|
|
|
  Beijing (XNA) Mar 18, 2018 Five years ago, Zhang Xingying first used Chinese polar-orbiting satellites to detect and measure smog, looking for ways to tackle air pollution. Now as China makes progress in clearing its skies, the meteorologist hopes the technology can also be shared to brighten the future for all, both at home and overseas. "Smog may be on the retreat at the moment but remains a problem that cannot be ignored, not only in China but in many other countries," said Zhang, 40, chief scientist of atmosphere ... read more |
 |
 
Are palaeontologists naming too many species?Manchester UK (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 A comprehensive new study looking at variations in Ichthyosaurus, a common British Jurassic ichthyosaur (sea-going reptile) also known as 'Sea Dragons', has provided important information into recog ... more 
Pterosaurs went out with a bang, not a whimperWashington DC (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 Fossils of six new species of pterosaurs - giant flying reptiles that flew over the heads of the dinosaurs - have been discovered by a research team led by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the Uni ... more 
The early bird got to fly: Archaeopteryx was an active flyerGrenoble, France (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 The question of whether the Late Jurassic dino-bird Archaeopteryx was an elaborately feathered ground dweller, a glider, or an active flyer has fascinated palaeontologists for decades. Valuable new ... more 
Scientists find seismic imaging is blind to waterWashington DC (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 When an earthquake strikes, nearby seismometers pick up its vibrations in the form of seismic waves. In addition to revealing the epicenter of a quake, seismic waves can give scientists a way to map ... more |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
|
 |
| Previous Issues | Mar 20 | Mar 19 | Mar 16 | Mar 15 | Mar 14 |
|
|
 
World's largest cities depend on evaporated water from surrounding landsFort Collins CO (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 Urbanization has taken billions of people from the rural countryside to urban centers, adding pressure to existing water resources. Many cities rely on renewable freshwater regularly refilled by pre ... more  
Paris to study pollution-busting free transportParis (AFP) March 20, 2018 Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo is commissioning a study into making public transport free in the French capital to bring down grim levels of air pollution. ... more  
NZ dairy giant Fonterra posts loss on China writedown, CEO to goWellington (AFP) March 20, 2018 New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra slumped to a first-half loss Wednesday after massive write-downs on its China business, and announced long-time chief executive Theo Spierings' departure. ... more 
Algorithm could streamline harvesting of hand-picked cropsChicago IL (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 Farmers are the latest beneficiaries in a world of data analytics. Over the past few years, precision agriculture has been helping farmers make smarter decisions and producing a bigger yield. But mo ... more 
Agriculture must make water use go further: expertsBras�lia (AFP) March 20, 2018 In a world where water risks running short for many, the especially thirsty agricultural industry must learn how to manage the vital resource better, experts said Tuesday. ... more |
|
 When natural disaster strikes, can insects and other invertebrates recover?  
Eastern Mediterranean summer will be 2 months longer by 2100Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 The eastern Mediterranean - an area that covers Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and southern Turkey - is experiencing monumental climate changes poised to significantly affect regional ecosyst ... more  |
|
|
|
 
20 dead as powerful storm hits MadagascarAntananarivo (AFP) March 20, 2018 A powerful tropical storm that lashed the island of Madagascar has left 20 people dead and affected 19,000 more, according to an official toll. ... more  
Ghana, US seek closer military tiesAccra (AFP) March 20, 2018 Ghana and the United States are working to forge closer ties between their armed forces but both countries denied that involved setting up military bases in the West African nation. ... more 
Nigeria was warned before Boko Haram abduction: AmnestyLagos (AFP) March 20, 2018 Nigeria's military was on Tuesday accused of ignoring repeated warnings about the movements of Boko Haram fighters before they kidnapped 110 schoolgirls in the country's restive northeast. ... more  
Arctic sea ice becoming a spring hazard for North Atlantic shipsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 More Arctic sea ice is entering the North Atlantic Ocean than before, making it increasingly dangerous for ships to navigate those waters in late spring, according to new research. The new res ... more 
Thawing permafrost produces more methane than expectedPotsdam, Germany (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 Methane (CH4) is a potent greenhouse gas, which is roughly 30 times more harmful to the climate than carbon dioxide (CO2). Both gases are produced in thawing permafrost as dead animal and plant rema ... more |
|
|
|
|
 Annapolis MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
After a 100-year flood struck south central Oklahoma in 2015, a study of the insects, arthropods, and other invertebrates in the area revealed striking declines of most invertebrates in the local ecosystem, a result that researchers say illustrates the hidden impacts of natural disasters.
Researchers at the University of Oklahoma and Cameron University compared the invertebrate community b ... more |
|
 San Francisco CA (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 
The CosmoQuest Citizen Science facility released a major update to its Mappers software. This software previously demonstrated that everyday people can map craters as effectively as a group of professionals. With version 2.0, CosmoQuest invites the public to use their skills to answer new science questions related to Mars and Mercury. The public can use their eyes, minds, and time to help determ ... more |
|
|
 Princeton NJ (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 
The 2015 Paris climate agreement sought to stabilize global temperatures by limiting warming to well below 2.0 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue limiting warming even further, to 1.5 C.
To quantify what that would mean for people living in coastal areas, a group of researchers employed a global network of tide gauges and a local sea level projection framework to exp ... more |
|
 Princeton NJ (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 
Targeted geoengineering to preserve continental ice sheets deserves serious research and investment, argues an international team of researchers in a Comment published March 14 in the journal Nature. Without intervention, by 2100 most large coastal cities will face sea levels that are more than three feet higher than they are currently.
Previous discussions of geoengineering have looked at ... more |
|
|
 Wellington (AFP) March 20, 2018 
New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra slumped to a first-half loss Wednesday after massive write-downs on its China business, and announced long-time chief executive Theo Spierings' departure.
Fonterra posted a net loss of NZ$348 million ($250 million) for the six months to January 31, down from a NZ$418 million profit in the same period a year earlier.
It blamed the downturn on a NZ$405 mill ... more |
|
 Antananarivo (AFP) March 20, 2018 
A powerful tropical storm that lashed the island of Madagascar has left 20 people dead and affected 19,000 more, according to an official toll.
The storm also closed several national highways that were flooded by the heavy rain, the country's disaster management office said late Monday.
In a previous toll late Sunday it said 17 people had died and 15,000 had been affected.
Storm Elia ... more |
|
|
 Accra (AFP) March 20, 2018 
Ghana and the United States are working to forge closer ties between their armed forces but both countries denied that involved setting up military bases in the West African nation.
News reports in Ghana on Tuesday cited leaked documents from a recent cabinet meeting that formed the basis of a request to parliament to approve an agreement between the two governments.
Ministers reportedly ... more |
|
 Lund, Sweden (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
New research at Lund University in Sweden can now show what Stone Age people actually ate in southern Scandinavia 10 000 years ago. The importance of fish in the diet has proven to be greater than expected. So, if you want to follow a Paleo diet - you should quite simply eat a lot of fish.
Osteologists Adam Boethius and Torbjorn Ahlstrom have studied the importance of various protein sourc ... more |
|
|
 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Mar 19, 2018 
Last year, 81 million people worldwide experienced severe food insecurity. About 80 percent of them live in Africa.
While much of that food insecurity relates to civil war and violence in places like South Sudan and Nigeria, a good portion also stems from a sequence of five severe droughts that began in Ethiopia in 2015 and spread across parts of the continent in the ensuing three years. ... more |
|
 Paris (ESA) Mar 21, 2018 
The traditional way of mapping Earth's geology and mineral resources is a costly and time-consuming undertaking. While satellites cannot entirely replace the expert in the field, they can certainly help - as a recent effort in Africa shows.
Geological maps identify different types of rock, faults, groundwater and deposits. They are not only essential for building infrastructure and assessi ... more |
|
|
 Grenoble, France (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
The question of whether the Late Jurassic dino-bird Archaeopteryx was an elaborately feathered ground dweller, a glider, or an active flyer has fascinated palaeontologists for decades. Valuable new information obtained with state-of-the-art synchrotron microtomography at the ESRF, the European Synchrotron (Grenoble, France), allowed an international team of scientists to answer this question in ... more |
|
 San Juan (AFP) March 1, 2018 
Puerto Rico's power grid broke down again on Thursday, leaving some 800,000 customers without power, as the US Caribbean possession struggles to recover five months after Hurricane Maria slammed the island.
Justo Gonzalez, head of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), said that one of the island's main transmission lines was out of service. Officials said the line should be fully ... more |
|
|
 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 
Birds do it and so do doughnut-shaped fusion facilities called "tokamaks." But tokamak chirping - a rapidly changing frequency wave that can be far above what the human ear can detect - is hardly welcome to researchers who seek to bring the fusion that powers the sun and stars to Earth. Such chirping signals a loss of heat that can slow fusion reactions, a loss that has long puzzled scientists. ... more |
|
 Ol Pejeta, Kenya (AFP) March 20, 2018 
Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, has died in Kenya at the age of 45, after becoming a symbol of efforts to save his subspecies from extinction, a fate that only science can now prevent.
When Sudan was born in 1973 in the wild in Shambe, South Sudan, there were about 700 of his kind left in existence.
At his death, there are only two females remaining alive and the hope is that ... more |
|
|
 Beijing (AFP) March 17, 2018  China's rubber-stamp parliament unanimously handed President Xi Jinping a second term Saturday and elevated his right-hand man to the vice presidency, giving him a strong ally to consolidate power and handle US trade threats.
Xi's reappointment by the Communist Party-controlled legislature was a foregone conclusion, but all eyes had been on whether his former anti-corruption enforcer, Wang Q ... more |
|
 Dibulla, Colombia (AFP) March 19, 2018 
The guaimaro, a highly prized tree bearing nutritious fruit, once abundant throughout South America, is slowly being coaxed back from near extinction in Colombia.
Widely adaptable, the tree is resistant to drought - though not, sadly, to man. Deforestation has decimated the bountiful tree, whose leaves and fruit have for centuries sustained animals and humans alike.
"Without trees, ther ... more |
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Buy Advertising | Media Advertising Kit | Editorial & Other Enquiries | Privacy statement |
| The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2018 - Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principals for news reporting and research purposes. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA news reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement |
