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  Seattle WA (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 Polar bears likely survived past warm periods in the Arctic, when sea ice cover was low, by scavenging on the carcasses of stranded large whales. This food source sustained the bears when they were largely restricted to land, unable to roam the ice in search of seals to hunt. A new study led by the University of Washington found that although dead whales are still valuable sources of fat and protein for some polar bears, this resource will likely not be enough to sustain most bear populations in t ... read more |
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Wild chimpanzees share food with their friendsLeipzig, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 Sharing meat after hunting and exchanging other valued food items is considered key in the evolution of cooperation in human societies. One prominent idea is that humans share valuable foods to gain ... more  
EU forests can't help climate fight: studyParis (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 Europe cannot rely on its forests to help ward off the effects of climate change, experts warned Wednesday, calling instead for nations to protect their natural resources against the warming planet. ... more  
Scientists probe how dogs process wordsWashington DC (UPI) Oct 15, 2018 Dogs respond to verbal cues, but the degree with which dogs understand and process words remains a mystery. ... more  
Moroccan navy rescues 38 migrants at seaRabat (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 The Moroccan navy on Monday rescued 38 migrants and recovered one body from a boat that ran into trouble off the kingdom's coast, the official MAP news agency reported. ... more |
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Atlantic salmon use magnetic fields to navigate, even when landlockedWashington (UPI) Oct 8, 2018 Even when landlocked for several generations, Atlantic salmon can sense magnetic fields and use them to navigate, according to new research. ... more  
WSU Vancouver climate scientist sees stage set for reprise of worst known drought, faminePullman WA (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 A Washington State University researcher has completed the most thorough analysis yet of The Great Drought - the most devastating known drought of the past 800 years - and how it led to the Global F ... more 
Protecting nature the best way to keep planet cool: reportParis (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 The best - and fairest - way to cap global warming is to empower indigenous forest peoples, reduce food waste and slash meat consumption, an alliance of 38 NGOs said Monday. ... more  
World must slash meat consumption to save climate: studyParis (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 The world must drastically reduce its meat consumption in order to avoid devastating climate change, scientists said Wednesday in the most thorough study so far on how what we eat affects the environment. ... more  
Trump questions climate change during hurricane damage tourPanama City, United States (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 President Donald Trump on Monday met with victims of Hurricane Michael in devastated areas of Florida and Georgia but again cast doubt on the scientific consensus that climate change is caused by human activity. ... more |
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Gambia launches truth commission into ex-dictator's abuseBanjul, Gambia (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 The tiny West African state of The Gambia on Monday swore in an 11-member commission tasked with shedding light on summary executions, disappearances, torture, rape and other crimes under ousted dictator Yahya Jammeh. ... more  |
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Shareholders in Chile miner file suit over sale to China's TianqiSantiago (AFP) Oct 12, 2018 The controlling shareholder in Chile's lithium producer SQM has mounted a Constitutional Court challenge to halt regulators' decision greenlighting the sale of 24 percent of the company to Chinese group Tianqi. ... more 
Two Nigerian soldiers killed in mine blasts: sourcesKano, Nigeria (AFP) Oct 14, 2018 Two Nigerian soldiers were killed and nine others wounded in two separate mine blasts in the northeast where troops are battling Boko Haram extremists, military and militia sources said Sunday. ... more 
Anti-terror force in Sahel begins officer trainingNouakchott (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 A military school gathering five countries in the Sahel inducted its first officers on Monday into a programme to train future leaders of a joint anti-terror force. ... more  
Thousands protest proposed artificial islands for Hong Kong housingHong Kong (AFP) Oct 14, 2018 Thousands took to the streets in Hong Kong Sunday to protest a government plan to build new housing on artificial islands, claiming the "white elephant" project will damage the environment and line the pockets of developers. ... more  
Delhi braces for pollution with emergency planNew 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. ... 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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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 15, 2018 
The Russian 3D Bioprinting Solutions company is preparing to send the duplicate equipment for experiments at the International Space Station (ISS) in the near future, the company's co-founder and managing partner, Yousef Hesuani, said.
"Organ.Aut and cosmonauts have a duplicate [of the printer], it will be ready to fly to the ISS in the near future. We will work out a separate cycle graph ... 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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 Seattle WA (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 
Polar bears likely survived past warm periods in the Arctic, when sea ice cover was low, by scavenging on the carcasses of stranded large whales. This food source sustained the bears when they were largely restricted to land, unable to roam the ice in search of seals to hunt.
A new study led by the University of Washington found that although dead whales are still valuable sources of fat a ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 
The world must drastically reduce its meat consumption in order to avoid devastating climate change, scientists said Wednesday in the most thorough study so far on how what we eat affects the environment.
As humanity grapples with tough choices to offset a rapidly heating planet, the research suggests that the Western world would need to slash its meat intake by 90 percent to avoid crippling ... 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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 Banjul, Gambia (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 
The tiny West African state of The Gambia on Monday swore in an 11-member commission tasked with shedding light on summary executions, disappearances, torture, rape and other crimes under ousted dictator Yahya Jammeh.
President Adama Barrow hailed the panel as a vital step towards national healing.
In a tweet, he said: "Let us stand together to say: 'Never again shall a few people oppres ... more |
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 
Sharing meat after hunting and exchanging other valued food items is considered key in the evolution of cooperation in human societies. One prominent idea is that humans share valuable foods to gain future favors, such that those we chose to share with are more likely to cooperate with us in the future.
Despite regularly occurring in humans, sharing food outside of kinship or mating relati ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 
Century-scale climate variability was enhanced when the Earth was warmer during the Last Interglacial period (129-116 thousand years ago) compared to the current interglacial (the last 11,700 years), according to a new UCL-led study.
The findings, published in Nature Communications and funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Australian Research Council (ARC), reve ... 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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 Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 
For years, scientists have been trying to determine the climate of the past in order to make better predictions about future climate conditions. Now, there has been a breakthrough in the methodology of climate reconstruction based on microbial molecular fossils.
Researchers under the direction of the University of Basel analyzed sediment samples collected from more than 30 Swiss lakes. The ... 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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 Aliso Viejo CA (SPX) Oct 16, 2018 
esVolta, a developer and owner of utility-scale energy storage projects across North America, has been selected by Southern California Edison Company (SCE) to deliver a series of lithium-ion battery energy storage systems in Riverside and Ventura Counties.
Under the contracts, which are pending approval by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), esVolta will develop, build, and ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 15, 2018 
Dogs respond to verbal cues, but the degree with which dogs understand and process words remains a mystery.
To better understand how the canine brain comprehends different words, scientists imaged the brains of dogs responding to verbal cues. The analysis suggests dogs develop a basic neural image and definition of learned words.
"Many dog owners think that their dogs know what s ... more |
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 Hong 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.
Lau Siu Lai - who was unseated from the legislative council in 2016 for failing to properly take her oath in protest at Beijing - was barred by electoral authorities from running in a by-election scheduled f ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 
Europe cannot rely on its forests to help ward off the effects of climate change, experts warned Wednesday, calling instead for nations to protect their natural resources against the warming planet.
The world's current roadmap to mitigate climate disaster encourages EU nations to use their forests to help suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.
But European scientists now say no app ... more |
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