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| July 06, 2014 |
 Why does Europe hate GM food and is it about to change its mind? Paris (AFP) July 06, 2014 - While the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and China and many other countries have warmly embraced genetically modified crops, Europe remains the world's big holdout. Could this be about to change? New European Union rules now seek to clear up years of internal deadlock that could, in theory, lead to widespread cultivation of GM foods. But the fight is far from over. The EU's gre ... more |  |
 Weakened Tropical Storm Arthur heads to Canada Miami (AFP) July 05, 2014 - Tropical Storm Arthur rapidly lost strength Saturday as it headed off the far north-eastern US coast towards Canada, causing less damage than feared in the United States. Arthur, downgraded from a category one hurricane at 0900 GMT, lashed New England and the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and Halifax as it marched in a north-easterly direction off the coast of Massachusetts. On Satur ... more |  |
 Taking NASA-USGS's Landsat 8 to the Beach Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 04, 2014 - Some things go swimmingly with a summer trip to the beach - sunscreen, mystery novels, cold beverages and sandcastles. Other things - like aquatic algae - are best avoided. The Landsat 8 satellite is helping researchers spot these organisms from space, gathering information that could direct beachgoers away from contaminated bays and beaches. With improved sensors and technology on the lat ... more |  |
 NASA's IRIS Solar Observatory After 1 Year in Space Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 04, 2014 - On June 27, 2013, NASA's newest solar observatory was launched into orbit around Earth. The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, observes the low level of the sun's atmosphere - a constantly moving area called the interface region - in better detail than has ever been done before. During its first year in space, IRIS provided detailed images of this area, finding even more tur ... more |  |
Puffing Sun Gives Birth To Reluctant Eruption Washington DC (SPX) Jul 04, 2014 - A suite of NASA's sun-gazing spacecraft have spotted an unusual series of eruptions in which a series of fast puffs forced the slow ejection of a massive burst of solar material from the sun's atmosphere. The eruptions took place over a period of three days, starting on Jan. 17, 2013. Nathalia Alzate, a solar scientist at the University of Aberystwyth in Wales, presented findings on what c ... more |  |
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 Burn, patient, burn: medical inferno in China Beijing (AFP) July 04, 2014 - A therapist pours alcohol over a patient and sets him alight - for some in China, playing with fire is a treatment for illness. So-called "fire therapy", which proponents claim can cure stress, indigestion, infertility and even cancer, has been used for hundreds of years and recently garnered a blaze of attention in Chinese media. There is no orthodox medical evidence that it is effecti ... more |  |
 Anti-poaching experts gather amid warnings super-rich drive illegal trade Geneva (AFP) July 04, 2014 - Hundreds of experts will gather in Geneva next week to discuss a "disturbing upswing" in the illegal wildlife trade, driven increasingly by ostentatious displays of wealth by the super-rich. "We're seeing a shift from health to wealth... a significant shift away from (demand for) traditional uses associated with health to uses associated with wealth," said John Scanlon, head of the Conventi ... more |  |
 Researchers say hormonal mechanism responsible for left-handedness Vienna (UPI) Jul 3, 2013 - The vast majority of humans are right-handed. Only about ten percent are left-hand dominant. But what causes the ten percent to prefer their opposite set of digits? Scientists have long traded theories on the matter and argued whether genetics are at play. Recently, in a survey of handedness involving 13,000 Germans and Austrians, researchers found that male southpaws are slightly more ... more |  |
Weakened Hurricane Arthur heads up US East Coast Miami (AFP) July 04, 2014 - Hurricane Arthur, downgraded to a category one storm, carried its still-fierce winds and drenching rains toward the US northeast Friday, after getting the July 4 holiday off to a soggy start for vacationers further south. By 9 am (1300 GMT), Arthur, which had crashed ashore in North Carolina overnight as a category two storm, had lost a bit of its punch, with maximum sustained winds of 90 mi ... more |  |
 Organisers of huge Hong Kong rally arrested Hong Kong (AFP) July 04, 2014 - Police on Friday arrested the organisers of Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy rally since the city was handed back to China, sparking outrage from campaigners who denounced the "political suppression". Five members of the Civil Human Rights Front, including its convener, were arrested three days after the march, which the group said mobilised half a million people to voice anger at Beijing's ... more |  |
