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  Washington (UPI) Jul 29, 2019 Before life could begin on Earth, a series of physical chemistry processes needed to occur. According to a new study, the geochemical qualities of water-air interfaces found inside tiny rock pores made this "prebiotic" chemical evolution possible. Through a series of lab experiments, scientists in Germany detailed the physical and chemical qualities found among the water-air interfaces located inside the pores that populate volcanic rocks. Researchers found the gas-filled bubbles formed within ... read more |
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India's wild tiger population jumps to almost 3,000: censusNew Delhi (AFP) July 29, 2019 India's wild tiger population has increased by more than 30 percent in the last four years, according to a new census released Monday, raising hopes for the survival of the endangered species. ... more  
Water meant for Puerto Rican hurricane victims dumped on farmlandSan Juan (AFP) July 29, 2019 Tens of thousands of water bottles destined for desperate Puerto Ricans after devastating back-to-back hurricanes slammed into the US island territory remain unopened on farmland almost two years later, emergency aid officials confirmed Monday. ... more  
UN condemns killing of Brazil tribal chief amid doubts over murderRio De Janeiro (AFP) July 29, 2019 The United Nations on Monday condemned the "reprehensible" murder of a tribal chief in northern Brazil, even as President Jair Bolsonaro and investigators cast doubt on whether the killing was deliberate. ... more 
More than 160 land defenders murdered in 2018: watchdogParis (AFP) July 30, 2019 At least 164 land and environmental activists were murderedlast year for defending their homes, lands and natural resources from exploitation by mining, food and logging firms, Global Witness said Tuesday. ... more |
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China calls for swift punishment of Hong Kong violenceBeijing (AFP) July 29, 2019 China on Monday threw its backing behind Hong Kong's beleaguered leader and police, saying violent protesters must be swiftly punished following another weekend of running street battles in the financial hub. ... more 
Poland needs to save water for non-rainy dayWarsaw (AFP) July 28, 2019 With his two fishing rods planted firmly on the bank of the Vistula river, 85-year-old Tadeusz Norberciak peers at rocks exposed on the dry riverbed, a telling sign of Poland's looming water crisis. ... more  
Heatwave threatens to accelerate ice melt in GreenlandStockholm (AFP) July 27, 2019 As Europe's record-breaking heatwave drifts towards the Arctic it threatens to accelerate the melting of ice in Greenland, which already started earlier than normal this year, climate scientists warned Saturday. ... more 
Thai govt urged not to buy power from Laos damBangkok (AFP) July 26, 2019 The Thai government must suspend plans to buy electricity from a dam in Laos, conservationists said Friday, as water levels along the kingdom's section of Mekong river plummet to near-record lows. ... more 
Brazil police probe tribal leader's killing, village invasionRio De Janeiro (AFP) July 28, 2019 Brazil deployed police to a remote Amazon village on Sunday after reports it had been overrun by armed miners following the murder of an indigenous leader, officials and tribal chiefs said. ... more |
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Deadly violence mars start of Afghan election seasonKabul (AFP) July 28, 2019 Deadly violence marred the start of Afghanistan's election season on Sunday, just hours after President Ashraf Ghani insisted "peace is coming" to the war-torn nation. ... more  |
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Earth's 2019 resources 'budget' spent by July 29: reportParis (AFP) July 28, 2019 Mankind will have used up its allowance of natural resources such as water, soil and clean air for all of 2019 by Monday, a report said. ... more 
Vietnam seizes 125 kilos of rhino horn hidden in plasterHanoi (AFP) July 28, 2019 Fifty-five pieces of rhino horn were found encased in plaster at an airport in the Vietnamese capital, authorities said Sunday, as the country tries to crack down on sophisticated wildlife smuggling routes. ... more 
Fishing for plastic on Amsterdam's eco-friendly canal cruisesAmsterdam (AFP) July 26, 2019 Equipped with fishing rods and thick gloves, a group of people peers into the water from one of the many boats that line Amsterdam's famous canals. ... more  
Trump uncorks French wine threat in digital tax retaliationWashington (AFP) July 27, 2019 US President Donald Trump vowed "substantial" retaliation against France on Friday for a tax targeting US tech giants, threatening to slap tariffs on French wine and blasting President Emmanuel Macron's "foolishness." ... more  
Bangladesh flood death toll surpasses 100Dhaka (AFP) July 26, 2019 The death toll from monsoon storms in Bangladesh rose above 100 Friday with flood levels still rising in many parts of the country, officials said. ... 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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 Washington (UPI) Jul 25, 2019 
Lockheed Martin has been contracted to produce APY-9 radars for the U.S. Navy's E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning surveillance aircraft.
