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  London, UK (SPX) Apr 25, 2018 Over the last 50 years climate change has not been the key driver of the human displacement or conflict in East Africa, rather it is politics and poverty, according to new research by UCL. Human displacement refers to the total number of forcibly displaced people, and includes internally displaced people - the largest group represented - and refugees, those forced to across international borders. "Terms such as climate migrants and climate wars have increasingly been used to describe displac ... read more |
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In New Guinea, human thigh bone daggers were hot property: studyParis (AFP) April 24, 2018 New Guinea warriors harvested thigh bones from their dead fathers to fashion into ornamental but deadly daggers used to kill and maim enemies, sometimes to eat them. ... more  
Deep water aquifer acts like natural bio-reactor allowing microbes to consume carbonBoston MA (SPX) Apr 25, 2018 Just about all life on Earth - from the jumbo-jet-sized blue whale to tiny microbes - use carbon in one form or another. In the deep ocean, though, all carbon is not created equal. While ... more  
Microplastics in Arctic sea ice - 'nowhere is immune'Paris (AFP) April 24, 2018 Researchers warned Tuesday of a "troubling" accumulation of microplastics in sea ice floating in the Arctic ocean, a major potential source of water pollution as global warming melts the sheets of frozen water. ... more  
Billions of gallons of water saved by thinning forestsWashington DC (SPX) Apr 25, 2018 There are too many trees in Sierra Nevada forests, say scientists affiliated with the National Science Foundation (NSF) Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory (CZO). That may come as a surp ... more |
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New camera tech reveals underwater ecosystems from aboveMoffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 20, 2018 Scuba divers and snorkelers spend vacations visiting exotic coastal locations to see vibrant coral ecosystems. Researchers also don their gear to dive beneath the surface, not for the stunning views ... more  
GPS sensor web helps forecasters warn of monsoon flash floodsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 24, 2018 In the American Southwest and in northwestern Mexico, more than half the annual rainfall often comes in the form of the torrential and unpredictable downpours of the North American monsoon. As in mo ... more 
Satellite imagery sheds light on agricultural water useGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 24, 2018 Earth may be the "Blue Planet," with more than 70 percent of its surface covered in water, but it is still a thirsty planet, with freshwater in heavy demand. The most significant draw on the water s ... more  
Online skin trade fuels Myanmar elephant slaughter: conservation groupBangkok (AFP) April 24, 2018 An emerging online market for elephant skin in China is threatening the survival of the creatures in neighbouring Myanmar as poaching intensifies to meet demand, conservationists warned Tuesday. ... more 
Australia's mammal extinction rate could worsen: scientistsSydney (AFP) April 24, 2018 Australia's extinction rate for mammals, already the highest in the world, could worsen unless efforts are made to protect the most endangered species over the next two decades, scientists said Tuesday. ... more |
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'Maximum' security as Philippines readies Boracay shutdownBoracay, Philippines (AFP) April 24, 2018 Police with assault rifles patrolled entry points to Boracay island on Tuesday just days before a six-month shutdown and clean-up of one of the Philippines' top tourist attractions. ... more  |
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South Africa wine production drying up in water crisisParis (AFP) April 24, 2018 South Africa is set for a steep decline in wine production in 2018 as the country grapples with a water crisis ravaging Cape Town and surrounding areas, a Paris-based global organisation said Tuesday. ... more  
Winter wave heights and extreme storms on the rise in Western EuropePlymouth UK (SPX) Apr 25, 2018 Average winter wave heights along the Atlantic coast of Western Europe have been rising for almost seven decades, according to new research. The coastlines of Scotland and Ireland have seen th ... more  
At UN, Colombia's president says drugs is main threat to peaceUnited Nations, United States (AFP) April 24, 2018 Delivering a swansong address to the United Nations, Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos called Tuesday for a shift in the global approach to drug trafficking, which he described as the main threat to peace. ... more 
Eye in the Sky: Bill Gates Backs Real Time Global Satellite Surveillance NetworkSeattle WA (Sputnik) Apr 23, 2018 For those of us who increasingly feel like there is no place on Earth to be free of prying eyes, a new announcement from some deep-pockets tech investors appears to ensure humanity that global surve ... more 
Europe poised to launch ocean-monitoring satelliteParis (AFP) April 23, 2018 Europe is set to launch a satellite on Wednesday to keep a close eye on Earth's oceans, under siege from pollution and damage caused by humans. ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) April 23, 2018 
The United Arab Emirates and Iraq on Monday launched a joint effort to reconstruct Mosul's Great Mosque of al-Nuri and its iconic leaning minaret, ravaged last year during battles to retake the city from jihadists.
During the ceremony at Baghdad's National Museum, UAE Culture Minister Noura al-Kaabi said her country would put forward $50.4 million (41.2 million euros) for the task.
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 Adelphi MD (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 
To overcome the material rigidity and actuation limitations in current robotic systems, a joint U.S. Army Research Laboratory and University of Minnesota research project sought inspiration from invertebrates.
