2014年12月2日 星期二

2014-12-03 Canada English Science


The Nation
   
Mastodons vanished before humans reached Alaska   
The Nation
Mastodons, the giant lumbering cousins of mammoths and elephants, likely disappeared from Alaska and the Yukon long before humans arrived across the Bering Land Bridge from Asia, researchers said Monday. Mastodons were once believed to have ...

Cold climate may have led to American mastodon's demise   Science Recorder
What doomed the American mastodon? Was it over overkill or overchill?   Los Angeles Times
Mastodons weren't hunted to extinction by Ice Age humans — they simply froze ...   National Post
The Globe and Mail   
CTV News   
CBC.ca   
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Times of India
   
By 2100, polar bears to be on brink of starvation   
Times of India
TORONTO: Polar bears may face starvation and reproductive failure by the year 2100 due to heavy loss of Arctic sea ice, a new study has warned. Shifts in the timing and duration of Arctic ice cover, especially the possible lengthening of ice-free periods, may ...

Polar Bears Could Be In Serious Trouble By 2100 Due To Shrinking Sea Ice   Headlines & Global News
Shrinking Arctic ice driving polar bears to extinction, says study   International Business Times UK
Polar bears face starvation and reproductive failure as climate warms, WWF says   The Hoops News
Scientific American   
CoinNews.net   
CBC.ca   
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Dickinson County News
   
Zebra mussel census includes mixed results   
Dickinson County News
Iowa Department of Natural Resources Fisheries biologist Mike Hawkins has mixed news for area lakes as the zebra mussel watch continues. "We're seeing exactly what we expected -- we're seeing a ballooning of the population on the Okoboji Lakes -- that ...

MLA REPORT: Continued government inaction on zebra mussels will result in ...   Revelstoke Times Review
Film focussed on mussels   Pentiction Western News

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BBC News
   
King Richard III's DNA opens a door to a new historical mystery   
Los Angeles Times
It's a 500-year-old missing person's case and researchers say it has now been solved, definitively. The missing person was King Richard III, the controversial English monarch, described as having one shoulder higher than another. He ascended the throne in ...

Richard III DNA shows British Royal family may not have royal bloodline   Telegraph.co.uk
Richard III remains confirmed, but DNA test raises other questions   CBC.ca
DNA Confirms: Here Lieth Richard III, Under Yon Parking Lot   National Geographic
USA TODAY   
Irish Independent   
The Week Magazine   
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Canadian Underwriter
   
Majority of Americans now showing concern about climate change's impact on ...   
Canadian Underwriter
Americans in the region recently affected by major hurricanes such as Superstorm Sandy are showing the most concern about climate change and its impact on severe weather, according to a new survey from Munich Re. In the Climate Change Barometer ...

Survey Shows 8-in-10 Americans Believe in Climate Change   Insurance Journal
Poll: 83% of Americans say climate is changing   USA TODAY
Munich Re America: Climate Concerns by Region   Digital Journal

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Sun News Network
   
Western space explorers release photos of Mars' surface   
CTV News
Western University researchers have received their first images of Mars, taken with the largest telescope ever used for a deep space mission. They placed the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to capture these two images. The Western ...

Canadian scientists get close ups of Mars   Sun News Network

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New York Times
   
NASA set to launch Orion spacecraft, paving way for human Mars visit   
Los Angeles Times
NASA is preparing for the maiden launch this week of its new Orion spacecraft, which could help jump-start America's return to human exploration of space, including a journey to Mars. This unmanned mission is relatively simple, less than five hours long and ...

NASA Sees Capsule Test as a Step Toward Mars   New York Times
NASA spaceship faces critical test flight on Thursday   Reuters
Testing NASA: How Space Exploration Will Work in the Orion Era   NBCNews.com
Stuff.co.nz   
The Age   
Science Recorder   
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Times of India
   
Satellite sends image to Earth using laser beam   
Zee News
London: For the first time, an image taken by a satellite has been sent to Earth using a laser beam, paving the way for instant streaming of satellite images to Earth. The image of Berlin taken by the Sentinel-1A satellite, was beamed to another satellite called ...

ESA and Airbus test LASER data networks IN SPAAACE   The Register
ESA links satellites for realtime Earth pics   Prague Post

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CBC.ca
   
Belugas should be on endangered species list, government told   
CBC.ca
The southern beluga and five other species are now considered endangered in Canada, as the country's at-risk species list grows in the latest assessment of Canadian wildlife. The committee on the status of endangered wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC), the ...

Protection for at-risk species falters over Ottawa delays, scientists say   The Globe and Mail
Threatened Nunavut wolverine habitat may lead to species protection   Nunatsiaq News
Canadian wildlife continue to struggle   Canada NewsWire (press release)

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Stuff.co.nz
   
MIT have high hopes for cheetah robot   
Stuff.co.nz
It's a robot unlike any other: inspired by the world's fastest land animal, controlled by video game technology and packing nifty sensors - including one used to maneuver drones, satellites and ballistic missiles. The robot, called the cheetah, can run on ...

Robo-cheetah may save lives in 10 years   Daily Times
MIT Engineers Have High Hopes for Cheetah Robot   Scientific Computing

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