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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 27, 2019 Himalaya. Karakoram. Hindu Kush. The names of Asia's high mountain ranges conjure up adventure to those living far away, but for more than a billion people, these are the names of their most reliable water source. Snow and glaciers in these mountains contain the largest volume of freshwater outside of Earth's polar ice sheets, leading hydrologists to nickname this region the Third Pole. One-seventh of the world's population depends on rivers flowing from these mountains for water to drink and to i ... read more |
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Greenland ice loss projections are clouded by cloudsWashington (UPI) Jun 24, 2019 Predicting where, how and how quickly Greenland's ice will melt is difficult. Projections by the best models are cloudy, and new research suggests clouds are doing the clouding. ... more  
Monarch butterflies bred in captivity don't fly south, researchers findWashington (UPI) Jun 25, 2019 Monarch butterflies bred in captivity may lose their sense of direction. ... more 
Marshall Islanders 'sitting ducks' as sea level rises: presidentGeneva (AFP) June 21, 2019 Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine stressed Friday the need for dramatic climate action and international support to ensure her people are not left as "sitting ducks" when sea levels inevitably rise. ... more  
Some trees make droughts worse, study saysWashington (UPI) Jun 25, 2019 New analysis suggests some trees make drought conditions worse. ... more |
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Poland, Hungary want cash before agreeing to EU climate targetWarsaw (AFP) June 21, 2019 Poland and Hungary on Friday said they were protecting their national economies by rejecting an EU bid for zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a goal another opposing country called "ecological hysteria". ... more 
Saudi Arabia accused of nixing emissions mention at UN climate talksBonn (AFP) June 24, 2019 Saudi Arabia has moved to block mention of the findings of a landmark report on global warming from decisions taken at United Nations' climate talks, delegates and sources close to the negotiations told AFP Monday. ... more  
Among world's worst polluters, ASEAN vows to tackle ocean wasteBangkok (AFP) June 22, 2019 With Southeast Asia awash in rubbish, from plastic-choked whales to trash-clogged canals, leaders are planning to push through a deal to fight maritime debris at a regional meeting this weekend. ... more 
Managing climate change will require increased energy usageWashington (UPI) Jun 24, 2019 More energy will be needed to deal with the effects of climate change, according to a new study. ... more 
Dry lakebeds and fights for water as drought grips India's Chennai, India (AFP) June 22, 2019 Angry residents fight in queues at water taps, lakes have been turned into barren moonscapes and restaurants are cutting back on meals as the worst drought in living memory grips India's Chennai. ... more |
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Qu Dongyu becomes first Chinese to head UN food agency FAORome (AFP) June 23, 2019 Qu Dongyu on Sunday became the first Chinese national to be elected to head the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, clinching the post in the first round of voting. ... more  |
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Searing heat across Europe sparks scramble for shadeParis (AFP) June 24, 2019 Fans flew off store shelves and water fountains offered relief from the heat as temperatures soared in Europe on Monday, with officials urging vigilance ahead of even hotter conditions forecast later in the week. ... more  
Earthquake location influenced by stress buildup of previous rupturesWashington (UPI) Jun 21, 2019 The fault slips that generate earthquakes release lots of stored energy, energy that reverberates violently across the planet's crust. But earthquakes also create new stresses. ... more  
Putin oversees release of whales from 'jail' during phone-inMoscow (AFP) June 20, 2019 Russian President Vladimir Putin during his annual marathon phone-in on Thursday claimed kudos for the release of whales held in cramped pens and intended for commercial aquariums. ... more  
Sudan army ruler seeks to resume talks with protest leadersKhartoum (AFP) June 19, 2019 Sudan's army ruler Wednesday called on protest leaders to resume talks on the transfer of power without any conditions, as tension between the two sides persists after the bloody dispersal of demonstrators. ... more 
Jihadist-hit Burkina adopts tough law on covering military opsOuagadougou (AFP) June 21, 2019 Lawmakers in jihadist-hit Burkina Faso on Friday adopted a controversial new law providing for jail terms of up to 10 years for divulging details of military operations. ... more |
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 Nesconset, United States (AFP) June 16, 2019 
Michael Kidd, now 84 years old, fought in the Korean War. His young German shepherd Millie helps calm him down when things start to swirl, usually at night.
Harry Stolberg - a 42-year-old former Marine who served in Bosnia, Liberia and Nigeria - has a chocolate Labrador named Rocky who wakes him up from his troubled dreams.
And 31-year-old Phil Davanzo - who carried the bodies of fal ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Jun 27, 2019 
Inspired by movie streaming services such as Netflix or Hulu, a Southwest Research Institute scientist developed a technique to look for stars likely to host giant, Jupiter-sized planets outside of our solar system. She developed an algorithm to identify stars likely to host giant exoplanets, based on the composition of stars known to have planets.
