tunisia
Thales demos capability of ballistic missile tracking radar
Washington (UPI) Oct 9, 2017
Thales' SMART-L MM radar system has successfully demonstrated its missile-tracking capabilities in a U.S. Navy exercise in Europe, the company announced on Monday. The radar, mounted on the test tower at a company facility in Hengelo, Netherlands, detected and tracked a ballistic missile at an average range of more than 932 miles for more than five minutes without difficulties. T ... more
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 06, 2017
CONFERS to Establish "Rules of the Road" for On-Orbit Servicing of Satellites
Washington (UPI) Oct 5, 2017
Microlasers get a performance boost from a bit of gold
Washington (UPI) Oct 5, 2017
Students, researchers turn algae into renewable flip-flops


How global warming is drying up the North American monsoon
Princeton NJ (SPX) Oct 10, 2017
Researchers have struggled to accurately model the changes to the abundant summer rains that sweep across the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, known to scientists as the "North American monsoon." In a report published Oct. 9 in the journal Nature Climate Change, a team of Princeton and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) researchers have applied a key ... more
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 06, 2017
Did rapid sea-level rise drown fossil coral reefs around Hawaii?
Wellington (AFP) Oct 6, 2017
Pacific's Niue creates huge marine sanctuary
Ottawa (AFP) Oct 5, 2017
Shipping, fishing killed Canada right whales: autopsy
Formation of coal almost turned our planet into a snowball
Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Oct 10, 2017
While burning coal today causes Earth to overheat, about 300 million years ago the formation of that same coal brought our planet close to global glaciation. For the first time, scientists show the massive effect in a study to be published in the renowned Proceedings of the US Academy of Sciences. When trees in vast forests died during a time called the Carboniferous and the Permian, the c ... more
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 06, 2017
In warmer climates, Greenlandic deltas have grown
Kiel, Germany (SPX) Oct 03, 2017
Return of the Weddell polynya supports Kiel climate model
Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Sep 25, 2017
Winter cold extremes linked to high-altitude polar vortex weakening


Genetically boosting the nutritional value of corn could benefit millions
Brunswick NJ (SPX) Oct 10, 2017
Rutgers scientists have found an efficient way to enhance the nutritional value of corn - the world's largest commodity crop - by inserting a bacterial gene that causes it to produce a key nutrient called methionine, according to a new study. The Rutgers University-New Brunswick discovery could benefit millions of people in developing countries, such as in South America and Africa, who dep ... more
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 10, 2017
Sustainable irrigation may harm other development goals
Miami (AFP) Oct 5, 2017
Bee-harming pesticides in 75 percent of honey worldwide: study
Urbana IL (SPX) Oct 09, 2017
Are we at a tipping point with weed control?
Magnitude-6.3 earthquake strikes northern Chile: USGS
Washington (AFP) Oct 10, 2017
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck northern Chile early Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said. The tremor hit 70 kilometers (43 miles) east of the coastal city of Arica, which is near the border with Peru, the US agency said. The quake struck at a depth of 82 kilometers, it added. Chile is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries. In the past seven years it has had three qu ... more
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 11, 2017
Locals warned to stay away as Japanese volcano erupts
Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 09, 2017
Do earthquakes have a tell sign
Munich, Germany (SPX) Oct 06, 2017
Preservation of floodplains is flood protection


Rwanda military uses torture to force confessions: HRW
Kigali (AFP) Oct 10, 2017
Rwanda's military has used asphyxiation, electric shock and mock executions to torture confessions out of detainees, Human Rights Watch said in a report published Tuesday. The rights watchdog confirmed 104 cases of people being illegally detained and tortured in Rwandan military detention centres between 2010 and 2016, according to the 91-page report, which estimates the true figure is much ... more
Niamey (AFP) Oct 5, 2017
Three US Green Berets killed in Niger
Paris (AFP) Oct 9, 2017
New witness emerges over Rwandan genocide: French legal source
Maiduguri, Nigeria (AFP) Oct 6, 2017
Nigeria: Cooperation 'key' to defeating jihadists
Prehistoric humans are likely to have formed mating networks to avoid inbreeding
Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Oct 09, 2017
Prehistoric humans are likely to have formed mating networks to avoid inbreeding Early humans seem to have recognised the dangers of inbreeding at least 34,000 years ago, and developed surprisingly sophisticated social and mating networks to avoid it, new research has found. The study, reported in the journal Science, examined genetic information from the remains of anatomically mode ... more
Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 06, 2017
Ancient humans left Africa to escape drying climate
Washington (UPI) Oct 5, 2017
Scientists find more modern human traits influenced by Neandertal DNA
Johannesburg, South Africa (SPX) Oct 03, 2017
Stone Age child reveals that modern humans emerged more than 300,000 years ago


