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  Beijing (AFP) Sept 3, 2018 President Xi Jinping told African counterparts and business leaders Monday that China's investments on the continent have "no political strings attached", even as Beijing is increasingly criticised over its debt-heavy projects abroad. Xi spoke before the start of a two-day China-Africa summit that is expected to focus on his cherished Belt and Road initiative, a global trade infrastructure programme. The massive scheme is aimed at improving Chinese access to foreign markets and resources, and bo ... read more |
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Japan braces for 'very strong' typhoonTokyo (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 Japan on Sunday braced for a "very strong" typhoon, with authorities warning of high waves, floods and landslides, including in areas hit by deadly flooding earlier this year. ... more  
China culls 38,000 pigs as swine fever spreadsBeijing (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 More than 38,000 pigs have been culled across China, state media said Sunday, as the world's largest pork producer scrambles to contain an outbreak of African swine fever. ... more  
A year after Irma, Antigua evicts Barbudan storm victims from shelterSt. John'S, Antigua And Barbuda (AFP) Sept 1, 2018 Dozens of Barbudans were forcibly evicted Saturday from a shelter on neighboring Antigua, leaving them without a home almost exactly a year after powerful Hurricane Irma devastated their island. ... more  
With rising sea levels, Bangkok struggles to stay afloatBangkok (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 As Bangkok prepares to host climate-change talks, the sprawling city of more than 10 million is itself under siege from the environment, with dire forecasts warning it could be partially submerged in just over a decade. ... more |
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'Major transformation' ahead for Earth's ecosystems: studyTampa (AFP) Aug 30, 2018 The Earth's forests, deserts, landscapes and vital ecosystems risk a "major transformation" in the next century due to climate change, international scientists warned on Thursday. ... more 
UN begins talks on treaty to protect imperiled high seasUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 United Nations member states on Tuesday kick off long-awaited talks on a 2020 treaty that would regulate the high seas, which cover half the planet yet lack adequate environmental protection. ... more 
Bolivia petitions ICJ over Chilean border river sourceLa Paz (AFP) Aug 31, 2018 Bolivia submitted a counterclaim against Chile at the International Court of Justice on Friday regarding a dispute over a border spring between the South American neighbors. ... more 
Sea squirts provide insights into gut defense evolutionWashington (UPI) Aug 24, 2018 In the guts of vertebrates, a thin layer of mucous protects the rest of the body from harmful bacteria. Most invertebrates have an intestinal membrane composed of chitin. ... more  
Pope urges clean up of plastic waste from oceansVatican City (AFP) Sept 1, 2018 Pope Francis on Saturday issued a call to clear up oceans threatened by plastic waste and underscored the need to provide drinking water to all as a basic right. ... more |
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In Kenya, rubbish reborn as artNairobi (AFP) Aug 31, 2018 In a room that is both home and studio, Evans Ngure works on a sculpture, a fantastical fish fabricated from found objects: wooden spoons, broken scissors and an old machete. ... more  |
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'Green hajj' slowly takes root in MeccaMina , Saudi Arabia (AFP) Aug 23, 2018 Thousands of cleaners are busy separating plastic from other rubbish as more than two million Muslims wrap up a pilgrimage to Mecca that presents a huge environmental challenge for Saudi Arabia. ... more 
Chilean environmentalists fight to protect glaciers from mining dustSantiago (AFP) Aug 31, 2018 Chile is home to four-fifths of South America's glaciers and has some of the largest ice fields in the world outside the polar regions, but they are coming under threat from mining industry dust. ... more  
Can crunch talks bring the Paris climate treaty to life?Paris (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 As the pace of global warming races ahead of efforts to tame it, diplomats from more than 190 nations begin crunch UN climate talks in Bangkok Tuesday to breathe life into the Paris Agreement. ... more 
Trace metals in the air make big splash on life under the seaIthaca NY (SPX) Aug 31, 2018 In the ocean, a little bit of metal can go a long way. A new Cornell University-led study shows that trace metals, deposited by aerosols like dust and other particles in the atmosphere, have a hefty ... more 
Particulate pollution's impact varies greatly depending on where it originatedWashington DC (SPX) Aug 31, 2018 When it comes to aerosol pollution, as the old real estate adage says, location is everything. Aerosols are tiny particles that are spewed into the atmosphere by human activities, including bu ... more |
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 St. John'S, Antigua And Barbuda (AFP) Sept 1, 2018 
Dozens of Barbudans were forcibly evicted Saturday from a shelter on neighboring Antigua, leaving them without a home almost exactly a year after powerful Hurricane Irma devastated their island.
