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  Rome (AFP) April 3, 2018 Current food production methods are harming the planet while failing to provide millions of the world's poor with enough to eat, the UN food agency warned Tuesday. Instead, the adoption of "agroecology", which improves soil quality and costs less for farmers, would help reverse growing food insecurity, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said. "We need to put forward sustainable food systems that offer healthy and nutritious food, and also preserve the environment," FAO director general ... read more |
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Trump's environment chief faces intensifying scrutinyWashington (AFP) April 3, 2018 Donald Trump's environment chief came under mounting criticism Tuesday, including from within his own Republican Party, over renting a lobbyist's apartment and other damaging revelations, but he appeared to have the president's backing. ... more  
Predicting water storage beyond 2-5 years over global semiarid regionsBeijing, China (SPX) Apr 04, 2018 Decadal climate prediction aims to improve near-term (10-30 years) climate change projection by using the experiences of weather forecasting and seasonal climate prediction. It has raised a wi ... more  
Antarctica retreating across the sea floorLeeds UK (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 Antarctica's great ice sheet is losing ground as it is eroded by warm ocean water circulating beneath its floating edge, a new study has found. Research by the UK Centre for Polar Observation ... more 
Ice-free Arctic summers could hinge on small climate warming rangeBoulder BO (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 A range of less than one degree Fahrenheit (or half a degree Celsius) of climate warming over the next century could make all the difference when it comes to the probability of future ice-free summe ... more |
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West Greenland Ice Sheet melting at the fastest rate in centuriesHanover NH (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 The West Greenland Ice Sheet melted at a dramatically higher rate over the last twenty years than at any other time in the modern record, according to a study led by Dartmouth College. The research, ... more  
Modeling future earthquake and tsunami risk in southeast JapanAmherst MA (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 Geoscience researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Smith College and the Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology this week unveiled new, GPS-based methods for modelin ... more 
Extreme winter weather, such as 'Beast from the East', can be linked to solar cycleExeter UK (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 Periods of extreme cold winter weather and perilous snowfall, similar to those that gripped the UK in a deep freeze with the arrival of the 'Beast from the East', could be linked to the solar cycle, ... more  
Humidity, location make all the difference to rain or snowBoulder CO (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 University of Colorado Boulder researchers have created a map of the Northern Hemisphere showing how location and humidity can affect precipitation, illustrating wide variability in how and why diff ... more 
Fiji PM links climate change to fatal cycloneSuva, Fiji (AFP) April 3, 2018 Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama on Tuesday blamed climate change for a deadly cyclone over the weekend, saying his South Pacific nation had entered a "frightening new era". ... more |
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Powerful 6.8 quake strikes Bolivia: USGSWashington (AFP) April 3, 2018 A strong but deep earthquake measuring 6.8 struck in Bolivia on Monday but there were no reports of damage or injuries, the US Geological Survey said. ... more  |
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Bowhead whales not only singers, but avid composers tooParis (AFP) April 3, 2018 How do bowhead whales in the unbroken darkness of the Arctic's polar winter keep busy during breeding season? ... more  
Xi hails Mugabe's successor as 'old friend of China'Beijing (AFP) April 3, 2018 President Xi Jinping greeted Zimbabwean counterpart Emmerson Mnangagwa as an "old friend" of China on Tuesday as the African leader visited Beijing, which previously backed his ousted predecessor Robert Mugabe. ... more  
China cracks down on spoofs of 'Communist heroes'Beijing (AFP) April 3, 2018 China's culture watchdog has slapped fines on websites that posted parodies of "Communist classics and heroes", as the authorities further restrict what people can say - or even laugh at - online. ... more  
Some US states press ahead on climate change goals, despite TrumpWashington (AFP) April 1, 2018 US President Donald Trump has taken an axe to the environmental regulations he inherited from his predecessor Barack Obama, cutting dozens of rules ranging from fracking on public land to protections for endangered species. ... more  
Boat carrying Rohingya stops on Thai island: officialBangkok (AFP) April 1, 2018 A boat carrying dozens of Rohingya refugees trying to reach Malaysia briefly stopped on a Thai island, an official said Sunday, as fears grow about overcrowded camps for the stateless minority fleeing violence in Myanmar. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 30, 2018 
The best guess of expert astronomers and space junk-trackers is that China's decommissioned, out-of-control space station, Tiangong-1, will reenter Earth's atmosphere anywhere between late Friday night and Sunday.
In the words of the European Space Station: "This is highly variable."
What is clear, is that it's very hard to track pieces of space junk like Tiangong.
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 04, 2018 
China's unresponsive Tiangong-1 space lab has come down over the South Pacific, it broke up while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere at 17,000 miles per hour according to Chinese reports. Sputnik discussed this with Dr. Alice Gorman, an internationally recognized leader in the field of space archaeology and Senior Lecturer at Flinders University.
