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  Edinburgh UK (SPX) Oct 11, 2018 Male chimps that are less aggressive and form strong social bonds tend to live longer, research suggests. A study of hundreds of captive chimpanzees showed that males that get along well with others - by being sensitive, protective and cooperative - outlived their less amiable peers. The team, led by researchers at the University of Edinburgh, found that, contrary to studies of humans and other primates, being more extroverted, conscientious or neurotic had no impact on chimpanzee's longevit ... read more |
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Schools in southern Oman close ahead of cycloneMuscat (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 Oman announced schools in Dhofar governorate will close Thursday as a cyclone gathers strength in the Arabian Sea, five months after Cyclone Mekunu killed 11 people in the sultanate and Yemen. ... more 
Tsunami threat cancelled after 7.0 quake hits PNGSydney (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea's New Britain island on Thursday, briefly triggering a tsunami alert before authorities gave the all clear. ... more  
Morocco navy fires on migrant boat, wounding oneRabat (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 The Moroccan navy opened fire on a boat transporting migrants from the North African country, wounding one of them, a military source said on Wednesday. ... more 
Search called off in Indonesian quake-tsunami: officialPalu, Indonesia (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 The search for those killed in Indonesia's quake-tsunami disaster was called off Thursday, despite there being around 5,000 people still missing. ... more |
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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 150 percent compared to the previous 20 years, the UN said Wednesday. ... more  
Judge mulls slashing $290 mn award in Roundup cancer caseSan Francisco (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 A judge on Wednesday was mulling whether to gut a jury order that Monsanto pay $290 million in damages for not warning a groundskeeper that its weed killer product Roundup might cause cancer. ... more 
Three dead, IMF summit shaken as strong quake hits IndonesiaJakarta (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 An earthquake Thursday killed three people in Indonesia and rattled hotels where IMF delegates are attending a major summit, a fortnight after a quake-tsunami killed more than 2,000 elsewhere in the archipelago. ... more 
Escaping the 'monster's roar': A US hurricane survivor's storyPanama City, United States (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 With Hurricane Michael swirling around her, Loren Beltran thought the safest place would be her boyfriend's apartment, in a sturdy building designed to withstand a Category Five storm - the maximum. ... more 
Thousands evacuated as explosions spark fire at Ukraine arms depotZaudaika, Ukraine (AFP) Oct 9, 2018 More than 12,000 people were evacuated after ammunition stored at an arms depot in northern Ukraine began exploding early on Tuesday sparking a huge fire, authorities said. ... more |
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Britons among 10 dead in Majorca flash floodsSant Llorenc Des Cardassar, Spain (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 At least 10 people died, including two Britons, and a boy remained missing Wednesday after flash floods hit the Spanish holiday island of Majorca, tearing through village streets and sweeping away cars. ... more  |
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Goat brigades help battle Portugal's deadly wildfiresLoriga, Portugal (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 Fernando Moura and his herd may not look like heroes but the Portuguese farmer and his 370 goats are the latest recruits in the country's battle against summer forest fires. ... more  
Hunting a shadowy armed militia in DR Congo's 'triangle of death'Beni, Dr Congo (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 "I am always anticipating an attack," says South African soldier Maijeke of how it feels to be in DR Congo's "triangle of death", where he is part of a UN peacekeeping force helping the Congolese army hunt down a militia group that is slaughtering civilians. ... more 
Florida girds for 'extremely dangerous' category 4 hurricanePanama 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. ... more 
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  
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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 Rabat (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 
The Moroccan navy opened fire on a boat transporting migrants from the North African country, wounding one of them, a military source said on Wednesday.
Despite warning shots, "the motorboat that was carrying 58 migrants hidden under tarpaulin made a hostile move which forced the coastguard to fire at the captain," said the source in Rabat, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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 Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 
Scientists at the University of Basel have found a way to change the spatial arrangement of bipyridine molecules on a surface. These potential components of dye-sensitized solar cells form complexes with metals and thereby alter their chemical conformation. The results of this interdisciplinary collaboration between chemists and physicists from Basel were recently published in the scientific jou ... 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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 San Francisco (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 
A judge on Wednesday was mulling whether to gut a jury order that Monsanto pay $290 million in damages for not warning a groundskeeper that its weed killer product Roundup might cause cancer.
In motions filed after the historic August verdict, Monsanto urged the judge to strip away the $250 million punitive portion of the damages, arguing that a new trial was justified.
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 New Delhi (AFP) Oct 11, 2018  A cyclone packing winds of over 125 kilometres (80 miles) per hour and heavy rains hit eastern India early Thursday, local media reported, with over 300,000 people evacuated from low-lying areas.
Cyclone Titli, which intensified into a "very severe cyclonic storm" over the Bay of Bengal, made landfall near Gopalpur on India's east coast, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency reported. ... more |
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 Beni, Dr Congo (AFP) Oct 10, 2018  "I am always anticipating an attack," says South African soldier Maijeke of how it feels to be in DR Congo's "triangle of death", where he is part of a UN peacekeeping force helping the Congolese army hunt down a militia group that is slaughtering civilians.
There has been a recent spike in violence in this volatile eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo blamed on the Allied Demo ... more |
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 Edinburgh UK (SPX) Oct 11, 2018 
Male chimps that are less aggressive and form strong social bonds tend to live longer, research suggests.
A study of hundreds of captive chimpanzees showed that males that get along well with others - by being sensitive, protective and cooperative - outlived their less amiable peers.
The team, led by researchers at the University of Edinburgh, found that, contrary to studies of human ... 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 150 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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 Seattle WA (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 
About a quarter of the world's seafood caught in the ocean comes from bottom trawling, a method that involves dragging a net along the ocean's shelves and slopes to scoop up shrimp, cod, rockfish, sole and other kinds of bottom-dwelling fish and shellfish. The technique impacts these seafloor ecosystems, because other marine life and habitats can be killed or disturbed unintentionally as nets sw ... more |
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 Tokyo, 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 the first time and improved the whale shark genome sequences released previously. By analyzing the genomes and comparing them with those of other vertebrate species, they have constructed an overview ... 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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 Boston MA (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 
A class exercise at MIT, aided by industry researchers, has led to an innovative solution to one of the longstanding challenges facing the development of practical fusion power plants: how to get rid of excess heat that would cause structural damage to the plant.
The new solution was made possible by an innovative approach to compact fusion reactors, using high-temperature superconducting ... 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 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.
The number of Chinese, or China-based magnates, with a net worth over 2 billion yuan ($290 million) fell by 237 to 1,893 individuals this year, according to the annual ranking compiled by Shanghai-based luxury magaz ... 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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