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| October 09, 2013 |
 Typhoon Fitow kills 10 in east China province Beijing (AFP) Oct 09, 2013 - Ten people have died after a typhoon slammed into China's east coast, including a family of three who were all killed by electric shocks, state media reported Wednesday. Five others are still missing after Typhoon Fitow brought heavy rains to Zhejiang province, Xinhua news agency reported, citing local authorities. Fitow made landfall early Monday, affecting about seven million people ... more |  |
 Southeast Asia agrees anti-haze system Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei (AFP) Oct 09, 2013 - Southeast Asian leaders on Wednesday approved a new system aimed at cracking down on illegal forest fires blamed for the region's worst smog crisis in years. The Haze Monitoring System, developed by Singapore, is intended to hold plantation companies accountable for controversial land clearance activities which cause the annual fires. It will use land concession maps and high-resolution ... more |  |
 No Fukushima radiation effect on bulls Tokyo (AFP) Oct 09, 2013 - The testes and sperm of bulls abandoned in the evacuation zone around the battered Fukushima nuclear plant were not affected by chronic exposure to radiation, a Japanese academic study has found. The work provides crucial data to scientists and public policy advisers on the possible impact of the reactor meltdowns on human - and especially reproductive - health, two-and-a-half years after ... more |  |
 Fossil bird from 125 million years ago shows some dinosaur traits Beijing (UPI) Oct 8, 2013 - A bird 125 million years ago had two distinct kinds of feathers, resembling those of non-flying feathered reptiles and modern birds, Chinese researchers say. A new analysis of the fossil Jeholornis, first described more than a decade ago, revealed a previously unrecognized second group of flight feathers at the base of its tail, Zhonghe Zhou of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology a ... more |  |
 European satellites included in test of search-and-rescue system Paris (UPI) Oct 8, 2013 - A pair of dedicated ground stations at opposite ends of Europe will let satellites participate in global testing of a search-and-rescue system, scientists say. The completion of the Maspalomas station at the southern end of the largest island of the Canary Islands, linked with the Svalbard site on Spitsbergen in the Norwegian arctic, has enabled Europe's Galileo global positioning syste ... more |  |
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 Kenya seizes 4 tonnes of ivory as elephant slaughter surges Nairobi (AFP) Oct 09, 2013 - Kenyan customs officers have seized almost four tonnes of elephant ivory in two separate shipments, officials said Wednesday, amid a surge in poaching of the threatened animals. One haul of ivory weighing some 1,900 kilogrammes (4,200 pounds) was discovered Friday at the Indian Ocean port city of Mombasa, hidden under bags of sesame seeds, said Kenya Revenue Authority official Fatma Yusuf. ... more |  |
Delegates pay tribute at Japan's mercury poison site Tokyo (AFP) Oct 09, 2013 - Delegates from around the world paid tribute Wednesday to the hundreds of Japanese who were killed by decades-long mercury dumping as they gathered at the site of the country's worst industrial poisoning. Representatives from 140 countries and territories laid flowers at a monument to the dead at Minamata in southern Japan, before the signing on Thursday of an international treaty to control ... more |  |
 US Chinatowns risk disappearance: study Washington (AFP) Oct 09, 2013 - Faced with a proliferation of luxury housing and chain stores, America's Chinatowns risk extinction as new immigrants are priced out of city centers, an advocacy group said Wednesday. A study found that foreign-born residents have become a minority in the Chinatowns of New York, Boston and Philadelphia. The number of white residents has grown in all three neighborhoods since 1990 even as the ... more |  |
 Alarming suicide rates among Brazil's Guarani Indians Sao Paulo (AFP) Oct 09, 2013 - Survival International, a non-profit which champions the rights of indigenous people around the world, on Wednesday highlighted alarming suicide rates among Brazil's tiny Guarani Indian tribe. "The tribe faces a suicide rate at least 34 times the national average due to the loss of their ancestral lands and constant attacks by gunmen," the London-based group said in a statement. Guarani ... more |  |
 Radical climate change just around the corner: study Paris (AFP) Oct 09, 2013 - Earth may experience a radically different climate already within 34 years, forever changing life as we know it, said a study Wednesday that aims to bring the dangers of global warming into sharper focus. On current trends of greenhouse-gas emissions, 2047 will mark the year at which the climate at most places on Earth will shift beyond documented extremes, it said. This date is pushed b ... more |  |
