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An Undersea Cable Could Fill In the Gaps on Fiber-Optic Maps

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To the east, they typically run through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean, or through the waters of the Arabian Sea before they stretch out to India and beyond. A few cables connect Indian Ocean islands—such as Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, and the Seychelles—to the African mainland.

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2018 Environmental Performance Index: Air quality top public health threat

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Burundi, Central African Republic, Madagascar, the Bahamas, and Latvia slipped significantly in environmental performance, largely due to sub-par performance on climate change. All trend analyses are based on backcasting this year’s EPI methods on historical data. 2018 EPI Trends.

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Oceans Lock Away Carbon Slower Than Previously Thought

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This “marine snow” pulls carbon away from the surface of the ocean and sequesters it in the depths for millennia, which enables the surface waters to draw down more CO 2 from the air. The physical drag leaves carbon lingering in the upper hydrosphere, rather than being safely sequestered in deeper waters.

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Video Friday: ARTEMIS

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RoboCup ] WeRobotics is coordinating critical cargo drone logistics in Madagascar with Aerial Metric, Madagascar Flying Labs and PSI. [ Tevel ] My favorite RoboCup event, where the world championship robots take on the RoboCup trustees! Plus ] Curiosity has now been exploring Mars for 10 years (!)