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  Paris (AFP) June 11, 2019 People worldwide could be ingesting five grammes of microscopic plastic particles every week, equivalent in weight to a credit card, researchers said Wednesday. Coming mostly from tap and especially bottled water, nearly invisible bits of polymer were also found in shellfish, beer and salt, scientists and the University of Newcastle in Australia reported. The findings, drawn from 52 peer-reviewed studies, are the first to estimate the sheer weight of plastics consumed by individual humans: about ... read more |
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Pompeo says US won't obstruct curbs on plastic pollutionWashington (AFP) June 11, 2019 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promised Tuesday that the United States would not scuttle international efforts to curb plastic pollution, amid complaints that Washington is impeding the growing consensus on the need to clean up the world's oceans. ... more  
Big brands breaking pledge to not destroy forests: reportParis (AFP) June 11, 2019 A rainforest area the size of Spain will be destroyed by firms growing consumer staples like palm oil in the decade to 2020, industry's self-imposed deadline to end deforestation, Greenpeace said Tuesday. ... more  
Search continues for survivors of Uganda landslidesShisakoli, Uganda (AFP) June 6, 2019 Rescuers continued the search Thursday for survivors of landslides caused by heavy rains in eastern Uganda as authorities said "most" of the missing have been accounted for and the confirmed death toll stood at six. ... more 
Four passengers die in 'unbearable' heat on Indian trainNew Delhi (AFP) June 11, 2019 Four people died in 'unbearable' heat while travelling by train in northern India, which has been in the grip of a heatwave for two weeks, officials and passengers said Tuesday. ... more |
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Israeli coral rescue plan needs chisel and deep blue seaEilat, Israel (AFP) June 11, 2019 A dozen feet deep in the azure waters of the Red Sea, Israeli marine ecologist Assaf Zvuloni firmly grasped a bright red coral fastened to a metal jetty piling. ... more  
Britain sets deadline for carbon neutrality by 2050London (AFP) June 11, 2019 The British government on Wednesday outlined legislation to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2050 in what it said would be a first for a major economy. ... more  
Agriculture began in Eurasia earlier than scientists thoughtWashington (UPI) Jun 10, 2019 According to a new survey of isotopic data from Eurasia, agriculture began in the region earlier than scientists thought. ... more 
Ancient Roman grape seeds reveal genetic origins of French winemakingWashington (UPI) Jun 10, 2019 Scientists have traced the genetic origins of a popular grape variety, still used in French wines today, back 900 years to a single ancestral plant. ... more  
China flooding kills at least 19: state mediaBeijing (AFP) June 11, 2019 Flooding caused by torrential rains has killed at least 19 people in southern China, the official Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday. ... more |
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Colombian ex-Marxist guerrilla takes Congress oathBogota (AFP) June 11, 2019 A former Marxist rebel leader wanted by the United States for drug-trafficking was sworn in Tuesday as a member of Colombia's Congress. ... more  |
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Zimbabwe demands right to sell $300 mn of ivory to fund game reservesHarare (AFP) June 11, 2019 Zimbabwe has demanded the right to sell its stockpile of ivory to raise money for conservation, wildlife authorities said Tuesday, joining other southern African nations in calling for the global ban on the trade in tusks to be relaxed. ... more  
Hong Kong businesses pledge closures as extradition anger buildsHong Kong (AFP) June 11, 2019 Scores of Hong Kong businesses have vowed to shut Wednesday and protesters have planned another mass rally outside the city's parliament as anger builds over the government's push to allow extraditions to China. ... more  
Pressure mounts on aviation industry over climate changeParis (AFP) June 9, 2019 Under pressure from frequent flyers alarmed over climate change, the airline industry says it is "hellbent" on reducing emissions - but the technology needed to drastically reduce its carbon footprint is still out of reach. ... more 
Burn or spurn? What to do with Western wasteParis (AFP) June 5, 2019 Western countries must increasingly deal with hard to dispose of plastics because China and many southeastern Asian countries no longer want them. ... more  
Study: Almost 600 plant species have gone extinct in last 250 yearsWashington (UPI) Jun 11, 2019 Almost 600 plant species have gone extinct in the last 250 years, which is twice the number of birds, mammals and amphibians to have disappeared from the Earth in the same period combined, according to a new study. ... more |
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 Bogota (AFP) June 11, 2019 
A former Marxist rebel leader wanted by the United States for drug-trafficking was sworn in Tuesday as a member of Colombia's Congress.
