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  Paris (AFP) June 20, 2018 Earth's intact forests shrank annually by nearly 90,000 square kilometres - an area the size of Austria - from 2014 to 2016, 20 percent faster than during the previous 13 years, according to findings presented at a conference in Oxford this week. Despite UN-led efforts to halt deforestation, nearly ten percent of undisturbed forests have been fragmented, degraded or simply chopped down since 2000, according to the analysis of satellite imagery. Average daily loss over the first 17 years of thi ... read more |
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Drought haunts farmers in Poland, Baltic statesWarsaw (AFP) June 20, 2018 Poland's prime minister on Wednesday warned of "very significant" crop losses as the EU country scrambled to help farmers struggling to cope with an unusual spring drought amid soaring temperatures. ... more  
Lab-grown livestock feed may ease climatic effects of feed productionWashington (UPI) Jun 20, 2018 Can cows subsist on space food? ... more 
Monsanto faces first US trial over Roundup cancer linkSan Francisco (AFP) June 21, 2018 In the first trial of its kind, a Californian dying of cancer is suing US agrochemical giant Monsanto, claiming its popular herbicide Roundup caused his disease - a case that could have sweeping ramifications. ... more  
Sentinel-3 flies tandemParis (ESA) Jun 20, 2018 The key to monitoring Earth's changing environment and to guaranteeing a consistent stream of satellite data to improve our daily lives is to take the same measurements over the course of decades. B ... more |
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US military to help prosecute migrant casesWashington (AFP) June 21, 2018 US military lawyers will help civilian prosecutors handle cases against undocumented migrants, the Defense Department said Wednesday, in a rare use of armed forces legal staff. ... more  
Faroese whaling 'ecological', 'respectful': ministerT�rshavn, Denmark (AFP) June 20, 2018 For centuries, the Faroe Islands have hunted pilot whales in ritual fashion, herding them into shallow waters to beach them before stabbing them with knives, turning the water a bloody red. ... more  
Scientists use light to create new tissue shapesWashington (UPI) Jun 18, 2018 Scientists have developed a new technique for controlling the shape of tissue. The method uses light to control protein activity, which dictates changes in tissue shape. ... more 
Beluga whales pass first-ever marine mammal hearing testWashington (UPI) Jun 20, 2018 Beluga whales are excellent hearers. The results of the first-ever marine mammal hearing test conducted in the wild suggest belugas have very sensitive ears, and surprisingly few whales suffer from hearing loss. ... more  
Death toll from Gambia protest rises to threeBanjul, Gambia (AFP) June 20, 2018 A 24-year-old student who was hit by police gunfire at an environmental protest in western Gambia died on Wednesday, bringing the death toll from the violence to three, his campaign group said. ... more |
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Deep-sea marine sponges may hold key to antibiotic drug resistance Boca Raton FL (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 Drug resistance to antibiotics is on the rise and there is an urgent need to develop new drugs to treat infectious diseases that are a major threat to human health globally. Researchers from Florida ... more  |
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Site of the next major earthquake on the San Andreas Fault?Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 Many researchers hypothesize that the southern tip of the 1300-km-long San Andreas fault zone (SAFZ) could be the nucleation site of the next major earthquake on the fault, yet geoscientists cannot ... more  
Two new creatures discovered from dawn of animal lifeRiverside CA (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 Earth's first complex animals were an eclectic bunch that lived in the shallow oceans between 580-540 million years ago. The iconic Dickinsonia - large flat animals with a quilt-like appearanc ... more 
Ocean's heat cycle shows that atmospheric carbon may be headed elsewherePrinceton NJ (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 As humans continue to pump the atmosphere with carbon, it's crucial for scientists to understand how and where the planet absorbs and naturally emits carbon. A recent study in the journal Natu ... more  
Toxic plant that burns skin, causes blindness spreading in USWashington (UPI) Jun 19, 2018 The toxic invasive plant called giant hogweed is usually found in New York and the Northeast, but the dangerous invader was recently discovered in Virginia. Officials worry the plant is spreading. ... more 
New NASA instrument on ISS to track plant water use on EarthWashington (UPI) Jun 19, 2018 To better track water use by Earth's plants, NASA is preparing to install a new instrument on the International Space Station. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) June 21, 2018 
US military lawyers will help civilian prosecutors handle cases against undocumented migrants, the Defense Department said Wednesday, in a rare use of armed forces legal staff.
Under a "zero tolerance" policy, the United States has been arresting every illegal border-crosser but the measure has failed to stop the flow of migrants from impoverished and violent Guatemala, El Salvador and Hondu ... more |
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 Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 
Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering have developed a novel approach to optimizing soft material 3-D printing. The researchers' Expert-Guided Optimization (EGO) method combines expert judgment with an optimization algorithm that efficiently searches combinations of parameters relevant for 3-D printing, enabling high-fidelity soft material products to be printed.