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 US shutdown puts freeze on Antarctic research Wellington (AFP) Oct 09, 2013 - The government shutdown in Washington has forced US bases half a world away in Antarctica to suspend research as they go into "caretaker" mode, the National Science Foundation (NSF)said Wednesday. In an unprecedented development that scientists described as "tragic", the US-based foundation said logistical support funding for the US Antarctic Program (USAP) will dry up early next week and co ... more |  |
 University teams with industry to build deep-sea submersible Seattle (UPI) Oct 9, 2013 - University of Washington researchers say they're helping build an innovative five-person submarine that would travel nearly 2 miles below the ocean's surface. The Cyclops submersible, built in collaboration with Everett, Wash., submersible company OceanGate, will take passengers to 9,842 feet - deeper than all but a handful of existing subs - when it is completed in 2016, the universi ... more |  |
Vietnam seizes two tonnes of illegal ivory Hanoi (AFP) Oct 09, 2013 - Vietnam has seized two tonnes of illegal elephant tusks found stashed in bags of shells being shipped to China, state media reported Wednesday. Customs officials found the tusks in a shipping container that had been transported to the northern port city of Hai Phong from Malaysia, according to the state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper. "The shipment is supposed to be transferred by road to the La ... more |  |
Smart smoke alarm can speak, warn of smoke, carbon monoxide Palo Alto, Calif. (UPI) Oct 8, 2013 - U.S. company Nest Labs, makers of a so-called smart home thermostat, says its latest product - a smoke alarm - has similar smarts. The Nest Protect alarm can also warn of toxic carbon monoxide, the company said in a release. It is intended to mitigate some of the annoyances of current detectors - false alarms from cooking smoke, middle-of-the-night chirps from low batteries -- ... more |  |
Chinese court agrees to hear Bo Xilai appeal Beijing (AFP) Oct 09, 2013 - A Chinese court said Wednesday it would hear an appeal by fallen Communist Party star Bo Xilai, who was convicted of bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power last month and jailed for life. Appeals in such high-profile cases are rare in China's tightly controlled courts. The move could be another act of defiance by the populist ex-politician - who mounted a feisty defence at his trial - ... more |  |
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 Azerbaijan leader smashes rivals in landslide poll win Baku (AFP) Oct 09, 2013 - Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday sealed an overwhelming election victory to secure a third term and further extend his family's decades-long rule, in a vote rejected as illegitimate by the sidelined opposition. Aliyev scored a crushing win in the tightly-controlled ex-Soviet state with almost 85 percent of the vote, with main opposition challenger Jamil Hasanli in distant seco ... more |  |
Government shutdown threatens U.S. antarctic research Washington (UPI) Oct 9, 2013 - The National Science Foundation says it will shift its antarctic research programs into caretaker mode if the U.S. government shutdown continues past Monday. The foundation, in spite of its name, is a government agency that, among other things, oversees U.S. antarctic research. That includes coordinating ships and aircraft that get researchers and their equipment to the continent. ... more |  |
 Accused Silk Road mastermind to be sent to New York for trial San Francisco (AFP) Oct 09, 2013 - A US judge on Wednesday ordered the accused mastermind of the nefarious online black market Silk Road sent to New York to stand trial. Ross William Ulbricht, speaking through a defense attorney, put off seeking bail and agreed to be taken back to the city where federal criminal charges against him were filed. However, he denies being the infamous "Dread Pirate Roberts" who ran the underg ... more |  |
Unlocking Biology With Math Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2013 - Scientists at USC have created a mathematical model that explains and predicts the biological process that creates antibody diversity - the phenomenon that keeps us healthy by generating robust immune systems through hypermutation. The work is a collaboration between Myron Goodman, professor of biological sciences and chemistry at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; and ... more |  |
Plastic waste is a hazard for subalpine lakes too London, UK (SPX) Oct 09, 2013 - Many subalpine lakes may look beautiful and even pristine, but new evidence suggests they may also be contaminated with potentially hazardous plastics. Researchers say those tiny microplastics are likely finding their way into the food web through a wide range of freshwater invertebrates too. The findings, based on studies of Italy's Lake Garda and reported on October 7th in Current Biolog ... more |  |
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