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  Washington (UPI) Mar 23, 2018 The maximum extent of the Arctic's wintertime sea ice, reached last week, marked another historic low. According to the latest analysis, it was the second lowest since satellites began tracking the phenomenon 39 years ago. Every year, the Arctic's sea ice grows in the winter and shrinks in the summer, reaching two extents, a maximum and a minimum. In recent years, both extents have been increasingly small. Just ahead of the official end of winter, the Arctic sea ice reached its maximum e ... read more |
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Quackery and superstition: species pay the costMedellin, Colombia (AFP) March 25, 2018 A pinch of powdered chimpanzee bone, some gecko saliva, a dash of vulture brain. ... more 
A little creek has a big impact on local ecologyDavis CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2018 A small restored area is having a big impact on regional birds, fish and animals, according to a study published in the journal Ecological Restoration by the University of California, Davis. J ... more  
New insights into the late history of NeandertalsLeipzig, Germany (SPX) Mar 26, 2018 Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have sequenced the genomes of five Neandertals that lived between 39,000 and 47,000 years ago. These late N ... more 
When the Mediteranean Sea flooded human settlementsFrankfurt, Germany (SPX) Mar 26, 2018 Around 7,600 years ago, the emergence of agricultural settlements in Southeastern Europe and subsequent progress of civilization suddenly came to a standstill. This was most likely caused by an abru ... more |
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EU considers financial system alignment with green goalsWashington (UPI) Mar 26, 2018 With the United States leaving the Paris climate deal, the European Union can take the lead by reforming its sustainable finance regimes, its president said. ... more 
Gambian activists take action against polluting Chinese firmBanjul, Gambia (AFP) March 26, 2018 Gambian environmental activists on Thursday removed a pipe dumping waste from a Chinese animal feed factory directly into the sea after months of complaints that it was a health hazard. ... more 
New solution to harmful algal blooms raises hope of economic and environmental benefitsLondon, UK (SPX) Mar 26, 2018 A cheap, safe and effective method of dealing with harmful algal blooms is on the verge of being introduced following successful field and lab tests. Moves to adopt use of hydrogen peroxide (H ... more 
Indonesian 'house pet' orangutans rescued by activistsJakarta (AFP) March 24, 2018 Young orangutan Utu clings to one of his rescuers as he is freed from the tiny wooden cage that has been home for five years. ... more 
Germany was blanketed by ice some 450,000 years agoWashington (UPI) Mar 23, 2018 The ice that covered much of Europe during the first Quaternary glaciation period came and went in Germany much earlier than scientists previously thought. ... more |
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Species in decline worldwide, humans at riskMedell�n, Colombia (AFP) March 23, 2018 Human activity has driven animals and plants into decline in every region of the world, putting our own well-being at risk by over-harvesting and polluting, a comprehensive species survey warned Friday. ... more  |
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Chinese sailors rescued alive after Malaysia capsizeKuala Lumpur (AFP) March 23, 2018 Two Chinese sailors were rescued alive Friday from the engine room of a sand dredger two days after the vessel capsized off Malaysia, while 12 others remain missing, an official said. ... more  
Two skiers swept to their deaths by avalanche in FranceGrenoble, France (AFP) March 25, 2018 Two skiers died in the French Alps on Sunday afternoon after an avalanche swept them away, mountain rescuers said. ... more  
Chad soldier, 20 Boko Haram fighters killed in clash: army sourceN'Djamena (AFP) March 24, 2018 A Chadian soldier and 20 Boko Haram members were killed in a clash in the restive Lake Chad region near Nigeria, a Chadian military officer told AFP Saturday. ... more 
Illusory motion reproduced by deep neural networks trained for predictionTokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 Deep neural networks (DNNs), which have been developed with reference to the network structures and the operational algorithms of the brain, have achieved notable success in a broad range of fields, ... more  
Genetic analysis uncovers the evolutionary origin of vertebrate limbsChicago IL (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 As you picture the first fish to crawl out of primordial waters onto land, it's easy to imagine how its paired fins eventually evolved into the arms and legs of modern-day vertebrates, including hum ... more |
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 New York (AFP) March 21, 2018 
Comic book superheroes are coming to the rescue of hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico.
There's Batman, and Wonder Woman, of course, and also a Puerto Rican-inspired female hero named La Borinquena. Their mission is to help reconstruct the US island territory wrecked by Hurricane Maria six months ago.
The 200-page book - entitled "Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico" - will ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 19, 2018 
Raytheon has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force for support on the Cobra Dane radar.
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $511 million under the terms of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract.
The agreement enables Raytheon to provide operating services that maintain and sustain the Cobra Dane radar.
