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  University Park PA (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 Global sustainability is important now more than ever due to increasing urban populations and the resulting stress it can have on natural resources. But increased populations in cities may lead to greater efficiency, as a team of Penn State researchers discovered when they analyzed the water footprint of 65 mid- to large-sized U.S. cities. "Human life on the planet has never been more complex," said Caitlin Grady, assistant professor of civil engineering. "We're so intertwined with so many aspects ... read more |
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Florida braces for lethal floods as hurricane nearsMiami (AFP) Oct 8, 2018 Florida was warned Monday to plan for "life-threatening" flash flooding as Michael heads for the US Gulf Coast, where it is expected to make landfall midweek as a major Category 3 hurricane. ... more  
Haiti quake upends lives already stressed by povertyPort De Paix, Haiti (AFP) Oct 8, 2018 Quake-hit Port-de-Paix was back to its daily routines Monday but in poor neighborhoods like l'Hopital, on a steep hill that looks out to the sea beyond the Haitian city, people's troubles are just beginning. ... more  
100 years on, Spanish Flu holds lessons for next pandemicParis (AFP) Oct 8, 2018 It was the disease to end all others, infecting a third of humanity, killing tens of millions in their beds and prompting panicked talk of the end of days across continents still reeling from war. ... more  
Getting a grip on the slow but unique evolution of sharksTokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 Scientists at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan, in collaboration with other Japanese institutes and aquariums, have decoded the whole genomes of two shark species for ... more |
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New spheres trick, trap and terminate water contaminantHouston TX (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 Rice University scientists have developed something akin to the Venus' flytrap of particles for water remediation. Micron-sized spheres created in the lab of Rice environmental engineer Pedro ... more 
Fertilizer can accumulate over time, causing water quality problems decades laterWashington (UPI) Oct 8, 2018 Fertilizer can accumulate over time, causing environmental damage several decades later. ... more 
Monuments to remember dead and missing in quake-ravaged IndonesiaPalu, Indonesia (AFP) Oct 8, 2018 Monuments and parks will be built over parts of Indonesia's Palu as a solemn tribute to the thousands buried in a quake-tsunami whose corpses will never be found, officials said Monday. ... more 
Morocco navy says 615 migrants saved in weekend opsRabat (AFP) Oct 8, 2018 Morocco's Royal Navy said Monday its forces rescued 615 migrants from 31 boats that ran into trouble in the Mediterranean at the weekend while trying to reach Spain. ... more  
NASA Study Connects Southern California, Mexico FaultsPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 09, 2018 A multiyear study has uncovered evidence that a 21-mile-long (34-kilometer-long) section of a fault links known, longer faults in southern California and northern Mexico into a much longer continuou ... more |
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 'Ten Years Japan' film omnibus imagines post-nuclear future  
Carbon emissions from Amazonian forest fires up to 4 times worse than fearedLancaster UK (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 Carbon losses caused by El Nino forest fires of 2015 and 2016 could be up to four times greater than thought, according to a study of 6.5 million hectares of forest in Brazilian Amazonia. New ... more  |
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Brazil stock market soars after far-right candidate's first-round winRio De Janeiro (AFP) Oct 8, 2018 Brazil's stock market soared Monday after far-right firebrand Jair Bolsonaro handily won the first round of the presidential election with a promise of sweeping economic reforms. ... more  
Interpol's former Chinese chief accused of briberyBeijing (AFP) Oct 8, 2018 The former Chinese head of Interpol, who went missing last month, was accused of accepting bribes on Monday, becoming the latest top official to fall in President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption dragnet. ... more 
EU condemns Hong Kong's expulsion of British reporterBrussels (AFP) Oct 8, 2018 The European Union added its voice on Monday to a chorus of condemnation of Hong Kong's decision to order a leading British journalist to leave the city. ... more  
Secondary forests have short lifespansSt Louis MO (SPX) Oct 08, 2018 Secondary forests, or forests that have regrown after agriculture use, only last an average of 20 years, according to a recently released scientific paper. The finding presents a major problem ... more  
Viruses influenced gene sharing between Neanderthals and humansWashington DC (SPX) Oct 08, 2018 Human evolution used to be depicted as a straight line, gradually progressing from an ape-like ancestor to modern Homo sapiens. But thanks to next-generation sequencing - as well as the discovery of ... more |
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 Port De Paix, Haiti (AFP) Oct 8, 2018  Quake-hit Port-de-Paix was back to its daily routines Monday but in poor neighborhoods like l'Hopital, on a steep hill that looks out to the sea beyond the Haitian city, people's troubles are just beginning.
Nearly all the flimsily built houses along the mudslicked corridor that runs up the hill through L'Hopital show damage from Saturday's 5.9 magnitude quake.
"When a quake comes, there ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 5, 2018 
Scientists have identified a pattern of genetic mutation among the children of soldiers exposed to radar.
Prior to the 1990s, most radar systems were poorly insulated. Those operating and working in close proximity to the systems were regularly exposed to the unconfined radiation.
