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  Washington DC (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 Soybean is rich in protein, which is great for the humans and animals eating it. But this high protein content comes at a cost. To make protein, soybean plants need a lot of nitrogen. The plants get some of the nitrogen they need by working with specialized bacteria in the soil. These bacteria live in root nodules. They pull nitrogen from the atmosphere and convert it to a form the plants can use. But this process-biological nitrogen fixation-may not provide all the nitrogen soybean crops ne ... read more |
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Research suggests water appeared while Earth was still growingChicago IL (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 Up until about ten years ago, scientists thought they had a pretty good picture of how the moon and Earth came to co-exist. Then more precise measurements blew it all wide open, and scientists are s ... more  
Agricultural fires can double Delhi pollution during peak burning seasonBoston MA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 It's become a deadly autumn tradition in northern India: after the rains of the late summer monsoon subside, farmers set fires to their fields to clear stubble after the harvest and send choking smo ... more 
Hybrid swarm in global mega-pestCanberra (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 Australian scientists have confirmed the hybridisation of two of the world's major pest species, into a new and improved mega-pest. One of the pests, the cotton bollworm, is widespread in Afri ... more 
New study shows vegetation controls the future of the water cycleNew York NY (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 Predicting how increasing atmospheric CO2 will affect the hydrologic cycle, from extreme weather forecasts to long-term projections on agriculture and water resources, is critical both to daily life ... more |
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CORRECTED: Magnitude 6.3 quake hits northern Afghanistan: USGS
Magnitude 6.3 quake hits northern Afghanistan: USGS US says sending $3 mn post-hurricane aid to foe Cuba Jamaica deaths at 28 as Caribbean reels from colossal hurricane Only two weeks of water left in Tehran's main reservoir: official Five German mountaineers killed in Italian Alps avalanche 50 dead as Caribbean digs out from Hurricane Melissa 21 dead, 30-plus missing in Kenya landslide: minister Tanzania president wins election landslide after deadly protests Tanzania preliminary results show landslide win for President Hassan: state TV |
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Treating women subsistence farmers for intestinal worms will boost food productionOakbrook Terrace, IL (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 A new study in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) found that treating women subsistence farmers with just a single dose of a cheap deworming medication significantly improved their physical stam ... more  
Trump threatens $100 bln more tariffs on ChinaWashington (AFP) April 6, 2018 US President Donald Trump barreled through warnings of a damaging trade war with China Thursday, vowing an additional $100 billion in tit-for-tat tariffs on Beijing. ... more 
Satellites, supercomputers, and machine learning provide real-time crop type dataUrbana IL (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 Corn and soybean fields look similar from space - at least they used to. But now, scientists have proven a new technique for distinguishing the two crops using satellite data and the processing powe ... more 
Aquaplaning in the geological undergroundPotsdam, Germany (SPX) Apr 05, 2018 The 2016 Mw 7.6 earthquake of Southern Chile was the first large earthquake to occur within the rupture bounds of the great 1960 Mw 9.5 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever observed in historical t ... more 
Bioinspired slick method improves water harvestingDallas TX (SPX) Apr 04, 2018 By learning how water is collected by living organisms, including rice leaves and pitcher plants, scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas created and tested a combination of materials that c ... more |
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 US soybean growers in crosshairs of US-China trade spat 
'Fog harp' increases collection capacity for clean waterBlacksburg VA (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 Fog harvesting may look like whimsical work. After all, installing giant nets along hillsides and mountaintops to catch water out of thin air sounds more like folly than science. However, the practi ... more  |
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Animals rights groups scent blood as fashion labels go fur-freeParis (AFP) March 31, 2018 Is this the beginning of the end for fur? ... more 
Powerful X-rays key to confirming water source deep below Earth's surfaceLemont, IL (SPX) Mar 30, 2018 A study published in Science last week relies on extremely bright X-ray beams from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory to confirm the pr ... more 
Environmentally friendly cattle productionEast Lansing MI (SPX) Mar 30, 2018 Three hundred years ago, enormous herds of bison, antelope and elk roamed North America, and the land was pristine and the water clean. However, today when cattle congregate, they're often cas ... more 
Silk Road nomads were the original foodiesWashington (UPI) Mar 27, 2018 New research suggests nomadic populations in Medieval Central Asia, between the 2nd and 16th centuries AD, ate more dynamic diets than sedentary Silk Road populations. ... more 
El Nino can affect up to two-thirds of the world's harvestsHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Mar 29, 2018 According to researchers at Aalto University, Finland, large-scale weather cycles, such as the one related to the El Nino phenomenon, affect two-thirds of the world's cropland. In these so called cl ... more |
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 Jiuquan, China (XNA) Apr 11, 2018 
The first group of China's Yaogan-31 remote sensing satellites were sent into space on Tuesday at 12:25 p.m. Beijing time from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China.
The satellites were carried by a Long March-4C rocket, the 271st mission for the Long March rocket family.
