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  Beijing, China (SPX) May 17, 2018 Cloud is a tracer for a variety of significant weather changes. Cloud images obtained from satellite remote sensing are of great help to weather forecasters in understanding the past and present weather processes in a macroscopic way. Forecasts directly made out of satellite cloud images are what meteorologists and forecasters dream about. Recent studies have shown that it has become possible to produce satellite cloud image forecasts for the next few, dozens, or even tens of hours. A research pap ... read more |
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Scientists' discovery in Yellowstone 'extremely relevant' to origin of lifeBozeman MT (SPX) May 17, 2018 Montana State University scientists have found a new lineage of microbes living in Yellowstone National Park's thermal features that sheds light on the origin of life, the evolution of archaeal life ... more  
How large can a tsunami be in the CaribbeanMiami FL (SPX) May 17, 2018 The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has researchers reevaluating whether a magnitude 9.0 megathrust earthquake and resulting tsunami might also be a likely risk for the Caribbean region, seismologists rep ... more  
What we inherited from our bug-eating ancestorsBerkeley CA (SPX) May 17, 2018 People who advocate adding insects to the human diet may be channeling their distant ancestors. Based on an analysis of the genomes of 107 different species of mammals, University of Californi ... more  
437 million tons of fish, $560 billion wasted due to destructive fishing operationsVancouver, Canada (SPX) May 17, 2018 Industrial fisheries that rely on bottom trawling wasted 437 million tonnes of fish and missed out on $560 billion in revenue over the past 65 years, new UBC research has found. The study, car ... more |
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Forest loss in one part of US can harm trees on the opposite coastSeattle WA (SPX) May 17, 2018 Large swaths of U.S. forests are vulnerable to drought, forest fires and disease. Many local impacts of forest loss are well known: drier soils, stronger winds, increased erosion, loss of shade and ... more  
Savanna chimpanzees suffer from heat stressLeipzig, Germany (SPX) May 17, 2018 During their evolutionary history hominins underwent physiological and behavioral changes to cope with and adapt to more open and hotter environments. These changes include increased sweat capacity ... more  
Biologists transfer memory from one snail to anotherWashington DC (UPI) May 16, 2018 Biologists at UCLA have completed the world's first memory transfer. Scientists were able to transplant a single memory by taking RNA from one marine snail and injecting it in another. ... more 
Egypt's president hails 'breakthrough' in Nile dam talksCairo (AFP) May 16, 2018 Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday that a "breakthrough" had been reached in talks with Sudan and Ethiopia over a controversial dam the latter is building on the Nile. ... more 
India's toy carvers threatened by deforestationKondapalli, India (AFP) May 16, 2018 Artisan wood carvers who have been making intricate toys for Indian maharajas, ministers and their children for generations are facing ruin as the rare wood their unique products rely on disappears. ... more |
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 No time to waste: Moscow urged to recycle, not burn  
Schwarzenegger urges Trump to 'join us' on climate actionVienna (AFP) May 15, 2018 Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger urged US President Donald Trump to join action to support renewable energy, at a summit on climate change in the Austrian capital Vienna Tuesday. ... more  |
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Critics attack Brazil's 'poison law' on pesticidesBrasilia (AFP) May 16, 2018 Critics including supermodel Gisele Bundchen are attacking a push to loosen Brazil's regulations on pesticides, calling the proposed legislation a "poison law." ... more 
In Lagos, the 'Venice of Africa' fights for survivalLagos (AFP) May 17, 2018 Its nickname is the "Venice of Africa" but, other than its maze of narrow waterways where wooden boats glide, Makoko offers little similarity with the fabled canal city of Europe. ... more  
Hong Kong activists use Mao to promote democracyHong Kong (AFP) May 16, 2018 Hong Kong democracy activists have found an unlikely new way to get their message across - using the words of the founder of Communist China, Mao Zedong. ... more  
Swift improves position accuracy and availability for precision farm and shipping customersSan Francisco CA (SPX) May 15, 2018 Swift Navigation, a San Francisco-based tech firm that is building centimeter-accurate GPS technology to power a world of autonomous vehicles, has announced the latest firmware upgrade to its flagsh ... more 
Fleet of spacecraft spot long-sought-after process in the Earth's magnetic fieldLondon, UK (SPX) May 15, 2018 A NASA mission has discovered an important process explaining the fate of energy contained in the turbulent magnetic fields surrounding the Earth. The phenomenon, discovered by NASA's four-spa ... more |
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 Miami (AFP) May 14, 2018 
The tourism industry in the Caribbean region attracted almost one million fewer visitors after hurricanes Irma and Maria hit last year, costing it over $700 million, according to an industry study released Monday.
"The hurricane season resulted in an estimated (loss) in 2017 of 826,100 visitors to the Caribbean, compared to pre-hurricane forecasts," said the report by the London-based World ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 15, 2018 
For the first time a frequency reference based on molecular iodine was successfully demonstrated in space! What sounds a bit like science fiction is an important step towards laser interferometric distance measurements between satellites as well as for future global navigation satellite systems based on optical technologies.
