2014年9月10日 星期三

2014-09-11 Canada English Science

  BBC News   
Ozone layer showing 'signs of recovery', UN says  BBC News
The ozone layer that shields the earth from cancer-causing ultraviolet rays is showing early signs of thickening after years of depletion, a UN study says. The ozone hole that appears annually over Antarctica has also stopped growing bigger every year.
Ozone layer on track to recovery: UN   The Hindu
Report on 'thickening ozone layer' hailed   Herald Scotland
Earth's ozone layer shows signs of healing   Daily Digest
The Australian   
LiveScience.com   
Sydney Morning Herald   
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  Toronto Star   
Franklin ship discovery just the 'beginning'  CBC.ca
Searchers looking for the two lost vessels of the Franklin expedition may have found a ship, but the discovery in frigid waters off Nunavut is in many ways only the start of unravelling the mystery of the ill-fated mid-19th century voyage and understanding its ...

Why is the Franklin expedition such a Canadian story?   The Globe and Mail
Franklin mission mystery: 'Hugely significant,' British experts says   Toronto Star
Video: Can Harper government take credit for Franklin Expedition discovery?   Canada.com
Maple Ridge Times   
Irish Examiner   
Examiner.com   
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  Design & Trend   
Saturn's Rings Rapidly Creates And Destroys Forming Moonlets  Design & Trend
(Photo : Wikipedia) The birth and death of miniature moons is constantly occurring in the rings of Saturn - but researchers are only just now dragging these dramatic events into the public spotlight. The birth and death of miniature moons is constantly occurring ...

Moonlets Born, Die in Saturn's F Ring   Sci-Tech Today
Mini-moons discovered in never-ending birth and death cycle around Saturn   Yahoo News Canada (blog)
Mini-moons form in a matter of months in Saturn's chaotic F ring   Los Angeles Times
Smithsonian   
Tech Times   
Maine News   
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Parasitoid wasp touted as long-term hope for fighting emerald ash borer  St. Thomas Times-Journal
As many as 130 female parasitic wasps, non-stinging and barely visible to the naked eye, will emerge from each of 15 emerald ash borer larvae in this block of wood. John Enright, forester? with the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority, is local lead of ...

London-area experts using wasps to fight emerald ash borer   MetroNews Canada
UTRCA fighting emerald ash borer with parasitic wasp   CTV News

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  Reuters   
Recently discovered Jurassic 'squirrels' are the earliest known mammals  Daily Digest
Researchers in China have discovered fossils which dramatically alter the story of mammalian evolution. The six fossils of tiny, squirrel-like creatures represent a new group called Euharamiyida. Previously scientists only had teeth to represent the small ...

Scientists discover 3 new mammals that lived alongside dinosaurs   Los Angeles Times
Jurassic 'squirrels' push back clock on emergence of mammals   Christian Science Monitor
Squirrel-like critters lived alongside Jurassic age dinosaurs, study says   Science Recorder
London Free Press   
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  Vancouver Sun   
Marshall Islander selected as opening speaker for UN Climate Summit  Marianas Variety
MAJURO — A Marshall Islands poet activist has been named the opening speaker at U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's one-day Climate Summit in New York City this month. Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, a 26-year-old instructor at the College of the Marshall ...

Marshall Islands people to tell the world of climate change fears   Radio Australia
Why climate change is perfectly designed to be ignored and what we can do ...   Vancouver Sun (blog)
Trust Me, You'll Want to Hear George Marshall Talk About "Multivalent" Climate ...   De Smog Blog (blog)
Cult MTL   
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  CTV News   
Chris Hadfield to attend international space conference in China  CTV News
MONTREAL -- Retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield says he hopes a major convention being held in China for the first time will lay the groundwork for future international co-operation in space. Hadfield will attend the International Planetary Congress, ...


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  ABC News   
Climate change threatens birds, pushes them north  CBC.ca
The laugh of the loon across southern Canadian lakes may soon be replaced by the calls of unfamiliar birds such as white-faced ibises and Mississippi kites, because of climate change. A new Birds and Climate Report from the New York-based conservation ...

Changing world mean doom looms for North American birds: DiManno   Toronto Star
New warning about the impact of global warming on birds   Tech Times
Climate Change Could Result In Cataclysmic Bird Extinction   Dumb-Out
KREM.com (subscription)   
Thehour.com   
Daily Democrat   
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All things introvert  Coquitlam Now
Though the current stress for many parents is arranging daycare and keeping kids productively occupied until our schools reopen, September is a month of anticipation, relief and anxiety. Where you fall in the spectrum of introversion and extroversion ...

Healthwise: Life as an introvert in an extroverted world   The Record (New Westminster)

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  McGill Reporter   
Royal Society of Canada honours four McGill researchers and scholars  McGill Reporter
On Sept. 9, the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) announced 90 new Fellows, including four McGill researchers and scholars from the Faculties of Science and Medicine. Professors Nigel Roulet, Peter S. McPherson, Constantin Polychronakos and Daniel Wise ...


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