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  Washington (UPI) Jun 4, 2019 The highest carbon dioxide concentration levels in human history have been recorded at Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. During the month of May, CO2 levels averaged 414.8 parts per million - levels not present on Earth in millions of years. CO2 levels typically peak on Mauna Loa around this time of year, but carbon dioxide levels have increased consistently during the past few decades. This year's peak was 3.5 parts per million higher than last year's apex of 411.3 parts per million. ... read more |
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Air pollution kills 100,000 Indian kids every year, study findsNew Delhi (AFP) June 5, 2019 The noxious air hanging over India's towns and cities kills more than 100,000 children under five every year, a damning study published Wednesday for World Environment Day found. ... more 
Drowning in waste, Russians fume over lack of recyclingMoscow (AFP) June 3, 2019 Roman Yudakov points in the distance to a stinking mountain of trash looming over the Russian capital and sighs: "Take a look at our pyramid!" ... more  
Remote sensing of toxic algal bloomsThuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jun 04, 2019 Harmful algal blooms in the Red Sea could be detected from satellite images using a method developed at KAUST. This remote sensing technique may eventually lead to a real-time monitoring system to h ... more  
'Lubricating' sediments were critical in making the continents movePotsdam, Germany (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 Plate tectonics is a key geological process on Earth, shaping its surface, and making it unique among the planets in the Solar System. Yet, how plate tectonics emerged and which factors controlled i ... more |
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Study: Impacts of extreme weather on communities influences climate beliefsWashington (UPI) May 31, 2019 New research suggests the impact of extreme weather on a person's neighbors and community has a greater influence on a person's climate change beliefs than individual losses. ... more 
Seven wanted for 'envionmental crimes': InterpolLyon (AFP) June 4, 2019 Interpol on Tuesday issued "red notices" seeking the arrest of seven fugitives wanted for "environmental crimes" from illegal logging to elephant poaching. ... more  
Six dead, dozens missing in Uganda landslides: Red CrossKampala (AFP) June 5, 2019 Six people have died and dozens are missing after heavy rains triggered a series of landslides in eastern Uganda's mountainous Bududa district, the Red Cross said on Wednesday. ... more  
Donors pledge $1.2 billion after Mozambique cyclonesMaputo (AFP) June 3, 2019 International donors have pledged $1.2 billion to help Mozambique recover from the devastation caused by cyclones Idai and Kenneth, but $3.2 billion is needed overall, UN officials said Monday. ... more  
Collision sparks fresh debate over cruise ships in VeniceVenice (AFP) June 2, 2019 A massive cruise ship lost control in Venice Sunday, crashing into a wharf and sparking a fresh controversy over the damage the mammoth vessels cause to one of the world's most famous cities. ... more |
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Fuels out of thin air: New path to capturing and upgrading CO2Toronto, Canada (SPX(SPX) Jun 03, 2019 A research team from U of T Engineering has developed a new electrochemical path to transform CO2 into valuable products such as jet fuel or plastics. The technology could significantly improve the ... more  |
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Ancient DNA tells the story of the first herders and farmers in east AfricaSt. Louis MO (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 A collaborative study led by archaeologists, geneticists and museum curators is providing answers to previously unsolved questions about life in sub-Saharan Africa thousands of years ago. The result ... more  
A rose inspires smart way to collect and purify waterAustin TX (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 The rose may be one of the most iconic symbols of the fragility of love in popular culture, but now the flower could hold more than just symbolic value. A new device for collecting and purifying wat ... more 
Plastic water bottles may one day fly people cross-countryRichland WA (SPX) Jun 04, 2019 A research group led by Washington State University scientists has found a way to turn daily plastic waste products into jet fuel. In a new paper published in the journal Applied Energy, WSU's ... more 
Climate in focus as Denmark seen veering left in electionCopenhagen (AFP) June 5, 2019 Climate concerns top the agenda as Denmark votes in a general election on Wednesday, with the opposition Social Democrats predicted to return to power after adopting the right wing's long-standing restrictive stance on immigration. ... more  
New York takes aim at skyscrapers' sky-high energy usageNew York (AFP) June 3, 2019 It's a tall order indeed: How do you make aging, energy-hungry skyscrapers more efficient and less polluting? The city of New York, the historic capital of the skyscraper, is determined to do so by requiring the enormous buildings to drastically curtail their energy consumption. ... more |
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 Venice (AFP) June 2, 2019 
A massive cruise ship lost control in Venice Sunday, crashing into a wharf and sparking a fresh controversy over the damage the mammoth vessels cause to one of the world's most famous cities.
Footage posted to social media showed people on the harbour fleeing as the 13-deck MSC Opera, which suffered an engine failure, scraped along the dockside before knocking into a luxury tourist boat.
