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  Paris (AFP) Sept 17, 2018 Global targets aimed at warding off runaway planetary warming could be breached sooner than expected, experts warned Monday, as gases released by melting permafrost threaten to undermine human efforts to avert climate disaster. Under the current rescue plan, outlined in the 2015 Paris climate treaty, countries have agreed to limit global temperature rises to "well below" two degrees Celsius, and 1.5C if deemed possible. That course of action assumes that dealing with manmade greenhouse gases - ... read more |
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Even moderate warming could melt Antarctic ice sheet: studyParis (AFP) Sept 19, 2018 Moderate global temperature rises of just two degrees Celsius could still be enough to melt parts of the largest ice sheet on Earth and raise sea levels by several metres, experts warned on Wednesday. ... more  
Two killed as storm hits Britain and IrelandLondon (AFP) Sept 19, 2018 A Swiss woman died after being blown off a cliff and a man was killed by a falling tree Wednesday as record winds lashed Britain and Ireland. ... more  
Six killed, dozens missing in new Philippine landslideNaga, Philippines (AFP) Sept 20, 2018 Six people were killed and dozens are missing after a landslide unleashed by monsoon rains struck in the central Philippines Thursday, inflicting more misery on the already storm-battered nation. ... more 
The Amazon is flooding five times more often than it used toWashington (UPI) Sep 19, 2018 The Amazon, the world's largest river, is flooding five times more frequently than it did 100 years ago. ... more |
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Airborne Response teams with Edgybees and UgCS to provide UAS software to respondersMiami FL (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 As potentially devasting major Hurricane Florence approaches the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast, UAS-based disaster response experts Airborne Response has partnered with Edgybees, the creators of Edgybees ... more  
Dominica's beloved wildlife still shaky a year after MariaRoseau, Dominica (AFP) Sept 17, 2018 'Sad' parrots and 'stressed-out' frogs might be unlikely contenders for concern in the aftermath of a catastrophic natural disaster. ... more  
Ancient amber reveals lacewing diversity during MesozoicWashington (UPI) Sep 17, 2018 The discovery of more than two dozen amber fossils has offered scientists new insights into the lacewing populations that pollinated plants during the Mesozoic. ... more  
Beavers have an impact on the climateHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 Growing beaver populations have created a large number of new habitats along rivers and ponds. Beaver dams raise the water level, enabling the dissolution of the organic carbon from the soil. From b ... more  
Nappy change: Dutch to turn diapers into furnitureThe Hague (AFP) Sept 18, 2018 Fed-up with a growing mountain of stinking disposable nappies, a Dutch firm Tuesday started building the country's first recycling plant to turn poo into profit. ... more |
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Chinese actress has high hopes for her Bordeaux vineyardSaint-�milion, France (AFP) Sept 18, 2018 A Chinese film star got her hands dirty Tuesday to kick off the harvest at her Bordeaux vineyard, which she aims to propel into the ranks of top estates as demand for French wines grows back home. ... more  |
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Earliest Mediterranean cheese production revealed by pottery over 7,000 years oldWashington DC (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 Fatty acids detected on potsherds from Croatian archaeological sites contain evidence of the earliest known cheese production in the Mediterranean region, according to a study published September 5, ... more 
Multiple facets of biodiversity reduce variability of grassland biomass productionLeipzig, Germany (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 A new study shows that, in addition to species richness, plant evolutionary history plays a critical role in regulating year-to-year variation of biomass production in grasslands. In the face of cli ... more 
Czech Republic to restrict use of glyphosate weedkillerPrague (AFP) Sept 17, 2018 The Czech Republic will limit the use of substances containing the controversial glyphosate weedkiller as of next year, the agriculture ministry said on Monday. ... more 
4.7 billion birds leave U.S. to winter in the tropics each fallWashington (UPI) Sep 17, 2018 Scientists at Cornell University used a combination of cloud computing and radar stations to tally the number of birds that leave and return to the United States each year during fall and spring migrations. Researchers also traced the movement of birds that winter inside the U.S. ... more 
Aging may be as old as life itselfLos Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 18, 2018 A new USC Dornsife study indicates that aging may have originated at the very beginning of the evolution of life, at the same time as the evolution of the first genes. "This could be a game ch ... more |
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 New York (AFP) Sept 19, 2018 
They arrived in New York from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island in September 2017, leaving widespread devastation in its wake and a death toll that would spiral to almost 3,000.
A year on, Joannelly Cruz and her mother Gloria Martinez are in a homeless shelter, part of a generation of Puerto Ricans struggling to rebuild shattered lives on the US mainland.
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 19, 2018 
Scientists from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI and the Russian Academy of Sciences' Scientific Research Institute of System Development have recently developed components for designing fault-tolerant asynchronous circuits, which can be used in space vehicles, the MEPhI press service reports.
