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  University Park PA (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 Continued burning of fossil fuels is likely to fuel even more extreme summers than that of 2018 because of its impact on the jet stream. The rapid disappearance of aerosols produced by pollution may, however, mitigate the impact until mid-century if countries like China phase out these fuels, according to an international team of climate scientists using climate models to predict changes in the occurrence of so-called Quasi-Resonant Amplification (QRA) events associated with persistent weather extremes. ... read more |
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A wilderness 'horror story'New York NY (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 Producing the first comprehensive fine-scale map of the world's remaining marine and terrestrial wild places, conservation scientists writing in the journal Nature say that just 23 percent of the wo ... more  
Researchers discover earliest recorded lead exposure in 250,000-year-old Neanderthal teethNew York NY (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 This study is the first to report lead exposure in Neanderthal and is the first to use teeth to reconstruct climate during and timing of key developmental events including weaning and nursing durati ... more 
Handful of states hold fate of world's vanishing wildernessParis (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 More than 70 percent of Earth's last untouched wilderness lies in the territories of just five countries, scientists said Wednesday - mostly nations that alarm environmentalists with their lukewarm response to climate change. ... more 
WSU researchers discover new clues on how sleep works in the brainSpokane WA (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 Star-shaped brain cells called astrocytes appear to play an essential role in sleep, a new study by scientists from the Washington State University Sleep and Performance Research Center confirms. Pu ... more |
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What happened in the past when the climate changed?San Diego CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 Once again, humanity might be well served to take heed from a history lesson. When the climate changed, when crops failed and famine threatened, the peoples of ancient Asia responded. They moved. Th ... more  
France launches nationwide probe into baby arm birth defectsParis (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 France has launched a nationwide probe into incidents of babies being born with either missing or malformed arms after abnormal rates of birth defects in several regions have sparked a public health scare. ... more 
EU countries back single-use plastics banBrussels (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 EU countries on Wednesday backed the outlawing of certain single-use plastics, bringing the bloc a step closer to an outright ban on the products which account for huge quantities of waste in the world's oceans. ... more  
Are we losing one of our biggest CO2 sinksTurku, Finland (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 In a new study spanning coastal areas of the Northern Hemisphere, a coordinated researcher network led by MSc Emilia Rohr, Assoc. Prof. Christoffer Bostrom from Abo Akademi University and Prof. Mari ... more 
Perilous times for Australia wildlife amid severe droughtBooligal, Australia (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 From abandoned baby kangaroos to wallabies being blinded by the sun and koalas having to go walkabout to look for eucalyptus leaves, Australia's exotic wild animals are struggling to adapt to a crippling drought. ... more |
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Trump's military deployment to the borderWashington (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 Thousands of active-duty US troops are immediately deploying to the US-Mexico frontier to tighten security and provide back up to overstretched border agents. ... more  |
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Power wherever it is neededAllschwil, Germany (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 For disaster relief in Indonesia, the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit puts its trusts in Power-Blox. This portable, modular power system based on swarm technology provides directly the aid workers with ... more  
Hunt for landslide victims as Philippines typhoon toll climbsManila (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 Philippine rescuers used hand tools on Wednesday in a desperate search for around 20 people buried in a landslide unleashed by Typhoon Yutu, as the powerful storm's toll rose to nine. ... more  
Tiny beetle gives clues for continental driftWashington (UPI) Oct 31, 2018 A small, ancient beetle might provide clues to how the Earth's landmass shifted, a study says. ... more  
Cornell cuts ties with China's Renmin university over student crackdownNew York (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 Cornell University said Tuesday it had suspended two exchange programs with the Beijing's Renmin university over allegations it had cracked down on students for defending workers' rights. ... more 
Lodi Gyari, Dalai Lama's voice in China and US, diesWashington (AFP) Oct 30, 2018 Lodi Gyari, the Dalai Lama's right-hand diplomat who helped build the Tibetan leader's clout in Washington but came away empty from years of talks with China, has died, colleagues said. He was 69. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2018 
The number of active-duty troops the Pentagon is sending to the US border with Mexico will swell beyond the figure of more than 5,000 announced this week, a top general said Tuesday.
US authorities on Monday said more than 5,200 troops would head south to bolster border security, in a bid to prevent a caravan of Central American migrants from illegally crossing.
