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  Houghton MI (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 Although tobacco use is the leading cause of avoidable death globally, farming tobacco continues to provide the primary source of income to many farmers. But two Michigan Technological University researchers contend that converting tobacco fields to solar farms could profitably serve two purposes: Reduce preventable deaths and meet the growing need for solar energy to combat climate change. Ram Krishnan, now an engineer designing large solar systems in the rapidly expanding U.S. solar industry, an ... read more |
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Aerial imagery gives insight into water trendsLogan UT (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 With an ever-growing human population and its inherent demand for water, there is a critical need to monitor water resources. New technology could make it more feasible than ever to measure changes ... more  
Bordeaux's 'magnificent' lost vintage pushes small growers to the edgeBarsac, France (AFP) Feb 10, 2018 Surveying a nearly empty cellar, Frederic Nivelle of Bordeaux's prestigious Chateau Climens, reflects on what might have been an outstanding year for the sweet white Sauternes wine. ... more 
Vulnerable fear Cape Town's water shut-offCape Town (AFP) Feb 8, 2018 At Cape Town's Nazareth House, a care home for dozens of vulnerable, disabled and orphaned children, feeding time is executed with military precision. ... more 
Chemists develop a simple, easy-to-use method to break down pollutants in waterHalle-Wittenberg, Germany (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 Chemists from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have found out how stubborn pollutants in water can be disintegrated easily and cost-effectively. To do so researchers only need a green ... more |
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Typhoon death toll soars past 90 in the Philippines
Typhoon death toll climbs to 66 in the Philippines CORRECTED: Typhoon Kalmaegi kills 66 in Philippines: civil defence office Reeling from earthquakes, Afghans fear coming winter Typhoon flooding kills over 40, strands thousands in central Philippines Indonesia floods kill 15 Afghan govt says quake death toll rises to 27 Fierce mountain storms kill nine in Nepal Typhoon flooding kills 26, strands thousands in central Philippines Vietnam flood death toll hits 40 as Typhoon Kalmaegi looms |
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Sweet route to greater yieldsHarpenden UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 Three years ago, biotechnologists demonstrated in field trials that they could increase the productivity of maize by introducing a rice gene into the plant that regulated the accumulation of sucrose ... more 
Bottoms up: Morocco PM glugs water to dispel pollution fearsRabat (AFP) Feb 7, 2018 Morocco's prime minister on Wednesday swigged a glass of water from a reservoir supplying some seven million people in a bid to dispel fears over pollution. ... more 
Nigeria grapples with mob justice in farmer-herder clashesGboko, Nigeria (AFP) Feb 7, 2018 In the heart of Gboko's main market, in Benue state, central Nigeria, stains still darken the dusty corners of the car park, where seven men were burned alive in broad daylight. ... more  
Nigeria to send troops to restive central states: armyAbuja (AFP) Feb 7, 2018 Nigeria's army on Wednesday said it would send troops into the country's volatile central states to quell violence between farmers and herders that has killed hundreds in recent weeks. ... more 
UTIA research examines long-term economic impact of cover cropsKnoxville TN (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 It isn't often that researchers have the luxury to examine data from a long-term research project. While most research projects last from three to five years, scientists with the University of Tenne ... more |
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 New Year canines stashed away in Muslim Malaysia 
More rice, please: 13 rice genomes reveal ways to keep up with ever-growing populationCold Spring Harbor, NY (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 Billions of people around the world rely on rice as a mainstay of their diet. The grain provides about 20 percent of the calories consumed by humans worldwide. Rice production is critical for global ... more  |
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Cape Town now faces dry taps by May 11Cape Town (AFP) Feb 5, 2018 Residents of drought-stricken Cape Town received rare good news Monday when city officials said they now face losing piped water to their homes on May 11 - a month later than previously forecast. ... more 
Tiny Michigan town in water fight with NestleOsceola Township , United States (AFP) Feb 4, 2018 Global food conglomerate Nestle is in a battle with critics in tiny Osceola Township, Michigan where residents complain the Swiss company's water extraction techniques are ruining the environment. ... more 
Australia toughens foreign investment rules amid China concernsSydney (AFP) Feb 1, 2018 Australia announced tougher restrictions on foreign buyers of agricultural land and electricity infrastructure on Thursday amid fears over rising Chinese influence. ... more 
World Bank funds fight against Baghdad water woesBaghdad (AFP) Feb 1, 2018 The Iraqi capital's decrepit water network will be overhauled under a $210 million World Bank project aimed at tackling chronic supply shortages and outbreaks of disease. ... more 
EU seeks to give millions better access to drinking waterBrussels (AFP) Feb 1, 2018 The European Union proposed Thursday giving millions of people in the 28-nation bloc better access to safe tap water and reduce water consumption via wasteful plastic bottles. ... more |
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 Guildford UK (SPX) Feb 07, 2018 
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) signed a 25M pounds contract in Beijing yesterday with Twenty First Century Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd (21AT) to provide data from a new Earth Observation satellite (SSTL-S1) due for launch on PSLV in the middle of this year.
