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  Sapporo, Japan (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 Organic compounds undergo drastic variations in their chemical composition as they transfer from the ocean's surface to atmospheric aerosols which act as nuclei to form clouds. Aerosols, which are suspended fine solid particles or liquid droplets, play significant roles in triggering climate change by scattering or absorbing sunlight, while affecting the cloud formation and precipitation process by serving as nuclei to form clouds. Organic compounds account for up to 90 percent of the consti ... read more |
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Drones offer ability to find, ID and count marine megafaunaRaleigh NC (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 New research from North Carolina State University demonstrates that consumer-grade drones are effective tools for monitoring marine species across multiple sites in the wild. The work shows that the ... more  
Arrested lion poachers in S.Africa to appear in courtJohannesburg (AFP) Nov 26, 2018 Eight suspects will appear before a South African court to face charges of illegal possession of game products including lion parts and a tiger's carcass, police said Monday. ... more  
China orders probe into scientist claims of first gene-edited babiesHong Kong (AFP) Nov 26, 2018 Beijing has ordered an investigation into claims by a Chinese scientist to have created the world's first genetically-edited babies, a move that would be a ground-breaking medical first but which has generated a barrage of criticism. ... more 
Ancient viruses inspired THC production in marijuana plantsWashington DC (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 According to the first-ever cannabis chromosome map, the infusion of genes from invading viruses caused cannabis plants to evolve the bioactive compounds THC and CBD. ... more |
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A water treatment breakthrough, inspired by a sea creatureNew Haven CT (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 Inspired by Actinia, a sea organism that ensnares its prey with its tentacles, a team of researchers has developed a method for efficiently treating water. The research, a collaboration of the labs ... more  
Trump says doesn't believe own government's climate warningWashington (AFP) Nov 27, 2018 President Donald Trump said Monday he doesn't believe his own government's report last week warning of massive economic losses if carbon emissions continue to feed climate change unchecked. ... more  
Six feet under, a new approach to global warmingVancouver WA (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 -A Washington State University researcher has found that one-fourth of the carbon held by soil is bound to minerals as far as six feet below the surface. The discovery opens a new possibility for de ... more 
SSTL releases first images from S-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite, NovaSAR-1Guildford, UK (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has released the first Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images taken from orbit by NovaSAR-1, a technology demonstration mission launched into a 580km sun-synchr ... more  
NASA mobilizes to aid California fires responsePasadena CA (JPL) Nov 26, 2018 For the past two weeks NASA scientists and satellite data analysts have been working every day producing maps and damage assessments that can be used by disaster managers battling the Woolsey Fire n ... more |
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 The tragedy of the commons - minus the tragedy  
Floods ravage rice production in Niger's Diffa regionNiamey Nov 26, 2018 Floods destroyed more than 400 hectares (1,000 acres) of rice in Niger's southeastern Diffa region, already beset by deadly attacks by Boko Haram jihadists, the local governor said. ... more  |
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New biocontainment strategy controls spread of escaped GMOsHiroshima NJ (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 Hiroshima University (HU) researchers successfully developed a biocontainment strategy for genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Their new method prevents genetically modified cyanobacteria from ... more  
Extreme heat increasing in both summer and winterWashington DC (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 A new study shows extreme heat events both in the summer and in the winter are increasing across the U.S. and Canada, while extreme cold events in summer and winter are declining. A new study ... more  
Sunset crater, San Francisco volcanic fieldBoulder CO (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 The San Francisco Volcanic Field is a 4,700 square kilometers (1,800 square miles) area in the southern boundary of the Colorado Plateau. The field contains more than 600 scoria cones active in the ... more  
Early human ancestors not to blame for extinctions of giant African mammalsTempe AZ (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 Africa harbors the greatest diversity of large-bodied mammals today, though this was not always the case. As recently as 50,000 years ago, virtually all of Earth's continents were populated with a g ... more  
New Zealand rescuers save six stranded whalesWellington (AFP) Nov 27, 2018 Six beached whales were successfully refloated off New Zealand Tuesday, rescuers said, after a spate of mass strandings in recent days that resulted in the deaths of dozens of marine mammals. ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Nov 27, 2018 
A car drove onto a sidewalk in southwest China on Tuesday, killing seven people and injuring another four, police said, days after another driver deliberately rammed into schoolchildren in the country's northeast.
The driver has been detained and the cause of the incident in Leshan, a city in Sichuan province, is under investigation, police said in a statement.
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 Backnang, Germany (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 
Sentinel-1C will be ESA's 8th satellite of its Copernicus program. Despite monitoring arctic sea-ice, mapping and surveilling marine environment, Sentinel-1C will support in monitoring and mapping land-surface as well as forest, water and soil and support humanitarian aid in crisis situations.