Every economy at risk from climate change, IMF says
Washington (UPI) Oct 5, 2017
The consequences of a changing climate pose a threat to every single economy in the world, the head of the International Monetary Fund said from Massachusetts. An annual report from the World Health Organization and UNICEF said global hunger is on the rise, affecting 11 percent of the world's population, in part because of climate change. The report found a link between conflict and cli ... more
Washington (UPI) Oct 10, 2017
Cheaper to invest in climate change fight than to rebuild; EPA chief rolls back US plans
Washington (AFP) Oct 9, 2017
Trump environment chief: US to end Obama climate plan
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Oct 05, 2017
Ninety-eight scientists launch a 2,000-year global temperature database
Sentinel-5P poised for liftoff
Paris (ESA) Oct 10, 2017
With four days to liftoff, the next Sentinel satellite is now on the launch pad at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. The rocket will be fuelled two days before launch, set for Friday at 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST). The Sentinel-5P satellite has been at the cosmodrome since early September going through a series of tests and being readied for the big day. After being sealed from ... more
Beijing (XNA) Oct 10, 2017
China launches remote sensing satellite for Venezuela
Schriever AFB CO (SPX) Oct 09, 2017
Satellite transmissions cease, no impact to weather mission
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 06, 2017
Satellites See Silicon Valley's Quick Drought Recovery


Long-ignored ichthyosaur determined to be new species
Washington (UPI) Oct 10, 2017
Fresh analysis of a long-ignored ichthyosaur - relegated to museum storage closets for decades - revealed the fossil specimens to represent a new species. The ichthyosaur, a dolphin-like marine reptile, was originally discovered in 1979 by British palaeontologist Robert Appleby, who named the new species Protoichthyosaurus. But Appleby's peers dismissed his discovery, suggesting the s ... more
New York NY (SPX) Oct 06, 2017
New evidence that Siberian volcanic eruptions caused extinction 250 million years ago
Hamilton, Canada (SPX) Oct 05, 2017
Evidence suggests life on Earth started after meteorites splashed into warm little ponds
Arlington TX (SPX) Oct 05, 2017
UTA study sheds new light on evolution
'Fuel-secure' steps in Washington counterintuitive, green group says
Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2017
A proposal to address what the Trump administration outlined as threats to traditional energy sources is counterintuitive, sustainable energy supporters said. The U.S. Department of Energy said last week it was calling on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to change how the wholesale electricity sector works by offering compensation for "traditional" power generators. In a ... more
Menlo Park CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2017
SLAC-led project will use AI to prevent or minimize electric grid failures
Beojing, China (SPX) Sep 04, 2017
Scientists propose method to improve microgrid stability and reliability
Washington (UPI) Aug 29, 2017
ADB: New finance model needed for low-carbon shift in Asia


Tesla delays truck launch, eyes battery power for Puerto Rico
Washington (AFP) Oct 6, 2017
Tesla said Friday it was delaying the planned launch of its electric transport truck, diverting resources to step up production of its Model 3 sedan and to produce batteries for storm-ravaged Puerto Rico. The electric carmaker's chief executive Elon Musk announced the news on Twitter, pushing back the launch of its semi-truck which had been set to be unveiled October 26 in California. Th ... more
Osaka, Japan (SPX) Oct 06, 2017
A new way to produce clean hydrogen fuel from water using sunlight
Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Oct 05, 2017
Ultra-fast and ultra-sensitive hydrogen sensor
Washington (UPI) Oct 10, 2017
Sodium could replace lithium for more cost-efficient battery storage
Scientists complete conservation puzzle, shaping understanding of life on earth
Oxford UK (SPX) Oct 10, 2017
An international team of scientists have completed the 'atlas of life' - the first global review and map of every vertebrate on Earth. Led by researchers at the University of Oxford and Tel Aviv University, the 39 scientists have produced a catalogue and atlas of the world's reptiles. By linking this atlas with existing maps for birds, mammals and amphibians, the team have found many new a ... more
Baghdad (AFP) Oct 9, 2017
Iraqi animal lovers go online to help save Baghdad's strays
Newark DE (SPX) Oct 05, 2017
Examining the lifestyles of microbes
Newport OR (SPX) Oct 05, 2017
Non-native species from Japanese tsunami aided by unlikely partner: Plastics
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More security, less soccer, for China Communist Congress
Beijing (AFP) Oct 11, 2017
Nightclubs have been raided, TV dramas targeted by censors and football matches postponed - China is tightening security and discipline to ensure a landmark Communist Party meeting passes off flawlessly. The police and censorship organs have kicked into high gear to prevent anything overshadowing the week-long, twice-a-decade congress which opens on October 18. The gathering is expected ... more
Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 11, 2017
Hong Kongers must stand up for China, says leader Lam
Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 4, 2017
Former Hong Kong leader appears in court over sandwich 'attack'
Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 3, 2017
Hong Kong democracy activist in court for throwing 'smelly' sandwich
Global kids study: More trees, less disease
Burlington VT (SPX) Oct 10, 2017
A University of Vermont-led study of 300,000 children in 35 nations says kids whose watersheds have greater tree cover are less likely to experience diarrheal disease, the second leading cause of death for children under the age of five. Published in Nature Communications, the study is the first to quantify the connection between watershed quality and individual health outcomes of children ... more
Annapolis, MD (SPX) Oct 09, 2017
Predicting insect feeding preferences after deforestation
Guelph, Canada (SPX) Oct 09, 2017
DNA barcoding technology helping monitor health of all-important boreal forest
Milan (AFP) Oct 8, 2017
Italy's high-rise forests take root around the world




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