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 Woods Hole MA (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 
Miles beneath the ocean's surface in the dark abyss, vast communities of subseafloor microbes at deep-sea hot springs are converting chemicals into energy that allows deep-sea life to survive - and even thrive - in a world without sunlight. Until now, however, measuring the productivity of subseafloor microbe communities - or how fast they oxidize chemicals and the amount of carbon they produce ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 14, 2018 
The British Isles were regularly buried beneath advancing ice sheets as early as 2.5 million years ago, more than 1 million years earlier than previously thought.
Until now, researchers thought ice sheets didn't advance across Britain until 1.1 million years ago, but new analysis of sediment cores and seismic data collected from deep beneath the North Sea suggests most of the North Atla ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 20, 2018 
Can cows subsist on space food?
Scientists want to limit the environmental impacts of livestock feed crop cultivation. New research suggests nutritional livestock feed can be grown in the laboratory.
Roughly one-third of the planet's arable land is used to grow livestock feed crops. In the Amazon, livestock feed crop cultivation is driving deforestation.
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 
Many researchers hypothesize that the southern tip of the 1300-km-long San Andreas fault zone (SAFZ) could be the nucleation site of the next major earthquake on the fault, yet geoscientists cannot evaluate this hazard until the location and geometry of the fault zone is documented.
In their new paper for Lithosphere, Susanne Janecke and colleagues use detailed geologic and structural mapp ... more |
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 Banjul, Gambia (AFP) June 18, 2018 
Gambian police Monday killed two young men during a village protest against sand excavation they claim is damaging their rice fields, official sources said.
The office of the police inspector general said a clash between villagers and police led to the "regrettable death" of two men and left several others injured.
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 Waterloo, Canada (SPX) Jun 15, 2018 
While humans and other species share some of the same genetic information, new research found that humans are unique among mammals when it comes to the types and diversity of microorganisms on our skin. This difference could have implications for our health and immune systems.
"We were quite surprised when we saw just how distinct we humans are from almost all other mammals, at least in te ... more |
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 Princeton NJ (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 
As humans continue to pump the atmosphere with carbon, it's crucial for scientists to understand how and where the planet absorbs and naturally emits carbon.
A recent study in the journal Nature Geosciences examined the global carbon cycle and suggests that existing studies may have misgauged how carbon is distributed around the world, particularly between the northern and southern hemisph ... more |
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 Irvine CA (SPX) Jun 15, 2018 
El Nino was long considered a reliable tool for predicting future precipitation in the southwestern United States, but its forecasting power has diminished in recent cycles, possibly due to global climate change. In a study published in Nature Communications, scientists and engineers at the University of California, Irvine demonstrate a new method for projecting wet or dry weather in the winter ... more |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 
Earth's first complex animals were an eclectic bunch that lived in the shallow oceans between 580-540 million years ago.
The iconic Dickinsonia - large flat animals with a quilt-like appearance - were joined by tube-shaped organisms, frond-like creatures that looked more like plants, and several dozen other varieties already characterized by scientists.
Add to that list two new anima ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 20, 2018 
Luxembourg needs to recover unpaid taxes from French energy company ENGIE because tax rulings gave it an unfair market advantage, the European Commission said.
Margrethe Vestager, the European commissioner in charge of competition, said tax measures from Luxembourg reduced the tax bills for the French energy company for about a decade, giving it an unfair market advantage. Under state a ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 
In seeking to achieve fusion energy, research on magnetic field confinement of high-temperature plasma is being conducted around the world. In a high-temperature plasma there is a temperature gradient. When the temperature gradient becomes steep, turbulence is generated.
Because the high-temperature regions and the low temperature areas are mixed due to the turbulence, the core temperature ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 19, 2018 
The toxic invasive plant called giant hogweed is usually found in New York and the Northeast, but the dangerous invader was recently discovered in Virginia. Officials worry the plant is spreading.
The large plant's sap contains chemicals called furanocoumarins, which make a person's skin more sensitive to sunlight. Skin exposed to giant hogweed and sunlight can develop third degree burn ... more |
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 Phnom Penh (AFP) June 19, 2018 
China has pledged around $100 million to help modernise Cambodia's military, the government said Tuesday, the latest largesse showered on the country amid a crackdown on dissent before national elections.
The pledge came from visiting Defence Minister Wei Fenghe, who arrived on Saturday for talks with his Cambodian counterpart and Prime Minister Hun Sen, said defence ministry spokesman Gener ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) June 20, 2018 
Earth's intact forests shrank annually by nearly 90,000 square kilometres - an area the size of Austria - from 2014 to 2016, 20 percent faster than during the previous 13 years, according to findings presented at a conference in Oxford this week.
Despite UN-led efforts to halt deforestation, nearly ten percent of undisturbed forests have been fragmented, degraded or simply chopped down sin ... more |
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