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| June 02, 2014 |
 Australia's deadly eruptions the reason for the first mass extinction Perth, Australia (SPX) Jun 02, 2014 - A Curtin University researcher has shown that ancient volcanic eruptions in Australia 510 million years ago significantly affected the climate, causing the first known mass extinction in the history of complex life. Published in prestigious journal Geology, Associate Professor Fred Jourdan from Curtin's Department of Applied Geology, along with colleagues from several Australian and intern ... more |  |
 Domestication of Dogs May Explain Mammoth Kill Sites University Park PA (SPX) Jun 02, 2014 - A new analysis of European archaeological sites containing large numbers of dead mammoths and dwellings built with mammoth bones has led Penn State Professor Emerita Pat Shipman to formulate a new interpretation of how these sites were formed. She suggests that their abrupt appearance may have been due to early modern humans working with the earliest domestic dogs to kill the now-extinct m ... more |  |
Huge tooth fossil shows marine predator had plenty to chew on Edinburgh, UK (SPX) Jun 02, 2014 - A fossilised tooth belonging to a fearsome marine predator has been recorded as the largest of its kind found in the UK, following its recent discovery. A team of palaeontologists have verified the tooth, which was found near Chesil Beach in Dorset, as belonging to a prehistoric relative of modern crocodiles known as Dakosaurus maximus. The tooth, which has a broken tip, is approximately 5 ... more |  |
 Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory Passes Starts Mission Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 02, 2014 - The new Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory satellite is now in the hands of the engineers who will fly the spacecraft and ensure the steady flow of data on rain and snow for the life of the mission. The official handover to the Earth Science Mission Operations team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on May 29, marked the end of a successful check-out per ... more |  |
 Algeria hunters return cautiously after civil war hiatus Thenia, Algeria (AFP) June 02, 2014 - With rifles slung over their shoulders and accompanied by a pack of hounds, the hunters head into the thicket in pursuit of wild boar, thriving since Algeria's Islamist insurgency halted the practice 20 years ago. Just 55 kilometres (35 miles) east of the capital, the inhabitants of Thenia were targeted during the 1990s by militants searching for guns to fight with, which resulted in the aut ... more |  |
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 Study links urbanization and future heat-related mortality Tempe AZ (SPX) Jun 02, 2014 - Phoenix stands at a parched crossroads. Global scale climate change is forecast to bring hotter summers and more extreme heat to the Valley, but regional urbanization also will impact temperatures experienced by residents. So how should Phoenix grow knowing that such growth could cause temperatures to increase in the future and bring added health risks? Should the city deploy mitigating te ... more |  |
 Six dead, thousands left homeless by Siberia floods Moscow (AFP) May 31, 2014 - Six people have died in southern Siberia and thousands more have been evacuated after torrential rain led to major floods. A state of emergency has been declared in the areas worst hit, the government said in a statement Saturday. "Nearly 4,000 homes have been flooded by rivers swollen by heavy rains, and around 7,600 people have been displaced," said the statement, from Russia's emergen ... more |  |
Flights resume after Indonesia volcano delays Sydney (AFP) June 01, 2014 - Flights resumed over northern Australia Sunday as major ash plumes cleared from an Indonesian volcanic eruption that stranded thousands of passengers. The city of Darwin was completely cut off from air traffic on Saturday by ash clouds drifting from the Sangeang Api volcano, forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights. Passengers hoping to travel to Bali from Australia's west coast wer ... more |  |
On the front lines of the war against poaching Dar Es Salaam (AFP) May 31, 2014 - Apollo Kwilabya has loved the outdoors ever since he was a young boy, hunting small animals with his father in Tanzania's southern highlands. It is also the reason why he signed up as a ranger at Selous Game Reserve, where although he earned a modest $200 dollars a month, he could spend most of his time on patrol in one of the largest wildlife reserves in the world. But his dream job qui ... more |  |
 Six Philippine forest workers kidnapped: military Manila (AFP) June 01, 2014 - Gunmen have kidnapped six forestry surveyors in the violence-stricken southern Philippines, the military said Sunday, the latest in a number of attacks against environmental workers there in recent years. The six were en route to study a government forestry programme in a remote mountainous area of Compostela Valley on the island of Mindanao when they were snatched Friday, the military said. ... more |  |
