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| July 09, 2014 |
 China arms itself for difficult 'war on pollution' Beijing (AFP) July 08, 2014 - Having declared "war on pollution", China is arming itself with tougher weapons from new courts to daily fines and shutting down offenders altogether, in what analysts call promising steps but no guarantee of progress. For decades, China accepted the blight on the environment as the collateral damage of tremendous economic growth that raised the incomes of hundreds of millions of people - w ... more |  |
 Merkel raises human rights on China trip Beijing (AFP) July 08, 2014 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel raised human rights issues publicly in China on Tuesday - unlike many Western visitors - invoking the fall of the Berlin Wall and telling students their country needs "free dialogue". The German leader, who grew up in the former East Germany, noted in her carefully worded remarks at Beijing's elite Tsinghua University that China and Germany have a forum to d ... more |  |
 Switzerland halts pork imports over swine fever fears Geneva (AFP) July 08, 2014 - Switzerland is to ban imports of live pigs and pork from several EU countries in a bid to stop an African swine fever outbreak from reaching the country. Imports from Bulgaria and Romania and some parts of Latvia and Croatia will be banned as of Wednesday, Swiss food safety authorities said on Tuesday. All live pigs and boars, their meat, sperm, eggs and embryos will be covered by the b ... more |  |
 The long, slow march of 'biofortified' GM food Paris (AFP) July 08, 2014 - In 1992, a pair of scientists had a brainwave: how about inserting genes into rice that would boost its vitamin A content? By doing so, tens of millions of poor people who depend on rice as a staple could get a vital nutrient, potentially averting hundreds of thousands of cases of blindness each year. The idea for what came to be called "golden rice" - thus named for its bright yellow h ... more |  |
 Newborn baby among dead as quake hits Mexico, Guatemala Palenque, Mexico (AFP) July 07, 2014 - A strong 6.9-magnitude earthquake rocked southern Mexico and Guatemala on Monday killing at least three people - including a newborn baby at a hospital - and injuring dozens. The quake, initially measured at a magnitude of 7.1, struck the Pacific coast of Mexico's Chiapas state at about 1124 GMT at a depth of 60 kilometers (37 miles), the US Geological Survey said. The epicenter was ju ... more |  |
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Rewriting the history of volcanic forcing during the past 2,000 years Reno NV (SPX) Jul 08, 2014 - A team of scientists led by Michael Sigl and Joe McConnell of Nevada's Desert Research Institute (DRI) has completed the most accurate and precise reconstruction to date of historic volcanic sulfate emissions in the Southern Hemisphere. The new record, described in a manuscript published in the online edition of Nature Climate Change, is derived from a large number of individual ice cores ... more |  |
 Virtual crowds produce real behavior insights Providence RI (SPX) Jul 09, 2014 - William Warren's research group is advancing virtual reality technology in the service of studying the science of the swarm: how patterns of crowd movement emerge from individual behaviors. He described his work June 29 in a keynote address to a conference in Vancouver. The cognitive scientists in the Virtual Environment Navigation lab at Brown University are not only advancing a frontier ... more |  |
 Advances in mollusk parasite culturing methods drives research East Boothbay ME (SPX) Jul 09, 2014 - Researchers at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences dug into the last 70 years of peer-reviewed publications about protozoan parasites that infest bivalve mollusks and found that when an organism can be cultured in the laboratory, more papers and greater understanding result. Senior Research Scientists, Jose Fernandez Robledo and Nicholas Record co-authored an analysis of peer-reviewed pu ... more |  |
 New study of largely unstudied mesophotic coral reef geology Miami FL (SPX) Jul 09, 2014 - A new study on biological erosion of mesophotic tropical coral reefs, which are low energy reef environments between 30-150 meters deep, provides new insights into processes that affect the overall structure of these important ecosystems. The purpose of the study was to better understand how bioerosion rates and distribution of bioeroding organisms, such as fish, mollusks and sponges, diff ... more |  |
Scientist identifies world's biggest-ever flying bird Durham NC (SPX) Jul 09, 2014 - Scientists have identified the fossilized remains of an extinct giant bird that could be the biggest flying bird ever found. With an estimated 20-24-foot wingspan, the creature surpassed size estimates based on wing bones from the previous record holder - a long-extinct bird named Argentavis magnificens - and was twice as big as the Royal Albatross, the largest flying bird today. Schedul ... more |  |
