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  Hong Kong (AFP) July 7, 2019 Fresh political violence broke out in Hong Kong on Sunday night as riot police baton-charged anti-government protesters seeking to keep the pressure up on the city's pro-Beijing leaders, after a mass rally outside a train station linking the finance hub to mainland China. Hong Kong has been rocked by a month of huge marches as well as separate violent confrontations with police involving a minority of hardcore protesters, sparked by a law that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China. S ... read more |
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Indonesia cancels tsunami alert after strong quakeJakarta (AFP) July 7, 2019 A strong magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck off Indonesia on Sunday, the US Geological Survey reported, triggering a brief tsunami warning that sent panicked residents fleeing to higher ground. ... more 
Los Angeles 'Big One' quake fears revived by major shocksLos Angeles (AFP) July 6, 2019 Two strong earthquakes that pierced years of seismic calm in southern California have revived fears of the "Big One" striking Los Angeles, with officials warning citizens to be prepared for further shocks. ... more  
Alaska heat wave shatters city's record, disrupts jobs and livesLos Angeles (AFP) July 5, 2019 Temperatures in Alaska's largest city Anchorage have soared to a sweltering all-time record of 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 centigrade) as a heat wave grips the US state which straddles the Arctic Circle. ... more  
Reforestation could cut carbon levels by two-thirds, study saysWashington (AFP) July 4, 2019 Good news: we can help halt climate change through a massive campaign of reforestation, according to a new study published Thursday. ... more |
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Lithuania declares emergency as drought hits farmersVilnius (AFP) July 3, 2019 Lithuania declared an emergency on Wednesday as a severe drought hit the Baltic EU state, threatening to slash this year's harvest by up to half. ... more 
Stromboli clears up ash after deadly volcano eruptionStromboli, Italy (AFP) July 4, 2019 The village of Ginostra on Stromboli began sweeping away layers of ash on Thursday, the day after a dramatic volcanic eruption on the tiny Italian island killed a hiker. ... more  
Elites' preference for maize led to the collapse of the Maya civilizationWashington DC (UPI) Jul 04, 2019 The preference for a maize-centric diet by Mayan elites may have left the ancient civilization more vulnerable to climate change, according to new research. ... more 
Conditions in Syria's al-Hol camp 'apocalyptic': Red CrossGeneva (AFP) July 4, 2019 The Red Cross warned Thursday that displaced people in and around Syria's al-Hol camp were facing an "apocalyptic" conditions, urging countries to quickly repatriate family members of suspected foreign fighters. ... more 
Collapsed wall kills 22 in Mumbai monsoon chaosMumbai (AFP) July 2, 2019 A wall collapsed and killed at least 22 people in Mumbai on Tuesday as the heaviest monsoon rains in a decade brought chaos to India's financial capital and surrounding areas. ... more |
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 UN envoy on migrants criticises 'blindness' of EU on Libya 
Volcanologists: Magma is wetter than we thoughtWashington DC (UPI) Jul 04, 2019 Researchers have determined magma is wetter than previously thought. ... more  |
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More than a million ordered to shelters in rain-hit JapanTokyo (AFP) July 3, 2019 Japanese authorities have issued evacuation orders for more than one million people in southern parts of the country hit by heavy rains, a year after deadly floods that killed more than 200 people. ... more  
Russia releases first whales held in 'jail'Moscow (AFP) June 27, 2019 A number of whales and orcas captured to perform in aquariums and held in cramped pens have been released into the wild, but experts warned the mammals may not survive after being held in captivity for months. ... more  
Big cats of Instagram: Pakistani elite's love of exotic wildlifeKarachi (AFP) July 2, 2019 Bilal Mansoor Khawaja beams as he runs his palms over the ivory coat of a white lion, one of thousands of exotic animals at his personal "zoo" in Karachi, where a thriving wildlife trade caters to Pakistan's gilded elite. ... more  
Neanderthals made repeated use of the ancient settlement of 'Ein Qashish, IsraelWashington DC (SPX) Jul 01, 2019 The archaeological site of 'Ein Qashish in northern Israel was a place of repeated Neanderthal occupation and use during the Middle Paleolithic, according to a study released June 26, 2019 in the op ... more  
Iceland glacier national park named World Heritage siteReykjavik (AFP) July 5, 2019 UNESCO on Friday added Iceland's Vatnajokull National Park, Europe's largest with a landscape of "fire and ice," to its World Heritage List. ... more |
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 Mumbai (AFP) July 2, 2019 
A wall collapsed and killed at least 22 people in Mumbai on Tuesday as the heaviest monsoon rains in a decade brought chaos to India's financial capital and surrounding areas.
Scores more were injured when the structure came down at nighttime in a slum, said Tanaji Kamble, a disaster management spokesman for Mumbai's local authority.
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 28, 2019 
The thermal vacuum test campaign of the first Spacebus Neo satellite was completed on 25 June. Less than 100 metres from the Mediterranean Sea, the Konnect satellite has spent the past six weeks being exposed to the cold emptiness of space.
