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  Migingo (Between Kenya And Uganda) (AFP) Oct 22, 2018 A rounded rocky outcrop covered with metallic shacks, Migingo Island rises out of the waters of Lake Victoria like an iron-plated turtle. The densely populated island is barely a quarter of a hectare large, its residents crammed into a hodge-podge of corrugated-iron homes. There's little else but a few bars, brothels and a tiny port. Nevertheless for over a decade Migingo has been a source of tension between Uganda and Kenya, who have been unable to decide to whom it really belongs. They were on ... read more |
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Earth's core is definitely solid, study findsWashington (UPI) Oct 19, 2018 The Earth's core is definitively solid, according to new research by a team of scientists in Australia. ... more 
DigitalGlobe expands NASA partnership with sole-source EO data contract Westminster CO (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 DigitalGlobe reports that NASA awarded the company a sole-source contract for high-resolution commercial electro-optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery valued at up to $7 milli ... more  
Human neurons are electrically compartmentalized, study findsWashington (UPI) Oct 19, 2018 Neurons inside the human brain are significantly larger than those in rodent brains. According to new research, the enhanced size allows for electrical compartmentalization. ... more  
Two rhinos die in Chad after being relocated from S.AfricaJohannesburg (AFP) Oct 21, 2018 Two of six critically endangered black rhinos have died of unknown causes five months after being flown from South Africa to Chad in a pioneering project to re-introduce the animals, officials said Sunday. ... more |
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Global sea level could rise 50 feet by 2300, study saysNew Brunswick NJ (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 Global average sea-level could rise by nearly 8 feet by 2100 and 50 feet by 2300 if greenhouse gas emissions remain high and humanity proves unlucky, according to a review of sea-level change and pr ... more 
EU's new Baltic fish catch quotas anger environmentalistsLuxembourg (AFP) Oct 18, 2018 European Union ministers agreed on Monday to sharply boost catch quotas for western Baltic cod as part of new fishing regulations for next year that angered environmentalists. ... more 
Oyster populations at risk as climate change transforms ocean ecosystemsWashington (UPI) Oct18, 2018 Oyster populations are likely to suffer, accelerating mortality rates as the effects of climate change progress, according to a new study. ... more 
Caribbean to test greenhouse-gas linked ocean acidityBridgetown, Barbados (AFP) Oct 18, 2018 Tourism and fishery-dependent Caribbean nations plan to test the acidity of the Caribbean Sea as a result of increased absorption of greenhouse gases, a senior regional official said Friday. ... more  
Climate summit host Poland says smart forest management keyRome (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 Poland's President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday said smart forest management is key to fighting climate change and to help farming, weeks before he leads a major UN climate summit. ... more |
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Dangerous Hurricane Willa closes in on MexicoMexico City (AFP) Oct 22, 2018 Hurricane Willa surged to a dangerous Category Four storm off Mexico's Pacific coast, US forecasters said Sunday, warning of a life-threatening storm surge and heavy winds and rainfall. ... more  |
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Floods in Qatar as almost a year's rain falls in one dayDoha (AFP) Oct 20, 2018 Qatar was hit by widespread flash flooding on Saturday as the desert state received almost a year's worth of rainfall in one day. ... more  
US veterans, including many women, seek to serve anew in CongressGeorgetown, United States (AFP) Oct 19, 2018 America's military veterans are taking the leap from battlefield to ballot in large numbers in 2018, aiming to bring their discipline, can-do problem-solving, and country-before-party sense of duty to Congress. ... more  
Date set for mega Hong Kong-China bridge openingHong Kong (AFP) Oct 19, 2018 The world's longest sea bridge, connecting Hong Kong, Macau and the Chinese mainland will open to traffic next Wednesday, officials said, after complaints about the secrecy surrounding the project. ... more 
The population of a tropical tree increases mostly in places where it is rareProvidence RI (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 Working with high-resolution satellite imaging technology, researchers from Brown University and the University of California, Los Angeles have uncovered new clues in an age-old question about why t ... more 
Albatrosses to spy out illegal fishingChize, France (AFP) Oct 19, 2018 Fishermen illegally trawling the Indian Ocean might soon find they have more to worry about than the proverbial albatross around their neck - real bad luck might now lurk in the form of one of the birds spying on them from the sky. ... more |
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 Jakarta (AFP) Oct 18, 2018 
Indonesian authorities on Thursday used helicopters to drop disinfectant on parts of the earthquake-and-tsunami-ravaged city of Palu, where thousands of decomposing bodies are still buried beneath once-thriving neighbourhoods.
