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  Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Jan 26, 2019 Brazilian mining giant Vale was hit with an initial $66.5 million fine Saturday over a dam collapse at one of its mines a day earlier that killed at least 10 people and left hundreds missing. The amount, confirmed by multiple sources including a government official, was announced by the environment ministry, which did not immediately give an official figure. It was levied by the government's environmental protection agency Ibama. The penalty, for violations at the Vale iron ore mine in Bru ... read more |
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Brazil dam disaster leaves 34 dead, hundreds missingBrumadinho, Brazil (AFP) Jan 26, 2019 Thirty-four people were confirmed dead and nearly 300 missing Saturday, with hopes fading of them being found alive, after a dam collapsed at a mine in southeast Brazil. ... more  
UN Security Council divided on climate-security linkUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Jan 26, 2019 Russia and the US resisted on Friday efforts by the UN Security Council to take a tougher stand on climate change - a day after UN chief Antonio Guterres warned of a lack of political will to fight global warming. ... more 
Liberia wrestles with poverty and ecology in bid to protect sharksMonrovia (AFP) Jan 25, 2019 George Toe reflects on the good old days, when catching a couple of sharks helped fill a fisherman's pocket and fed a hungry family. ... more  
A landscape unseen in over 40,000 yearsBoulder CO (SPX) Jan 28, 2019 Glacial retreat in the Canadian Arctic has uncovered landscapes that haven't been ice-free in more than 40,000 years and the region may be experiencing its warmest century in 115,000 years, new Univ ... more |
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Australian detained in China receives consular visit: officialBeijing (AFP) Jan 25, 2019 The Australian embassy in Beijing was on Friday granted consular access to Australian national Yang Jun, who is detained in China on national security grounds. ... more 
China to arrest 19 over military veteran protests: state mediaBeijing (AFP) Jan 26, 2019 Chinese authorities on Friday ordered the arrest of 19 people for allegedly organising protests by military veterans in two cities last year, state media reported. ... more  
Polish animal activists block govt-ordered boar huntWiatrowiec, Poland (AFP) Jan 26, 2019 Denouncing what they call the slaughter of wild boar, Polish animal rights activists are keeping a close watch on hunters and trying to stymie a cull ordered by the government. ... more 
Crocodiles snapped up at world's tallest statueAhmedabad, India (AFP) Jan 25, 2019 Indian foresters have begun relocating around 300 crocodiles to allow a seaplane service for visitors to the world's tallest statue, the newly erected 182-metre (597-feet) Statue of Unity. ... more 
How sponges undermine coral reefs from withinAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Jan 28, 2019 Coral reefs are demolished from within, by bio-eroding sponges. Seeking refuge from predators, these sponges bore tunnels into the carbonate coral structures, thus weakening the reefs. Scientists fr ... more |
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Sightings suggest rare angel sharks are living off the coast of WalesWashington DC (UPI) Jan 25, 2019 Numerous sightings suggest a population of Atlantic angel sharks, one of the world's rarest shark species, is living off the coast of Wales. ... more  |
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Boko Haram attacks military bases in NE Nigeria: sourcesKano, Nigeria (AFP) Jan 25, 2019 Boko Haram fighters attacked three military bases in northeast Nigeria, overrunning two where they carted away weapons, military and civilian sources told AFP on Friday. ... more  
All the President's men: on parade with India's elite bodyguardsNew Delhi (AFP) Jan 24, 2019 They are members of the most elite regiment in the Indian Army, handpicked by height and heritage from a pool of thousands and bedecked in the finest regalia. ... more 
China says Australian held on national security groundsBeijing (AFP) Jan 24, 2019 China said Thursday that Chinese-Australian author and democracy advocate Yang Hengjun was detained on national security grounds, becoming the latest Western citizen to face such accusations from Beijing. ... more 
Tiny killer threatens giant clam, aquatic emblem of the MedVillefranche-Sur-Mer, France (AFP) Jan 25, 2019 With wing-shaped shells lined with iridescent mother-of-pearl and producing the fibres of rare and delicate sea silk, the noble pen shell clam is one of the most emblematic species in the Mediterranean and a bellwether for marine environmental health. ... more 
Envisioned 'octopus farms' would have far-reaching and detrimental environmental impactNew York NY (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 Commercial octopus farming, currently in developmental stages on multiple continents, would have a negative ripple effect on sustainability and animal welfare, concludes a team of researchers in a n ... more |
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 Kathmandu (AFP) Jan 24, 2019 
The United Nations cautioned Nepal Thursday that it risked failing war crimes victims as a deadline for investigating atrocities during its decade-long Maoist conflict draws near without a single case being resolved.
