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  Paris (ESA) May 15, 2019 Our planet works in mysterious ways. We are all used to hearing about the world's ice being the first casualty of climate change and, indeed, it is declining fast. However, recent findings show that one glacier is not conforming to the norm - it's actually been flowing more slowly and getting thicker. In recent years, Greenland has been losing more ice through the Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier than from anywhere else on this huge ice sheet. Various types of satellite data have been used to under ... read more |
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'Super corals' give glimmer of hope for world's dying reefsTokyo (AFP) May 14, 2019 Hawaiian "super corals" that have recovered despite living in warm and acidic water offer a glimmer of hope that dying reefs across the world could be saved, a new study says. ... more  
Joe Biden under pressure from left on climate changeWashington (AFP) May 14, 2019 Democratic 2020 frontrunner Joe Biden was forced into defending his environmental record Tuesday after a popular progressive in Congress demanded presidential hopefuls abandon a "middle-of-the-road" approach to combatting climate change. ... more  
Powerful quake rattles residents on Papua New Guinea islandKokopo, Papua New Guinea (AFP) May 14, 2019 A violent 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck an island chain off the north coast of Papua New Guinea late Tuesday, knocking out power and sending residents fleeing for safety. ... more  
Environmental activists turn up heat on polluting businessesParis (AFP) May 14, 2019 Headline-grabbing PR stunts have become the main tool of environmental pressure groups to turn up the heat on the companies behind the products that cause climate change and devastate the Earth's natural resources. ... more |
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Benin mourns slain tour guide, 'one of the best'Natitingou, Benin (AFP) May 14, 2019 At Natitingou in northern Benin, visitors mingled with locals to pay their condolences to the family of Fiacre Gbedji, a tour guide murdered by jihadists when they kidnapped two French tourists in the Pendjari National Park. ... more 
Mexico City declares pollution alert, postpones football semi-finalMexico City (AFP) May 14, 2019 Mexico City declared an environmental alert Tuesday, ordering vehicles off the road and postponing the semi-finals of the first-division football league as a blanket of smog enveloped the sprawling capital. ... more  
Trump says tariffs battle will help US farmersWashington (AFP) May 14, 2019 President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to help hard-hit American farmers caught in the middle of the escalating trade war between Washington and Beijing. ... more  
Nepal probes journalists for Dalai Lama newsKathmandu (AFP) May 14, 2019 Three Nepali journalists are being probed for circulating a news item on the Dalai Lama, officials said Tuesday, in a sign of growing Chinese influence on its small Himalayan neighbour. ... more 
Evacuations as rain and floods swamp northern BosniaSarajevo (AFP) May 14, 2019 Torrential downpour has flooded hundreds of homes and swamped roads in northern Bosnia, officials said Tuesday, as rescuers searched for a six-year-old boy swept away by a swollen stream. ... more |
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 Brazilian giant's comeback shows preservation and development of Amazon is possible  
NY mayor takes protest to Trump TowerNew York (AFP) May 13, 2019 New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, seen as a potential Democratic presidential hopeful in 2020, on Monday organized a protest inside Trump Tower, charging that President Donald Trump's buildings are among the city's worst polluters. ... more  |
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415.26 parts per million: CO2 levels hit historic highParis (AFP) May 14, 2019 Scientists in the United States have detected the highest levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere since records began, sounding new alarm over the relentless rise of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. ... more 
Wife of Chinese ex-Interpol boss granted asylum in France: lawyerLyon (AFP) May 13, 2019 The wife and children of former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei, who vanished while visiting China in September last year, have been granted political asylum in France, the family's lawyer told AFP on Monday. ... more  
Gabon threatens crackdown over theft of sacred woodLibreville (AFP) May 13, 2019 The Gabon presidency on Monday threatened to come down heavily on anyone found responsible for the theft of hundreds of seized containers of kevazingo, a wood considered sacred. ... more  
Orbiting NASA instrument to examine Boston's carbon emissions, plant lifeBoston MA (SPX) May 15, 2019 The International Space Station has picked up a new hitchhiker - the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3. On May 4, NASA launched its latest mission, catapulting an instrument capable of monitoring global ... more 
New study boosts understanding of how ocean melts Antarctic Ice SheetHobart, Australia (SPX) May 15, 2019 An innovative use of instruments that measure the ocean near Antarctica has helped Australian scientists to get a clearer picture of how the ocean is melting the Antarctic ice sheet. Until now ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) May 14, 2019 
Mario Wannier, a career geologist with expertise in studying tiny marine life, was methodically sorting through particles in samples of beach sand from Japan's Motoujina Peninsula when he spotted something unexpected: a number of tiny, glassy spheres and other unusual objects.
