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  Miami (AFP) Aug 29, 2019 US President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled a trip to Poland as Hurricane Dorian bore down on Florida, where it could make landfall as a dangerous Category 4 storm. Trump, who had been scheduled to attend World War II anniversary commemorations in Poland this weekend, said he would focus instead on preparations for the approaching hurricane. "Our highest priority is the safety and security of the people in the path of the hurricane," he told reporters in the White House Rose Garden. Vice ... read more |
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Brazil's burning ban takes effect as Amazon fires ragePorto Velho, Brazil (AFP) Aug 30, 2019 A 60-day ban on burning in Brazil took effect Thursday after a global outcry over fires raging in the Amazon and data showing hundreds of new blazes in the rainforest. ... more  
NASA Data Strengthens U.S. Air Quality WarningsWashington DC (SPX) Aug 28, 2019 Daily U.S. air quality forecasts for particulate matter could potentially be more accurate as the result of incorporating NASA's Earth-observing satellite data, according to a recent study. Le ... more  
Streaks in Aurora Found to Map Features in Earth's Radiation EnvironmentGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 28, 2019 A special kind of streaked aurora has been found to track disturbances in near-Earth space from the ground. Known as structured diffuse aurora, it was recently discovered, with the help of NASA spac ... more  
Raytheon-built space sensor will fly aboard NASA satellite to measure coastal and ocean ecosystemsEl Segundo CA (SPX) Aug 29, 2019 Raytheon will build the Geostationary Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer, or GLIMR, sensor, under a contract from the University of New Hampshire. GLIMR, NASA's selected Earth Venture Instru ... more |
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Chilean Patagonia: an open-air lab to study climate changeSeno Ballena, Chile (AFP) Aug 29, 2019 In one of the most inhospitable places on Earth, the southernmost part of Chile's Patagonia region, scientists are studying whales, dolphins and algae in order to help predict how climate change will affect the world's oceans. ... more 
Oceans turning from friend to foe, warns landmark UN climate reportParis (AFP) Aug 29, 2019 The same oceans that nourished human evolution are poised to unleash misery on a global scale unless the carbon pollution destabilising Earth's marine environment is brought to heel, warns a draft UN report obtained by AFP. ... more 
Major economies drivers, victims of sea-level riseParis (AFP) Aug 29, 2019 Sea-level rises pose increasing peril to small island nations and at-risk coastal communities but will also significantly impact the world's largest economies. ... more 
Air India to stop using single-use plastic on flightsMumbai (AFP) Aug 29, 2019 Debt-ridden Air India said Thursday it will stop using single-use plastic and replace packaging with eco-friendly paper and wooden cutlery, as the government ramps up its "clean India" mission. ... more 
Geoengineering: 'Plan B' for the planetParis (AFP) Aug 23, 2019 Dismissed a decade ago as far-fetched and dangerous, schemes to tame global warming by engineering the climate have migrated from the margins of policy debates towards centre stage. ... more |
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Love in a time of tear gas: politics and romance on Hong Kong's barricadesHong Kong (AFP) Aug 30, 2019 A gas mask lovingly adjusted, a hand squeezed before approaching police lines and a frantic search through swirls of tear gas - Abby and Nick's relationship has blossomed on the barricades during Hong Kong's long summer of protest. ... more  |
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Cathay warns staff face sack if they join Hong Kong strikeHong Kong (AFP) Aug 30, 2019 Cathay Pacific has warned staff they risk being sacked if they join a planned Hong Kong strike, as the airline intensifies its crackdown on employee support for the rolling pro-democracy protests. ... more  
Scientists build a synthetic system to improve wound treatment, drug delivery for soldiersResearch Triangle Park NC (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 For the first time, scientists built a synthetic biologic system with compartments like real cells. This Army project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst could lead to materials that provide ... more 
Nanoparticles could grant humans permanent night visionWashington (UPI) Aug 27, 2019 Built-in night vision may not be far off. Scientists have developed nanoparticles that allow mice to see near-infrared light. ... more 
Alpine climbing routes crumble as climate change strikesChamonix, France (AFP) Aug 29, 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  
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 |
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Aug 28, 2019 
Scorched forests, government inaction and presidential insults - fires in the Amazon rainforest are having a disastrous effect on Brazil's international image, analysts warn.
