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  Panama City, United States (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 Hurricane Michael closed in on Florida's Gulf Coast Wednesday as an "extremely dangerous" category four storm packing winds of up to 140 mph (220 kph) and a huge sea surge, the National Hurricane Center said. Forecasters were calling it an "unprecedented" weather event for the area. The center said the storm could grow and is expected to slam ashore later in the day in Florida as a "life-threatening event." As outer rainbands from the storm lashed the coast, it said a storm surge of up to 13 ... read more |
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Haiti quake toll rises to 17Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Oct 9, 2018 The death toll from the earthquake that struck northwest Haiti over the weekend has risen to 17, with nearly 350 others injured, the interior ministry said Tuesday. ... more  
Siberian paleontologists discovered the oldest macro-skeleton remainsWashington DC (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 The oldest skeleton remains known to fossil chronicle of the Earth belonged to the microorganisms that lived 700-650 million years ago. International research team proved that a larger organisms of ... more  
Living organisms find a critical balanceTempe AZ (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 Biologists know a lot about how life works, but they are still figuring out the big questions of why life exists, why it takes various shapes and sizes, and how life is able to amazingly adapt to fi ... more  
A step towards biological warfare with insects?Munich, Germany (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 Owing to present-day armed conflicts, the general public is well aware of the terrifying effects of chemical weapons. Meanwhile, the effects of biological weapons have largely disappeared from publi ... more |
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'Carbon sink' Bhutan counts cost of plans for green futurePunakha, Bhutan (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 The gentle whirring of the wind turbine speaks volumes of Bhutan's record as the world's only carbon negative country, but major challenges stand in the way of the Himalayan kingdom's decision to follow a green path over rampant economic expansion. ... more  
Trump questions UN global warming reportWashington (AFP) Oct 9, 2018 US President Donald Trump said he has yet to read a UN report warning of global warming-caused chaos unless drastic action is taken and added that he is skeptical. ... more 
Dutch court tells government to slash greenhouse gasThe Hague (AFP) Oct 9, 2018 The Dutch government on Tuesday lost a legal appeal against a landmark court ruling which ordered it to slash greenhouse gases by at least 25 percent by 2020. ... more 
UN warns paradigm shift needed to avert global climate chaosIncheon, South Korea (AFP) Oct 8, 2018 Avoiding global climate chaos will require a major transformation of society and the world economy that is "unprecedented in scale," the UN said Monday in a landmark report that warns time is running out to avert disaster. ... more  
When yesterday's agriculture feeds today's water pollutionMontreal, Canada (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 A study led by researchers at Universite de Montreal quantifies for the first time the maximum amount of nutrients - specifically, phosphorus - that can accumulate in a watershed before additional p ... more |
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 The origins of America's High Plains landscape  
Cost of climate-linked disasters soars: UNGeneva (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 The economic cost of climate-related disasters hit $2.25 trillion over the last two decades, an increase of more than 250 percent compared to the previous 20 years, the UN said Wednesday. ... more  |
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Two Britons among eight dead in Majorca flash floodsMadrid (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 At least eight people have died, including two British nationals, and several others are missing in flash floods on the Spanish holiday island of Majorca, authorities and emergency services said Wednesday. ... more  
Hong Kong will 'fearlessly take action' against independence talkHong Kong (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 Hong Kong will "fearlessly take action" against independence calls and protect China's interests, leader Carrie Lam said Wednesday, as concerns grow that the city's freedoms face an unprecedented challenge from Beijing. ... more 
China's ultra wealthy buffeted as trade war bitesBeijing (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 China's ultra wealthy saw their ranks thinned this year as the trade war with the US pummelled stocks and shredded billions of dollars of paper wealth, a survey showed Wednesday. ... more  
Larger cities have smaller water footprint than less populated counterpartsUniversity 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 g ... 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 |
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 Geneva (AFP) Oct 10, 2018  The economic cost of climate-related disasters hit $2.25 trillion over the last two decades, an increase of more than 250 percent compared to the previous 20 years, the UN said Wednesday.
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) noted that "climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of extreme weather events" such as floods and storms.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Oct 09, 2018  The vast majority of computing devices today are made from silicon, the second most abundant element on Earth, after oxygen. Silicon can be found in various forms in rocks, clay, sand, and soil. And while it is not the best semiconducting material that exists on the planet, it is by far the most readily available. As such, silicon is the dominant material used in most electronic devices, includi ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 8, 2018  Fertilizer can accumulate over time, causing environmental damage several decades later.
In a new study, scientists quantified the maximum amount of nutrients land can hold before fertilizers overflow into downriver ecosystems. Their analysis suggests an average square mile of land can hold 1,800 pounds of phosphorus - 2.1 metric tons per square kilometer.
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 Portland OR (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 
Antarctica's sandy polar desert, the McMurdo Dry Valleys, has undergone changes over the past decade and the recent discovery of thawing permafrost, thinning glaciers and melting ground ice by a Portland State University-led research team are signs that rapid and widespread change could be on the horizon.
Led by Andrew Fountain, a geology professor in PSU's College of Liberal Arts and Scie ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 
A study led by researchers at Universite de Montreal quantifies for the first time the maximum amount of nutrients - specifically, phosphorus - that can accumulate in a watershed before additional pollution is discharged into downriver ecosystems.
That average threshold amount is 2.1 tonnes per square kilometre of land, the researchers estimate in their study published in Nature Geoscience ... more |
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 Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Oct 9, 2018 
The death toll from the earthquake that struck northwest Haiti over the weekend has risen to 17, with nearly 350 others injured, the interior ministry said Tuesday.
Nine people were killed in the coastal city of Port-de-Paix, the closest major town to the quake's epicenter.
Seven more died in Gros-Morne, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) to the southeast and one was killed in the city of S ... 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  Avoiding global climate chaos will require a major transformation of society and the world economy that is "unprecedented in scale," the UN said Monday in a landmark report that warns time is running out to avert disaster.
Earth's surface has warmed one degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) - enough to lift oceans and unleash a crescendo of deadly storms, floods and droughts - and is on ... 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.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 
The oldest skeleton remains known to fossil chronicle of the Earth belonged to the microorganisms that lived 700-650 million years ago. International research team proved that a larger organisms of the same period, such as Palaeopascichnus linearis up to 20 centimeters long, also had a skeleton. The research is published in Precambrian Research.
Palaeopascichnus resembles a series of spher ... 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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 Madison WI (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 
Fuel cells have long been viewed as a promising power source. These devices, invented in the 1830s, generate electricity directly from chemicals, such as hydrogen and oxygen, and produce only water vapor as emissions. But most fuel cells are too expensive, inefficient, or both.
In a new approach, inspired by biology and online (Oct. 3, 2018) in the journal Joule, a University of Wisconsin- ... 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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