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| January 22, 2014 |
 NASA Searches for Climate Change Clues in the Gateway to the Stratosphere Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - NASA's uncrewed Global Hawk research aircraft is in the western Pacific region on a mission to track changes in the upper atmosphere and help researchers understand how these changes affect Earth's climate. Deployed from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., the Global Hawk landed at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam Thursday at approximately 5 p.m. EST and will begin scie ... more |  |
 Get used to heat waves: Extreme El Nino events to double Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - Extreme weather events fuelled by unusually strong El Ninos, such as the 1983 heatwave that led to the Ash Wednesday bushfires in Australia, are likely to double in number as our planet warms. An international team of scientists from organisations including the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (CoECSS), the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and CSIRO, pu ... more |  |
2013 another unusually warm year across globe, US says Washington (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - Last year was among a handful of the warmest on record since 1880, according to US government figures out Tuesday that provide more evidence that the planet is heating up. Human-caused pollution and the burning of fossil fuels such as oil and coal have driven up greenhouse gas levels, leading to this long-term rise in temperatures, said the US space agency NASA. Carbon dioxide is at its ... more |  |
 Greenland PM says 'natural' to want independence Oslo (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - Prime Minister Aleqa Hammond said on Tuesday it was "natural" for Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, to want independence. "Our path towards independence is a natural path for people that have been colonised before," Hammond said at the Arctic Frontiers conference in Norway. "I want Greenland to have a self-sustaining economy based on our own resources, with a greater degree ... more |  |
Romania suspends hydropower projects in protected areas Bucharest (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - Romania will suspend new hydropower projects in protected areas in a bid to preserve biodiversity, authorities and the conservationist group WWF said Tuesday. The planned construction of thousands of small-scale hydropower stations across the Carpathian mountains in eastern Europe threatens hundreds of streams and rivers, the WWF has warned for years. The building frenzy has been prompt ... more |  |
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Slowing of Atlantic currents could bring changes in Europe's climate Reading, England (UPI) Jan 21, 2013 - Major currents in the North Atlantic Ocean seem to be slowing down, British researchers say, which could have major impacts on weather in the United Kingdom. A recently measured slowdown of 10 to 15 percent may be part of larger decline that began in the 1990s and shows no sign of stopping yet, scientists at the University of Reading reported Tuesday. The Atlantic Meridional Over ... more |  |
Glaciers may have survived in Scotland more recently than thought Dundee, Scotland (UPI) Jan 21, 2013 - A glacier may have still been in place in Scotland within the past 400 years, 11,000 years more recently than previously thought, a geographer has suggested. Martin Kirkbride of Dundee University said a glacier may have survived in the Cairngorms mountain range in the eastern Highlands of Scotland in the 18th century, despite the common belief the last of the Britain's slow-moving ice a ... more |  |
 Air pollution boosts NW Pacific cyclones: study Paris (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - Surging air pollution from China and other fast-growing Asian economies has intensified winter cyclones in the northwest Pacific, scientists said Tuesday. Winter cyclones in latitudes including northwestern China, Korea and Japan have packed stronger winds and more rain as a result of rising levels of particulate pollution, they said. The dusty fallout affects how moisture develops in cl ... more |  |
 'Hypocritical crackdown' on China corruption activists: Amnesty Beijing (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - Amnesty International condemned Tuesday the forthcoming trials of eight anti-corruption activists in China, calling them "hypocritical" and saying they highlighted flaws in the ruling Communist Party's much-publicised anti-graft campaign. Starting Wednesday with the case of Xu Zhiyong, one of China's most prominent current dissidents, the eight New Citizens Movement members face possible fiv ... more |  |
 US envoy should visit Taiji to see dolphin hunt: official Tokyo (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - The US ambassador to Japan should visit Taiji to see the "humane" killing methods used in the dolphin hunt, a local fisheries official said Tuesday, days after Caroline Kennedy tweeted her disapproval of the slaughter. His comments came as campaigners watching the hunt said the killing was under way, adding that the waters of the cove were red with the dolphins' blood. The official, who ... more |  |
