2014年12月30日 星期二

2014-12-31 Canada English Science


Christian Science Monitor
   
BC radiation risk from Fukushima disaster 'insignificant:' research   
The Globe and Mail
As radiation from the Fukushima nuclear power-plant disaster drifted across the Pacific, fears that salmon and other marine life could be contaminated spread along the British Columbia coast. But samples gathered by citizen scientists and a more ...

Tracking Fukushima's radioactivity   Stuff.co.nz
Fukushima Radiation to Reach Highest Levels By End of 2015   Nature World News
Fukushima Radiation Will Most Likely Peak In North American Waters At The ...   Headlines & Global News
Los Angeles Times   
E Canada Now   
Globalnews.ca   
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National Geographic
   
Watch the New Year's Skies for a Green Comet   
National Geographic
Comet Lovejoy is brightening faster than expected, putting on a show you can see for yourself this holiday season. comet-lovejoy-photo-01.jpg. Comet Lovejoy, snapped here through a telescope on December 16, is streaking through the night sky this holiday ...

New Year's surprise: a comet you can see with the naked eye   Christian Science Monitor
Comet Lovejoy to reach closest position to Earth in New Year   CTV News
Lovejoy comet glows green in evening sky   WRAL.com
Smithsonian   
Tech Times   
Space.com   
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MINING.com
   
RioSol Announces Huge New Rare Earth Discovery in Peru   
Rare Earth Investing News
RioSol SAC and Compania Minera Rio Sol SAC have reported rare-earth and polymetallic claim discovery that is among the largest in Peru. The 10 kilometer claim could be the largest in the country, but additional exploration will be needed to further ...

Rare earths discovered in Peru   MINING.com
Significant Rare Earth Element Claim Discovery in Peru Reported   Digital Journal
Significant Rare Earth Element Discovery in Peru   PCBDesign007

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History
   
Encampment Discovered Near Stonehenge Could “Rewrite British History ...   
History
In a discovery they claim could “rewrite” British history, archeologists have excavated the remains of an untouched Mesolithic encampment near the famed monument at Stonehenge. The finds include flint tools, animal bones and charcoal samples dating back ...

Road Work Could Impede Stonehenge Discovery   E Canada Now
Road work can shackle Stonehenge discovery dating back to 4000 BC   Customs Today Newspaper
6000 Year-Old Encampment Near Stonehenge in Danger from Tunnel ...   Chinatopix

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CBC.ca
   
Monarch butterfly numbers may come back from record low   
CBC.ca
More monarch butterflies appear to have made the long flight from Canada and the U.S. to their winter nesting ground in western Mexico, raising hopes after their number dropped to a record low last year. But experts still fear that unusually cold temperatures ...

More monarchs in Mexico, but cold looms   Columbus Dispatch
More Monarchs return to Mexico, but now face cold   Brunswick News
Environmentalists see more Monarch butterflies in Mexico, but worry about ...   CTV News

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Quartz
   
2014 was the year of the melting ice sheet   
Quartz
Just as the planet swivels on the poles, so too does the fate of its coastlines. The disaster movie effects of climate change—drowning coastlines and raging blizzards, for instance—are tied to thawing ice sheets and glaciers in the Arctic and Antarctica.
The 2014 'Arctic Report Card' is here, and yes, it suggests global warming   Mashable
Arctic Ice Decreasing by 5% Per Decade   E Canada Now
Fate of Earth's Ice Comes Further Into Focus   Climate Central
Guelph Mercury   
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KVEO-TV
   
RGV's 115th Christmas Bird Count   
KVEO-TV
WESLACO, TX (KVEO NEWS CENTER 23) — Wrapping up the year means Christmas Bird Count season, a scientific task and tradition happening all over the nation. "It all started with tradition of the christmas hunt when people after dinner used to go out and ...

2014 San Francisco Christmas Bird Count   San Francisco Examiner
Bird count identifies 77 species   Northumberland Today
Weird weather for 47th Atikokan Christmas Bird Count   Atikokan Progress
KUAC   
Sisters Nugget   
Ithaca Journal   
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Phys.Org
   
Watch the Space Station fly by the moon at over 17000 mph   
VentureBeat
It's not something you'd ever be able to spot with your naked eyes, but thanks to a new video, we're now able to say we've seen the International Space Station (ISS) flying by the moon at high speed. In the video, shot in Ganot, Israel by Gadi Eidelheit, we see ...

Video: Space station flies in front of the moon   Phys.Org

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CBC.ca
   
US city lights outshine those in Germany when seen from space   
CBC.ca
German cities at night appear in satellite images as darker than U.S. cities of similar size, according to a new study. The study, appearing in a recent publication of the journal Remote Sensing, found German cities emit several times less light per capita than ...

US cities brighter than German cities   Business Standard
Image of the Week: U.S. Cities are Brighter than German Equivalents   Laboratory Equipment
American cities are many times brighter than German counterparts, study shows   Macro Insider
Science Codex   
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CBC.ca
   
Tantramar dikes feel pressue of rising sea levels   
CBC.ca
The Tantramar dikes have been protecting the Sackville, New Brunswick area for hundreds of years, but as sea levels slowly rise, the dikes will need to be heightened. Engineer Claude Robichaud is constantly surveying the dikes, looking for damage or ...


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