Sputnik: How accurate can you say the predi ... more |
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 Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 
Almost all organisms have an internal biological clock that synchronizes their behavior with the environment in which they live. Endogenous biological clocks follow the major cyclical rhythms: the solar-influenced 24-hour transition of day and night, the tidal 12.4 hour rising and falling of the tides that is governed by the lunar cycle, and the annual seasonal changes.
Organisms that live ... more |
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 Boulder BO (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 
A range of less than one degree Fahrenheit (or half a degree Celsius) of climate warming over the next century could make all the difference when it comes to the probability of future ice-free summers in the Arctic, new University of Colorado Boulder research shows.
The findings, which were published in the journal Nature Climate Change, show that limiting warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 27, 2018  New research suggests nomadic populations in Medieval Central Asia, between the 2nd and 16th centuries AD, ate more dynamic diets than sedentary Silk Road populations.
Though most research into the Silk Road frames the phenomenon in terms of traded goods, the route through Medieval Central Asia was formed by interactions between nomadic and sedentary population.
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 University Park PA (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 
Using satellite imaging, Penn State researchers for the first time identified a major magma supply into a reservoir extending almost two miles from the crater of a volcano in Nicaragua.
This shows that volcanoes can be fed magma through nearby underground channels and could help explain how volcanoes can erupt seemingly without warning because the active center of the volcano exhibits litt ... more |
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 Mogadishu (AFP) April 1, 2018 
Heavily-armed Al-Shabaab militants attacked an African Union military camp outside Mogadishu on Sunday, killing four Ugandan peacekeepers, their army said.
Local sources said a massive blast was heard in the Bulomarer district, around 150 kilometres (93 miles) south of Mogadishu, and fighting broke out after dozens of heavily armed Shabaab militants stormed the base.
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 Exeter UK (SPX) Mar 30, 2018 
Parts of the Amazon previously thought to have been almost uninhabited were really home to thriving populations of up to a million people, new research shows.
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that there were hundreds of villages in the rainforest away from major rivers, and they were home to different communities speaking varied languages who had an impact on the environment around t ... more |
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 Cincinnati OH (SPX) Mar 30, 2018 
What does Salt Lake City have in common with Tehran?
More than you might think, if you're a climate scientist.
University of Cincinnati geography professor Tomasz Stepinski created a new interactive map that allows students or researchers to compare the climates of places anywhere in the world. The map draws on five decades of public meteorological data recorded from 50,000 internati ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 04, 2018 
A 314-kilogram heavy observatory launched to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center is a culmination of almost 20 years of work by a Danish research team that cost close to $50 million. The project is expected to shed light on climate change and propel Denmark to a top slot in space exploration.
The Asim Space Observatory has been successfully launched into space and ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 02, 2018 
Scientists have discovered the first jawed vertebrate with four eyes. The fossil of an extinct species of monitor lizard revealed the presence of a third and fourth eye on top of the reptile's head.
The two eyes are actually eye-like photosensory structures known as pineal and parapineal organs. Researchers believe the structures helped the lizard maintain its orientation and circadian ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 2, 2018  The Trump administration rolled back Obama-era pollution and fuel efficiency rules for cars and light trucks on Monday, saying they were too stringent.
The decision by President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency means the emission standards for vehicles in the 2022-2025 model years will be revised, as sought by automakers.
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 Logan UT (SPX) Apr 04, 2018 
Utah State University chemists' efforts to develop alternative battery technology solutions are advancing and recent findings are highlighted in a renowned, international chemistry journal.
Tianbiao Liu, assistant professor in USU's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and his team reported a new molecular design for aqueous organic redox flow batteries, known as AORFBs, in the Jan. 2 ... more |
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 Bath UK (SPX) Apr 04, 2018 
Species that live in symbiosis with others, which often occur in the most delicately balanced and threatened marine ecosystems such as coral reefs, are the slowest to recover their diversity if damaged, according to a team of UK scientists.
The researchers, from the University of York, the University of Bath and Oxford University Museum of Natural History have published a study in Communic ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 3, 2018  China's culture watchdog has slapped fines on websites that posted parodies of "Communist classics and heroes", as the authorities further restrict what people can say - or even laugh at - online.
Major video sites iQiyi and Sina were handed undisclosed fines for "distorting or mocking" classic works, the culture ministry said, less than two weeks after new rules were issued to ban online ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Mar 27, 2018 
What does it take for palm trees, the unofficial trademark of tropical landscapes, to expand into northern parts of the world that have long been too cold for palm trees to survive? A new study, led by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory researcher Tammo Reichgelt, attempts to answer this question. He and his colleagues analyzed a broad dataset to determine global palm tree distribution in relation ... more |
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