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  Berlin (AFP) Oct 19, 2018 Months of drought have left water levels on Germany's Rhine river at a record low, exposing a World War II bomb and forcing ship operators to halt services to prevent vessels from running aground. The water level on the Rhine on Friday reached just 77 centimetres (30 inches), 4 cm below a previous record low of 81 cm recorded in 2003, Cologne's waterworks authorities said. Although rainfall is expected next week, forecasters said it would not suffice to bring up water levels in Germany's most im ... read more |
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Syracuse geologists contribute to new understanding of Mekong River incisionSyracuse NY (SPX) Oct 22, 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  
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 
Chile denies a glacier spat has chilled ties to ArgentinaSantiago (AFP) Oct 20, 2018 Chilean President Sebastian Pinera on Saturday insisted he had no problem with Argentina despite its claim to extensive Patagonian glaciers along the joint but unmarked border. ... more  
Summer drought may shrink supplies of French spudsWarhem, France (AFP) Oct 18, 2018 It's harvest time and the chips are down for potato producers in northern France where a long summer drought could see French spuds shrink in size and volume. ... more |
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Philippines digs out from Typhoon Fung-wong as death toll climbs to 18
Three Vietnam men survive 40 hours at sea after typhoon Typhoon Fung-wong floods Philippine towns, leaves 5 dead in its wake Typhoon Fung-wong leaves flooded Philippine towns in its wake Typhoon exposes centuries-old shipwreck off Vietnam port 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 |
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Flexible fertilizer regulations could reduce pollution, save billionsPrinceton NK (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 As the global population continues to increase, so will food production. This means increased use of fertilizers, and many on today's market are not environmentally friendly. To reduce polluti ... 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 
Study finds potential benefits of wildlife-livestock coexistence in East AfricaChampaign IL (SPX) Oct 18, 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 
Diversity is key to sustainability for local chicken farming in AfricaLiverpool UK (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 Adopting a more local and flexible approach to sustainable development could be key to boosting the productivity of small-scale chicken farms in Africa, a new study reports. Research led by th ... more 
The science of sustainabilityBoulder 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 betwee ... more |
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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  |
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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  
Afghan farmers fleeing drought face more hardship in campsHerat, Afghanistan (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 For only the second time in his life, Afghan farmer Murad Khan Ishaqzai has been forced to leave the home where he was born 80 years ago - not by war but the worst drought in living memory. ... more 
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  
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 |
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 Cambridge, Canada (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 
exactEarth Ltd. reports the Government of Canada will make an investment of $7.2 million over three-years to support the development, management and expansion of exactView RT, the Company's real-time Satellite-AIS service.
The investment is being made through the GoC's Strategic Innovation Fund ("SIF"), a program designed to support businesses across all sectors of the economy by encouragi ... 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 19, 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 18, 2018 
The Brazilian production of electricity from biomass, mostly produced from sugar cane material and then fed into the country's power grid, increased 11 percent during January-August from a year earlier.
The country's association of sugar cane producers, know as Unica for its Portuguese acronym, said that the total biomass generation from January to August has reached 17,291 gigawatt-hou ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 
Solar power accounts for less than 2 percent of U.S. electricity but could make up more than that if the cost of electricity generation and energy storage for use on cloudy days and at nighttime were cheaper.
A Purdue University-led team developed a new material and manufacturing process that would make one way to use solar power - as heat energy - more efficient in generating electricity. ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 
Global sustainable energy consultancy, K2 Management, has launched a report titled; Pre-Construction Projects: The battle to reduce uncertainty and improve business case bankability, at the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) Offshore WINDPOWER 2018 Conference, which kicked off in Washington, D.C.
The report identifies major project development trends in the fast-growing renewables sec ... 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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 Beijing (AFP) Oct 19, 2018 
The wife of fallen former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei has expressed fears for his life and her own safety, lashing out at what she called the "cruel" and "dirty" Chinese government that arrested him in mysterious circumstances.
The comments by Grace Meng in a BBC interview represent a rare and extraordinarily blunt level of criticism of China's government by the victims of Beijing's tough cr ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Oct 18, 2018 
Forget the flashy humanoids with their gymnastics skills: at the World Robot Summit in Tokyo, the focus was on down-to-earth robots that can deliver post, do the shopping and build a house.
Introducing CarriRo, a delivery robot shaped a bit like a toy London bus with bright, friendly "eyes" on its front that can zip around the streets delivering packages at 6km/h (4 miles per hour).
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 Tokyo (AFP) Oct 18, 2018 
Japan said Thursday it was facing a growing sea of plastic waste with limited capacity to process it after China stopped accepting foreign waste imports.
The environment ministry said about a quarter of major regional and municipal governments surveyed reported seeing accumulating plastic waste, sometimes going beyond sanitary standards.
The costs of processing waste plastic were rising, ... more |
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 Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Oct 18, 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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 Pohang, South Korea (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 
Changes in Atlantic Ocean sea surface temperatures can be used to predict extreme climatic variations known as El Nino and La Nina more than a year in advance, according to research conducted at Korea's Pohang University of Science and Technology and published in the journal Scientific Reports.
The El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an irregular, periodic variation in trade winds and s ... more |
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 DeKalb IL (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 
A new study finds that over the past four decades, tornado frequency has increased over a large swath of the Midwest and Southeast and decreased in portions of the central and southern Great Plains, a region traditionally associated with Tornado Alley.
The study, by meteorology professor Victor Gensini of Northern Illinois University and Harold Brooks of NOAA's National Severe Storms Labor ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 17, 2018 
Beijing is not a currency manipulator but China's exchange rate practices and the yuan's recent decline are of "particular concern," US Treasury Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday.
In putting Beijing and five other US trading partners on notice, the Treasury again refrained from escalating a fight over China's currency as US President Donald Trump had once pledged to do on the campaign trail.
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 20, 2018 
What does it sound like when solar storms collide with Earth's magnetosphere? Students in London are helping scientists find out.
Earth's magnetic field features a near-constant cacophony of low-frequency sound waves - too low-pitched to be discernible to the human ear. But by speeding up audio recordings of the magnetosphere, researchers at London's Queen Mary University made the soun ... more |
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 Johannesburg (AFP) Oct 21, 2018 
Two of six critically endangered black rhinos have died of unknown causes five months after being flown from South Africa to Chad in a pioneering project to re-introduce the animals, officials said Sunday.
Rhinos in Chad were wiped out by poaching nearly 50 years ago, and the six rhinos were intended to establish a new population in the country after intensive anti-poaching measures were put ... more |
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