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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 08, 2019 "Stable landslide" sounds like a contradiction in terms, but there are indeed places on Earth where land has been creeping downhill slowly, stably and harmlessly for as long as a century. But stability doesn't necessarily last forever. For the first time, researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and collaborating institutions have documented the transition of a stable, slow-moving landslide into catastrophic collapse, showing how drought and extreme rains likely destabili ... read more |
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Paleontologists diagnose 240-million-year-old proto-turtle with bone cancerWashington (UPI) Feb 7, 2019 Bone cancer may be nearly as old as bones. ... more  
Magnetic north pole leaves Canada, on fast new pathWashington (AFP) Feb 5, 2019 The position of the Earth's magnetic North Pole - used in navigation systems such as smartphones - is moving far faster than it has, sending scientists scrambling to put out a new model this week. ... more  
To conserve energy, AI clears up cloudy forecastsIthaca NY (SPX) Feb 07, 2019 If the forecast calls for rain, you'll probably pack an umbrella. If it calls for cold, you may bring your mittens. That same kind of preparation happens in buildings, where sophisticated heating an ... more  
Plexscape partners with Birdi to offer up-to-date satellite imagery integration within CAD platformAthens, Greece (SPX) Feb 06, 2019 Plexscape, developers of Plex.Earth, one of the most popular tools for AutoCAD for the acceleration of architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) projects, and Bird.i, a start-up that combine ... more |
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Deep sea reveals linkage between earthquake and carbon cycleInnsbruck, Austria (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 An international team led by the Innsbruck geologists Arata Kioka, Tobias Schwestermann, Jasper Moernaut, and Michael Strasser could quantify for the first time the entire trench-wide volume of mari ... more  
Western lowland gorillas enjoy peaceful, dynamic familial relationsWashington (UPI) Feb 7, 2019 The western lowland gorilla is characterized by a dynamic social structure and peaceful familial relations, according to a new survey of the primate's behavior inside the African equatorial rainforest. ... more  
India's 'granny' elephant dies aged 88Thiruvananthapuram, India (AFP) Feb 7, 2019 An Asian elephant believed to be the oldest ever in captivity has died aged 88 in the southern Indian state of Kerala, officials said Thursday. ... more  
Greece too reliant on fire planes: expertsAthens (AFP) Feb 7, 2019 Greece is "excessively" dependent on aerial fire-fighting and suffers from poor coordination, experts said on Thursday in a study of the country's worst fire tragedy that claimed 100 lives in July. ... more  
Central African peace deal still not fully signed: ministerBangui, Central African Republic (AFP) Feb 7, 2019 Several parties to the Central African Republic's peace accord have yet to sign the much-trumpeted deal, a minister said on Thursday. ... more |
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 Study shows that Vikings enjoyed a warmer Greenland  
Diffusing the methane bomb: We can still make a differenceVienna, Austria (SPX) Feb 07, 2019 Permafrost is soil that remains frozen for two or more consecutive years. It is usually composed of rock, soil, sediments, and varying amounts of ice that bind the elements together. The permafrost ... more  |
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Melting ice sheets may cause 'climate chaos' according to new modellingMontreal, Canada (SPX) Feb 07, 2019 The weather these days is wild and will be wilder still within a century. In part, because the water from melting ice sheets off Greenland and in the Antarctic will cause extreme weather and unpredi ... more  
Green alternative to PET could be even greenerGroningen, The Netherlands (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 One of the most successful plastics is polyethylene terephthalate (PET), the material we use to make bottles and fibers for clothing. However, PET is made from petroleum-based building blocks. ... more 
Visualization of regions of electromagnetic wave-plasma interactions surrounding the EarthKanazawa, Japan (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 It is known that in the space surrounding the Earth (the space up to the geostationary orbit altitude, called Geospace), there are natural trapped charged particles, Van Allen belts, that may affect ... more  
Strategies for growing biomass for fuel can have multiple benefitsSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2019 In efforts to curb our use of greenhouse gas-generating fossil fuels, plant-based biofuels are among the top contenders as alternative liquid energy sources for transportation. However, strategies t ... more 
Kite-blown Antarctic explorers make most southerly Galileo positioning fixParis (ESA) Feb 05, 2019 A kite-blown science expedition to the interior of Antarctica has made the most southerly positioning fixes yet made with Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system. Their measurements not o ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 08, 2019 
"Stable landslide" sounds like a contradiction in terms, but there are indeed places on Earth where land has been creeping downhill slowly, stably and harmlessly for as long as a century. But stability doesn't necessarily last forever. For the first time, researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and collaborating institutions have documented the transition of a st ... more |
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 Santa Clara CA (SPX) Feb 07, 2019 
Momentus, provider of in-space transportation services, has announced that they are taking orders for their Vigoride and Vigoride Extended services (orbital repositioning for satellites with masses up to 250kg) and have signed their first customer: EXOLAUNCH, in a contract worth more than $6M. EXOLAUNCH (formerly ECM Launch Services), is a leading European launch services provider and cluster in ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Feb 07, 2019 
Left to their own devices and given enough time, rivers wander, eroding their banks and leaving their old channels behind. It's a behavior that engineers have to keep in mind when managing rivers or planning projects near them. But new research from The University of Texas at Austin has revealed that old methods for estimating migration rates may be overthinking it.
