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image captionSpaceX currently has several launch sites in the US - but could it have one in Indonesia?
Indonesia has offered up one of its islands in West Papua as a potential launch site for Elon Musk s ambitious Space X project - which aims to put humans on the moon.
Though Mr Musk has yet to accept the proposal, Indonesia has still made it clear that it has big space ambitions for Biak island- which is worrying its residents.
Markus Abrauw who has spent his whole life in Biak is one of them.
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(NAFB) – Palmer Amaranth is a highly invasive species that is spreading like wildfire across the United States.
It is hard to distinguish from pigweed until it is almost too late. It is very resistant to several herbicide options, but not completely immune. The trick is early detection before it has a chance to go to seed.
The University of Minnesota has partnered with Colorado State University on developing a new test to detect the plant that is 99.9 percent accurate.
Anthony Brusa is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Minnesota. He talks about the differences between Palmer Amaranth and normal pigweeds, and what they focused on for developing their test.
Antarctica s ice shelves are trembling as global temperatures rise Christopher Michel, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Images of colossal chunks of ice plunging into the sea accompany almost every news story about climate change. It can often make the problem seem remote, as if the effects of rising global temperatures are playing out elsewhere. But the break-up of the world s vast reservoirs of frozen water – and, in particular, Antarctic ice shelves – will have consequences for all of us. Before we can appreciate how, we need to understand what s driving this process. Ice shelves are gigantic floating platforms of ice that form where continental ice meets the sea. They re found in Greenland, northern Canada and the Russian Arctic, but the largest loom around the edges of Antarctica. They are fed by frozen rivers of ice called glaciers, which flow down from the steep Antarctic ice sheet.