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  Corvallis OR (SPX) Oct 06, 2017 A new analysis suggests that open-ocean aquaculture for three species of finfish is a viable option for industry expansion under most climate change scenarios - an option that may provide a new source of protein for the world's growing population. This modeling study found that the warming of near-shore surface waters would shift the range of many species toward the higher latitudes - where they would have better growth rates - but even in areas that will be significantly warmer, open-ocean aquacu ... read more |
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Are we at a tipping point with weed control?Urbana IL (SPX) Oct 09, 2017 Imagine walking the cereal aisle at your favorite grocery store. Are you reading labels? Scanning prices? Thinking about weeds? If you're like most American consumers, weeds probably aren't at the f ... more 
Climate solution in soilStanford CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2017 If you want to do something about global warming, look under your feet. Managed well, soil's ability to trap carbon dioxide is potentially much greater than previously estimated, according to Stanfo ... more 
Bee-harming pesticides in 75 percent of honey worldwide: studyMiami (AFP) Oct 5, 2017 Traces of pesticides that act as nerve agents on bees have been found in 75 percent of honey worldwide, raising concern about the survival of these crucial crop pollinators, researchers said Thursday. ... more 
Win-win strategies for climate and food securityVienna, Austria (SPX) Oct 05, 2017 Climate policies that target agriculture and forests could lead to increased food prices, but reducing deforestation and increasing soil carbon sequestration in agriculture could significantly reduc ... more |
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Deadly Typhoon Kalmaegi ravages Vietnam, Philippines
Operation Cloudburst: Dutch train for 'water bomb' floods Hurricane left millions of tons of debris in Jamaica: UN Typhoon Kalmaegi hits Vietnam after killing 140 in Philippines Vietnam evacuates thousands from coast ahead of Typhoon Kalmaegi Philippine death toll tops 140 as typhoon heads towards Vietnam CORRECTED: Philippine death toll tops 140 as typhoon heads towards Vietnam Camels replace cows as Kenya battles drought Jamaica still 'digging out' from hurricane, but Red Cross hopes toll stays low Death toll tops 100 as Philippines digs out after typhoon |
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Earliest evidence for a native African cultigen discovered in Eastern SudanChicago IL (SPX) Oct 05, 2017 Archaeologists examining plant impressions within broken pottery have discovered the earliest evidence for domesticated sorghum in Africa. The evidence comes from an archaeological site (known ... more 
Setback for EU deal on hormone-disrupting chemicalsStrasbourg, France (AFP) Oct 4, 2017 The EU's efforts to regulate chemicals which can potentially disrupt the body's hormones suffered a setback on Wednesday when MEPs blocked a key proposal. ... more 
Biodegradable microsensors for food monitoringZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 05, 2017 Nowadays microsensors are already used in many different applications, such as the detection of poisonous gases. They are also integrated into miniaturised transmitter/receiver systems, such as the ... more 
Land grabs cause lingering SE Asia conflicts: reportStockholm (AFP) Oct 3, 2017 Three-quarters of around 50 conflicts that have erupted in Southeast Asia since 2001 pitting mining, logging or agribusiness giants against indigenous peoples protesting land grabs are still lingering today, researchers reported Tuesday. ... more  
Big rainy season leaves dozens dead in Central AmericaGuatemala City (AFP) Oct 3, 2017 An unusually intense rainy season in Central America has left dozens dead and thousands more affected by damaged or destroyed homes and roads. ... more 
EU battle heats up over controversial weedkillerBrussels (AFP) Oct 1, 2017 A battle is heating up over whether the European Union will renew at year-end the licence for glyphosate, one of the world's most widely used weedkillers that some fear causes cancer. ... more |
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 First global pact backing indigenous land rights launched 
Chinese buyers fleeced in Australian wool scamSydney (AFP) Oct 4, 2017 The theft of high-end Australian wool destined for China is under investigation, authorities said Wednesday, as customers end up with lower-grade produce in a scam threatening the industry's reputation. ... more 
Global methane emissions from agriculture possibly much largerWashington DC (SPX) Oct 02, 2017 Global methane emissions from agriculture are larger than estimated due to the previous use of out-of-date data on carbon emissions generated by livestock, according to a study published in the open ... more 
Artificial light device boosts cows' milk yields by 9 percentWashington (UPI) Oct 1, 2017 A new artificial light device developed in Ireland promises to increase cows' milk yields by 9 percent. In the latest tests, the technology, a mask, increased milk production among lactating bovines. ... more
Bulgarian village goes Chinese in yoghurt crazeMomchilovtsi, Bulgaria (AFP) Sept 26, 2017 The Bulgarian villagers hunker over their books, struggling with their Mandarin words and characters. But they are not going to China - the Middle Kingdom is coming to them. Because of yoghurt. ... more |
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  Schriever AFB CO (SPX) Oct 09, 2017 
The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Flight 19 ceased transmitting weather data after nearly three and a half years of operational service to Department of Defense and civilian agencies.
