24/7 News Coverage
October 19, 2017
EARTH OBSERVATION
NASA's ICON explores the boundary between earth and space



Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 19, 2017
On Dec. 8, 2017, NASA launches the Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, a low-Earth orbiting satellite that will give us new information about how Earth's atmosphere interacts with near-Earth space - a give-and-take that plays a major role in the safety of our satellites and reliability of communications signals. Specifically, ICON investigates the connections between the neutral atmosphere - which extends from here near the surface to far above us, at the edge of space - and the electrically ... read more

EARTH OBSERVATION
Study reveals new threat to the ozone layer
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 18, 2017
"Ozone depletion is a well-known phenomenon and, thanks to the success of the Montreal Protocol, is widely perceived as a problem solved," says University of East Anglia's David Oram. But an interna ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Sentinel-5P: satellite in excellent health
Paris (ESA) Oct 17, 2017
Launched last week, Europe's Sentinel-5P satellite - the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring the air we breathe - is in excellent health. The 820 kg satellite was lofted into orbi ... more
ICE WORLD
Drive for giant new marine sanctuary in Antarctica
Sydney (AFP) Oct 16, 2017
Australia and France kick off a fresh push Monday to create a vast marine sanctuary in pristine East Antarctica, hoping to build on the success of landmark deal secured last year at a key annual conservation summit. ... more
ABOUT US
Genome of a 40,000-year-old man in China reveals region's complex human history
Washington (UPI) Oct 16, 2017
As genomic analysis technology advances, and as new genetic samples are surveyed, the human story grows ever more complicated. ... more
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT
ESA takes the reins of the Disasters Charter
Paris (ESA) Oct 17, 2017
When disaster strikes, a group of international space agencies pools its resources and expertise to support relief efforts on the ground. For the next six months, ESA will be leading the Internation ... more
CARBON WORLDS
NASA Pinpoints Cause of Earth's Recent Record Carbon Dioxide Spike
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 16, 2017
A new NASA study provides space-based evidence that Earth's tropical regions were the cause of the largest annual increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration seen in at least 2,000 years. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Geologic evidence is the forerunner of ominous prospects for a warming earth
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Oct 16, 2017
While strong seasonal hurricanes have devastated many of the Caribbean and Bahamian islands this year, geologic studies on several of these islands illustrate that more extreme conditions existed in ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Is it gonna blow? Measuring volcanic emissions from space
Houghton MI (SPX) Oct 18, 2017
Late last month, a stratovolcano in Bali named Mount Agung began to smoke. Little earthquakes trembled beneath the mountain. Officials have since evacuated thousands of people to prevent what happen ... more
FIRE STORM
Portugal interior minister resigns after deadly wildfires
Lisbon (AFP) Oct 18, 2017
Portugal's interior minister has been replaced amid criticism over the government's handling of a series of deadly forest fires that have killed more than 100 people in four months. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
WSU researchers document one of planet's largest volcanic eruptions
Pullman WA (SPX) Oct 18, 2017
Washington State University researchers have determined that the Pacific Northwest was home to one of the Earth's largest known volcanic eruptions, a millennia-long spewing of sulfuric gas that bloc ... more


Duplications of noncoding DNA could help explain human-primate split

WATER WORLD
Ocean atmosphere rife with microbes
Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Oct 18, 2017
Microbes in the atmosphere and the role of the oceans in their movement have been largely overlooked by researchers. Now, an international team shows that the oceans contribute to a large fraction o ... more
WATER WORLD
Rainfall trends in arid regions buck commonly held climate change theories
Bristol UK (SPX) Oct 18, 2017
The recent intense hurricanes in the Atlantic have sharply focused attention on how climate change can exacerbate extreme weather events. Scientific research suggests that global warming cause ... more
WATER WORLD
Researchers make headway in desalination technology
Champaign IL (SPX) Oct 18, 2017
Engineers at the University of Illinois have taken a step forward in developing a saltwater desalination process that is potentially cheaper than reverse osmosis and borrows from battery technology. ... more
WATER WORLD
Clear lakes disguise impaired water quality
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Oct 18, 2017
Looks can be deceiving. Look at a hundred lakes in the agricultural heartland of the United States and you will likely see green lakes surrounded by green fields. The nitrogen and phosphorus in agri ... more





