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  Washington (UPI) May 16, 2019 Bedbugs are notoriously difficult to eradicate. Not even the fiery asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs could rid Earth of its bedbug infestation. DNA analysis of some 30 different bedbug species showed the insect has been around for at least 115 million years. Previously, scientists suggested bedbugs emerged between 50 and 60 million years ago. Bats were supposedly the blood-suckers' first victims. But the latest findings - published this week in the journal Current Biology - ... read more |
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Remote island beach plastics point to greater waste problemParis (AFP) May 16, 2019 The world may be seriously underestimating the amount of plastic waste along its coastlines, researchers said Thursday as they unveiled findings showing hundreds of millions of plastic fragments on a remote Indian Ocean archipelago. ... more  
Captive chimpanzees spontaneously use tools to excavate underground foodWashington DC (SPX) May 20, 2019 Chimpanzees in captivity can successfully work out how to use tools to excavate underground food, even if they've never been presented with an underground food scenario before, according to a study ... 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 
Mission control 'saves science'Paris (ESA) May 20, 2019 Every minute, ESA's Earth observation satellites gather dozens of gigabytes of data about our planet - enough information to fill the pages on a 100-metre long bookshelf. Flying in low-Earth orbits, ... more |
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Indian island residents vote with sinking heartsGhoramara Island, India (AFP) May 19, 2019 Residents on Ghoramara fear that the votes they cast Sunday in India's election may be the last before their island sinks into the Bay of Bengal - a victim of climate change's growing toll. ... more 
Residents split on future of Romania's trash heap 'time-bomb'Cluj-Napoca, Romania (AFP) May 18, 2019 The towering heap of rubbish at the Pata-Rat landfill in western Romania has been condemned as an "environmental time bomb", but for many of its neighbours this putrid mountain of refuse is a livelihood - one they want to protect from closure. ... more  
Drought sharpens Morocco nomads-farmers disputeTiznit, Morocco (AFP) May 18, 2019 "We refuse to be confined to a cage," declares nomadic herder Mouloud, asserting the rights and customs of his kin as they graze livestock in Morocco's southern expanses. ... more  
Mineral misery: Vietnam salt farmers battered by imports, climateHon Khoi, Vietnam (AFP) May 19, 2019 /> The salt farmers of Hon Khoi rise before dawn as they have for generations, fanning out across shallow seawater pools in southern Vietnam to harvest the precious mineral, hoping for a better sea ... more  
North Korea seeing worst drought in a century: state mediaSeoul (AFP) May 17, 2019 North Korea is experiencing its worst drought in over a century, official media reported Friday, days after the World Food Programme expressed "very serious concerns" about the situation in the country. ... more |
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 Neanderthals and modern humans diverged at least 800,000 years ago 
Exoplanet-hunting CubeSat photographs Los AngelesWashington (UPI) May 17, 2019 NASA's smallest exoplanet-hunting satellite, the CubeSat ASTERIA, recently captured photographs of Los Angeles from 250 miles above Earth's surface. The space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory published the photographs on its website this week. ... more  |
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Ramadan struggle in cyclone-hit Mozambique islandIbo, Mozambique (AFP) May 15, 2019 Muslims in the cyclone-ravaged Mozambican island of Ibo are struggling to observe the holy month of Ramadan as most mosques were destroyed and food is in short supply. ... more  
US ambassador makes rare visit to TibetBeijing (AFP) May 20, 2019 The US ambassador to China is making the first trip to Tibet by an American envoy in four years after obtaining rare access to the restricted region, his embassy said Monday. ... more 
Hong Kong student leader Joshua Wong sent back to jailHong Kong (AFP) May 16, 2019 Prominent Hong Kong student leader Joshua Wong was sent back to prison Thursday after he lost an attempt to quash a jail sentence over his leadership of huge democracy protests five years ago. ... more 
New research finds unprecedented weakening of Asian summer monsoonWashington DC (SPX) May 20, 2019 Rainfall from the Asian summer monsoon has been decreasing over the past 80 years, a decline unprecedented in the last 448 years, according to a new study. The new research used tree ring reco ... more  
Ice-sheet variability during the last ice age from the perspective of marine sedimentTokyo, Japan (SPX) May 20, 2019 By using marine sediment cores from Northwestern Australia, a Japanese team led by National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) and the University of Tokyo revealed that the global ice sheet during t ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 15, 2019 
The US military may build tents and other shelters near the Mexican border to temporarily house migrants, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
Department of Defense spokesman Chris Mitchell said the Pentagon had received a request from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) "to construct temporary facilities at six DHS-specified locations to house and care for a minimum of 7,500" migrants. ... 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 20, 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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 Hobart, 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, most measurements in Antarctica were made during summer, leaving winter conditions, when the sea freezes over with ice, largely unknown.
But scientists from IMAS and the CSIRO, supported by AC ... 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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 New Brunswick NJ (SPX) May 20, 2019 
An enormous volcanic eruption on Iceland in 1783-84 did not cause an extreme summer heat wave in Europe. But, as Benjamin Franklin speculated, the eruption triggered an unusually cold winter, according to a Rutgers-led study.
The study, in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, will help improve predictions of how the climate will respond to future high-latitude volcanic eruptio ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) May 16, 2019 
Cameroonian start-up boss Serge Boupda made a polished pitch Thursday to a room packed with potential investors in Paris, but he knows a solid business plan does not guarantee interest for firms hoping to unlock Africa's vast economic potential.
Like other African entrepreneurs out in force at the Vivatech trade fair in Paris this week, Boupda acknowledged the challenges of entrenched povert ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 15, 2019 
Neuroscientists have identified two different nerve cell populations within the brain's substantia nigra, a relay station that controls a diverse array of movements.
Physical movements are executed through the coordination of myriad neural signals. Like a relay center, sending and receiving information, the brain's substantia nigra performs the coordination.
Despite its importanc ... more |
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 Tiznit, Morocco (AFP) May 18, 2019  "We refuse to be confined to a cage," declares nomadic herder Mouloud, asserting the rights and customs of his kin as they graze livestock in Morocco's southern expanses.
But the herders' determination to roam freely has brought them into dispute with crop farmers in the region of Souss.
In the village of Arbaa Sahel, arable farmer Hmad and many of his peers are enraged by herds stompi ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 20, 2019 
A thorough understanding of the 'solid Earth' system is essential for deciphering the links between processes occurring deep inside Earth and those occurring nearer the surface that lead to seismic activity such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, the rise of mountains and the location of underground natural resources. Thanks to gravity and magnetic data from satellites along with seismology, ... 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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 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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 Washington (UPI) May 17, 2019  To better protect larger, slow-breeding species, conservationists, biologists and other decision makers rethink the "endangered species" definition, the authors of a new study suggest.
Researchers warn that slow-breeding giants, like elephants and rhinos, might not reveal themselves as "endangered" until it is too late. A slow decline among a population of slow-breeders can, in some cas ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 20, 2019 
The US ambassador to China is making the first trip to Tibet by an American envoy in four years after obtaining rare access to the restricted region, his embassy said Monday.
The visit by Ambassador Terry Branstad comes two months after the US State Department said Beijing had "systematically" impeded access to Tibetan areas for US diplomats, journalists and tourists.
Branstad was schedu ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) May 20, 2019 
Accelerated tree growth caused by a warming climate does not necessarily translate into enhanced carbon storage, an international study suggests.
The team, led by the University of Cambridge, found that as temperatures increase, trees grow faster, but they also tend to die younger. When these fast-growing trees die, the carbon they store is returned to the carbon cycle.
The results, ... more |
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