Jesus Santrich, 52, hailed it as "a new step in the fight and defense of peace for Colombia," in comments to reporters after taking the oath of office.
He assumed his position in Colombia's lower house as one of 10 former guerrillas guaranteed a seat in ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 
More than 22,000 objects floating in space are currently being tracked by the U.S. Air Force. That number is expected to double within five years, due in large part to increased global demand for satellite internet services and private companies' launching of more space objects to meet that demand.
So, what happens to those floating satellites and other space objects when they have outlive ... more |
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 Eilat, Israel (AFP) June 11, 2019 
A dozen feet deep in the azure waters of the Red Sea, Israeli marine ecologist Assaf Zvuloni firmly grasped a bright red coral fastened to a metal jetty piling.
The coral and others close by would most likely perish in planned maintenance works at the site, degrading all the benefits they bring to underwater life.
So to save them, Zvuloni and his colleague Assaf Habary have donned scuba ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 5, 2019  Scientists have discovered a link between seafloor vents and massive phytoplankton blooms on the surface of the Southern Ocean.
According to a study published this week in the journal Nature Communications, powerful hydrothermal vents are propelling streams of warm, mineral-rich water to the ocean's surface off the coast of Antarctica, encouraging the proliferation of phytoplankton popu ... more |
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 Rome (AFP) June 10, 2019 
Millions of locusts have devastated at least 2,000 hectares of crops in Sardinia, Italian farmers union Coldiretti said Monday, with experts calling the invasion the worst in six decades.
The most affected areas are Nuoro, Ottana and Orani in the middle of the Mediterranean island, with many areas blanketed by the insects, Coldiretti said in a statement.
The locust invasion is the worst ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 7, 2019 
Scientists have figured out why earthquakes along mid-ocean ridges occur during low tides.
For 20 years, scientists have known about the link between earthquakes and tides. But because most mid-ocean ridges feature vertical faults, or faults featuring steeply inclined planes, researchers assumed earthquake-generating slips would be more likely to occur at high tide. The seismic data sho ... more |
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 Lagos, Nigeria (SPX) Jun 12, 2019 
Space in Africa, the authority on news, data, and market analysis for the African space industry, has just released the African Space Industry Report- 2019 Edition. The report covers Africa's journey in space from 1998 through May 2019 and explains how the industry has already reached over USD 7 billion of annual revenues and is projected to grow at a 7.3% compound annual growth rate to exceed U ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 11, 2019  The human brain is uniquely tuned to appreciate music, according to a new study.
"We found that a certain region of our brains has a stronger preference for sounds with pitch than macaque monkey brains," neuroscientist Bevil Conway, an investigator at the National Institutes of Health's Intramural Research Program, said in a news release. "The results raise the possibility that these so ... 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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 Munster, Germany (SPX) Jun 10, 2019 
The huge magnetic field which surrounds the Earth, protecting it from radiation and charged particles from space - and which many animals even use for orientation purposes - is changing constantly, which is why geoscientists keep it constantly under surveillance.
The old well-known sources of the Earth's magnetic field are the Earth's core - down to 6,000 kilometres deep down inside the Ea ... 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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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 
NCCR MARVEL researchers have developed a novel microscopic theory that is able to describe heat transport in very general ways, and applies equally well to ordered or disordered materials such as crystals or glasses and to anything in between. This is not only a significant first - no transport equation has been able so far to account simultaneously for these two regimes - it also shows, surpris ... 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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 Beijing (AFP) June 10, 2019 
China on Monday strongly backed the Hong Kong government on a controversial bill that would allow extraditions to the mainland, and voiced opposition to "outside interference" following a massive protest against the legislation.
Organisers said more than a million people marched against the law, bringing central Hong Kong to a standstill at the weekend as the semi-autonomous city's pro-Beiji ... more |
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 Burlington VT (SPX) Jun 10, 2019 
Older forests in eastern North America are less vulnerable to climate change than younger forests - particularly for carbon storage, timber production, and biodiversity - new University of Vermont research finds.
The study, to be published in Global Change Biology's June 12 edition, analyzed how climate change is expected to impact forests across the eastern United States and Canada. It fo ... more |
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