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  Bras�lia (AFP) Aug 9, 2019 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro suggested Friday that people "poop every other day" as a way to save the environment, after he came under fire for a surge in deforestation of the Amazon since he came to power. The far-right leader offered this idea in response to a journalist's question as to whether it was possible to simultaneously spur economic growth, feed the world's hungry and also preserve the environment. "It's enough to eat a little less. You talk about environmental pollution. It's ... read more |
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NASA gauges plant stress in Costa Rican droughtPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 09, 2019 NASA's ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) has imaged the stress on Costa Rican vegetation caused by a massive regional drought that led the Central Ameri ... more 
Installing solar panels on agricultural lands maximizes their efficiencyCorvallis OR (SPX) Aug 09, 2019 The most productive places on Earth for solar power are farmlands, according to an Oregon State University study. The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, finds that if less tha ... more 
EU agriculture not viable for the futureLeipzig, Germany (SPX) Aug 05, 2019 The current reform proposals of the EU Commission on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) are unlikely to improve environmental protection, say researchers led by the German Centre for Integrative B ... more 
Agriculture's secret weapon: empowering womenGeneva (AFP) Aug 6, 2019 Women farmers face the brunt of the threat posed by climate change, yet they may hold the key to helping limit its fallout, according to a landmark UN report to be released this week. ... more |
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IMF approves $206 mn aid to Sri Lanka after Cyclone Ditwah
Flights cancelled, roads flooded as rare storm soaks UAE Sri Lanka plans $1.6 bn in cyclone recovery spending in 2026 Brazil megacity Sao Paulo struck by fresh water crisis Indonesians reeling from flood devastation plea for global help Levee break near Seattle prompts evacuation order Flash flood kills dozens in Morocco town At least 20 dead in eastern Bolivia floods Press Release from Business Wire: Textron Inc. Flash floods kill 37 in Moroccan coastal town |
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Chinese firms learn to adapt as US trade war ragesBeijing (AFP) Aug 12, 2019 Export-reliant Chinese companies are slashing prices, moving production abroad, creating new domestic markets and even rebranding goods as they try to survive the escalating trade war with the United States. ... more 
Humanity's next test: feed 10 billion without ruining EarthParis (AFP) Aug 2, 2019 Experts Friday began negotiating the most comprehensive scientific assessment ever of the role the land we live off plays in climate change, expected to highlight the stark choices humanity faces to feed 10 billion people while preserving Nature. ... more  
New wood membrane provides sustainable alternative for water filtrationPrinceton NJ (SPX) Aug 05, 2019 Inspired by the intricate system of water circulating in a tree, a team of researchers led by Princeton University, have figured out how to use a thin slice of wood as a membrane through which water ... more 
Solar panels cast shade on agriculture in a good wayWashington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2019 Imagine you are a farmer struggling to keep up with production demands because of the increasingly stressful climate. Or perhaps you are a producer of renewable energy struggling with dramatic heat ... more 
China firms stop purchases of US farm produce: state mediaBeijing (AFP) Aug 5, 2019 Chinese firms have stopped buying US farm produce, state media said Tuesday, following US President Donald Trump's vow to put more tariffs on imports from China. ... more |
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 Overturning the truth on conservation tillage 
Buzz kill: mass bee deaths sting Russian beekeepersBobrovka, Russia (AFP) Aug 1, 2019 Anatoly Rubtsov looked despondently at the beehives lining his property. "The farm used to be loud, it sang," he said. Today just a faint buzz is audible but an overpowering rotting stench hung in the air after his bees were likely poisoned by a pesticide. ... more  |
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Quarter of world's population facing extreme water stressWashington (AFP) Aug 6, 2019 Nearly a quarter of the world's population lives in 17 countries facing extremely high water stress, close to "day zero" conditions when the taps run dry, according to a report released Tuesday. ... more 
China says has begun purchase of more US farm goodsBeijing (AFP) Aug 1, 2019 China said Thursday that it had begun purchasing more US farm goods, addressing a key sticking point in efforts to resolve a drawn-out trade war between the two economic giants. ... more 
To conserve water, Indian farmers fire up air pollutionIthaca NY (SPX) Jul 31, 2019 A measure to conserve groundwater in northwestern India has led to unexpected consequences: added air pollution in an area already beset by haze and smog. A new study reveals how water-use pol ... more 
Microbial manufacturing: Genetic engineering breakthrough for urban farmingSingapore (SPX) Jul 26, 2019 Researchers at SMART, MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, and National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a technology that greatly accelerates the genetic engineering of microbes that ... more 
Water meant for Puerto Rican hurricane victims dumped on farmlandSan Juan (AFP) July 29, 2019 Tens of thousands of water bottles destined for desperate Puerto Ricans after devastating back-to-back hurricanes slammed into the US island territory remain unopened on farmland almost two years later, emergency aid officials confirmed Monday. ... more |
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 Madison WI (SPX) Aug 08, 2019 
Earth's magnetic field seems steady and true - reliable enough to navigate by.
Yet, largely hidden from daily life, the field drifts, waxes and wanes. The magnetic North Pole is currently careening toward Siberia, which recently forced the Global Positioning System that underlies modern navigation to update its software sooner than expected to account for the shift.
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 Schriever AFB CO (SPX) Aug 05, 2019 
Lockheed Martin presented the 2nd Space Operations Squadron with a GPS Block III model satellite to celebrate the successful on-orbit testing of the new GPS III satellite at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, July 29.
