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  Addis Ababa (AFP) June 30, 2018 Ethiopia has capped an extraordinary week in which its new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, pushed ahead with bold reforms undeterred by a grenade attack that sparked fears of backlash by hardliners. Just three days after a blast killed two people at a rally Abiy had addressed in the heart of the capital, the prime minister greeted a delegation from Eritrea, a neighbour with whom Ethiopia has been at war - both hot and cold - for decades. Abiy took office in April after years of anti-government unr ... read more |
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Kenya's Lake Turkana put on World Heritage danger listManama (AFP) June 28, 2018 A UNESCO panel on Thursday added Lake Turkana, a conservation hotspot in Kenya and a candidate site for the birthplace of mankind, to the list of endangered World Heritage Sites. ... more 
Locals lose out in Rwanda's second-hand clothes warKigali (AFP) July 1, 2018 Across Rwanda, markets selling piles of cast-off clothes once worn by Americans have become the unlikely centre of a trade war that vendors say is ruining their livelihoods. ... more 
Pursuing poachers, and tourism, to boost Mozambique's conservationMassingir, Mozambique (AFP) June 28, 2018 The dam at Massingir in southwestern Mozambique is like a bridge between two worlds, one a deadly threat to the wildlife in the other. ... more 
Amid thaw, Ethiopia and Eritrea leaders plan to meetAddis Ababa (AFP) June 28, 2018 Ethiopia on Thursday announced its prime minister Abiy Ahmed would meet Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki "soon" amid an unprecedented diplomatic thaw between the two countries, long at each others' throats. ... more |
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Study links shrinking bee population, climate changeWashington (UPI) Jun 28, 2018 Over the last half-decade, nearly a third of the North American bee population has disappeared. New research suggests in some parts of the United States, climate change could be the reason bee populations continue to shrink. ... more 
China drops tariffs on soybeans for some Asian nationsBeijing (AFP) June 26, 2018 China on Tuesday confirmed it would cut tariffs on goods from five Asian nations, including soybeans, as a brewing trade war with the US could make American beans more costly. ... more 
Mesopotamians were drinking beer from individual vessels 3,500 years agoWashington (UPI) Jun 27, 2018 Until now, archaeologists believed the people of Mesopotamia shared beer from large communal vessels, sipping the barley-derived beverage through straws. ... more  
Cyclone barrels towards Japan's OkinawaTokyo (AFP) July 1, 2018 Okinawa residents braced for large waves and violent winds Sunday after weather authorities warned of a fierce cyclone approaching the southern Japanese island. ... more  
Thai rescuers establish base deep inside cave where boys trappedMae Sai, Thailand (AFP) July 1, 2018 Thai officials leading a massive effort to rescue 12 boys and their assistant football coach from a flooded cave said Sunday they had set up a working base deep inside a passageway and expressed optimism about their progress as bad weather eased. ... more |
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 Four dead, hundreds evacuated as torrential rains hit Romania 
Libya navy bemoans lack of EU support over migrantsTripoli (AFP) June 28, 2018 The Libyan coastguard, charged with patrolling the frontline of Europe's efforts to halt irregular migration, has only three working patrol boats, which often stay in port for lack of fuel. ... more  |
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The ancient giants of Yosemite, under a billion starsYosemite Valley, United States (AFP) June 30, 2018 The Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias, at the heart of California's Yosemite National Park, is home to 500 of the towering trees - many at least 2,000 years old, having sprouted around the time of Jesus Christ. ... more  
Wildfires spark evacuations in northern CaliforniaSan Francisco July 1, 2018 Californian authorities have issued red flag weather warnings and mandatory evacuation orders after a series of wildfires fanned by high winds and hot temperatures ripped through thousands of acres. ... more  
Thousands march in Hong Kong as restrictions growHong Kong (AFP) July 1, 2018 Protesters marched through central Hong Kong on Sunday in one of the city's major annual pro-democracy rallies as organisers said the event was coming under unprecedented pressure from authorities. ... more 
Industrial microbes could feed cattle, pigs and chicken with less damage to the environmentPotsdam, Germany (SPX) Jun 26, 2018 Deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, nitrogen pollution - today's agricultural feed cultivation for cattle, pigs and chicken comes with tremendous impacts for the environment ... more  
Yosemite granite 'tells a different story' story about Earth's geologic historyWashington DC (SPX) Jun 28, 2018 A team of scientists including Carnegie's Michael Ackerson and Bjorn Mysen revealed that granites from Yosemite National Park contain minerals that crystallized at much lower temperatures than previ ... more |
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 Mae Sai, Thailand (AFP) July 1, 2018 
Thai officials leading a massive effort to rescue 12 boys and their assistant football coach from a flooded cave said Sunday they had set up a working base deep inside a passageway and expressed optimism about their progress as bad weather eased.
