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  Washington DC (UPI) May 04, 2018 For the month of April, carbon dioxide concentrations in Earth's atmosphere averaged more than 410 parts per million - a distressing first. Last year, a sensor at Hawaii's Mauna Loa Observatory recorded a CO2 reading above 410 ppm. It was the first time CO2 concentrations had been that high in millions of years. Now, for the first time, CO2 concentration averaged above the 410 mark for an entire month. Once again, the dubious honor of recording the milestone goes to the Keeling C ... read more |
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Ediacara Biota flourished in bacterially rich marine habitatsRiverside CA (SPX) May 07, 2018 Some of the earliest animals on Earth were soft-bodied ocean-dwellers that ranged from a few inches to several feet and were shaped like circular discs, tubes, or cushion-like bags. While foss ... more  
Study considers how humans first depicted animals in cave paintingsWashington DC (UPI) May 04, 2018 How and why did naturalistic animal depictions suddenly appear in an abundance of cave paintings around 37,000 years ago? ... more  
Intense exercise can prove fatal to racehorses, study showsWashington DC (UPI) May 04, 2018 An examination of 1,713 cases of racehorse deaths in Ontario, Canada, suggests the intense exercise demanded by racing can prove fatal to a small percentage of horses. ... more 
50 live crocodiles from Malaysia seized at London airportLondon (AFP) May 4, 2018 British officials have seized an illegal shipment of 50 live crocodiles at London Heathrow Airport, the UK Border Force said Friday. ... more |
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Hundreds dead as floods wreak havoc in East AfricaNairobi (AFP) May 4, 2018 Weeks of torrential rain after a long drought have turned from blessing to curse in East Africa, killing hundreds of people and displacing hundreds of thousands of others. ... more  
India storm toll of death and devastation risesKheragarh, India (AFP) May 4, 2018 The death toll from freak storms that hit India climbed above 140 on Friday as people told how they had no time to escape fierce winds which tore down homes, walls and trees. ... more 
Honduras regrets loss of US protection status for its nationalsTegucigalpa (AFP) May 5, 2018 Honduras expressed regret Friday that around 60,000 of its citizens living and working in the United States are losing special protection status under tougher migration changes brought in by President Donald Trump. ... more 
Thousands flee after Hawaii quake triggers new volcano eruptionsLeilani Estates, United States (AFP) May 6, 2018 Thousands of people have been forced to flee after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake shook Hawaii's Big Island, triggering the collapse of a coastal cliff and prompting fresh eruptions of a volcano that has been spewing lava near residential areas. ... more 
Strong quake jolts eastern Philippines, no damage reportedManila (AFP) May 5, 2018 A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake was detected off the eastern Philippines Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of any damage or casualties, authorities said. ... more |
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Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker arrested over phone grabHong Kong (AFP) May 5, 2018 Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker Ted Hui was arrested Saturday for common assault and access to a computer with dishonest intent over an incident last week in which he snatched a phone from a female civil servant. ... more  |
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Crackdown shakes Chinese city's 'Little Africa'Guangzhou (AFP) May 6, 2018 The Ghanaian university student was roused after midnight by police shouting and pounding on his door in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, where a crackdown on illegal immigration has left many residents of its "Little Africa" neighbourhood feeling scared and angry. ... more  
Weeds take over kelp in high CO2 oceansAdelaide, 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 jo ... more 
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 |
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 Warsaw (AFP) May 6, 2018 
Rescuers were struggling to locate three missing miners on Sunday after finding one crushed to death and locating another trapped after an earthquake hit a coal mine in the country's south, a mining official said.
Some 200 miners involved in the rescue were working in sweltering heat around a kilometre (0.6 miles) beneath the surface to find the three missing miners after one was found dead. ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 4, 2018 
China on Friday rejected US allegations that Chinese nationals shone military-grade lasers at American pilots in Djibouti, dismissing the claims as "inconsistent with facts".
Beijing, which operates a naval base in the Horn of Africa country, denied Pentagon accusations that Chinese personnel have targeted US pilots in the country with the beams, resulting in minor injuries to airmen and cre ... more |
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 Buffalo 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 are bringing this technology into the modern age, using it to sanitize water at what they report to be record-breaking rates.
By draping black, carbon-dipped paper in a triangular shape and usin ... more |
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 Swansea 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 fact by combining the results of weather stations and satellite images. His findings were published in Geophysical Research Letters on Wednesday 2 May.
Winter in Antarctica is pitch black and f ... more |
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 Saint-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.
Some left after seeing their investments wither on the vine, but Peter Kwok, who has no fewer than seven vineyards to his name, says he is here for the long haul.
The 69-year-old Hong Kong-based billionaire has been in southwest France for the past 20 years, recently ... more |
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 Leilani Estates, United States (AFP) May 6, 2018 
Thousands of people have been forced to flee after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake shook Hawaii's Big Island, triggering the collapse of a coastal cliff and prompting fresh eruptions of a volcano that has been spewing lava near residential areas.
No injuries have been reported but several homes were destroyed or badly damaged by the quake Friday, the biggest to hit the island since 1975, authori ... 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.
However, the nanoscale organisation and relatio ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) May 04, 2018 
For the month of April, carbon dioxide concentrations in Earth's atmosphere averaged more than 410 parts per million - a distressing first.
Last year, a sensor at Hawaii's Mauna Loa Observatory recorded a CO2 reading above 410 ppm. It was the first time CO2 concentrations had been that high in millions of years.
Now, for the first time, CO2 concentration averaged above the 410 m ... 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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 Riverside CA (SPX) May 07, 2018 
Some of the earliest animals on Earth were soft-bodied ocean-dwellers that ranged from a few inches to several feet and were shaped like circular discs, tubes, or cushion-like bags.
While fossil impressions from the Ediacaran Era - 635 to 541 million years ago - reveal their existence, little is known about this fascinating group of animal-like creatures, which preceded more complex animal ... 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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 Beijing (AFP) May 4, 2018 
Chinese president Xi Jinping pledged Friday his country will keep following Marxism, as the world's largest communist party prepares to mark the 200th birthday of Karl Marx.
China will continue to "hold high the great banner of Marxism" and the party will forever remain "guardians and practitioners" of the philosophy, Xi said during an official tribute at Beijing's Great Hall of the People. ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 07, 2018 
A first-of-its-kind laser instrument designed to map the world's forests in 3-D is moving toward an earlier launch to the International Space Station than previously expected.
The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation - or GEDI, pronounced like "Jedi," of Star Wars fame - instrument is undergoing final integration and testing this spring and summer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center i ... more |
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