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  Sydney (AFP) June 18, 2017 Australia's first recycled supermarket is giving food destined for landfills a second chance, as the government embarks on a major push to cut down on waste costing the economy Aus$20 billion (US$15 billion) a year. The outlet run by food rescue organisation OzHarvest in Sydney takes surplus products normally thrown out by major supermarkets, airlines and other suppliers, and gives them away for free. It is an attempt to tackle the mounting waste problem in Australia, home to 24 million people, ... read more |
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Highly safe biocontainment strategy hopes to encourage greater use of GMOsHiroshima, Japan (SPX) Jun 21, 2017 Use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) - microorganisms not found in the natural world but developed in labs for their beneficial characteristics - is a contentious issue. For while GMOs ... more 
China 'backyard' pig farmers squeezed as sector scales upBeijing (AFP) June 18, 2017 Walking through swarms of flies at his piggery on the outskirts of Beijing, Liu Jin shows off 1,500 hormone-free black hogs raised for China's growing organic meat market. ... more 
Waste not, want notWashington DC (SPX) Jun 21, 2017 Making a living raising cattle isn't as simple as just buying a herd and turning it out to pasture. Cattle require specific diets to maintain proper nutrition and weight gain. And how to do this in ... more 
Climate imperils Ethiopia's coffee outputParis (AFP) June 19, 2017 Climate change could wipe out more than half of Ethiopia's coffee production unless farmers move to higher ground, scientists warned Monday. ... more |
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Weakening Typhoon Fung-wong exits Philippines after displacing 1.4 million
Super Typhoon Fung-wong makes landfall in Philippines Over 1 million evacuate as deadly Super Typhoon Fung-wong nears Philippines Dam reservoir levels drop below 3% in Iran's second city: media Philippines evacuates one million, woman dead as super typhoon nears Japan observes tiny tsunami following 6.7 magnitude quake Philippines evacuates hundreds of thousands as super typhoon nears Tornado kills six, injures 750 as it wrecks southern Brazil town Winds, rain lash Philippines as super typhoon nears Tornado kills six, wrecks town in Brazil |
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Fractal planting patterns yield optimal harvests, without central controlSanta Fe NM (SPX) Jun 16, 2017 Bali's famous rice terraces, when seen from above, look like colorful mosaics because some farmers plant synchronously, while others plant at different times. The resulting fractal patterns are rare ... more 
Study: To save planet, humans must alter diet and farming methodsWashington (UPI) Jun 16, 2017 Earth won't be able to support growing human populations without significant changes in human diets and farming efficiency. That's the conclusion of a team of researchers at the University of Minnesota. ... more 
Call for more electric fences to stop elephants destroying Gabon cropsLope National Park, Gabon (AFP) June 16, 2017 For several months, electric fences have been put up in Gabon as part of a new programme to stop the country's 40,000 forest elephants from destroying crops. ... more 
One million sign petition for EU weedkiller banStrasbourg, France (AFP) June 15, 2017 More than one million people have signed a petition demanding the EU ban the Monsanto weedkiller glyphosate over fears it causes cancer, campaigners said Thursday. ... more 
Carrefour pulls dog meat from shelves in ChinaBeijing (AFP) June 14, 2017 French retailer Carrefour has removed dog meat products from two supermarkets in China after an outcry from animal rights groups. ... more  
Flint water scandal prompts manslaughter charge for health chiefChicago (AFP) June 14, 2017 The chief of Michigan state's health department and four others were charged with involuntary manslaughter Wednesday over the Flint water contamination scandal, the most serious criminal offenses leveled so far. ... more |
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 NASA Data Suggest Future May Be Rainier Than Expected  
Tropical peat forests risk turning from carbon "drains" to emittersWashington (AFP) June 14, 2017 Peat bogs in tropical forests, long key outlets for greenhouse gases, could dry up due to farming and global warming, further accelerating climate change and putting more pressure on wetlands, a study out Monday found. ... more 
Dairy dispute sours Belarus-Russia relationsMinsk (AFP) June 14, 2017 A spat between Russia and Belarus seems to have spilt over into the dairy sector, as Moscow has whipped up a conflict that is pushing its neighbour to export its products to China. ... more 
Bee buzzes could help determine how to save their decreasing populationWashington DC (SPX) Jun 12, 2017 According to recent studies, declines in wild and managed bee populations threaten the pollination of flowers in more than 85 percent of flowering plants and 75 percent of agricultural crops worldwi ... more 
New-generation material removes iodine from waterHanover NH (SPX) Jun 12, 2017 Researchers at Dartmouth College have developed a new material that scrubs iodine from water for the first time. The breakthrough could hold the key to cleaning radioactive waste in nuclear reactors ... more |
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  Friedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) Jun 20, 2017 
Designed to operate for five years, Airbus's Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite TerraSAR-X has achieved ten years of flawless operations in orbit providing high-resolution radar images in all weather conditions 24 hours a day.