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 New pollution rules will reduce asthma, heart attacks: Obama Washington (AFP) May 31, 2014 - US President Barack Obama said Saturday that his administration's proposals to cut carbon emissions will prevent thousands of asthma and heart attacks each year. Obama's prediction came during his regular weekly broadcast address as he discussed proposed guidelines designed to "cut down on the carbon pollution, smog, and soot." The administration will release the guidelines in the coming ... more |  |
Cousteau grandson eyes undersea record, bliss in Florida Islamorada, United States (AFP) June 01, 2014 - A grandson of French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau will be following in his legendary flipper-steps, heading Sunday to the deep for a record 31 days. "It is symbolic for me personally, because my grandfather (and team) spent 30 days underwater in the Red Sea 50 years ago," Fabien Cousteau, 46, told AFP in the Florida Keys. The younger Cousteau will take part in experiments and work with ... more |  |
 Italy navy picks up 3,000 boat migrants in 24 hours Rome (AFP) May 31, 2014 - Italy's navy said Saturday it has picked up nearly 3,000 migrants attempting the perilous journey across the Mediterranean by boat in the last 24 hours. The latest figures, announced on the navy's official Twitter feed, highlighted the scale of the problem just days after Italy's government said almost as many migrants had arrived so far this year as in the whole of 2013. The navy said i ... more |  |
 Japan heatwave kills two, hundreds taken to hospital Tokyo (AFP) June 01, 2014 - Two people have been killed and hundreds treated in hospital after a weekend heatwave swept over Japan, officials and reports said Sunday. A 74-year-old women collapsed while working in a greenhouse in the eastern prefecture of Chiba on Saturday and was later pronounced dead. In Ibaraki, also in the east of the country, a 61-year-old was found collapsed in her garden and died. On S ... more |  |
Strong quake strikes off Mexico: US agency Washington (AFP) May 31, 2014 - A strong 6.2-magnitude undersea earthquake struck off the coast of Mexico Saturday, US seismologists said. The US Geological Survey said the quake occurred around 1153 GMT and was located about 184 miles (295 kilometers) southwest of the coastal resort city of Puerto Vallarta. They had earlier put the quake's magnitude at 6.6. There were no immediate reports of damage from the quake, whi ... more |  |
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 Six 'cult' members held over China McDonald's death Shanghai (AFP) May 31, 2014 - Chinese police have detained six people for beating to death a woman at a McDonald's restaurant who refused to disclose her phone number, accusing them of being members of a religious cult, state media said Saturday. The woman became involved in an argument with the six people, including a juvenile, who then allegedly beat her on Wednesday evening in Zhaoyuan city in Shandong province, the o ... more |  |
 Chinese wines struggle to uncork overseas sales Hong Kong (AFP) June 01, 2014 - China's makers of merlot and chardonnay have found success at home, but have struggled to convince drinkers overseas that their wines can compete with offerings from more established wine nations. Booths for Chinese wine producers displaying bottles of red, white and sparkling wines drew curious crowds at last week's Vinexpo Asia Pacific in Hong Kong. But traders at the fair, the large ... more |  |
China seeks to wipe Tiananmen from popular memory Beijing (AFP) June 01, 2014 - China's vast censorship machine does its utmost to wipe the slightest reference to the Tiananmen crackdown from books, television and the Internet, scrubbing the issue from public discussion and even from the minds of its younger generation. In an example of George Orwell's "1984" dictum that "who controls the present controls the past", it reflects both the ruling Communist Party's immense ... more |  |
 Kidnapped Chinese, Filippino rescued in Malaysia Kuala Lumpur (AFP) May 31, 2014 - A Chinese tourist and a Filippino worker have been rescued nearly two months after they were abducted from a Malaysian dive resort, Prime Minister Najib Razak said. The two women - Gao Huayun, 29, from China and Marcy Dayawan, 40, from the Philippines - were kidnapped from the Singamata Reef Resort in Sabah state on Borneo island on April 2 in a late-night raid by gunmen and taken to the ... more |  |
Strains building up for China property market Beijing (AFP) June 01, 2014 - After years of boom that have seen prices rocket, the prospect of a bust is looming over China's vast property sector, with authorities hoping to avoid a meltdown that could send shock waves through the world's second-biggest economy. Housing was doled out by the state when Communist-style collectivism dominated economic management. But in the past two decades that has given way to market-or ... more |  |
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