The U.S. Army uses robots that are structurally rigid, making them impractical when performing military operations in highly congested and contested urban environments, where covert ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Apr 23, 2018 
Just after the likely next head of US Pacific Command told Congress China's undersea warfare capability is one of the most pressing threats to the US, a new report says Beijing is establishing another base in the South China Sea for deploying manned and unmanned submersible vehicles.
The base would be located in Sanya, a city on the southern edge of China's Hainan island, Asia Times report ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 24, 2018 
The end of the last ice age was precipitated by a shift in the circulation of the North Pacific Ocean some 15,000 years ago.
According to new research by scientists at the University of St. Andrews, the altered circulation released large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, warming Earth's climate.
Scientists modeled the ancient shifts in circulation and ocean-atmosphere gas excha ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) April 24, 2018 
South Africa is set for a steep decline in wine production in 2018 as the country grapples with a water crisis ravaging Cape Town and surrounding areas, a Paris-based global organisation said Tuesday.
Africa's top wine producer is set to produce 8.6 million hectolitres of wine this year, down 20.4 percent down from 2017, the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) said in a stateme ... more |
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 Eugene OR (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 
Using supercomputer modeling, University of Oregon scientists have unveiled a new explanation for the geology underlying recent seismic imaging of magma bodies below Yellowstone National Park.
Yellowstone, a supervolcano famous for explosive eruptions, large calderas and extensive lava flows, has for years attracted the attention of scientists trying to understand the location and size of ... more |
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 Longa Mali, Cameroun (AFP) April 22, 2018  Killings, land grabs, corruption... tensions and violence are rising in eastern Cameroon as Chinese firms take advantage of a regulatory twilight zone to mine gold.
"There are constant conflicts between Cameroonians and the Chinese" over gold mining, said Narma Ndoyama, a farmer in Longa Mali, a small village in the middle of the mining area.
At the beginning of April, four companies wer ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 23, 2018 
Early hominins had adopted a human-like gait prior to the emergence of the Homo genus, new research suggests.
After analyzing a series of 3.6-million-year-old hominin footprints, researchers determined human-like bipedalism evolved much earlier than previously thought.
"Fossil footprints are truly the only direct evidence of walking in the past," David Raichlen, an associate prof ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 
Trade and social networking helped our Homo sapiens ancestors survive a climate-changing volcanic eruption 40,000 years ago, giving hope that we will be able to ride out global warming by staying interconnected, a new study suggests.
Analyzing ancient tools, ornaments and human remains from a prehistoric rock shelter called Riparo Bombrini, in Liguria on the Italian Riviera, archeologists ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 24, 2018 
The next Sentinel satellite for Europe's environmental monitoring Copernicus programme is poised for liftoff from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia.
The Sentinel-3B satellite has been at the cosmodrome since mid-March being readied for its ride into space on 25 April at 17:57 GMT (19:57 CEST).
After being sealed from view in the rocket fairing last week, it was rolled out to ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
Why do our oceans contain such a staggering diversity of fish of so many different sizes, shapes and colors? A UCLA-led team of biologists reports that the answer dates back 66 million years, when a six-mile-wide asteroid crashed to Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs and approximately 75 percent of the world's animal and plant species.
Slightly more than half of today's fish are "marine fish, ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
Putting a price on carbon, in the form of a fee or tax on the use of fossil fuels, coupled with returning the generated revenue to the public in one form or another, can be an effective way to curb emissions of greenhouse gases. That's one of the conclusions of an extensive analysis of several versions of such proposals, carried out by researchers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laborat ... more |
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 Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 
Predicting the behaviour of electrons in a material is not easily done. Physicists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), ETH Zurich and EPFL replaced the electrons with ultra-cold neutral lithium atoms that they had circulated in a one-dimensional quantum tube.
The scientists were then able to confirm an unusual state of matter that retains its insulation regardless of the level of attrac ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 
The Macropis Cuckoo Bee is one of the rarest bees in North America, partly because of its specialized ecological associations. It is a nest parasite of oil-collecting bees of the genus Macropis which, in turn, are dependent on oil-producing flowers of the genus Lysimachia.
In fact, the cuckoo bee - which much like its feather-bearing counterpart does not build a nest of its own, but lays i ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 23, 2018  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed his "bitter sorrow" after dozens of Chinese tourists were killed when a bus they were travelling in plunged off a bridge.
Thirty-two Chinese tourists and four North Koreans perished in the accident south of the capital Pyongyang Sunday night, Chinese officials and state media said. Two other Chinese nationals were injured.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 25, 2018 
There are too many trees in Sierra Nevada forests, say scientists affiliated with the National Science Foundation (NSF) Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory (CZO).
That may come as a surprise to those who see dense, verdant forests as signs of a healthy environment. After all, green is good, right? Not necessarily. When it comes to the number of trees in California forests, bigger isn ... more |
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