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  Tampa FL (SPX) Aug 15, 2019 Researchers at the University of South Florida are harnessing the power of human physiology to transform greenhouse gases into usable chemical compounds - a method that could help lessen industrial dependence on petroleum and reduce our carbon footprint. The new biologically-based technique, published in Nature Chemical Biology, was developed by USF Professor Ramon Gonzalez, PhD, and his research team. It utilizes the human enzyme, 2-hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A lyase (HACL), to convert specific one-car ... read more |
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Largest-of-its-kind coral study offers plan to save the planet's reefsWashington (UPI) Aug 12, 2019 A new survey of coral communities - the largest of its kind, according to the research team - has offered a roadmap for protecting Earth's reefs. ... more  
Microplastics in Arctic snow point to widespread air contaminationWashington (AFP) Aug 15, 2019 Minute microplastic particles have been detected in the Arctic and the Alps, carried by the wind and later washed out in the snow, according to a study that called for urgent research to assess the health risks of inhalation. ... more  
Employees less upset at being replaced by robots than by other peopleMunich, Germany (SPX) Aug 12, 2019 Generally speaking, most people find the idea of workers being replaced by robots or software worse than if the jobs are taken over by other workers. But when their own jobs are at stake, people wou ... more  
Can we eat meat and still tame global warming?Paris (AFP) Aug 9, 2019 Not everyone needs to become a vegetarian, much less vegan, to keep the planet from overheating, but it would surely make things easier if they did. ... more |
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Tears and shouting as Australia dilutes Pacific climate warningWellington (AFP) Aug 16, 2019 A Pacific summit has descended into tears, recriminations and shouting between pro-coal Australia and low-lying island nations facing an existential threat from climate change. ... more  
Mexican start-up fights air pollution with artificial treesPuebla, Mexico (AFP) Aug 15, 2019 Trees are one of the best things we have to clean the Earth's air, but they have certain drawbacks: they need time and space to grow. ... more  
American media promotes false balance on climate science, research showsWashington (UPI) Aug 14, 2019 Studies measuring the consensus on human-caused climate change suggest roughly 95 percent of climate scientists agree that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are causing the planet to warm at an accelerated rate. ... more 
Land and climate: problems, solutions inextricably linkedGeneva (AFP) Aug 8, 2019 The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change on Thursday delivered the most comprehensive scientific overview yet of the links between the land we live off and global warming. ... more  
Climate change forces Chile ski stations to make fake snowSantiago (AFP) Aug 16, 2019 Once deep in powder this time of year, Chile's ski stations are fighting the ravages of climate change and pollution that have brought less and less snow to the central Andes. ... more |
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 China's Tencent sorry for saying typhoon killed 'nearly everyone'  
17 missing in SW China landslideBeijing (AFP) Aug 16, 2019 More than a dozen workers remained missing Friday after a landslide in southwest China buried a section of railway that was under repair, according to state media. ... more  |
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Greek fire crews make progress on island blazeAthens (AFP) Aug 16, 2019 Firefighters in Greece on Friday made progress against a four-day wildfire on the island of Evia that has burned through a pine forest and threatened villages, officials said. ... more  
S.Africa's show of force in Cape Town ganglands brings little reliefCape Town (AFP) Aug 14, 2019 Waving and giggling, crowds of children scamper behind a Casspir military armoured truck trailed by police vehicles as they snake through the streets on a raid in the gang-ridden Cape Flats area of South Africa. ... more  
Asian, European seamen kidnapped off Cameroon: navy sourceYaound� (AFP) Aug 15, 2019 Asian and European seamen were kidnapped Thursday aboard a vessel in the Gulf of Guinea off the southern Cameroon port of Douala, a senior Cameroonian navy source said. ... more  
Scientists find natural pigment in 54-million-year-old insect eyesWashington (UPI) Aug 15, 2019 Scientists were surprised to find a natural pigment called eumelanin in the 54-million-year-old eyes of an ancient crane fly. The fossilized fly was recovered from Denmark's Fur Formation. ... more 
Study details dinosaur brain development from baby to adultWashington (UPI) Aug 15, 2019 By surveying dozens of skulls of a common Early Cretaceous dinosaur, scientists have gained new insights into dinosaur brain development. ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 15, 2019 
Chinese internet giant Tencent has been forced to apologise after its video team reported that a typhoon had wiped out the entire population of a province in east China that is home to nearly 100 million people.
Typhoon Lekima hit the Chinese provinces of Zhejiang, Shandong and Anhui over the weekend, forcing more than two million residents to flee.
China's official news agency Xinhua sa ... more |
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 Centennial CO (SPX) Aug 13, 2019 
SEAKR Engineering, Inc. (SEAKR) is pleased to announce it has been granted a Canadian patent for an advanced RF processing Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) technology. SEAKR's Canadian patent CA 2,953,837 "Integrated Mixed-Signal ASIC with Analog Digital Converter (ADC), Digital Analog Converter (DAC) and Digital Signal Processing (DSP)" marks the firm's 4th patent received globall ... more |
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 Binghamton NY (SPX) Aug 14, 2019 
Today, more than 700 million people around the world drink water from unsafe or untreated sources, such as wells, springs and surface water.
