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Trump voices shock at devastating scale of Texas flood damage
Mob lynches five alleged thieves in quake-hit Guatemalan town Trump in Texas to survey flood damage as scrutiny of response mounts Trump flies to flood-ravaged Texas as scrutiny of response mounts Trump to visit flood-ravaged Texas amid scrutiny Scrutiny over Texas flood response mounts as death toll hits 120 Belgium warned over 'tsunami' of packages from China Scrutiny over Texas flood response mounts as death toll tops 120 Fears grow that Texas floods death toll could surge Guatemala earthquakes leave four dead, houses damaged |
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  Chicago (UPI) Dec 20, 2016 If the conditions of the Dust Bowl were replicated today, modern agriculture would be devastated, according to scientists at the University of Chicago. Researchers analyzed how extreme drought and heat would affect maize, soy and wheat crops in the United States. The results show conditions similar to the 1930s would drastically reduce modern crop yields. "We expected to find the system much more resilient because 30 percent of production is now irrigated in the United States, and becaus ... read more |
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Taking stock of the world's lakesThe total shoreline of the world's lakes is more than four times longer than the global ocean coastline. And if all the water in those lakes were spread over the Earth's landmass, it would form a la ... more 
Former city managers face criminal charges in Flint water crisisUS prosecutors filed charges Tuesday against high-ranking officials in the contaminated water probe in the Midwestern city of Flint. ... more 
Many GMO studies have financial conflicts of interestFinancial conflicts of interest were found in 40 percent of published research articles on the genetically modified crops, also known as GMO crops, French researchers said this week. ... more 
In Benin, 'Smart-Valleys' bring rice bountyDaniel Aboko proudly shows off the 11 hectares (27 acres) of paddy fields he shares with other farmers - a small spread that produces a bounty of food thanks to smart irrigation and a hardy strain of rice. ... more |
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Corn yield modeling towards sustainable agricultureWith an innovative modeling approach, researchers set out to examine corn and soybean yields and optimal nitrogen (N) fertilizer rates. In their study, recently published in Frontiers in Plant Scien ... more 
More exact, ethical method to tell the sex of baby chickensThanks to an imaging technique called optical spectroscopy, it is possible for hatcheries to accurately determine the sex of a chick within four days of an egg being laid. This non-destructive metho ... more 
S. Korea issues top bird flu alertSouth Korea on Friday issued its top bird flu alert for the first time, giving officials extra powers to contain an outbreak that has already triggered the slaughter of more than 10 percent of national poultry stocks. ... more 
Study warns of world's groundwater depletion by 2050Groundwater resources could be depleted in the next few decades in dry areas of the world where people use lots of water for drinking and irrigating crops, researchers said Thursday. ... more 
Rain out, research inIn many parts of the world, lack of sufficient water makes it difficult - or impossible - to grow crops. Even in areas with enough water for farming, droughts can drastically lower the yield and qua ... more |
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EU court upholds Monsanto GM soybean approvalA top EU court on Thursday upheld the European Commission's approval of genetically modified soybeans made by US agri-chemicals giant Monsanto which environmentalists claim may harm human health. ... more 
Mexico's energy reform calls for new water policyAs the Mexican government oversees the implementation of the country's energy reform, it must consider how best to prioritize water use in accordance with the law and allocate supplies thoughtfully, ... more |
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Airbus Defence and Space, the world's second largest space company, has sent the MetOp-C payload module, the 'brain' for Europe's next polar-orbiting weather satellite, on its first journey. The module, which weighs around 2.1 tonnes, contains ten measuring instruments together with their control systems. These comprise systems for issuing commands and monitoring instruments, formatting data, en ... more NOAA's GOES-S Satellite Undergoing Environmental Testing There's a jet stream in our core Space-based lidar shines new light on plankton |
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Leading defence electronics and aerospace firm Alpha Design Technologies Ltd. announced on Monday signing a contract to make navigation satellites for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
"The contract envisages assembling, integrating, testing and supplying two satellites for the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) to ISRO," Alpha Chairman Colonel (Retd) H.S. Sha ... more Russia, China Making Progress in Synchronization of GLONASS, BeiDou Systems Europe's own satnav Galileo goes live Galileo, Europe's own satnav, to go online |
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Conservation scientists have used layers of data on biodiversity, climate, transport and crop yields to construct a color-coded mapping system that shows where new road-building projects should go to be most beneficial for food production at the same time as being least destructive to the environment.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge, UK, the Kunming Institute of Botany and the ... more Amazonia's best and worst areas for carbon recovery revealed Warming could slow upslope migration of trees A roadmap for guiding development and conservation in the Amazon |
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Michigan State University scientists have engineered "molecular Velcro" into to cyanobacteria, boosting this microalgae's biofuel viability as well as its potential for other research.
The findings, featured in the current issue of ACS Synthetic Biology, show how MSU researchers have designed a surface display system to attach cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, to yeast and oth ... more Ultrafast lasers reveal light-harvesting secrets of photosynthetic algae People willing to pay more for new biofuelsInvesting in the 'bioeconomy' could create jobs and reduce carbon emissions |
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Blue Oak Energy and Sun Air Solar have completed a 259 kWdc rooftop solar PV system atop a facility occupied by Abbott's diabetes care business and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Located near Oakland International Airport on Bay Farm Island in San Francisco's East Bay, a new 259 kWdc rooftop system complements an on-site 549 kWdc solar PV carport completed earlier this year by Blue O ... more Tenth Year of Consecutive Global Growth for PV Demand, IHS Markit Says Saudi Vision 2030 Gives Boost to Solar Energy InvestorsCanadian Solar Subsidiary Recurrent Energy Completes 200 Megawatt Garland Solar Facility |
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A rule change means consumers in Alberta can have more flexibility when it comes to how they generate their own forms of green electricity, the government said.
