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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 The world is on fire. Or so it appears in this image from NASA's Worldview. The red points overlaid on the image designate those areas that by using thermal bands detect actively burning fires. Africa seems to have the most concentrated fires. This could be due to the fact that these are most likely agricultural fires. The location, widespread nature, and number of fires suggest that these fires were deliberately set to manage land. Farmers often use fire to return nutrients to the soil and to cle ... read more |
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Laughing gas may have helped warm early Earth and given breath to lifeAtlanta GA (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 More than an eon ago, the sun shone dimmer than it does today, but the Earth stayed warm due to a strong greenhouse gas effect, geoscience theory holds. Astronomer Carl Sagan coined this "the Faint ... more 
Raging forest fire bears down on German villagesBerlin (AFP) Aug 24, 2018 A large forest fire raging 50 kilometres (30 miles) southwest of Berlin continued to spread early Friday after hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes. ... more  
Flood-stricken Kerala angry after UAE $100m offer rejectedKochi, India (AFP) Aug 23, 2018 Leaders of flood-stricken Kerala state angrily hit out at India's national government Thursday for rejecting a $100 million aid offer from the United Arab Emirates as more people entered relief camps to escape the devastation. ... more  
Hurricane Lane pummels Hawaii with torrential rainHawaiian Ocean View, United States (AFP) Aug 24, 2018 Torrential rains struck Hawaii as Hurricane Lane moved toward the island state, triggering land slides and flash flooding. ... more |
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A timescale for the origin and evolution of all of life on EarthBristol UK (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 A new study led by scientists from the University of Bristol has used a combination of genomic and fossil data to explain the history of life on Earth, from its origin to the present day. Palaeontol ... more  
Biosensor allows real-time oxygen monitoring for 'organs-on-a-chip'Raleigh NC (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 A new biosensor allows researchers to track oxygen levels in real time in "organ-on-a-chip" systems, making it possible to ensure that such systems more closely mimic the function of real organs. Th ... more  
DNA analysis of 6,500-year-old human remains in Israel points to origin of ancient cultureTel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 An international team of researchers from Tel Aviv University, the Israel Antiquities Authority and Harvard University has discovered that waves of migration from Anatolia and the Zagros mountains ( ... more  
Microbes hitch a ride inland on coastal fogMillbrook NY (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 Fog can act as a vector for microbes, transferring them long distances and introducing them into new environments. So reports an analysis of the microbiology of coastal fog, recently published in th ... more 
Landslides triggered by human activity on the riseWashington DC (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 More than 50,000 people were killed by landslides around the world between 2004 and 2016, according to a new study by researchers at UK's Sheffield University. The team, who compiled data on over 48 ... more |
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Catastrophic floods can trigger human resettlement away from riversUppsala, Sweden (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 A new study by researchers at Uppsala University, published in the journal Science Advances, uses satellite nighttime light data to reveal how flood protection shapes the average distance of settlem ... more  |
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Nice sunny days can grow into heat wavesPotsdam, Germany (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 Be it heavy downpours or super-hot spells, summer weather becomes more persistent in North America, Europe and parts of Asia. When those conditions stall for several days or weeks, they can turn int ... more 
Montana State research determines reasons for massive fires in south-central ChileBozeman MT (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 A Montana State University-led team has discovered several reasons why massive fires continue to burn through south-central Chile. Besides low humidity, high winds and extreme temperatures - s ... more  
Silver-tongued Turnbull bows out as Aussie PMSydney (AFP) Aug 24, 2018 Malcolm Turnbull bowed out as Australian prime minister on Friday, warning his fellow parliamentarians against the "chaos" of their self-obsessions that saw yet another leader politically assassinated. ... more  
UConn scientists create reverse osmosis membranes with tunable thicknessStorrs CT (SPX) Aug 23, 2018 Currently, more than 300 million people around the world rely on desalinated water for part or all of their daily needs. That demand will only grow with larger populations and improved standards of ... more  
Bringing home the bacon: China pork braces for trade war bluesBaiyang, China (AFP) Aug 22, 2018 Twice a day, Chinese pig farmer Jia Tiechui's workers flip levers to deliver plops of soybean-based feed to 18,000 hogs, whose appetite is getting costlier as the US trade war bites. ... more |
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 Kochi, India (AFP) Aug 23, 2018 
Leaders of flood-stricken Kerala state angrily hit out at India's national government Thursday for rejecting a $100 million aid offer from the United Arab Emirates as more people entered relief camps to escape the devastation.
More than 1.3 million people have now packed into temporary camps even though the floods, which have left at least 420 dead and missing, are fast receding.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 22, 2018 
Soldiers on the battlefield or at remote bases often have to wait weeks for vital replacement parts. Now scientists report they have found a way to fabricate many of these parts within hours under combat conditions using water bottles, cardboard and other recyclable materials found on base as starting materials for 3D printing. They say this 'game-changing' advance could improve operational read ... more |
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 Kaust, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Aug 22, 2018 
Scientists have discovered the first molecular evidence that when exposed to environmental stress corals and anemones can optimize their gene expression enabling them to acclimatize to extreme conditions such as those experienced during climate change.
