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  Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 The formation of new aerosol particles is a complicated process. Researchers have only recently started to understand this process on a molecular level after instruments able to detect nanometer-scale particles became available. The human population has altered the composition of atmospheric gas in several ways. Sulfur dioxide from industrial emissions, nitrogen oxides from traffic, and ammonia from agriculture can all affect particle formation after chemical reactions in the atmosphere. The ... read more |
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Ionosphere plasma experiments reviewed in a new Kazan University publicationKazan, Russia (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 There are only a few so-called "heaters" in the world - special facilities which create artificial plasma processes in the upper atmosphere by heating them. Senior Research Associate of the Ne ... more  
Dutch build artificial islands to bring wildlife backLelystad, Netherlands (AFP) Dec 16, 2018 Dutch ranger Andre Donker sighs as he looks out at the rippling grey waters of the Markermeer, one of Europe's largest freshwater lakes. "Once upon a time it was teeming with fish here," he says. ... more  
A damming trendEast Lansing MI (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 Hundreds of dams are being proposed for Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia. The negative social and environmental consequences - affecting everything from food security to the environment - greatl ... more  
How complexity science can quickly detect climate record anomaliesSanta Fe NM (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 The history of our climate is written in ice. Reading it is a matter of deciphering the complex signals pulled from tens of thousands of years of accumulated isotopes frozen miles below the surface ... more |
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Ethiopia jails soldiers who protested for better payAddis Ababa (AFP) Dec 15, 2018 An Ethiopian court has jailed 66 soldiers over a rare protest in the capital in October demanding better pay, state media reported Saturday. ... more 
Bolton outlines shift in Africa strategy for military, civilian aidWashington (UPI) Dec 14, 2018 National Security Advisor John Bolton said during a speech at the Heritage Foundation that the U.S. has to readjust it's strategy for Africa regarding military and civilian aid with Chinese and Russian encroachment on the continent. ... more  
US Tibet bill 'grossly interferes' in China affairs: BeijingBeijing (AFP) Dec 14, 2018 China on Friday rebuked the US Congress over legislation seeking greater access to Tibet, saying American lawmakers "grossly interfered" in Beijing's domestic affairs. ... more 
Bishop from China's underground Catholic church steps down: state mediaBeijing (AFP) Dec 15, 2018 A bishop from China's underground Catholic church will step down at the request of the Vatican to make way for a candidate recognised by Beijing, state-run media reported, amid a thaw in relations. ... more 
Marriage just a click away for China's desperate single menHanoi (AFP) Dec 14, 2018 Marriage to a Vietnamese bride is just a click - and a few thousand dollars - away on a blizzard of Chinese websites promising to solve the "single problems" of China's men. ... more |
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 An education: MBAs with Chinese characteristics 
Frenzy as cash rains down on Hong Kong neighbourhoodHong Kong (AFP) Dec 16, 2018 A hail of banknotes rained down onto the streets of a working-class neighbourhood in Hong Kong, sending bystanders into a frenzy - but the man who claimed to be behind the stunt was arrested Sunday. ... more  |
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Declining snowpack over western US mapped at a finer scaleSeattle WA (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 Researchers have now mapped exactly where in the Western U.S. snow mass has declined since 1982. The research team mapped the changes in snow mass from 1982 to 2016 onto a grid of squares 2.5- ... more 
Life on the shelf: China's bachelors saving face, cash with Mekong bridesHong Kong (AFP) Dec 14, 2018 Divorced, in his 40s and fearing a solitary future, Zhou Xinsen went online like thousands of other Chinese men to find an affordable and fast solution to bachelordom - a Vietnamese bride. ... more  
New foldable drone flies through narrow holes in rescue missionsZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 Inspecting a damaged building after an earthquake or during a fire is exactly the kind of job that human rescuers would like drones to do for them. A flying robot could look for people trapped insid ... more 
Dracula ant's snap-jaw is the fastest known animal appendageWashington (UPI) Dec 13, 2018 The record for fastest appendage belongs to the dracula ant, Mystrium camilla, and its snap-jaw. Scientists clocked the speed of its mandibles at 200 miles per hours. ... more 
Research unlocks secrets of iron storage in algaeEast Boothbay ME (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 New research shows that phytoplankton iron storage strategies may determine which species thrive in changing oceans and impact marine food webs, according to a recent paper in the Proceedings of the ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 
Inspecting a damaged building after an earthquake or during a fire is exactly the kind of job that human rescuers would like drones to do for them. A flying robot could look for people trapped inside and guide the rescue team towards them. But the drone would often have to enter the building through a crack in a wall, a partially open window, or through bars - something the typical size of a dro ... more |
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 Nashville TN (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 
The record-setting SpaceX rocket launch yesterday carried a Vanderbilt space radiation experiment aboard CubeSat Fox-1Cliff. Actually, it's a spare.
