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| October 02, 2015 |
 Extreme Pacific sea level events to double in future Manoa HI (SPX) Oct 02, 2015 - Many tropical Pacific island nations are struggling to adapt to gradual sea level rise stemming from warming oceans and melting ice caps. Now they may also see much more frequent extreme interannual sea level swings. The culprit is a projected behavioral change of the El Nino phenomenon and its characteristic Pacific wind response, according to recent computer modeling experiments and tide-gauge ... more |  |
 NYC risks future flooding during hurricanes University Park PA (SPX) Oct 02, 2015 - Whether or not a coastal city floods during a hurricane depends on the storm, tide and sea level, and now a team of climate scientists show that the risk of New York City flooding has increased dramatically during the industrial era as a result of human-caused climate change. "We wanted to look at the impact of climate change on sea level and storm characteristics to see how that has affec ... more |  |
 Root microbiome engineering improves plant growth Washington DC (SPX) Oct 02, 2015 - Humans have been breeding crops until they're bigger and more nutritious since the early days of agriculture, but genetic manipulation isn't the only way to give plants a boost. In a review paper published in Trends in Microbiology, two integrative biologists present how it is possible to engineer the plant soil microbiome to improve plant growth, even if the plants are genetically identic ... more |  |
 Ice samples from Greenland and Russia provide clues to climate Birmingham, UK (SPX) Oct 02, 2015 - Scientists at the University of Birmingham have discovered evidence of carbonaceous aerosols - organic dust - transported from Asia and deposited in the Arctic over the last 450 years, according to research published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports. They have also found that increased levels of dust were being deposited during warmer periods when the Arctic Oscillation - changes i ... more |  |
Warmer temperatures stimulate diversity of soil fungi London, UK (SPX) Oct 02, 2015 - Remote and covered by ice for much of the year the Antarctic Peninsula is home to hidden and dynamic communities of microbes that have an important role to play in the fragile ecosystems in which they are found. Writing in the journal Nature Climate Change this week, a team of scientists report how they have found a direct relationship between temperature and the diversity of Antarctic soil fung ... more |  |
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Plants with jobs Toronto, Canada (SPX) Oct 02, 2015 - Two University of Toronto Scarborough scientists have developed a new research framework for the agricultural sector that offers evidence-based understanding of the relationship between short-term yields, long-term sustainability and biodiversity. In a paper published this week in the Journal of Applied Ecology, Marney Isaac, Canada Research Chair in Agroecosystems and Development and her ... more |  |
 2-million-year-old fossils reveal hearing abilities of early humans Binghamton NY (SPX) Oct 02, 2015 - Research into human fossils dating back to approximately two million years ago reveals that the hearing pattern resembles chimpanzees, but with some slight differences in the direction of humans. Rolf Quam, assistant professor of anthropology at Binghamton University, led an international research team in reconstructing an aspect of sensory perception in several fossil hominin individuals ... more |  |
Africa could be the answer to delaying peak grain Lincoln NB (SPX) Oct 01, 2015 - Agricultural yields could more than triple in a number of African countries, suggesting that tremendous improvements in food security are possible, according to new findings by the Global Yield Gap and Water Productivity Atlas. Developed by a research team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in collaboration with Wageningen University in the Netherlands, the atlas estimates the differenc ... more |  |
 Raytheon completes rollout for national weather service Silver Spring, Md. (UPI) Oct 1, 2015 - Raytheon has distributed its next-generation weather system across the United States, aiming to help the U.S. National Weather Service in making more accurate predictions. The Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System II (AWIPS II) is a complex network of weather systems that ingest and integrate meteorological, hydrological, satellite, and radar data. The upgraded system includes ... more |  |
 Tourists replace rebels as Sri Lanka national park blooms Yala, Sri Lanka (AFP) Oct 1, 2015 - Lokaiya Peremadasa shudders as he recalls the havoc Tamil rebels used to wreak on his beloved wildlife park during Sri Lanka's brutal 37-year-long civil war. "They would come down and shoot the animals," the guide told AFP, his jeep bouncing around on the bumpy dirt tracks of Yala National Park in the island's south. The 48-year-old tells how he even came under fire himself, while wildli ... more |  |