The contract was signed by Sir Martin Sweeting, Executive Chairman of SSTL, and Mme Wu Shuang, President and Chairman of 21A ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 06, 2018 
The Galileo satellite navigation system, Europe's rival to the United States' GPS, has nearly 100 million users after its first year of operation, the French space agency CNES said Thursday.
The system, seen as strategically important to Europe, went live in December 2016, having taken 17 years at more than triple the original budget to get there.
Initial services offered only a weak sig ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2018  Pine trees become temporarily sterile when exposed to ultraviolet radiation as intense as some scientists believe the Earth experienced 252 million years ago during the planet's largest mass extinction, lending support to the theory that ozone depletion contributed to the crisis.
The effect of high UV on conifers and potentially other trees also suggests caution today in introducing chemic ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 
"In my study, I wanted to show that calculating the greenhouse gas emissions of biofuels tells just half of the story. What we really need to do is quantify the emissions of each product coming out of biorefineries," says Edgard Gnansounou, professor at EPFL and head of the school's Bioenergy and Energy Planning Research Group. To that end, Gnansounou has developed a sophisticated computer model ... more |
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 Houghton MI (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 
Although tobacco use is the leading cause of avoidable death globally, farming tobacco continues to provide the primary source of income to many farmers. But two Michigan Technological University researchers contend that converting tobacco fields to solar farms could profitably serve two purposes: Reduce preventable deaths and meet the growing need for solar energy to combat climate change.
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 31, 2018 
The Irish government, despite what happens for Great Britain, is committed to the European Union's energy and renewable policies, the environment minister said.
"Ireland is now a world leader in integrating renewables onto the electricity grid," Irish Environment Minister Denis Naughten said in comments emailed Wednesday from a renewable energy conference in Dublin. "Whatever the final ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Feb 4, 2018 
Embattled Indian miner Adani's plans for a massive coal project in Australia has been dealt another blow after the government confirmed Sunday it would not fund a rail link to the facility.
The development of the controversial US$16 billion Carmichael mine near the Great Barrier Reef is set to be one of the world's largest. But it has been delayed by several years amid regulatory and legal h ... more |
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 Shanghai (AFP) Feb 8, 2018 
Chinese rap and hip hop seemed poised to break out after a wildly popular singing show brought mainstream legitimacy to a musical style that had struggled to find its voice in China.
But an abrupt official backlash against hip hop culture has tamed the swagger of artists who fear that Chinese rap's development, like a once-promising homegrown rock-and-roll movement, will be nipped in the bud ... more |
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 Singapore (SPX) Feb 08, 2018  One of the ways that computers 'think' is by analysing relationships within large sets of data. An international team has shown that quantum computers can do one such analysis faster than classical computers, for a wider array of data types than was previously expected.
The team's proposed 'quantum linear system algorithm' is published in the 2 February issue of Physical Review Letters. In ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Feb 9, 2018 
Weary of local officials dismissing the deadly smog that covers their city, citizens of Siberia's industrial hub Krasnoyarsk decided to take action and monitor air quality themselves.
But they quickly came up against those same authorities in the remote region 4,200 kilometres (2,600 miles) east of Moscow.
Krasnoyarsk boasts dozens of factories as well as one of the world's biggest alum ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 
NASA's satellite instruments are often the first to detect wildfires burning in remote regions, and the locations of new fires are sent directly to land managers worldwide within hours of the satellite overpass. Together, NASA instruments, including a number built and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, detect actively burning fires, track the transport of smoke ... more |
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 Pullman WA (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 
Building a submarine gets tricky when the temperature drops to -300 Fahrenheit and the ocean is made of methane and ethane.
Washington State University researchers are working with NASA to determine how a submarine might work on Titan, the largest of Saturn's many moons and the second largest in the solar system. The space agency plans to launch a real submarine into Titan seas in the next ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 
Climate change will make heatwaves more common, and continental areas and urban regions that become significantly warmer in summer will be particularly affected. Together with colleagues from Australia and the US, ETH researchers have now detailed a practical approach that combines clever land use and urban radiation management to help cool extreme summer temperatures locally. Their study has ju ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 9, 2018  US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson welcomed Chinese state councillor Yang Jiechi to Washington on Thursday as the world's two most powerful diplomats talked trade, drugs and North Korea.
Yang is in Washington for two days at a time when relations between the top powers are dominated by the North Korean nuclear stand-off and President Donald Trump's concerns about their trade imbalance.
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 
Magnetism plays a critical role in various solar phenomena such as flares, mass ejections, flux ropes, and coronal heating. Sunspots are areas of concentrated magnetic fields. A sunspot usually consists of a circular dark core (the umbra) with a vertical magnetic field and radially-elongated fine threads (the penumbra) with a horizontal field.
The penumbra harbors an outward flow of gas al ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 8, 2018 
New research has shown that praying mantises have a unique mechanism for seeing in 3D - different from the way humans and other animals see in three dimensions.
Human eyes merge the images fielded by each eye, calculating the differences between the two angles to gauge how far away different objects are. The process yields a 3D visual world. The ability is sometimes called stereo visio ... more |
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