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November 01, 2017
EARTH OBSERVATION
OGC announces a new standard that improves the way information is referenced to the Earth



Canberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 25, 2017
The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has approved the Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS) as OGC Abstract Specification - Topic 21 [OGC 15-104r5]. The goal of DGGS is to enable rapid assembly of spatial data without the difficulties of working with projected coordinate reference systems. The OGC DGGS Abstract Specification standard defines the conceptual model and a set of rules for building highly efficient architectures for spatial data storage, integration and analytics. ... read more

EARTH OBSERVATION
Sentinel-1 sees through hurricanes
Paris (ESA) Oct 26, 2017
This year's Atlantic hurricane season has been a harsh reminder of the grief and devastation brought by these vast storms. Imaging the top of hurricanes from space is nothing new, but the Sentinel-1 ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
First SAGE III Atmospheric Data Released for Public Use
Hampton VA (SPX) Oct 27, 2017
The first wave of atmospheric data from the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III), a NASA instrument that launched to the International Space Station earlier this year, is now avai ... more
ICE WORLD
Canada caribou herds, habitat continue to decline: report
Ottawa (AFP) Oct 31, 2017
Canada has failed boreal caribou herds that are at risk of disappearing, a government report concluded Tuesday. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
New study finds nature is vital to beating climate change
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 26, 2017
emissions can be reduced and stored in forests, farmland, grasslands and wetlands using natural climate solutions. The peer-reviewed study, led by scientists from The Nature Conservancy and 15 ... more
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WATER WORLD
Taste, not appearance, drives corals to eat plastics
Durham NC (SPX) Oct 26, 2017
Scientists have long known that marine animals mistakenly eat plastic debris because the tiny bits of floating plastic might look like prey. But a new Duke University study of plastic ingestio ... more
WATER WORLD
Devices assembled from 2D materials separate different salts in seawater
Manchester UK (SPX) Oct 31, 2017
2-dimensional materials have been successfully assembled into devices with the smallest possible man made holes for water desalination. Researchers at the National Graphene Institute (NGI) at ... more
ABOUT US
Researchers demonstrate 'mind-reading' brain-decoding tech
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Oct 26, 2017
Researchers have demonstrated how to decode what the human brain is seeing by using artificial intelligence to interpret fMRI scans from people watching videos, representing a sort of mind-reading t ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Japanese earthquake zone strongly influenced by the effects of friction
Fukuoka, Japan (SPX) Oct 31, 2017
The islands of the Japanese archipelago are affected both by frequent, low-magnitude earthquakes and tremors and by larger, highly destructive events. One of the largest quakes to strike Japan occur ... more
FARM NEWS
Cowpea protected from a devastating pest, free for smallholder African farmers
Urbana IL (SPX) Oct 31, 2017
Across Africa, armies of hungry caterpillars destroy the flowers and pods of cowpeas; casualties can reach 80 percent of this staple food crop if no measures are taken. But the real victims are smal ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Anticipating aftershocks
Austin TX (SPX) Oct 26, 2017
Southern California has the highest earthquake risk of any region in the U.S., but exactly how risky and where the greatest risks lie remains an open question. Earthquakes occur infrequently a ... more


Bandit-masked feathered dinosaur hid from predators using multiple types of camouflage

WATER WORLD
Scavenging to survive below the seafloor
Munich, Germany (SPX) Oct 31, 2017
Microorganisms living in the sediments buried below the seafloor obtain their nutrients by using secreted enzymes to degrade adsorbed detritus. A new study shows that in order to survive for long ti ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Croatian village gives shelter to abandoned bears
Kuterevo, Croatia (AFP) Oct 31, 2017
Orphaned, abandoned or abused: Croatia's brown bears that are unable to survive in the wild are finding a new home in the country's only sanctuary for the furry natives. ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Study reveals how the social lives of orphaned elephants are impacted by poaching
Washington (UPI) Oct 31, 2017
New research suggests the social lives of orphaned elephants are significantly altered by the loss of their mothers to poaching. ... more
WATER WORLD
Mass seal deaths in Russia's Lake Baikal
Moscow (AFP) Oct 31, 2017
Around 130 dead seals have washed up on the shores of Russia's Lake Baikal, authorities said Tuesday, as they launched a probe into the latest problem to hit the world's deepest lake. ... more





SATCOM and Disaster Recovery Plans Withstand Irma
McLean VA (SPX) Oct 31, 2017
The recent barrage of hurricanes in the southern United States is a reminder of the need for all companies that operate critical services to have a solid disaster recovery (DR) plan. At Intelsat General Corporation (IGC), the unpredictability of hurricane Irma gave us an opportunity to execute our own DR plan and to provide uninterrupted service for our customers. As a satellite communicat ... more
Paris (AFP) Oct 30, 2017
$129 bn in extreme weather losses last year: climate report
New York (AFP) Oct 31, 2017
Displaced Puerto Ricans find refuge in New York
New York (AFP) Oct 27, 2017
Puerto Rico 'heartbreaking' five weeks post-storm
The world's shortest laser pulse
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 01, 2017
In order to fully understand the dynamics during a chemical reaction, scientists must be able to study all movements of atoms and molecules on their basic time scale. Molecules rotate in the range of picoseconds (10-12 s), their atoms vibrate in the range of femtoseconds (10?15 s), and the electrons move in the range of attoseconds (10-18 s). ETH professor Hans Jakob Worner and his group h ... more
Boston MA (SPX) Nov 01, 2017
'Tensor algebra' software speeds big-data analysis 100-fold
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 26, 2017
New property found in unusual crystalline materials
Trieste, Italy (SPX) Oct 26, 2017
Laser beams for superconductivity


Lockheed Martin to design US Navy's Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV), Orca
Palm Beach FL (SPX) Oct 31, 2017
Lockheed Martin will support the growth of the U.S. Navy's family of unmanned undersea systems under a design phase contract valued at $43.2 million for Orca, the U.S. Navy's Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV). XLUUV Orca is a two phase competition, including the currently awarded design phase and a competitive production phase for up to nine vehicles to meet increasing demands ... more
Moscow (AFP) Oct 31, 2017
Mass seal deaths in Russia's Lake Baikal
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 26, 2017
Fossil coral reefs show sea level rose in bursts during last warming
Manchester UK (SPX) Oct 31, 2017
Devices assembled from 2D materials separate different salts in seawater
Hopes dashed for giant new Antarctic marine sanctuary
Sydney (AFP) Oct 28, 2017
Hopes for a vast new marine sanctuary in pristine East Antarctica were dashed Saturday after a key conservation summit failed to reach agreement, with advocates urging "greater vision and ambition". Expectations were high ahead of the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) - a treaty tasked with overseeing protection and sustainab ... more
Ottawa (AFP) Oct 31, 2017
Canada caribou herds, habitat continue to decline: report
Cambridge UK (SPX) Oct 26, 2017
'Scars' left by icebergs record West Antarctic ice retreat
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 26, 2017
Groundwater and tundra fires may work together to thaw permafrost


Crops evolving 10 millennia before experts thought
Warwick UK (SPX) Oct 26, 2017
Ancient hunter-gatherers began to systemically affect the evolution of crops up to thirty thousand years ago - around ten millennia before experts previously thought - according to new research by the University of Warwick. Professor Robin Allaby, in Warwick's School of Life Sciences, has discovered that human crop gathering was so extensive, as long ago as the last Ice Age, that it starte ... more
Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) Oct 30, 2017
Rainy summer puts Germans off their beer
Brussels (AFP) Oct 27, 2017
EU member states to vote on five-year weedkiller renewal next month
Urbana IL (SPX) Oct 31, 2017
Cowpea protected from a devastating pest, free for smallholder African farmers
Anticipating aftershocks
Austin TX (SPX) Oct 26, 2017
Southern California has the highest earthquake risk of any region in the U.S., but exactly how risky and where the greatest risks lie remains an open question. Earthquakes occur infrequently and depend on complex geological factors deep underground, making them hard to reliably predict in advance. For that reason, forecasting earthquakes means relying on massive computer models and multifa ... more
Fukuoka, Japan (SPX) Oct 31, 2017
Japanese earthquake zone strongly influenced by the effects of friction
Havana (AFP) Oct 29, 2017
Tropical Storm Philippe crosses Cuba towards Florida
Denpasar, Indonesia (AFP) Oct 29, 2017
Authorities lower Bali volcano alert status


Death of soldiers highlights US military presence in Niger
Abidjan (AFP) Oct 27, 2017
The killing of four US soldiers in Niger has highlighted the geo-strategic role the mainly desert west African nation plays in the American fight against Islamist groups in Africa. In the aftermath of the soldiers' deaths, the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford, revealed that about 800 US troops are now based in Niger - more than in any other African country. ... more
Washington (AFP) Oct 24, 2017
Pentagon looks at stepped-up Africa role to counter IS
Washington (AFP) Oct 23, 2017
US military to pursue Niger operations after deadly attack
Washington (AFP) Oct 20, 2017
Niger raid highlights US forces' growing Africa role
Older Neandertal survived with a little help from his friends
St Louis MO (SPX) Oct 26, 2017
An older Neandertal from about 50,000 years ago, who had suffered multiple injuries and other degenerations, became deaf and must have relied on the help of others to avoid prey and survive well into his 40s, indicates a new analysis published Oct. 20 in the online journal PLoS ONE. "More than his loss of a forearm, bad limp and other injuries, his deafness would have made him easy prey fo ... more
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Oct 26, 2017
Researchers demonstrate 'mind-reading' brain-decoding tech
Waiapi, Brazil (AFP) Oct 27, 2017
Remote Amazon tribe tries to straddle two worlds
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 26, 2017
Determining when humans started impacting the planet on a large scale


At climate talks, it's America alone more than America first
Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2017
Facing 195 other countries who have chosen a different path, the task of US negotiators at upcoming climate talks in Bonn is unenviable. Donald Trump has vowed to exit the Paris Climate accord, just not yet, leaving US policy in limbo for the next three years until Washington can officially leave. So, it falls to Thomas Shannon - a respected career diplomat - to this week lead a delega ... more
Paris (AFP) Oct 31, 2017
Shortfall in climate action is 'catastrophic': UN
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 31, 2017
Tiny chip-based methane spectrometer could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 26, 2017
New study finds nature is vital to beating climate change
NASA Estimates the Global Reach of Atmospheric Rivers
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 01, 2017
A recent study by NASA and several partners has estimated, for the first time, the global impact of atmospheric rivers on floods and droughts, as well as the number of people affected by these atmospheric phenomena. Atmospheric rivers are relatively long, narrow, short-lived jets of air that transport water vapor across significant portions of Earth's mid-latitude oceans, onto the continen ... more
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Nov 01, 2017
Vega to launch an Earth observation satellite for the Kingdom of Morocco
Washington (UPI) Oct 26, 2017
When surrounding farms get hot and dry, cities cool off
Paris (SPX) Oct 27, 2017
Earth Observation market worth $8-15B by 2026


Bandit-masked feathered dinosaur hid from predators using multiple types of camouflage
Bristol UK (SPX) Oct 31, 2017
Researchers from the University of Bristol have revealed how a small feathered dinosaur used its colour patterning, including a bandit mask-like stripe across its eyes, to avoid being detected by its predators and prey. By reconstructing the likely colour patterning of the Chinese dinosaur Sinosauropteryx, researchers have shown that it had multiple types of camouflage which likely helped ... more
New Haven CT (SPX) Oct 26, 2017
Mongolian microfossils point to the rise of animals on Earth
Manchester UK (SPX) Oct 26, 2017
'Mega-carnivore' dinosaur roamed southern Africa 200 million years ago
Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Oct 26, 2017
Zircon as Earth's timekeeper: Are we reading the clock right?
Japan faces challenges in cutting CO2, Moody's finds
Washington (UPI) Oct 23, 2017
Utility companies in the Japanese market face an uphill battle in meeting targets for the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, Moody's reported Monday. Moody's Investors Service reported that Japan faces challenges in meeting its commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Based on March levels, the report found emissions from the utility sector will need to be cut by as much as 50 p ... more
Washington (UPI) Oct 19, 2017
IEA: An electrified world would cost $31B per year to achieve
Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2017
'Fuel-secure' steps in Washington counterintuitive, green group says
Menlo Park CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2017
SLAC-led project will use AI to prevent or minimize electric grid failures


Cobalt and tungsten the key to cheaper, cleaner hydrogen
Tarragona, Spain (SPX) Nov 01, 2017
Electrolysis, splitting the water molecule with electricity, is the cleanest way to obtain hydrogen, a clean and renewable fuel. Now, researchers at ICIQ and URV, led by Prof. Jose Ramon Galan-Mascaros, designed a new catalyst that reduces the cost of electrolytic hydrogen production. Catalysts reduce the amount of electricity needed to break the chemical bonds, speed up the reaction and minimis ... more
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 01, 2017
Microscopic defects make batteries better
Richmond VA (SPX) Oct 31, 2017
New research findings could lead to safer and more powerful lithium-ion batteries
Ulsan, South Korea (SPX) Oct 26, 2017
UNIST researchers introduce novel catalyst for rechargeable metal-air batteries
Croatian village gives shelter to abandoned bears
Kuterevo, Croatia (AFP) Oct 31, 2017
Orphaned, abandoned or abused: Croatia's brown bears that are unable to survive in the wild are finding a new home in the country's only sanctuary for the furry natives. Up to 1,000 bears are estimated to live in the southeastern European country, particularly in the central forested areas of Gorski Kotar and Lika. Although they are a protected species, Croatian authorities allow the hun ... more
Washington (UPI) Oct 29, 2017
Fields of cover crops serve as stopover grounds for migrating birds
Washington (UPI) Oct 31, 2017
Study reveals how the social lives of orphaned elephants are impacted by poaching
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 30, 2017
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China accuses Xi rivals of vote rigging
Beijing (AFP) Oct 27, 2017
China's ruling Communist Party says three of its top former officials rigged votes during earlier party congresses, in a move that sheds light on the fall of members of Xi Jinping's rival factions. The senior figures were removed from office over the last few years as part of Xi's sweeping corruption crackdown, which some analysts have called a political purge. An article published by Xi ... more
Shanghai (AFP) Oct 26, 2017
Xi takes short cut to China's Communist pantheon
Beijing (AFP) Oct 27, 2017
Activists fear more crackdowns in Xi's 'new era'
Beijing (AFP) Oct 30, 2017
Chinese universities start 'Xi Thought' institutes
Peatland plants adapting well to climate change
Southampton UK (SPX) Oct 31, 2017
They account for just three per cent of the Earth's surface but play a major role in offsetting carbon dioxide emissions - and now a team of scientists led by the universities of Southampton and Utrecht has discovered that the plants that make up peat bogs adapt exceptionally well to climate change. In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, experts show that, even though c ... more
Exeter UK (SPX) Oct 31, 2017
Tropical forest reserves slow down global warming
Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 30, 2017
Peat bogs defy the laws of biodiversity
Norwich UK (SPX) Oct 26, 2017
Amazonian hunters deplete wildlife but don't empty forests


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