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 'Nanojuice' could improve how doctors examine the gut Buffalo NY (SPX) Jul 09, 2014 - Located deep in the human gut, the small intestine is not easy to examine. X-rays, MRIs and ultrasound images provide snapshots but each suffers limitations. Help is on the way. University at Buffalo researchers are developing a new imaging technique involving nanoparticles suspended in liquid to form "nanojuice" that patients would drink. Upon reaching the small intestine, doctors would s ... more |  |
Water bonus flows from climate change measures Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Jul 09, 2014 - The equivalent of one-third of Melbourne's water use could be saved each year through the implementation of efficiency measures that deal with climate change, according to a new study. Researchers at the Monash Sustainability Institute analysed the water-saving potential of 74 options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions identified in ClimateWorks Australia's award-winning Low Carbon Grow ... more |  |
 Changing Antarctic winds create new sea level threat Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 08, 2014 - New research shows projected changes in the winds circling the Antarctic may accelerate global sea level rise significantly more than previously estimated. Changes to Antarctic winds have already been linked to southern Australia's drying climate but now it appears they may also have a profound impact on warming ocean temperatures under the ice shelves along the coastline of West and East Antarc ... more |  |
Discovery Provides Insights on How Plants Respond to Elevated CO2 Levels La Jolla CA (SPX) Jul 08, 2014 - Biologists at UC San Diego have solved a long-standing mystery concerning the way plants reduce the numbers of their breathing pores in response to rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. In a paper published in this week's early online edition of Nature, they report the discovery of a new genetic pathway in plants, made up of four genes from three different gene families that cont ... more |  |
China's hidden water footprint Laxenburg, Austria (SPX) Jul 08, 2014 - China's richest provinces have an outsized environmental impact on the country's water-scarce regions, according to new research from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the University of Maryland. Many developed regions in China are not only drawing from their own water resources but also contributing to water depletion in other water-scarce regions of the ... more |  |
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 IPCC must consider alternate policy views Princeton NJ (SPX) Jul 08, 2014 - In addition to providing regular assessments of scientific literature, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Process (IPCC) also produces a "Summary for Policymakers" intended to highlight relevant policy issues through data. While the summary presents powerful scientific evidence, it goes through an approval process in which governments can question wording and the selection of fi ... more |  |
 Why 'Whispers' Among Bees Sometimes Evolve Into 'Shouts' La Jolla CA (SPX) Jul 08, 2014 - Let's say you're a bee and you've spotted a new and particularly lucrative source of nectar and pollen. What's the best way to communicate the location of this prize cache of food to the rest of your nestmates without revealing it to competitors, or "eavesdropping" spies, outside of the colony? Many animals are thought to deter eavesdroppers by making their signals revealing the location o ... more |  |
 New type of soot particle discovered from wildfire emissions Reno NV (SPX) Jul 08, 2014 - Every year, wildfires clear millions of hectares of land and emit around 34-percent of global soot mass into the atmosphere. In certain regions, such as Southeast Asia and Russia, these fires can contribute as much as 63-percent of regional soot mass. In a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports, a team of scientists led by Rajan Chakrabarty from Nevada's Desert Research Institute rep ... more |  |
 Macau announces democracy vote after massive Hong Kong poll Hong Kong (AFP) July 08, 2014 - Activists in the gambling hub of Macau have announced an unofficial referendum on electoral reform in the latest challenge to Beijing, after almost 800,000 turned out for a similar poll in Hong Kong. The former Portuguese colony returned to Chinese rule in 1999 and has a separate legal system from the mainland. Like Hong Kong, Macau's leader is known as its chief executive and is chosen by a ... more |  |
New UN force on climate impacts on health Geneva (AFP) July 08, 2014 - Two UN agencies on Tuesday announced they were setting up a joint office to help fight the threat to health from climate change and extreme weather. Scientists have warned that floods, droughts, storms and rising seas will encourage diseases such as malaria, dengue and cholera, as well as heat sickness, homelessness and hunger. The new unit set up by the World Meteorological Organization ... more |  |
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