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  Paris (AFP) May 28, 2019 The French food safety agency ANSES on Tuesday barred the sale of epoxiconazole, a widely-used pesticide, citing a "worrying danger" to humans. The fungicide, mainly produced by the German chemical giant BASF, is used for about half of France's cereal crops and 70 percent of beetroot cultivation, ANSES said. The agency says the substance, already a suspected carcinogen, is thought to be "toxic" to human reproduction. ANSES took up the question after the European Union adopted new regulations ... read more |
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Grandma Ca: the 99-year-old standing up to Vietnam's coal rushVan Phong Bay, Vietnam (AFP) May 22, 2019 Toothless and nearly blind, grandmother Pham Thi Ca refuses to leave her plot of land even after bulldozers demolished her house - an extraordinary holdout against communist Vietnam's deepening addiction to coal. ... more  
Measuring methane from coal and gas in Pennsylvania informativeUniversity Park PA (SPX) May 27, 2019 While methane pollution caused by natural gas production in Pennsylvania is underestimated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, natural gas still has half the carbon footprint of underground ... more  
Cement as a climate killer: Using industrial waste to produce carbon neutral alternativesHalle, Germany (SPX) May 23, 2019 Producing cement takes a big toll on our climate: Around eight per cent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions can be attributed to this process. However, the demand for cement continues to rise. ... more  
Toy transformers and real-life whales inspire biohybrid robotHanover NH (SPX) May 23, 2019 Drawing inspiration from biology and the toy shelf, researchers at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College and City University of Hong Kong have developed a swimming robot with a light-con ... more |
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Merkel govt vows climate action as voters turn up heatBerlin (AFP) May 29, 2019 Chancellor Angela Merkel's government Wednesday pledged a new climate strategy by September as it scrambles to tackle what has become Germany's hottest political issue. ... more 
Clean and effective electronic waste recyclingKumamoto, Japan (SPX) May 23, 2019 As the number of electronics devices increases around the world, finding effective methods of recycling electronic waste (e-waste) is a growing concern. About 50 million tons of e-waste is generated ... more  
Malta navy rescues 75 migrants clinging to tuna penValletta (AFP) May 30, 2019 The Maltese navy said Thursday it had rescued 75 migrants found clinging to a tuna pen while trying to make the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean. ... more  
Seismologists find possible early warning sign of a pending megaquakeWashington (UPI) May 29, 2019 Geologists have found a possible early signature of massive earthquakes. New research suggests the telltale seismic pattern shows up between 10 seconds and 15 seconds into a seismic event. ... more  
Cameras and crackdowns: Another Tiananmen 'impossible' in ChinaBeijing (AFP) May 30, 2019 Thirty years after the crackdown on Tiananmen protesters, the tanks that lined Beijing's central avenue have been replaced by countless surveillance cameras perched like hawks on lampposts to keep the population in check. ... more |
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 Mahathir says Malaysia will use Huawei 'as much as possible'  
Unusual melting patterns spotted beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice ShelfWashington UPI) May 28, 2019 New data collected by the ROSETTA-Ice project, a three-year survey of Antarctica's largest ice shelf, suggests unique geologic formations beneath the Ross Ice Shelf dictate the inflow of penetrating ocean water, as well as the outflow of melting ice. ... more  |
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Poaching slows but Africa's elephants still face extinctionParis (AFP) May 28, 2019 The illegal slaughter of African elephants to feed Asia's demand for ivory has decreased by more than half in eight years, but the majestic mammals are still threatened with extinction, researchers warned Tuesday. ... more  
Floating sweatshops: Is the fish you eat caught by 'slaves'?Jakarta (AFP) May 29, 2019 Enslaved, beaten, malnourished, and so desperate for water he had to collect condensation to drink: Rahmatullah left Indonesia seeking better prospects at sea - instead he endured a living hell. ... more  
Malaysia to ship back hundreds of tonnes of plastic wastePort Klang, Malaysia (AFP) May 28, 2019 Hundreds of tonnes of imported plastic waste will be shipped back to where it came from, Malaysia said Tuesday, insisting the country did not want to be a global dumping ground. ... more  
Speed bumps on German road to lower emissionsBerlin (AFP) May 27, 2019 Germany has in recent years polished its "green" image abroad, but the country was only recently forced to admit it will miss a self-imposed 2020 climate target. ... more  
Table scraps can be used to reduce reliance on fossil fuelsWaterloo, Canada (SPX) May 27, 2019 Wasted food can be affordably turned into a clean substitute for fossil fuels. New technology developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo engineers natural fermentation to produce a ... more |
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 Valletta (AFP) May 30, 2019  The Maltese navy said Thursday it had rescued 75 migrants found clinging to a tuna pen while trying to make the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean.
The rescue took place off the Libyan coast late Wednesday and the migrants will be brought to Malta, the Maltese military said in a statement.
It said it had coordinated multiple joint rescue operations in conjunction with the Italian ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 29, 2019 
They are used in everything from lightbulbs to guided missiles, but with China controlling 95 percent of the world's supply of rare earth metals, they are also a potentially powerful weapon in Beijing's trade war with Washington.