"My viewing habits have trained Netflix t ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 21, 2019 
Snowflakes that cover mountains or linger under tree canopies are a vital freshwater resource for over a billion people around the world. To help determine how much freshwater is stored in snow, a team of NASA-funded researchers is creating a computer-based tool that simulates the best way to detect snow and measure its water content from space.
Snow's water content, or snow water equivale ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 24, 2019  Predicting where, how and how quickly Greenland's ice will melt is difficult. Projections by the best models are cloudy, and new research suggests clouds are doing the clouding.
Currently, models of Greenland's melting ice sheet put the greatest emphasis on the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions. But new research, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, suggests the m ... more |
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 Rome (AFP) June 23, 2019 
Qu Dongyu on Sunday became the first Chinese national to be elected to head the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, clinching the post in the first round of voting.
Qu, 55, a biologist by training, won 108 votes, followed by Catherine Geslain-Laneelle of France with 71 votes and Georgia's Davit Kirvalidze with 12, according to official results.
"I'm very grateful to all member countr ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 21, 2019  The fault slips that generate earthquakes release lots of stored energy, energy that reverberates violently across the planet's crust. But earthquakes also create new stresses.
New research suggests the accumulation of stress caused by historic earthquakes could explain why and where the next seismic event occurs.
In regions vulnerable to earthquakes, major seismic events seem to ... more |
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 Ouagadougou (AFP) June 21, 2019 
Lawmakers in jihadist-hit Burkina Faso on Friday adopted a controversial new law providing for jail terms of up to 10 years for divulging details of military operations.
The amendment bans the "publication of images of attacks against defence and security forces and the victims of terrorist crimes", as well as "attacks on the morale of troops engaged in the fight against terrorism," lawmaker ... more |
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 Jabalpur, India (AFP) June 18, 2019 
When the Kesharwanis decided to branch out and expand their family home, they came up with a novel way of dealing with an ancient giant fig tree in their garden - they built the house around it.
Now the thick trunk of the 150-year-old tree is the central feature of their residence, growing through the middle of the building in the city of Jabalpur.
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 Warsaw (AFP) June 21, 2019 
Poland and Hungary on Friday said they were protecting their national economies by rejecting an EU bid for zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a goal another opposing country called "ecological hysteria".
EU leaders failed Thursday to set a target for so-called carbon neutrality by mid-century, amid opposition from coal-dependent Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the ambiguous p ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 24, 2019 
Harmful algal blooms can cause big problems in coastal areas and lakes across the United States. When toxin-containing aquatic organisms multiply and form a bloom, it can sicken people and pets, contaminate drinking water, and force closures at boating and swimming sites.
With limited resources to monitor these often-unpredictable blooms, water managers are turning to new technologies from ... more |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2019 
New UC Riverside-led research settles a longstanding debate about whether the most ancient animal communities were deliberately mobile. It turns out they were, because they were hungry.
"This is the first time in the fossil record we see an animal moving to get food," said study lead Scott Evans, a UCR paleontology doctoral candidate.
Evans' team demonstrated that the 550-million-yea ... more |
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 New York (AFP) June 19, 2019  New York state lawmakers on Wednesday passed one of the world's most ambitious laws aimed at countering climate change, under which fossil fuel power plants and gasoline cars will be phased out by 2050.
But the move came as President Donald Trump's administration finalized a rollback of an Obama-era plan to cut harmful emissions from coal plants, triggering an outcry from opposition Democrat ... 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 25, 2019 
Monarch butterflies bred in captivity may lose their sense of direction.
When researchers at the University of Chicago bought and released monarch butterflies from a commercial breeder, the butterflies failed to fly south. Even when the captive-bred monarchs were raised outdoors, the butterflies were unable to orient themselves.
Genetic analysis showed the captive-bred monarchs a ... more |
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 Taipei (AFP) June 20, 2019 
Two Canadian naval vessels sailed through the Taiwan Strait, Taipei's and Canada's defence ministries said, in the latest naval passage likely to irk Beijing.
The ships sailed through the narrow waterway separating the Chinese mainland and Taiwan in a "freedom of navigation" operation, the Taipei ministry said in a statement issued late Wednesday, without providing any details.
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 25, 2019 
New analysis suggests some trees make drought conditions worse.
The loss of trees and vegetation can have a variety of negative effects on ecological health. Often, trees and vegetation help mitigate the damage caused by extreme weather. But new research suggests the effects of vegetation on weather conditions depends on the physiology of the involved vegetation.
According to a n ... more |
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