The original payload is aboard CubeSat AO-85 , launched in 2015 and still in low-Earth orbit. After deployment, Fox1-Cliff received its official designation, AO-95. A third Vanderbilt payload has been up one year this month on AO-91, and there ... more |
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 East Boothbay ME (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 
New research shows that phytoplankton iron storage strategies may determine which species thrive in changing oceans and impact marine food webs, according to a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The research examined two primary methods of iron storage and found that one makes species more resilient against shortages of the rare and essential element.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 
A new NASA-led study has determined that an increase in snowfall accumulation over Antarctica during the 20th century mitigated sea level rise by 0.4 inches. However, Antarctica's additional ice mass gained from snowfall makes up for just about a third of its current ice loss.
"Our findings don't mean that Antarctica is growing; it's still losing mass, even with the extra snowfall," said B ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Dec 13, 2018 
The Islamic State group's "deliberate, wanton annihilation" of agricultural lands in Iraq's northern Sinjar amounts to war crimes, haunting farmers a year after the jihadists' defeat, Amnesty International said Thursday.
Based on interviews with dozens of farmers, Amnesty's new report found the jihadists' "scorched-earth tactics" meant Sinjar's farmers, particularly those from the minority Y ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Dec 14, 2018 
Australians in the north east of the country are bracing for a severe tropical cyclone, with authorities warning of flash flooding and destructive winds.
Cyclone Owen has been strengthening off the north coast of Queensland state, in warm waters in the Gulf of Carpentaria, and is expected to reach category four - defined as a severe tropical cyclone with very destructive winds - when it ma ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 14, 2018 
National Security Advisor John Bolton said during a speech at the Heritage Foundation that the U.S. has to readjust it's strategy for Africa regarding military and civilian aid with Chinese and Russian encroachment on the continent.
"ISIS, al-Qaida, and their affiliates all operate and recruit on the African continent, plotting attacks against American citizens and targets. Any sound U. ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 11, 2018 
From ankle-deep mud in Central Asia to the scorching heat of Australia, Mina Guli is running 100 marathons in 100 days to highlight a looming global water shortage.
The 48-year-old Australian is galloping across the planet, 42 kilometres (26 miles) at a time, with barely a moment to adjust her watch before it's on to the next stop.
Her unorthodox world tour began in New York on November ... more |
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 Katowice, Poland (AFP) Dec 16, 2018  Nations on Sunday struck a deal to breathe life into the landmark 2015 Paris climate treaty after marathon UN talks that failed to match the ambition the world's most vulnerable countries need to avert dangerous global warming.
Delegates from nearly 200 states finalised a common rule book designed to deliver the Paris goals of limiting global temperature rises to well below two degrees Celsi ... more |
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 Sao Jose Dos Campos, Brazil (AFP) Dec 13, 2018 
The vast Amazon forest may be hard to penetrate, posing a problem for authorities trying to stop illegal logging - but there are still eyes in the sky keeping track of the destruction.
For three decades, a group of researchers have been monitoring forest clearing, agriculture and land use thanks to satellites orbiting the Earth and beaming images to Brazil's National Institute for Space Res ... more |
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 Lawrence KS (SPX) Dec 12, 2018 
About 2.6 million years ago, an oddly bright light arrived in the prehistoric sky and lingered there for weeks or months. It was a supernova some 150 light years away from Earth.
ithin a few hundred years, long after the strange light in the sky had dwindled, a tsunami of cosmic energy from that same shattering star explosion could have reached our planet and pummeled the atmosphere, touch ... 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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 Madison WI (SPX) Dec 12, 2018 
For scientists wrestling with problems as diverse as containing superhot plasma in a fusion reactor, improving the accuracy of weather forecasts, or probing the unexplained dynamics of a distant galaxy, turbulence-spawning shear flow is a serious complicating factor.
Put simply, shear flow occurs when two fluids - where fluids are a liquid, a gas or a plasma (the amorphous superhot gas tha ... more |
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 Lelystad, Netherlands (AFP) Dec 16, 2018 
Dutch ranger Andre Donker sighs as he looks out at the rippling grey waters of the Markermeer, one of Europe's largest freshwater lakes. "Once upon a time it was teeming with fish here," he says.
But this vast 700-square-kilometre (270-square-mile) expanse of water, which regulates the level of water in the rest of the Netherlands, had become until recently nothing more than a cloudy mass de ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Dec 14, 2018 
China on Friday rebuked the US Congress over legislation seeking greater access to Tibet, saying American lawmakers "grossly interfered" in Beijing's domestic affairs.
The bill, which passed this week with bipartisan support, demands access to the region for US diplomats, journalists and tourists, threatening to bar Chinese officials responsible for the policy from the US if barriers remain ... more |
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 Jessore, Bangladesh (AFP) Dec 13, 2018 
Ohid Sarder prises a rusted nail from a tree and drops it into his bucket, another eyesore scrubbed from the countryside as he embarks on a one-man mission to clean up Bangladesh.
The 53-year-old self-professed tree hugger has been riding his bicycle across the country, in a grassroots effort to free trees of the billboards and clutter nailed to their trunks.
Trees in Bangladesh are ofte ... more |
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