The provincial government amended regulations governing low-carbon power sources to allow for more flexibility in grid connectivity and power limits, increasing micro-generation size limits from 1 megawatt to 5 MW.
The go ... more Offshore wind makes U.S. debut Apple invests in China wind farms German energy company plants wind farm seed in Texas |
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Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, has barred 15 more companies linked to coal operations, most of them American and Asian, the Norwegian central bank said on Wednesday.
Norway's parliament voted in June 2015 to pull the fund out of coal, requiring it to sell its holdings in mining and power companies that generate more than 30 percent of their output or revenue from the po ... moreBlack coal, thin pickings: China's miners face decline Coal demand shifting to Asia, IEA says China halts North Korean coal imports |
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China said Wednesday it hoped Mongolia could "draw lessons" from the fallout over hosting the Dalai Lama after the Mongolian foreign minister announced that the Tibetan spiritual leader would no longer be allowed to visit the country.
Mongolian Foreign Minister Tsend Munkh-Orgil said Tuesday that the Dalai Lama would not be allowed to visit in the future, even for religious reasons, the offi ... more Woman sues China public security bureau over propaganda video 'Iron lady' Ip runs for Hong Kong leader Chinese official's wife jailed in new vaccine scandal |
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Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new device that measures the motion of super-tiny particles traversing distances almost unimaginably small - shorter than the diameter of a hydrogen atom, or less than one-millionth the width of a human hair.
Not only can the handheld device sense the atomic-scale motion of its tiny parts with unpreced ... more A hardware-based approach for real world collaborative multi-robots Mimicking biological movements with soft robots Zuckerberg builds software butler for his home |
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  China's smoggiest city closed schools Wednesday as much of the country suffered its sixth day under an oppressive haze, sparking public anger about the slow response to the threat to children's health.
Since Friday a choking miasma has covered a large swathe of northeastern China, leaving more than 460 million gasping for breath.
Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province, was one of mo ... more Planes grounded as smog chokes China for fifth day Bacteria control levels of dangerous pollutant in seabirds RIT researchers estimate 10,000 metric tons of plastic enter Great Lakes every year |
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Hundreds of people were evacuated from an Israeli village near Jerusalem overnight, police said Friday, as firefighters battled wildfires that have forced tens of thousands to flee around the country.
The evacuations in Beit Meir, a cooperative village of religious Jews, came after 60,000 people in Israel's third-largest city Haifa were moved to safety on Thursday because of a spate of fires ... more NASA Sets Space Fire in Second Round of Fire Safety Experiments Indonesian fires exposed 69 million to 'killer haze' Wildfire management or fire suppression |
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Mother-of-pearl or nacre (pronounced nay-ker), the lustrous, tough-as-nails biomineral that lines some seashells, has been shown to be a faithful record of ancient ocean temperature.
Writing online Thursday, Dec. 15, in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, a team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison physics Professor Pupa Gilbert describes studies of the physical attributes o ... more Former city managers face criminal charges in Flint water crisis Rising sea level estimates require collaborative response Early action key to reducing sea lion impacts on salmon, new study finds |
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A paper published this week during the American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting in San Francisco points to new evidence of human influence on extreme weather events.
Three researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are among the co-authors on the paper, which is included in "Explaining Extreme Events of 2015 from a Climate Perspective," a special edition of ... more Increasing tornado outbreaks - is climate change responsible? Hurricane kills 9 in Costa Rica Four dead after unprecedented Australia 'thunderstorm asthma' |
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A Chinese auto glass tycoon has caused a stir by shifting part of his empire to the United States and setting up a factory in Ohio, citing high taxes and soaring labour costs at home.
Cao Dewang's $600-million investment comes after Donald Trump threatened to declare Beijing a currency manipulator and slap 45 percent punitive tariffs on Chinese imports to protect American jobs.
The 70-ye ... more Trump names critics of China, regulation for economic posts US antitrust regulators clear China-owned AMC to buy Carmike China's 2017 economic growth to slow to 6.5 pct: study |
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The Space Science Institute was awarded a grant from the Moore Foundation that will provide 1.26 million solar viewing glasses and other resources for 1,500 public libraries across the nation. They will serve as centers for eclipse education and viewing for their communities.
The libraries will be selected through a registration process managed by the STAR Library Education Network (STAR_N ... more Preparing for the August 2017 Total Solar Eclipse Giving the Sun a brake Perspectives on magnetic reconnection |
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Norway on Tuesday slashed its hunting quota for wolves from 47 to 15 in a decision hailed as the "best Christmas gift" by environmental campaigners who feared a mass slaughter.
Regional authorities had authorised in September the culling of 47 wolves, fuelling an outcry among activists who protested that the animals are threatened with extinction in the Scandinavian country.
Rovdata, a ... more The fight to save Earth's smallest rhino in Sumatra's jungles Rapid population decline among vertebrates began with industrialization Cambodia seizes huge haul of ivory and animal parts |
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