Microcircuits that are traditionally used in cars and computers are poorly suited t ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 
A study simulating the final stages of terrestrial planet formation shows that 'hit-and-run' encounters play a significant role in the acquisition of water by large protoplanets, like those that grew into Mars and Earth. The results will be presented by Christoph Burger at the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) 2018 in Berlin.
Four and a half billion years ago, the inner solar syst ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Sept 19, 2018 
Moderate global temperature rises of just two degrees Celsius could still be enough to melt parts of the largest ice sheet on Earth and raise sea levels by several metres, experts warned on Wednesday.
As the pace of climate change rapidly outstrips mankind's attempts to rein it in, scientists delved into the distant past of glaciers in eastern Antarctica to predict what lay in store as our ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 18, 2018 
New evidence from the Maya city of Copan, in Honduras, reveals that ancient Mesoamericans routinely captured and traded wild animals for symbolic and ritual purposes, according to a study published September 12, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Nawa Sugiyama from George Mason University, Virginia, USA, and colleagues.
Ancient Mesoamerican cultures used wild animals such as puma ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 19, 2018 
The Amazon, the world's largest river, is flooding five times more frequently than it did 100 years ago.
Scientists in England, Chile and Brazil analyzed river level records dating back more than a century. The data showed extreme floods - when water levels rise at least 95 feet, triggering an emergency declaration in the city of Manaus - occurred approximately once every 20 years dur ... more |
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 Doumassi, Gabon (AFP) Sept 12, 2018 
Just back from the hunt with a choice selection of plants, Ebona feels at home in the endless forest where many Gabonese fear to tread.
"Townsfolk paid me to find these leaves," the Pygmy says, setting the heap down outside his wooden hut, 500 metres (yards) from the rest of Doumassi village in north Gabon.
Ebona's people, the Baka, are held in folklore to be Africa's oldest inhabitants, ... more |
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 London UK (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 
Analysis of bones, from what was once the world's largest bird, has revealed that humans arrived on the tropical island of Madagascar more than 6,000 years earlier than previously thought - according to a study published, 12 September 2018, in the journal Science Advances.
A team of scientists led by international conservation charity ZSL (Zoological Society of London) discovered that anci ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 18, 2018 
Scientists have discovered evidence of ancient climate change beneath the base of Mont Saint Genis in Southern France. A buried pine forest has provided scientists insights into a sudden and extreme cold snap 12,900 years ago.
During the so-called Allerød oscillation, a period lasting from 13,900 to 12,900 years ago, Europe was warm and wet. But surveys of sediment and ice cores sugges ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 17, 2018 
For more than 20 years, changes in ozone over Antarctica have been carefully monitored by a succession of European satellites. This important long-term record is now being added to by the Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission, which is dedicated to atmospheric monitoring.
Protecting life on Earth from the Sun's harmful rays of ultraviolet radiation, the ozone layer is a very important, yet fragil ... more |
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 Gainesville FL (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 
Using the fossil record to accurately estimate the timing and pace of past mass extinctions is no easy task, and a new study highlights how fossil evidence can produce a misleading picture if not interpreted with care.
Florida Museum of Natural History researchers used a series of 130-foot cores drilled from the Po Plain in northeastern Italy to test a thought experiment: Imagine catastrop ... 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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 Dresden, Germany (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 
When light pulses from an extremely powerful laser system are fired onto material samples, the electric field of the light rips the electrons off the atomic nuclei. For fractions of a second, a plasma is created. The electrons couple with the laser light in the process, thereby almost reaching the speed of light.
When flying out of the material sample, they pull the atomic cores (ions) beh ... more |
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 Athens GA (SPX) Sep 18, 2018 
About 61 percent of the world's 356 turtle species are threatened or already extinct, and the decline could have ecological consequences. These findings are according to a new paper in Bioscience synthesizing the global status of turtles and their ecological roles by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute, University of California, Davis, and the Un ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 13, 2018  A Chinese Protestant pastor is vowing to keep preaching to his flock despite the closure of his prominent underground church in Beijing, defying the government's intensifying pressure on religious groups.
Pastor Jin Mingri had given sermons at the Zion Church, one of the biggest unofficial congregations in the country, for the past decade until local officials shut it down on Sunday.
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 Houghton MI (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 
While demand for energy isn't dropping, alarms raised by burning fossil fuels in order to get that energy are getting louder. Often suggested solutions to cancel out the effects of the carbon dumped into our atmosphere through carbon capture and storage or bio-sequestration. This zero-emission energy uses technical means as well as plants to take in carbon emissions and store it. Another route i ... more |
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