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  Moscow, Russia (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 Staff members from the Higher School of Economics and the Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia have proposed a new operative scheme for the short-range complex forecasting of wind and possible gusts, surface air temperature, and humidity. The results, i.e., estimates of average forecast errors at different lead times and their comparison with competitors' results, were published in the journal Russian Meteorology and Hydrology The authors used several global and regional hydrodynamic weather forec ... read more |
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Investigating glaciers in depthNuremberg, Germany (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 Global sea level is rising constantly. One factor contributing to this rise is the melting of the glaciers. However, although the surface area of the glaciers has been well mapped, there is often no ... more 
Ice-age climate clues unearthedHouston TX (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 How cold did Earth get during the last ice age? The truth may lie deep beneath lakes and could help predict how the planet will warm again. Sediments in lake beds hold chemical records of ages past, ... more  
New Caledonian crows can create compound toolsOxford UK (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 The new study, published in Scientific Reports, shows that these birds can create long-reaching tools out of short combinable parts - an astonishing mental feat. Assemblage of different components i ... more 
Tortoise evolution: How did they become so big?Halle, Germany (SPX) Oct 24, 2018 Tortoises are a group of terrestrial turtles globally distributed in habitats ranging from deserts to forests and include species such as the Greek and the Galapagos tortoise. Some species evolved l ... more |
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UN climate chief calls for action plan at COP24 summitKrakow, Poland (AFP) Oct 23, 2018 The UN's climate chief on Tuesday said the COP24 summit in Poland must produce a detailed programme to move the Paris climate accord forward. ... 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  
Another Japan firm admits falsifying data for quake shock absorbersTokyo (AFP) Oct 23, 2018 A Japanese company supplying equipment to protect buildings from earthquakes has admitted falsifying data, authorities said Tuesday, a week after a Tokyo-based firm revealed a similar fraud. ... more 
Strong Indian monsoons steer Atlantic hurricanes towards land, study findsWashington DC (SPX) Oct 24, 2018 Strong monsoons in the Indian Ocean can induce easterly winds that push Atlantic Ocean hurricanes westward, increasing the likelihood they'll make landfall in the Americas, according to new research ... more 
Hurricane Willa weakens after slamming Mexico's Pacific coastEscuinapa, Mexico (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 Mexico cleared the debris and wreckage Wednesday strewn by powerful Hurricane Willa, but breathed a sigh of relief that damage from the Category 3 storm - now downgraded to a tropical depression - wasn't worse. ... more |
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Israel to resume Gaza fuel flow Wednesday: defence ministryJerusalem (AFP) Oct 23, 2018 Israel will on Wednesday resume supplies of fuel to the Gaza Strip after a 12-day halt imposed over violent border clashes, the defence ministry said. ... more  |
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Four earthquakes strike off Canada's west coastWashington (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. ... more  
Scientists spot six near-extinct vaquita porpoisesMexico City (AFP) Oct 17, 2018 The near-extinct vaquita marina, the world's smallest porpoise, has not yet disappeared from its habitat off the coast of Mexico, a research team said Wednesday after spotting six of them. ... more 
Humpback whales stop singing when ships are near: studyTampa (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 Humpback whales are famous for their eerie, underwater songs. But researchers in Japan said Wednesday these massive marine creatures stop singing, at least temporarily, when human-driven ships are nearby. ... more  
Burundi govt to miss last round of crisis dialogueArusha, Tanzania (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 Burundi's government said on Wednesday it would miss a last round of crisis talks in Tanzania that aimed to set up elections for 2020. ... more 
Ethiopia lawmakers to appoint new president: state mediaAddis Ababa (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 Ethiopian lawmakers on Thursday will meet to appoint a new president, a largely ceremonial post in the Horn of Africa nation, the state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate reported. ... more |
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 Valletta (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.
The Just Fitz III plucked 44 migrants from a rickety wooden boat late Monday after they ran into difficulty during the perilous crossing from North Africa.
The Marshall Islands-flagged vessel, which had been heade ... more |
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 Bochum, Germany (SPX) Oct 24, 2018 
The industry has been traditionally deploying platinum alloys as catalysts for oxygen reduction, which is for example essential in fuel cells or metal-air batteries. Expensive and rare, that metal imposes strict restrictions on manufacture.
Researchers at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (RUB) and Max-Planck-Institut fur Eisenforschung have discovered an alloy made up of five elements that is noble ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 
Locked is a film about a contentious century-long battle between big commerce and the Louisiana wetlands. The power of Blue Oyster Cult shines when they repeat, "History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man. Godzilla." Indeed, the Lock system connecting Lake Pontchartrain to the Mississippi river was a monster project done when brute force was used for the pleasure of man ... 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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 Arusha, Tanzania (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 
Burundi's government said on Wednesday it would miss a last round of crisis talks in Tanzania that aimed to set up elections for 2020.
"Since October is a month of mourning in Burundi, the government has suggested that talks scheduled for October 24 be delayed," an official tweet said.
It referred to the murders of prince Louis Rwagasore on October 13, 1961, and Melchior Ndadaye, the cou ... more |
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Oct 24, 2018 
We can easily see whether someone is large or small, but we can also hear it in the pitch of their voice. For a long time, research on the accoustic communication in humans and animals has accepted the paradigm predicting a causal relationship between body size and voice pitch.
Meanwhile, evidence from a large number of animal species has revealed that this relation does not always apply. ... more |
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 New York (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 
New York state sued Exxon Mobil on Wednesday, alleging it defrauded investors by misrepresenting the costs that climate change legislation poses to the company.
The suit, filed in New York Supreme Court, asserts the oil giant misled investors into believing the company was adequately accounting for potential climate change policy.
The action accuses the company of misleading investors in ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 25, 2018 
With air quality a serious environmental health problem, the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite is tasked with mapping air pollutants around the entire globe every day. This new mission has been providing data on carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and ozone since July and now other polluting nasties such as sulphur dioxide and formaldehyde have joined the list of data products available to monitor ... 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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 Bethlehem PA (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 
What would it take to meet the world's energy needs, sustainably, far into the foreseeable future? Perhaps creating energy the way the sun does, through nuclear fusion.
Fission and fusion are very different nuclear reactions, according to Eugenio Schuster, Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at Lehigh University. Fission, which produces the type of nuclear e ... more |
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 Berkeley 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 October 22, 2018, in Nature Genetics, a team led by scientists at the Technical University of Denmark, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Fa ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 
The world's longest sea bridge connecting Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China opened to traffic Wednesday, with excited travellers making their first journeys along what has been described as a politically-driven and costly white elephant.
Passengers and tour groups gathered at Hong Kong's cross-border coach terminus and bus operators gave away Chinese pastries and roasted meat to passengers ... more |
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 Oyem, Gabon (AFP) Oct 24, 2018 
In Gabon the majestic kevazingo tree, its tropical hardwood highly valued in Asia for upmarket furniture, is also held to be sacred by generations of forest dwellers in equatorial Africa.
Chopping down the kevazingo tree, which can grow to more than 500 years old, has been outlawed in Gabon since March, but that hasn't eased environmental fears.
A loophole in the law allows the sale of t ... more |
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