General Terrence O'Shaug ... more |
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 Singapore (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 
Astroscale has obtained additional funding of US $50 million from a group of investors led by INCJ Ltd. (INCJ), and including funds operated by SBI Investment Co., Ltd.(SBII) and Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd. (Mitsubishi Estate) among others. This is the fourth round of funding raised by the ground-breaking company based in Singapore and it brings the total amount of capital investment to US $102 ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 31, 2018 
The world's oceans may be heating up at a faster pace than previously thought, leaving the planet less time to avoid catastrophic global warming, according to a study published Wednesday.
The study published in the journal Nature by scientists at Princeton University, University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and other research centers found that the earth ... more |
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 Buffalo NY (SPX) Oct 30, 2018 
The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the globe, and as it does, it's predicted to get wetter. But why? What mechanisms might drive these changes?
A new study looks to history for answers, examining what happened in the region during a period of warming some 8,000 years ago. The research finds evidence that in this ancient time, western Greenland became more humid, a trend that's o ... more |
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 Avdimou, Cyprus (AFP) Oct 30, 2018 
Olive farmer Andreas Fotiou steered carefully along a dusty lane in southwest Cyprus, en route from his village to nearby groves - locations that could have clashing trade regimes, post-Brexit.
He fears he could lose out on vital EU subsidies, and even be forced to pay crippling tariffs, if London and Brussels fail to finalise a withdrawal agreement or trade deal.
Fotiou is one of thous ... more |
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 Auckland (AFP) Oct 30, 2018 
Prince Harry and wife Meghan competed at "welly wanging" and were gifted a toy kiwi Tuesday, but narrowly missed out on the ultimate New Zealand experience when a powerful earthquake rattled parts of the country they had left just the previous day.
The "Shaky Isles" lived up to their name as the royal roadshow moved to Auckland from Wellington, where the national parliament was temporarily s ... more |
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 Juba (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 
South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar returned to the capital Juba for the first time in more than two years Wednesday for a ceremony to welcome the latest peace accord for the war-ravaged country.
Machar, who under the terms of the September deal is to be reinstated as vice president, had not set foot in the city since he fled in July 2016 under a hail of gunfire when an earlier peace agreem ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 
This study is the first to report lead exposure in Neanderthal and is the first to use teeth to reconstruct climate during and timing of key developmental events including weaning and nursing duration - key determinants of population growth.
Results of the study will be published online in Science Advances, a journal published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at ... more |
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 San Diego CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 
Once again, humanity might be well served to take heed from a history lesson. When the climate changed, when crops failed and famine threatened, the peoples of ancient Asia responded. They moved. They started growing different crops. They created new trade networks and innovated their way to solutions in other ways too.
So suggests new research by Jade d'Alpoim Guedes of the University of ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 01, 2018 
Teams at ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Germany have been training for months in preparation for next week's launch of MetOp-C - the last in the current series of meteorological satellites that provide high-quality data for weather forecasting and climate monitoring from polar orbit.
As a collaborative undertaking between ESA and Eumetsat, the European Organisation for the Explo ... more |
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 La Jolla CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2018 
Scientists at Scripps Research and their collaborators have created microorganisms that may recapitulate key features of organisms thought to have lived billions of years ago, allowing them to explore questions about how life evolved from inanimate molecules to single-celled organisms to the complex, multicellular lifeforms we see today.
By studying one of these engineered organisms-a bact ... 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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 New York NY (SPX) Oct 30, 2018 
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology researchers have cracked the chemical mechanism that will enable development of a new and more efficient photo-chemical process to produce hydrogen fuel from water, according to a new paper published in Nature Communications.
The team is the first to successfully reveal the fundamental chemical reactio ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Oct 31, 2018  More than 70 percent of Earth's last untouched wilderness lies in the territories of just five countries, scientists said Wednesday - mostly nations that alarm environmentalists with their lukewarm response to climate change.
True wild spaces - land and sea areas mostly unaffected by mankind's explosive expansion and insatiable appetite for food and natural resources - now cover just a qu ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2018 
Lodi Gyari, the Dalai Lama's right-hand diplomat who helped build the Tibetan leader's clout in Washington but came away empty from years of talks with China, has died, colleagues said. He was 69.
The International Campaign for Tibet, which Gyari once headed, said he died Monday in San Francisco after a battle with hepatocellular carcinoma, a type of liver cancer.
A jovial former journal ... more |
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 Brasilia (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 
Brazil's environment ministry said Wednesday that far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro's plan to merge it with the agriculture ministry is "reckless" and will undermine not only environmental protection but economic growth.
Bolsonaro's team confirmed Tuesday he would combine the two ministries, drawing condemnation from activists who warned the move would subordinate environmental regula ... more |
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