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  Paris (ESA) May 15, 2019 Even just within the last couple of months, Cyclones Fani, Idai and Kenneth have brought devastation to millions. With the frequency and severity of extreme weather like this expected to increase against the backdrop of climate change, it is more important than ever to forecast and track events accurately. And, an ESA satellite is helping with the task in hand. Soon to celebrate 10 years in orbit, SMOS was built to measure soil moisture and ocean salinity to better understand the water cycle. Whil ... read more |
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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 
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  
DIH-HERO - a medical robotics networkBerlin, Germany (SPX) May 13, 2019 The Digital Innovation Hub Healthcare Robotics (DIH-HERO) has the goals of fostering closer exchanges between science and companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), acceleratin ... more  
Tooth fossils fill 6-million-year-old gap in primate evolutionLas Vegas NV (SPX) May 15, 2019 Researchers have used fossilized teeth found near Lake Turkana in northwest Kenya to identify a new monkey species - a discovery that helps fill a 6-million-year gap in primate evolution. UNLV ... more |
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US farm lobby calls for swift end to China trade warWashington (AFP) May 15, 2019 A major US farming organization called Wednesday for a swift resolution to the trade war with China, saying lost exports were exacerbating the burden of an industry already in hard times. ... more  
18th century volcanic eruption in Iceland didn't trigger a summer heat waveWashington (UPI) May 15, 2019 The summer of 1783 was an unusually warm one for much of Europe. The heat caused crop failures and triggered social unrest. ... more 
Assessment teams deployed after massive Papua New Guinea quakeKokopo, Papua New Guinea (AFP) May 15, 2019 Papua New Guinea dispatched assessment teams Wednesday to get a full picture of the damage caused by a violent 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck an island chain off the north coast overnight. ... more  
Russia to release killer whales in new habitat, despite expert adviceMoscow (AFP) May 15, 2019 Russia is to free captured killer whales over the next month, but will not return them to their original habitat despite expert advice, a scientist said Wednesday. ... more  
Xi agreed to meet Dalai Lama in 2014: bookNew Delhi (AFP) May 15, 2019 Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to meet the Dalai Lama during a 2014 visit to India but a "cautious" Delhi did not allow it to happen, a new book has claimed. ... more |
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 The secrets of secretion: isolating eucalyptus genes for oils, biofuel  
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  |
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Food rewards may mask animal intelligenceWashington (UPI) May 14, 2019 Food rewards may actually prevent researchers from appreciating the true intelligence of animals. ... more 
Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier bucks the trendParis (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 ... more  
'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 
Mapping salty watersParis (ESA) May 15, 2019 The length and precision with which climate scientists can track the salinity, or saltiness, of the oceans is set to improve dramatically according to researchers working as part of ESA's Climate Ch ... more  
A late-night disco in the forest reveals tree performanceHelsinki, 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 ... 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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 Metairie LA (SPX) May 16, 2019 
Geocent, LLC, a national Information Technology and Engineering firm with its headquarters in Louisiana, was informed by NASA that its innovative materials for radiation shielding and thermal barrier coatings were chosen to fly aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to evaluate their potential applications for lunar habitation, long-term deep space missions such as Mars, and other unspecif ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 16, 2019 
As our climate changes, the availability of freshwater is a growing issue for many people around the world. Understanding the water cycle and how the climate and human usage is causing shifts in natural cycling processes is vital to safeguarding supplies. While numerous satellites measure individual components of the water cycle, it has never been described as a whole over a particular region - ... 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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 Washington (UPI) May 15, 2019 
The summer of 1783 was an unusually warm one for much of Europe. The heat caused crop failures and triggered social unrest.
But according to a new study, the strange weather wasn't caused by the eruption of Iceland's Laki volcano. Laki began erupting in June 1783. The eruption lasted eight months, spilling 120 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere - the largest high-latitu ... 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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 Seoul (AFP) May 15, 2019 
North Korea's average rain and snowfall this year fell to the lowest level in 37 years, Pyongyang's state media said Wednesday, just days after the UN expressed "grave concerns" about food shortages.
The isolated, impoverished nation - which is under several sets of sanctions over its nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programmes - has long struggled to feed itself and suffers chronic fo ... 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.
Money going i ... more |
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 Lemont IL (SPX) May 15, 2019 
Coating provides extra layer of protection for battery cathodes.
Building a better lithium-ion battery involves addressing a myriad of factors simultaneously, from keeping the battery's cathode electrically and ionically conductive to making sure that the battery stays safe after many cycles.
In a new discovery, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Lab ... more |
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 Harare (AFP) May 15, 2019 
Zimbabwe has sold nearly 100 elephants to China and Dubai for a total price of $2.7 million over six years, the country's wildlife agency said Wednesday, citing overpopulation.
Parks and Wildlife Management Authority spokesman Tinashe Farawo told AFP Zimbabwe's elephants were overcrowding national parks, encroaching into human settlements, destroying crops and posing a risk to human life. ... more |
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 New Delhi (AFP) May 15, 2019 
Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to meet the Dalai Lama during a 2014 visit to India but a "cautious" Delhi did not allow it to happen, a new book has claimed.
The 83-year-old Buddhist monk has made India his home since fleeing the Tibetan capital Lhasa in 1959 - and has been a thorn in Beijing's side ever since.
"In 2014, when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Delhi for talks wit ... 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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