Mexico quake hit rich and poor alike, but tragedies differ
Mexico City (AFP) Oct 18, 2017
The earthquake that hit Mexico on September 19 did not discriminate in its destruction, leveling homes in rich and poor neighborhoods alike. But one month on, the tragedies facing Mexico City's newly homeless depend largely on class. Residents of upscale neighborhoods like Roma and Condesa face a frenzied rush to rent or buy new homes in other neighborhoods nearby, creating a real estate ... more
Paris (ESA) Oct 17, 2017
ESA takes the reins of the Disasters Charter
Dublin (AFP) Oct 17, 2017
Thousands still without power in Ireland after freak storm
Mexico City (AFP) Oct 17, 2017
Risking lives, Mexicans try to salvage belongings after quake
Understanding rare earth emulsions
Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 16, 2017
Despite their name, rare earth elements actually aren't that rare. Abundant in mines around the world, rare earths are used in many high-tech products, including visual displays, batteries, super conductors, and computer hard drives. But while they aren't necessarily tricky to find, the elements often occur together and are extremely difficult to separate and extract. "Having the ability t ... more
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Oct 18, 2017
Chemical treatment improves quantum dot lasers
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 18, 2017
Missing link between new topological phases of matter discovered
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 16, 2017
Space radiation won't stop NASA's human exploration


Wither heavy storms
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Oct 18, 2017
The Colorado River tumbles through varied landscapes, draining watersheds from seven western states. This 1,450-mile-long system is a critical water supply for agriculture, industry and municipalities from Denver to Tijuana. In the drylands of the Colorado's lower basin, formed by Nevada, Arizona and California, thunderstorms - known in meteorological parlance as convective precipitation - ... more
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 18, 2017
Toward efficient high-pressure desalination
Miami (AFP) Oct 13, 2017
Huge spike in global carbon emissions linked to El Nino
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 18, 2017
Active sieving could improve dialysis and water purification filters
As ice sheet melts, Greenland's fjords become less salty
Washington (UPI) Oct 13, 2017
New data suggests the water around Greenland is becoming less salty as the island's ice sheet melts. Researchers with Denmark's Aarhus University detailed the impact of melting ice on Greenland's coastal waters in a new paper published this week in the journal Scientific Reports. The loss of ice in Greenland is relatively well documented. Over the last two decades, the island's i ... more
Sydney (AFP) Oct 16, 2017
Drive for giant new marine sanctuary in Antarctica
Sydney (AFP) Oct 13, 2017
Thousands of penguin chicks starve in Antarctica
Aarhus, Denmark (SPX) Oct 16, 2017
The melting ice makes the sea around Greenland less saline


Little growth observed in India's methane emissions
Bristol UK (SPX) Oct 18, 2017
Methane is the second most powerful greenhouse gas and concentrations are rising in the atmosphere. Because of its potency and quick decay in the atmosphere, countries have recognised that reduction of methane emissions are a means toward mitigating global warming. In light of the new international climate agreement, the Paris Agreement, there is increasing need for countries to accurately ... more
Allahabad, India (AFP) Oct 15, 2017
India to close colonial-era military farms
Medio Purus Extractive Reserve, Brazil (AFP) Oct 15, 2017
Smallscale farmers try to solve Amazon's big problems
Brunswick NJ (SPX) Oct 10, 2017
Genetically boosting the nutritional value of corn could benefit millions
WSU researchers document one of planet's largest volcanic eruptions
Pullman WA (SPX) Oct 18, 2017
Washington State University researchers have determined that the Pacific Northwest was home to one of the Earth's largest known volcanic eruptions, a millennia-long spewing of sulfuric gas that blocked out the sun and cooled the planet. Only two other eruptions - the basalt floods of the Siberian Traps and the Deccan Traps - were larger, and they led to two of the Earth's great extinctions ... more
Washington (UPI) Oct 16, 2017
Lake waves penetrate, disturb the surrounding earth
Houghton MI (SPX) Oct 18, 2017
Is it gonna blow? Measuring volcanic emissions from space
Hanoi (AFP) Oct 16, 2017
Vietnam braces for more downpours as flood toll hits 72


Chad extends key conservation area in national park
N'Djamena (AFP) Oct 11, 2017
Chad is to boost protection for a key haven for endangered wildlife in the south of the country under an agreement with a conservation group. African Parks is to take over management and protection of a territory of high ecological value that lies around the vast Zakouma National Park in southern Chad. The programme will help beef up security at the Siniaka Minia and Bahr-Salamat reserv ... more
Kigali (AFP) Oct 10, 2017
Rwanda military uses torture to force confessions: HRW
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
Genome of a 40,000-year-old man in China reveals region's complex human history
Washington (UPI) Oct 16, 2017
As genomic analysis technology advances, and as new genetic samples are surveyed, the human story grows ever more complicated. Now, yet another complex human history has been revealed by the genetic remains of a 40,000-year-old man from China. The man's DNA - recovered from remains in Tianyuan Cave near Beijing - was so well-preserved that it allowed scientists to sequence the full hu ... more
New York NY (SPX) Oct 16, 2017
New study suggests that last common ancestor of humans and apes was smaller than thought
Washington (AFP) Oct 13, 2017
World Bank: 1.1 bn people 'invisible', lacking official identity
Washington (UPI) Oct 18, 2017
Duplications of noncoding DNA could help explain human-primate split


