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  Lisbon (AFP) July 24, 2019 Poor forest management and firefighting techniques make Portugal especially vulnerable to wildfires as climate change makes hotter, longer summers more likely, experts warned as the latest blazes struck this week. The exodus of people from the countryside to cities compounds the problem, they added. About 850 firefighters were working Wednesday to extinguish the embers of three major blazes which ripped through the heavily forested Castelo Branco region, 200 kilometres (120 miles) north of Lisbo ... read more |
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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  
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  
Climate change increasing hurricanes, storms, floods, North Carolina records showWashington (UPI) Jul 23, 2019 Storms are getting bigger and floods are getting worse as a result of climate change, according to a historic 120-year-old data set. ... more  
Chaos theory produces map for predicting paths of particles emitted into the atmosphereWashington DC (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 Floating air particles following disasters and other largescale geological events can have a lasting impact on life on Earth. Volcanic ash can be projected up to the stratosphere and halt air traffi ... more |
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Great Barrier Reef agency breaks with Australia gvt in climate warningSydney (AFP) July 19, 2019 The agency that manages the Great Barrier Reef broke ranks with Australia's conservative government to call for the "strongest and fastest possible action" against climate change to save the world heritage marine wonder. ... more 
Iceland tries to bring back trees razed by the VikingsReykjavik (AFP) July 17, 2019 Before being colonised by the Vikings, Iceland was lush with forests but the fearsome warriors razed everything to the ground and the nation is now struggling to reforest the island. ... more  
Li Peng, the 'Butcher of Beijing', dies aged 90Beijing (AFP) July 23, 2019 Former Chinese premier Li Peng - known as the "Butcher of Beijing" for his role in the Tiananmen Square crackdown - has died at the age of 90, state media said Tuesday. ... more  
'Bigger problems' for Trump than plastic strawsWashington (AFP) July 19, 2019 Swapping paper for plastic turned out to be the last straw for Donald Trump, who said Friday there are "bigger problems" than plastic drinking straws - the day after his reelection campaign manager promoted branded ones on Twitter. ... more  
Alpine climbing routes crumble as climate change strikesChamonix, France (AFP) July 25, 2019 High up in the natural wonder of the French Alps, the climbers who spend their days among the rockfaces and glaciers have come to a grim conclusion: the mountains are falling down around them. ... more |
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Industry and campaigners spar over S.Africa's carbon taxJohannesburg (AFP) July 17, 2019 South Africa's new carbon tax has provoked a storm of criticism from environmental campaigners who say it is too weak - and from industry that predicts it will cause mass job losses. ... more  |
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Danish study finds 95 percent of dead petrels ingested plasticCopenhagen (AFP) July 18, 2019 More than 90 percent of northern petrels found dead off the Danish coast had plastic in their stomachs, a study by Denmark's environmental protection agency said Thursday. ... more 
Chile's mining waste poses silent threat to humans on multiple frontsRequinoa, Chile (AFP) July 25, 2019 From the sky, the glistening emerald ponds of northern Chile are almost beautiful, but closer to the ground they harbor an ugly and dangerous secret: the reservoirs, filled with toxic waste from the country's mining industry, are ticking time bombs. ... more  
Politics and finance dog EU climate zero effortsBrussels (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. ... more
20th-century warming 'unmatched' in 2,000 yearsParis (AFP) July 24, 2019 World temperatures rose faster in the late 20th century than at any other time in the last 2,000 years, according to research released Wednesday which experts said undermines climate deniers' questioning of mankind's role in global warming. ... more  
China importers seek to lift tariffs on US farm goods: state mediaShanghai (AFP) July 21, 2019 Chinese importers are applying to their government to lift tariffs on some US agricultural imports, state media reported on Sunday, three weeks after the two sides reached a truce in their trade war. ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 24, 2019 
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has adopted NASA's Search and Rescue (SAR) office's recommendations regarding the installation and maintenance of Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs), the NASA-designed, satellite-aided search and rescue beacons installed in planes. These recommendations will improve aviation safety and result in more lives saved by the international satellite-aided se ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jul 24, 2019 
On July 19, 2019, at 1:27 p.m. EDT, mission operators sent a shutdown command to one of two Van Allen Probes spacecraft, known as spacecraft B, from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, or APL, in Laurel, Maryland.
As expected, following final de-orbit maneuvers in February of this year, the spacecraft has used its remaining propellant to keep its solar panels pointed at the S ... 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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 Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Jul 24, 2019 
A team of scientists led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have discovered the specific gene that controls an important symbiotic relationship between plants and soil fungi, and successfully facilitated the symbiosis in a plant that typically resists it.
The discovery could lead to the development of bioenergy and food crops that can withstand harsh growing condit ... more |
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 Potsdam, 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 upcoming disaster.
As a first and early step towards a volcano early warning system, a research project headed by Sebastien Valade from the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) and the GF ... 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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 Washington 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 July 17, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Philippe Crombe from Ghent University, Belgium.
As a result of warming occurring at a rate of ca. 1.5 to 2C per century, hunter-gatherers in Eur ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) July 24, 2019 
World temperatures rose faster in the late 20th century than at any other time in the last 2,000 years, according to research released Wednesday which experts said undermines climate deniers' questioning of mankind's role in global warming.
As Europe sweltered in a second record-breaking heatwave in a month, the three peer-reviewed papers offered the most detailed overview of regional temper ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jul 24, 2019 
ESA's Aeolus satellite, which carries the world's first space Doppler wind lidar, has been delivering high-quality global measurements of Earth's wind since it was launched almost a year ago. However, part of the instrument, the laser transmitter, has been slowly losing energy. As a result, ESA decided to switch over to the instrument's second laser - and the mission is now back on top form.
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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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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 
In a world where energy consumption is on the rise, our only hope is the development of new energy-generation technologies. Although currently used renewable energy sources such as wind and solar energy have their merits, there is a gigantic, permanent, and untapped energy source quite literally under our noses: geothermal energy.
Generating electricity from geothermal energy requires devi ... 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 24, 2019 
China issued a stark reminder Wednesday that its army could be deployed in Hong Kong if city authorities requested support in maintaining "public order" after weeks of sometimes violent protests.
Hong Kong has been plunged into its worst crisis in recent history after millions of demonstrators took to the streets - and sporadic violent confrontations between police and pockets of hardcore p ... more |
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 Montevideo (AFP) July 23, 2019 
Finnish company UPM said Tuesday it will go ahead with plans to invest more than $3 billion to build a pulp plant in Uruguay.
It said construction will start in the second half of 2022.
The company will spend $2.7 billion to set up the plant itself and $350 million on river port and logistical facilities.
The company already operates one such plant in Uruguay. It was highly contentio ... more |
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