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  Sarasota, United States (AFP) June 18, 2018 Along sun-splashed shorelines in the US state of Florida, home prices are on the rise, developers are busy building new complexes, and listings just blocks from the beach describe homes that are "not in a flood zone," meaning no flood insurance is required. But experts warn that ignoring sea level rise won't prevent a looming economic crisis caused by water-logged homes that will someday become unsafe, uninhabitable and too costly to insure. A reality check may come sooner than many may think, a ... read more |
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Three dead, 200 hurt as strong quake jolts Japan's OsakaTokyo (AFP) June 18, 2018 A powerful earthquake rocked Japan's second city of Osaka on Monday, killing three people including a nine-year-old girl and injuring more than 200, according to an official tally. ... more 
Guatemala volcano search called off with nearly 200 unaccounted forGuatemala City (AFP) June 18, 2018 Authorities on Sunday called off a search for the nearly 200 people missing since Guatemala's Fuego volcano erupted earlier this month, devastating the surrounding countryside. ... more  
Landslides, flash floods as monsoon batters southern MyanmarMawlamyine, Myanmar (AFP) June 18, 2018 Flooding in southern Myanmar has caused a landslide at a famed Buddhist pagoda, submerged homes and displaced hundreds of people as monsoon rains batter the country. ... more 
Parents of children killed in Mexico quake want justiceMexico City (AFP) June 18, 2018 It has been nine months since the Rebsamen elementary school collapsed in the earthquake that devastated Mexico last year, and the families of the 19 children and seven adults killed inside want justice. ... more |
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Japan passes anti-plastic law but with no sanctions for pollutersTokyo (AFP) June 15, 2018 A bill intended to reduce the volume of microplastics dumped into the ocean was approved by Japan's parliament on Friday, but it included no sanctions for failure to comply. ... more 
Wastewater treatment plants are key route into UK rivers for microplasticsLeeds UK (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 Water samples from UK rivers contained significantly higher concentrations of microplastics downstream from wastewater treatment plants, according to one of the first studies to determine potential ... more  
Erdogan takes 'crazy projects' to new level with Canal Istanbul dreamKaraburun, Turkey (AFP) June 15, 2018 The waves of the Black Sea lap peacefully on the shore of the Turkish coastal village of Karaburun outside Istanbul. Not far away, water buffalo peacefully graze on green pastures. ... more  
US farmers stressed, angry at trade warsNew York (AFP) June 16, 2018 US farmers find themselves in the crosshairs of a trade war with China and others launched by President Donald Trump, who was elected with the support of many in rural America. ... more 
Farmers increasingly relying on agricultural contractors, new research showsExeter UK (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 More farmers are relying on external companies to carry out major work, new research shows. A new study has found agriculture is kept operational through family, permanent-hired, outsourced an ... more |
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 US soybean prices tumble amid trade fight with Beijing 
Taiwan indicts three over deadly quake building collapseTaipei (AFP) June 15, 2018 A Taiwanese developer was indicted Friday over the partial collapse of a building that killed 14 people during an earthquake in February, prosecutors said. ... more  |
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Volcano music could help scientists monitor eruptionsWashington DC (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 A volcano in Ecuador with a deep cylindrical crater might be the largest musical instrument on Earth, producing unique sounds scientists could use to monitor its activity. New infrasound recor ... more  
Embry-Riddle researchers seek to improve hurricane evacuations and fuel supplyDaytona Beach FL (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 As Hurricane season begins this month, a team of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University professors and graduate students have been charged with studying Hurricane Irma's mass evacuation and provide re ... more 
Macron backs Merkel in German row over migrantsParis (AFP) June 15, 2018 French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday offered his backing to German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a bitter row with her interior minister over her liberal immigration policy. ... more  
Threatened whales and dolphins recognize predatory killer whales from their alarming callsWashington DC (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 Killer whales have a formidable reputation as one of the ocean's most ferocious predators. Hunting stealthily in packs, some populations pursue ocean-going mammals, however, other killer whales pref ... more  
Uganda commissions new Chinese highway to ease congestionKampala (AFP) June 15, 2018 Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and senior Chinese official Wang Yang on Friday commissioned a new toll road linking the capital to the country's only international airport. ... more |
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 Daytona Beach FL (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 
As Hurricane season begins this month, a team of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University professors and graduate students have been charged with studying Hurricane Irma's mass evacuation and provide recommendations for a smoother exodus in the future.
