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  Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 The U.S. city of Louisville, Kentucky isn't known as a hotbed of environmental action and innovation, but that could change as it has recently become home to a first-of-its-kind collaboration between environmentalists, city leaders and public health professionals. The Green Heart Project, funded in part by the United States National Institutes of Health, will plant trees in neighborhoods throughout the city and monitor how they affect residents' health. It's a boundary-pushing medical trial - a controll ... read more |
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Climate summit host Poland says smart forest management keyRome (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 Poland's President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday said smart forest management is key to fighting climate change and to help farming, weeks before he leads a major UN climate summit. ... more  
Syracuse geologists contribute to new understanding of Mekong River incisionSyracuse NY (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 An international team of earth scientists has linked the establishment of the Mekong River to a period of major intensification of the Asian monsoon during the middle Miocene, about 17 million years ... more  
New research identifies two types of drought across China and how they evolveBeijing, China (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 Flash drought is a rapidly intensifying water deficit process accompanied by high temperatures in a short period of time. Recently, heat extremes have become more frequent in a warming climate, and ... more 
Big Agriculture eyeing genetic tool for pest controlParis (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 A controversial and unproven gene-editing technology touted as a silver bullet against malaria-bearing mosquitos could wind up being deployed first in commercial agriculture, according to experts and an NGO report published Tuesday. ... more |
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Philippines commission to probe widening flood project scandal
Magnitude 7.4 quake strikes off Russian Far East, tsunami warning lifted Magnitude 7.4 quake strikes off Russian Far East, tsunami warning issued S.Sudan flooding displaces 100,000 in matter of weeks: UN Afghan deputy PM visits earthquake hit area Death toll from Indonesia flooding rises to 23 Death toll from Indonesia flash floods rises to 19 Deadly floods inundate Indonesia's Bali and Flores islands Surveillance camera captures tornado in eastern Australia Deadly floods inundate Indonesia's Bali and Flores |
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Study finds potential benefits of wildlife-livestock coexistence in East AfricaChampaign IL (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 A study of 3,588 square kilometers of privately owned land in central Kenya offers evidence that humans and their livestock can, in the right circumstances, share territory with zebras, giraffes, el ... more 
Applying auto industry's fuel-efficiency standards to agriculture could net billionsNew York NY (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 Adopting benchmarks similar to the fuel-efficiency standards used by the auto industry in the production of fertilizer could yield $5-8 billion in economic benefits for the U.S. corn sector alone, r ... more 
WSU Vancouver climate scientist sees stage set for reprise of worst known drought, faminePullman WA (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 A Washington State University researcher has completed the most thorough analysis yet of The Great Drought - the most devastating known drought of the past 800 years - and how it led to the Global F ... more 
World must slash meat consumption to save climate: studyParis (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 The world must drastically reduce its meat consumption in order to avoid devastating climate change, scientists said Wednesday in the most thorough study so far on how what we eat affects the environment. ... more 
Feeding 10 billion people by 2050 within planetary limits may be achievableStockholm, Sweden (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 A global shift towards healthy and more plant-based diets, halving food loss and waste, and improving farming practices and technologies are required to feed 10 billion people sustainably by 2050, a ... more |
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 Afghan farmers fleeing drought face more hardship in camps 
Judge mulls slashing $290 mn award in Roundup cancer caseSan Francisco (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 A judge on Wednesday was mulling whether to gut a jury order that Monsanto pay $290 million in damages for not warning a groundskeeper that its weed killer product Roundup might cause cancer. ... more  |
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Goat brigades help battle Portugal's deadly wildfiresLoriga, Portugal (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 Fernando Moura and his herd may not look like heroes but the Portuguese farmer and his 370 goats are the latest recruits in the country's battle against summer forest fires. ... more 
When yesterday's agriculture feeds today's water pollutionMontreal, Canada (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 A study led by researchers at Universite de Montreal quantifies for the first time the maximum amount of nutrients - specifically, phosphorus - that can accumulate in a watershed before additional p ... more 
Larger cities have smaller water footprint than less populated counterpartsUniversity Park PA (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 Global sustainability is important now more than ever due to increasing urban populations and the resulting stress it can have on natural resources. But increased populations in cities may lead to g ... more  
In pre-vote boost for farmers, Trump to ease ethanol fuel rulesWashington (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 The United States will raise the ethanol content level in gasoline that can be sold year round, President Donald Trump confirmed on Tuesday, delivering a win for farmers ahead of hotly contested midterm elections. ... more 
New spheres trick, trap and terminate water contaminantHouston TX (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 Rice University scientists have developed something akin to the Venus' flytrap of particles for water remediation. Micron-sized spheres created in the lab of Rice environmental engineer Pedro ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 
Over the southeast Atlantic Ocean, a 2,000-mile-long plume of smoke from African agricultural fires meets a near-permanent cloud bank offshore. Their meeting makes a natural laboratory for studying the interactions between cloud droplets and the tiny airborne smoke particles. This month, NASA's P-3 research aircraft and a team of scientists return on their third deployment to this region as part ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Oct 16, 2018 
China sent twin BeiDou-3 navigation satellites into space on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, in Sichuan Province, at 12:23 p.m. Monday.