The company is due to provide Northrop Grumman, manufacturer of the E-2D, 24 additional APY-9 radars for the aircraft over the next five years under a $600 million deal announced by Lockheed on Thursday. The deal follows a contract award in ... more |
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 Boulogne-Billancourt, France (AFP) July 25, 2019  As Paris swelters in record-breaking heat, visitors to some of the French capital's iconic landmarks are being kept cool without even knowing it by a labyrinthine network of underground water pipes.
With climate change making hot weather periods more likely each year, proponents of systems known as "district cooling networks" argue the technology could provide a planet-friendly alternative ... more |
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 Chamonix, 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.
In the Mont Blanc range, a magnet for mountaineers in the summer, many popular routes up or through the peaks have become too dangerous to take because of the risk of falling debris.
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 Singapore (SPX) Jul 26, 2019 
Researchers at SMART, MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, and National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a technology that greatly accelerates the genetic engineering of microbes that can be used to manufacture chemicals used for urban farming. The new technology will result in a faster, cheaper, more accurate, and near-scarless plasmid construction, using standard and reusable pa ... more |
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 Manila (AFP) July 27, 2019  Eight people were killed and dozens injured when a series of earthquakes struck islands in the far northern Philippines early Saturday, toppling historic buildings and sending terrified locals fleeing their homes.
The tremors hit the province of Batanes, a group of sparsely populated islets north of the nation's largest Luzon island, tearing deep cracks in roads and forcing the evacuation of ... more |
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 Nairobi (AFP) July 23, 2019 
A policeman and three villagers were killed in a gunfight between law enforcers and locals accused of illegally fishing on Lake Victoria, an official said Tuesday.
The lake, like many of East Africa's so-called Great Lakes, has been hard hit by overfishing, leading to increasing clashes between those plying its waters and authorities.
John Mongella, the governor of Mwanza region in north ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 24, 2019 
New research suggests the working memory of chimpanzees operates similarly to the working memory of humans.
Several studies have detailed the impressive long-term memory of chimpanzees, but less is known about how the ape's working memory functions.
To test chimpanzees working memories, researchers presented chimps with a lineup of small, opaque boxes. The chimps watched as food ... more |
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 Warsaw (AFP) July 25, 2019  The president-elect of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said Thursday the EU will launch a special fund to wean members off fossil fuels and hold wide-ranging consultations on Europe's future.
She was speaking in Poland, a coal-dependent country which last month blocked an EU bid to set a target of zero net greenhouse gas emissions, and urged measures to compensate the costs of ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 30, 2019 
China has successfully launched a group of three research Yaogan-30 satellites into the orbit, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said on Friday.
The launch of the carrier rocket Long March 2C took place at 11:57 a.m. local time (3:57 GMT) on Friday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in China's southern Sichuan province. Shortly after the launch, all three sate ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 25, 2019 
Scientists have discovered unusual structures in rare bacteria that resemble the cellular components that power photosynthesis. The discovery, described this week in the journal Trends in Plant Science, suggests photosynthesis has ancient evolutionary roots.
Plants, algae and some bacteria perform what's known as oxygenic photosynthesis, splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen to power ... 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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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jul 26, 2019 
Subatomic particles zip around ring-shaped fusion machines known as tokamaks and sometimes merge, releasing large amounts of energy. But these particles - a soup of charged electrons and atomic nuclei, or ions, collectively known as plasma - can sometimes leak out of the magnetic fields that confine them inside tokamaks.
The leakage cools the plasma, reducing the efficiency of the fusion r ... more |
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 Hanoi (AFP) July 28, 2019 
Fifty-five pieces of rhino horn were found encased in plaster at an airport in the Vietnamese capital, authorities said Sunday, as the country tries to crack down on sophisticated wildlife smuggling routes.
The communist state is both a consumption hub and popular transit point for the multibillion dollar trade in animal parts.
The 125 kilogram (275 pound) haul of rhino horn discovered a ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) July 26, 2019 
Hong Kong's appeal court on Friday overturned the conviction of two police officers - and reduced the sentence of five others - over the 2014 beating of a pro-democracy protester that was caught on video.
The ruling comes at a time of intense public anger towards the city's police force over its handling of a renewed round of protests that have seen tear gas and rubber bullets wielded agai ... more |
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) July 28, 2019 
Brazil deployed police to a remote Amazon village on Sunday after reports it had been overrun by armed miners following the murder of an indigenous leader, officials and tribal chiefs said.
The violence in an area of the northern Amapa state controlled by the Waiapi tribe comes as Brazil's indigenous people face growing pressures from miners, ranchers and loggers under pro-business President ... more |
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