Today, the radiation emitted by radar systems is well-contained and soldiers are better protected. H ... more |
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 Princeton NJ (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 
When nitrogen-based fertilizers flow into water bodies, the result can be deadly for marine life near shore, but what is the effect of nitrogen pollution far out in the open ocean?
A 130-year-old brain coral has provided the answer, at least for the North Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast of the United States. By measuring the nitrogen in the coral's skeleton, a team of researchers led by ... more |
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 New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 
Persistent weather conditions, including dry and wet spells, generally have increased in the United States, perhaps due to rapid Arctic warming, according to a Rutgers-led study.
Persistent weather conditions can lead to weather extremes such as drought, heat waves, prolonged cold and storms that can cost millions of dollars in damage and disrupt societies and ecosystems, the study says. ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Oct 5, 2018 
Farmers in drought-stricken parts of Australia are celebrating after the heavens opened up this week, inundating parched lands with more than a month's rain in one day following the country's driest September on record.
Eastern Australia has been suffering from an extended dry period - in some regions stretching across several years - leaving farmers struggling to keep their sheep and cat ... more |
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 Palu, Indonesia (AFP) Oct 8, 2018  Monuments and parks will be built over parts of Indonesia's Palu as a solemn tribute to the thousands buried in a quake-tsunami whose corpses will never be found, officials said Monday.
Nearly 2,000 bodies have been recovered since the disaster on September 28, but authorities believe another 5,000 may be entombed beneath the ruins.
The search will end Thursday, officials say, when the w ... more |
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 Goma, Dr Congo (AFP) Oct 5, 2018 
A rebel attack on an army post in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo left six people dead, civilian and military sources said Friday.
The Ugandan Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) is suspected of having carried out Thursday night's attack in the city of Beni, which sits near the DRC border with Uganda.
The raid is thought to have targeted General Marcel Mbangu but instead killed four othe ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 5, 2018 
Previous studies have highlighted the important role sleep plays in learning and memory formation. New research suggests, during sleep, a person's brain replays memories that go un-recalled when awake.
For their study, neuroscientists in Germany recruited epilepsy patients electrodes implanted in their brains for surgical planning. The electrodes allowed scientists to precisely record b ... more |
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 Incheon, South Korea (AFP) Oct 8, 2018 
Dismissed a decade ago as far-fetched and dangerous, schemes to tame global warming by engineering the climate have migrated from the margins of policy debates towards centre stage.
"Plan A" remains tackling the problem at its source. But a major UN climate science report released in South Korea on Monday makes it clear that slashing carbon pollution - even drastically - won't be enough to ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 
Scientists investigating how human-induced increases in atmospheric methane also increase the amount of solar energy absorbed by that gas in our climate system have discovered that this absorption is 10 times stronger over desert regions such as the Sahara Desert and Arabian Peninsula than elsewhere on Earth, and nearly three times more powerful in the presence of clouds.
A research team f ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 
A newly discovered fossil suggests that large, flowering trees grew in North America by the Turonian age, showing that these large trees were part of the forest canopies there nearly 15 million years earlier than previously thought.
Researchers from Adelphi University and the Burpee Museum of Natural History found the fossil in the Mancos Shale Formation in Utah, in ancient delta deposits ... more |
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 Buffalo NY (SPX) Oct 01, 2018 
A new study suggests the power industry is underestimating how climate change could affect the long-term demand for electricity in the United States.
The research, published in the journal Risk Analysis, was led by the University at Buffalo and Purdue University.
It describes the limitations of prediction models used by electricity providers and regulators for medium- and long-term e ... more |
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 Osaka, Japan (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 
An international joint research group led by Osaka University demonstrated that it was possible to efficiently heat plasma by focusing a relativistic electron beam (REB) accelerated by a high-intensity short-pulse laser with the application of a magnetic field of 600 tesla (T), about 600 times greater than the magnetic energy of a neodymium magnet (the strongest permanent magnet). Their research ... more |
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 Ahmedabad, India (AFP) Oct 2, 2018 
Ten endangered Asiatic lions have died in the last two weeks in India, authorities confirmed Tuesday, four of them from a virus that killed around 1,000 lions in Tanzania in the 1990s.
The new deaths take the toll at the Gir sanctuary in the western Gujarat state, home to India's entire population of around 500 wild Asiatic lions, to 21 since September.
India's National Institute of Viro ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Oct 8, 2018 
The former Chinese head of Interpol, who went missing last month, was accused of accepting bribes on Monday, becoming the latest top official to fall in President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption dragnet.
After days of concealing the fate of Meng Hongwei - who is also China's vice minister for public security - from the international community, the public security ministry said Monday he had a ... more |
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 St Louis MO (SPX) Oct 08, 2018 
Secondary forests, or forests that have regrown after agriculture use, only last an average of 20 years, according to a recently released scientific paper.
The finding presents a major problem for large-scale restoration policy, which often focuses on commitments to restore a certain number of hectares by a given year. But the benefits of restoration depend on those forests persisting. It ... more |
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