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  Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 A team of researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) is now scrutinising a daring way of stabilising the ice sheet: Generating trillions of tons of additional snowfall by pumping ocean water onto the glaciers and distributing it with snow canons. This would mean unprecedented engineering efforts and a substantial environmental hazard in one of the world's last pristine regions - to prevent long-term sea level rise for some of the world's most densely populated areas along c ... read more |
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An AI technology to reveal the characteristics of animal behavior only from the trajectoryOsaka, Japan (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 Recording the movements of people and animals (including birds and insects) has become very easy because of the development of small and inexpensive GPS devices and video cameras. However, it is sti ... more  
Thirty years of unique data reveal what's really killing coral reefsBoca Raton FL (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 Coral reefs are considered one of the most threatened ecosystems on the planet and are dying at alarming rates around the world. Scientists attribute coral bleaching and ultimately massive coral dea ... more  
'Artificial intelligence' fit to monitor volcanoesPotsdam, Germany (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 More than half of the world's active volcanoes are not monitored instrumentally. Hence, even eruptions that could potentially have rung an alarm can occur without people at risk having a clue of the ... more  
Stone tool changes may show how Mesolithic hunter-gatherers responded to changing climateWashington DC (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 The development of new hunting projectiles by European hunter-gatherers during the Mesolithic may have been linked to territoriality in a rapidly-changing climate, according to a study published Jul ... more |
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Monsoon toll tops 650 as rains unleash flood fury in South AsiaNew Delhi (AFP) July 22, 2019 Severe floods and lightning have claimed the lives of more than 650 people across India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan, officials said Monday as the annual monsoon took its toll on the rainfed region. ... more  
Paris braces for record heat as Europe scorched againParis (AFP) July 22, 2019 Parisians were on Monday bracing for potentially the hottest ever temperature in the French capital this week as a new heatwave blasted into northern Europe that could set records in several countries. ... more  
Portugal wildfires '90 percent' under controlSert�, Portugal (AFP) July 22, 2019 Huge wildfires that have ravaged a mountainous region of central Portugal and left dozens injured have been "90 percent" controlled, firefighters said Monday, but warned that strong winds could cause the flames to spread. ... more  
Hopes dashed as Ethiopia-Eritrea peace process stagnatesZalambessa , Ethiopia (AFP) July 23, 2019 In the heady days after longtime foes Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a peace deal a year ago, Teklit Amare's Peace and Love Cafe near the newly-opened border overflowed with customers. ... more  
Trump praises China response to Hong Kong protestsWashington (AFP) July 22, 2019 US President Donald Trump on Monday praised Beijing's handling of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, a day after suspected triad gangsters attacked demonstrators in a bloody escalation. ... more |
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 Taiwan calls for 'genuine' elections in Hong Kong, irking Beijing  
Grants aim to fund study on technology's impact on democracyWashington (AFP) July 22, 2019 New research programs at US universities will focus on the impact of technology on democracy, including the role of misinformation, a foundation announced Monday. ... more  |
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Infernal affairs: how triads embraced communist ChinaHong Kong (AFP) July 23, 2019 The savage beating of Hong Kong protesters by a mob of triad gangsters has deepened fears about the city's notorious criminal gangs and the use of shadowy hired muscle to defend China's interests. ... more 
China's police state goes global, leaving refugees in fearSydney (AFP) July 23, 2019 Muslims who escaped China's crackdown in Xinjiang still live in fear, saying new homes abroad and even Western passports afford them no protection against a state-driven global campaign of intimidation. ... more 
China says Hong Kong protests 'absolutely intolerable'Beijing (AFP) July 22, 2019 China reacted furiously on Monday to anti-government protesters vandalising the walls of its representative's office in Hong Kong and defacing the national emblem, branding their actions "absolutely intolerable". ... more 
Out of Africa and into an archaic human melting potAdelaide, Australia (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 Genetic analysis has revealed that the ancestors of modern humans interbred with at least five different archaic human groups as they moved out of Africa and across Eurasia. While two of the a ... more  
Joshua trees facing extinctionRiverside CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 They outlived mammoths and saber-toothed tigers. But without dramatic action to reduce climate change, new research shows Joshua trees won't survive much past this century. UC Riverside scient ... more |
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 Brasilia (AFP) July 20, 2019 
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday there was no hunger in the country, citing the lack of rail-thin poor people in the streets as proof.
Speaking to foreign journalists, Bolsonaro blamed "populists" for propagating "a big lie" that some of Brazil's 209 million people did not have enough to eat.
