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  Pohang, South Korea (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 Changes in Atlantic Ocean sea surface temperatures can be used to predict extreme climatic variations known as El Nino and La Nina more than a year in advance, according to research conducted at Korea's Pohang University of Science and Technology and published in the journal Scientific Reports. The El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an irregular, periodic variation in trade winds and sea and air temperatures in the equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean, . Its warming phase of sea surface temp ... read more |
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Oldest evidence for animals found by UCR researchersRiverside CA (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have found the oldest clue yet of animal life, dating back at least 100 million years before the famous Cambrian explosion of animal fossils. ... more  
Antarctic ice shelf 'sings' as winds whip across its surfaceWashington DC (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 Winds blowing across snow dunes on Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf cause the massive ice slab's surface to vibrate, producing a near-constant set of seismic "tones" scientists could potentially use to m ... more 
Arctic sea ice decline driving ocean phytoplankton farther northWashington DC (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 Phytoplankton blooms that form the base of the marine food web are expanding northward into ice-free waters where they have never been seen before, according to new research. A new study based ... more 
Scientists find missing piece in glacier melt predictionsStanford CA (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 Stanford scientists have revealed the presence of water stored within a glacier in Greenland, where the rapidly changing ice sheet is a major contributor to the sea-level rise North America will exp ... more |
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DR Congo signs $14 bn dam development deal with China, SpainKinshasa (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 The Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday announced a deal with Chinese and Spanish partners for the development of a much-delayed $14 billion hydroelectric project. ... more  
Can forests save us from climate change?Aarhus, Denmark (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 A new study published in Nature has found that managing Europe's forests to maximise carbon sequestration has a negligible effect on the global climate. If you think that sustainable forest ma ... more  
The science of sustainabilityBoulder CO (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 The U.S. city of Louisville, Kentucky isn't known as a hotbed of environmental action and innovation, but that could change as it has recently become home to a first-of-its-kind collaboration betwee ... more  
Floods in Niger claim 45 lives since June: UNNiamey (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 Forty-five people have died in the arid west African country of Niger in flooding since June, and nearly 209,000 have been affected, the UN said on Tuesday. ... more 
At least 30 killed by Hurricane Michael, according to estimatesWashington (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 Hurricane Michael killed at least 30 people in four states, as the storm made its way through the southeastern United States last week, new local estimates showed Tuesday. ... more |
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Terror-hit French town suffers second trauma in floodsParis (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 A French town that was the scene of a jihadist shooting spree earlier this year has been swamped by floods, with one local woman known to have lost her husband in the attack and her parents in the latest disaster, officials said Tuesday. ... more  |
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Dozens dead in Niger/Nigeria crackdown on criminal gangsNiamey (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 At least 30 "bandits" have been killed during a crackdown by the armies of Niger and Nigeria in their troubled frontier where kidnappings and cattle rustling are rife, Niger's interior minister said Tuesday. ... more 
Ethiopian PM hands half of cabinet to women, including defence jobAddis Ababa (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday unveiled a downsized cabinet where, in a first, half the members are women, a top official said. ... more  
Chinese live-streamer held for 'insulting' national anthemShanghai (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 A popular Chinese live-streamer has been sentenced to five days detention for "insulting" China's national anthem by waving her arms and mimicking a conductor as she sung the song during a broadcast to millions of her followers. ... more  
Two degrees decimated Puerto Rico's insect populationsTroy NY (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 While temperatures in the tropical forests of northeastern Puerto Rico have climbed two degrees Celsius since the mid-1970s, the biomass of arthropods - invertebrate animals such as insects, millipe ... more 
Mammals cannot evolve fast enough to escape current extinction crisisAarhus, Denmark (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 We humans are exterminating animal and plant species so quickly that nature's built-in defence mechanism, evolution, cannot keep up. An Aarhus-led research team calculated that if current conservati ... 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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 Bremen, Germany (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 
Luxembourg-based Kleos Space S.A. has signed a second Memorandum of Understanding with Airbus Defence and Space, as both companies investigate opportunities to collaborate for the manufacture In-Space of structural elements.