As well as its predecessors, Sentinel 1A and B and 2A and B, it will also be equipped with a stan ... more |
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 Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 
A simple device that can capture its own weight in water from fresh air and then release that water when warmed by sunlight could provide a secure new source of drinking water in remote arid regions, new research from KAUST suggests.
Globally, Earth's air contains almost 13 trillion tons of water, a vast renewable reservoir of clean drinking water. Trials of many materials and devices deve ... more |
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 Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 
Long-term observations of surface temperatures show an intensified surface warming in Canada, Siberia, Alaska and in the Arctic Ocean relative to global mean temperature rise. This warming pattern, commonly referred to as Arctic amplification, is consistent with computer models, simulating the response to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. However, the underlying physical processes for th ... more |
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 Niamey Nov 26, 2018 
Floods destroyed more than 400 hectares (1,000 acres) of rice in Niger's southeastern Diffa region, already beset by deadly attacks by Boko Haram jihadists, the local governor said.
Nearly 3,000 tonnes of rice worth 717 million CFA francs (more than one million euros, $1.13 million) have been lost as a result, Governor Mahamadou Bakabe said on state television late Sunday.
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 
The Phlegraean Fields near the bustling metropolis of Naples is one of the world's most active and volatile volcanic regions. Its calderas were formed by enormous eruptions that took place 39,000 and 15,000 years ago, in addition to countless minor eruptions. Smaller volcanoes also erupted repeatedly during the period in between. The Phlegraean Fields have become more active again in recent year ... more |
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 Zomba, Malawi (AFP) Nov 27, 2018 
Just four months ago, the fishing harbour at Kachulu on the western shores of Lake Chilwa in Malawi was bustling with fishermen and traders haggling over the catch of the day.
Today hundreds of fishing boats sit marooned on cracked, dry mud as vultures fly above the shores of the once productive fishing zone 30 kilometres (19 miles) east of the southern African country's old capital Zomba. ... more |
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 Mountain View, United States (AFP) Nov 21, 2018 
With the embers still raining from blackened skies choked by California's massive wildfires, the effort turns to rebuilding Paradise - a town of almost 30,000 that was wiped off the map.
But experts warn that with megafires the new normal in a warming global climate, housing in the western United States is going to need a revolutionary rethink along the lines of villages dotting Europe's wo ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Nov 22, 2018  The levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the main driver of climate change, have hit a new record high, the UN said Thursday, warning that the time to act was running out.
Ahead of the COP 24 climate summit in Poland next month, top United Nations officials are again trying to raise the pressure on governments to meet the pledge of limiting warming to the less than two degrees Celsi ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Nov 23, 2018 
Dust storms, raging bushfires, gale-force winds, heatwaves, thunder and snow, flash flooding and driving rain - Australia is enduring a bout of wild weather that's hit all parts of the vast continent in recent days.
Varied weather is not uncommon during spring in the southern hemisphere nation as summer beckons.
But rare and dramatic scenes of red dust storms shrouding towns and thunder ... more |
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 Lawrence KS (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 
Islands have been vital laboratories for advancing evolutionary theory since the pioneering work of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the 19th century.
Now, a new paper appearing in PLOS ONE from an international team of investigators describes two new fossil relatives of marsupials that shed light on how a unique island ecosystem evolved some 43 million years ago during the Eoce ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Nov 8, 2018 
An EU court ruled Thursday that Brussels regulators are wrong to test the energy efficiency of vacuum cleaners using empty dust bags, in a victory for British manufacturer Dyson.
Household vacuums sold in Europe must carry energy labelling to allow consumers to judge which models are more efficient and thus cheaper to run and less damaging to the environment.
But Dyson, which makes clean ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 
A team of researchers from the Plasma Physics Research Centre, Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University in Tehran, Iran, have discovered a way of making paper supercapacitors for electricity storage, according to a new study published in the journal Heliyon . At one sheet thick, these new supercapacitors can bend, fold, flex, and still hold electricity.
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 
During the Triassic period (252-201 million years ago) mammal-like reptiles called therapsids co-existed with ancestors to dinosaurs, crocodiles, mammals, pterosaurs, turtles, frogs, and lizards. One group of therapsids are the dicynodonts.
Researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden, together with colleagues in Poland, have discovered fossils from a new genus of gigantic dicynodont. The n ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Nov 26, 2018 
China on Monday said that it has barred three reported US citizens - a woman and her two grown children - from leaving the country because they are suspected of "economic crimes".
According to the New York Times, Chinese-born mother Sandra Han and her children, Cynthia and Victor Liu, were prevented from leaving the country after they arrived in June.
The children say police are preve ... more |
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 Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 
The main objective of forestry in Europe is normally timber production. That is why our forests mostly consist of a few economically valuable tree species growing in uniform stands, in which the trees are all roughly the same age.
Other forests are managed for values such as habitat conservation or recreation. All of these forests have something in common: they fulfill their main purpose, ... more |
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