2014年10月2日 星期四

2014-10-03 Singapore Science


Dinosaur tracks in Bolivia threatened with extinction  AsiaOne
View of the rocky outcrop where dinosaur pawprints were found at the Cretaceous Park in Cal Orcko hill in Sucre, on September 17, 2014. More than 5,000 pawprints of 20 species of dinosaurs can be found at the Cal Orcko.

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  Phys.Org   
Flight ban to protect baby walruses beached in Alaska  Phys.Org
US wildlife authorities have ordered planes to avoid flying too close to a vast herd of exhausted walruses beached on a remote Alaskan beach. The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has told pilots to avoid flying below 2,000 feet to protect the animals, which ...


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  Yahoo News UK   
Seeking cash for climate protection? Time to get creative  Reuters
KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Governments and aid agencies are failing to tap into the hundreds of millions of dollars available to protect vulnerable people from the impacts of climate change, an Asian climate forum heard on Thursday.
Cap on liability for climate damage worth a look - expert   Thomson Reuters Foundation
TRF-Cap on liability for climate damage worth a look - expert   Reuters Africa

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  MSNBC   
35000 walruses stranded due to climate change effects  MSNBC
Usually in October, walruses chill out on sea ice. This year, however, climate change has delayed the plans of 35,000 walruses who are stranded on an Alaskan shore. The walruses came ashore just north of Point Lay, Alaska, because warming ocean ...

Blog: Climate change and huge walrus huddles   KRTV Great Falls News
Loss of Ice Forces Walruses to Dry Shores   Voice of America
In Alaska, Thousands of Walruses Take to Land   New York Times
Kiama Independent-Lake Times   
AsiaOne   
TravelersToday   
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  The Express Tribune   
Disturbing trends: 'Living Planet Index declined by 52%'  The Express Tribune
A recent report by the Worldwide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-P) has revealed that the global Living Planet Index has declined by 52 per cent in 40 years. The findings are based on 10,380 populations of 3,038 mammal, bird, reptile, fish and amphibian ...

52% of global wildlife 'gone' in past 40 years: WWF   The Star Online
WWF launches annual report on living planet   Fiji Times
Animal populations have declined 52 percent and humans are to blame   Examiner.com
Mashable   
News24   
Independent Online   
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  CommDigiNews   
Spoiled millennial greens  Tribune-Review
Two weekends ago 400,000 people with their fossil-fueled gadgets hopped on dozens of airplanes, on hundreds of buses and into thousands of cars to attend The People's Climate March in New York City. The worst offenders and usual hypocritical suspects ...

Climate Change Responsible for 2013 Weather Extremes   Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet
Tackling Climate Change, Together: Five Observations from UN Climate Week ...   Huffington Post
Scientists Eye 'Real-Time' Extreme Event Attribution   Climate Central
KQED   
CommDigiNews   
Grist   
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  Christian Science Monitor   
New ocean floor map reveals hidden seamounts – thousands of them  Christian Science Monitor
About 15,000 seamounts, ocean-floor volcanoes too short to breach the sea surface, have been revealed in a new topographic map of the Earth's oceans. By Becky Oskin, Livescience.com October 2, 2014. close. The new map, released Oct. 2 in the journal ...

Global Seafloor Survey Reveals Volcanic Wonderland   NBCNews.com
Uncharted ocean mountains, trenches and ridges revealed by satellite map   The Guardian
San Diego Scientists Map Unseen Features Of Ocean Floor   KPBS
Reuters   
ABC Science Online   
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  Dumb-Out   
Scientists Discover Some Sharks Are Loners  Dumb-Out
Apparently, that portrayal of sharks in Finding Nemo may not have been that far off. Scientists are saying that each shark has their own personality and their personality goes with them no matter the environment. This is not the first time that science has proven ...

Sharks might have distinct personalities   Washington Post
Sharks Can Now Take Buzzfeed Personality Tests   Daily Caller
Sharks Have Personalities: Some Have Lots Of Friends While Others Are Hermits   Headlines & Global News
Discovery News   
ValueWalk   
Tech Times   
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  Newser   
'Man on the Moon' Didn't Get There Way We Thought  Newser
(Newser) – Scientists know it as Oceanus Procellarum, but the rest of us generally refer to it as the "Man on the Moon"—the huge dark splotch on the moon visible from Earth. Either way, how did it get there? One commonly held view is that a massive asteroid ...

Man on the moon formed by volcanic activity, not asteroid impacts   Examiner.com
Moon May Have Been More Geologically Active Than Thought [STUDY]   ValueWalk
Scientists discover the origins of moon's strange shapes   Tech Times
ABC News   
Dumb-Out   
ExecutiveBiz (blog)   
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  International Business Times AU   
US Cites 'Planetary Defense' As Reason For Keeping Old Nuclear Weapons  International Business Times AU
The United States has been found to have breached its commitment to get rid of its old nuclear weapons by 2015 because it believes the arsenal can be used to destroy asteroids to save planet Earth. The Government Accountability Office recently examined ...

US on nukes: we're keeping them to blow up asteroids   SlashGear
Grapevine: Gov't regs force California winery to close   Fox News
America is holding on to nukes for defending the planet against asteroids   Daily Mail
Headlines & Global News   
The Post-Standard - syracuse.com   
Ottawa Citizen   
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