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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 commissioners, service providers, ESA directors and many more gathered in the small Italian town of Baveno on the sout ... read more |
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OMG, the water's warm! NASA study solves glacier puzzleWashington 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 f ... more  
Prolific sea-observing satellite Jason-2 turns 10Pasadena 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./Euro ... more  
Cranium of a four-million-year-old hominin shows similarities to that of modern humansJohannesburg, South Africa (SPX) Jun 26, 2018 A cranium of a four-million-year-old fossil, that, in 1995 was described as the oldest evidence of human evolution in South Africa, has shown similarities to that of our own, when scanned through hi ... more 
Antarctic ice sheet is melting, but rising bedrock below could slow it downFort Collins CO (SPX) Jun 26, 2018 An international team, led by DTU Space at the Technical University of Denmark with Colorado State University, has found that the bedrock below the remote West Antarctic Ice Sheet is rising much mor ... more |
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Cambodia finds 33 surrogate mothers in raid on illegal businessPhnom Penh (AFP) June 23, 2018 A raid by Cambodian authorities on an illegal surrogacy business in Phnom Penh uncovered 33 women paid to deliver babies for Chinese couples, police said Saturday. ... more  
Australian feral cats kill a million reptiles a day: studySydney (AFP) June 25, 2018 Feral cats kill more than one million reptiles every day in Australia, a new study showed Monday, with the staggering slaughter threatening many species. ... more 
Increase in size, frequency of ocean storms a threat to global fisheriesWashington (UPI) Jun 25, 2018 Fishermen around the world will face an influx of larger, more powerful ocean storms, new research suggests. ... more  
Palm oil giant still linked to Indonesia logging: GreenpeaceSingapore (AFP) June 25, 2018 The world's largest palm oil trader is still linked to deforestation in Indonesia despite committing five years ago to stop logging the archipelago's vast tracts of jungle, Greenpeace said Monday. ... more 
Parasite-infected fish can put healthy school members at riskWashington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018 New research shows a parasite infection among a group of fish can even put healthy individuals at risk. ... more |
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 BHP, Vale agree to settle one Samarco suit, second delayed  
China unveils new climate goals for 2020Washington DC (UPI) Jun 25, 2018 Guidelines published by the leading party in China during the weekend outline efforts to cut emissions by at least 15 percent by the end of the decade. ... more  |
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China lifts French beef ban as PM ends visitBeijing (AFP) June 25, 2018 China signed a deal Monday to lift a ban on French beef and said discussions to buy Airbus planes remained open as French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe ended a four-day visit. ... more  
Guatemala asks US to help its migrants after volcano eruptionGuatemala City (AFP) June 26, 2018 Guatemala Monday asked the US government to give its migrants Temporary Protected Status after the devastating Fuego volcano eruption. ... more  
Gambia leader meets victims' families after deadly protestBanjul, Gambia (AFP) June 22, 2018 Gambian president Adama Barrow paid tribute on Friday to three young protesters killed by police in an anti-pollution rally, urging witnesses to come forward to a commission of inquiry set up by his government. ... 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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 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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 Toulouse, France (SPX) Jun 26, 2018 
Since the start of the space age, mankind has left its mark on the orbital pathways overhead...and not always for the better. Today, some 7,000 tonnes of artificial debris - a mass equivalent to the Eiffel Tower - orbit the planet.
This detritus, ranging from remnants of defunct or broken-up spacecraft to discarded rocket stages, whizzes by at a dizzying 8 km per second - a speed at which ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 22, 2018 
A large multidisciplinary team of scientists, equipped with advanced underwater robotics and an array of analytical instrumentation, will set sail for the northeastern Pacific Ocean this August.
The team's mission for NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) is to study the life and death of the small organisms that play a critical role in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018  In northwest Greenland, a pair of glaciers, Tracy and Heilprin, flow side-by-side into Inglefield Gulf, and yet, they're melting at dramatically different rates.
Now, scientists know why. New data from NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland survey suggests an especially warm plume of ocean water is melting Tracy from beneath.
Since they were first surveyed by explorers in 1892, Heilprin ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) June 25, 2018 
China signed a deal Monday to lift a ban on French beef and said discussions to buy Airbus planes remained open as French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe ended a four-day visit.
The beef ban was imposed over a decade ago as Beijing started closing off its markets to all European imports, and later to US beef imports, in the wake of the "mad cow" disease scare.
Philippe and Premier Li Keq ... more |
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 Guatemala City (AFP) June 26, 2018 
Guatemala Monday asked the US government to give its migrants Temporary Protected Status after the devastating Fuego volcano eruption.
Officials have confirmed the deaths of 112 people as a result of the eruption on June 3, but scores more people remain unaccounted for.
"I have instructed the Minister of Foreign Affairs to request immediately from the government of the United States of A ... more |
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 Banjul, Gambia (AFP) June 22, 2018 
Gambian president Adama Barrow paid tribute on Friday to three young protesters killed by police in an anti-pollution rally, urging witnesses to come forward to a commission of inquiry set up by his government.
"You are the people that witnessed what happened here that day," Barrow told his audience in the village of Faraba Banta, 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the capital, Banjul.
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 Phnom Penh (AFP) June 23, 2018 
A raid by Cambodian authorities on an illegal surrogacy business in Phnom Penh uncovered 33 women paid to deliver babies for Chinese couples, police said Saturday.
Five people, including a Chinese national, were arrested during the operation in the capital late Friday, Keo Thea, head of the Phnom Penh Anti-Trafficking unit, told AFP.
"We found 33 surrogate mothers, some have already give ... 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 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. But how do you know that measurements from successive satellites, even though identical in build, are like for like?
The answer, for the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission, is to engage in some nifty ... 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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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 
Fuel cells and batteries provide electricity by generating and coaxing positively charged ions from a positive to a negative terminal which frees negatively charged electrons to power cellphones, cars, satellites, or whatever else they are connected to. A critical part of these devices is the barrier between these terminals, which must be separated for electricity to flow.
Improvements to ... 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.
"By adopting a certain derogation regime allowing the capture ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) June 25, 2018 
Police have dispersed military veterans who had demonstrated in an eastern Chinese city to protest the alleged beating of elderly ex-soldiers demanding better pensions, witnesses told AFP on Monday.
The demonstrations highlighted the years-long struggle among former soldiers of the world's biggest standing army to get better benefits, posing a headache for the country's Communist leadership. ... more |
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 Oslo, Norway (SPX) Jun 26, 2018 
Vegetation plays an important role in shaping local climate: just think of the cool shade provided by a forest or the grinding heat of the open desert. But what happens when widespread changes, caused by or in response to global warming, take place across larger areas? Global climate models allow researchers to play out these kinds of thought experiments. The answers that result can serve as a w ... more |
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