|
|
|
  Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Aug 24, 2019 Two of the industries involved in the infernos consuming the Amazon rainforest and drawing the attention of global powers gathered at the G7 meeting in France are familiar to diners worldwide: soy and beef. - Beef - Brazil is the world's largest exporter of beef, with a record 1.64 million tons sent to its top markets China, Egypt and the European Union in 2018, according to the Brazilian Beef Exporters Association. The country has seen its production surge over the past two decades, with e ... read more |
 |
 
Study reveals profound patterns in globally important algaeEast Boothbay ME (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 A globally important ocean algae is mysteriously scarce in one of the most productive regions of the Atlantic Ocean, according to a new paper in Deep Sea Research I. A massive dataset has revealed p ... more  
Mosquitoes push northern limits with time-capsule eggs to survive wintersSt. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 When the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) arrived in the United States in the 1980s, it took the invasive blood-sucker only one year to spread from Houston to St. Louis. New research from Was ... more  
Report: China's military could overwhelm U.S. forces in Indo-Pacific regionWashington (UPI) Aug 20, 2019 China has the military strength to overwhelm the United States in the Indo-Pacific region, a report released Monday by an Australian research group said. ... more  
DR Congo president warns over risk to forest reservesKinshasa (AFP) Aug 21, 2019 DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has warned the country's vast forest resources - crucial to countering global warning - are at risk without faster development of its huge hydro-electricity potential. ... more |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
|
 |
| Previous Issues | Aug 23 | Aug 22 | Aug 21 | Aug 20 | Aug 19 |
|
|
UK supermarkets test plastic-free zonesLondon (AFP) Aug 21, 2019 British supermarkets are starting to go "nude". ... more 
Hundreds of Pyrenees livestock farmers protest predator bearsMadrid (AFP) Aug 22, 2019 Hundreds of Spanish livestock farmers staged a protest Thursday in the Pyrenees town of Ainsa against the re-introduction of brown bears to the mountain region saying the predators are a menace to their flocks. ... more  
Sudan flood death toll reaches 62: state mediaKhartoum (AFP) Aug 25, 2019 Heavy rainfall and flash floods have killed 62 people in Sudan and left 98 others injured, the official SUNA news agency reported on Sunday. ... more 
Stanford researchers explain earthquakes we can't feelStanford CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 The Earth's subsurface is an extremely active place, where the movements and friction of plates deep underground shape our landscape and govern the intensity of hazards above. While the Earth's move ... more  
Brazil's Bolsonaro authorizes army to help fight Amazon firesPorto Velho, Brazil (AFP) Aug 25, 2019 Brazil on Sunday deployed two C-130 Hercules aircraft to douse fires devouring parts of the Amazon rainforest, as hundreds of new blazes flared up and thousands protested over the destruction. ... more |
|
 Thick smoke chokes Brazil's north as Amazon fires rage  
HK police say violent protesters forced use of water cannonHong Kong (AFP) Aug 26, 2019 Hong Kong police said Monday they were forced to fire water cannon and a warning shot to fend off "extremely violent" demonstrators, following another weekend of clashes at pro-democracy rallies. ... more  |
|
|
|
Family of detained UK consulate worker rejects 'made-up' reportBeijing (AFP) Aug 23, 2019 The family of a staffer at the UK consulate in Hong Kong have rejected a "made-up" report by Chinese state media that he was detained in the mainland for visiting prostitutes. ... more  
Biomaterials smarten up with CRISPRBoston MA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 The CRISPR-Cas system has become the go-to tool for researchers who study genes in an ever-growing list of organisms, and is being used to develop new gene therapies that potentially can correct a d ... more 
Out of date photos of Amazon fires in Brazil fuel online outrageSalvador, Brazil (AFP) Aug 21, 2019 Photos purportedly showing fires devouring the Amazon in northern Brazil in recent weeks have flooded social media, but an AFP fact check Wednesday found most of the images are decades old or not even in the country. ... more  
A Stone Age boat building site has been discovered underwaterSouthampton UK (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 The Maritime Archaeological Trust has discovered a new 8,000 year old structure next to what is believed to be the oldest boat building site in the world on the Isle of Wight. Director of the ... more 
Taiwan warns Pacific islands of China's 'empty promises' on aidKoror, Palau (AFP) Aug 22, 2019 Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu warned Pacific island nations Thursday against "empty promises" of financial aid from China, as the Solomon Islands considers switching diplomatic allegiance from Taipei to Beijing. ... more |
|
|
|
|
 Ignalina, Lithuania (AFP) Aug 19, 2019 
Walking along the top of Lithuania's decommissioned nuclear reactor, the set of HBO's critically acclaimed "Chernobyl" TV series, tourist Vytas Miknaitis says he's not "afraid at all".
"They know what they're doing," the retired computer engineer from Chicago says, referring to organisers of the three-hour tour of the Ignalina power station in eastern Lithuania.
Similar in design to Cher ... more |
|
 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Physicists from Russia and Europe have demonstrated the real possibility of using superconductor/ferromagnet systems to create magnonic crystals, which will be at the core of spin-wave devices to come in the post-silicon era of electronics. The paper was published in the journal Advanced Science.