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 
Scientists have developed a world-first, graphene-based, laboratory-scale filter that can remove more than 99% of the ubiquitous natural organic matter left behind during conventional treatment of drinking water.
In a research collaboration with Sydney Water, the team has demonstrated the success of the approach in laboratory tests on filtered water from the Nepean Water Filtration Plant i ... more |
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 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 |
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 Paris (AFP) March 21, 2018 
Truffled frogs legs with spiced raisins, and apple and pear tart with prune and Armagnac ice cream... French chefs were setting out Wednesday to make mouths water in a global celebration of the country's cuisine.
Some 3,300 restaurants in more than 150 countries are taking part in the "Good France" festival, from small village cafes in rural Gascony to three-star Michelin chef Paul Pairet's ... more |
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 
A team of seismologists has developed a new measurement of seismic energy release that can be applied to large earthquakes. Called the Radiated Energy Enhancement Factor (REEF), it provides a measure of earthquake rupture complexity that better captures variations in the amount and duration of slip along the fault for events that may have similar magnitudes.
Magnitude is a measure of the r ... more |
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 N'Djamena (AFP) March 24, 2018 
A Chadian soldier and 20 Boko Haram members were killed in a clash in the restive Lake Chad region near Nigeria, a Chadian military officer told AFP Saturday.
The incident occurred on Friday on an islet named Tchoukou Hadje, the officer said, adding that five soldiers were wounded.
"Twenty Boko Haram members were killed and a large amount of weapons was recovered," he said. "The Chadian ... more |
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 Frankfurt, Germany (SPX) Mar 26, 2018 
Around 7,600 years ago, the emergence of agricultural settlements in Southeastern Europe and subsequent progress of civilization suddenly came to a standstill. This was most likely caused by an abrupt sea level rise in the northern Aegean Sea.
Researchers of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, the Goethe University in Frankfurt and the University of Toronto have now d ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 19, 2018 
The extreme wet and dry periods Mongolia has experienced in the late 20th and early 21st centuries are rare but not unprecedented and future droughts may be no worse, according to an international research team that includes a University of Arizona scientist.
The research team developed a climate record stretching 2,060 years into Mongolia's past by using the natural archive of weather con ... more |
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 Plesetsk, Russia (ESA) Mar 26, 2018 
With the Sentinel-3B satellite now at the Plesetsk launch site in Russia and liftoff set for 25 April, engineers are steaming ahead with the task of getting Europe's next Copernicus satellite ready for its journey into orbit.
After arriving at the launch site on 18 March, the satellite has been taken out of its transport container and is being set up for testing.
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 Princeton NJ (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 
A 2-billion-year-old chunk of sea salt provides new evidence for the transformation of Earth's atmosphere into an oxygenated environment capable of supporting life as we know it.
The study by an international team of institutions including Princeton University found that the rise in oxygen that occurred about 2.3 billion years ago, known as the Great Oxidation Event, was much more substant ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 22, 2018 
World landmarks from the Eiffel Tower to the Empire State Building will go dark this weekend to support the fight against climate change and highlight the dangers mankind poses to nature.
The 11th edition of Earth Hour, an annual bid to raise awareness about climate change caused by burning fossil fuels, will see iconic structures cut the lights at a time when global temperatures are the hig ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
In 1987 Paul W. Anderson, a Nobel Prize winner in Physics, proposed that high-temperature superconductivity, or loss of electrical resistance, is related to an exotic quantum state now known as quantum spin liquid. Magnetic materials are made up of very tiny magnets, which can be as small as individual electrons.
The strength and direction of these are described by the magnetic moment. In ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 22, 2018  Pop quiz: How many species of big, land-dwelling animals are there in the world?
Count all the different kinds of big cats, bears, wolves, wild dogs and other carnivores weighing at least 15 kilos. Add large herbivores - 100 kilos or more - such as bison, zebra and deer, along with rhinos, elephants, large apes, giraffes, hippos, wild pigs, tapirs...
What's the final tally?
The an ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 21, 2018 
China Wednesday announced a series of changes aimed at strengthening its global influence, including the creation of a centralised news service to better communicate the ruling Communist Party's message at home and abroad.
The changes are part of a larger overhaul of government functions that will also see an increased role for the United Front Work Department, a shadowy organisation that ha ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) March 22, 2018 
Across Japan's capital, delicate pink and white cherry blossoms are emerging, but the famed blooms are facing a potentially mortal enemy, experts say: an invasive foreign beetle.
The alien invader is aromia bungii, otherwise known as the red-necked longhorn beetle, which is native to China, Taiwan, the Korean peninsula and northern Vietnam.
The beetles live inside cherry and plum trees, ... more |
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