The frequency reference tests were carried out on 13 May on board ... more |
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 Vancouver, Canada (SPX) May 17, 2018 
Industrial fisheries that rely on bottom trawling wasted 437 million tonnes of fish and missed out on $560 billion in revenue over the past 65 years, new UBC research has found.
The study, carried out by the Sea Around Us initiative at UBC's Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF), documents the growth of bottom trawling between 1950 and 2014, a practice where industrial fishing vesse ... more |
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 Corvallis OR (SPX) May 15, 2018 
A ribbon of ice more than 600 kilometers long that drains about 12 percent of the gigantic Greenland Ice Sheet has been smaller than it is today about half of the time over the past 45,000 years, a new study suggests.
Interestingly, the loss of ice from the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) took place not only during the warm Holocene period, but also during a period thought to be ver ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) May 14, 2018 
Promoting a greener economy could create 30 million jobs over the next decade, largely offsetting employment losses linked to the shift, the UN said Monday, although farming would be especially hard-hit.
A fresh report from the International Labour Organization estimated that, excluding the agriculture sector, far more jobs would be created than lost if countries manage to stick to the goals ... more |
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 Los Angeles (AFP) May 14, 2018 
Two new fissures have opened on Hawaii's Big Island, officials said on Monday, warning of more lava eruptions and gas emissions from the Kilauea volcano.
Authorities said the two new cracks were spotted in the Lanipuna Gardens neighborhood where residents were ordered to evacuate earlier this month after the volcano erupted and two major earthquakes rattled the island.
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 Lagos (AFP) May 17, 2018 
Its nickname is the "Venice of Africa" but, other than its maze of narrow waterways where wooden boats glide, Makoko offers little similarity with the fabled canal city of Europe.
Makoko, to be blunt, is an environmental eyesore. It is a vast slum of wooden shacks built on stilts in the brackish, blackish, thickly-polluted lagoon in the heart of Lagos, Africa's biggest megapolis.
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 Johannesburg, South Africa (SPX) May 15, 2018 
The recently-discovered species Homo naledi may have had a pint-sized brain, but that brain packed a big punch. New research by Ralph Holloway and colleagues - that include researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa - published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examines the imprints of the brain upon the skulls of this species, called en ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 15, 2018 
You may not notice water in the ground under your feet, but it plays an important role in keeping you alive. Plants draw water from soil into their roots and use it to grow. If there's not enough, the resulting drought may have impacts that spread across local water supplies, regional agriculture and even international food prices.
NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mis ... more |
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 College Park MD (SPX) May 17, 2018 
A new global, satellite-based study of Earth's freshwater distribution found that Earth's wet areas are getting wetter, while dry areas are getting drier. The data suggest that this pattern is due to a variety of factors, including human water management practices, human-caused climate change and natural climate cycles.
The NASA-led research team, which included Hiroko Beaudoing, a faculty ... more |
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 Bozeman MT (SPX) May 17, 2018 
Montana State University scientists have found a new lineage of microbes living in Yellowstone National Park's thermal features that sheds light on the origin of life, the evolution of archaeal life and the importance of iron in early life.
Professor William Inskeep and his team of researchers published their findings May 14 in the scientific journal Nature Microbiology.
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 Lisbon (AFP) May 15, 2018 
Portugal's electricity company EDP on Tuesday rejected as too low a takeover bid by its current largest shareholder, Chinese energy behemoth Three Gorges.
Energias de Portugal (EDP), one of the country's largest businesses, said in a statement it would comment at a later date on the other terms of an offer put forward by the Chinese giant on Friday.
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 Houston TX (SPX) May 15, 2018 
A 2017 theory proposed by Rice University physicists to explain the contradictory behavior of an iron-based high-temperature superconductor is helping solve a puzzle in a different type of unconventional superconductor, the "heavy fermion" compound known as CeCu2Si2.
An international team from the U.S., China, Germany and Canada reported the findings this week in the Proceedings of the Nat ... more |
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 Los Angeles (AFP) May 14, 2018 
The tip came from a woman standing in line at a post office in a small town in northern California.
A customer was shipping dozens of boxes to China, and the caller suspected they were filled with abalone, a highly-prized shellfish listed as an endangered species.
But fish and wildlife officers who responded to the call instead uncovered an international smuggling ring that has been stri ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 15, 2018 
A North Korean delegation has visited Beijing to learn about China's experience in economic reform and opening up, the foreign ministry said Tuesday, the latest diplomatic outreach by the isolated regime.
The Cold War-era allies have stepped up contacts in recent weeks as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un prepares for a historic summit with US President Donald Trump in Singapore on June 12. ... more |
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 Kondapalli, India (AFP) May 16, 2018 
Artisan wood carvers who have been making intricate toys for Indian maharajas, ministers and their children for generations are facing ruin as the rare wood their unique products rely on disappears.
The highly treasured, brightly coloured Kondapalli toys are under threat from deforestation, and in particular the rampant exploitation of the Tella Poniki tree.
The wooden elephants, soldier ... more |
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