Magnonics investigates the possibilities of using spin waves to transmit and process informati ... more |
|
|
 Matsuyama, Japan (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
The existence of water in deep Earth is considered to play an important role in geodynamics, because water drastically changes the physical properties of mantle rock, such as melting temperature, electric conductivity, and rheological properties.
Water is transported into deep Earth by the hydrous minerals in the subducting cold plates. Hydrous minerals, such as serpentine, mica and clay m ... more |
|
 Washington (UPI) Aug 21, 2019 
Australian scientists found stardust in freshly melted snow from Antarctica, discovering large amounts of a rare isotope not natively found on Earth.
The researchers ruled out the chance that iron-60 found in the snow was made by human action and, based on research published this month in the journal Physical Review Letters, it was delivered to Earth by some type of interstellar falling ... more |
|
|
 Madrid (AFP) Aug 22, 2019 
Hundreds of Spanish livestock farmers staged a protest Thursday in the Pyrenees town of Ainsa against the re-introduction of brown bears to the mountain region saying the predators are a menace to their flocks.
The decision to bring the endangered bears back to the region was taken "without consideration for the lives of villagers and livestock farmers," said Felix Bariain, head of the UAG f ... more |
|
 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Geothermal manifestations at Earth's surface can be mapped and characterized by a variety of well-established exploration methods. However, mapping hydrothermal vents in aquatic environments is more challenging as conventional methods can no longer be applied.
In fact, chemical composition of lake water may indicate inflow of fluids from a volcanic system, but it does not provide spatial i ... more |
|
|
 Ouagadougou (AFP) Aug 20, 2019 
The death toll from an attack Monday on a military base in northern Burkina Faso rose to 24, the military said, in an unprecedented blow to the army in its campaign against jihadist insurgents.
Seven people were wounded and five others were missing, armed forces headquarters said in a statement Tuesday.
The previous toll from the attack, at Koutougou in Soum province near the border wit ... more |
|
 New York NY (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 
It has long been thought that the brain size of anthropoid primates-a diverse group of modern and extinct monkeys, humans, and their nearest kin-progressively increased over time. New research on one of the oldest and most complete fossil primate skulls from South America shows instead that the pattern of brain evolution in this group was far more checkered.
The study, published in the jou ... more |
|
|
 Newark DE (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
When it comes to climate change, moving people and development away from at-risk areas can be viewed, not as a defeat, but as a smart strategy that allows communities to adapt and thrive.
That's the case for carefully planned "managed retreat" made by three environmental researchers in an article published Aug. 22 in the Policy Forum section of the journal Science. The article was written ... more |
|
 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 21, 2019 
In May 2019, after the wettest 12 months ever recorded in the Mississippi River Basin, the region was bearing the weight of 8 to 12 inches (200 to 300 millimeters) more water than average. New data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission, which launched in May 2018, showed that there was an increase in water storage in the river basin, extending east arou ... more |
|
|
 Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Scientists have found that increasing oxygen levels are linked to the rise of North American dinosaurs around 215 M years ago. A new technique for measuring oxygen levels in ancient rocks shows that oxygen levels in North American rocks leapt by nearly a third in just a couple of million years, possibly setting the scene for a dinosaur expansion into the tropics of North America and elsewhere. T ... more |
|
 Stanford CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
What types of electricity storage could have the biggest impact globally for a low-carbon energy future? Can humanity simultaneously de-carbonize energy and extend heat, lighting and transportation to more than a billion people now living with without modern energy services?
These are the types of big-picture questions that are being answered by the research that fits into a new academic d ... more |
|
|
 Houston TX (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Physicists have found "electron pairing," a hallmark feature of superconductivity, at temperatures and energies well above the critical threshold where superconductivity happens. Rice University's Doug Natelson, co-corresponding author of a paper about the work in this week's Nature, said the discovery of Cooper pairs of electrons "a bit above the critical temperature won't be 'crazy surprising' ... more |
|
 Geneva (AFP) Aug 22, 2019  Wildlife-supporting countries on Thursday backed regulating international trade in giraffes in a bid to offer more protection to the gentle giants, feared to be facing a "silent extinction".
The vote in Geneva by parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) recognises for the first time that international trade is part of the threat facing giraffes.
The ... more |
|
|
 Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 22, 2019  Notifications for the "War Room" WhatsApp group ping relentlessly as an organiser of Hong Kong's biggest political rallies in decades explains the challenge of keeping an exhausted, battle-weary protest movement on the streets.
The semi-autonomous city is in its third month of pro-democracy demonstrations, as Chinese rhetoric against them hardens.
"We're mentally and physically strained, ... more |
|
 Kinshasa (AFP) Aug 21, 2019 
DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has warned the country's vast forest resources - crucial to countering global warning - are at risk without faster development of its huge hydro-electricity potential.
The Congo River basin forest region is one of the largest in the world after the Amazon and, like the South American rain forests, it plays a vital role in absorbing global carbon emission ... more |
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Buy Advertising | Media Advertising Kit | Editorial & Other Enquiries | Privacy statement |
| The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2018 - Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principals for news reporting and research purposes. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA news reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement |
