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  Columbus OH (SPX) Nov 05, 2018 The trick to boosting crops in drought-prone, food-insecure areas of West Africa could be a ubiquitous native shrub that persists in the toughest of growing conditions. Growing these shrubs side-by-side with the food crop millet increased millet production by more than 900 percent, according to a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science. A couple of decades have passed since Richard Dick, a soil scientist now at Ohio State, was traveling through rural Senegal in ... read more |
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Seed banking not an option for over a third of threatened speciesKew UK (SPX) Nov 05, 2018 In paper published in Nature Plants, researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, detail for the first time the scale of threatened species that are unable to be conserved in seed banks. The paper ... more 
Thousands of carp die in mysterious circumstances in IraqSaddat Al-Hindiyah, Iraq (AFP) Nov 3, 2018 Iraqi fish farmers south of Baghdad have been left reeling after finding thousands of dead carp mysteriously floating in their cages or washed up on the banks of the Euphrates. ... more  
Perilous times for Australia wildlife amid severe droughtBooligal, Australia (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 From abandoned baby kangaroos to wallabies being blinded by the sun and koalas having to go walkabout to look for eucalyptus leaves, Australia's exotic wild animals are struggling to adapt to a crippling drought. ... more  
Two-thirds of remaining wilderness on Earth located in five countriesWashington (UPI) Nov 1, 2018 Human activity is destroying the world's last wildernesses, and what's left is concentrated in a handful of locations on Earth. ... 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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Cypriot farmers fear no-deal Brexit may hit livelihoodsAvdimou, Cyprus (AFP) Oct 30, 2018 Olive farmer Andreas Fotiou steered carefully along a dusty lane in southwest Cyprus, en route from his village to nearby groves - locations that could have clashing trade regimes, post-Brexit. ... more  
Sierra Leone's chimpanzees pay price of human expansionFreetown (AFP) Oct 30, 2018 They have their hands full at the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary, where record numbers of orphaned chimps are being delivered to their care, victims of the relentless expansion of human activity. ... more 
'Big dry' drags on as Australia sets up drought-proof fundSydney (AFP) Oct 26, 2018 Australia is setting up a billion-dollar fund to "future proof" the country against droughts, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Friday, as farmers struggle with a "big dry" forecast to continue for months. ... more 
France suspends use of popular pesticide after dozens sickenedParis (AFP) Oct 26, 2018 The French government on Friday ordered a three-month ban of a widely used pesticide after dozens of people, many of them farm workers, fell ill in western France in recent weeks. ... more  
A Chinese farmer couldn't fly a plane, so he built oneBeijing (AFP) Oct 26, 2018 When a Chinese garlic farmer's dream of flying an airplane didn't pan out, he decided to build one instead. ... more |
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ElekTrik Zoo wins best short film with Locked at 6th GNG Green Earth Film FestivalLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 Locked is a film about a contentious century-long battle between big commerce and the Louisiana wetlands. The power of Blue Oyster Cult shines when they repeat, "History shows again and again how na ... more  |
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Drought cripples crucial German waterwaysCologne, Germany (AFP) Oct 23, 2018 The docks are eerily quiet at Cologne's main port on the mighty River Rhine, with hundreds of containers piled up and awaiting their journey north on one of Europe's busiest commercial arteries. ... more 
A topical gel to protect farmers from lethal effects of pesticidesBangalore, India (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 Farmers are exposed to toxic pesticides, through skin contact and inhalation, during the spraying of pesticides. This is a severe health hazard. In the last year, from the Vidharbha region in Mahara ... 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 
Judge slashes award but upholds verdict in Monsanto cancer trialSan Francisco (AFP) Oct 23, 2018 A San Francisco judge on Monday upheld a jury verdict that found Monsanto liable for not warning a groundskeeper that its weed killer product Roundup might cause cancer, but slashed the damages award. ... more 
'Himalayan Viagra' under threat from climate change: researchersWashington (AFP) Oct 22, 2018 A prized caterpillar fungus that is more valuable than gold and is nicknamed "Himalayan Viagra" in Asia, where it is seen as a wonder drug, is becoming harder to find due to climate change, researchers said Monday. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 05, 2018 
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission has resumed collecting science-quality data and planned in-orbit checks after successfully completing a switchover to a backup system in the microwave instrument (MWI) on one of the mission's twin spacecraft.
The in-orbit checks include calibrations and other system tests, and are expected to continue until January, w ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Nov 05, 2018 
China's home-grown global satellite navigation system came a step closer to completion Thursday with the launch of another BeiDou-3 satellite at 11:57 p.m. from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, in the southwestern Sichuan Province.
Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket, it is the 41st of the BeiDou navigation system, and will work with 16 other Beidou-3 satellites already in orbit ... more |
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 Rome (AFP) Nov 3, 2018 
Fierce winds and rains have killed at least 20 people in Italy this week and razed thousands of hectares of forest in the country's devastated north, officials said.
An 87-year-old woman and a 62-year-old German tourist were killed Friday after being struck by lightning in Sardinia.
It brings to 20 the number of people killed by bad weather in Italy since the start of the week, accordin ... more |
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 Kanazawa, Japan (SPX) Nov 05, 2018 
Alcohols play a pivotal role in organic synthesis because they are ubiquitous and can be used in a variety of well-established transformations. However, in C-C bond formation reactions, despite being central to organic synthesis, alcohols are mostly employed in an indirect fashion. Many alcohol-based reactions necessitate tedious pre-transformation of the hydroxy group (C-OH) to other functional ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 05, 2018 
Australia's solar industry smashed multiple records in September, crossing 10 gigawatts of installed solar, the most solar registered in a month, and registering two of the country's largest solar farms, new analysis from the Australian Photovoltaic Institute (APVI) shows.
Analysing data from the Clean Energy Regulator, APVI found that Australia now has 10.1GW of installed solar, which is ... more |
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 Warsaw (AFP) Nov 4, 2018 
Restrictive legislation introduced by Poland's right-wing government in 2016 threw a spanner into the works for onshore wind energy, but the easing of some measures now promises to get the sector spinning.
The change comes ahead of the COP24 World Climate Conference that opens December 2 in the southern Polish city of Katowice, a coal mining hub long among the main providers of the country's ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 
Coal-fired power plants operating and under construction in Asia pose a threat to achieving the goal of halting global warming, the head of the International Energy Agency told the Financial Times on Wednesday.
The coal burning plants would "lock in the emissions trajectory of the world, full stop," IEA chief Fatih Birol told the newspaper in an interview.
Last year, greenhouse gas emiss ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Nov 2, 2018  Chinese President Xi Jinping greeted his Dominican counterpart Danilo Medina with a raft of economic deals in Beijing on Friday, meeting a Latin American leader who recently diplomatically ditched Taiwan for a second consecutive day.
Xi met Medina at the opulent Great Hall of the People, where they reviewed Chinese troops before holding talks, a day after treating El Salvador's president to ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 
Your credit card company contacts you asking if you've purchased something from a retailer you don't normally patronize or spent more than usual. A human didn't identify the atypical transaction. A computer - equipped with advanced algorithms - tagged the potentially fraudulent purchase and triggered the inquiry.
Researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, thi ... more |
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 New Delhi (AFP) Nov 2, 2018 
Rajesh Tyagi stands outside his decades-old fireworks stall in Delhi's old quarter, fuming over a court ruling that allows him to sell only "eco-friendly" fireworks for the Indian capital's largest festival.
"There is no such thing as a green firecracker in India," says an exasperated Tyagi, in an empty alleyway usually buzzing with customers buying rockets and bangers ahead of Diwali, the H ... 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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 Washington (UPI) Nov 2, 2018 
Some coral reefs have a stronger genetic makeup to fight off bleaching, a recent study said.
Researchers recently discovered that so-called "robust" coral, which includes certain brain corals and mushroom corals, are capable of producing special amino acids that prevent bleaching.
Other coral, like "complex" coral, have a special relationship with microalgae called Symbiodinium, ... 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) Nov 2, 2018 
President Donald Trump said Friday that he expects a budding US-China trade war to end with "a very good deal."
"I think we will make a deal with China," he told journalists at the White House. "I think a very good deal will be made with China."
Markets have soared on reports that the two sides are closing in on a deal that would avoid Washington piling on still more tariffs against Chin ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 30, 2018 
Parker Solar Probe now holds the record for closest approach to the Sun by a human-made object. The spacecraft passed the current record of 26.55 million miles from the Sun's surface on Oct. 29, 2018, at about 1:04 p.m. EDT, as calculated by the Parker Solar Probe team.
The previous record for closest solar approach was set by the German-American Helios 2 spacecraft in April 1976. As the P ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Oct 31, 2018  More than 70 percent of Earth's last untouched wilderness lies in the territories of just five countries, scientists said Wednesday - mostly nations that alarm environmentalists with their lukewarm response to climate change.
True wild spaces - land and sea areas mostly unaffected by mankind's explosive expansion and insatiable appetite for food and natural resources - now cover just a qu ... more |
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