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  Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 Some of the most useful and versatile materials today are the metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). MOFs are a class of materials demonstrating structural versatility, high porosity, fascinating optical and electronic properties, all of which makes them promising candidates for a variety of applications, including gas capture and separation, sensors, and photocatalysis. Because MOFs are so versatile in both their structural design and usefulness, material scientists are currently testing them in a numb ... read more |
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Mexico City's massive water outage extendedMexico City (AFP) Nov 6, 2018 Authorities in Mexico City said Monday they had to extend a massive water outage that has affected millions of people for five days by another 40 hours because of an infrastructure glitch. ... more 
A carbon neutral solution for desalination by tapping into geothermal sourcesFort Myers, FL (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 Water shortages are hitting some areas of the world hard, and with increasing global temperatures, more regions may be experiencing drought conditions. Countries such as Saudi Arabia rely on d ... more  
One-third of threatened plant species unfit for seed bankWashington (UPI) Nov 5, 2018 At least 36 percent of endangered plant species can't be conserved in seed banks because the seeds can't be frozen, according to a new study. ... more 
France bans popular pesticide suspected of sickening dozensParis (AFP) Nov 5, 2018 French health authorities announced Monday a permanent ban on a widely used pesticide, after alarms were raised when several dozen people fell ill in western France recently. ... 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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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 
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 
Slashed award accepted in Monsanto cancer trialSan Francisco (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 A cancer-stricken groundskeeper has accepted a slashed award in a landmark trial focused on weed-killer Roundup, setting the stage for an appeal by maker Monsanto. ... more
Millions in Mexico City see water supply cut off for daysMexico City (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 Millions of people in Mexico City were without water on Wednesday, and expected to wait at least four days as authorities undertake maintenance work on one of the major supply systems. ... more |
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 Brazil's Bolsonaro to merge environment, farm ministries 
Chocolate's origin 1,500 years earlier than thought, archaeologists findWashington (UPI) Oct 29, 2018 Researchers have made a sweet discovery: Cacao, from which chocolate is made, was grown 1,500 years earlier than previously thought, and in South America, not Central America. ... more  |
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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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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 
In the world of web mapping, the process of gathering data and making it visible on the Internet comes at great cost, along with lots of time consuming procedures and potential mistakes. For consumers, opening their favorite map app on their smartphone is convenient and easy, yet the complexity of delivering a dependable and accurate map is often underappreciated.
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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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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 
Researchers have set a new efficiency record for LEDs based on perovskite semiconductors, rivalling that of the best organic LEDs (OLEDs). Compared to OLEDs, which are widely used in high-end consumer electronics, the perovskite-based LEDs, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, can be made at much lower costs, and can be tuned to emit light across the visible and near-infrared ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Nov 5, 2018 
Wind farms act as a top "predator" in some ecosystems, harming birds at the top of the food chain and triggering a knock-on effect overlooked by green energy advocates, scientists said Monday.
Wind is the fastest-growing renewable energy sector, supplying around four percent of global electricity demand.
Close to 17 million hectares - an area roughly the size of Tunisia - is currently ... 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 5, 2018 
China's first "cyber-dissident" Huang Qi is in danger of dying under police custody if he does not receive medical treatment for a host of severe health conditions, human rights groups warned on Monday.
Huang, 55, who was arrested in 2016 for "leaking state secrets", is currently being held in Mianyang Detention Centre in southwestern Sichuan province, according to his mother.
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 Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 
Expectations for artificial intelligences are very real and very high. An analysis in Forbes projects revenues from A.I. will skyrocket from $1.62 billion in 2018 to $31.2 billion in 2025. The report also included a survey revealing 84 percent of enterprises believe investing in A.I. will lead to competitive advantages.
"It is exciting to see the tremendous successes and progress made in r ... more |
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 New Delhi (AFP) Nov 5, 2018 
Yogesh Kumar wheezes after life-saving surgery to remove a diseased lung, but his doctors wonder how long he can last outside hospital breathing some of the world's dirtiest air.
Smog is blamed for the deaths of more than one million Indians every year and Delhi - which on Monday had emergency pollution levels more than 35 times the World Health Organization safe limit - has the worst air ... 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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 Casteldaccia , Italy (AFP) Nov 4, 2018 
Floods killed 12 people on the island of Sicily, including nine members of a single family, pushing Italy's week-long storm toll beyond 30, rescuers said Sunday.
After a river burst its banks, the bodies of the family including children aged one, three and 15 were discovered in the coastal town of Casteldaccia east of the capital Palermo.
Rescue services said the house where they were sp ... 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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 Portland OR (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 
As you walk away from a campfire on a cool autumn night, you quickly feel colder. The same thing happens in outer space. As it spins, the sun continuously flings hot material into space, out to the furthest reaches of our solar system. This material, called the solar wind, is very hot close to the sun, and we expect it to cool quickly as it streams away.
Satellite observations, however, sh ... more |
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 Lucknow, India (AFP) Nov 5, 2018 
Villagers in northern India stalked and killed a tiger in a nature reserve just days after the state-sanctioned shooting of another big cat caused outrage and threats of legal action.
In the latest incident, a female tiger was beaten with sticks inside a protected forest by villagers who believed the big cat had attacked a local resident.
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