With a state of emergency declared and mandatory evacuations issued throughout the state as Hurricane Irma approached Florida last September, m ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jun 15, 2018 
Bolometers, devices that monitor electromagnetic radiation through heating of an absorbing material, are used by astronomers and homeowners alike. But most such devices have limited bandwidth and must be operated at ultralow temperatures. Now, researchers say they've found a ultrafast yet highly sensitive alternative that can work at room temperature - and may be much less expensive.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 15, 2018 
Three-dimensional measurements of the central Brazilian Amazon rainforest have given NASA researchers a detailed window into the high number of branch falls and tree mortality that occur in response to drought conditions. They found that 65 percent more trees and large branches died due to an El Nino-driven drought in 2015-2016 than compared to an average year. Understanding the effects of prolo ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jun 14, 2018 
The largest ice sheet on Earth was stable throughout the last warm period in geologic time, indicating it should hold up as temperatures continue to rise. The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is the world's largest potential contributor to sea level rise (175 feet, if the whole thing melted). Unlike the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, though, it's been resistant to melt as conditions warm.
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 Exeter UK (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 
More farmers are relying on external companies to carry out major work, new research shows.
A new study has found agriculture is kept operational through family, permanent-hired, outsourced and seasonal labour.
The majority of South West farmers - 87 per cent - now employ contractors - firms or individuals who usually have equipment they don't own - for big projects such as hedge-cut ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 
A volcano in Ecuador with a deep cylindrical crater might be the largest musical instrument on Earth, producing unique sounds scientists could use to monitor its activity.
New infrasound recordings of Cotopaxi volcano in central Ecuador show that after a sequence of eruptions in 2015, the volcano's crater changed shape. The deep narrow crater forced air to reverberate against the crater wa ... more |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) June 15, 2018  France, Britain and the United States on Thursday put a hold on a request from the Central African Republic for UN Security Council approval of Chinese weapons deliveries for its national forces.
CAR's defense minister asked a UN sanctions committee on June 5 to grant an exemption to an arms embargo and allow the shipments of Chinese-made armored vehicles, machine guns, tear gas grenades an ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Jun 12, 2018 
New, higher-quality assemblies of great ape genomes have now been generated without the guidance of the human reference genome. The effort to reduce "humanizing" discovery bias in great ape genomes provides a clearer view of the genetic differences that arose as humans diverged from other primates.
In the June 8 issue of Science, researchers report on improved orangutan and chimpanzee geno ... more |
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 Johannesburg (AFP) June 13, 2018 
The South African government said Wednesday that the national state of disaster it declared in March over a drought that ravaged parts of the country had lapsed after significant rainfall.
The three-year drought hit Cape Town particularly hard, threatening to leave residents of the country's second largest city without drinking water.
The government said it had conducted assessments whic ... more |
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 Ames IA (SPX) Jun 15, 2018 
A new study co-led by University of Iowa researchers explains how ammonia is distributed in Earth's upper atmosphere.
The study authors used computer modeling to determine that ammonia is eventually released as a gas into the upper atmosphere. The modeling explains a mystery - data gathered by satellites that shows plumes of ammonia in the upper atmosphere, especially over parts of Asia du ... more |
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 Tallahassee FL (SPX) Jun 14, 2018 
Global climate change, fueled by skyrocketing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, is siphoning oxygen from today's oceans at an alarming pace - so fast that scientists aren't entirely sure how the planet will respond.
Their only hint? Look to the past.
In a study to be published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Florida State ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) June 13, 2018 
A consortium led by Hong Kong's CK Infrastructure Holdings made an unsolicited Aus$13 billion (US$9.8 billion) bid for gas pipeline company APA Wednesday, with the Australian firm agreeing to open its books.
APA's assets include gas transmission pipelines and storage, along with wind and solar farms across Australia. The firm's website said its 15,000 kilometres (9,300 miles) of gas pipeline ... more |
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 Nuremberg, Germany (SPX) Jun 15, 2018 
The future of chemistry is 'electrifying'. With the increasing availability of electrical energy from renewable sources, it will be possible in the future to drive many chemical processes using an electric current. This will facilitate the use of sustainable methods to manufacture products or fuels, replacing current processes which are based on fossil fuels.
However, exactly how these ele ... more |
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Jun 15, 2018 
Arguably, the greatest fueler of life on our planet is photosynthesis, but understanding its labyrinthine chemistry, powered by sunlight, is challenging. Researchers recently illuminated some new steps inside the molecular factory that makes the oxygen we breathe.
Though chlorophyll is the best-known part, for the vivid green it colors nature, many compounds work together in photosynthesis ... more |
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 Kuala Lumpur (AFP) June 17, 2018 
Malaysia was once a loyal partner in China's globe-spanning infrastructure drive but a new government is now pledging to review Beijing-backed projects, threatening key links in the much-vaunted initiative.
Kuala Lumpur's previous regime, led by scandal-mired Najib Razak, had warm ties with China and signed a string of deals for Beijing-funded projects, including a major rail link and a deep ... 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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