"This is the worst crisis Brazil has had for its image in 50 years," former government minister Rubens Ricupero told O Globo newspaper.
The daily Folha de S.Paulo lamented "the worst disaster in the history of B ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Aug 26, 2019  Russia on Monday said radioactive isotopes were released in a recent accident at an Arctic missile test site that caused widespread alarm as authorities kept details under wraps.
The August 8 blast killed five scientists and caused a spike in radiation levels but for several days Russia did not admit nuclear materials were involved.
The accident released swiftly decaying radioactive isot ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
To investigate the vastly unexplored oceans covering most our planet, researchers aim to build a submerged network of interconnected sensors that send data to the surface - an underwater "internet of things." But how to supply constant power to scores of sensors designed to stay for long durations in the ocean's deep?
MIT researchers have an answer: a battery-free underwater communication ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 29, 2019 
Ice fronts have retreated, rocky peaks are more exposed, fewer icebergs drift to the ocean: the branching network of glaciers that empty into Greenland's Sermilik Fjord has changed significantly in the last half century. Comparing Landsat images from 1972 and 2019, those changes and more come into view.
The glaciers appear brownish grey in this true-color Landsat 8 satellite image from Aug ... more |
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 Rennes, France (AFP) Aug 22, 2019 
A French mayor on Thursday urged a court to uphold his ban on the use of pesticides near homes in his community, saying his stance against pollution would be "vindicated by history".
Daniel Cueff, mayor of a Brittany village called Langouet, was summoned to court in the northwestern city of Rennes for imposing a ban in mid-May on the use of pesticides on land within 150 metres (yards) of hom ... more |
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 Rabat (AFP) Aug 29, 2019  At least seven people were killed Wednesday when a river burst its banks and flooded a village football pitch where a game was being played in south Morocco, local authorities said.
The victims included a 17-year-old boy and six elderly men attending the match in the village of Tizert, in Taroudant region.
Searchers had rescued one man who was injured by the flood and were looking for an ... more |
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 Yokohama, Japan (AFP) Aug 29, 2019 
Japan's prime minister on Thursday warned African leaders against accumulating too much debt, in an apparent reference to Chinese infrastructure projects some blame for damaging the finances of developing nations.
Addressing leaders from several African nations at a development conference in Yokohama, Shinzo Abe stressed Tokyo was promoting "quality" infrastructure exports and investments, s ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 28, 2019 
The discovery of a rare 3.8-million-year-old hominin skull unearthed in Ethiopia promises to offer fresh insights into the complexities of early human evolution.
The fossil's jaw and teeth suggest it belongs to the species Australopithecus anamensis, an ancestor of the famed Lucy hominin, Australopithecus afarensis. Researchers have previously found only fragments of A. anamensis, most ... 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 
NASA's P-3B science aircraft soared into the skies over the Philippines on Aug. 25 to begin a nearly two-month-long investigation on the impact that smoke from fires and pollution have on clouds, a key factor in improving weather and climate forecasts.
The Cloud, Aerosol, and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex) is the most comprehensive field campaign to date in Maritime Sou ... more |
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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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 Stanford CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 
Hope has been restored for the rechargeable lithium metal battery - a potential battery powerhouse relegated for decades to the laboratory by its short life expectancy and occasional fiery demise while its rechargeable sibling, the lithium-ion battery, now rakes in more than $30 billion a year.
A new coating could make lightweight lithium metal batteries safe and long lasting, a boon for d ... 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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 Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 30, 2019 
Prominent Hong Kong democracy activists were arrested Friday in a dragnet that came as protesters planned to rally this weekend in defiance of a police ban.
Hong Kong has been locked in a three months of political crisis, with increasingly violent clashes between police and protesters that have prompted an escalating public relations campaign from Beijing.
Protesters planned yet another ... 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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