2014年9月6日 星期六

2014-09-07 Canada English Science

  E Canada Now   
Barrels contained 'solvents or petroleum-based substances,' says City of Guelph  OurWindsor.ca
GUELPH— The greenish-blue ooze leaking from barrels found buried at a construction site west of downtown is said to be some sort of solvent or petroleum-based substance, according to a recent city news release. Earlier this week, a total of eight 170-litre ...

City of Guelph Workers Finds Buried Leaky Barrels of Oozing Petrol-based ...   E Canada Now
Update on Drums Found at Wellington Construction Site   Fountain Pen
Eight barrels containing unknown liquid removed from construction site   CTV News
Guelph Mercury   
CBC.ca   
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  National Geographic   
Supermoon is back this weekend  InfoTel News Ltd
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – Attention all sky-watchers, the last supermoon of 2014 will cruise across the night sky on Sunday. The moon will be 358,398 kilometers from earth making it about 15 per cent brighter and roughly 7 per cent larger, according to ...

Watch Final Summer Supermoon This Weekend   National Geographic
Supermoon of September at hand, with world photos from last two supermoons   The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
NJ Night Sky: Shine on harvest moon   The Star-Ledger
Miami's Community Newspapers   
Omaha World-Herald   
Muse   
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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
Using math to crack the coffee genome for a better brew   HealthCanal.com

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  Telegraph.co.uk   
Miniature bulbs: how to grow tiny dancers for your garden  Telegraph.co.uk
When I was a little girl, I would sometimes be taken, as a treat, to see Queen Mary's Dolls' House at Windsor Castle. Even for a grubby, doll-disdaining tomboy, there was something about the tiny ormulu sideboards and silken sofas, the diminutive saucepans ...

Time to get those spring bulbs into the ground   Prince George Citizen
Learning to Grow: Fall planting for spring blooms   Kane County Chronicle
Column: Bright ideas for bulb combinations   Chilliwack Progress

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  The Inquisitr   
Matt Ridley Questions Global Warming 'Pause' Ahead Of UN Meeting  The Inquisitr
In an op-ed piece, English Viscount Matt Ridley questions why global warming has apparently taken a pause for more than a decade. He may have wanted to maintain anonymity when submitting the piece to the Wall Street Journal, as the president of the ...

The Wall Street Journal Parade of Climate Lies   Huffington Post
More alarmist climate change reports   Brainerd Daily Dispatch
Climate science is not yet settled on warming   Troy Media
Mashable   
Wall Street Journal   
De Smog Blog (blog)   
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  Vancouver Sun   
Renowned anthropologist on a new adventure — academia  Macleans.ca
Wade Davis, Canada's real-life Indiana Jones, launched his academic career with a bang this week, delivering a sensational lecture at the University of British Columbia that left his first-year anthropology students slack-jawed in disbelief. The National ...

Wade Davis comes home to teach at UBC   Vancouver Sun

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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
WATCH: Japan's "Rabbit Island" Is A Most Unusual Place Inhabited Mostly By ...   News Radio Wood
A guy gets smothered by Bunnies on Rabbit Island!   TV3.ie
Huffington Post Canada   
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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 ...

Exotic tortoise, native to southern Sahara desert, found on Burnaby Mountain   Globalnews.ca
African tortoise rescued near SFU   Burnaby Now
Abandoned Tortoise Underscores Lax Laws Governing the Sale of Exotic Pets   E Canada Now
Maine News Online   
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Like weeds of the sea, 'brown tide' algae exploit nutrient-rich coastlines  Eureka! Science News
The sea-grass beds of Long Island's Great South Bay once teemed with shellfish. Clams, scallops and oysters filtered nutrients from the water and flushed money through the local economy. But three decades after the algae that cause brown tides first ...


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  Austrian Tribune   
Passenger Pigeons Remain Iconic  Austrian Tribune
Last passenger pigeon, Martha, died 100 years back in United States. The species was driven to extinction about a hundred years ago due to aggressive hunting and habitat loss. The birds were most abundant in North America until late 1800s. Allan W.
Cheryl Kimball's Nature Talks: The fascinating passenger pigeon's fall to extinction   NewHampshire.com
Royal Saskatchewan Museum marks 100th anniversary of passenger pigeon's ...   MetroNews Canada
Jamie Rappaport Clark: Making allout effort to ensure bird preservation   Gulf Today
Huffington Post   
The Philadelphia Tribune   
DigitalJournal.com   
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