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  Reykjavik (AFP) Nov 30, 2018 Two centuries ago experts predicted that Icelandic would be a dead language by now. But the doomsayers can eat their words: Icelandic is alive and kicking despite an onslaught of English brought on by modern technology. Currently spoken by the 355,000 inhabitants of this North Atlantic island, Icelandic has repeatedly come under threat through the ages - following migrations, invasions by Norway and Denmark from the 16th to the early 20th centuries, and the Industrial Revolution. But it has alw ... read more |
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Peru's untouched indigenous tribes facing growing threatsLima (AFP) Nov 30, 2018 Just like the Sentinelese tribal people who recently killed an American who ventured onto their Indian Ocean island, Amerindians from the Amazon rainforest reject all contact with the outside world. ... more 
China halts activities of baby gene-editing scientistBeijing (AFP) Nov 29, 2018 A Chinese scientist who stoked criticism over his claim that he had created the world's first genetically-edited babies faced mounting pressure Thursday as China ordered a halt to his scientific activities and warned he may have broken the law. ... more 
Stone tools suggest humans were in Arabia as recently as 190,000 years agoWashington (UPI) Nov 29, 2018 Stone tools unearthed in Saudi Arabia suggest early human ancestors were living on the Arabian Peninsula as recently as 190,000 years ago. ... more  
Canada's Ontario disappoints with new climate planOttawa (AFP) Nov 29, 2018 Ontario unveiled a plan Thursday to combat climate change by replacing its cap-and-trade system with a fund to help companies reduce emissions - prompting criticism from environmentalists and Canada's federal government. ... more |
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Heatwave death threat soars for elderly, city dwellersParis (AFP) Nov 29, 2018 More than 150 million vulnerable people worldwide were exposed to potentially life-threatening heatwaves last year, scientists said Thursday, warning that climate change posed an unprecedented global health risk. ... more  
When cities are in good moods, their inhabitants take more risksWashington (UPI) Nov 29, 2018 Cities have moods, according to new research, and when a city's mood is on the upswing, the city's inhabitants tend to take more risks. ... more  
Indian firm presses ahead with controversial Australia coal mineSydney (AFP) Nov 29, 2018 Indian mining firm Adani vowed Thursday to press ahead with the construction of a controversial coal mine in northeastern Australia, although the project will be dramatically scaled back. ... more  
Boko Haram kills three soldiers, overrun Nigerian army baseKano, Nigeria (AFP) Nov 29, 2018 Boko Haram jihadists have killed three soldiers in an attack on a military base in northeast Nigeria's Borno state near Lake Chad, military and civilian sources said. ... more  
WSU researcher creates first model of how plastic waste moves in the environmentPullman WA (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 A Washington State University researcher for the first time has modeled how microplastic fibers move through the environment. The work, published in the November print issue of the journal Adv ... more |
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 A water treatment breakthrough, inspired by a sea creature 
Newly discovered deep-sea microbes gobble greenhouse gases and perhaps oil spills, tooAustin TX (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin's Marine Science Institute have discovered nearly two dozen new types of microbes, many of which use hydrocarbons such as methane and butane as energy ... more  |
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Biggest coral reseeding project launches on Great Barrier ReefSydney (AFP) Nov 28, 2018 Scientists have launched the largest-ever attempt to regenerate coral on the endangered Great Barrier Reef by harvesting millions of the creatures' eggs and sperm during their annual spawning. ... more  
Scientists uncovered the mechanism of fungal luminescence and created luminescent yeastsMoscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 Russian scientists together with colleagues from UK, Spain, Brazil, Japan and Austria have fully described the mechanism of fungal luminescence. They found that fungi utilize only four key enzymes t ... more 
Seven dead in China as car drives onto sidewalkBeijing (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. ... more
General denies leading Burkina Faso coupOuagadougou (AFP) Nov 26, 2018 A general denied leading a deadly 2015 coup attempt in the West African state of Burkina Faso, in his first trial testimony on Monday. ... 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 |
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 Zhangjiakou, China (AFP) Nov 28, 2018 
A truck carrying combustible chemicals exploded at the entrance of a chemical factory in a northern Chinese city that will host the 2022 Winter Olympics Wednesday, leaving 23 people dead and 22 others injured, state media and authorities said.
