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  Washington (AFP) July 12, 2018 For months, a major recycling facility for the greater Baltimore-Washington area has been facing a big problem: it has to pay to get rid of huge amounts of paper and plastic it would normally sell to China. Beijing is no longer buying, claiming the recycled materials are "contaminated." For sure, the 900 tons of trash dumped at all hours of the day and night, five days a week, on the conveyor belts at the plant in Elkridge, Maryland - an hour's drive from the US capital - are not clean. A ... read more |
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Singapore rolling out thermal cameras to nab illegal smokersSingapore (AFP) July 10, 2018 Lighting up will soon get tougher in Singapore, with the government planning to roll out 300 high definition thermal cameras to catch and fine illegal smokers. ... more  
Rescuers search for survivors of Afghan landslide: officialsRokha District, Afghanistan (AFP) July 12, 2018 Rescue efforts were under way for survivors of a landslide in remote northeastern Afghanistan on Thursday that officials said had killed at least six people and destroyed hundreds of buildings. ... more  
More Americans than ever say climate change is real, human-causedWashington (UPI) Jul 11, 2018 A record number of Americans believe there is solid evidence that proves climate change exists and it is at least partly human-caused, a new survey Wednesday shows. ... more  
Hurricane Chris weakens on way to NewfoundlandMiami (AFP) July 11, 2018 Hurricane Chris weakened on Wednesday off the US East Coast, with maximum wind speeds dropping to 90 miles per hour (150 kilometers per hour) on an expected course towards Canada's Newfoundland province. ... more |
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Win for wildlife as krill fishing restricted in AntarcticaSydney (AFP) July 10, 2018 Five major krill fishing firms Tuesday agreed to halt operations across huge swathes of the Antarctic to help protect wildlife in a move hailed as "bold and progressive" by conservationists. ... more  
China launches two satellites for PakistanJiuquan, China (XNA) Jul 10, 2018 China launched two satellites for Pakistan on a Long March-2C rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 11:56 a.m. Monday. The PRSS-1 is China's first optical remot ... more 
ICESat-2 Lasers Pass Final Ground TestGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 10, 2018 The next time lasers fire from NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, the spacecraft will be orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth and beginning its mission to monitor chan ... more  
New wasp species with a massive stinger found in the AmazonWashington (UPI) Jul 6, 2018 A group of Finnish researchers have discovered several new Amazonian species, including a parasitoid wasp with a massive stinger. The species' stinger is not only long, but also wide. ... more 
First quolls born in Australian wild in half a centurySydney (AFP) July 9, 2018 The first eastern quolls in 50 years have been born in the wild on the Australian mainland, with the rice grain-sized pups offering hope to a species of marsupial devastated by foxes. ... more |
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In wildfire prone areas, grasslands better than trees for carbon storageWashington (UPI) Jul 11, 2018 In places like California, increasingly prone to drought and wildfire, new research suggests grasslands --not trees - provide the most reliable carbon storage. ... more  |
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China chili fest gets off to scorching startNingxiangpu, China (AFP) July 9, 2018 An annual chili pepper festival kicked off Monday in central China's spice-loving Hunan province with a chili-eating contest in which the winner set a blistering pace by downing a gut-busting 50 peppers in just over a minute. ... more 
Japan PM meets stranded evacuees in flood disaster zoneKurashiki, Japan (AFP) July 11, 2018 Japan's prime minister met Wednesday with people forced from their homes by devastating rains that have killed at least 179 people, as the government said it would review its disaster management plans. ... more
Taiwan spared as Typhoon Maria weakensTaipei (AFP) July 11, 2018 Schools and offices were closed in parts of Taiwan Wednesday as Typhoon Maria skirted the island bringing torrential rain and powerful winds. ... more 
Forced from home by floods, Japanese go back to schoolKurashiki, Japan (AFP) July 11, 2018 Kaon Omori peeked into her classroom in the Japanese town of Kurashiki, gawping at evacuees forced from their homes by devastating flooding and landslides that have killed 179 people. ... more  
Thai boys were sedated and stretchered from cave in dramatic rescueChiang Rai, Thailand (AFP) July 11, 2018 The 12 boys rescued from a Thai cave were sedated and passed on stretchers along the twisting, narrow passageways of the Tham Luang complex, a rescuer said Wednesday as the first footage emerged of an astonishing mission that has captivated the world. ... more |
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 Chiang Rai, Thailand (AFP) July 11, 2018 
The 12 boys rescued from a Thai cave were sedated and passed on stretchers along the twisting, narrow passageways of the Tham Luang complex, a rescuer said Wednesday as the first footage emerged of an astonishing mission that has captivated the world.
The video of the rescue, which ended on Tuesday when the final four boys and their 25-year-old coach emerged from the cave, was released by au ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 09, 2018 
A station was unsuccessfully launched as a part of the USSR's space exploration program and has been orbiting the Earth ever since, but the station's deterioration is bringing its "homecoming" closer with each passing year.