On Feb. 11, 2016, operators lost the ability to command the satellite following a power failure within the command and control system. The DMSP operations team remained in regular contact with the ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 06, 2017Satellites See Silicon Valley's Quick Drought Recovery  Washington DC (SPX) Oct 03, 2017Public Invited to Analyze Photos Taken by International Space Station Astronauts  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 03, 2017Global Airborne Mission to Make Ozone Hole Detour |
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 Cambridge, Canada (SPX) Sep 26, 2017 
exactEarth Ltd. reports that its exactTrax small vessel monitoring technology is now incorporated into Alltek Marine Electronic Corp's (AMEC) AIS Tracking Beacon (TB560).
The AMEC TB560 is a simplified Class B AIS device that offers an efficient and cost-effective vessel monitoring solution within AIS VHF transmission range. Now outfitted with exactTrax technology from exactEarth, which ex ... more Beijing (XNA) Sep 15, 2017BeiDou navigation to cover Belt and Road countries by 2018 Beijing (XNA) Sep 19, 2017China's BeiDou-3 satellites get new chips  Denver CO (SPX) Sep 13, 2017US Air Force Awards Lockheed Martin GPS M-Code Early Use Ground System Upgrade Contract |
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 Annapolis, MD (SPX) Oct 09, 2017 
Like a scene from the movie Alien, insect parasitoids inject their eggs into unsuspecting hosts, their offspring grow and eat from within, eventually bursting out leaving dead, empty host vessels. These tiny predators, many of them wasps, can have major ecological and economic impacts.
For example, wasps in the genus Melittobia attack pollinating bumblebees. Parasitoid wasp larvae feed on ... more Guelph, Canada (SPX) Oct 09, 2017DNA barcoding technology helping monitor health of all-important boreal forest  Warsaw (AFP) Sept 29, 2017Poland rejects EU evidence on primeval forest dispute  Miami (AFP) Sept 28, 2017Forest loss means tropics emit more carbon than they trap: study |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 09, 2017 
The world's oceans cover approximately 70 percent of Earth's surface and contain roughly 93 percent of the planet's carbon dioxide (CO2). With around 38,000 gigatons (Gt) of carbon, our world's oceans contain 16 times as much carbon as that found on land or in the atmosphere combined.
