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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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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  
Vines from Napa, Bordeaux tough against heat, droughtWashington (AFP) Feb 1, 2018 Worry not, wine drinkers. Some of the world's most popular wines, grown in California's Napa Valley and the Bordeaux region of France, are more resistant to drought than previously believed, researchers have concluded. ... more 
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 |
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 Guatemala volcano eruption subsides after 20 hours 
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  |
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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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 Washington (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.
"We call these anxiety cells because they only fire when the animals are in places that are innately frightening to them," Rene Hen, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Irvi ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 
After an amateur astronomer recorded observations of a satellite in high Earth orbit on Jan. 20, 2018, his initial research suggested it was the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) - a NASA mission launched into orbit around Earth on March 25, 2000.
Seeking to ascertain whether the signal indeed came from IMAGE, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Mary ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 30, 2018 
ERAPSCO has been awarded a contract for engineering support for the Navy's underwater active sonobuoys.
The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $9.6 million under the terms of a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery and is a modification on a previously awarded contract.
The contract taps ERAPSCO for the procurement of engineering support service ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 26, 2018  China is pushing its ambitious global trade infrastructure programme to the Arctic, outlining Friday its vision for a "Polar Silk Road" for ships as it seeks greater access to the strategically vital region.
The Arctic is geographically far from China's borders but with large oil and gas deposits and potential shipping lanes has become more strategically important for the Asian giant.
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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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 Laramie 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 study revealed important natural fluctuations in climate have occurred over past millennia, which would have naturally led to climatic cooling today in the absence of human activity.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 31, 2018 
A bread loaf-sized satellite has produced the world's first map of the global distribution of atmospheric ice in the 883-Gigahertz band, an important frequency in the submillimeter wavelength for studying cloud ice and its effect on Earth's climate.
IceCube - the diminutive spacecraft that deployed from the International Space Station in May 2017- has demonstrated-in-space a commercial 883 ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 25, 2018 
Oxygen began accumulating in early Earth's oceans some 250 million years before it first showed up in the atmosphere some 2.45 billion years ago.
Scientists arrived at the revelation after creating a model of early ecosystems in Earth's primordial oceans.
Scientists used observations of ancient sedimentary rocks and the preserved chemical signatures of primordial seawater to buil ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 24, 2018 
U.S. consumers should be the ones sharing in the corporate tax breaks for utility companies outlined in the federal code reform, state energy agencies said.
President Donald Trump signed into law a sweeping overhaul of the federal tax code in late December, extending temporary relief to American taxpayers and permanent breaks for corporations, with oil, gas and utility companies sharing ... 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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 Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 29, 2018 
A Hong Kong pro-democracy candidate has been given last-minute clearance to stand for election after public anger at government meddling in vote nominations, as Beijing increases pressure on the city's activists.
The decision to approve the nomination of Edward Yiu on Monday, hours before the deadline, came two days after fellow pro-democracy candidate Agnes Chow, 21, was barred from standi ... more |
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 Phnom Penh (AFP) Jan 31, 2018 
Three Cambodians patrolling a protected forest in the remote east were gunned down after seizing a chainsaw from illegal loggers, authorities said Wednesday, in violence highlighting the murky world of the country's timber trade.
A military officer, a park ranger and an employee of the prominent NGO Wildlife Conservation Society were shot dead on Tuesday as they were leaving Keo Seima Wildli ... more |
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