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Feb 07, 2019 
Permafrost is soil that remains frozen for two or more consecutive years. It is usually composed of rock, soil, sediments, and varying amounts of ice that bind the elements together. The permafrost of the Arctic landscape represents one of the largest natural reservoirs of organic carbon in the world.
When the permafrost thaws, the soil microbes contained in the soil can turn the carbon in ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 07, 2019 
Warren Dick has worked with gypsum for more than two decades. You'd think he'd be an expert on drywall and plastering because both are made from gypsum. But the use of gypsum that Dick studies might be unfamiliar to you: on farmland.
"Gypsum is a good source of both calcium and sulfur, which crops need for good yields," says Dick. "We also found that it improves many other soil characteris ... more |
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 College Park MD (SPX) Feb 06, 2019 
For all their destructive power, most volcanic eruptions are local events. Lava flows tend to reach only a few miles at most, while airborne ash and soot travel a little farther. But occasionally, larger eruptions can launch particles into the stratosphere, more than 6 miles above Earth's surface. The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines - the world's largest eruption in the past 1 ... more |
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 Abuja (AFP) Feb 7, 2019 
Nigeria's military was on Thursday told to remain impartial in upcoming elections, as the main parties traded accusations and tensions mounted about possible violence and vote-rigging.
Defence spokesman John Agim told reporters the armed forces reaffirmed "its neutrality, impartiality and strict adherence to professional conduct" before, during and after the vote.
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 7, 2019 
The western lowland gorilla is characterized by a dynamic social structure and peaceful familial relations, according to a new survey of the primate's behavior inside the African equatorial rainforest.
For five years, biologists from the University of Barcelona monitored three families of the western lowland gorilla, Gorilla gorilla gorilla, in the dense rainforest of the Republic of Co ... more |
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 Norwich UK (SPX) Feb 07, 2019 
The forecast for the global average surface temperature for the five-year period to 2023 is predicted to be near or above 1.0C above pre-industrial levels, says the Met Office. If the observations for the next five years track the forecast that would make the decade from 2014 to 2023 the warmest run of years since records began.
The figures released by the Met Office include data from a nu ... more |
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 University Park PA (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 
A massive release of passive-surveillance satellite data of nighttime lights could help researchers in fields ranging from agriculture to epidemiology. Researchers at Penn State and the University of Southampton in the UK have provided open access to detailed satellite data on brightness for five cities in Niger and Nigeria from 2000 to 2005, as well as detailed methods for analyzing the data to ... more |
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 Blacksburg VA (SPX) Feb 07, 2019 
What can a billion years of coexistence tell us about the evolution of plants and fungi? Neither plants nor fungi existed on land prior to 800 million years ago, an astonishing phenomenon considering their current immense biodiversity, ecosystem dominance, and impact on the environment.
Virginia Tech professor emeritus Khidir Hilu, along with a team of 13 researchers with complementary exp ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Feb 07, 2019 
If the forecast calls for rain, you'll probably pack an umbrella. If it calls for cold, you may bring your mittens. That same kind of preparation happens in buildings, where sophisticated heating and cooling systems adjust themselves based on the predicted weather.
But when the forecast is imperfect - as it often is - buildings can end up wasting energy, just as we may find ourselves wet, ... more |
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 La Paz (AFP) Feb 7, 2019 
Bolivia's public mining company Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB) has reached agreement with China's Xinjiang TBEA Group-Baocheng to build eight lithium producing factories in the Andes, YLB said on Thursday.
The agreement aims to develop "strategic cooperation" between the two companies to ensure the "financing and realization of industrial projects" in the saline lakes of Coipasa and P ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2019 
The discovery of a new to science species of rare and primitive arthropod from the depths of a cave that was covered by a thick ice sheet until recently is certain to raise questions. In their study, published in the open-access journal Subterranean Biology, entomologist Alberto Sendra and local caver Craig Wagnell describe a new species of cave-dwelling, insect-like campodeid dipluran from the ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Feb 6, 2019 
A prominent Chinese billionaire political donor has been stripped of his Australian residency and barred from returning to the country after scrutiny of his Communist Party ties, media reported Wednesday.
Huang Xiangmo was reportedly left stranded outside of Australia after Home Affairs cancelled his permanent residency and rejected his application for citizenship.
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 East Lansing MI (SPX) Feb 07, 2019 
The Amazon rain forest isn't necessarily a place that many would associate with a drought, yet prolonged dry spells are projected to become more prevalent and severe because of climate change. The question at hand is how these droughts are going to affect the rain forest, as it has a large influence on global climate and future warming.
A study led by Marielle Smith, a research associate i ... more |
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