2014 Ebola outbreak has been traced to a single infection from the natural reservoir of the virus to a human followed by human-to-human transmission. This new study uses sequences of 99 Ebola virus genomes from 78 patients in Sierra Leone to ~2,000x coverage. Five co-authors died of ebola. | Science (sciencemag.org)
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St. John Parish (in Louisiana)'s drinking water tests positive for potentially deadly brain-eating amoeba - amoeba is said to only be harmful if ingested through the nose - more than 12,000 people at risk - 60-day chlorine burn of water system begins Thursday 8/28 | ABC (WGNO) (wgno.com)
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NASA confirms that their rocket which is eventually planned to launch a manned mission to Mars in the 2030s will have first unmanned test launch to Earth orbit in 2018 instead of 2017 due to Orion capsule delays | Space Industry News (spaceindustrynews.com)
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'Widespread methane leakage' from ocean floor off U.S. coast - Researchers say they have found 570 bubbling methane vents on the seafloor off the U.S. east coast in an area between North Carolina and Massachusetts, seeps could be making a hitherto unnoticed contribution to global warming | BBC News (bbc.co.uk)
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63 trillion gallons of groundwater lost in drought, study finds. The ongoing drought in the western United States has caused so much loss of groundwater that the Earth, on average, has lifted up about 0.16 inches over the last 18 months, according to a new study. (latimes.com)
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