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  Paris (AFP) July 9, 2019 France announced Tuesday it would impose new taxes on plane tickets of up to 18 euros per flight, joining other EU states seeking to limit the environmental impact of air travel. The government said that the funds from tickets for flights originating in France would be used to create less-polluting transport options as concerns grow about carbon emissions from planes. The move, which will take effect from 2020, will see a tax of 1.5 euros ($1.7) imposed on economy-class tickets on internal fligh ... read more |
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The world needs a global agenda for sandBoulder CO (SPX) Jul 08, 2019 What links the building you live in, the glass you drink from and the computer you work on? The answer is smaller than you think and is something we are rapidly running out of: sand. In a comm ... more  
UT study shows how to produce natural gas while storing carbon dioxideAustin TX (SPX) Jul 01, 2019 New research at The University of Texas at Austin shows that injecting air and carbon dioxide into methane ice deposits buried beneath the Gulf of Mexico could unlock vast natural gas energy resourc ... more  
When Drought Threatens Crops: NASA's Role in Famine WarningsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 02, 2019 NASA's satellite imagery and model forecasts regularly help agricultural and aid agencies to monitor the performance of crops worldwide and prepare for food shortages. "In the 1970's the U.S. ... more  
From princes to undertakers, Norway's motorists go electricOslo (AFP) July 9, 2019 Some want to save the planet even in the afterlife. ... more |
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Hundreds of sharks snarled by plastic in the world's oceans, scientists warnWashington (UPI) Jul 5, 2019 New research suggest previous studies have underestimated the number of sharks and rays entangled in plastic. The problem is likely much worse than scientists realized. ... more 
UN chief urges action to avert climate change 'catastrophe'Abu Dhabi (AFP) June 30, 2019 UN chief Antonio Guterres said climate-related devastation was striking the planet on a weekly basis and warned Sunday that urgent action must be taken to avoid a catastrophe. ... more  
Indonesia to send 210 tonnes of waste back to AustraliaJakarta (AFP) July 9, 2019 Indonesia said Tuesday it would send more than 210 tonnes of garbage back to Australia, as Southeast Asian nations push back against serving as dumping grounds for foreign trash. ... more 
World's largest seaweed bloom spotted from spaceWashington (UPI) Jul 5, 2019 Researchers in Florida have identified the world's largest seaweed bloom, a massive expanse of Sargassum visible from space. ... more 
Monsoon rains soak India's financial capitalMumbai (AFP) July 1, 2019 Heavy rains flooded parts of India's financial capital of Mumbai on Monday, as the country's four-month summer monsoon swung into full force. ... more |
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Gabon's timber industry reeling after corruption scandalLibreville (AFP) July 7, 2019 Tropical timber is piling up at Gabon's main port as the country's logging industry reels from a corruption scandal that brought down the vice president and ushered in a veteran environmentalist to oversee its forestry. ... more  |
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Cruise ship in Venice near-miss just weeks after dock incidentRome (AFP) July 8, 2019 A giant cruise ship very narrowly missed a yacht while being towed out of Venice late Sunday, just a month after a collision there renewed the controversy over the giant vessels. ... more  
In Yakutia, Russia digs for diamonds in permafrostMirny, Russia (AFP) July 7, 2019 Diamonds are forever, and so is the permanently frozen ground of Yakutia in north eastern Siberia, home to huge diamond deposits that ensure Russia's supremacy in world production of the luxury stone. ... more  
When spiders leave the nest, they turn aggressiveWashington (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. ... more 
The global tree restoration potentialZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 08, 2019 Restoration of the Earth's forests is the world's most effective solution to climate change available today and has the potential to capture two thirds of man-made carbon emissions, finds landmark r ... more 
New research shows how melting ice is affecting supplies of nutrients to the seaBristol UK (SPX) Jul 01, 2019 The findings of a research expedition to coastal Greenland which examined, for the first time, how melting ice is affecting supplies of nutrients to the oceans has been published in the journal Prog ... more |
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 Dhaka (AFP) July 7, 2019  Monsoon-triggered landslides in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh have killed one person and left more than 4,500 homeless, aid officials said Sunday.
About 35 centimetres (14 inches) of rain fell in 72 hours before the landslides started Saturday in camps around Cox's Bazar that house more than 900,000 of the Muslim minority who fled Myanmar, the UN said.
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 Providence RI (SPX) Jul 08, 2019 
DNA molecules are well known as carriers of huge amounts of biological information, and there is growing interest in using DNA in engineered data storage devices that can hold vastly more data than our current hard drives. But new research shows that DNA isn't the only game in town when it comes to molecular data storage.
A study led by Brown University researchers shows that it's possible ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 5, 2019 
New research suggest previous studies have underestimated the number of sharks and rays entangled in plastic. The problem is likely much worse than scientists realized.
Researchers at the University of Exeter scanned the scientific literature, as well as Twitter, for reports of sharks and rays found tangled in plastic debris. The research team uncovered evidence of 1,000 entangled indiv ... 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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 Washington (UPI) Jul 5, 2019 
New research suggests damselflies are being harmed by thiacloprid, a common neonicotinoid insecticide used by farmers to kill aphids and whiteflies.
When researchers first began testing the efficacy and safety of neonicotinoids, insecticides synthetically derived from nicotine, they determined the chemicals only harmed insects that actually ate the sprayed crops. Thus, only the targeted ... more |
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 Tehran (AFP) July 8, 2019 
A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck southwest Iran near the border with Iraq on Monday, causing one death due to a heart attack and dozens of injuries, the country's relief and rescue organisation said.
The quake, whose epicentre was in the Masjed Soleiman area of Khuzestan province, hit at 11:30 am (0700 GMT) at a depth of 17 kilometres, the national seismological centre reported.
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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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 Konstanz, Germany (SPX) Jul 09, 2019 
The International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space (ICARUS) is a cooperative project between the Russian space agency Roscosmos and the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) under the leadership of Martin Wikelski from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz.
With the space-based observation system, scientists want to find out m ... more |
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 Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Jul 09, 2019 
Scientists have developed a new method for detecting traces of primordial life in ancient rock formations using potassium.
The method relies on searching for high concentrations of potassium in ancient sedimentary rocks, rather than traditional methods that look for carbon, sulfur, or nitrogen - which can appear in ancient rocks through processes unrelated to ancient life.
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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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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jul 08, 2019 
Beryllium, a hard, silvery metal long used in X-ray machines and spacecraft, is finding a new role in the quest to bring the power that drives the sun and stars to Earth. Beryllium is one of the two main materials used for the wall in ITER, a multinational fusion facility under construction in France to demonstrate the practicality of fusion power.
Now, physicists from the U.S. Department ... 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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 Hong Kong (AFP) July 9, 2019  Hong Kong's embattled pro-Beijing leader on Tuesday said a China extradition bill that sparked unprecedented political unrest "is dead" - but protesters immediately dismissed her comments, threatening more mass rallies.
The international finance hub has been plunged into its worst crisis in recent history by a month of marches and sporadic violent confrontations between police and pockets o ... more |
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 Libreville (AFP) July 7, 2019 
Tropical timber is piling up at Gabon's main port as the country's logging industry reels from a corruption scandal that brought down the vice president and ushered in a veteran environmentalist to oversee its forestry.
Wood is big money in the central African nation, which is almost 80 percent covered by forests. The timber industry accounts for 17,000 jobs and 60 percent of non-oil related ... more |
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