These enormous test chambers, which can be cooled to minus 180 Celsius, are designed to accommodate an entire spacecraft and effectively replicate the ... more |
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 Kiel, Germany (SPX) Jul 01, 2019 
The oceans are losing oxygen. Numerous studies based on direct measurements in recent years have shown this. Since water can dissolve less gas as temperatures rise, these results were not surprising. In addition to global warming, factors such as eutrophication of the coastal seas also contribute to the ongoing deoxygenation.
Will the oceans become completely oxygen-depleted at some point ... more |
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 Reykjavik (AFP) July 5, 2019 
UNESCO on Friday added Iceland's Vatnajokull National Park, Europe's largest with a landscape of "fire and ice," to its World Heritage List.
Shaped by volcanoes and surrounded by lava fields, the park is also home to the largest glacier in Europe, after which it is named.
The protected area of some 14,500 square kilometres (around 5,600 square miles) - or 14 percent of the whole country ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) July 4, 2019 
New cases of African swine fever have declined and pork production is returning to normal, Chinese officials said Thursday, after millions of pigs were culled because of the deadly disease.
The virus - fatal to wild boar and pigs but harmless to humans - has cut a swathe through Mongolia, Vietnam, North Korea and China.
The world's top pork producer and consumer has seen prices and imp ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) July 3, 2019 
Japanese authorities have issued evacuation orders for more than one million people in southern parts of the country hit by heavy rains, a year after deadly floods that killed more than 200 people.
Small landslides were already being reported in parts of the affected area, public broadcaster NHK reported.
It said a total of 1.1 million people in Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures, on the ... more |
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 Johannesburg (AFP) July 7, 2019 
A South African man who won the chance to be the first black African in space has died in a motorbike crash before turning his dream into reality, his family announced Sunday.
Mandla Maseko, a part-time DJ and candidate officer with the South African Air Force, was nicknamed "Afronaut" after landing a coveted seat to fly 103-kilometres (64 miles) into space in 2013 in a competition organise ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 08, 2019 
A leading public health expert is calling for a strategic initiative to develop green burial corridors alongside major transport routes because British graveyards and cemeteries are rapidly running out of room. With 500,000 deaths annually in England and Wales, it is likely that there will be no burial space left within five years.
Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, P ... more |
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jul 08, 2019 
From time to time, there have been long periods of cooling in Earth's history. Temperatures had already fallen for more than ten million years before the last ice age began about 2.5 million years ago.
At that time the northern hemisphere was covered with massive ice masses and glaciers. A geoscientific paradigm, widespread for over twenty years, explains this cooling with the formation of ... more |
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 St. Petersburg FL (SPX) Jul 08, 2019 
Scientists led by the USF College of Marine Science used NASA satellite observations to discover the largest bloom of macroalgae in the world called the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt (GASB), as reported in Science.
They confirmed that the belt of brown macroalgae called Sargassum forms its shape in response to ocean currents, based on numerical simulations. It can grow so large that it bla ... more |
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 Santa Fe NM (SPX) Jul 01, 2019 
Throughout life's history on earth, biological diversity has gone through ebbs and flows - periods of rapid evolution and of dramatic extinctions. We know this, at least in part, through the fossil record of marine invertebrates left behind since the Cambrian period.
Remarkably, extreme events of diversification and extinction happen more frequently than a typical, Gaussian, distribution w ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) June 24, 2019 
Even modest climate change will increase global energy demand by up to a quarter before mid-century, and by nearly 60 percent if humanity fails to curb greenhouse gas emissions, researchers said Monday.
To the extent this energy comes from fossil fuels, the extra power needed to cool industries, homes and retail outlets in the coming decades will itself contribute to more warming, they repor ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 01, 2019 
Highview Power, the global leader in long-duration energy storage solutions, is pleased to announce that it has developed a modular cryogenic energy storage system, the CRYOBattery, that is scalable up to multiple gigawatts of energy storage and can be located anywhere.
This technology reaches a new benchmark for a levelized cost of storage (LCOS) of $140/MWh for a 10-hour, 200 MW/2 GWh sy ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 2, 2019 
Spiders who exhibit sociability and tolerance when they're first born often become aggressive when they leave the nest and plot out on their own. Now, scientists are beginning to understand why.
Most spiders are solitary creatures and, like other solitary animals, solo spiders tend to behave aggressively toward other spiders. But most spiders aren't born aggressive. Spiderlings spend th ... more |
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 Kathmandu (AFP) July 7, 2019  The Dalai Lama's birthday celebrations in Nepal were cancelled after the government refused permission for the event to go ahead, officials said Sunday, in another sign of the growing influence of China over its Himalayan neighbour.
Nepal is home to around 20,000 exiled Tibetans, but under pressure from Beijing the current communist government has taken an increasingly hardline stance on the ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) July 4, 2019  Good news: we can help halt climate change through a massive campaign of reforestation, according to a new study published Thursday.
Bad news: it would require covering an area the size of the United States in new trees, and even then some scientists are skeptical about the paper's conclusions.
Such an effort could capture two-thirds of manmade carbon emissions and reduce overall levels ... more |
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