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX(SPX) Jun 03, 2019 
Aluminum is one of the most promising materials for aeronautics and automobile industry. Scientists from the National University of Science and Technology "MISIS" found a simple and efficient way of strengthening aluminum-based composite materials.
Doping aluminum melt with nickel and lanthanum, scientists managed to create a material combining benefits of both composite materials and stan ... more |
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 Honiara (AFP) June 3, 2019 
Australia is to fund a $250 million (US$173 million) grants programme for the Solomon Islands, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Monday, as Canberra confronts growing Chinese influence in the region.
Morrison, in his first overseas trip since re-election two weeks ago, unveiled the package amid talks with Solomons Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare.
It came in a three-pronged Canberr ... more |
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 Hanover NH (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 
Parts of Alaska's mountainous Brooks Range were likely transported from Greenland and a stretch of the Canadian Arctic much farther to the east, according to a series of Dartmouth-led studies detailing over 300 million years of Arctic geologic history.
The finding updates the geological evolution of the Arctic Ocean and could help revise predictions about the Arctic's oil, gas and mineral ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 
Livestock farming is destroying our planet. It is a major cause of land and water degradation, biodiversity loss, acid rain, coral reef degeneration, deforestation - and of course, climate change. Plant-based diets, insect farming, lab-grown meat and genetically modified animals have all been proposed as potential solutions. Which is best?
All of these combined, say researchers at Tufts Un ... more |
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 Maputo (AFP) June 3, 2019 
International donors have pledged $1.2 billion to help Mozambique recover from the devastation caused by cyclones Idai and Kenneth, but $3.2 billion is needed overall, UN officials said Monday.
A conference in the central city of Beira met on Friday and Saturday to pledge the funds, with 700 participants from groups including UN agencies, the European Union, the World Bank and the African De ... more |
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 Kano, Nigeria (AFP) June 3, 2019 
Boko Haram jihadists have carried out multiple attacks on military bases in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, overrunning three of them and stealing weapons, security sources said Monday.
Fighters believed to be from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), the IS-linked faction of Boko Haram, stormed four bases from Friday through Sunday in the latest spate of attacks targeting the ar ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Jun 04, 2019 
A new archaeological site discovered by an international and local team of scientists working in Ethiopia shows that the origins of stone tool production are older than 2.58 million years ago. Previously, the oldest evidence for systematic stone tool production and use was 2.58 to 2.55 million years ago.
Analysis by the researchers of early stone age sites, published this week in the Proce ... more |
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 Copenhagen (AFP) June 5, 2019  Climate concerns top the agenda as Denmark votes in a general election on Wednesday, with the opposition Social Democrats predicted to return to power after adopting the right wing's long-standing restrictive stance on immigration.
Opinion polls put the opposition centre-left Social Democrats, led by Mette Frederiksen, at 27.2 percent, a comfortable lead of almost 10 percentage points ahead ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 04, 2019 
The first minerals to form in the universe were nanocrystalline diamonds, which condensed from gases ejected when the first generation of stars exploded. Diamonds that crystallize under the extreme pressure and temperature conditions deep inside of Earth are more typically encountered by humanity. What opportunities for knowledge are lost when mineralogists categorize both the cosmic travelers a ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 3, 2019  Feathers arrived at least 100 million years before birds, according to a new survey.
Using new data in the fields of palaeontology and molecular developmental biology, scientists were able to clarify the evolutionary relationships among dinosaurs, birds and pterosaurs, a group of bird-like flying reptiles.
Earlier this year, researchers discovered feathers in pterosaur fossils, the first eviden ... more |
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 New York (AFP) June 3, 2019 
It's a tall order indeed: How do you make aging, energy-hungry skyscrapers more efficient and less polluting? The city of New York, the historic capital of the skyscraper, is determined to do so by requiring the enormous buildings to drastically curtail their energy consumption.
Traditional skyscrapers are an energy-saver's nightmare, with their vast glass facades, electric lighting everywhe ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX(SPX) Jun 03, 2019 
Scientists from Skoltech, Moscow State University (MSU) and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have proposed a new approach to replacing carbon atoms with nitrogen atoms in the supercapacitor's crystal lattice and developed a novel capacity enhancement method based on carbon lattice modification with the aid of plasma. Their findings can help create the next generation of power so ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 3, 2019 
The island of New Guinea in the Indonesian archipelago remains one of the last refuges free of chytrid fungus, a deadly frog infection that has already wiped out 90 frog species around the world.
The authors of a new study, published this week in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, have a plan to keep New Guinea disease free and its frog population healthy, but they sa ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) June 4, 2019  Crowds began arriving for a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong on Tuesday evening marking 30 years since China's bloody Tiananmen crackdown, a gathering tinged with symbolism as the city struggles to preserve its own cherished freedoms.
The eye-catching spectacle - in which tens of thousands of Hong Kongers clutch candles, sing songs and listen to emotional speeches - is the only place in Chin ... 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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