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 Haiti PM to donors: please honor aid pledges Port-Au-Prince (AFP) July 04, 2014 - Only half of the nine billion dollars in international aid promised to Haiti after a devastating earthquake in 2010 has been delivered, the prime minister told AFP. So far, 48 percent of that amount has been handed over, mainly in emergency and humanitarian aid, while the country faces colossal rebuilding needs after the 7.0-magnitude quake, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, in power since 201 ... more |  |
 Near-perfect fossil reveals details of ancient bird Archaeopteryx's plumage Munich, Germany (UPI) Jul 3, 2013 - In a study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, researchers described the discovery of a near perfect fossil of Archaeopteryx, the "original bird." Though the Archaeopteryx had previously been fingered by paleontologists as the first bird to fly, the inconsistent nature of the fossil record made it difficult for scientists to confirm that the ancient creature could indeed take ... more |  |
More People Means More Plant Growth Washington DC (SPX) Jul 03, 2014 - Ecologist Thomas Mueller uses satellite data to study how the patterns of plant growth relate to the movement of caribou and gazelle. The research sparked an idea: Would the footprint of human activity show up in the data? Mueller, of the University of Maryland in College Park (now at the Biodiversity and Climate Research Center in Frankfurt) teamed up with university and NASA colleagues t ... more |  |
ENSO and the Indian Monsoon...not as straightforward as you'd think Washington DC (SPX) Jul 04, 2014 - When folks hear the term El Nino, they generally think of two things. 1) A decrease in the amount of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean and 2) Chris Farley. Ok, they probably only think of #2, but we here at the ENSO blog are trying to broaden that viewpoint. We've already discussed US impacts during El Nino but we know it also affects global circulation. One of ENSO's most important influen ... more |  |
 Seeing your true colors: Standards for hyperspectral imaging Washington DC (SPX) Jul 04, 2014 - Today, doctors who really want to see if a wound is healing have to do a biopsy or some other invasive technique that, besides injuring an already injured patient, can really only offer information about a small area. But a technology called hyperspectral imaging offers doctors a noninvasive, painless way to discriminate between healthy and diseased tissue and reveal how well damaged tissue is h ... more |  |
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 NASA launches carbon-tracking satellite Washington (AFP) July 02, 2014 - NASA on Wednesday launched a satellite designed to track carbon dioxide, a leading greenhouse gas that is responsible for global warming. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 took off aboard a Delta 2 rocket at 2:56 am Pacific time (0956 GMT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. After 56 minutes of flight, the satellite separated from the second-stage rocket as planned, with no gli ... more |  |
Norway Gets TerraSAR-X Direct Receiving Station Paris (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - Airbus Defence and Space and Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) have signed a multi-million-euro agreement for the delivery and installation of a Direct Receiving Station (DRS) for TerraSAR-X and its twin satellite TanDEM-X in Norway. Through data reception at KSAT's premises in Svalbard and processing in Tromso, this system - scheduled to be operational by the end of 2014 - will support ... more |  |
Payback time for soil carbon from pasture conversion to sugarcane production Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Jul 04, 2014 - The reduction of soil carbon stock caused by the conversion of pasture areas into sugarcane plantations - a very common change in Brazil in recent years - may be offset within two or three years of cultivation. The calculation appears in a study conducted by researchers at the Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA) of the University of Sao Paulo (USP) in collaboration with colleagues fr ... more |  |
 Zone tropical coastal oceans; manage them more like land resources Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 04, 2014 - Leading international environmental and marine scientists have published a joint call for societies to introduce and enforce use zoning of Earth's coastal ocean waters, mirroring approaches commonly used to manage and protect land resources. Writing in the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin, the 24 scientists from Canada, the USA, the UK, China, Australia, New Caledonia, Sweden and Kenya un ... more |  |
Adaptations of Tibetans may have benefited from extinct denisovans Shenzhen, China (SPX) Jul 04, 2014 - An international team, led by researchers from BGI and University of California, presented their latest significant finding that the altitude adaptation in Tibet might be caused by the introgression of DNA from extinct Denisovans or Denisovan-related individuals into humans. This work published online in Nature sheds new light into understanding human's adaptation to diverse environments i ... more |  |
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