The magnitude 7.5 quake and a subsequent tsunami razed swathes of the city on Sulawesi island on September 28.
More than 2100 bodies have been recovered since the ... more |
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 Delft, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 
A quantum internet may very well be the first quantum information technology to become reality. Researchers at QuTech in Delft, The Netherlands, have published a comprehensive guide towards this goal in Science. It describes six phases, starting with simple networks of qubits that could already enable secure quantum communications - a phase that could be reality in the near future.
The dev ... more |
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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 s ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 
In an extensive and rigorous study of animal life on the Central Arctic Ocean floor, researchers have shown that water depth and food availability influence the species composition, density, and biomass of benthic communities, according to a study published October 17, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.
The study, led by a team including Antje Boetius of the Max Planck Institute for ... more |
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 
Climate change influences plant growth, with springtime growth beginning earlier each year. Up to now, it was thought that this phenomenon was slowing climate change, as scientists believed this process led to more carbon being absorbed from the atmosphere for photosynthesis and more biomass production.
However, as evaluations of satellite data undertaken at TU Wien have now shown, this is ... more |
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 Tunis (AFP) Oct 18, 2018 
Flash flooding in Tunisia has killed at least five people while a further two are unaccounted for, the interior ministry said on Thursday.
Two died in the northwestern region of Kef and another in Grombalia in the north, ministry spokesperson Sofiene Zaag told AFP.
On Wednesday a six-year-old child drowned in Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia and a 40-year-old man was swept away by a season ... more |
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 Pretoria (AFP) Oct 18, 2018 
The South African military said Tuesday that budget cuts have hampered its defence capacity at home and its ability to participate in foreign peacekeeping operations.
National army chief Lieutenant General Lindile Yam sharply criticised the government for the funding shortage, saying the army was even struggling to buy uniforms.
"These budget cuts impacts negatively on our force operatio ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 19, 2018 
Neurons inside the human brain are significantly larger than those in rodent brains. According to new research, the enhanced size allows for electrical compartmentalization.
Compartmentalized electrical signaling can help explain the advanced cognitive capabilities of the human brain.
"We've known for over 100 years that these human neurons had different shapes and were much long ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 
Flash drought is a rapidly intensifying water deficit process accompanied by high temperatures in a short period of time. Recently, heat extremes have become more frequent in a warming climate, and substantially increased the occurrence of flash drought, which has severely threatened crop yields and water supply.
Dr. Linying WANG and Professor Xing YUAN, from the Institute of Atmospheric P ... more |
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 Cambridge, Canada (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 
exactEarth Ltd. reports the Government of Canada will make an investment of $7.2 million over three-years to support the development, management and expansion of exactView RT, the Company's real-time Satellite-AIS service.
The investment is being made through the GoC's Strategic Innovation Fund ("SIF"), a program designed to support businesses across all sectors of the economy by encouragi ... more |
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 Riverside 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.
The study, led by Gordon Love, a professor in UCR's Department of Earth Sciences, was published in Nature Ecology and Evolution. The first author is Alex Zumberge, a doctoral student working in ... 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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 Ames IA (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 
Measuring the properties of superconducting materials in magnetic fields at close to absolute zero temperatures is difficult, but necessary to understand their quantum properties.
How cold? Lower than 0.05 Kelvin (-272C).
"For many modern (quantum) materials, to properly study the fine details of their quantum mechanical behavior you need to be cool. Cooler than was formerly thought ... more |
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 Johannesburg (AFP) Oct 21, 2018 
Two of six critically endangered black rhinos have died of unknown causes five months after being flown from South Africa to Chad in a pioneering project to re-introduce the animals, officials said Sunday.
Rhinos in Chad were wiped out by poaching nearly 50 years ago, and the six rhinos were intended to establish a new population in the country after intensive anti-poaching measures were put ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Oct 19, 2018 
The wife of fallen former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei has expressed fears for his life and her own safety, lashing out at what she called the "cruel" and "dirty" Chinese government that arrested him in mysterious circumstances.
The comments by Grace Meng in a BBC interview represent a rare and extraordinarily blunt level of criticism of China's government by the victims of Beijing's tough cr ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Oct 19, 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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