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  Bremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Apr 03, 2019 The dramatic loss of ice in the Arctic is influencing sea-ice transport across the Arctic Ocean. As experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research report in a new study, today only 20 percent of the sea ice that forms in the shallow Russian marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean actually reaches the Central Arctic, where it joins the Transpolar Drift; the remaining 80 percent of the young ice melts before it has a chance to leave its 'nursery'. Before 2000, that num ... read more |
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Asia's pollution exodus: Firms struggle to woo top talentHong Kong (AFP) March 31, 2019 From smog breaks to pollution bonuses, Asia's businesses are promising increasingly inventive perks in a desperate bid to lure executives to a region where toxic air engulfs major cities for much of the year. ... more  
Eco-tax championed, contested and still marginal in EUParis (AFP) March 31, 2019 Taxes on products considered polluting are struggling to gain ground in the European Union despite backing from Brussels, in the face of strong opposition from movements like France's "Yellow Vests". ... more  
Rich and poor united in desperate quest for water in VenezuelaCaracas (AFP) April 3, 2019 Crippling power blackouts are subjecting Venezuelans to a second phase of deprivation - massive water shortages that make no distinction in income or social class, forcing rich and poor alike to wait in long lines for drinking water, while some hoist it from sewers to be able to flush their toilets. ... more 
How climate change is reshaping the Arctic landscapeOttawa, Canada (SPX) Apr 03, 2019 Increasing ground temperatures in the Arctic are indicators of global climate change, but until recently, areas of cold permafrost were thought to be relatively immune to severe impacts. A new study ... more |
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New York state prepares to ban plastic bagsNew York (AFP) March 29, 2019 After several failed attempts, New York state is poised to ban single-use plastic bags provided by stores, making it only the second US state, after California, to pass such a rule. ... more  
Medicare costs are lower in places with more trees and shrubsWashington (UPI) Apr 1, 2019 When researchers analyzed healthcare expenditures and environmental data in 3,086 of the 3,103 counties in the continental United States, they found counties with more trees and shrubs have lower Medicare costs. ... more  
ICC president urges US to join global criminal courtThe Hague (AFP) April 1, 2019 The International Criminal Court's top official has called on the United States to join and support its work after Washington recently stepped up its dispute with the global legal body. ... more  
Gun control, climate: a new US generation takes to the barricadesNew York (AFP) March 31, 2019 In the United States, David Hogg is a leading campaigner for gun control, while in Europe, Greta Thunberg fights to defend the climate. ... more  
'Cow toilets' in Netherlands aim to cut e-moo-ssionsThe Hague (AFP) March 29, 2019 Teaching cows to use the toilet is not the easiest task, but a Dutch inventor is banking on a new bovine urinal to help cut emissions that cause environmental damage. ... more |
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 Fossil 'mother lode' records Earth-shaking asteroid's impact: study 
Canned air and water-spraying drones: Smog remediesHong Kong (AFP) March 31, 2019 As billions of people in Asia choke under polluted skies, authorities have turned to water-dispersing drones and outdoor air purifiers to improve air quality, while companies have tried to cash in by selling everything from canned air to lung-purifying teas. ... more  |
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Plant seed research provides basis for sustainable alternatives to chemical fertilizersSt. Paul MN (SPX) Mar 27, 2019 Recent advances in next-generation sequencing technologies have allowed scientists to access and assess previously undetectable plant microorganisms. Scientists have long known that various plant-as ... more  
Is Earth Quarantined? Researchers Meet to Try Shed Light on Alien RiddleMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 28, 2019 With arrays of new galaxies and their stars being discovered every day, it still remains unresolved if there is anyone, or anything, super-intelligent in control, and though the probability of the e ... more  
Fossil fly with an extremely long proboscis sheds light on the insect pollination originMoscow, Russia (SPX) Apr 03, 2019 A long-nosed fly from the Jurassic of Central Asia, reported by Russian paleontologists, provides new evidence that insects have started serving as pollinators long before the emergence of flowering ... more 
In ancient oceans that resembled our own, oxygen loss triggered mass extinctionTallahassee FL (SPX) Apr 03, 2019 Roughly 430 million years ago, during the Earth's Silurian Period, global oceans were experiencing changes that would seem eerily familiar today. Melting polar ice sheets meant sea levels were stead ... more  
Natural climate processes overshadow recent human-induced Walker circulation trendsSeoul, South Korea (SPX) Apr 03, 2019 A new study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, shows that the recent intensification of the equatorial Pacific wind system, known as Walker Circulation, is unrelated to human ... more |
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 Prague (AFP) March 27, 2019 
Lebanon said on Wednesday it wanted to follow the example of eastern EU states that have largely rejected refugees as a way of resolving its own refugee crisis.
Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil sympathised with the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia's refusal to accept refugee distribution quotas proposed by the EU in the wake of the 2015-16 migrant crisis, when more than a million p ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 1, 2019 
The head of NASA on Monday branded India's destruction of one of its satellites a "terrible thing" that had created 400 pieces of orbital debris and led to new dangers for astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
Jim Bridenstine was addressing employees of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration five days after India shot down a low-orbiting satellite in a missile test to ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 27, 2019 
In the absolute darkness of caves, rare creatures have returned to living in water to survive. Astronauts looking for life in the underworld during the CAVES training courses discovered a new species of crustaceans that have completed an evolutionary full circle - from water to land, and back to water again.
Just under one centimetre long, these animals belong to the suborder of terrestria ... more |
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 Los Angeles (AFP) March 29, 2019  Alaska residents accustomed to subzero temperatures are experiencing a heat wave of sorts that is shattering records, with the thermometer jumping to more than 30 degrees Fahrenheit (16.7 Celsius) above normal in some regions.
"Both February and March have been exceptionally warm," Rick Thoman, a climate specialist with the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy, told AFP. "Many pla ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) March 28, 2019 
Monsanto was ordered on Wednesday to pay some $81 million to an American retiree who blames his cancer on the agribusiness giant's weedkiller Roundup.
A San Francisco jury found the firm, which is owned by Bayer, had been "negligent by not using reasonable care" to warn of the risks of its product, ordering it to pay Edwin Hardeman $75 million in punitive damages, $5.6 million in compensatio ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Mar 27, 2019 
The Kaikoura earthquake in New Zealand in 2016 caused widespread damage. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich researchers have now dissected its mechanisms revealing surprising insights on earthquake physics with the aid of simulations carried out on the supercomputer SuperMUC.
The 2016 Kaikoura earthquake (magnitude 7.8) on the South Island of New Zealand is among the most intr ... more |
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 Algiers (AFP) April 2, 2019  Algeria's military on Tuesday demanded the immediate launch of impeachment proceedings against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika as it dismissed an announcement he will resign before his mandate expires.
Armed forces chief Ahmed Gaid Salah called for "the immediate application of the constitutional procedure for removing the head of state from power", in a defence ministry statement after a mee ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 28, 2019 
With arrays of new galaxies and their stars being discovered every day, it still remains unresolved if there is anyone, or anything, super-intelligent in control, and though the probability of the existence of extra-terrestrial civilizations is considered to be incredibly high, the evidence is a far cry from sufficient.
Members of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence), a San Franc ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) April 1, 2019 
Australia continued a string of "hottest ever" months in March, the government said Monday, as global warming emerges as the hot button issue in national elections just weeks away.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said the country had experienced the warmest March on record, with mean maximum and minimum temperatures above average for nearly all of the vast continent nation.
BOM said the ... more |
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 Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Apr 03, 2019 
A new study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, shows that the recent intensification of the equatorial Pacific wind system, known as Walker Circulation, is unrelated to human influences and can be explained by natural processes. This result ends a long-standing debate on the drivers of an unprecedented atmospheric trend, which contributed to a three-fold acceleration of s ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 28, 2019 
Some 430 million years ago, sea levels began to rise and oxygen levels dropped precipitously. According to new research, the sudden changes triggered a massive marine die-off known as the Ireviken extinction event.
As scientists detailed in a new paper, published this month in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, the oceans of the so-called Silurian Period looked a lot like ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 30, 2019 
The Eiffel Tower, the Sydney Opera House and even the ancient Acropolis in Athens were plunged into darkness for an hour Saturday as part of a global campaign to raise awareness about climate change and its impact on the planet's vanishing plant and animal life.
The 13th edition of Earth Hour, organised by green group WWF, saw millions of people across 180 countries turn off their lights at ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Apr 02, 2019 
Rice University researchers literally have a solution to deal with the glut of used lithium-ion batteries left behind by the ever-increasing demand for electric vehicles, cellphones and other electronic devices.
The Rice lab of materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan used an environmentally friendly deep eutectic solvent to extract valuable elements from the metal oxides commonly used as catho ... more |
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 Cradle Mountain, Australia (AFP) March 29, 2019  A contagious cancer is threatening Tasmanian devils with extinction, but these unique carnivores - and their human helpers - are adapting at breakneck speed, giving new hope for their survival.
Evolutionary change is usually measured over millennia, but in the craggy mountains of northern Tasmania, it can be seen in real time.
Three decades after the first cases of a fatal transmissi ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) March 30, 2019  Hong Kong's plans to approve extraditions to the mainland have sparked alarm within the city's business and legal communities who fear it will hammer the financial hub's international appeal and tangle people up in China's opaque courts.
The proposal, which will be debated in Hong Kong's legislature on Wednesday, would allow the transfer of fugitives with Taiwan, Macau and mainland China on ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 27, 2019 
Healthy forests play an crucial role in Earth's ecosystem as growing trees take up carbon from the atmosphere. NASA satellites and airborne missions study forests to see how carbon moves through ecosystems - and now citizen scientists can help investigate this key question as well by using their smartphone to measure tree height.
The GLOBE Observer app provides a step-by-step guide for peo ... more |
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