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 Philippines bans China poultry imports due to bird flu Manila (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - The Philippines said Tuesday it has banned imports of poultry and related products from China after it confirmed an outbreak of the HN52 strain of bird flu in the northern province of Hebei. The embargo issued by Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala, covers all domestic and wild birds as well as eggs and even semen from poultry originating in China. The agriculture ministry decided to en ... more |  |
New sea anemone species discovered in Antarctica Washington DC (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, while using a camera-equipped robot to survey the area under Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, unexpectedly discovered a new species of small sea anemones that were burrowed into the ice, their tentacles protruding into frigid water like flowers from a ceiling. "The pictures blew my mind, it was really an amazing find," said Marymegan Daly, a ... more |  |
 Typhoid Fever - A race against time Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - The life-threatening disease typhoid fever results from the ongoing battle between the bacterial pathogen Salmonella and the immune cells of the body. Prof. Dirk Bumann's research group at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has now uncovered how the typhoid pathogen repeatedly manages to evade the host's immune system. Their findings are published in the scientific journal "Cell Host and ... more |  |
Receptors that help plants manage environmental change, pests and wounds Columbia MO (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - ATP (adenosine triphosphate) is the main energy source inside a cell and is considered to be the high energy molecule that drives all life processes in animals and humans. Outside the cell, membrane receptors that attract ATP drive muscle control, neurotransmission, inflammation and development. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri have found the same receptor in plants and belie ... more |  |
Acidification, predators pose double threat to oysters Davis CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - The once-booming, now struggling Olympia oyster native to the West Coast could face a double threat from ocean acidification and invasive predators, according to new research from the University of California, Davis' Bodega Marine Laboratory. The work is published Jan. 15 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Invasive snails ate 20 percent more juvenile oysters when both oyste ... more |  |
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 A new toad from the 'warm valleys' of Peruvian Andes Prague, Czech Republic (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - A new species of toad was discovered hiding in the leaf litter of the Peruvian Yungas. The word is used widely by the locals to describe ecoregion of montane rainforests, and translates as "warm valley" in English. The new species Rhinella yunga was baptized after its habitat preference. The study was published in the open access journal ZooKeys. Like many other toads of the family Bufonid ... more |  |
 Sludge as new sentinel for human health risks Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - Thousands of chemicals serving a variety of human needs flood into sewage treatment plants once their use life has ended. Many belong to a class of chemicals known as CECs (for chemicals of emerging concern), which may pose risks to both human and environmental health. Arjun Venkatesan, a recent doctorate and Rolf Halden, professor and director of the Center for Environmental Security at A ... more |  |
 Swift snowstorm rolls through northeastern US Washington (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - A major snowstorm rolled across the northeastern United States on Tuesday, with forecasters calling for as much as a foot (30 centimeters) of snow in some places before it leaves a cold snap in its wake. Downtown Washington fell virtually silent after the federal government, seeing the swift-moving cold front approaching, closed its doors and told civil servants - who Monday had the day off ... more |  |
 Violence mars run-up to Sochi Olympics: HRW Moscow (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - "Serious" human rights problems such as anti-gay violence are clouding the run-up to the Sochi Olympics, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday while hailing the release of Kremlin critics from jail. "The cases of (Mikhail) Khodorkovsky, the Pussy Riot women and the Greenpeace activists are no longer casting a shadow over February's Winter Olympic Games in Sochi," HRW's Russia programme director Ta ... more |  |
Senegal to release Russian trawler in fishing row: Moscow Moscow (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - Moscow said Tuesday that Senegalese authorities would release the Russian trawler Oleg Naydenov after impounding the ship for two weeks over alleged illegal fishing. Yury Parshev, acting director of Feniks, the firm in Russia's northwestern city of Murmansk that owns the trawler, said the Senegalese authorities were processing paperwork to let the ship go. "Senegalese authorities confirm ... more |  |
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