Here are some key questions and answers on the prized elements.
- What are rare earths? -
The bedrock of electrical manufacturing, rare earths are 17 elemen ... more |
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 Kingston RI (SPX) May 30, 2019 
Scientists with a NASA-led expedition are operating from the Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography as colleagues explore the deep Pacific Ocean to prepare to search for life in deep space.
The SUBSEA (Systematic Underwater Biogeochemical Science and Exploration Analog) research program is a partnership among NASA's Ames Research Center in Si ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 29, 2019 
When an unusually large number of puffin carcasses began to wash ashore on Alaska's remote St Paul Island in the fall of 2016, the local tribal population grew alarmed.
At first they suspected the seabirds might have avian flu - but labs on the mainland soon ruled out any disease, finding that the seabirds known for their brightly-colored beaks and thick tufts had instead starved to death. ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) May 28, 2019 
The French food safety agency ANSES on Tuesday barred the sale of epoxiconazole, a widely-used pesticide, citing a "worrying danger" to humans.
The fungicide, mainly produced by the German chemical giant BASF, is used for about half of France's cereal crops and 70 percent of beetroot cultivation, ANSES said.
The agency says the substance, already a suspected carcinogen, is thought to be ... more |
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 Edinburgh UK (SPX) May 27, 2019 
Unusual rocks discovered on a remote mountainside have alerted scientists to the dangers posed by a little-studied type of volcano.
Researchers say that the rocks, found in East Africa, provide vital clues into the hazards associated with active volcanoes elsewhere.
The volcanic remnants from Aluto in Ethiopia were formed by intense eruptions that could be far more dangerous than pre ... more |
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 Kano, Nigeria (AFP) May 28, 2019 
Nigeria's army has moved nearly 10,000 people from areas attacked by Boko Haram jihadi fighters in northeastern Borno state, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday.
The area around has seen heavy fighting and ambush attacks against soldiers as they escorted civilians from villages into larger towns.
"As of 27 May 2019, a total of 9,432 individuals from Sabon Gari ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 23, 2019 
DARPA has awarded funding to six organizations to support the Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) program, first announced in March 2018. Battelle Memorial Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Rice University, and Teledyne Scientific are leading multidisciplinary teams to develop high-resolution ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) May 30, 2019 
A mission proposed by the UK Space Agency has been added to the European Space Agency's Earth Watch programme, as the UK bids to host United Nations climate talks next year.
Space offers a unique vantage point from which to observe, measure and monitor the Earth's climate. At the EU Competitiveness Council and EU-ESA Space Council on 28 May, Science Minister Chris Skidmore highlighted the ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2019 
More than a trillion new measurements of Earth's height - blanketing everything from glaciers in Greenland, to mangrove forests in Florida, to sea ice surrounding Antarctica - are now available to the public. With millions more observations added each day, data from NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 is providing a precise global portrait of elevation and will allow scientists to t ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) May 22, 2019  Scientists have unearthed fossilised fungi dating back up to one billion years, in a discovery that could reshape our understanding of how life on land evolved, research showed Wednesday.
For decades, the earliest known fungi - organisms such as mushrooms, mould and yeast - was thought to have appeared on earth around half a billion years ago.
But recent fossil specimens unearthed in ... more |
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 Berlin (AFP) May 27, 2019 
Germany has in recent years polished its "green" image abroad, but the country was only recently forced to admit it will miss a self-imposed 2020 climate target.
With Berlin set to miss the next decade's goals too unless lawmakers take bold action, here are some reasons why carbon reduction has proved tricky even for a wealthy country with an environmentally conscious electorate.
- Car-l ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 23, 2019 
Scientists have demonstrated superconductivity at the highest temperatures yet.
An international team of researchers observed superconductivity at minus-23 degrees Celsius, or minus-9 degrees Fahrenheit - a new record. The breakthrough, detailed this week in the journal Nature Communications, marks a 50 percent improvement over the previous record.
Until now, superconductivity h ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) May 28, 2019  The illegal slaughter of African elephants to feed Asia's demand for ivory has decreased by more than half in eight years, but the majestic mammals are still threatened with extinction, researchers warned Tuesday.
In 2011, poachers killed some 40,000 tuskers - about ten percent of the continent's population, according to figures from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Speci ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) May 30, 2019 
Malaysia will continue using Huawei products "as much as possible," bucking a global trend prompted by security concerns and a US ban on the Chinese firm, the country's prime minister said Thursday.
Mahathir Mohamad, speaking at a conference in Tokyo, acknowledged the security concerns but said they would not deter Malaysia.
"Yes, there may be some spying. But what is there to spy (on) e ... more |
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 Salt Lake City, UT (SPX) May 28, 2019 
Winters in the northern hemisphere are brutal. The harsh conditions drive some species to hibernate; bears reduce their metabolic state to conserve energy until spring. Forests also endure winter by conserving energy; they shut down photosynthesis, the process by which a green pigment called chlorophyll captures sunlight and carbon dioxide (CO2) to produce the chemical energy that fuels the plan ... more |
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