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  New Delhi (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 Delhi's biggest coal power plant was set to shut down Monday as a new emergency plan to improve air quality in one of the world's most polluted cities came into force, Indian officials said. Under the new strategy, restrictions on construction sites and traffic will be imposed depending on the air quality in the megacity of some 20 million people. When the air is classed as "poor", as it was on Monday, authorities will ban the burning of garbage in landfills as well as fire crackers and certain ... read more |
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Museveni visits site of deadly Uganda landslideBududa, Uganda (AFP) Oct 14, 2018 Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni visited eastern Bududa Sunday after 43 people died when a landslide caused a river to burst its banks, sending water and boulders cascading downhill. ... more  
Six dead as heavy storms hit southwestern FranceToulouse, France (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 At least six people died after heavy storms swamped parts of southwestern France, flooding rivers and cutting roads, officials said Monday. ... more 
Rescue teams in Florida search for survivors in hurricane-devastated Mexico BeachMexico Beach, United States (AFP) Oct 14, 2018 Carefully, the search and rescue team examines what is left of a house devastated by Hurricane Michael when it blasted through this small waterfront community days earlier. ... more 
'Zombie' storm Leslie smashes into PortugalLisbon (AFP) Oct 14, 2018 Violent storms hit Portugal early on Sunday, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power before carrying heavy rain on into Spain, authorities said. ... more |
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Boulders litter Uganda villages crushed by deadly landslideBududa, Uganda (AFP) Oct 13, 2018 On a muddy outcrop on the banks of the Sume river, grief-stricken families gaze at enormous boulders that stand testimony to the force of the deluge which engulfed their homes. ... more  
China launches new remote sensing satellitesJiuquan, China (XNA) Oct 12, 2018 Two remote sensing satellites were successfully sent into space Tuesday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The satellites, both part of the Yaogan-32 family, were lau ... more 
Innovative tool allows continental-scale water, energy, and land system modelingVienna, Austria (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 A new large-scale hydroeconomic model, developed by the Water Program at IIASA, will allow researchers to study water systems across whole continents, looking at sustainability of supply and the imp ... more  
Species-rich forests store twice as much carbon as monoculturesZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 In 2009, BEF-China began as a unique forest biodiversity experiment in collaboration between institutions in China, Germany and Switzerland. The large-scale project investigated the importance of tr ... more  
Easter Island inhabitants collected freshwater from the ocean's edge in order to surviveBinghamton NY (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 Ancient inhabitants of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) maintained a society of thousands by utilizing coastal groundwater discharge as their main source of "freshwater," according to new research from a te ... more |
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Feeding 10 billion people by 2050 within planetary limits may be achievableStockholm, Sweden (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 A global shift towards healthy and more plant-based diets, halving food loss and waste, and improving farming practices and technologies are required to feed 10 billion people sustainably by 2050, a ... more  |
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Fast, accurate estimation of the Earth's magnetic field for natural disaster detectionTokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have applied machine-learning techniques to achieve fast, accurate estimates of local geomagnetic fields using data taken at multiple observation point ... more  
Dolphins and whales in evolutionary arms race to fight disease threatsFort Pierce FL (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 Dolphins, whales and other cetaceans are susceptible to many of the same health hazards as humans including mercury, brevotoxin (e.g. Red Tide), and lobomycosis. They also serve as important sentine ... more  
Nigerian troops foil Boko Haram attack on base: armyKano, Nigeria (AFP) Oct 13, 2018 Nigerian troops have foiled an attempt by Boko Haram fighters to overrun a military base in the restive northeast leaving six soldiers wounded, the army said on Saturday. ... more 
Elite soldiers protest over pay at Ethiopia PM's officeAddis Ababa (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 Dozens of Ethiopian soldiers marched on the prime minister's office to demand better pay, triggering an internet blackout in Addis Ababa that was lifted Thursday. ... more  
Ousted Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker barred from by-electionHong Kong (AFP) Oct 12, 2018 An ousted Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker was Friday barred from trying to win back her seat because of her support for self-determination, in the latest blow to the city's democrats. ... more |
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 Nusa Dua, Indonesia (AFP) Oct 14, 2018 
The World Bank on Sunday announced funding of up to $1 billion for Indonesia after it was rocked by a string of recent disasters, including a deadly earthquake-tsunami that killed thousands.
CEO Kristalina Georgieva unveiled the funds at Indonesian holiday island Bali, where the Bank and the International Monetary Fund have been holding their annual meetings.
