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  Cape Town (AFP) Jan 24, 2018 For some residents of drought-stricken Cape Town, the prospect of the taps running dry is almost too much to bear. For others, the thought of queueing under the scorching summer sun for a meagre daily water ration will be a necessary evil to keep their businesses solvent. But the day, currently forecast for April 12, has been creeping closer - brought forward by the city's excessive consumption despite repeated public warnings from increasingly panicked officials. On "Day Zero", as it is ca ... read more |
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Japan seeks upgraded whaling ship as PM vows to continue huntsTokyo (AFP) Jan 24, 2018 Japan is considering upgrading its ageing lead whaling ship, a fisheries official said Wednesday, as the prime minister vowed to continue the country's controversial Antarctic hunts despite international protests. ... more 
Canada limits crab fishing to save right whalesOttawa (AFP) Jan 23, 2018 Snow crab fishing in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence will be curtailed to protect endangered right whales from tangling in fishing gear, a Canadian official said Tuesday. ... more  
Thousands more flee erupting Philippine volcanoLegazpi, Philippines (AFP) Jan 24, 2018 Tens of thousands more people have fled an erupting volcano in the Philippines, relief workers said Wednesday, as foreign tourists arrived to watch the flaming lava and giant clouds spurting from its crater. ... more 
Fresh tremors halt search ops after Japan volcano eruptionTokyo (AFP) Jan 24, 2018 New volcanic activity Wednesday forced Japanese police to suspend search operations a day after an eruption near a popular ski resort that killed a soldier and injured several other people. ... more |
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Global fish passage forum to include first symposium on hydropower and fishPhnom Penh, Cambodia (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 The American Fisheries Society and the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers are holding this year's annual fish passage conference in Australia in D ... more 
Seabed mining could destroy ecosystemsExeter UK (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 Mining on the ocean floor could do irreversible damage to deep-sea ecosystems, says a new study of seabed mining proposals around the world. The deep sea (depths below 200m) covers about half of the ... more 
Satellite and global model estimates vary for land water storageAustin TX (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 Research led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that calculations of water storage in many river basins from commonly used global computer models differ markedly from independent storage ... more  
UNH researchers find human impact on forest still evident after 500 yearsDurham NH (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 Tropical forests span a huge area, harbor a wide diversity of species, and are important to water and nutrient cycling on a planet scale. But in ancient Amazonia, over 500 years ago, clearing tropic ... more  
Southwest Iran suffocates under dust cloudTehran (AFP) Jan 23, 2018 Iran's Khuzestan province was suffocating for the fifth straight day on Tuesday under a cloud of dust that has hit seven times the maximum recommended limit, Iranian media reported. ... more 
Global models offer new insights into Great Lakes mercury pollutionWashington (UPI) Jan 23, 2018 Members of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community living on Michigan's Upper Peninsula have a fairly simple question: when is it safe to eat the fish they catch? ... more  
Cape Town now faces dry taps by April 12Cape Town (AFP) Jan 23, 2018 As Cape Town suffers its worst drought in a century, residents were warned Tuesday that they face losing piped water to their homes on April 12 - a whole nine days earlier than predicted. ... more |
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 Temp targets will be missed within decades unless emissions reversed  
First ICEYE-X1 Radar Image from Space PublishedHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 ICEYE has published the first radar image obtained with the ICEYE-X1 SAR satellite. The image depicts Noatak National Preserve, Alaska, on Monday Jan. 15, at 21:47 UTC. ICEYE-X1 is the world's first ... more  
First monkeys cloned by process that made Dolly the sheepBeijing (AFP) Jan 24, 2018 Scientists in China have created the first monkeys cloned by the same process that produced Dolly the sheep more than 20 years ago, a breakthrough that could boost medical research into human diseases. ... more  
Ancient rice heralds a new future for rice productionBrisbane, Australia (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 Wild rice growing in northern Australia's crocodile-infested waters could help boost global food security, say University of Queensland researchers who have mapped its genetic family tree. Val ... more |