Developed and constructed by Airbus Defence and Space teams from Friedrichshafen for the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), the satellite orbits at a height of 514 ... more Cotonou (AFP) June 18, 2017Free mapping: plotting development in Africa  Paris (ESA) Jun 16, 2017Satellites forewarn of locust plagues  Washington (UPI) Jun 8, 2017NASA satellites image, measure Florida's extreme rainfall |
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 Los Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2017 
The U.S. Air Force released two technical reports demonstrating that the Global Positioning System (GPS) continues to deliver exceptional performance to civilian users around the world. GPS is a U.S. Air Force satellite system that provides highly dependable positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services to military and civilian users around the world, free of direct user charges.
Oper ... more New Delhi (Sputnik) Jun 20, 2017India to Make Native Navigation System Mandatory For All Aircraft  Beijing (XNA) Jun 14, 2017BDS Precise Service System covers over 300 Chinese cities  Paris (ESA) Jun 09, 2017Galileo grows: two more satellites join working constellation |
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 Oslo (AFP) June 19, 2017 
Religious leaders around the world met Monday in Oslo to urge further efforts to fight deforestation that is wiping out thousands of square kilometres of rainforests each year.
Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist and Jewish leaders are meeting indigenous people affected by deforestation as well as experts on climate change and human rights over three days to devise an interfaith acti ... more Boston MA (SPX) Jun 16, 2017Peatlands, already dwindling, could face further losses Washington (AFP) June 14, 2017Tropical peat forests risk turning from carbon "drains" to emitters  Czerlonka, Pologne (AFP) June 8, 2017Activists block logging in Poland's ancient forest |
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 Bath UK (SPX) Jun 16, 2017 
Some biodegradable plastics could in the future be made using sugar and carbon dioxide, replacing unsustainable plastics made from crude oil, following research by scientists from the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies (CSCT) at the University of Bath.
Polycarbonates from sugars offer a more sustainable alternative to traditional polycarbonate from BPA, however the process uses a ... more Washington DC (SPX) Jun 12, 2017Turning car plastics into foams with coconut oil  Washington (UPI) Jun 7, 2017Scientists use new technique to recycle plant material into stock chemicals  Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 07, 2017Splitting carbon dioxide using low-cost catalyst materials |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 16, 2017 
Miniaturized devices such as microsensors often require an independent, equally miniaturized power supply. Searching for suitable systems, Japanese scientists have now developed a fully integrated microfluidic device that produces hydrogen fuel and converts it into electrical energy based on photocatalysis. As they report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, it works fully autonomously and delivers ... more Beaverton OR (SPX) Jun 15, 2017Urban Solar lands UL approval for entire product line  Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Jun 15, 2017Solar paint offers endless energy from water vapor  Huddersfield UK (SPX) Jun 15, 2017New technology will enable properties to share solar energy |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 12, 2017 
There might be a better way to use wind power, according to a recent paper in IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (JAS), a joint publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the Chinese Association of Automation.
Scientists from the University of Rhode Island, Florida Atlantic University, USA, and Wuhan University, China, teamed up to find a way to optim ... more Washington (UPI) Jun 5, 2017ADB: Asia-Pacific growth tied to renewables  Anaheim, CA (SPX) May 28, 2017GE Energy Financial Services Surpasses $15 Billion in Renewable Energy Investments  Washington (UPI) May 25, 2017U.S. states taking up wind energy mantle |
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 Sydney (AFP) June 20, 2017 
Rio Tinto Tuesday recommended China-backed Yancoal as the buyer of most of its Australian coal mines, rebuffing a surprise higher bid from commodities giant Glencore earlier this month.
The world's second-largest miner said in January it was selling Coal & Allied to Yancoal Australia - majority-controlled by China's Yanzhou Coal - for US$2.45 billion.
But Glencore, which like Yancoal a ... more Tomsk, Russia (SPX) Jun 12, 2017Coal waste fuel may reduce anthropogenic emissions  Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 12, 2017Researchers compute their way toward cleaner coal plants  Sydney (AFP) June 11, 2017Foreign bidding war for Rio's Australia coal mines |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) June 19, 2017 
Gruelling foot drills and camouflage uniforms are part of life for some Hong Kongers as military-style youth groups become increasingly popular, despite the fact there is no army to join.
Some follow the traditions of former British colonial forces, while others are newly invented military-flavoured boot camps designed to keep young people in shape.
But as the semi-autonomous city prepar ... more Beijing (AFP) June 20, 2017China shames jaywalkers through facial recognition  Beijing (AFP) June 16, 2017China executives tied to Communist Party critic convicted Beijing (AFP) June 17, 2017US billionaire brings Dutch painters to China's masses |
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 Washington (AFP) June 14, 2017 
Facebook's artificial intelligence researchers announced Wednesday they had broken new ground by giving automated programs or "bots" the ability to negotiate, and make compromises.