"There is no hunger," the far-right leader said, noting Brazil "was rich in practic ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 18, 2019 
In 1972, it took an astronaut going on a spacewalk to do what Lynn Carter now can do with a few mouse clicks over lunch. Carter, a planetary science professor at the Univerity of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, points to a small, framed photograph above her desk. It shows the Apollo 17 spacecraft, the last crewed mission to the moon, cruising high above the grey, cratered expanse below. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2019 
A U.S. Navy request for proposals calls for a new class of unmanned surface vessels.
While the Navy floated performance specifications in February for a fleet of "medium unmanned surface vehicles," the request was officially announced Tuesday. It seeks developers for a craft of up to 164 feet long, to function as a sensor and communications relay in part of a family of unmanned surface ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 
Over the past 22 years, sea levels in the Arctic have risen an average of 2.2 millimeters per year. This is the conclusion of a Danish-German research team after evaluating 1.5 billion radar measurements of various satellites using specially developed algorithms.
"The Arctic is a hotspot of climate change," explains Prof. Florian Seitz of the German Geodetic Research Institute at the Techn ... more |
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 Chatuzange-Le-Goubet, France (AFP) July 21, 2019 
Working its way across a purple-green field in southern France, a claw-fitted tractor harvests plants of lavender destined to become essential oil as a traditional sector stages a modest comeback.
"They are slightly grey because they are starting to wilt, it is the best point for the quantity and quality of essential oils," explains Vincent Jamonet who runs the operation in the Drome region ... more |
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 Laswa Valley, Pakistan (AFP) July 19, 2019 
Once a small cluster of houses stood along a gentle stream in Pakistani Kashmir. Now only jagged rocks and a few damaged homes remain after torrential rains wreaked havoc on the picturesque mountain village in the Laswa Valley.
More than 270 people have been killed in recent days across South Asia as monsoon rains deluged large swathes of the subcontinent, flooding waterways and destroying c ... more |
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 Zalambessa , Ethiopia (AFP) July 23, 2019 
In the heady days after longtime foes Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a peace deal a year ago, Teklit Amare's Peace and Love Cafe near the newly-opened border overflowed with customers.
Now, he paces among empty tables, wondering aloud how to keep his business open as optimism fades, with borders again sealed and hopes of progress dashed.
The Zalambessa border crossing closed at the end of l ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) July 19, 2019 
A bold vision by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk to mesh human brains with artificial intelligence remains more science fiction than reality.
Even as Musk claimed his Neuralink startup had enabled a monkey to control a computer with its brain, experts were quick to dampen expectations for a futuristic scenario from "The Matrix" films, based on people with cybernetic implants.
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 Brussels (AFP) July 19, 2019  Momentum is growing across Europe toward a mid-century target for climate neutrality that UN scientists say the world must embrace to avert catastrophe.
But experts say the 28 EU countries must accelerate measures on many fronts once they set the goal of emitting no more greenhouse gases than they absorb by 2050.
They insist that "climate neutrality" is achievable, but only provided the ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 23, 2019 
NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory took to the skies on Monday to kick off a two-month investigation into the life cycles of smoke from fires in the United States. The goal is to better understand smoke impact on weather and climate and provide information that will lead to improved air quality forecasting.
A joint campaign led by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NO ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 18, 2019  Unlike reptiles and birds, which scarf down large chunks of food or even swallow prey whole, most mammals chew before they swallow. The discovery of the 165-million-year-old remains of a shrew-like animal, Microdocodon gracilis, suggests some of the earliest ancestors of modern mammals chewed before they swallowed, too.
The newly found Jurassic fossil features the earliest known example ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 
Imagine powering your devices by walking. With technology recently developed by a group of researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, that possibility might not be far out of reach.
The group describes the technology in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing. An energy harvester is attached to the wearer's knee and can generate 1.6 microwatts of power while the wearer walks ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2019 
Most people don't just want to live a long time, they want to age well. They want to stay healthier for longer. The quality of a person's life as they age is called healthspan, and new research suggests different genes control lifespan and healthspan.
While tracking the healthspan of an aging population, including factors like mobility and immune resistance, is difficult, researchers su ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) July 22, 2019  China reacted furiously on Monday to anti-government protesters vandalising the walls of its representative's office in Hong Kong and defacing the national emblem, branding their actions "absolutely intolerable".
Thousands of masked pro-democracy demonstrators briefly occupied the road outside the office in the semi-autonomous city Sunday night and targeted the building with eggs, projectile ... more |
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) July 22, 2019 
Rare footage of purportedly uncontacted members of a Brazilian indigenous tribe hunting in the Amazon rainforest was released Monday by activists who warn the group could be wiped out by logging.
The 58-second clip filmed in the northern state of Maranhao shows members of the Awa tribe, which Survival International says has been frequently attacked by loggers who have been emboldened by pro ... more |
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