A 7.5-magnitude quake and a ... more |
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 Blacksburg VA (SPX) Oct 11, 2018 
Computers used to take up entire rooms. Today, a two-pound laptop can slide effortlessly into a backpack. But that wouldn't have been possible without the creation of new, smaller processors - which are only possible with the innovation of new materials.
But how do materials scientists actually invent new materials? Through experimentation, explains Sanket Deshmukh, an assistant professor ... more |
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 Binghamton NY (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 
Ancient inhabitants of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) maintained a society of thousands by utilizing coastal groundwater discharge as their main source of "freshwater," according to new research from a team of archaeologists including faculty at Binghamton University, State University at New York.
The team, which included Binghamton University Professor of Anthropology Carl Lipo, measured the sa ... more |
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 Abu Dhabi UAE (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 
Research scientists at NYU Abu Dhabi, along with other global researchers, have identified a new mechanism by which warm dust travels from the Sahara Desert to the Arctic Circle, which has been proven to affect rising temperatures and ice melt in Greenland.
Their findings highlight the role that the polar jet and associated atmospheric circulation plays in the transport of mineral dust fro ... more |
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 Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 
A global shift towards healthy and more plant-based diets, halving food loss and waste, and improving farming practices and technologies are required to feed 10 billion people sustainably by 2050, a new study finds. Adopting these options reduces the risk of crossing global environmental limits related to climate change, the use of agricultural land, the extraction of freshwater resources, and t ... more |
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 Houghton MI (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 
The road cut seems rather dull and gray at first, but the tuff and pumice rocks hold the secrets of a volcano. Covered in green ferns and brown roots, the rocks lock in the compositional and temporal signatures from past eruptions of the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand.
Taupo is an active system, where some of the world's largest eruptions have occurred over the past two million years. In ... more |
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 Kano, Nigeria (AFP) Oct 13, 2018 
Nigerian troops have foiled an attempt by Boko Haram fighters to overrun a military base in the restive northeast leaving six soldiers wounded, the army said on Saturday.
Troops "successfully repelled (a) Boko Haram terrorist attack" on a base in the town of Arge in Borno state on Friday, army spokesman Texas Chukwu said in a statement.
"Several members of the Boko Haram terrorists wer ... 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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 Oslo, Norway (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 
The countries of the world still need to cut their carbon dioxide emissions to reach the Paris Agreement's climate targets, especially if that target is now 1.5 C instead of 2 C. Relying on tree planting and alternative technological solutions such as geoengineering will not make enough of a difference.
"We can't rely on geoengineering to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement," says Helene ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 15, 2018 
Launched in June 1999 for an intended two-year mission, NASA's SeaWinds scatterometer instrument on the QuikSCAT spacecraft was turned off on Oct. 2 in accordance with its end-of-mission plan. QuikSCAT spent its first decade creating an unprecedented record of the speed and direction of winds at the ocean surface. Then, for another nine years, it served as the gold standard of accuracy against w ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 
By the time non-avian dinosaurs went extinct, plant-eating sauropods like the Brontosaurus had grown to gargantuan proportions. Weighing in as much as 100 tons, the long-neck behemoths are the largest land animals to ever walk the earth.
How they grew so large from ancestors that were small enough to be found in a modern-day petting zoo has remained a mystery. A new, in-depth anatomical de ... 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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 Matsumoto, Japan (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 
A team of researchers from Shinshu University in Nagano, Japan is now closer to a thin, high-capacity lithium-ion battery that could open the gates to better energy storage systems for electric vehicles.
The research team was led by professor Katsuya Teshima, director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Science (hereinafter called CEES) at Shinshu University in Japan. They published ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 11, 2018  Just like humans, lizards experience two different sleep states, suggesting the cold-blooded creatures dream.
The brains of all animals perform important functions during sleep - memories get processed and organized, the metabolic trash gets taken out, neuronal energy reserves get replenished. But until now, scientists thought only land mammals and some birds experienced two different ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 
China is undertaking unprecedented repression of its ethnic minorities including Muslim Uighurs, with authoritarian tactics potentially constituting "crimes against humanity" as human rights conditions deteriorate, a damning US congressional report released Wednesday concluded.
The bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China said in its annual report repression has worsened in rec ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 
In 2009, BEF-China began as a unique forest biodiversity experiment in collaboration between institutions in China, Germany and Switzerland. The large-scale project investigated the importance of tree species richness for the good functioning of forest ecosystems.
Stands of trees comprising different numbers of species were planted - from monocultures to highly species-rich plots with 16 d ... more |
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