Staff Sgt. Joseph Wood, 2nd SOPS mission chief, said the model is a physical representation of the modernization underway.
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 Los Angeles (AFP) Aug 8, 2019 
Joshua trees, an iconic species of the arid southwestern United States, may totally disappear by the end of the century because of climate change, according to a new study.
A team from the University of California at Riverside used data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to assess the impact of warming on the distribution of Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) in their namesake ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 09, 2019 
As an alternative to traditional fossil fuels, biofuels represent a more environmentally friendly and sustainable fuel source. Plant or animal fats can be converted to biofuels through a process called transesterification.
In particular, the storage molecule triacylglycerol (TAG), found in microscopic algae, is one of the most promising sources of fat for biofuel production, as microalgae ... more |
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 St. Louis MO (SPX) Jul 31, 2019 
Solar panel installations are on the rise in the U.S., with more than 2 million new installations in early 2019, the most ever recorded in a first quarter, according to a recent report by Solar Energy Industries Association and Wood Mackenzie Power and Renewables.
To meet the ever-increasing demands, low-cost and more efficient alternatives to silicon-based solar cells - currently the most ... more |
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 Lake Turkana, Kenya (AFP) July 19, 2019 
Kenya on Friday formally launched Africa's biggest wind power plant, a mammoth project in a gusty stretch of wilderness that already provides nearly a fifth of the country's energy needs.
The $680-million (600 million euro) scheme, a sprawling 365-turbine wind farm on the eastern shores of Lake Turkana, is delivering 310 megawatts of renewable power to the national grid of East Africa's most ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) July 22, 2019 
A French television crew filming a protest against a newly approved Indian-owned coal mine was arrested by Australian police Monday and charged with trespassing.
Construction of the Adani project near the Great Barrier Reef has been under fierce debate for almost a decade, with environmentalists warning that fossil fuels damage the climate.
France 2 reporter Hugo Clement and three member ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 7, 2019  Hong Kong lawyers held a silent march in support of anti-government protesters on Wednesday, highlighting the movement's enduring broad appeal despite increasingly ominous warnings from Beijing.
Hundreds of lawyers dressed in black marched under the scorching sun from the city's highest court to the justice secretary's office.
The rally came as daily demonstrations have become increasing ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Aug 12, 2019 
Generally speaking, most people find the idea of workers being replaced by robots or software worse than if the jobs are taken over by other workers. But when their own jobs are at stake, people would rather prefer to be replaced by robots than by another employee. That is the conclusion of a study by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Erasmus University in Rotterdam.
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 Taranto, Italy (AFP) Aug 11, 2019  Rock climbers scale a giant canopy in Taranto to build the world's biggest iron-ore park cover as steel giant ArcelorMittal strives to clean up and turn around Italy's most polluting plant.
Beyond the factory lie the sea and sandy beaches, though only hardy souls dare to swim or eat mussels farmed here.
The site in southern Italy's Puglia region, formerly owned by Ilva, is at the heart o ... more |
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 Amherst MA (SPX) Aug 09, 2019 
A team of environmental scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and China has for the first time used a dynamic, two-step process to completely degrade a common flame-retardant chemical, rendering the persistent global pollutant nontoxic.
This new process breaks down tetrabromobisohenol A (TBBPA) to harmless carbon dioxide and water. The discovery highlights the potential o ... more |
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 Luxembourg (SPX) Aug 08, 2019 
Kleos Space S.A. (ASX: KSS, Frankfurt: KS1), a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data provider, announces that it will collaborate with Spire Global, one of the world's largest space to cloud analytics companies. Kleos and Spire will collaborate to combine
Spire AIS data with KLEOS RF data to create a new shared capability to bring safety at sea. Kleos and Spire have entered int ... more |
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 The Hague (AFP) Aug 9, 2019 
Nearly 400 more people died in the Netherlands than normal during a record-breaking heatwave that swept Europe last month, the country's statistics agency said Friday.
Dutch temperatures soared to a new high of 40.4C on July 25, breaking a record dating back to 1944 and rising above the 40C mark for the first time since records began.
In total 2,964 people died in the week from July 22 t ... more |
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 New York (AFP) Aug 7, 2019  The cost of President Donald Trump's latest tariffs on Chinese goods will either be passed on to consumers, or taken from profits, several US companies said Wednesday.
"The American people are being misled by this administration that China is paying for these tariffs. This is a tax on them, or on the businesses that are bringing products to America," said Win Cramer, chief executive of Jlab ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 09, 2019 
The Magnetospheric Multiscale mission - MMS - has spent the past four years using high-resolution instruments to see what no other spacecraft can. Recently, MMS made the first high-resolution measurements of an interplanetary shock.
These shocks, made of particles and electromagnetic waves, are launched by the Sun. They provide ideal test beds for learning about larger universal phenomena, ... more |
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 Toulouse, France (AFP) Aug 6, 2019  Around 100 mayors and other officials from towns on the French side of the Pyrenees mountains protested on Tuesday to demand the removal of all bears, saying the re-introduction of the predators has threatened shepherds' livelihoods.
"There's no longer any place for bears," Henri Nayrou, council head for the Ariege area, told the gathering in Toulouse, according to an AFP journalist at the s ... more |
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