The satellites are the 39th and 40th of the BeiDou navigation system, and the 15th and 16th of the BeiDou-3 family.
The launch was the 287th mission of the Long March carrier rocket series.
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 Paris, France (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 
It may be a small correction, but it is far from negligible as far as forest ecologists and carbon cycle specialists are concerned. The error lay in a formula established almost 50 years ago (in 1971) for calculating basic wood density. Given that basic density is used to assess the amount of carbon stored in a tree, the fact that the formula had to be corrected meant that forest carbon stocks m ... more |
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 Eindhoven, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 
World energy consumption projections expect coal to stay one of the world's main energy sources in the coming decades, and a growing share of it will be used in CTL, the conversion of coal to liquid fuels.
Researchers from the National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon Energy in Beijing and Eindhoven University of Technology have developed iron-based catalysts that substantially reduce ope ... more |
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 Daegu, South Korea (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 
A research team led by DGIST Professor Jong-Sung Yu's team at the Department of Energy Science and Engineering has successfully developed a new catalyst synthesis method that can efficiently decompose water into oxygen and hydrogen using solar light. It is expected that this method will facilitate hydrogen mass production due to higher efficiency than the existing photocatalyst method.
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 
Ingeteam reports it has opened a new facility in the vicinity of Chennai to satisfy the demand for wind power converters and control cabinets by both local and international OEMs with operations in India.
Located in the Tamil Nadu region, Ingeteam's new 3,500m2 facility is equipped with state-of-the-art production technology. The production plant in India will manufacture electrical compon ... more |
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 Buir, Germany (AFP) Oct 6, 2018 
Thousands of anti-coal demonstrators descended on Germany's Hambach forest Saturday, celebrating an unexpected court victory that suspended an energy company's planned razing of the woodland for a growing open-cast mine.
The ancient forest near Cologne has been occupied by activists for the past six years, becoming a symbol of resistance against coal mining in Germany, a country that despite ... more |
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 Shanghai (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 
A popular Chinese live-streamer has been sentenced to five days detention for "insulting" China's national anthem by waving her arms and mimicking a conductor as she sung the song during a broadcast to millions of her followers.
The woman, Yang Kaili, was detained by authorities in Shanghai Saturday for violating a national anthem law that was enacted last year.
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced plans Monday to create a new college of artificial intelligence with an initial $1 billion commitment for the program focusing on "responsible and ethical" uses of the technology.
The prestigious university said it would add 50 new faculty members and create an interdisciplinary hub for work in computer science, AI, data science, and relate ... more |
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 New Delhi (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 
Delhi's biggest coal power plant was set to shut down Monday as a new emergency plan to improve air quality in one of the world's most polluted cities came into force, Indian officials said.
Under the new strategy, restrictions on construction sites and traffic will be imposed depending on the air quality in the megacity of some 20 million people.
When the air is classed as "poor", as it ... more |
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 Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 
Traditional Indigenous burning practices are protecting plant biodiversity in Australia's Gibson Desert, according to University of Queensland research.
The study analysed how environments dominated by flammable spinifex grasses and fire-sensitive desert myrtle shrubs reacted to wildfires, and to the low-intensity burning practices of the Pintupi people.
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 9, 2018 
Oyster populations are likely to suffer, accelerating mortality rates as the effects of climate change progress, according to a new study.
The research, published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, suggests climate change - and its effects on regional climate variability, including an uptick in wet, warm winters - are likely to disrupt marine ecosystems and negativ ... more |
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 Ottawa (AFP) Sept 22, 2018 
More than 200,000 people in Canada's capital region of Ottawa were without power on Saturday and two people were critically injured after a powerful tornado ripped apart dozens of homes and threw cars into the air.
After visiting the hard-hit Dunrobin area, in the city's west, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson likened it to an aerial bombing, adding that Friday's tornado was among "the top two or thre ... more |
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 Hanoi (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 
The United States is alarmed by China's increasingly muscular military presence and "predatory economic practices" towards smaller countries in Asia, defence chief James Mattis has said on his way to the region.
Speaking as he flew out for a diplomatic tour that will take him to Vietnam and Singapore, the US Defense Secretary said Washington was not trying to hold back its Pacific rival. ... more |
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 Annapolis, MD (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 
While millions of Americans took a break from their daily routines on August 21, 2017, to witness a total solar eclipse, they might not have noticed a similar phenomenon happening nearby: In the path of totality, bees took a break from their daily routines, too.
In an unprecedented study of a solar eclipse's influence on bee behavior, researchers at the University of Missouri organized a c ... more |
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 Aarhus, Denmark (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 
We humans are exterminating animal and plant species so quickly that nature's built-in defence mechanism, evolution, cannot keep up. An Aarhus-led research team calculated that if current conservation efforts are not improved, so many mammal species will become extinct during the next five decades that nature will need 3-5 million years to recover.
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