"With greater attention being directed at mitigating the effects CO2 can have on the environment, an inter ... more Liverpool UK (SPX) Oct 09, 2017Breakthrough in direct activation of CO2 and CH4 into liquid fuels and chemicals  Ames IA (SPX) Oct 06, 2017Surrounded by potential: New science in converting biomass  Washington DC (SPX) Oct 03, 2017Olive mill wastewater transformed: From pollutant to bio-fertilizer, biofuel |
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 Upton, NY (SPX) Oct 06, 2017 
Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have designed a new catalyst that speeds up the rate of a key step in "artificial photosynthesis" - an effort to mimic how plants, algae, and some bacteria harness sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into energy-rich fuels. This step - called water oxidation - releases protons and electrons from water molecules, ... more Riyadh (AFP) Oct 3, 2017Saudi Arabia opens bid for 'utility scale' solar project  Moscow, Russia (SPX) Oct 09, 2017Scientists propose new way of increasing the efficiency of solar batteries  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2017Governor Brown Sends SCE to CEC Investigation and ABC Solar Files CPUC Petition to Censor SCE |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 22, 2017 
With the start of construction of a new wind farm off the coast of Germany, officials said the nation's economy was supported through low-carbon efforts.
German energy company E.ON, with support from Norway's Statoil, hosted a ceremony to mark the start of construction for the Arkona offshore wind farm, which formally started in late August.
Christian Pegel, a regional Germany en ... more Washington (UPI) Sep 20, 2017French energy company to build wind power sector in India  Washington DC (SPX) Sep 19, 2017Finding better wind energy potential with the new European Wind Atlas  Washington (UPI) Sep 7, 2017Last of the 67 turbines for a British wind farm installed |
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 Sydney (AFP) Sept 22, 2017 
Rio Tinto will return $2.5 billion to shareholders in a buyback after selling most of its Australian coal assets to China-backed Yancoal, the mining giant said Friday.
The world's second-largest miner sold Coal & Allied to Yancoal, majority-controlled by China's Yanzhou Coal, earlier this month in a divestment drive analysts expect will lead to a complete exit from the sector.
The buybac ... more Washington (UPI) Sep 15, 2017First-ever U.S. coal shipment arrives in Ukraine  Sydney (AFP) Sept 1, 2017Rio completes Australia coal mines sale to China's Yancoal  Washington (UPI) Aug 22, 2017In a first, U.S. ships coal to Ukraine |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 4, 2017 
Unpopular former Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying testified Wednesday in a case involving a sandwich thrown at him by a pro-democracy activist.
The sandwich was aimed at Leung, the city's then leader, as he was on his way to vote in the September 2016 legislative election - but it missed and hit a police officer.
In court, a stern-looking Leung occasionally smiled as he was questioned b ... more Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 3, 2017Hong Kong democracy activist in court for throwing 'smelly' sandwich  Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 1, 2017Hong Kong migrant mothers sing for their distant children  Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 4, 2017The making of Hong Kong's famous 'fire dragon' |
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 Miami (AFP) Oct 5, 2017 
Two NASA astronauts wrapped up a successful spacewalk Thursday to repair the International Space Station's aging robotic arm, the US space agency said.
The outing by Americans Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei ended at 3 pm (1900 GMT), marking a "very successful day," a NASA spokesman said.
The spacewalk lasted six hours and 55 minutes, almost a half hour longer than planned because the p ... more Hong Kong (SPX) Oct 03, 2017Servosila introduces Mobile Robots equipped with Software Defined Radio payloads  Washington (AFP) Oct 5, 2017Mattel scraps plan for digital assistant for kids  Raleigh NC (SPX) Oct 09, 2017Sensitivity to time improves performance at remotely controlling devices |
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 Tipitapa, Nicaragua (AFP) Oct 5, 2017 
Looking tired and haggard, William Coronado pulls up before dawn with a boat full of fish on the muddy shore of Nicaragua's Lake Managua, a dumping ground for trash and waste.
"The lake is so polluted. They throw all sorts of crap into it," said the 56-year-old. "Containers, old buckets, all sorts of bags - all the junk they throw away in Managua. It's a disgrace."
Coronado spent two da ... more Tokyo (AFP) Oct 4, 2017Olympics: Tokyo 2020 water venue polluted  Gonda City, India (AFP) Oct 2, 2017Mountains of garbage and despair in India's dirtiest city  Amsterdam (AFP) Sept 27, 2017I.Coast toxic spill victims launch new Dutch court bid |
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 Sydney (AFP) Sept 25, 2017  Ten people believed to be Chinese died when a supermarket caught fire in Papua New Guinea while they were sleeping, reports and officials said Monday.
