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  United Nations, United States (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 China has invited the UN Security Council for a visit this month that will showcase its growing support for peacekeeping and include a tour of the modern cities of Shenzhen and Guangzhou, the UN ambassador said on Thursday. The visit will highlight China's role as a global player at a time when the United States is pulling back from multilateral institutions like the United Nations. As part of its Security Council presidency for November, China is also planning a debate on strengthening multilat ... read more |
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Trump threatens to shoot migrants who throw stones at US militaryWashington (AFP) Nov 2, 2018 President Donald Trump on Thursday warned that soldiers deployed to the Mexican border could shoot Central American migrants who throw stones at them while attempting to cross illegally. ... more  
Asia coal plants worrying for climate targets: IEAParis (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 Coal-fired power plants operating and under construction in Asia pose a threat to achieving the goal of halting global warming, the head of the International Energy Agency told the Financial Times on Wednesday. ... more  
Carbon-busting system to launch at massive Las Vegas auto weekLas Vegas NV (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 A service system for reducing carbon build-up in engines will be released at one of the world's biggest auto industry events in Las Vegas this week. South Australian company Hydroflex will lau ... 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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South Sudan rebel leader Machar back in Juba after two yearsJuba (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. ... more  
Brazil's Bolsonaro flip-flops on merging farm, environment ministriesRio De Janeiro (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 Brazil's far-right president-elect Jair Bolsonaro flip-flopped Thursday on whether he would follow through on his plan to merge the agriculture and environment ministries, which activists warned could be disastrous for the environment. ... 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 
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 
New Zealand avalanche kills two Germans, woman survivesWellington (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 A New Zealand woman who was buried alive in an avalanche has told how she dug her way out of the snow after her two companions, both originally from Germany, perished on the mountainside. ... more |
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 Controlling future summer weather extremes still within our grasp  
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  |
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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  
Palau plans sunscreen ban to save coralKoror, Palau (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 The tiny Pacific island nation of Palau will ban "reef-toxic" sunscreens from 2020 in what it claims is a world-first initiative to stop chemical pollution killing its famed corals. ... more 
Millions in Mexico City see water supply cut off for daysMexico City (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 Millions of people in Mexico City were without water on Wednesday, and expected to wait at least four days as authorities undertake maintenance work on one of the major supply systems. ... more |
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 Wellington (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 
A New Zealand woman who was buried alive in an avalanche has told how she dug her way out of the snow after her two companions, both originally from Germany, perished on the mountainside.
Media reports on Thursday named the dead men as Martin Hess and Wolfgang Maier, with police confirming they were both German-born mountain guides who lived in New Zealand.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 02, 2018 
An ultrafast laser that fires pulses of light just 100 millionths of a nanosecond in duration could potentially revolutionize the way that NASA technicians manufacture and ultimately assemble instrument components made of dissimilar materials.
A team of optical physicists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is experimenting with a femtosecond laser and has already ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 
A large-scale, long-term experiment on kelp forests off Southern California brings new insight to how the biodiversity of coastal ecosystems could be impacted over time as a changing climate potentially increases the frequency of ocean storms.
Researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of California, Santa Barbara experimentally mimicked the loss of undersea giant kelp fo ... 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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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Nov 02, 2018 
One of the high-risk geological structures lies near Istanbul, a megacity of 15 million people. The North Anatolian fault, separating the Eurasian and Anatolian tectonic plates, is a 1.200 kilometer-long fault zone running between eastern Turkey and the northern Aegean Sea.
Since the beginning of the 20th century its seismic activity has caused more than 20.000 deaths. A large (Mw > 7) ear ... 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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 Washington (UPI) Nov 1, 2018 
The spectrum of colors seen on modern bird eggs likely evolved from dinosaurs, a new study suggests.
According to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, non-bird dinosaurs laid eggs in open or partially open nests. Modern bird eggs, even those that are spotted or speckled, are primarily based on two color pigments: red and blue.
The research suggests with the open ... 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.
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 1, 2018 
Human activity is destroying the world's last wildernesses, and what's left is concentrated in a handful of locations on Earth.
Researchers at the University of Queensland found that between 1993 and 2009, farming, mining and settlement wiped out a land mass of wilderness area larger than India between 1993 and 2009.
In fact, aside from a large tract crossing Africa, two-thirds o ... more |
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