Kleos Space and parent Magna Parva (UK) have developed an In-Space manufacturing system that will provide a method of producing huge carbon composite 3D structures in ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 9, 2018 
Oyster populations are likely to suffer, accelerating mortality rates as the effects of climate change progress, according to a new study.
The research, published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, suggests climate change - and its effects on regional climate variability, including an uptick in wet, warm winters - are likely to disrupt marine ecosystems and negativ ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 
NASA's decade-long airborne survey of polar ice, Operation IceBridge, is once again probing Antarctica. But this year is different: it is the first time that the IceBridge team and instruments survey the frozen continent while NASA's newest satellite mission, the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), studies it from space.
After successfully flying over the Bailey Ice Strea ... more |
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 Liverpool UK (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 
Adopting a more local and flexible approach to sustainable development could be key to boosting the productivity of small-scale chicken farms in Africa, a new study reports.
Research led by the University of Liverpool, in collaboration with UK and African partners, reveals village chicken populations in Ethiopia to be genetically diverse and highly adapted to their local physical, cultural ... more |
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 Chicago (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 
Communities along a rain-swollen river in central Texas were ordered evacuated Tuesday due to deadly flooding, as officials warned of more rains near the US state's capital Austin.
Police reported one fatality related to the flooding in Burnet County northwest of Austin, according to the local CBS television station.
Widespread flooding was reported as water levels of the Llano River r ... more |
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 Niamey (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 
At least 30 "bandits" have been killed during a crackdown by the armies of Niger and Nigeria in their troubled frontier where kidnappings and cattle rustling are rife, Niger's interior minister said Tuesday.
Criminal gangs had been operating in a "sanctuary" of dense forest between the Maradi area of southern Niger and the Nigerian border, Bazoum Mohamed said.
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 
The classic account of the ancient city of Koh Ker is one of a briefly-occupied and abruptly-abandoned region, but in reality, the area may have been occupied for several centuries beyond what is traditionally acknowledged, according to a study published October 10, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Tegan Hall of the University of Sydney, Australia and colleagues.
Koh Ker was par ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 12, 2018 
As Earth gets hotter, century-to-century climate variability increases, according to a new study.
When scientists compared the century-scale climate variability during the last interglacial period, between 130,000 and 115,000 years ago, with variability during the last 11,700 years, they found a significant correlation between warming and variability.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 
Over the southeast Atlantic Ocean, a 2,000-mile-long plume of smoke from African agricultural fires meets a near-permanent cloud bank offshore. Their meeting makes a natural laboratory for studying the interactions between cloud droplets and the tiny airborne smoke particles. This month, NASA's P-3 research aircraft and a team of scientists return on their third deployment to this region as part ... 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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 Washington (UPI) Oct 16, 2018 
Spain's Iberdola, an electricity generation company that also operates in the U.K., U.S., Brazil and Mexico, said Tuesday that it was selling to the U.K.-based Drax group $929 million worth of hydro- and gas-powered assets.
Iberdrola's President Ignacio Galan said the company's energy production in the U.K. - where it owns the unit Scottish Power-- is now completely emission free.
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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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 Aarhus, Denmark (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 
We humans are exterminating animal and plant species so quickly that nature's built-in defence mechanism, evolution, cannot keep up. An Aarhus-led research team calculated that if current conservation efforts are not improved, so many mammal species will become extinct during the next five decades that nature will need 3-5 million years to recover.
There have been five upheavals over the p ... more |
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 Shanghai (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 
A popular Chinese live-streamer has been sentenced to five days detention for "insulting" China's national anthem by waving her arms and mimicking a conductor as she sung the song during a broadcast to millions of her followers.
The woman, Yang Kaili, was detained by authorities in Shanghai Saturday for violating a national anthem law that was enacted last year.
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 Paris, France (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 
It may be a small correction, but it is far from negligible as far as forest ecologists and carbon cycle specialists are concerned. The error lay in a formula established almost 50 years ago (in 1971) for calculating basic wood density. Given that basic density is used to assess the amount of carbon stored in a tree, the fact that the formula had to be corrected meant that forest carbon stocks m ... more |
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