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  New York (AFP) Dec 4, 2018 President Donald Trump says American farmers will see immediate benefits from the trade detente with Beijing, but farm belt representatives are still cautious about declaring victory. Trump took to Twitter Monday to declare that his weekend agreement with Xi Jinping for a cease-fire on new trade tariffs meant "Farmers will be a very BIG and FAST beneficiary of our deal with China," with the Chinese to resume purchases of US agricultural goods "immediately." Trump's comments were followed by Whit ... read more |
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NASA Science Shows Human Impact of Clean Air PoliciesWashington DC (SPX) Dec 05, 2018 As local, federal, and international policies targeting the quality of the air we breathe continue to evolve, questions arise of how effective existing policies have been in improving human health. ... more 
To image leaky atmosphere, NASA rocket team heads northGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 On a frigid morning in early December, a team of NASA rocket scientists will huddle in the control room in Ny-Alesund, Svalbard, a remote archipelago off the northern coast of Norway. Here at the wo ... more  
Campaigners target coal at UN climate summitKatowice, Poland (AFP) Dec 4, 2018 Campaign groups representing citizens from across the world demanded Tuesday that big energy leaves coal in the ground as COP24 host Poland pushed for protections allowing it to continue burning fossil fuel. ... more  
Galapagos giant tortoise gene study hints at longevity secretsQuito (AFP) Dec 4, 2018 Galapagos giant tortoises possess genetic variants linked to DNA repair, immune response and cancer suppression - providing clues into their longevity, according to a study published Monday. ... more |
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The Terminator insists US will help battle climate changeKatowice, Poland (AFP) Dec 4, 2018 Governments must protect citizens from the killer effects of climate change, movie tough guy-turned-statesman Arnold Schwarzenegger told AFP, insisting the United States was committed to a greener future despite Donald Trump reneging on the Paris agreement. ... more  
India pollution watchdog fines Delhi over toxic smogNew Delhi (AFP) Dec 4, 2018 India's environmental watchdog has slapped New Delhi's government with a $3.5 million fine for failing to enforce rules to reduce smog in the world's most polluted major city, officials said Tuesday. ... more  
Volcanoes fueled by 'mush' reservoirs, not magma chambersWashington (UPI) Dec 4, 2018 The traditional model of volcanic eruptions is wrong, according to new research. ... more  
First German 'insurtech' firm hits stock exchangeFrankfurt Am Main (AFP) Dec 4, 2018 A German start-up offering online insurance policies, DFV, on Tuesday became the first so-called "insurtech" firm in Europe to make its debut on the stock exchange, setting up a growing challenge to traditional insurance giants. ... more  
11 S.African peacekeepers convicted of abusing boy in DRCJohannesburg (AFP) Dec 4, 2018 Eleven South African soldiers have been convicted of mistreating a teenage boy during a UN peacekeeping deployment to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the military said in a statement. ... more |
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Zimbabwe starts building new parliament, paid by ChinaHarare (AFP) Nov 30, 2018 Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday laid the foundation stone for huge new parliament to be built with Chinese funds outside the capital Harare. ... more  |
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Nigeria confirms eight soldiers killed in Boko Haram attackKano, Nigeria (AFP) Dec 4, 2018 The Nigerian Army on Tuesday said eight soldiers have been confirmed dead in a Boko Haram attack on a military base over the weekend in the country's restive northeast. ... more 
Head of US Army in Africa not worried by potential cutsWashington (AFP) Dec 4, 2018 A planned reduction to the US military's footprint in Africa would not impact Army operations across the continent, the head of the US Army in Africa said Tuesday. ... more  
Hong Kong cardinal defends Occupy protest leaders in courtHong Kong (AFP) Dec 5, 2018 An outspoken Hong Kong cardinal Wednesday defended leading democracy campaigners on trial over massive 2014 rallies which paralysed parts of the city, praising their commitment to peaceful protest. ... more  
Siberian region fights to preserve permafrost as planet warmsYakutsk, Russia (AFP) Dec 5, 2018 Eduard Romanov points to a spot on a block of flats where a major supporting beam has sagged and begun to crack, destabilising the nine storeys of apartments above. ... more 
Earth needs climate 'reality check', space pioneer warnsKatowice, Poland (AFP) Dec 4, 2018 The world needs a "reality check" on the threat posed by climate change, NASA astronaut Mae Jemison said Tuesday at a UN summit to chart mankind's path away from runaway global warming. ... more |
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 Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) Dec 4, 2018 
A German start-up offering online insurance policies, DFV, on Tuesday became the first so-called "insurtech" firm in Europe to make its debut on the stock exchange, setting up a growing challenge to traditional insurance giants.
