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  Adelaide, Australia (SPX) May 04, 2018 Weedy plants will thrive and displace long-lived, ecologically valuable kelp forests under forecast ocean acidification, new research from the University of Adelaide shows. Published in the journal Ecology, the researchers describe how kelp forests are displaced by weedy marine plants in high CO2 conditions, equivalent to those predicted for the turn of the century. Carbon emissions will fuel the growth of small weedlike species, but not kelps - allowing weeds to take over large tracts of co ... read more |
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Researchers levitate water droplets to improve contaminant detectionWashington DC (SPX) May 04, 2018 In a new study, researchers showed that using sound waves to levitate droplets of water in midair can improve the detection of harmful heavy metal contaminants such as lead and mercury in water. Det ... more 
Nile dam won't harm Egypt, says new Ethiopian leaderKhartoum (AFP) May 3, 2018 Ethiopia's newly appointed prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, said on Thursday that the controversial dam his country is building on the Nile will not harm Egypt's share of water supplies. ... more  
Revealing the remarkable nanostructure of human boneYork UK (SPX) May 04, 2018 Scientists have produced a 3D nanoscale reconstruction of the mineral structure of bone. Bone performs equally well whether in an accelerating cheetah or in a heavy elephant, thanks to its tou ... more 
What gorilla poop tells us about evolution and human healthNew York NY (SPX) May 04, 2018 A study of the microbiomes of wild gorillas and chimpanzees offers insights into the evolution of the human microbiome and might even have implications for human health. The research project was led ... more |
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Six endangered black rhinos flown from S. Africa to ChadAddo, South Africa (AFP) May 3, 2018 Six critically endangered black rhinos were flown from South Africa to Chad on Thursday in a pioneering project to re-introduce the animals to a country where they were wiped out by poaching nearly 50 years ago. ... more 
Engineers upgrade ancient, sun-powered tech to purify waterBuffalo NY (SPX) May 04, 2018 The idea of using energy from the sun to evaporate and purify water is ancient. The Greek philosopher Aristotle reportedly described such a process more than 2,000 years ago. Now, researchers ... more  
Seven chateaux and counting: Chinese billionaire is big in BordeauxSaint-Laurent-Des-Combes, France (AFP) May 4, 2018 Over the past decade Chinese investors have conquered dozens of chateaux in Bordeaux, France's famed wine-growing region. ... more  
At least 125 killed as storms batter IndiaAgra, India (AFP) May 3, 2018 A huge dust storm and lightning strikes killed at least 125 people across India which braced Thursday for more wild weather. ... more  
Hawaii volcano erupts, spewing lava and forcing thousands to evacuateLos Angeles (AFP) May 4, 2018 The US state of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted Thursday, causing lava to spew out of ground fissures in residential areas and prompting authorities to mandate thousands of people to evacuate. ... more |
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Chinese laureate's widow willing to 'die at home' in protestBeijing (AFP) May 3, 2018 The widow of late Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo said that after eight years of house arrest she was ready to "die at home" in protest at her continuing detention by Chinese authorities, a report said Wednesday. ... more  |
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Cracking open the formation of fossil concretionsNagoya, Japan (SPX) May 03, 2018 All over the world, spectacular fossils have frequently been found preserved inside solid, roughly spherical rocks called "concretions." From geologists to casual observers, many have wondered why t ... more 
Scientists find the first bird beak, right under their nosesNew Haven CT (SPX) May 03, 2018 Researchers have pieced together the three-dimensional skull of an iconic, toothed bird that represents a pivotal moment in the transition from dinosaurs to modern-day birds. Ichthyornis dispa ... more  
Why Antarctic snow melts even in winterSwansea UK (SPX) May 03, 2018 Even though the sun does not shine in Antarctica in winter, in some places snow on the glaciers can melt. The cause: warm wind. Utrecht glacier researcher Peter Kuipers Munneke discovered that ... more 
Are emperor penguins eating enough?Cape Cod MA (SPX) May 03, 2018 For Emperor penguins waddling around a warming Antarctic, diminishing sea ice means less fish to eat. How the diets of these tuxedoed birds will hold up in the face of climate change is a big questi ... more 
Early humans in the Philippines 700,000 years ago: studyParis (AFP) May 2, 2018 Were the early humans roaming east Asia more than half-a-million years ago clever enough to build sea-faring watercraft and curious enough to cross a vast expanse of open sea? ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 30, 2018 
River floods are one of the most common and devastating of Earth's natural disasters. In the past decade, deluges from rivers have killed thousands of people every year around the world and caused losses on the order of tens of billions of U.S. dollars annually. Climate change, which is projected to increase precipitation in certain areas of the planet, might make river floods in these places mo ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 
A Rice University group's innovative surfactant theory removes limitations of a 100-year-old model for interfacial behavior in enhanced oil recovery.
The lab of Rice chemical engineer Walter Chapman customized a well-worn model to analyze surfactant-containing fluids that are pumped into wells to coax as much oil possible out of rocks deep underground.
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 New York NY (SPX) May 02, 2018 
Marine scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), University of Warwick, and University of Queensland have identified two key factors that create the ideal conditions needed for high species diversity in coral reefs: thermal energy in the form of warm water and low climate stress.
In a new study recently published in the Journal of Biogeography, scientists from a number of instit ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 03, 2018  Reports of the rapidly melting West Antarctic ice sheet often refer to how much the melting could add to global sea levels - as if meltwater raises the ocean evenly, like a sink filling up. The reality is far different. Water from West Antarctica will end up raising sea levels more in Los Angeles and Miami than in Rio de Janeiro, for example, even though Brazil is thousands of miles closer to An ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) May 1, 2018 
Discerning drinkers may soon be able to branch out after Japanese researchers said Tuesday they have invented a way of producing an alcoholic drink made from wood.
The researchers at Japan's Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute say the bark-based beverages have woody qualities similar to alcohol which is aged in wood barrels. They hope to have their "wood alcohol" on shelves withi ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Apr 30, 2018  Hawaii's volcanos stand as silent sentinels. They guard the secret of how they formed, thousands of miles away from where the edges of tectonic plates clash and generate magma for most volcanos. A 2017 Nature study by Jones et al. found the best clues yet of the origin of Hawaii's volcanos through simulation of a shift in the Pacific plate three million years ago. What remains elusive is conclus ... more |
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 Banjul, Gambia (AFP) May 2, 2018 
Two renegade generals who followed ex-Gambia president Yahya Jammeh into exile pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to a charge of desertion brough by the military.
General Umpa Mendy and General Ansumana Tamba sought refuge in Equatorial Guinea alongside Jammeh in January 2017 after his brutal 22-year rule came to an end.
They were arrested at the beginning of the year, shortly after they re ... more |
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 York UK (SPX) May 04, 2018  Scientists have produced a 3D nanoscale reconstruction of the mineral structure of bone.
Bone performs equally well whether in an accelerating cheetah or in a heavy elephant, thanks to its toughness and strength.
The properties of bone can be attributed to its hierarchical organisation, where small elements form larger structures.
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 Paris (AFP) April 30, 2018 
The world must redouble efforts to halt global warming before it is too late, the UN's climate chief said Monday as nearly 200 nations kicked off talks in Bonn.
"Our window of time for addressing climate change is closing very quickly," Patricia Espinosa told journalists. "We need to dramatically increase our ambition."
The 12-day technical talks are focused on hammering out an "operatin ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 03, 2018  While ESA's CryoSat continues to provide clear insight into how much sea ice is being lost and how the Antarctic and Greenlandic ice sheets are changing, the mission has again surpassed its original scope by revealing exactly how mountain glaciers are also succumbing to change.
Glaciers all over the globe are retreating - and for the last 15 years, glacial ice has been the main cause of se ... more |
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 Nagoya, Japan (SPX) May 03, 2018  All over the world, spectacular fossils have frequently been found preserved inside solid, roughly spherical rocks called "concretions." From geologists to casual observers, many have wondered why these hardened masses of carbonate formed around dead organisms, with round shapes and sharp boundaries with the surrounding material, typically in marine mud and mudstone.
Several important ques ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) May 04, 2018  An international team of physicists studying antimatter have now derived an improved way of spatially compressing a state of matter called non-neutral plasma, which is made up of a type of antimatter particles, called antiprotons, trapped together with matter particles, like electrons.
The new compression solution, which is based on rotating the plasma in a trapped cavity using centrifugal ... more |
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 Addo, South Africa (AFP) May 3, 2018 
Six critically endangered black rhinos were flown from South Africa to Chad on Thursday in a pioneering project to re-introduce the animals to a country where they were wiped out by poaching nearly 50 years ago.
The wild black rhinos were loaded onto a plane at Port Elizabeth airport on the South African coast in a 3,000-mile (4,800-kilometre) journey to Chad's Zakouma National Park.
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 Hong Kong (AFP) May 2, 2018 
It was only two years ago that thousands gathered near government headquarters in the heart of Hong Kong for an energetic rally in support of independence from China.
Today such scenes are unthinkable in the semi-autonomous city as Beijing ramps up pressure on any challenge to its sovereignty.
The crackdown on independence campaigners has seen activists barred from standing for office an ... more |
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 Princeton NJ (SPX) May 03, 2018  China has implemented some of the world's most ambitious policies to protect and restore forests, yet these programs still miss the mark, according to a team of researchers led by Princeton University.
Using satellite imagery and household interviews, the team looked at how government policies affected land use in southwestern China between 2000 and 2015.
Overall tree cover grew by 3 ... more |
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