Around 40 people - half of them children, the youngest just a month old - were ousted from the National Technical Training Center after police and government officials descended on the building in ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 30, 2018 
Researchers have developed a compact imaging system that can measure the shape and light-reflection properties of objects with high speed and accuracy. This 5D hyperspectral imaging system - so-called because it captures multiple wavelengths of light plus spatial coordinates as a function of time - could benefit a variety of applications including optical-based sorting of products and identifyin ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2018 
Keeping an eye on our waters is more important than ever, as widespread drought continues to sweep Europe this summer.
Earth's changing sea levels are crucial indicators of how our environment is fairing, but monitoring it manually can be a labour-intensive, expensive, and at times even dangerous task.
Coastal areas provide additional complications, as shifting seabeds and currents m ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 30, 2018 
Arctic ice faces a threat from within, according to a new study by researchers at Yale University.
Scientists have identified a mass of "archived" heat trapped beneath the Arctic surface. The mass of warm water originated from hundreds of miles away, but has infiltrated the Arctic interior.
"We document a striking ocean warming in one of the main basins of the interior Arctic Oce ... more |
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 Norwich UK (SPX) Aug 31, 2018 
Globally, wheat, together with maize and rice, provides the most human nutrition. It can thrive in a whole range of different environments, even within a similar geographical region.
Exploring one hundred different wheat lines worldwide, the research team led by the Earlham Institute in collaboration with Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, University of Liverpool and the John Innes Centre have rev ... more |
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 Bago, Myanmar (AFP) Aug 31, 2018  Floods from a dam breach in Central Myanmar has left four people dead and three missing, a ministry official confirmed Friday, the first casualties reported two days after a portion of the levee collapsed from heavy monsoon rains.
The deceased were three men and one woman, said Phyu Lei Lei Tun, a director at the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement.
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 3, 2018 
China hosts African leaders Monday for a summit aimed at promoting Beijing's vision for development on the continent, even as it finds itself increasingly criticised over its debt-heavy approach to foreign aid.
President Xi Jinping and leaders from across the continent will meet at the two-day Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), with talks expected to focus on Xi's cherished "Belt and ... more |
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Aug 31, 2018 
Together with their sister group the Neandertals, Denisovans are the closest extinct relatives of currently living humans. "We knew from previous studies that Neandertals and Denisovans must have occasionally had children together", says Viviane Slon, researcher at the MPI-EVA and one of three first authors of the study. "But I never thought we would be so lucky as to find an actual offspring of ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 24, 2018  Once-a-century rains that have pounded the Indian state of Kerala and displaced 1.3 million people are in line with the predictions of climate scientists, who warn that worse is to come if global warming continues unabated.
The monsoon rains upon which farmers in the southwestern state depend for their food and livelihoods dumped two-and-a-half times the normal amount of water across the sta ... more |
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 Buffalo NY (SPX) Aug 31, 2018 
As the Sept. 15 launch date for NASA's new ice-monitoring satellite approaches, University at Buffalo scientists are among many worldwide who are counting down the days.
They're excited, but nervous, too. That's what happens when your future research is reliant on equipment that's going to be hurled, atop a flaming rocket, into the harsh environs of outer space. Or when - as in the case of ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 28, 2018  Laughing gas may explain why Earth's oceans didn't freeze over during the so-called Boring Billion, between 1.8 billion and 800 million years ago.
Jennifer Glass, an assistant professor at Georgia Tech, doesn't care for the term Boring Billion.
"Earth was a dynamic place during this period," Glass told UPI.
This maligned period of Earth's history is of particular interest ... 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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 University Park PA (SPX) Sep 03, 2018 
A wearable energy-harvesting device could generate energy from the swing of an arm while walking or jogging, according to a team of researchers from Penn State's Materials Research Institute and the University of Utah. The device, about the size of a wristwatch, produces enough power to run a personal health monitoring system.
"The devices we make using our optimized materials run somewher ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2018 
What happens to endangered prey when a top predator makes a comeback?
In central Kenya, lions are making a resurgence. Some conservationists have expressed concern that the comeback of the lion will jeopardize the health of another imperiled species, the Grevy's zebra.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies the lion as threatened. Grevy's zebra, Equus grevy ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 2, 2018  Police in central China said Sunday they arrested nearly 50 people after a violent protest sparked by dissatisfaction with the local school system.
More than 600 protesters gathered outside a police station in Leiyang city in Hunan province around midnight Saturday after security personnel stopped a protest earlier in the day, police said in a statement on their website.
They said they ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 31, 2018 
Forest ecosystems are elementary for a climatic balance. Countries such as China have recognized this fact; for years, they have been conducting extensive afforestation programs to compensate their rising CO2 emissions.
As part of the global carbon cycle, forests take up about 45 percent of the carbon from the environment and bind it in the soil and as biomass over long periods of time. At ... more |
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