"In a nutshell, we could train toughened corals in nurseries to improve their thermal resilience, helping them to better cope with rising s ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 23, 2018 
New NASA-funded research has discovered that Arctic permafrost's expected gradual thawing and the associated release of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere may actually be sped up by instances of a relatively little known process called abrupt thawing. Abrupt thawing takes place under a certain type of Arctic lake, known as a thermokarst lake that forms as permafrost thaws.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2018 
The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) published in the international journal Science a detailed description of the genome of bread wheat, the world's most widely cultivated crop. This work will pave the way for the production of wheat varieties better adapted to climate challenges, with higher yields, enhanced nutritional quality and improved sustainability.
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 
A new study by researchers at Uppsala University, published in the journal Science Advances, uses satellite nighttime light data to reveal how flood protection shapes the average distance of settlements from rivers.
Flooding is one of the most damaging natural hazards, and its negative impacts have markedly increased in many regions of the world in recent decades. In the period 1980-2014, ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 21, 2018 
Archaeologists have excavated one of East Africa's largest, earliest monumental cemeteries in Kenya.
Constructed some 5,000 years ago by early pastoralists, the massive cemetery undermines traditional ideas about early human societies and monument building.
The Lothagam North Pillar Site was communal cemetery shared by East African herders for several centuries. Graves were cappe ... more |
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 Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 
An international team of researchers from Tel Aviv University, the Israel Antiquities Authority and Harvard University has discovered that waves of migration from Anatolia and the Zagros mountains (today's Turkey and Iran) to the Levant helped develop the Chalcolithic culture that existed in Israel's Upper Galilee region some 6,500 years ago.
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 Fairbanks AK (SPX) Aug 22, 2018 
Methane released by thawing permafrost from some Arctic lakes could significantly accelerate climate change, according to a new University of Alaska Fairbanks-led study.
The study, which was published Aug. 15 in the journal Nature Communications, focuses on the carbon released by thawing permafrost beneath thermokarst lakes. Such lakes develop when warming soil melts ground ice, causing th ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2018 
Next month, NASA will launch into space the most advanced laser instrument of its kind, beginning a mission to measure - in unprecedented detail - changes in the heights of Earth's polar ice.
NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) will measure the average annual elevation change of land ice covering Greenland and Antarctica to within the width of a pencil, capturing 60 ... more |
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 
More than an eon ago, the sun shone dimmer than it does today, but the Earth stayed warm due to a strong greenhouse gas effect, geoscience theory holds. Astronomer Carl Sagan coined this "the Faint Young Sun Paradox," and for decades, researchers have searched for the right balance of atmospheric gases that could have kept early Earth cozy.
A new study led by the Georgia Institute of Techn ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Aug 1, 2018 
As the stultifying summer heat sends Iraqis in search of cool spots, restaurateur Ali Hussein provides sanctuary - even though it means hooking up to an expensive generator.
"The clients must be comfortable when they eat," said Hussein, who stakes his reputation on ensuring customers are constantly blasted by air conditioning.
Outside, temperatures at this time of year can reach 50 degr ... more |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Aug 23, 2018 
Before scientists can capture and recreate the fusion process that powers the sun and stars to produce virtually limitless energy on Earth, they must first learn to control the hot plasma gas that fuels fusion reactions.
In a set of recent experiments, scientists have tamed a plasma instability in a way that could lead to the efficient and steady state operation of ITER, the international ... more |
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 Vienna (AFP) Aug 22, 2018 
Austria has authorised shooting wolves with rubber bullets to deter attacks on livestock, a regional authority said Wednesday.
The wolf population is rising rapidly in many European countries, which has led to an increase in the number of attacks on farm animals.
Farmers in three districts of Lower Austria will have the right until the end of the year to shoot wolves with rubber bullets ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 23, 2018  An anaesthetist gassed his wife and daughter to death using a yoga ball filled with carbon monoxide, a Hong Kong court has heard.
Prosecutors told the High Court that Khaw Kim-sun left the inflatable ball in the boot of a car where the gas leaked out and killed them, according to reports from court Wednesday.
His wife and 16-year-old daughter were found on a roadside in a locked yellow M ... more |
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 Urbana IL (SPX) Aug 22, 2018 
Forests in the eastern United States may have had it easy compared to their western counterparts, with the intense, prolonged droughts and wildfires that have become typical out west in recent years. But as the climate changes over time, eastern forests are also likely to experience longer droughts.
And although wildfires are comparatively rare, prescriptive fires are increasingly used in ... more |
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