By Heidi Harley

science / science - 6 years ago

Sumatran elephant found dead with missing tusks in Indonesia

A Sumatran elephant has been found dead with its tusks removed in an apparent poaching case targeting the critically endangered animal, an Indonesian conservation official said Friday. The 10-year-old male's rotting corpse was found in Blang Awe village in Aceh province earlier this week. "His tus...

science / science - 6 years ago

France braces for travel turmoil as 'yellow vests' take on Macron

French drivers seething over high fuel prices have vowed to snarl traffic across the country Saturday in a widely supported protest that could prove the trickiest so far for President Emmanuel Macron. Anger over fuel costs, blamed on taxes imposed by Macron to fight pollution, has been simmering fo...

science / science - 6 years ago

Russian Soyuz blasts off for ISS in first launch since accident

An unmanned rocket carrying cargo blasted off into space on Friday in the first launch of a Russian-made Soyuz-FG rocket from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome since a dramatic aborted launch in October. The rocket took off with a Progress MS-10 spacecraft at 18:14 GMT (00:14 local time) carrying su...

science / science - 6 years ago

Vale ordered to pay tribes $26.8 mn over river contamination

Brasília (AFP) - A Brazil appeals court on Friday ordered mining giant Vale to pay two indigenous tribes $26.8 million over river contamination that harmed public health, the prosecutors' office said Friday. The Onca Puma nickel mine in Brazil's northern Para state, in operation for a decade, is bl...

science / science - 6 years ago

New research, November 5-11, 2018

A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change mitigation Zero CO2 emissions for an ultra-large city by 2050: case study for Beijing Climate change communication Developing a model of climate change behavior among adolescents Petro-hegemony and the matrix of resi...

science / science - 6 years ago

Fight over dinosaur fossils comes down to what's a mineral

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — About 66 million years after two dinosaurs died apparently locked in battle on the plains of modern-day Montana, an unusual fight over who owns the entangled fossils has become a multimillion-dollar issue that hinges on the legal definition of "mineral."

science / science - 6 years ago

San Francisco chokes on toxic air as wildfires rage

Schools and tourist attractions across the San Francisco Bay Area were shut Friday and residents were urged to remain indoors as smoke from California's deadliest ever wildfire -- a three-hour drive away -- produced air quality levels worse than in polluted megacities in South Asia. The closures ca...