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  Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Oct 23, 2018 Promises by Brazil's far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro and his entourage bode badly for the future of the Amazon - called the "lungs of the planet" - if he wins, environmentalists warn. The candidate is seen as pliant to the powerful agrobusiness lobby in his country known for putting profit ahead of preservation. One of his most controversial campaign pledges is to merge the agriculture and environment ministries into one. "Let us be clear: the future ministry will come from ... read more |
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3D bioprinting technique could create artificial blood vessels, organ tissueBoulder CO (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 University of Colorado Boulder engineers have developed a 3D printing technique that allows for localized control of an object's firmness, opening up new biomedical avenues that could one day includ ... more  
UTSA creates web-based open source dashboard of North PoleSan Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 It's called ArcCI (or Arctic CyberInfrastructure) and promises to combine the thousands of images that have been taken along the years of the Arctic Ocean into one global database that will help sci ... more  
A topical gel to protect farmers from lethal effects of pesticidesBangalore, India (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 Farmers are exposed to toxic pesticides, through skin contact and inhalation, during the spraying of pesticides. This is a severe health hazard. In the last year, from the Vidharbha region in Mahara ... more  
Spotlighting differences in closely-related speciesBerkeley CA (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 There are millions of fungal species, and those few hundred found in the Aspergillus genus play important roles in areas ranging from industrial production to agricultural plant pathogens. Reported ... more |
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Swim team braves pollution to dive into Gaza watersBeit Lahia, Palestinian Territories (AFP) Oct 22, 2018 On one of the world's most polluted coastlines, 30 young Palestinians dive head first into the sea off the Gaza Strip, their minds filled with dreams of Olympic glory. ... more 
Study: Air pollution deaths in U.S. dropped by half between 1990, 2010Washington (UPI) Oct 19, 2018 Over the course of two decades, from 1990 to 2000, the number of deaths attributed to air pollution has been cut in half. ... more 
Delhi holds breath as burning farms herald pollution seasonIshargarh, India (AFP) Oct 21, 2018 Harpal Singh struck a match and watched his fields burn, the acrid smoke drifting toward New Delhi where a lethal smog cocktail is once again intensifying over the world's most polluted megacity. ... more  
Dandelion seeds reveal newly discovered form of natural flightEdinburgh UK (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 The extraordinary flying ability of dandelion seeds is possible thanks to a form of flight that has not been seen before in nature, research has revealed. The discovery, which confirms the com ... more  
Hotter temps, human activity explain increase in storm runoff, flash floodsWashington (UPI) Oct 22, 2018 When researchers at Columbia University developed a model to understand the global increase in runoff extremes - or flash flooding - they revealed a strong link between precipitation, human activity and climate change. ... more |
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Judge slashes award but upholds verdict in Monsanto cancer trialSan Francisco (AFP) Oct 23, 2018 A San Francisco judge on Monday upheld a jury verdict that found Monsanto liable for not warning a groundskeeper that its weed killer product Roundup might cause cancer, but slashed the damages award. ... more  |
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'Himalayan Viagra' under threat from climate change: researchersWashington (AFP) Oct 22, 2018 A prized caterpillar fungus that is more valuable than gold and is nicknamed "Himalayan Viagra" in Asia, where it is seen as a wonder drug, is becoming harder to find due to climate change, researchers said Monday. ... more
'Himalayan Viagra' under threat from climate change: researchersWashington (AFP) Oct 23, 2018 A prized caterpillar fungus that is more valuable than gold and is nicknamed "Himalayan Viagra" in Asia, where it is seen as a wonder drug, is becoming harder to find due to climate change, researchers said Monday. ... more  
US tornado frequency shifting eastward from Great PlainsDeKalb IL (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 A new study finds that over the past four decades, tornado frequency has increased over a large swath of the Midwest and Southeast and decreased in portions of the central and southern Great Plains, ... more  
Malta takes migants after Italy stand-offValletta (AFP) Oct 17, 2018 Migrants rescued at sea by a merchant vessel are being taken to Malta after two days in limbo following Italy's refusal to accept them, the Maltese armed forces said Wednesday. ... more  
Mexico braces for 'extremely dangerous' Hurricane WillaEl Rosario, Mexico (AFP) Oct 22, 2018 Mexico braced Monday as an "extremely dangerous" Hurricane Willa bore down on the Pacific coast, where it is expected to hit with potentially deadly wind and flooding. ... 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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 Greenbelt, MD (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 
Orbit Logic reports NASA has selected the company's STK Scheduler software for the Restore-L technology demonstration mission. During its mission, the Restore-L spacecraft will demonstrate the technologies required to rendezvous with, grasp, refuel and relocate a government-owned satellite.
Restore-L chose an Orbit Logic solution because STK Scheduler's timing and event constraint checking ... 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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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 
It's called ArcCI (or Arctic CyberInfrastructure) and promises to combine the thousands of images that have been taken along the years of the Arctic Ocean into one global database that will help scientists and the world see the physical changes occurring in the region including ice loss.
The hope is that this web-based repository will allow researchers to spend more time analyzing informat ... more |
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 Bangalore, India (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 
Farmers are exposed to toxic pesticides, through skin contact and inhalation, during the spraying of pesticides. This is a severe health hazard. In the last year, from the Vidharbha region in Maharashtra alone, spraying is thought to have led to over 40 deaths, 25 cases of lost vision, and over 1000 hospitalizations. This is just one example demonstrating the severity of this unmet need. Despite ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 22, 2018 
Four earthquakes - measuring from 4.9 to 6.8 magnitude - struck in quick succession off Canada's west coast late Sunday, the US Geological Survey said.
The epicenter of the first 6.6 tremor, at 10:39pm (0549 GMT Monday), was located 135 miles (218 kilometers) southwest of Port Hardy - a small municipality on the northeastern tip of British Columbia's Vancouver Island - and 355 miles nort ... more |
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 Mutsamudu, Comoros (AFP) Oct 22, 2018 
Officials in Comoros on Monday displayed weapons and ammunition allegedly recovered by security forces from rebel fighters who besieged part of Anjouan island's main city during a week of clashes.
Soldiers showed off an array of Kalashnikov-style assault rifles, boxes of bullets and explosive munitions said to have belonged to rebel fighters.
The army said it had regained control of th ... 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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 Washington (UPI) Oct 22, 2018 
When researchers at Columbia University developed a model to understand the global increase in runoff extremes - or flash flooding - they revealed a strong link between precipitation, human activity and climate change.
But the simulations also showed runoff extremes, not precipitation, correlated most closely with human-caused climate and land-use changes. In other words, the growing ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 23, 2018 
As part of a scientific collaboration with the Mexican Space Agency and other Mexican scientific public entities, ESA has combined images from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission to produce a detailed view of the different types of vegetation growing across the entire country.
The high-resolution land-cover map combines images captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2 between 2016 and 2018.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 
Researchers reporting in Current Biology on October 18 have described a remarkable new species of fish that lived in the sea about 150 million years ago in the time of the dinosaurs. The new species of bony fish had teeth like a piranha, which the researchers suggest they used as piranhas do: to bite off chunks of flesh from other fish.
As further support for that notion, the researchers a ... 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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 Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 22, 2018 
Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan on Monday became the most senior Beijing official to visit Israel in 18 years, as the two countries look to bolster their growing business ties.
Wang headed to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, one of the most sacred sites in Judaism, after touching down at the start of his four-day trip, Israel's foreign ministry said.
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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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