About half of these people live in sub-Saharan Africa. In fact, in more than 30 African countries, fewer than 20% of the people have access to safe drinking water.
Climate change is likely to worsen the situation by making water less available i ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 14, 2019 
New Zealand already claims an impressive lineup of extinct megafauna, including a recently discovered giant parrot. Now, thanks to paleontologists in New Zealand and Germany, the island nation's population of extinct giants includes a monster penguin.
With the addition of the newly discovered species, named Crossvallia waiparensis, to the megafauna lineup, New Zealand's giant parrot, gi ... more |
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 New York (AFP) Aug 14, 2019 
Caught in the middle of a trade war and hammered by massive spring floods, American farmers are facing a tough year and worry about their future, yet some still trust President Donald Trump.
The situation worsened last week when Beijing halted purchases of US farm crops in retaliation for Trump's vow to put tariffs on Chinese imports.
It's "a body blow to thousands of farmers and rancher ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Aug 15, 2019 
A powerful tropical storm lashed Japan on Thursday, bringing strong winds and torrential rain that claimed at least one life, prompted warnings of landslides and flooding, and sparked evacuation advisories and travel chaos at a peak holiday period.
Severe Tropical Storm Krosa - one notch below a typhoon - slammed into the southern Hiroshima region, packing wind gusts of up to 126 kilometre ... more |
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 Bangui, Central African Republic (AFP) Aug 14, 2019  After years of bloodshed in the poor and largely lawless Central African Republic, renewed hopes of peace are being eroded by the country's militia groups, experts say.
The military situation across the landlocked country has been considered stable since the deal - the 13th in a decade - was signed in February between the government and 14 armed groups
But assaults on civilians and fig ... more |
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 New York (AFP) Aug 14, 2019 
A generation-defining political statement, an epiphany of peace, three chaotic days that altered music history - the tropes of Woodstock are many, sometimes muddying meaning with myth.
The festival carries significant cultural weight, but decades of rehashing its legend through the lens of nostalgia can leave the legacy of half a million youths partying in the rain feel less like a revoluti ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 13, 2019 
Climate deniers have garnered far more media attention than prominent climate scientists over the years, fuelling public confusion and slowing the response to global warming, researchers reported Tuesday.
From 2000 through 2016, hundreds of academics, business people and politicians who doubted global warming or attributed rising temperatures to "natural" causes got 50 percent more ink than ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 12, 2019 
Invisible to the human eye, molecular interactions between gases and liquids underpin much of our lives, including the absorption of oxygen molecules into our lungs, many industrial processes and the conversion of organic compounds within our atmosphere. But difficulties in measuring gas-liquid collisions have so far prevented the fundamental exploration of these processes.
Kenneth McKendr ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 15, 2019 
By surveying dozens of skulls of a common Early Cretaceous dinosaur, scientists have gained new insights into dinosaur brain development.
Psittacosaurus was a genus of extinct dinosaur living in Asia between 126 and 101 million years ago. Over the decades, hundreds of specimens have been recovered. The genus was part of the group of dinosaurs known as Ceratopsia, the group to which the ... more |
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 Oslo (AFP) Aug 9, 2019 
The Norwegian capital Oslo announced Friday it was aiming to reduce CO2-emissions by 95 percent by 2030.
"This is the most ambitious climate strategy of any major city in the world," Oslo mayor Raymond Johansen said in a statement.
"Together with Oslo's inhabitants and economic actors we want to work during the next 11 years to remove the remaining sources of climate gas emissions in the ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 14, 2019 
The reactor is expected to fulfil a variety of tasks on the red planet, ranging from supplying astronauts with heat and air, to powering 3D printers that will be used for constructing buildings.
NASA's Future In-Space Operations (FISO) Working Group has stated that its portable nuclear reactor, called Kilopower Reactor Using Stirling TechnologY (KRUSTY), will be ready to fly to Mars by 202 ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 12, 2019 
Between 1970 and 2012, Earth's largest freshwater animal populations declined by some 88 percent, according to a new survey.
There's a lot of water on Earth, but only 2.5 percent of it is freshwater. Of that 2.5 percent, just over 1 percent is surface water, taking the form of rivers, lakes, ponds and wetlands. Despite its relative scarcity - accounting for just 2 percent of Earth's su ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 15, 2019 
China has detained a former journalist who gained prominence after urging the US to help "tear down" Beijing's online censorship regime during a 2014 meeting with top US diplomat John Kerry.
Police detained Zhang Jialong Tuesday for "picking quarrels and provoking troubles," according to an official detention notice seen by AFP.
The vague accusation is often used to detain human rights a ... more |
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Aug 16, 2019  Luiz Pedreira walks with other hikers beneath the Atlantic Forest's thick canopy in Brazil, where an 8,000-kilometre (5,000-mile) trail stretching the full length of the country is being opened up.
He says he hopes that the creation of the trail, one of the world's longest, will raise awareness about the fragility of the forest - long devastated by loggers and farmers, and now facing a ren ... more |
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