Wannier, who is now retired, had been comparing biological debris in beach sands from different areas in an effort ... more |
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 Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) May 15, 2019 
Elkem is a world-leading supplier of specialised silicon materials to a range of industries, including aluminum, electronics, silicone chemicals, polysilicon, construction, refractories and oilfield. The speciality product Silgrain has become an essential part of key advanced products such as batteries used in a variety of aerospace applications.
EaglePicher Technologies is the leading pro ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 13, 2019  To better protect coral reefs, scientists suggest an improved understanding of the coral-algae relationship is necessary.
During coral bleaching events, environmental stress triggers a breakup of the symbiotic relationship between coral and algae.
In a new study published in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, scientists argue most of the research into coral bleaching ha ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 14, 2019 
Approximately 10,000 U.S. military personnel are participating in a 12-day joint training exercise called Northern Edge 2019 on and above central Alaska ranges and the Gulf of Alaska.
Approximately 250 aircraft from the Air Force, Marines, Navy and National Guard and five U.S. naval ships will participate in the exercise that began Monday and ends May 24, the U.S. Navy said in a news re ... more |
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 Urbana IL (SPX) May 14, 2019 
Topping the list of Australia's major crops, wheat is grown on more than half the country's cropland and is a key export commodity. With so much riding on wheat, accurate yield forecasting is necessary to predict regional and global food security and commodity markets. A new study published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology shows machine-learning methods can accurately predict wheat yield f ... more |
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 Sarajevo (AFP) May 14, 2019 
Torrential downpour has flooded hundreds of homes and swamped roads in northern Bosnia, officials said Tuesday, as rescuers searched for a six-year-old boy swept away by a swollen stream.
The child went missing in the northern Zepce region, national television BHRT reported on Tuesday.
The heavy rain, which started Sunday, has sparked fears of a repeat of the 2014 floods that devastated ... more |
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 Khartoum (AFP) May 14, 2019 
Sudanese army rulers and protest leaders Wednesday agreed on a three year transition period for transferring power to a full civilian administration, a general announced.
"We agreed on a transitional period of three years," Lieutenant General Yasser al-Atta, a member of the military council that took power after the ouster of longtime leader Omar al-Bashir told reporters.
Atta said a fin ... more |
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 Gainesville FL (SPX) May 15, 2019 
The human environmental footprint is not only deep, but old. Ancient traces of this footprint can be found in animal bones, shells, scales and antlers at archaeological sites. Together, these specimens tell the millennia-long story of how humans have hunted, domesticated and transported animals, altered landscapes and responded to environmental changes such as shifting temperatures and sea level ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 14, 2019 
Democratic 2020 frontrunner Joe Biden was forced into defending his environmental record Tuesday after a popular progressive in Congress demanded presidential hopefuls abandon a "middle-of-the-road" approach to combatting climate change.
"You never heard me say middle of the road. I've never been middle of the road on the environment," the former vice president, 76, said at a campaign stop i ... 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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 Lincoln 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 crush its prey.
Detailed scans of Acherontiscus caledoniae showed a unique combination of different tooth shapes and sizes as well as a deep lower jaw which scientists believe would have given ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) May 13, 2019 
The world must double spending on renewable power and slash investment in oil and coal by 2030 to keep the Paris climate treaty temperature targets in play, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Tuesday.
For that to happen, however, trend lines on both fronts moved in the wrong direction last year, the agency reported in its 4th annual World Energy Investment overview.
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 13, 2019 
In the strongly correlated materials such as cuprate high-temperature superconductors, superconductivity can be controlled either by changing the number of electrons or by changing the kinetic energy, or transfer energy, of electrons in the system.
Although a large number of strongly correlated materials have been examined with different parameters to understand the mechanism of supercondu ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 14, 2019 
Food rewards may actually prevent researchers from appreciating the true intelligence of animals.
According to a new study, when animals are given treats for learning and completing tasks, differentiating between a test subject's knowledge and performance, as well as how each are influenced by the environment, becomes more difficult.
"Most learning research focuses on how humans ... more |
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 Kathmandu (AFP) May 14, 2019 
Three Nepali journalists are being probed for circulating a news item on the Dalai Lama, officials said Tuesday, in a sign of growing Chinese influence on its small Himalayan neighbour.
The journalists, who work with Nepal's national news agency Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS), were asked for clarifications after translating a wire report about the Dalai Lama's discharge from a hospital and h ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) May 14, 2019 
In 2017, the group from the Optics of Photosynthesis Lab (OPL) developed a new method to measure a small but important signal produced by all plants, and in this case trees. This signal is a called chlorophyll fluorescence and it is an emission of radiation at the visible and near-infrared wavelengths.
Chlorophyll fluorescence relates to photosynthesis and the health status of plants, and ... more |
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