The mission also sent a micro nano technology experiment satellite into orbit.
The satellit ... more |
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 San Jose CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 
DT Research, the leading designer and manufacturer of purpose-built computing solutions for vertical markets, has announced the DT301T Rugged RTK Tablet, a lightweight military-grade tablet that is purpose-built for GIS mapping applications with Real Time Kinematic (RTK) satellite navigation used to enhance the precision of position data derived from satellite-based positioning systems. This uni ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Mar 27, 2018 
What does it take for palm trees, the unofficial trademark of tropical landscapes, to expand into northern parts of the world that have long been too cold for palm trees to survive? A new study, led by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory researcher Tammo Reichgelt, attempts to answer this question. He and his colleagues analyzed a broad dataset to determine global palm tree distribution in relation ... more |
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 Singapore (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 
A team of engineers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) recently discovered that a naturally occurring bacterium, Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum TG57, isolated from waste generated after harvesting mushrooms, is capable of directly converting cellulose, a plant-based material, to biobutanol.
A research team led by Associate Professor He Jianzhong from the Departmen ... more |
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 Golden CO (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
As perovskite solar cells set efficiency records and the nascent technology becomes more stable, another major challenge remains: the issue of scalability, according to researchers at the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
"It is scalable," said Kai Zhu, a materials science researcher at NREL. "We just need to demonstrate efficiency and yield at a large-sca ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 9, 2018 
The transformer station for a 60-turbine wind farm in the German waters of the Baltic Sea is in place, securing a 2019 start, a German utility company said.
German company E.ON said the transformer station for the Arkona wind farm has been installed on its foundation, one of the largest lift projects in the industry at more than 5,000 tons. The entire structure is about 90 feet tall. ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) April 5, 2018 
The world's biggest miner BHP said Thursday it was following through on a decision to leave the World Coal Association over climate change policy differences, but would remain a member of the US Chamber of Commerce.
The Anglo-Australian giant announced in December it was reviewing industry group memberships to ensure they aligned with its climate and energy stance, which includes tackling gl ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 9, 2018 
A strong gale-force wind has toppled a giant statue of China's first emperor Qin Shi Huang and flattened its face at a popular tourist site in eastern Shandong province.
The 19-meter (62-foot) bronze replica of the monarch - who was the first to unify warring factions in China and established the Qin dynasty (221-206 BC) - was blown out of its pedestal on Friday.
Cranes were immediatel ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 04, 2018 
The new Russian manned spacecraft Federatsiya (Federation) is designed to deliver people and cargo to low earth orbit, as well as to the moon. The first such spaceship is expected to be commissioned by 2021.
It will be a modernized version of the humanoid robot FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) that is expected to be the first to fly to outer space on board the state ... more |
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 Manila (AFP) April 6, 2018  The Philippine tourism industry scrambled Friday to manage the fallout from the temporary shutdown of its world-famous Boracay island, which threw into chaos trips planned by hundreds of thousands of tourists.
President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the once-idyllic white-sand resort closed to tourists for up to six months from April 26, after describing the country's top tourist attraction as a " ... more |
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 New Orleans LA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
The recent Thomas Fire in California was the largest wildfire in the state's modern history. It scorched nearly 282,000 acres between December 2017 and January 2018, and serves as a reminder of how devastating such events can be. Now, researchers report that wildfires in forested watersheds can have a variable but predictable impact on the substances that are released from soils and flow into dr ... more |
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
Beginning in 2013, a mysterious disease crippled sea star populations up and down the U.S. west coast. Over a matter of months, many sea star species died in record-breaking numbers, though Pisaster ochraceus - a keystone species known as the ochre sea star - was among the hardest hit. Now, researchers at UC Santa Cruz have analyzed just how much the populations of this species have declined, bu ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Mar 22, 2018 
New data show that extreme weather events have become more frequent over the past 36 years, with a significant uptick in floods and other hydrological events compared even with five years ago, according to a new publication, "Extreme weather events in Europe: Preparing for climate change adaptation: an update on EASAC's 2013 study" by the European Academies' Science Advisory Council (EASAC), a b ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 6, 2018  Top US economic advisor Larry Kudlow on Friday warned a threat to hit China with tariffs on up to $150 billion of imports is not a negotiating ploy - the White House wants a change in Chinese behavior.
Indicating a tough stance that escalates the risks of a trade war between the world's two largest economies, Kudlow told reporters that President Donald Trump believes China must move decisiv ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for its launch to the Sun, scheduled for July 31, 2018.
In the middle of the night on April 2, the spacecraft was driven from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to nearby Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. From there, it was flown by the United States Air Force's 436th Airlift Wing to Space Co ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 5, 2018 
A rare pair of twin calves recently joined their mother's herd in Tanzania's Tarangire National Park.
Conservationists and researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society documented the twins as they joined Eloise, their mom, and her friends and relatives.
Researchers believe fewer than 1 percent of elephant births yield twins. What's more, Eloise is estimated to be 57 years o ... more |
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