The Kosmos 482 interplanetary station, which was unsuccessfully sent towards Venus in 1972 by the USSR, may crash land on Earth between 2023 and 2025, astronomer and co ... more |
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 Wellington (AFP) July 10, 2018  China is planning a summit of Pacific island leaders in November, Papua New Guinea has revealed, as New Zealand warned Tuesday Beijing was attempting to fill a "vacuum" in the long-neglected region.
President Xi Jinping wants to hold the meeting ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Port Moresby from November 12-18.
"(I) invite you to attend a Pacific Island lead ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) July 10, 2018 
Five major krill fishing firms Tuesday agreed to halt operations across huge swathes of the Antarctic to help protect wildlife in a move hailed as "bold and progressive" by conservationists.
The vast frozen continent is home to penguins, seals, whales and other marine life with krill a staple food for many species.
But a combination of climate change and industrial-scale fishing has been ... more |
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 Karlsruher, Germany (SPX) Jul 10, 2018 
Climate change is heavily related to the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere. During photosynthesis, plants absorb some of the industrial CO2 emissions from the atmosphere, making them contribute significantly to climate protection.
"The CO2 increase in the atmosphere is currently lower than to be expected from anthropogenic emissions," says Professor Almut Arneth from the Institute of Meteo ... more |
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 Kurashiki , Japan (AFP) July 10, 2018 
Rescue workers carried out house-to-house searches Tuesday in the increasingly unlikely hope of finding survivors after days of deadly floods and landslides that have claimed 141 lives in one of Japan's worst weather-related disasters for decades.
The record downpours that began last week have stopped and receding flood waters have laid bare the destruction that has cut a swathe through the ... more |
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 Harare (AFP) July 10, 2018 
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa Tuesday launched a space agency, hailing it as a "milestone" as he campaigns ahead of elections at the end of the month.
The Zimbabwe National Geospatial and Space Agency will deploy earth observation satellites, global navigation satellite systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, geospatial and space technologies for better farming, mineral exploration, wil ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) July 11, 2018 
The remains of crudely fashioned stone tools unearthed in China advances the presence of human ancestors in Asia by around 200 millennia to 2.1 million years ago, scientists said Wednesday.
If correctly dated, the find means that hominins - the group of humans and our extinct forefather species - left Africa earlier than archaeologists have been able to demonstrate thus far, a team reporte ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 11, 2018 
A record number of Americans believe there is solid evidence that proves climate change exists and it is at least partly human-caused, a new survey Wednesday shows.
The 7-page report by the National Surveys on Energy and the Environment says 60 percent of Americans "now think that global warming is happening and that humans are at least partially responsible for the rising temperatures. ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jul 12, 2018 
Following months of tests and careful evaluation, the first data on air pollutants from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite have been released. These first maps show a range of trace gases that affect air quality such as carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and ozone.
Launched on 13 October 2017, Sentinel-5P is the first Copernicus satellite dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. It is part ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Jul 10, 2018 
Earth's oxygen levels rose and fell more than once hundreds of millions of years before the planetwide success of the Great Oxidation Event about 2.4 billion years ago, new research from the University of Washington shows.
The evidence comes from a new study that indicates a second and much earlier "whiff" of oxygen in Earth's distant past - in the atmosphere and on the surface of a large ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 6, 2018 
Norwegian energy company Equinor said Friday it agreed to take over a Danish energy trading company in an effort to add support to portfolio diversification.
Equinor on Friday agreed to pay $468 million to acquire Danske Commodities. With last year's trade volume in electricity equaling twice what the Norwegian economy consumed, the trading company is one of the largest short-term trade ... more |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jul 10, 2018 
When Germany's Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) fusion facility set a world record for stellarators recently, a finely tuned instrument built and delivered by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) proved the achievement. The record strongly suggests that the design of the stellarator can be developed to capture on Earth the fusion that drives the sun and stars, c ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 9, 2018 
New research suggests horizontal gene transfer between different species is a major driver of evolution.
Scientists at the University of Adelaide traced the origins of two different jumping genes, self-replicating DNA sequences, across 759 species of plants, animals and fungi.
The results of the survey, published this week in the journal Genome Biology, suggest the genomes of mos ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) July 11, 2018 
A prominent Chinese political campaigner was sentenced to 13 years in jail on Wednesday, a court in central China said.
Qin Yongmin was found "guilty of subversion of state power," the Wuhan City Intermediate People's Court said on its official website.
According to court records, it appears to be the heftiest sentence handed down in China for "subversion" in the past 15 years.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 12, 2018 
On Sept. 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria barreled across Puerto Rico with winds of up to 155 miles per hour and battering rain that flooded towns, knocked out communications networks and destroyed the power grid. In the rugged central mountains and the lush northeast, Maria unleashed its fury as fierce winds completely defoliated the tropical forests and broke and uprooted trees. Heavy rainfall trigge ... more |
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