Geologic evidence is the forerunner of ominous prospects for a warming earth
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Oct 16, 2017
While strong seasonal hurricanes have devastated many of the Caribbean and Bahamian islands this year, geologic studies on several of these islands illustrate that more extreme conditions existed in the past. A new analysis published in Marine Geology shows that the limestone islands of the Bahamas and Bermuda experienced climate changes that were even more extreme than historical events. ... more
Berlin (AFP) Oct 11, 2017
'Plan B': Seven ways to engineer the climate
Washington (UPI) Oct 11, 2017
British government unveils green spending plans
Berlin (AFP) Oct 11, 2017
As Paris climate goals recede, geoengineering looms larger
Study casts doubt on warming implications of brown carbon aerosol from wildfires
Saint Louis MO (SPX) Oct 18, 2017
As devastating wildfires continue to rage in the western U.S. and Canada, a team of environmental engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered that light-absorbing organic particulate matter, also known as brown carbon aerosol, in wildfire smoke loses its ability to absorb sunlight the longer it remains in the atmosphere. Rajan Chakrabarty, assistant professor, and Brent ... more
Plesetsk, Russia (ESA) Oct 16, 2017
Air quality-monitoring satellite in orbit
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 16, 2017
Watching plant photosynthesis from space
Moscow (AFP) Oct 13, 2017
Russia launches European satellite to monitor Earth's atmosphere


Scientists describe 'enigmatic' species that lived in Utah some 500 million years ago
Lawrence KS (SPX) Oct 16, 2017
To the untrained eye, it looks like a flower crudely etched into rock - as if a child had scratched a picture of a bloom. But to the late fossil hunter Lloyd Gunther, the tulip shape he unearthed at Antimony Canyon in northern Utah looked like the remnant of an ancient marine animal. Years ago, Gunther collected the rock and later gave it to researchers at the University of Kansas' Biodive ... more
Raleigh NC (SPX) Oct 16, 2017
Mass extinctions led to low species diversity, dinosaur rule
Washington (UPI) Oct 10, 2017
Long-ignored ichthyosaur determined to be new species
New York NY (SPX) Oct 06, 2017
New evidence that Siberian volcanic eruptions caused extinction 250 million years ago
'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


PPPL takes detailed look at 2-D structure of turbulence in tokamaks
Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Oct 16, 2017
A key hurdle for fusion researchers is understanding turbulence, the ripples and eddies that can cause the superhot plasma that fuels fusion reactions to leak heat and particles and keep fusion from taking place. Comprehending and reducing turbulence will facilitate the development of fusion as a safe, clean and abundant source of energy for generating electricity from power plants around the wo ... more
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 16, 2017
A new miniature solution for storing renewable energy
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 16, 2017
Metal supplies unlikely to seriously hamper battery use
University Park PA (SPX) Oct 16, 2017
Sulfur may be key for safe rechargeable lithium batteries
Chile penguins win battle in war against mine
La Higuera, Chile (AFP) Oct 13, 2017
They may be less than a meter tall but they have conquered a Goliath: Chile's vulnerable Humboldt penguins have thwarted - for now at least - a billion dollar mining project in one of the country's most depressed regions. The rare species is only found on the coasts of Peru and Chile, which has created the National Humboldt Penguin Reserve - but it's also an area rich in natural resources ... more
Washington (UPI) Oct 13, 2017
Study reveals secrets of planet formation
Moscow (AFP) Oct 16, 2017
'Hungry bear' crisis grips far east Russian region
Oxford UK (SPX) Oct 10, 2017
Scientists complete conservation puzzle, shaping understanding of life on earth
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Chinese businesses herald Communist congress by closing shop
Beijing (AFP) Oct 16, 2017
Businesses ranging from cookware to karaoke in China's teeming capital have temporarily shut down as the ruling Communist Party prepares to hold its most important political event of the last five years. Fitness centres, short-term rental websites and even online retailers told AFP on Monday that they would not be operating in Beijing during the 19th National Congress. The meeting, at wh ... more
Beijing (AFP) Oct 18, 2017
Xi tells Communist Party to combat any actions to 'undermine' it
Beijing (AFP) Oct 18, 2017
'My god, 3.5 hours': Xi gives marathon speech, China listens
Beijing (AFP) Oct 18, 2017
Xi declares 'new era' for China as party congress opens
More trees, better farming could slash carbon emissions: study
Miami (AFP) Oct 16, 2017
Planting more trees, farming more sustainably and conserving wetlands could significantly slash the amount of carbon emissions that humanity spews into the atmosphere through fossil fuel use, researchers said Monday. Better land use could reduce carbon dioxide 37 percent, enough to hold global warming below two degrees Celsius by 2030, as called for by the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to ... more
Panama City, Panama (SPX) Oct 18, 2017
Tropical tree roots represent an underappreciated carbon pool
Medio Purus Extractive Reserve, Brazil (AFP) Oct 13, 2017
Conservation cutbacks put Brazil's Amazon animals at risk
Woods Hole MA (SPX) Oct 09, 2017
Carbon feedback from forest soils will accelerate global warming


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