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  London, UK (SPX) May 10, 2019 Abrupt climate change some 8,000 years ago led to a dramatic decline in early South American populations, suggests new UCL research. The study, published in Scientific Reports, is the first to demonstrate how widespread the decline was and the scale at which population decline took place 8,000 to 6,000 years ago. "Archaeologists working in South America have broadly known that some 8,200 years ago, inhabited sites in various places across the continent were suddenly abandoned. In our study w ... read more |
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Deep sea carbon reservoirs once superheated the Earth and could it happen againLos Angeles CA (SPX) May 10, 2019 As concern grows over human-induced climate change, many scientists are looking back through Earth's history to events that can shed light on changes occurring today. Analyzing how the planet's clim ... more  
Research reveals surprisingly powerful bite of tiny early tetrapodLincoln UK (SPX) May 10, 2019 Micro-CT scanning of a tiny snake-like fossil discovered in Scotland has shed new light on the elusive creature, thought to be one of the earliest known tetrapods to develop teeth that allowed it to ... more  
Remarkable fish see color in deep, dark waterBrisbane, Australia (SPX) May 10, 2019 Fish living up to 1500 metres below the surface have developed surprisingly diverse vision that could help them determine predator from prey in the dimly-lit depths of their fish-eats-fish world. ... more  
Influential excrement: How life in Antarctica thrives on penguin poopWashington (AFP) May 10, 2019 For more than half a century, biologists studying Antarctica focused their research on understanding how organisms cope with the continent's severe drought and the coldest conditions on the planet. ... more |
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Researchers document the oldest known trees in eastern North AmericaFayetteville AR (SPX) May 10, 2019 A recently documented stand of bald cypress trees in North Carolina, including one tree at least 2,624 years old, are the oldest known living trees in eastern North America and the oldest known wetl ... more  
Thai bay made famous in 'The Beach' to be shut until 2021Bangkok (AFP) May 9, 2019 The closure of the glittering Thai bay made famous by the movie "The Beach" has been extended for another two years to allow a full recovery of its corals and wildlife, an official said Thursday, drawing a sharp rebuke from the tourism industry. ... more  
Like submicroscopic spacecrafts: graphene flakes to control neuron activityRome, Italy (SPX) May 10, 2019 Like in a science fiction novel, miniscule spacecrafts able to reach a specific site of the brain and influence the operation of specific types of neurons or drug delivery: graphene flakes, the subj ... more  
Italian navy ship rescues 36 migrants off LibyaRome (AFP) May 9, 2019 The Italian navy said Thursday one of its ships had rescued 36 migrants in international waters off Libya, raising the likelihood of a new stand-off over which port will take them in. ... more  
Strong 6.3-magnitude quake hits southern Japan, no tsunami threatTokyo (AFP) May 10, 2019 A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit southern Japan Friday, the US Geological Survey said, but Japanese authorities said there was no tsunami threat. ... more |
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Nigerian police free 27 hostages, including five ChineseAbuja (AFP) May 9, 2019 Nigerian police have freed 27 hostages kidnapped in recent weeks, police officials said Thursday, including five Chinese citizens. ... more  |
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Chinese court holds off ruling on Canadian's death penalty appealBeijing (AFP) May 9, 2019 A Chinese court adjourned a hearing on a Canadian man's appeal against his death sentence for drug smuggling without a decision Thursday in a case that has deepened a diplomatic spat between Beijing and Ottawa. ... more  
Tibetan plateau first occupied by middle Pleistocene DenisovansBeijing, China (SPX) May 08, 2019 The Tibetan Plateau, as Earth's "Third Pole," was reported to be first occupied by modern humans probably armed with blade technology as early as 40 ka BP. However, no earlier hominin groups had bee ... more 
Two-thirds of world's longest rivers throttled by mankind: studyParis (AFP) May 8, 2019 Almost two in three of Earth's longest rivers have been severed by dams, reservoirs or other manmade constructions, severely damaging some of the most important ecosystems on the planet, researchers said Wednesday. ... more 
Impossible research produces 400-year El Nino record, revealing startling changesSydney, Australia (SPX) May 08, 2019 Australian scientists have developed an innovative method using cores drilled from coral to produce a world first 400-year long seasonal record of El Nino events, a record that many in the field had ... more 
Radical desalination approach may disrupt the water industryNew York NY (SPX) May 08, 2019 Hypersaline brines - water that contains high concentrations of dissolved salts and whose saline levels are higher than ocean water - are a growing environmental concern around the world. Very chall ... more |
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 Marblehead, OH (SPX) May 08, 2019 
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) used the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK), a technology develop by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), to rescue stranded ice fishermen from Lake Erie in northern Ohio.
According to the Associated Press, rescuers arrived on scene after a large block of ice separated from the shore off Catawba Island. Armed with the AFRL technology, the USCG and local emergency ... more |
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 Cocoa FL (UPI) May 09, 2019 
Rocket Crafters, a Cocoa, Fla.-based space startup, has signed an agreement with RUAG Space to use RUAG components.