Monsoon rains have complicated the frantic search for the children, aged 11 to 16, and the coach who have not been heard from since they ventured i ... more |
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 Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jun 22, 2018 
An electrically conductive hydrogel that takes stretchability, self-healing and strain sensitivity to new limits has been developed at KAUST. "Our material outperforms all previously reported hydrogels and introduces new functionalities," says Husam Alshareef, professor of materials science and engineering.
Smart materials that flex, sense and stretch like skin have many applications in wh ... more |
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 Newport OR (SPX) Jun 28, 2018 
A research team has successfully recorded the sound of methane bubbles from the seafloor off the Oregon coast using a hydrophone, opening the door to using acoustics to identify - and perhaps quantify - this important greenhouse gas in the ocean.
The next step, researchers say, is to fine-tune their ability to detect the acoustic signature of the bubbles so they can use the sounds to estim ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 26, 2018 
Tiny valleys near the top of Antarctica's ice sheet reach temperatures of nearly -100 degrees Celsius, according to a new study published this week in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters. The finding could change scientists' understanding of just how low temperatures can get at Earth's surface, and how it happens, according to the researchers.
After sifting through data from sever ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) June 25, 2018 
A bacterial infection ravaging olive orchards in southern Europe can be detected from small planes or drones well before symptoms appear, offering panicky growers the prospect of an early warning system, scientists said Monday.
Using high-tech cameras that detect heat and the electromagnetic spectrum from X-ray to radio waves, researchers were able to spot diseased trees that, on the ground ... more |
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 Madison WI (SPX) Jun 28, 2018 
The Laguna del Maule volcanic complex in Chile is a large, complicated and explosive landscape that, oddly, lacks the classic cone seen on many volcanoes, including Fuego, the Guatemalan volcano that killed hundreds in a June 3 eruption.
It's a major task to understand a mountaintop region that has erupted 50 times over the past 20,000 years. But the starting point for grasping the big pic ... more |
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 Kigali (AFP) July 1, 2018  Across Rwanda, markets selling piles of cast-off clothes once worn by Americans have become the unlikely centre of a trade war that vendors say is ruining their livelihoods.
Kigali, determined to boost its domestic textiles industry, in 2016 raised tariffs on the importation of secondhand clothes, disrupting a multi-million dollar industry and setting it on a collision course with the United ... more |
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 Cardiff UK (SPX) Jun 28, 2018 
The evolution of the orangutan has been more heavily influenced by humans than was previously thought, new research reveals.
Professor Mike Bruford, of Cardiff University, was part of the team of scientists shedding light on the development of the critically endangered species. Their findings offer new possibilities for orangutan conservation.
One of humans' closet living relatives, ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 29, 2018 
Increasingly, climate scientists are calling for climate models to focus more on CO2 levels and less on temperature.
In a new study, researchers from the University of Exeter contend warming could slow even as a rise in CO2 accelerates. Not only do current models mostly ignore this reality, study authors suggest they also fail to account for CO2's myriad impacts on biology - on life. / ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 02, 2018 
An Earth science instrument built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and experiments investigating cellular biology and artificial intelligence, are among the research heading to the International Space Station following Friday's launch of a NASA-contracted SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at 5:42 a.m. EDT.
Dragon lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Jun 28, 2018 
Fossil records tell us that the first macroscopic animals appeared on Earth about 575 million years ago. Twenty-four million years later, the diversity of animals began to mysteriously decline, leading to Earth's first know mass extinction event.
Scientists have argued for decades over what may have caused this mass extinction, during what is called the "Ediacaran-Cambrian transition." Som ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 26, 2018 
The adoption of clean energies to power electric grids won't be sufficient to meet the Paris climate targets established by the United Nations.
According to new research published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the continued use of fossil fuels for a variety of industrial processes, to power vehicles and heat buildings, is likely to push CO2 emissions beyond manageable levels. ... 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.
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 26, 2018 
Despite early signs of success, reintroduced lynx populations are still under threat.
A new survey suggests illegal hunting near the border region among Germany, the Czech Republic and Austria continues to depress the predator's numbers.
In the 1980s, Czech officials reintroduced 18 lynxes to Bohemian Forest National Park. Up until 1998, the population grew and expanded. But the ... 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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 Heroshah, Pakistan (AFP) June 26, 2018 
The change is drastic: around the region of Heroshah, previously arid hills are now covered with forest as far as the horizon. In northwestern Pakistan, hundreds of millions of trees have been planted to fight deforestation.
In 2015 and 2016 some 16,000 labourers planted more than 900,000 fast-growing eucalyptus trees at regular, geometric intervals in Heroshah - and the titanic task is jus ... more |
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