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  The Hague (AFP) Jan 31, 2018 The Netherlands must boost cooperation with neighbouring Belgium and Germany to better prepare for any cross-border nuclear power accident, Dutch safety officials warned Wednesday. That was the conclusion of an investigation by the Dutch Safety Board (OVV), amid rising Dutch concerns over Belgium's ageing Doel and Tihange nuclear reactors, which lie in a densely-populated area just across the southern Dutch-Belgian border. The OVV also included the Borssele nuclear power plant, in the Netherland ... read more |
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Polar bears can't catch enough seals to stay fed: studyMiami (AFP) Feb 1, 2018 Polar bears are struggling to find enough seals to eat, and the problem will get worse as the planet warms because their metabolisms are much faster than previously thought, researchers said Thursday. ... more 
Arctic lakes are emitting young carbonWashington (UPI) Feb 1, 2018 For now, the most ancient carbon remains locked up and frozen deep in the Arctic tundra. The latest investigation of the Arctic's carbon cycle suggests Arctic lakes are emitting relatively young carbon. ... more  
Global takeover by Argentine ants fueled by chemical weaponsWashington (UPI) Feb 1, 2018 New research suggests chemical weaponry is essential to the territorial conquests of Argentine ants, a species that inhabits six continents and dozens of oceanic islands. ... more  
Study details Peking Man's teethWashington (UPI) Feb 1, 2018 Scientists have for the first time analyzed the only original remains of Peking Man, the Homo erectus specimen discovered in China in the 1920s. ... more |
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Indonesian orangutan 'beheaders' claim self-defence: policeJakarta (AFP) Feb 1, 2018 Two Indonesian men arrested for shooting an orangutan multiple times and then decapitating it before tossing the corpse into a river, have told investigators they acted in self-defence, police said Thursday. ... more 
Galapagos hosts nursery for new species of giant tortoisePuerto Ayora, Ecuador (AFP) Feb 1, 2018 Crowded under a rock in the Galapagos archipelago, the baby tortoises wait for the sun to go down to leave their shelter. ... more  
Paradise lost: 'Anote's Ark' shows Kiribati on the brinkPark City, United States (AFP) Feb 1, 2018 With its pristine sands, glistening saltwater flats and gently swaying palms, Kiribati ought to be a tropical paradise - but this precarious slice of heaven on Earth is living on borrowed time. ... more 
World Bank funds fight against Baghdad water woesBaghdad (AFP) Feb 1, 2018 The Iraqi capital's decrepit water network will be overhauled under a $210 million World Bank project aimed at tackling chronic supply shortages and outbreaks of disease. ... more  
Chile boosts protected parkland with US philanthropist's donationsSantiago (AFP) Jan 29, 2018 Chile is greatly expanding protected parkland in its stunning southern Patagonia region under a decree signed Monday that will incorporate reserves owned by a late American philanthropist who founded the North Face label. ... more 
EU seeks to give millions better access to drinking waterBrussels (AFP) Feb 1, 2018 The European Union proposed Thursday giving millions of people in the 28-nation bloc better access to safe tap water and reduce water consumption via wasteful plastic bottles. ... more  
High-pressure air injections could aid contaminated soil cleanupsWashington (UPI) Jan 22, 2018 In order to better understand the nature of fracturing in soil and sediment, researchers at Swansea University injected compressed air into glass capsules packed with sand. Their experiments could eventually pave the way for improved cleanup strategies at industrial brownfield sites. ... more |
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Learn to value your food, says Brazil's top chefSao Paulo (AFP) Jan 31, 2018 Brazil may produce much of the world's food as a commodities exporter but needs to pay more attention to its own taste buds, the country's top chef Alex Atala says. ... more 
Dutch to help tourism firms on storm-hit Caribbean islesThe Hague (AFP) Feb 1, 2018 The Dutch government Thursday unveiled a 2.48-million-euro ($3-million) plan to compensate tourism businesses on two Caribbean islands, left reeling after last year's hurricane. ... more  
Guatemala volcano eruption subsides after 20 hoursGuatemala City (AFP) Feb 2, 2018 The eruption of a volcano near the Guatemalan capital subsided Thursday after 20 hours of activity that rained ash on nearby communities and prompted an orange alert, a spokesman said. ... more  |
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Researchers identify 'anxiety cells' inside the brains of miceWashington (UPI) Jan 31, 2018 Scientists have identified a new group of cells associated with the fight-or-flight response of mice. Researchers detailed their discovery of the so-called anxiety cells this week in the journal Neuron. ... more  
Mali mayor kidnapped by armed men: familyBamako (AFP) Jan 31, 2018 A missing mayor in northern Mali was "kidnapped by armed men", his family and a security source said Wednesday, as the nation's most powerful jihadist group claimed a string of attacks last week. ... more 
