2014年9月5日 星期五

2014-09-06 Canada English Science

  SBS   
Climate science is not yet settled on warming  Troy Media
Michelle-Stirling-Anosh CALGARY, AB, Sep 2, 2014/ Troy Media/ – In a recent column for Troy Media, Univerity of Calgary Professor Emeritus Phil Elder offered up what he called a primer on global warming, citing “recent successes by deniers of ...

This Month's UN Climate Summit Will Help Seal the Fate of Nations   Mashable
Time for Climate Deniers to Go Back to School   Huffington Post
Whatever Happened to Global Warming?   Wall Street Journal
Canada Free Press   
The Australian   
9news.com.au   
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  Toronto Star   
'Certified' wildlife-friendly spaces  Journal Pioneer
I am determined to make my yard and garden as wildlife-friendly as I can. According to the Audubon Society, it is not difficult to improve the status of your outdoor living space ecologically. Bee. All you have to do is 'take the pledge' to do your best. Taking the ...

Your yard is a habitat just waiting to happen   Toronto Star

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Update on Drums Found at Wellington Construction Site  Fountain Pen
Construction crews have discovered a total of eight 170-litre (45-gallon) drums while working on a construction site north of Wellington Street. Preliminary chemical analysis shows the drums contained solvents or petroleum-based substances. The City will ...

Ooze from barrels unearthed in Guelph contained solvents and hydrocarbons ...   OurWindsor.ca
Eight barrels containing unknown liquid removed from construction site   CTV News

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  The Province   
Abondoned tortoise underscores lax laws governing sale of exotic pets  The Province
A giant tortoise that can weigh more than an average-sized man is headed for a new home after it was found far from its native habitat in an African desert. The abandonment of 'Eddie,' an African spurred tortoise taken to the Burnaby SPCA by a good ...

African tortoise rescued near SFU   Burnaby Now
Exotic tortoise, native to southern Sahara desert, found on Burnaby Mountain   Globalnews.ca

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  London Free Press   
Bee deaths must fuel focus on ecosystem  London Free Press
It's as simple as the life-cycle lessons taught in elementary schools: The plants grow flowers; the bees, the butterflies and other creatures pollinate the plants. Fruit is produced, feeding other creatures, and the cycle goes on. Take the bees out of the mix, and it ...

New Yorkers are causing a buzz with homemade honey   New York Post
Be kind to humble honey bees working for you   Northern Advocate
Considering a world without honeybees   Brantford Expositor
Orlando Sentinel   
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  Toronto Sun   
Cute or creepy? Man gets smothered by bunnies on Japan's Rabbit Island  Metro
In a video that walks a fine line between cute and bizarre, a feeder on Japan's Rabbit Island allows himself to be completely smothered by bunnies. In what is the first episode in the Bunny Island Series – according to the uploader – a feeder on Ōkunoshima in ...

Man smothered by blanket of bunnies in Japan   Niagara Falls Review
A guy gets smothered by Bunnies on Rabbit Island!   TV3.ie
Rabbit Island Visitor Smothered By Bunnies (VIDEO)   Huffington Post Canada
Uproxx   
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  StarPhoenix   
Ottawa researcher helps decode coffee's DNA  StarPhoenix
University of Ottawa professor David Sankoff, along with researcher Chunfang Zheng, are part of the team that announced Thursday it has decoded the DNA of coffee. Photograph by: Wayne Cuddington, Postmedia News , Postmedia News. One of the world's ...

A genome with buzz: Ottawa researcher helps decode coffee's DNA   Ottawa Citizen

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Language diversity threatened in areas with high economic growth, study  Al Jazeera America
“As economies develop, one language often comes to dominate a nation's political and economic spheres,” Tatsuya Amato, from the University of Cambridge's Department of Zoology. “People are forced to adopt the dominant language or risk being left out in ...


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  Edmonton Journal   
Albertans help battle 'dumpcano' at Iqaluit landfill  Edmonton Journal
EDMONTON - Two Alberta companies are in Iqaluit fighting a blaze that's been smouldering at the city's dump for more than three months. The fire began May 20 and has sparked concern in the city of more than 7,000 because of the toxic smoke fouling the ...

2 Alberta companies fighting Iqaluit 'dumpcano' fire   CBC.ca

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  Forbes   
Biofuels: E Coli Modified To Make Engine-Ready Propane  Forbes
E coli bacteria have been genetically modified to produce engine-ready propane for the first time. “This opens up possibilities for future sustainable production of renewable fuels that at first could complement, and thereafter replace fossil fuels like diesel, ...

E.coli as fuel source? Scientists have gut feeling it works   Regina Leader-Post
Renewable propane generated with E. coli bacteria   Geek
Scientists create renewable propane using bacteria   Biomass Magazine

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