Nepal established two commissions in 2015 to probe abuses by government forces and Maoist rebels during the civil war that left 17,000 dead and others missing without a trace. ... more |
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 Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Jan 23, 2019 
Researchers at the Center for Correlated Electron Systems, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in South Korea, in collaboration with Sogang University and Seoul National University, reported the first experimental observation of a XY-type antiferromagnetic material, whose magnetic order becomes unstable when it is reduced to one-atom thickness. Published in Nature Communications, these ... more |
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 Brumadinho, Brazil (AFP) Jan 26, 2019  Thirty-four people were confirmed dead and nearly 300 missing Saturday, with hopes fading of them being found alive, after a dam collapsed at a mine in southeast Brazil.
The disaster struck Friday at the Vale mine near the city of Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais state, spewing millions of tons of muddy sludge across the facility and down towards farmland alongside the nearby town of Brumadinh ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 
A team of scientists and engineers has for the first time successfully drilled over two kilometres through the ice sheet in West Antarctica using hot water. This research will help understand how the region will respond to a warming climate.
The 11-person team has been working on the Rutford Ice Stream for the last 12 weeks in freezing temperatures at low as minus 30 degrees Celsius. On Tu ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 24, 2019 
Plants don't need noses to smell. The ability is in their genes. Researchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered the first steps of how information from odor molecules changes gene expression in plants. Manipulating plants' odor detection systems may lead to new ways of influencing plant behavior.
The discovery is the first to reveal the molecular basis of odor detection in plants a ... more |
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 Jakarta (AFP) Jan 26, 2019 
At least 68 people have been killed and thousands were forced to flee their homes after floods and landslides hit the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, an official said Saturday.
Some 6,700 people in 14 districts have been evacuated and are now living in shelters, schools, tents or mosques.
The number of the evacuees has doubled from Friday after the disaster mitigation officials managed to ... more |
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 Abidjan (AFP) Jan 24, 2019 
Africa's arms market is likely to grow by 50 percent over the next five years, analyst Stephane Konan said at a four-day trade show in Ivory Coast.
"The African market in defence represents only a drop of water in relation to the world market: 42.6 billion dollars out of 1,731 billion in 2017," Konan told AFP, citing figures from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). ... more |
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 Rehovot, Israel (SPX) Jan 23, 2019 
Prof. Rony Paz of the Weizmann Institute of Science suggests that our brains are like modern washing machines - evolved to have the latest sophisticated programming, but more vulnerable to breakdown and prone to develop costly disorders.
He and a group of researchers recently conducted experiments comparing the efficiency of the neural code in non-human and human primates, and found that a ... more |
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 Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 25, 2019  Camera crews push past tycoons and government leaders to get a close shot of the unlikely star at Davos this year: a Swedish teen with long braids and a big message for the world.
Greta Thunberg blinks into the cameras of the media throng as she emerges timidly from a closed-door panel discussion at the World Economic Forum, the annual get-together of the rich and powerful.
"She silenced ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 21, 2019 
The first Russian satellite for weather forecasting and monitoring climate and environment in the Arctic region, Arktika-M, is planned to be sent to near-earth orbit in June 2019, a source in the Russian space industry told Sputnik on Sunday.
"The launch of the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle from the Baikonur cosmodrome with Fregat booster and the first hydrometeorological satellite Arktika-M i ... more |
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 Davis CA (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 
No animal alive today looks quite like a duckbilled platypus, but about 250 million years ago something very similar swam the shallow seas in what is now China, finding prey by touch with a cartilaginous bill. The newly discovered marine reptile Eretmorhipis carrolldongi from the lower Triassic period is described in the journal Scientific Reports Jan. 24.
Apart from its platypus-like bill ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 
The US Justice Department announced Friday the arrest of a Chinese national who allegedly stole trade secrets from a US oil company he worked for.
Tan Hongjin, 35, was arrested on Thursday in Oklahoma where he lived as a permanent resident.
The Justice Department said he stole trade secrets "related to a product worth more than $1 billion."
Tan, who lived in the United States for 12 ... more |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 
Scientists seeking to capture and control on Earth fusion energy, the process that powers the sun and stars, face the risk of disruptions - sudden events that can halt fusion reactions and damage facilities called tokamaks that house them.
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), and the University of Washington have developed a novel ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 24, 2019 
Invasive species have been around for centuries, since the beginning of international trade.
But a major new trade route organized by China and spanning 123 countries could accelerate the spread of invasive species like never before, researchers warned Thursday.
Officially called China's Belt and Road Initiative, the project was launched five years ago and aims to include about half the ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Jan 24, 2019 
Australia on Thursday demanded China handle the case of detained author Yang Hengjun "transparently and fairly," amid a growing row about the fate of the Chinese-Australian.
Yang - a novelist, democracy advocate and former Chinese diplomat - was detained shortly after he made a rare return to China from the United States last week.
Friend and colleague Chongyi Feng told AFP he believes ... more |
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 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Jan 23, 2019 
Researchers of the Department of Conservation Biology at the University of Gottingen have carried out research in Southwest Cameroon to assess which proportion of forest would be necessary in order to provide sufficient habitat for rainforest bird species. The results of the study were published in the journal Biological Conservation.
The Gottingen team investigated relationships between f ... more |
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