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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 22, 2019 Work has begun on a new CubeSat mission that will demonstrate for the first time a new, highly promising technique for measuring soil moisture from space - data important for early flood and drought warnings as well as crop-yield forecasts. The technology-demonstration mission, SigNals of Opportunity: P-band Investigation, will validate a remote-sensing technique called signals of opportunity. Although scientists have proven the concept in ground-based campaigns, SNoOPI, as the mission is also kno ... read more |
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Tornado fatalities continue to fall, despite population growth in Tornado AlleyWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 ushered in a movement of westward migration in the United States, and with new territory came new challenges - and weather phenomena. The rate of tornado-related fatal ... more  
Innovative nanocoating technology harnesses sunlight to degrade microplasticsWashington DC (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 Low density polyethylene film (LDPE) microplastic fragments, successfully degraded in water using visible-light-excited heterogeneous ZnO photocatalysts. The innovative nanocoating technology ... more  
New species of tiny tyrannosaur foreshadows rise of T. rexRaleigh NC (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 A newly discovered, diminutive - by T. rex standards - relative of the tyrant king of dinosaurs reveals crucial new information about when and how T. rex came to rule the North American roost. ... more  
Researchers discover a flipping crab feeding on methane seepsCorvallis OR (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 Researchers have documented a group of tanner crabs vigorously feeding at a methane seep on the seafloor off British Columbia - one of the first times a commercially harvested species has been seen ... more |
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Race on to make urban agriculture viable, durableParis (AFP) Feb 24, 2019 In a world faced with the conundrum of mountains of waste and obesity for some and dire shortages and malnutrition for others the future of food is a main dish on today's global menu. ... more 
Roundup weed killer factor in man's cancer, US court toldSan Francisco (AFP) Feb 25, 2019 The weed killer Roundup was a "substantial factor" in the cancer of a US man who developed a lump in his throat after decades of spraying his garden, his lawyer said Monday at the start of the first ever federal trial targeting its manufacturer for negligence. ... more  
Fierce winds fan forest fires in CorsicaAjaccio, France (AFP) Feb 24, 2019 Firefighters battled a series of forest fires Sunday on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica that were being driven by strong winds across hard-to-access mountain ranges, authorities said. ... more  
Blue whales 'hedge their bets' in search for food: studyWashington (AFP) Feb 25, 2019 Every spring, the largest animals in the world, blue whales, migrate from their winter breeding grounds off of Costa Rica to the coast of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. ... more  
Marshall Islands consider radical measures to survive rising sea levelsMajuro (AFP) Marshall Islands (AFP) Feb 23, 2019 The far-flung Marshall Islands needs to raise its islands if it is to avoid being drowned by rising sea levels, President Hilda Heine has warned. ... more |
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 Going greener: Finland's new gas-fuelled icebreaker 
CDC to test for carcinogens around eight U.S. military basesWashington (UPI) Feb 25, 2019 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will begin testing humans for exposure to toxic fluorinated compounds surrounding eight former and current military bases in the United States. ... more  |
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Robinson Crusoe island sets example for the world in conservationSan Juan Bautista, Chile (AFP) Feb 26, 2019 For almost a century, the inhabitants of Robinson Crusoe - named for literature's most famous castaway - have known that their island's fragile ecosystem depends on them conserving its unique wildlife. ... more  
Renewable energy generation with kites and dronesMadrid, Spain (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 Airborne Wind Energy Systems (AWES) are a new kind of technology to harvest wind energy. The expensive and heavy tower and rotor of a conventional wind turbine are here substituted by a light tether ... more 
More water resources over the Sahel region of Africa in the 21st century under global warmingBeijing, China (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 precipitation change under global warming is essential. However, current climate models exhibit large uncertainty on the projection of Sahel precipitation. A group of scientists from Institute ... more 
Pharmaceutical residues in fresh water pose a growing environmental riskNijmegen, Netherlands (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 Over the past 20 years, concentrations of pharmaceuticals have increased in freshwater sources all over the world, as research by environmental experts at Radboud University has revealed. Levels of ... more  
Raging bull: smas hing away anger at Indonesia's 'Temper Clinic'Jakarta (AFP) Feb 22, 2019 Armed with crowbars and wearing protective gear, three women assembled at a Jakarta stress clinic survey the cluster of bottles they're about to smash to pieces. ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 23, 2019  Two Saudi sisters trapped in Hong Kong say chronic physical abuse by male family members prompted them to flee the kingdom, where they now fear they will be forcibly returned.
The siblings are the latest example of Saudi women plotting their escape from the ultra-conservative kingdom only to find themselves dodging officials and angry family members at every turn, as the country battles crit ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 
When vacationers buy a stake in a beachfront timeshare, they decide in advance who gets to use the property when. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is helping the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) institute a similar plan for when commercial wireless providers and the U.S. Navy attempt to share a desirable 150-megahertz (MHz)-wide section of the radio frequency (RF) ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 
precipitation change under global warming is essential. However, current climate models exhibit large uncertainty on the projection of Sahel precipitation.
