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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 the air we breathe. Air pollution affects people in developed and developing countries alike. In Europe ... read more |
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Scientists ID new 'missing link' species between dinosaurs, birdsWashington (UPI) Oct 25, 2018 Scientists discovered a new species of the "missing link" between dinosaurs and birds, Great Britain's University of Manchester said. ... more 
Free satellite data to help tackle public sector challengesLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 26, 2018 Government departments, emergency services and local authorities will receive free access to thousands of high-resolution satellite images of Britain, under plans announced by Science Minister Sam G ... more 
Fragile seashores were 'cradle of evolution' for early fishBirmingham UK (SPX) Oct 26, 2018 Evolution of the major groups of fish that we recognise today took place in shallow waters, close to the seashore, according to new research at the University of Birmingham. The findings, publ ... more  
Scientist explores a better way to predict space weatherSan Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 24, 2018 Findings recently published by a Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) space scientist shed new light on predicting the thermodynamics of solar flares and other "space weather" events involving hot, f ... more |
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Philippines' spruced up Boracay re-opens with new rulesBoracay, Philippines (AFP) Oct 26, 2018 The Philippines opened the doors Friday to a spruced up and newly regulated Boracay, its famous holiday island that was shuttered to mend decades of harm caused by unchecked tourism. ... more 
Dutch join G7-led push to rid oceans of plasticsOttawa (AFP) Oct 25, 2018 Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced his country's endorsement of a G7-led initiative to rid the oceans of plastics, during a visit to Ottawa on Thursday. ... more  
Dozens of civilians killed in Yemen's Hodeida: UNSanaa (AFP) Oct 25, 2018 Dozens of civilians were killed in strikes on Yemen's embattled Hodeida province, the United Nations said Thursday, as Huthi rebels blamed air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition. ... more  
U.S. has 18 'very high threat' volcanoes, USGS saysWashington (UPI) Oct 25, 2018 The United States has 18 volcanoes listed as a "very high threat" to their surrounding communities, according to recent list compiled by the United States Geological Survey. ... more 
Pentagon to send about 800 troops to US-Mexico borderWashington (AFP) Oct 26, 2018 The Pentagon is expected to deploy about 800 troops to the US-Mexico border, two US officials told AFP on Thursday, after President Donald Trump said the military would help tackle a "national emergency" and called on a caravan of migrants to turn around. ... more |
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Who is to blame for America's toxic environment?Washington (AFP) Oct 25, 2018 Gun violence against members of Congress, relentless personal invective from the US president, harassment of public officials. And now, multiple suspicious packages, some with explosives, targeting high-profile Democrats. ... more  |
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Green party's Al-Wazir, German politician on the riseBerlin (AFP) Oct 25, 2018 A rising star of Germany's Greens party, Tarek Al-Wazir hopes to score big in regional polls Sunday at the expense of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats. ... more  
China's underground church set for 'annihilation', cardinal warnsHong Kong (AFP) Oct 25, 2018 Hong Kong's outspoken Cardinal Joseph Zen on Thursday criticised Pope Francis for not understanding the Chinese regime, warning the pontiff's historic deal with Beijing could lead to the "annihilation of the real Church" in China. ... more 
Show me the money: Wealth-flaunting meme goes viral in ChinaShanghai (AFP) Oct 25, 2018 Chinese social media users have seized on a viral meme in which people are pictured literally rolling in their own wealth, spawning a range of cheeky counter-posts poking fun at the country's nouveau riche. ... more  
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  
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 |
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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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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 
By merging the ancient art of origami with 21st century technology, researchers have created a one-step approach to fabricating complex origami structures whose light weight, expandability, and strength could have applications in everything from biomedical devices to equipment used in space exploration. Until now, making such structures has involved multiple steps, more than one material, and as ... 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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 Houston 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, among them the concurrent state of the atmosphere above. Scientists led by a Rice University professor and her colleagues have devised a new computational model to interpret what they reveal.
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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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 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 R ... more |
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Oct 26, 2018 
The first vertebrates on Earth were fish, and scientists believe they first appeared around 480 million years ago. But fossil records from this time are spotty, with only small fragments identified. By 420 million years ago, however, the fossil record blossoms, with a huge variety of fish species present en masse.
"It's been this ongoing question of, well, where were they?" says Lauren Sal ... 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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 Tampa (AFP) Oct 25, 2018 
Six different sub-species of tigers exist today, scientists confirmed Thursday, amid hopes the findings will boost efforts to save the fewer than 4,000 free-range big cats that remain in the world.
The six include the Bengal tiger, Amur tiger, South China tiger, Sumatran tiger, Indochinese tiger and Malayan tiger, said the report in the journal Current Biology.
Three other tiger subspeci ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 25, 2018 
Hong Kong's outspoken Cardinal Joseph Zen on Thursday criticised Pope Francis for not understanding the Chinese regime, warning the pontiff's historic deal with Beijing could lead to the "annihilation of the real Church" in China.
There are an estimated 12 million Catholics in China, divided between a government-run association whose clergy are chosen by the Communist Party and the unofficia ... 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.
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