The blast ignited other vehicles, leaving charred and smoking remains of trucks and cars scattered on a road as firefighters worked at the scene, acco ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Nov 30, 2018 
Space is a mysterious place where many have not ventured to. Even though it is beyond Earth and humans have not inhabited there, we still need to strive to maintain its beauty and natural environment.
Considering many people haven't visited Space and it is pretty much untouched, there are many satellites, debris and parts of rocket that orbit our Earth.
But who does this Space junk a ... more |
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 London (AFP) Nov 28, 2018 
Britain's environment minister reassured the country on Wednesday that it would have plenty of safe drinking water should it crash out of the European Union without a deal.
The unusual message from Michael Gove came in response to a media report of cabinet ministers being briefed about various doomsday scenarios.
One of them reportedly included the possibility of the UK running out of th ... more |
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 Reykjavik (AFP) Nov 30, 2018 
Two centuries ago experts predicted that Icelandic would be a dead language by now. But the doomsayers can eat their words: Icelandic is alive and kicking despite an onslaught of English brought on by modern technology.
Currently spoken by the 355,000 inhabitants of this North Atlantic island, Icelandic has repeatedly come under threat through the ages - following migrations, invasions by N ... 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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 Baghdad (AFP) Nov 25, 2018 
At least 21 people have died and tens of thousands displaced by heavy rains that have battered Iraq over two days, the health ministry and United Nations said on Sunday.
Women and children were among the dead, health ministry spokesman Seif al-Badr told AFP. Some had drowned, but others had died in car accidents, were electrocuted, or were trapped when their houses collapsed.
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 Kano, Nigeria (AFP) Nov 29, 2018 
Boko Haram jihadists have killed three soldiers in an attack on a military base in northeast Nigeria's Borno state near Lake Chad, military and civilian sources said.
Fighters from Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) driving in several trucks attacked the base in Cross-Kauwa village on Tuesday and engaged troops in an hours-long gunfight, the sources told AFP late Wednesday.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 
Aging is the most important single factor behind chronic diseases and death. As "silver tsunami" approaches, healthcare and social protection systems face the looming crisis. By 2050, the global population of older persons is projected to more than double its size in 2015.
New article published in Frontiers in Genetics by MIPT scientist Peter Fedichev describes a strategy for systematic de ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Nov 29, 2018  Global temperatures in 2018 are set to be the fourth highest on record, the UN said Thursday, stressing the urgent need for action to rein in runaway warming of the planet.
In a report released ahead of the COP 24 climate summit in Poland, the World Meteorological Organization pointed out that the 20 warmest years on record have been in the past 22 years, and that "2018 is on course to be th ... more |
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 New Delhi (XNA) Nov 30, 2018 
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched its earth observation satellite - HysIS and 30 co-passenger satellites onboard Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)-C43 on Thursday morning, officials said.
The satellite was launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota, off the Bay of Bengal coast, located in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh at 9:58 a.m. ... 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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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 
During the course of the step-by-step upgrading of Wendelstein 7-X, the plasma vessel was fitted with inner cladding since September of last year. Graphite tiles are now protecting the vessel walls. In addition, the so-called "divertor" is used to regulate the purity and density of the plasma.
In ten broad strips on the wall of the plasma vessel, the divertor tiles follow the contour of th ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 28, 2018 
Scientists have for the first time isolated the biochemical pathway that allows fungi to glow-in-the-dark.
The ability to light up at night is called bioluminescence. Until now, scientists weren't exactly sure how organisms generate luminescence, but a rather ordinary brown fungus species, Neonothopanus nambi, one of 100 bioluminescent mushrooms, helped researchers solve the mystery. ... more |
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 Milan, Italy (SPX) Nov 30, 2018 
The funerary complex of the first Chinese emperor of the Qin dynasty (3th century BC) is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. This is of course due to the discovery of the statues of the terracotta army, intended to accompany the emperor in the afterlife.
Much less known than the statues is the fact that tomb proper (still not excavated) lies beneath a gigantic, artifi ... more |
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 Tannourine, Lebanon (AFP) Nov 28, 2018 
High up in Lebanon's mountains, the lifeless grey trunks of dead cedar trees stand stark in the deep green forest, witnesses of the climate change that has ravaged them.
Often dubbed "Cedars of God", the tall evergreens hark back millenia and are a source of great pride and a national icon in the small Mediterranean country.
The cedar tree, with its majestic horizontal branches, graces t ... more |
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