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  Washington (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. Morphogenesis, the shifting of tissue shapes in an embryo, is essential to healthy development. Using optogenetics, scientists are not only able to better understand the development process, but may also be able to develop new regenerative medicine treatments. In their latest experiments, researchers at the European Mole ... read more |
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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  
Dominican Republic names ambassador to ChinaSanto Domingo (AFP) June 20, 2018 The Dominican Republic appointed its first ambassador to China on Tuesday, after switching diplomatic ties from Taiwan in April. ... more  
EU court rules Malta wild bird traps illegalLuxembourg (AFP) June 21, 2018 Malta has broken European Union law with an exemption for hunters to capture seven species of finches on the Mediterranean island, the EU's top court ruled Thursday. ... more |
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On NY's rooftops, old-style wooden water tanks hang toughNew York (AFP) June 25, 2018 They are part of New York's skyline and millions of people unknowingly depend on them: behold, the venerable rooftop water tank, made of plain old wood. ... more 
Australia and Vanuatu to negotiate security pactSydney (AFP) June 25, 2018 Australia will negotiate a security treaty with Vanuatu, it announced Monday, just months after a report suggesting China wanted to build a military base on the Pacific nation. ... more 
Australia failing to protect Great Barrier Reef: activistsSydney (AFP) June 25, 2018 Australia is breaching commitments to protect the embattled Great Barrier Reef from the effects of land clearing, environmental groups claimed Monday and called on the UN to probe the alleged failures. ... more  
Fossil reveals new species of ancient marine lizardWashington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018 Scientists have identified a new species of ancient marine lizard that lived 75 million years ago. ... more  
Bear necessities: cooler home for S. Korea's last polar bearSeoul (AFP) June 21, 2018 The last polar bear kept in South Korea will be sent to Britain to escape the country's stifling, humid summers and live out his days in more appropriate surroundings, zookeepers said Thursday. ... more |
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 Sri Lanka arrests villagers for killing leopard 
Dozens of last blue macaws to be reintroduced to BrazilBras�lia (AFP) June 23, 2018 About 50 of the last Spix's macaws, the blue parrot made famous in the hit animation movie "Rio," will be reintroduced to the wild in Brazil from captivity in Europe, officials said Saturday. ... more  |
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Malaysian PM revives age-old water row with SingaporeKuala Lumpur (AFP) June 25, 2018 Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Monday he wants to renegotiate a "ridiculous" water supply agreement with Singapore, the latest sign of fraying ties between the neighbours since last month's shock election. ... more 
Dead plankton, stunned fish: the harms of man-made ocean noiseWashington (AFP) June 21, 2018 Human-caused ocean noise and its dangers to marine life are the focus of meetings at the United Nations this week, a victory for advocacy groups that have long warned of this problem. ... more  
France eases rules on wine stocks to mitigate weather risksBordeaux (AFP) June 22, 2018 French vineyards will be allowed under new rules to hold back more of their production each year to protect them in case harvests are damaged by extreme weather including storms and drought. ... more  
Loss of Earth's intact forests speeds up: scientistsParis (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. ... more  
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 |
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 Rome (AFP) June 24, 2018  NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Sunday the alliance was prepared to help out in troubled Libya as it grapples with a migrant crisis but warned there were no military solutions.
Speaking to Italian daily La Repubblica, Stoltenberg said: "NATO is ready to help Libya construct its security institutions".
NATO experts were already "in contact with Libya authorities to see how to assist them ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 
The magnetisation of nanometric square material is not fixed. It moves around in a helical motion. This is caused by the electron whose degree of freedom, referred to as spin, which follows a precession motion centred on the middle of a square nano-magnet. To study the magnetisation of such material, physicists can rely on two-dimensional arrays of square nanomagnets.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 25, 2018 
An international oceanography satellite that is tracking the ongoing rise in global sea level marks its 10th year in orbit today.
Designed for a three-to-five-year mission, the joint U.S./European Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) on the Jason-2 satellite has now made more than 47,000 trips around our home planet, measuring sea level change across the globe, observing ocean currents, ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 
A new NASA study explains why the Tracy and Heilprin glaciers, which flow side by side into Inglefield Gulf in northwest Greenland, are melting at radically different rates.
Using ocean data from NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) campaign, the study documents a plume of warm water flowing up Tracy's underwater face, and a much colder plume in front of Heilprin. Scientists have assumed ... more |
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 Yulin, China (AFP) June 22, 2018 
As South Korea moves closer to banning dog meat, diners tuck into bowls of stewed canine in southern China, where activists are rethinking their tactics to counter a notorious festival that butchers thousands of dogs.
The annual Yulin dog meat celebration opened without a hitch on Thursday, a day after a South Korean court announced it had ruled that the slaughtering of dogs for meat was ill ... more |
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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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 Libreville (AFP) June 22, 2018  "It's an environmental disaster," said Magloir-Desire Mounganga as he strode across the soggy, spongy soil where mangroves have been ripped up for development near the Gabonese capital Libreville, threatening its fragile ecosystem.
"Here the mangrove trees have been completely razed, you can even see the marks left by the bulldozer," said Mounganga, an expert from Gabon's National Agency fo ... more |
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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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 Paris (ESA) Jun 25, 2018 
This week marks 20 years since the manifesto was signed that gave rise to Europe's Copernicus environmental programme. With seven Sentinel satellites already in orbit delivering terabytes of data every day, Copernicus is the biggest provider of Earth observation data in the world.
To mark this 20-year milestone, reflect on the programme's achievements and to look to the future, EU commissi ... 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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 Luxembourg (AFP) June 21, 2018 
Malta has broken European Union law with an exemption for hunters to capture seven species of finches on the Mediterranean island, the EU's top court ruled Thursday.
Environmentalists have called the trapping a cruel practice in which the birds are killed before they can breed but supporters defend it as a longstanding custom.
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 Santo Domingo (AFP) June 20, 2018 
The Dominican Republic appointed its first ambassador to China on Tuesday, after switching diplomatic ties from Taiwan in April.
The envoy is Briunny Garabito Segura, who has previously served as ambassador to Colombia and Canada.
Until April, the Dominican Republic was among just a handful of countries that recognized Taiwan.
China and Taiwan have been ruled separately since 1949 b ... 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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