BRUSSELS， Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Eighty-two percent of European citizens want the European Union to do more in the fight against terrorism， it was revealed Tuesday according to the latest Eurobarometer poll commissioned by the European Parliament.


The highest support for more significant EU involvement was seen in Cyprus， Portugal and Italy， all around 90 percent. In Austria， Croatia and Poland where support was relatively the lowest， the rate was as high as three quarters.


The survey also found the perceived threat of terrorist attacks varied from 7 percent in Slovenia to 64 percent in France.


Differences between the opinions of women and men on this issue were almost non-existent， and older generations demonstrated only slightly stronger support for increased EU involvement against terror compared to the younger generations.


However， the survey found that the fight against terrorism is an area with an explicit and very strong perception of a gap between the expectations of EU citizens and the actual level of the union's involvement -- 69 percent considered the current EU involvement to be insufficient.


Eurobarometer said measures perceived as the most urgent were blocking the financing of terrorist groups， studying the roots of terrorism and radicalization， and strengthened control of external EU borders.


The European Parliament argued that under the existing legal framework， there is still some scope for further developing EU counter-terrorism capacities.


Better use of existing tools and improved coordination across policy fields may be a better way forward than hasty adoption of new measures without proper reflection on their possible impact， it advised on the survey result.


EU member states' unwillingness to share intelligence seems to be the single most important obstacle to successful cooperation at EU level， lawmakers said.


They added that increased contribution to the Schengen Information System， the Europol Information System and other EU information-sharing tools is crucial.


The improved technical design of these databases could considerably facilitate border checks and law enforcement. In the short term， cross-matching capabilities of EU databases could be enhanced in order to achieve complete interoperability in the more distant future， the European Parliament said.

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SAN FRANCISCO Deutschland WM 2018 Trikot , Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- A new study illustrates the dramatic climatic shifts wrought by the rise of new mountain ranges and chronicles how Central Asia dried out over the last 23 million years into one of the most arid regions on the planet.


While researchers have long cited the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayan Mountains around 50 million years ago for blocking rain clouds' entry into Central Asia from the south, killing off much of the region's plant life, the new study paints a more nuanced picture of Central Asia's desertification.


""While Central Asia was probably never lush and verdant, it was certainly greener 23 million years ago and probably even greener in the more distant past Deutschland Fußball Trikot ,"" said Jeremy Kesner Caves, a doctoral student at Stanford University's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and the lead author of the study published online in the journal Geology.


The researchers arrived at their conclusions after measuring a particular isotope, or version Marcel Halstenberg Deutschland Trikot , of carbon in buried, ancient soil samples. The isotope speaks to the dryness of conditions at the time of the soil's deposition. Wetter, rainier conditions allow for greater numbers of organisms, including plants and soil-dwelling bacteria Leroy Sane Deutschland Trikot , to thrive and pull carbon out of their surroundings to fuel their growth and metabolism, leaving telltale isotopes in their environment.


Caves and his co-authors looked at samples over extensive geographic and temporal spans in order to draw a fuller portrait of the climatic changes influencing soil composition. ""Our paper is the first-ever attempt to present maps of carbon isotopes over a geologic time frame of more than a million years,"" he was quoted as saying in a news release from Stanford.


He and several co-authors traveled to Mongolia, eastern Kazakhstan and northern China to collect the bulk of 171 new soil samples Sebastian Rudy Deutschland Trikot , while Russian co-authors collected samples near Lake Baikal. The new specimens were considered alongside more than 2,200 previously collected samples. Because most of those existing samples originated from the Tibetan Plateau, the research team plugged a gap in the geographical coverage by going to little-studied northern Central Asia.


Overall, the samples were well-distributed from 23 million to 2.6 million years ago during a geological period known as the Neogene. The Earth's climate cooled off substantially as the Neogene wore on Marc-Andre ter Stegen Deutschland Trikot , setting the stage for an Ice Age when glaciers crept from polar regions into lower latitudes. The samples ""are honestly pretty boring,"" Caves said. ""They look and feel like dirt."" But the rocky outcrops exposing the old, hardened soil chunks can dazzle. ""The outcrops are striped deep purple, red and green Ilkay Gundogan Deutschland Trikot , and they often erode in crazy patterns.""


Upon analysis, the samples' carbon isotope values revealed an exceptionally arid region deep in Asia's interior going back 23 million years, initially ringed by areas of higher rainfall. Starting about five million years ago, however Julian Brandt Deutschland Trikot , that dry region expanded to the north and west, as new mountain ranges reached heights sufficient to block westerly winds from delivering moisture.


""One way to think about this change is that when viewed from space today, Central Asia appears very brown because of its expansive deserts,"" Caves said. ""If viewed from space 23 million years ago Leon Goretzka Deutschland Trikot , though, Central Asia would have looked somewhat darker, simply due to there being considerably more leaves and vegetation.""

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