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  Fairbanks AK (SPX) Jun 12, 2018 Earth scientists consistently look for a reliable way to forecast earthquakes. New research from University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute professor Carl Tape may help in that endeavor, due to a unique set of circumstances. "Our observations have recorded an unequivocally interesting sequence of events," Tape said. Tape and his colleagues found evidence for accelerating activity before a 2016 earthquake in a laterally moving fault zone in central Alaska. The activity included a phenomen ... read more |
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For relatives of Guatemala volcano victims, an agonizing waitEscuintla, Guatemala (AFP) June 10, 2018 At an improvised morgue in the Guatemalan town of Escuintla, dozens of people stand around in an anguished daze, clutching photos of their loved ones, hoping to recover their bodies for burial. ... more  
Ukrainian villages still suffering legacy of ChernobylExeter UK (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 Milk in parts of Ukraine has radioactivity levels up to five times over the country's official safe limit, new research shows. Scientists from the Greenpeace Research Laboratories at the Unive ... more  
Puerto Rico morgue overflowing with unclaimed bodiesSan Juan (AFP) June 11, 2018 Puerto Rico's morgue is overflowing with unclaimed bodies, the result of budget cutbacks in the US territory since last year's devastating Hurricane Maria. ... more  
'Carbon bubble' coming that could wipe trillions from the global economyCambridge UK (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 Fossil fuel stocks have long been a safe financial bet. With the International Energy Agency projecting price rises until 2040, and governments prevaricating or rowing back on the Paris Agreement, i ... more |
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Long thought silent because of ice, study shows east Antarctica seismically activePhiladelphia PA (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 Because instruments were finally installed there, scientists can no longer say that East Antarctica is unusually seismically silent. Since the first earthquake was detected in 1982, there have ... more  
First direct images of dissolved organic carbon from the oceanIrvine CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 In a first, researchers from the University of California, Irvine - as well as Switzerland's University of Zurich, IBM Research-Zurich and UC Santa Cruz - have obtained direct images of dissolved or ... more  
Cornell research illuminates inaccuracies in radiocarbon datingIthaca NY (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 Radiocarbon dating is a key tool archaeologists use to determine the age of plants and objects made with organic material. But new research shows that commonly accepted radiocarbon dating standards ... more  
How to suck carbon dioxide from the sky for fuels and moreWashington DC (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 Someday, the gasoline you buy might trace its heritage to carbon dioxide pulled straight out of the sky rather than from oil pumped out of the ground. By removing emitted carbon dioxide from the atm ... more  
Dogs can detect agricultural diseases earlyWashington DC (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 A study out of Florida International University evaluates the use of scent-discriminating canines for the detection of laurel wilt-affected wood from avocado trees. Julian Mendel, Kenneth G. Furton, ... more |
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'Shocking' die-off of Africa's oldest baobabsParis (AFP) June 11, 2018 Some of Africa's oldest and biggest baobab trees - a few dating all the way back to the ancient Greeks - have abruptly died, wholly or in part, in the past decade, researchers said Monday. ... more  |
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Philippines demands China stop taking fishermen's catchManila (AFP) June 11, 2018 The Philippines on Monday demanded that China stop confiscating the catch of Filipino fishermen in the disputed South China Sea, calling the practice "unacceptable". ... more 
Merkel open to EU migration reform, Spain takes in stranded migrant shipFrankfurt Am Main (AFP) June 10, 2018 German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday she was more open to French President Emmanuel Macron's plans to reform migration and defence policy in Europe than his hopes to bolster the euro. ... more  
Spot a rat? Real-time map aims to plot Paris sightingsParis (AFP) June 11, 2018 Rats have become an increasingly common sight in Paris over the past few years, but one local official wants to make sure everyone knows just how many are being spotted daily in his corner of the French capital. ... more  
Hong Kong jails top independence leader for six yearsHong Kong (AFP) June 11, 2018 Hong Kong's leading independence activist was jailed for six years Monday for his involvement in some of the city's worst protest violence for decades. ... more  
Adding herbs to bird nests makes starlings better parentsWashington DC (SPX) Jun 06, 2018 Starlings with aromatic herbs in their nest exhibit improved parenting behaviors, according to a new study by researchers at North Carolina State University. ... more |
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
The challenges of preventing, mitigating, and adapting to largescale political violence are daunting, particularly when violence escalates where it is not expected. With funding from the European Research Council, ViEWS: a political Violence Early-Warning System at Uppsala University, is developing a system that is rigorous, data-based, and publicly available to researchers and the international ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 08, 2018 
This is the first entry in the JUICE Test Campaign Journal, a series of articles covering the main events during testing of the Thermal Development Model (TDM), the Engineering Model (EM) and the Proto-Flight Model (PFM) of the spacecraft. The mission is scheduled to launch in 2022 to investigate the Jupiter system.
