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  Brasilia (AFP) Aug 27, 2019 Brazil on Monday rejected aid from G7 countries to fight wildfires in the Amazon, with a top official telling French President Emmanuel Macron to take care of "his home and his colonies." Nearly 80,000 forest fires have broken out in Brazil since the beginning of the year - just over half of them in the massive Amazon basin that regulates part of Earth's carbon cycle and climate. G7 countries made the $20 million aid offer to fight the blazes at the Biarritz summit hosted by Macron, who insiste ... read more |
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Morales under pressure over Bolivia's Amazon firesLa Paz (AFP) Aug 27, 2019 Like his far-right rival President Jair Bolsonaro in neighboring Brazil, Bolivia's leftist leader Evo Morales is facing mounting fury from environmental groups over voracious wildfires in his own country. ... more  
G7 pledges millions to fight Amazon firesBiarritz, France (AFP) Aug 26, 2019 The G7 will give $20 million (18 million euros) to send firefighting planes to tackle the blazes engulfing parts of the Amazon, the presidents of France and Chile said Monday. ... more 
New fires rage in Amazon as Brazil military planes battle flamesPorto Velho, Brazil (AFP) Aug 26, 2019 Hundreds of new fires have flared up in the Amazon in Brazil, data showed Monday, even as military aircraft dumped water over hard-hit areas and G7 nations pledged to help combat the blazes. ... more 
Heat, wildfires could alter Alaska's forest compositionWashington (UPI) Aug 26, 2019 If global warming continues unabated and wildfires become bigger, stronger and burn more frequently among northern climates, scientists worry the composition of Alaska's northern forests could be permanently altered. ... more |
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Stability of Earth's climate depends on AmazoniaParis (AFP) Aug 26, 2019 The Amazon basin cradles the largest rainforest in the world, and plays an essential role in regulating regional and even global climates. ... more  
Tel Aviv beaches fall foul in Israel's passion for plasticTel Aviv (AFP) Aug 22, 2019 In the early morning, when the only sound on Tel Aviv beach is the waves, Yosef Salman and his team pick up plastic debris left by bathers or cast up by the sea. ... 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 
The case for retreat in the battle against climate changeNewark 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 ... more 
Trump denies report he wanted to nuke hurricanesWashington (AFP) Aug 26, 2019 US President Donald Trump on Monday denied an Axios report that he wanted to drop nuclear bombs on hurricanes before they made landfall in the United States, calling it "ridiculous". ... more |
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Heatwaves longer, more deadly even in a 2C worldParis (AFP) Aug 19, 2019 Northern hemisphere summers will deliver dangerously longer heatwaves, droughts and bouts of rain even if humanity manages to cap global warming at two degrees Celsius, scientists said Monday. ... more  |
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Tropical Storm Dorian gains steam, heads for CaribbeanMiami (AFP) Aug 26, 2019 Tropical Storm Dorian intensified Monday as it approached the Caribbean on a track that will take it near Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic by mid-week, possibly at hurricane strength, US forecasters said. ... more  
HK police say radical protesters forced use of water cannon, warning shotHong 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  
How to have an all-renewable electric gridBoston MA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 The main solution to climate change is well known - stop burning fossil fuels. How to do this is more complicated, but as a scholar who does energy modeling, I and others see the outlines of a post- ... more  
Iceland commemorates first glacier lost to climate changeReykjavik (AFP) Aug 19, 2019 Iceland on Sunday honoured the passing of Okjokull, its first glacier lost to climate change, as scientists warn that some 400 others on the subarctic island risk the same fate. ... more 
Foreigners arrested with ivory bracelets at Kenyan airportNairobi (AFP) Aug 19, 2019 A Spanish woman has become the second foreigner in a week to be arrested at Kenya's international airport for wearing an ivory bangle, the wildlife service said Monday. ... more |
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 La Paz (AFP) Aug 27, 2019 
Like his far-right rival President Jair Bolsonaro in neighboring Brazil, Bolivia's leftist leader Evo Morales is facing mounting fury from environmental groups over voracious wildfires in his own country.
While the Amazon blazes in Brazil have attracted worldwide attention, the blazes in Bolivia's forest and grassland have raged largely unchecked over the past month, devastating more than 9, ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Apart from the states of matter that we are all aware of and accustomed to, which correspond to solids, liquids, and gases, more exotic states can be generated in specific materials under special conditions. Such states are of great interest to physicists because they help them gain a deeper understanding of quantum phenomena, which is key for scientists and engineers to innovate state-of-the-ar ... more |
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 New York (AFP) Aug 26, 2019 
US officials announced a $120 million plan to replace old pipes blamed for high lead levels in a major city, as they moved to defuse a growing water crisis Monday.
Thousands of residents in the predominantly black and Hispanic city of Newark, New Jersey, have been drinking only bottled water this month after a environment agency found lead levels were not safe.
The crisis highlighted cre ... more |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 
NASA in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey is helping emergency planners in Southern California get a more complete picture of the increasing risk of coastal flooding by looking at the highest of tides -"king tides."
"King tide" is the informal term generally used to describe an exceptionally high tide, which most often occurs when the Moon and the Sun are aligned and their gravit ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Aug 27, 2019 
Japan hosts development talks with African leaders this week, looking to boost its presence on the continent and offer an alternative to investments by an increasingly assertive China.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said he wants the latest round of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) to help "launch impactful Japanese action" on the continent.
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 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 |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 26, 2019 
The Amazon basin cradles the largest rainforest in the world, and plays an essential role in regulating regional and even global climates.
Here are some facts about the region:
- Deforestation -
Continued destruction of its tropical forests - measured in tens of thousands of square kilometres per year - could transform much of the Amazon into dry savannah, with massive impact ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 
From orbit aboard the Landsat 9 satellite, the Thermal Infrared Sensor 2, or TIRS-2, will measure the temperature of Earth's land surfaces, detecting everything from a smoldering wildfire, to the amount of irrigation used on crop fields, to wispy clouds that are all but invisible to other instruments. First, however, it had to survive tests that simulated the harsh environment of space.
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Stellarators, twisty machines that house fusion reactions, rely on complex magnetic coils that are challenging to design and build. Now, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has developed a mathematical technique to help simplify the design of the coils, making stellarators a potentially more cost-effective facility for producing fusion ... more |
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 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.
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 Sydney (AFP) Aug 27, 2019 
An Australian pro-democracy academic held for seven months in China has been formally arrested for spying, Foreign Minister Marise Payne said Tuesday as she demanded Beijing uphold "basic standards" of justice.
Payne said she was "very concerned" that Chinese-born Yang Hengjun - a former official turned author - had been arrested on "suspicion of espionage".
Yang had been detained afte ... more |
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 Biarritz, France (AFP) Aug 26, 2019  The G7 will give $20 million (18 million euros) to send firefighting planes to tackle the blazes engulfing parts of the Amazon, the presidents of France and Chile said Monday.
"We must respond to the call of the forest which is burning today in the Amazon," France's Emmanuel Macron said as President Sebastian Pinera of Chile, a guest of the G7, underlined that "countries of the Amazon are in ... more |
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