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Researchers reveal how microbes cope in phosphorus-deficient tropical soilOak Ridge TN (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has uncovered how certain soil microbes cope in a phosphorus-poor environment to survive in a tropical ecosystem. Their novel a ... more 
Root discovery may lead to crops that need less fertilizerUniversity Park PA (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 Bean plants that suppress secondary root growth in favor of boosting primary root growth forage greater soil volume to acquire phosphorus, according to Penn State researchers, who say their recent f ... more 
Rising Seine flushes out Paris rats as museums go on flood alertParis (AFP) Jan 24, 2018 Parisians were likely to spot more rats than usual in coming days as the Seine continued to rise Wednesday after heavy rains, while part of the Louvre was closed as artworks were moved to higher ground. ... more  
Piece of North American continent found in northern AustraliaWashington (UPI) Jan 24, 2018 Earth's continents are like a jigsaw puzzle that's constantly being rearranged. Sometimes, during the reshuffling, pieces get misplaced. ... more  
Viruses are everywhere, maybe even in spacePortland OR (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Viruses are the most abundant and one of the least understood biological entities on Earth. They might also exist in space, but as of yet scientists have done almost no research into this possibilit ... more 
Rutgers scientists discover 'Legos of life'New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 Rutgers scientists have found the "Legos of life" - four core chemical structures that can be stacked together to build the myriad proteins inside every organism - after smashing and dissecting near ... more 
New robot can help treat rare birth defectSheffield UK (SPX) Jan 23, 2018 Researchers at the University of Sheffield and Boston's Children Hospital, Harvard Medical School have created a robot that can be implanted into the body to aid the treatment of oesophageal atresia ... more |
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 Biomarkers solve 500-million-year-old macroorganism mystery  
Eocene fossil data suggest climate models may underestimate polar warmingGainesville, FL (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 A new international analysis of marine fossils shows that warming of the polar oceans during the Eocene, a greenhouse period that provides a glimpse of Earth's potential future climate, was greater ... more 
Heat loss from the Earth triggers ice sheet slide towards the seaAarhus, Denmark (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 Greenland's ice sheet is becoming smaller and smaller. The melting takes place with increased strength and at a speed that no models have previously predicted. In the esteemed journal Scientif ... more 
UW researcher leads study of first quantifiable observation of cloud seedingLaramie WY (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 A University of Wyoming researcher contributed to a paper that demonstrated, for the first time, direct observation of cloud seeding - from the growth of the ice crystals through the processes that ... more |
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 Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 
A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has uncovered how certain soil microbes cope in a phosphorus-poor environment to survive in a tropical ecosystem. Their novel approach could be applied in other ecosystems to study various nutrient limitations and inform agriculture and terrestrial biosphere modeling.
Phosphorus is a critical nutrient for global biologi ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Jan 22, 2018 
The Seine burst its banks in some places in central Paris on Monday and officials in eastern France prepared emergency measures for the Rhine following torrential rain that has led to widespread flood warnings.
The Seine has turned into a powerful muddy torrent that has submerged parks and footpaths alongside its channel that runs through the French capital, while river boats are no longer ... more |
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 Krasnoyarsk, Russia (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 
A group of scientists from the Siberian Federal University (SFU, Krasnoyarsk, Russia) and the Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry (NIIC, Novosibirsk, Russia) combined the useful properties of metal phthalocyanines and palladium membranes in order to create active layers in hydrogen detectors. This operation significantly increases the sensitivity of the sensors.
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 
Soil bacteria form the vast majority of the earth's live biomass and play a key role in our lives. They control core processes for the development of ecosystems such as soil fertility, which is essential for food production.
They also influence carbon storage, with a direct impact on climate change. A pinch of soil contains thousands of species and millions of bacteria cells, and our knowl ... more |
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