The disaster at the Splendid Star shop was made worse by the lack of any proper fire-fighting equipment in Manus province in the impoverished Pacific nation's north, where the blaze started early Friday.
The dead included six women and fou ... more Lisbon (AFP) Sept 12, 2017Portuguese ex-firefighter jailed for starting 2016 forest fires  Washington (UPI) Sep 5, 2017Satellite images show wildfire smoke spreading across United States  Marseille (AFP) Sept 3, 2017Arson suspected as fire in southeast France brought under control |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 06, 2017 
Investigations to predict changes in sea levels and their impacts on coastal systems are a step closer, as a result of international collaboration between the University of Sydney and researchers from Japan, Spain, and the United States. Scientists globally are investigating just how quickly sea-level rise can occur as a result of global warming and ice sheets melting.
Recent findings sugg ... more Wellington (AFP) Oct 6, 2017Pacific's Niue creates huge marine sanctuary  Ottawa (AFP) Oct 5, 2017Shipping, fishing killed Canada right whales: autopsy  Valletta (AFP) Oct 5, 2017Prince Charles warns 'plastic on the menu' in world's fish |
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 Berlin (AFP) Oct 6, 2017  Thousands of commuters were hit Friday by train cancellations in northern and eastern Germany after a powerful storm that killed seven motorists.
Storm Xavier slammed into the country late afternoon on Thursday, uprooting trees and flinging signs and billboards to the ground with winds that reached 130 kilometres (80 miles) per hour.
"Most of the train tracks in the north and east of Ger ... more Sydney (AFP) Oct 4, 2017Sydney, Melbourne warned to prepare for 50-degree days Paris (AFP) Sept 27, 2017Searing summers becoming the new normal in Europe: study  Bucharest (AFP) Sept 17, 2017Powerful wind storm kills eight in Romania |
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 Stockholm (AFP) Oct 9, 2017 
The 2017 Nobel season wraps up Monday with the economics prize, which could this year honour fields rarely awarded by the committee, such as development economics or French economist Esther Duflo's research on poverty.
The Nobel Economics Prize was created by the Swedish central bank "in memory of Alfred Nobel" and first awarded in 1969, unlike the other prizes which were created in his last ... more Strasbourg, France (AFP) Oct 3, 2017EU targets China with tough rules on cheap imports  Beijing (AFP) Sept 30, 2017Chinese manufacturing accelerates for second straight month  Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 3, 2017$37.7 million bowl sets Chinese ceramic auction record |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 5, 2017 
If governments and their space agencies are serious about protecting Earth from solar storms, one team of researchers argues a giant space shield is the most logical solution.
Much attention is paid to the threat of comets and asteroids. In the past, violent collisions have triggered mass extinctions. Solar storms - intense waves of high energy particles flung into space during coronal ... more Washington (UPI) Oct 3, 2017Scientists model magnetic storm that inspired red aurora over Kyoto  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 03, 2017A RAVAN in the sun  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 27, 2017Parker Solar Probe Gets Its Revolutionary Heat Shield |
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 York, UK (SPX) Oct 06, 2017 
Researchers have discovered that New Caledonian crows and kea parrots can learn about the usefulness of objects by playing with them - similar to human baby behaviour. The study, led by researchers at the Universities of York and St Andrews, demonstrated that two types of bird were able to solve tasks more successfully if they had explored the object involved in the task beforehand.
It has ... more Baghdad (AFP) Oct 9, 2017Iraqi animal lovers go online to help save Baghdad's strays  Newark DE (SPX) Oct 05, 2017Examining the lifestyles of microbes  Washington (UPI) Oct 4, 2017Cats kill more than one million birds per day in Australia |
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