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 Plastic-eating worms to ease pollution problems Palo Alto, Calif. (UPI) Sep 30, 2015 - Can worms eat a way out of our plastic pollution problems? Probably not all on their own, but new research suggests they can help. A new study out of Stanford University proves mealworms can subsist entirely on a diet of Styrofoam and other types of polystyrene, the most common form of plastic. In lab experiments, 100 mealworms were able to put away 34 to 39 milligrams of Styrofo ... more |  |
Chinese court charges 10 mired in OSI meat scandal Beijing (AFP) Oct 1, 2015 - Chinese authorities have charged 10 people over "selling inferior products" in the wake of a food scandal that erupted last year at a unit of US food supplier OSI Group, which saw expired meat sold to global fast food chains. A Chinese court charged the defendants connected to OSI food-processing companies in Shanghai and Hebei Province "on suspicions of producing, selling inferior products ... more |  |
 Indonesia defends haze-fighting efforts Jakarta (AFP) Oct 1, 2015 - Indonesia's disaster chief on Thursday defended the country's efforts to fight forest fires that have blanketed Southeast Asia in choking haze, and said he believed rains would arrive within a month to finally douse the blazes. "Are we able to manage the fires? The answer is clearly a yes... we are not overwhelmed, we can manage it and there is progress," National Disaster Management Agency ... more |  |
US tightens smog standards, environmentalists cry foul Washington (AFP) Oct 1, 2015 - The United States on Thursday tightened its standards on smog - also known as ground-level ozone - but environmental groups said the anti-pollution measures don't go far enough to protect people's health. The Environmental Protection Agency strengthened national air quality standards for ground-level ozone to 70 parts per billion (ppb), down from its previous level of 75 ppb. "Put simp ... more |  |
Hurricane Joaquin strengthens, now 'extremely dangerous' Miami (AFP) Oct 1, 2015 - Joaquin strengthened into an extremely dangerous Category Four hurricane Thursday as it barreled through the Bahamas, forecasters said, while the US East Coast prepared for a weekend of heavy rainfall. The storm was packing maximum sustained winds of 130 miles (210 kilometers) per hour and could grow even stronger over the next 24 hours, the National Hurricane Center said. It will move n ... more |  |
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 World headed for too-high 2.7 Celsius warming: experts Paris (AFP) Oct 1, 2015 - Earth could warm 2.7 degrees Celsius this century, warned a review Thursday which judged national carbon-cutting pledges insufficient to stave off worst-case-scenario predictions for climate change. The goal of limiting overall planet warming to 2.0 C (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) from pre-industrial levels is still out of reach, the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) analysis found - though there are ... more |  |
15 EU nations opt to stay GMO-free Brussels (AFP) Oct 1, 2015 - Fifteen of the 28 EU member nations are seeking to keep genetically modified organisms out of all or part of their territory, as the deadline for opting out of new European legislation on GMO crops nears, the bloc's executive arm said Thursday. The growing list of members which in a blow to the biotech industry want a total ban on GMO cultivation in their fields, includes EU heavyweights Ger ... more |  |
 Burkina Faso coup leader in police custody: security source Ouagadougou (AFP) Oct 1, 2015 - General Gilbert Diendere, the leader of Burkina Faso's short-lived coup, was in police custody on Thursday after handing himself in, a security source told AFP. Diendere, who had said several times that he was willing to face justice following the September 17 putsch, was at the Paspanga police base near the centre of the capital Ouagadougou on Thursday afternoon. A military source said ... more |  |
 Volcanoes, asteroid wiped out dinosaurs: study Miami (AFP) Oct 1, 2015 - A massive asteroid strike 66 million years ago triggered a string of potent volcanic eruptions that spelled doom for the dinosaurs, US researchers said Thursday. Just what led to the demise of the dinosaurs is often debated among scientists, and the latest findings in the journal Science suggest that both events are to blame, not one or the other. Scientists studied the Deccan Traps lava ... more |  |
EU warns Taiwan over illegal fishing or risk ban Brussels (AFP) Oct 1, 2015 - The EU on Thursday warned Taiwan and the Comoros they had six months to take stronger action against illegal fishing or risk an import ban in the world's single biggest market. The European Commission, the executive of the 28-nation EU, issued "yellow cards" to Taiwan and the Comoros warning they could be labelled as "uncooperative" in the fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fi ... more |  |
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