DFV, which stands for Deutsche Familienversicherung or German Family Insurance, priced its initial public offering on the Frankfurt stock exchange at 12 euros ($13.7 ... more |
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 Chiba, Japan (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 
Japanese computer scientists have succeeded in developing a special purpose computer that can project high-quality three-dimensional (3D) holography as a video. The research team led by Tomoyoshi Ito, who is a professor at the Institute for Global Prominent Research, Chiba University, has been working to increase the speed of the holographic projections by developing new hardware.
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 
The micronutrient iron (Fe) is recognized as a key factor in controlling oceanic primary productivity, and subsequently impacting the carbon cycle and marine ecosystem. The high-latitude area of the North Pacific is one of the three main high-nutrient and low-chlorophyll (HNLC) regions on Earth.
Also, the growth of phytoplankton is limited by the availability of Fe. Climate change, human a ... more |
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 Corvallis OR (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 
Scientists have documented a two-part climatic connection between the North Atlantic Ocean and Antarctica, a fast atmospheric channel and a much slower oceanic one, that caused rapid changes in climate during the last ice age - and may again.
In a new study published this week in Nature, an international team of scientists describe how extremely abrupt climate change events 60,000 to 12,00 ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 
When you think of China, do you think of potatoes? Maybe not, but in the Loess Plateau region of northwestern China, potato is the main food crop.
Even though it is such an important crop there, potato yields are lower than they could be. The area has a dry climate with uneven precipitation. Droughts are common, especially in the spring when crops are just starting to emerge. If soil moist ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 4, 2018 
The traditional model of volcanic eruptions is wrong, according to new research.
Volcanoes aren't fueled by a large chamber of molten magma, scientists found - they're fed by reservoirs of "mush." These so-called mush chambers are mostly filled with solid crystals. Magma is found in between the crystals.
The new findings could help scientists built more accurate models of a vari ... more |
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 Kano, Nigeria (AFP) Dec 4, 2018 
The Nigerian Army on Tuesday said eight soldiers have been confirmed dead in a Boko Haram attack on a military base over the weekend in the country's restive northeast.
Gunmen from the self-styled Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) faction of Boko Haram attacked the base in Buni Gari village, in Yobe state, on Saturday.
Military sources initially said two soldiers and six insurge ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 
Four years ago, DARPA announced the start of a "journey of discovery" toward understanding and treating networks of the brain. The Systems-Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies (SUBNETS) program proposed to develop responsive, adaptable, closed-loop therapies for neuropsychiatric illness that incorporate recording and analysis of brain activity with near-real-time neural stimulation to co ... more |
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 Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 
Earth scientists are able to travel far back in time to reconstruct the geological past and paleoclimate to make better predictions about future climate conditions. Scientists at the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and Utrecht University succeeded in developing a new indicator (proxy) of ancient CO2-levels, using the organic molecule phytane, a debris product of chlorophyll.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 
A simple molecule in the atmosphere that acts as a "detergent" to breakdown methane and other greenhouse gases has been found to recycle itself to maintain a steady global presence in the face of rising emissions, according to new NASA research. Understanding its role in the atmosphere is critical for determining the lifetime of methane, a powerful contributor to climate change.
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 University Park PA (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 
Ancient wildfires played a crucial role in the formation and spread of grasslands like those that now cover large parts of the Earth, according to scientists at Penn State and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
A new study links a large rise in wildfires nearly 10 million years ago, in the late Miocene, with a major shift in vegetation on land, as indicated by carbon isoto ... more |
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 Behror, India (AFP) Dec 4, 2018 
Ratan Kumar once battled India's brutal summers with damp bedsheets and midnight baths. Now he is among millions upon millions of Indians using air conditioning - helping make the world hotter still.
With India's AC market expected to explode from 30 million to a billion units by 2050, the world's second-most populous country could become the planet's top user of electricity for cooling. ... more |
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 Swansea UK (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 
Harnessing nuclear fusion, which powers the sun and stars, to help meet earth's energy needs, is a step closer after researchers showed that using two types of imaging can help them assess the safety and reliability of parts used in a fusion energy device.
Scientists from Swansea University, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, ITER in France, and the Max-Planck Institute of Plasma Physics in ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 
In an era of rapid ecological change, scientists are turning to historical periods of persistence to better understand what drives stability. A team from the California Academy of Sciences and the Field Museum of Natural History has examined the structural complexity of ancient ecosystems by looking at the number of species and how they're organized by function, such as top predators or decompos ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 3, 2018 
A Hong Kong legislator has been barred from standing in a local election after being accused of supporting independence from China, sparking fury Monday among the city's pro-democracy camp who warn of tightening ideological control.
The disqualification of popular lawmaker Eddie Chu is the latest blow to the democratic movement as room for opposition in semi-autonomous Hong Kong shrinks unde ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 
Researchers conducting a 5-year-long study examining snow cover in a northern hardwood forest region found that projected changes in climate could lead to a 95 percent reduction of deep-insulating snowpack in forest areas across the northeastern United States by the end of the 21st century. The loss of snowpack would likely result in a steep reduction of forests' ability to store climate-changin ... more |
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