The new technology pushes forward the ability to create bots "that can reason, converse and negotiate, all key steps in building a personalized digital assistant," said researchers Mike Lewis and Dhruv Batra in a ... more Boston MA (SPX) Jun 16, 2017Learning with light: New system allows optical 'deep learning'  San Francisco (AFP) June 7, 2017Apple wants to rock the market with HomePod, faces challenges  Washington DC (SPX) Jun 12, 2017Autonomous machines edge towards greater independence |
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 Algiers (AFP) June 19, 2017 
It's a rubbish job, but someone has to do it. Or some animal: in the alleyways of Algiers' famed Kasbah, donkeys shift tonnes of trash every day.
Some streets in the Kasbah are so narrow that single file is necessary. Others are wider but are steep and stepped, ruling out more usual rubbish collection methods.
Hence the resort to animal power to keep this World Heritage Site clean.
U ... more New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Jun 16, 2017Lab on a chip could monitor health, germs and pollutants  Tunis (AFP) June 13, 2017'Green police' to battle Tunisia trash scourge  Beirut (AFP) June 13, 2017Garbage dumped in sea off Lebanon sparks outrage |
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 Pedrogao Grande, Portugal (AFP) June 20, 2017 
Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa Tuesday led calls to know why a highway now dubbed the "road of death" - where most of the 64 victims of a giant forest fire perished - had not been blocked off, as questions mounted over the disaster management response.
More than 1,000 firefighters still battled to control the flames which broke out in the central Pedrogao Grande region over the we ... more Pedr�g�o Grande, Portugal (AFP) June 19, 2017'Portugal weeps' as deadly forest fire rages  Atlanta GA (SPX) Jun 21, 2017Wildfires pollute much more than previously thought Cape Town (AFP) June 8, 2017Thousands evacuated in South Africa as storm fans fires |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 16, 2017 
In a classic tale of science taking twists and turns before coming to a conclusion, two teams of researchers - one a group of theorists and the other, experimentalists - have worked together to solve a chemical puzzle that may one day lead to cleaner air and renewable fuel.
The scientists' ultimate goal is to convert harmful carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere into beneficial liquid fue ... more Los Angeles (AFP) June 18, 2017Hawaiian canoe comes home after epic round-the-world odyssey  Washington (AFP) June 20, 2017Global coral bleaching may be ending, US agency says  Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 20, 2017Amazonia's future will be jeopardized by dams |
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 Dhaka (AFP) June 20, 2017 
Lightning strikes have killed at least 22 people in Bangladesh in the last 48 hours, authorities said Tuesday, a week after monsoon rains triggered a series of deadly landslides in the country.
The deaths came as storms swept the country on Sunday and Monday, the head of the disaster management department Reaz Ahmed told AFP.
Among the dead were a couple and their young daughter who were ... more Los Angeles (AFP) June 20, 2017Grounded flights, fires and power outages as temps soar in US Paris (AFP) June 19, 2017Even 2C warming means more killer heatwaves: study  Dhaka (AFP) June 18, 2017Fresh landslides hit Bangladesh, kill four in their homes |
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 Yangon (AFP) June 20, 2017 
Chinese banks have frozen the accounts of more than 100 commodities traders in northeast Myanmar in a bid to clamp down on smuggling and illegal gambling, state media reported Tuesday.
Myanmar's government has been negotiating with Chinese officials since the accounts were suspended last week by three banks based in China's Yunnan province, according to the state-run Global New Light of Myan ... more Tokyo (AFP) June 19, 2017Japan logs surprise trade deficit in May as energy costs expand  Washington (AFP) June 19, 2017NAFTA renegotiation may extend into 2018: US official  Beijing (AFP) June 14, 2017IMF raises China growth forecast, urges faster reforms |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2017 
On May 25, 2017, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, saw a partial solar eclipse in space when it caught the moon passing in front of the sun. The lunar transit lasted almost an hour, between 2:24 and 3:17 p.m. EDT, with the moon covering about 89 percent of the sun at the peak of its journey across the sun's face. The moon's crisp horizon can be seen from this view because the moon has n ... more Miami (AFP) May 31, 2017A real scorcher: NASA probe to fly into sun's atmosphere  Washington DC (SPX) Jun 01, 2017NASA renames Solar mission to honor Eugene Parker  Huntsville AL (SPX) May 24, 2017CLASP Sounding Rocket Mission Opens New Research Window in Solar Physics |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 19, 2017  Scientists have quantified the ecological impact of mass wildebeest drownings in the Kenyan reach of the Mara River. Drowned wildebeest provide a dramatic boost to the Mara River ecosystem, they say.
"The Mara River intersects one of the largest overland migrations in the world," Amanda Subalusky, a postdoctoral researcher at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, said in a news relea ... more Kuala Lumpur (AFP) June 16, 2017$1.2 million of pangolin scales seized in Malaysia  Washington (UPI) Jun 15, 2017Distantly related fish species still look and act similarly, study shows  Hong Kong (AFP) June 14, 2017Hong Kong launches ivory ban bill |
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