The memo of understanding is a further step toward launching a suborbital rocket test this winter, according to Robert Fabian, president at Rocket Crafters. The firm is aiming for a piece of the expanding small-satellite market. Its rocket under development is called Intrepid ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) May 08, 2019 
Hypersaline brines - water that contains high concentrations of dissolved salts and whose saline levels are higher than ocean water - are a growing environmental concern around the world. Very challenging and costly to treat, they result from water produced during oil and gas production, inland desalination concentrate, landfill leachate (a major problem for municipal solid waste landfills), flu ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 10, 2019 
For more than half a century, biologists studying Antarctica focused their research on understanding how organisms cope with the continent's severe drought and the coldest conditions on the planet.
One thing they didn't really factor in, however, was the role played by the nitrogen-rich droppings from colonies of cute penguins and seals - until now.
A new study published Thursday in the ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) May 6, 2019 
Malaysia on Monday accused the EU of launching a "trade war" over a plan to curb the use of palm oil in biofuels and threatened retaliatory action at the WTO.
The southeast Asian country is the world's second biggest palm oil producer after Indonesia and would be hit hard by the EU's plan to phase out its use in biofuels by 2030.
Teresa Kok, the Malaysian minister responsible for palm oi ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) May 10, 2019 
A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit southern Japan Friday, the US Geological Survey said, but Japanese authorities said there was no tsunami threat.
The quake struck at 8:48 am (2348 GMT Thursday) in Pacific waters nearly 40 kilometres (25 miles) east-southeast of Miyazaki city at a depth of 24 km, according to the agency.
The Japan Meteorological Agency said there were no worries abou ... more |
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 Abuja (AFP) May 9, 2019 
Nigerian police have freed 27 hostages kidnapped in recent weeks, police officials said Thursday, including five Chinese citizens.
Kidnapping for ransom is common in Nigeria. For many years, kidnappings were concentrated on workers in the oil-rich south, but attacks are now common across large parts of the country.
Many of those rescued were freed from northwestern Zamfara state, but als ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 9, 2019 
Some 8,000 years ago, South American's climate suddenly shifted. According to a new study, the abrupt change precipitated a decline among the continent's human populations.
"Archaeologists working in South America have broadly known that some 8,200 years ago, inhabited sites in various places across the continent were suddenly abandoned," Philip Riris, researcher at University College L ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) May 8, 2019 
Most European Union countries reduced carbon dioxide emissions last year, estimates showed Wednesday, marking a turnaround in the battle against greenhouse gases as campaigners urged faster action to avoid the most damaging effects of climate change.
Overall EU emissions from burning oil, coal and gas were 2.5 percent lower in 2018 than the previous year, Eurostat figures showed, with 20 of ... more |
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 New Haven CT (SPX) May 08, 2019 
A Yale-led team of scientists may have found a new factor to help explain the ebb and flow of Earth's magnetic field - and it's something familiar to anyone who has made a vinaigrette for their salad.
Earth's magnetic field, produced near the center of the planet, has long acted as a buffer from the harmful radiation of solar winds emanating from the Sun. Without that protection, life on E ... more |
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 Leeds UK (SPX) May 08, 2019 
Extreme fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen levels corresponded with evolutionary surges and extinctions in animal biodiversity during the Cambrian explosion, finds new study led by UCL and the University of Leeds.
The Cambrian explosion was a crucial period of rapid evolution in complex animals that began roughly 540 million years ago. The trigger for this fundamental phase in the early hi ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 07, 2019 
An ESA-backed project is harnessing satnav to insert an intelligent sense of place and time to power grids, to provide early warning of potentially dangerous electricity network failures.
Four years ago an apparent fire from nowhere forced the evacuation of 5 000 people from central London. Thick black smoke and choking fumes emerged from manhole covers as power was cut off to the Holborn ... more |
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 Bochum, Germany (SPX) May 08, 2019  Numerous chemical reactions relevant for the energy revolution are highly complex and result in considerable energy losses. This is the reason why energy conversion and storage systems or fuel cells are not yet widely used in commercial applications.
Researchers at Ruhr-Universit�t Bochum (RUB) and Max-Planck-Institut f�r Eisenforschung in D�sseldorf are now reporting on a new class of cataly ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 9, 2019 
Evolution produced the same flightless bird species twice, with each occurrence separated by tens of thousands of years. The phenomena, called iterative evolution, helped bring the flightless rail species back from the dead.
According to a new study, the bird twice settled on an isolated atoll near the Seychelles called Aldabra, losing its ability to fly after a several thousand years o ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 8, 2019  A report by a US government commission has warned of "serious" security risks from Hong Kong's plan to allow extraditions to mainland China, which has sparked protests in the financial hub.
The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which was set up by Congress to advise on the security implications of US trade with China, said the extradition bill could affect the estimated 85,00 ... more |
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 Fayetteville AR (SPX) May 10, 2019 
A recently documented stand of bald cypress trees in North Carolina, including one tree at least 2,624 years old, are the oldest known living trees in eastern North America and the oldest known wetland tree species in the world.
David Stahle, Distinguished Professor of geosciences, along with colleagues from the university's Ancient Bald Cypress Consortium and other conservation groups, di ... more |
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