Ninh B?nh, Vietnam (AFP) Sept 24, 2020 Head keeper Tran Van Truong gently takes a curled-up pangolin into his arms, comforting the shy creature rescued months earlier from traffickers in Vietnam. Life remains precarious for the world’s most trafficked mammal despite the country’s renewed vow to crack down on the illegal wildlife trade that many blame for the coronavirus pandemic. Arrests, prosecutions and wildlife seizures … Continue reading Life still precarious for pangolins despite Vietnam’s illegal trade crackdown

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 A Georgia-based company called Cybercorps LLC plans to offer real-time agricultural data for farmers, resource managers, first responders, and other interested user groups with the help of a patented NASA technology. Cybercorps has signed a license agreement with NASA for the Compact Thermal Imager (CTI), a technology developed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.http://dlvr.it/Rhk9t6 Continue reading NASA Technology to reveal crop health insights for agriculture industry

Boston MA (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 The Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica is a region where many of the world’s carbon-rich deep waters can rise back up to the surface. Scientists have thought that the vast swaths of sea ice around Antarctica can act as a lid for upwelling carbon, preventing the gas from breaking through the ocean’s surface and returning to the atmosphere. However, researchers … Continue reading Antarctic sea ice may not cap carbon emissions as much as previously thought

Houston (AFP) Sept 28, 2020 The governor of Texas has issued a disaster declaration after the death of six-year-old boy infected with a brain-eating amoeba that was later found in his community’s water supply. The child died on September 8 following an infection caused by the amoeba Naegleria fowleri, a microscopic organism that breeds in the warm, fresh water of lakes and rivers and of … Continue reading Texas on alert after brain-eating amoeba kills boy, 6

Curbside pickup has become a necessary option to offer customers since the onslaught of COVID-19. In fact, some shoppers will not consider doing business with a retailer or restaurant that does not offer curbside service. The TextMeAnywhere solution helps make the associated logistics to service curbside easier to execute for small businesses.http://dlvr.it/RhdGZT Continue reading New Service Relays Customer Texts to In-Store Phone Lines

Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 29, 2020 Earth’s driest ecosystems are a study in extremes: They can be blazingly hot stretches of sand like the Sahara Desert or shatteringly cold expanses of ice such as those in Greenland and Antarctica. These arid regions receive very little annual precipitation, and the effects of climate change in these ecosystems are poorly understood. A joint effort between NASA and … Continue reading US-Qatar Partnership aims to find buried water in Earth’s deserts

Bargny, S?n?gal (AFP) Sept 25, 2020 Medza remembers the coastline of his native Senegalese town of Bargny as a place where he fished and played as a child before it became a festering rubbish dump. The beach bordering the fishing settlement, about 30 kilometres (18 miles) south of the capital Dakar, is now permanently choked with plastic waste and rotten fish carcasses. Wedged in by … Continue reading Senegalese town fights losing battle against trash

Paris (AFP) Sept 28, 2020 Millennia of strategic breeding, including a hook-up with an Asian cousin centuries ago, have made African cattle resilient to drought, heat waves and disease, according to a genetic analysis released Monday. Their ability to withstand extreme weather and sickness will be put to the test in coming decades as climate change exacerbates the continent’s extreme weather, researchers reported inhttp://dlvr.it/RhXrZy Continue reading African cattle bred for toughness tested by climate change

Beijing (AFP) Sept 28, 2020 Beijing’s city government will protect “non-malicious” medical whistleblowers under a new law, passed months after a Chinese doctor was punished for sounding the alarm at the very beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. China’s leaders suffered a rare wave of public outrage after ophthalmologist Li Wenliang died of the disease in Wuhan, the city where the coronavirus first emerged late last … Continue reading Beijing passes law to protect medical whistleblowers

While many people have been stuck at home during the pandemic, virtual travel marketing has emerged to help fill the void felt by those who yearn for faraway places. The E-Commerce Times caught up with some virtual travel experts to discover how they’re using various technologies to give folks the opportunity to explore the world without leaving their homes.http://dlvr.it/RhPTly Continue reading Virtual Travel Marketing’s Cure for Wanderlust