A group of scientists from Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences found that the projection uncertainty of Sahel summer precipitation among the climate models is closely related to the historical precipitation sim ... more |
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 Aboard The Icebreaker Polaris, Finland (AFP) Feb 22, 2019 
The steel behemoth pushes ahead, crunching the ice as it navigates the northernmost tip of the Baltic, considered one of the most polluted seas in the world. But unlike other icebreakers spewing diesel, this state-of-the-art ship boasts cleaner fuel.
In the freezing darkness of a February morning, the immense Polaris, which at 10,000 tonnes weighs more than the Eiffel Tower, ploughs effortle ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 24, 2019 
In a world faced with the conundrum of mountains of waste and obesity for some and dire shortages and malnutrition for others the future of food is a main dish on today's global menu.
A key ingredient is the trend in ever more imaginative forms towards urban agriculture, a multi-faceted recipe already being pored over by some 800 million people globally, according to the UN's Food and Agricu ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 25, 2019 
When Mount Agung in Indonesia erupted in 2017, the search was on to find out why it had stirred. Thanks to information on ground deformation from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, scientists now have more insight into the volcano's hidden secrets that caused it to reawaken.
After lying dormant for more than 50 years, Mount Agung on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali rumbled back to lif ... more |
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 Niamey (AFP) Feb 20, 2019 
Heads of state of 17 countries in the Sahel region of Africa will hold a summit on Monday in Niamey to approve a climate investment plan worth $400 billion over 12 years, the Niger government said Wednesday.
The "ambitious" plan for the period 2018-30 will involve "17 nations from the Atlantic Ocean to the Horn of Africa" and will represent the "translation (into actions) of our nations' com ... more |
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 Jakarta (AFP) Feb 22, 2019 
Armed with crowbars and wearing protective gear, three women assembled at a Jakarta stress clinic survey the cluster of bottles they're about to smash to pieces.
"I feel relieved. It's like something I have been holding inside is finally released when I smashed those bottles," Genta Kalbu Tanjung, a 20-year-old university student, told AFP as blaring rock music pulsated in the background. ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Feb 21, 2019 
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist who has inspired pupils worldwide to boycott classes, urged the European Union on Thursday to double its ambition for greenhouse gas cuts.
At an EU conference, Thunberg warned that politicians who fail to tackle climate change will be "remembered as the greatest villains of all time" for leading the world to disaster.
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 Houston TX (SPX) Feb 22, 2019 
KBR, Inc. reports that its global government services business, KBRwyle, has been awarded a $19 million contract by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to support flight operations for its satellite.
The Landsat 7 satellite is part of the Landsat program, a joint initiative of the USGS and NASA. Landsat satellites provide space-based images of the Earth's land surface, collecting valuable ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 21, 2019 
Every school child knows the dinosaurs were killed off by an asteroid smashing into the Earth some 66 million years ago.
But scientists say the story may not be quite that simple, and that massive volcanic eruptions over hundreds of thousands of years may have contributed to the dinosaurs' demise at the end of the Cretaceous period.
Two studies published Thursday in the journal Science ... more |
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 Johannesburg (AFP) Feb 11, 2019 
South Africa on Monday introduced its most severe electricity rationing in nearly five years, presenting President Cyril Ramaphosa with a major political challenge just months ahead of a May general election.
The debt-laden state power utility Eskom is at the centre of the country's economic troubles and has been hit by allegations of government graft.
Ramaphosa who last week admitted th ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 
A new method of increasing the reactivity of ultrathin nanosheets, just a few atoms thick, can someday make fuel cells for hydrogen cars cheaper, finds a new Johns Hopkins study.
A report of the findings, to be published Feb. 22 in Science, offers promise towards faster, cheaper production of electrical power using fuel cells, but also of bulk chemicals and materials such as hydrogen.
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 25, 2019 
Most longtime pet owners would likely agree that dogs can have distinct personalities, and research has shown those personalities are shaped by their owners.
Now, new findings out of Michigan State University suggest dogs' personalities change over time.
Life-changing events can transform human personalities. The results of a new survey, published in the Journal of Research in Pe ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 21, 2019 
A propaganda app that puts China's powerful President Xi Jinping in anyone's pockets has become a hit in the country - with a helpful nudge from Communist Party officials.
Millions have downloaded the app, which tracks the amount of time users spend browsing inspirational quotes from the Chinese leader and watching short videos of his speeches and travels.
People are rewarded with point ... more |
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 
The biodiversity of our planet is one of our most precious resources. However, for most places in the world, we only have a tiny picture of what this diversity actually is. Researchers at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have now succeeded in constructing, from scattered data, a world map of biodiversity showing nu ... more |
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