One of the major challenges facing ESA's JUICE (JUpiter Icy Moon Explorer) ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
Last October, a University of California, Berkeley, team headed down to the Arizona desert, plopped their newest prototype water harvester into the backyard of a tract home and started sucking water out of the air without any power other than sunlight.
The successful field test of their larger, next-generation harvester proved what the team had predicted earlier in 2017: that the water har ... more |
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 
Because instruments were finally installed there, scientists can no longer say that East Antarctica is unusually seismically silent.
Since the first earthquake was detected in 1982, there have been just eight more seismic events recorded in East Antarctica. But after a team that included Amanda Lough, PhD - then a student but now an assistant professor in Drexel University's College of Art ... more |
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 Fort Collins CP (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
The invention of agriculture changed humans and the environment forever, and over several thousand years, the practice originated independently in a least a dozen different places. But why did agriculture begin in those places, at those particular times in human history?
Using a new methodological approach, researchers at Colorado State University and Washington University in St. Louis hav ... more |
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 Escuintla, Guatemala (AFP) June 10, 2018  At an improvised morgue in the Guatemalan town of Escuintla, dozens of people stand around in an anguished daze, clutching photos of their loved ones, hoping to recover their bodies for burial.
This small town, some 35 kilometers (20 miles) southwest of Guatemala City, was nearly wiped off the map last Sunday by the violent eruption of the Fuego volcano and the crushing avalanches of earth, ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) June 9, 2018 
An American commando was killed Friday in an attack in southern Somalia that also wounded four US military personnel along with a Somali soldier, officials said.
The attack occurred in Jubaland, where a large force comprising about 800 Somali, Kenyan and US troops were working to clear a large area of Al-Qaeda-aligned Al-Shabaab fighters.
The multinational force "came under mortar and sm ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
University of Sydney researchers have found monkeys living in the wild in cold snowy habitats adjust their nutrient intake to match the elevated costs of thermoregulation.
China's Quinling mountains, high altitude temperate forests where winter temperatures commonly drop below 0 degrees Celsius and approximately 50 cm of snow covers the ground for several weeks in the winter, was the locat ... more |
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 Bouake, Ivory Coast (AFP) June 6, 2018 
"All that comes out of the tap right now is cockroaches," said Honorine Babalou, a 20-year-old textile worker.
In Bouake, Ivory Coast's second city, the regular water supply trickled to a halt three months ago - a shortage that officials blame on a drought inflicted by global warming.
Like many other Bouake residents, Babalou balanced on her head a giant basin of fresh water drawn from ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
To mark World Ocean Day, Global Fishing Watch (GFW) has increased ocean transparency by releasing the first-ever 'live' global view of likely transshipping at sea - a practice that can mask illegal fishing activity, and imagery of night-time fishing and its location, exposing vessels often hidden from other monitoring systems.
Data released on GFW's map reveals in near real-time the locati ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
The early Earth might have been habitable much earlier than thought, according to new research from a group led by University of Chicago scientists.
Counting strontium atoms in rocks from northern Canada, they found evidence that the Earth's continental crust could have formed hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought. Continental crust is richer in essential minerals t ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
Fossil fuel stocks have long been a safe financial bet. With the International Energy Agency projecting price rises until 2040, and governments prevaricating or rowing back on the Paris Agreement, investor confidence is set to remain high.
However, new research suggests that the momentum behind technological change in the global power and transportation sectors will lead to a dramatic decl ... more |
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 Ames IA (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
Using the physics equivalent of the strobe photography that captures every twitch of a cheetah in full sprint, researchers have used ultrafast spectroscopy to visualize electrons interacting as a hidden state of matter in a superconductive alloy.
It takes intense, single-cycle pulses of photons - flashes - hitting the cooled alloy at terahertz speed - trillions of cycles per second - to sw ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 06, 2018 
Starlings with aromatic herbs in their nest exhibit improved parenting behaviors, according to a new study by researchers at North Carolina State University.
For the study, scientists swapped out 36 natural starling nests for artificial nests. Half of the nests featured dry grasses and a combination of aromatic herbs, including milfoil, hogweed, cow parsley, black elder, goutweed and wi ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) June 11, 2018  Hong Kong's leading independence activist was jailed for six years Monday for his involvement in some of the city's worst protest violence for decades.
Edward Leung was convicted in May of rioting during the 2016 running battles with police, when demonstrators hurled bricks torn up from pavements and set rubbish alight in the commercial district of Mong Kok.
Handing down his jail term, J ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) June 11, 2018 
Some of Africa's oldest and biggest baobab trees - a few dating all the way back to the ancient Greeks - have abruptly died, wholly or in part, in the past decade, researchers said Monday.
The trees, aged between 1,100 and 2,500 years and some as wide as a bus is long, may have fallen victim to climate change, the team speculated.
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