2014年8月29日 星期五

2014-08-30 Canada English Science

  Straight.com   
Park board defends breeding ban and says it will meet Vancouver Aquarium in ...  Straight.com
At an August 27 press conference Vancouver Aquarium CEO John Nightingale (right) announced the organization was requesting a judicial review of motions the park board passed in July. Dolf DeJong. The chair of the park board has said that the city has no ...

Letters: Killer whales, Aquarium, taxes, the wealthy, Surrey crime, Vancouver ...   The Province (blog)
Park Board to Face Vancouver Aquarium in Court Over Their Breeding Ban   E Canada Now
Aquarium Fights for Right to Breed Whales   Courthouse News Service
CTV News   
Vancouver Courier   
Vancouver Sun   
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  Toronto Star   
Ancient DNA shows Inuit were not the first to settle the Arctic  DigitalJournal.com
The first people to enter into North America's Arctic were a very shy people who didn't intermix with their neighbors. More importantly, anthropologists now say that DNA studies show that Inuit and Native Americans are genetically separate from them.
How the Dorset People disappeared from Earth   Maine News
First Arctic Paleo-Eskimos Left Behind No Descendants, goes Extinct   Capital OTC
Inuit were not the first people to settle in the Arctic   CBC.ca
Daily Mail   
Northern Voices Online   
Science Recorder   
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  E Canada Now   
Inspectors Prevent Two Zebra Mussel Contaminated Boats from Entering Alberta  E Canada Now
Medicine Hat, Alberta – In a classic example of why every boater must take the proactive step of cleaning their boats, authorities stopped two boats from crossing over into the province after they were found to contain the highly invasive species called the ...

Two boats caught with Zebra mussels   630ched.com
2 boats with zebra mussels intercepted at Alberta border   CBC.ca
Busted at boundary: Alberta inspectors intercept boats with zebra mussels   Lethbridge Herald

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  Sun News Network   
Dogs to sniff out dreaded zebra mussels in Manitoba  Sun News Network
WINNIPEG - Manitoba is calling in the dogs to assist in its fight with zebra mussels. The province will become the first to use dogs as a permanent strategy to find the invasive species next boating season, Conservation Minister Gord Mackintosh announced at ...

More zebra mussels in Manitoba despite experimental treatment in harbours   CTV News
Specially trained dogs enter province's fight against invasive zebra mussels   Winnipeg Free Press

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  Toronto Star   
Slugs, wasps and other late-summer garden questions  Toronto Star
Question of the Week. My hostas are crowded and I would like to move them. Can I cut them into smaller plants before I move them? When hostas outgrow their space they should be divided. Dig a circle around the plant six inches away from the crown.
Mark tackles a few of his “Most Asked” questions   Journal Pioneer
Mark Cullen: Green File   Windsor Star (blog)

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  DigitalJournal.com   
Raising fish to walk on land  DigitalJournal.com
Researchers have turned to a living fish, called Polypterus, into a fish that can walk on land. This was carried out in order to see what might have happened when fish first attempted to walk out of the water. Evolutionary biologists have theorized that around ...

Researchers raised these fish to walk on land   Canada News
Walking bichir fish may reveal how vertebrates moved onto land   CBC.ca
Video: A 'leg up' in evolution? Watch this fish walk on land   Los Angeles Times
Toronto Star   
Fox News   
Toronto Sun   
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  Times of India   
Warming aids Arctic economies but far short of 'cold rush'  Reuters
OSLO, (Reuters) - Climate change is aiding shipping, fisheries and tourism in the Arctic but the economic gains fall short of a "cold rush" for an icy region where temperatures are rising twice as fast as the world average. A first cruise ship will travel the icy ...

Warming aids Arctic economies but far short of "cold rush"   Reuters Africa

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  Onislam.net   
5 things you might not have known about sun protection  Northumberland News
While enjoying the outdoors is a must, so is protecting your skin from the sun's harmful rays all year round. Most of us think if we slather on the sunscreen – the higher the SPF the better – that we are adequately protected from harmful UVA and UVB rays.
Sunscreen could harm marine environment   Sun Sentinel

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  seattlepi.com   
Transient orca sightings setting all-time record  Times Colonist
According to the Pacific Whale Watch Association, this summer marks the highest number of transient orca sightings in the Salish Sea on record. The PWWA gathers data from 33 tour operators. Photograph By Andrew Lees, Five Star Whale Wat.
PWWA releases new data on record transient orca sightings In the Sound and ...   SanJuanIslander.com
Whale watchers see huge surge in transient orcas, but Southern resident ...   The Province
Transient orcas in Puget Sound area waters   seattlepi.com

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  Toronto Star   
Monday marks 100 years since last passenger pigeon died  Toronto Star
She was a star in her day. Scarlet eyes and peach-coloured breast. Head held high. Toward the end of her life, people lined up to see her — a glimpse for the ages. But 100 years ago this Monday, Martha died alone, as if she'd been waiting for the room to ...

Passenger pigeons, which once filled the nation's skies, died out a century ago   Science Recorder
Saving Our Birds   New York Times
Post-pigeon: 100 years since most common bird's extinction   The Guardian
Scientific American   
Audubon Magazine   
iStreet Research   
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