Benin's threatened Pendjari National Park gets $23.5m boostLondon (AFP) Jan 31, 2018 Benin's vast Pendjari National Park, one of West Africa's last remaining wildlife refuges, will receive $23.5 million (18.9 million euros) to help protect it and fight poaching, donors announced in London on Wednesday. ... more 
These bacteria produce gold by digesting toxic metalsHalle, Germany (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 High concentrations of heavy metals, like copper and gold, are toxic for most living creatures. This is not the case for the bacterium C. metallidurans, which has found a way to extract valuable tra ... more  
Most of last 11,000 years cooler than past decade in North America, EuropeLaramie WY (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 University of Wyoming researchers led a climate study that determined recent temperatures across Europe and North America appear to have few, if any, precedent in the past 11,000 years. The st ... more 
Forest conservation can have greater ecological impacts by allowing sustainable harvestingColumbia MO (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 New research at the University of Missouri has found that forest owners at greater risk of illegally cutting trees from their forests prefer to participate in conservation programs that allow sustai ... more |
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Tempers flare at Cape Town water collection pointCape Town (AFP) Jan 31, 2018 Tensions are mounting at a natural spring in Cape Town that is popular with residents forced to contend with water restrictions due to severe drought, the city council said Wednesday. ... more  
Researchers find pathway to give advanced notice for hailstormsDekalb IL (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 A new study led by Northern Illinois University meteorologist Victor Gensini identifies a method for predicting the likelihood of damaging hailstorms in the United States--up to three weeks in advan ... more 
UK regional weather forecasts could be improved using jet stream dataLincoln, UK (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 Weather forecasters could be able to better predict regional rainfall and temperatures across the UK by using North Atlantic jet stream data, according to new research. Climate scientists examined t ... more 
Lab-on-a-chip for tracking single bacterial cellsBasel, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 Researchers at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, together with researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, have set up a novel lab-on-a-chip with accompanying automatic analysis s ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Feb 1, 2018 
Australia announced tougher restrictions on foreign buyers of agricultural land and electricity infrastructure on Thursday amid fears over rising Chinese influence.
Foreign investors now need to demonstrate when purchasing farmland worth more than Aus$15 million (US$12 million) that the property has previously been widely marketed to locals for a month to allow them an adequate opportunity t ... more |
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 Ligao, Philippines (AFP) Jan 31, 2018 
Filipinos sheltering from the erupting Mayon volcano gasped in delight as an orange full-moon eclipse shone above the mountain's smouldering crater Wednesday in what was both a once-in-a-lifetime double spectacle and a rare moment of relief.
Mount Mayon - the country's most active volcano - has been spewing spectacular but potentially lethal ash and lava for the last fortnight, forcing som ... more |
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 Bamako (AFP) Jan 31, 2018 
A missing mayor in northern Mali was "kidnapped by armed men", his family and a security source said Wednesday, as the nation's most powerful jihadist group claimed a string of attacks last week.
Baba Ould Cheikh, the mayor of Tarkint in the Gao region, was snatched by six armed men between January 21 and 23, a member of his family told AFP, underlining increasing insecurity months ahead of ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 1, 2018  Scientists have for the first time analyzed the only original remains of Peking Man, the Homo erectus specimen discovered in China in the 1920s.
In a paper, newly published in the journal Scientific Reports, scientists with the National Research Center on Human Evolution in Spain detailed six fossilized teeth belonging to Peking Man.
Peking Man was originally recovered from a fos ... more |
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 Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 
Nuclear fusion, for the controlled and regular generation of electric power by converting hydrogen into helium and reproducing on a small scale what happens in our Sun (as well as other stars), is one of the foremost technological promises for the decades ahead.
Designed to reach parameters beyond the ones previously obtained in laboratory experiments, the reactor prototype called ITER - " ... more |
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 Jakarta (AFP) Feb 1, 2018  Two Indonesian men arrested for shooting an orangutan multiple times and then decapitating it before tossing the corpse into a river, have told investigators they acted in self-defence, police said Thursday.
The suspects, both rubber plantation workers on the island of Borneo, admitted they killed the critically endangered male Bornean orangutan whose headless body was found last month.
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