2014年11月3日 星期一

2014-11-04 Singapore Science

  Reuters   
Branson still plans to take family on Virgin space trip  Herald Scotland
SIR Richard Branson has insisted he still intends to travel to space with his family on a Virgin Galactic spaceship despite the fatal crash during a test flight. SIR Richard Branson has insisted he still intends to travel to space with his family on a Virgin Galactic ...

Lever under scrutiny in Virgin spaceship disaster   Channel News Asia
Pilot Actions Examined in US Crash of Virgin Galactic Spacecraft   NDTV
Virgin Galactic crash prompts US transport board to probe aviation group   The Globe and Mail
Chron.com   
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  eco-business.com   
Australia is 'holding back' global climate change fight  eco-business.com
Australia, which has the world's highest carbon emissions per capita and the second biggest coal exporter, has scrapped the carbon tax this year, amidst widespread protests from its citizens. Image: Paintings / Shutterstock.com · BBC News Tuesday 4 ...

WE SAY: Abbott coal focus a major gamble   The Sunshine Coast Daily
Australia PM defends coal after UN warning on climate   Yahoo News UK
Coal is the future, insists Tony Abbott as UN calls for action on climate change   The Guardian
The Monthly (subscription)   
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  Financial Post   
Peter Foster: Dedicated to promoting synthetic climate alarmism  Financial Post
The latest synthesis report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the “capstone” of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report — contains no surprises. However, it is intriguing for how it deals with the absence of warming in the past fifteen ...

Robinson: Long-term investments bring no short-term gain   Salt Lake Tribune
Sounding the alarm on climate change: IPCC eliminates the doubts on human ...   Irish Times
#dnaEdit: Living in denial   Daily News & Analysis
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Slate Magazine (blog)   
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RI hosts inaugural sessions of REDD+ Academy  eco-business.com
Indonesia is hosting inaugural sessions of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) Academy in Yogyakarta, which has been established to aid the global fight against deforestation by creating economic value from carbon ...


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  eco-business.com   
10 takeaways from the 2014 Arctic Circle Assembly  Alaska Dispatch
REYKJAVIK, Iceland -- The second annual Arctic Circle Assembly wrapped up Sunday in this beautiful city on the western shore of a 40,000-square-mile, volcanic rock in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, and most of the 1,300 people who came from ...

As UN Releases Climate Report, One Expert Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2020   Huffington Post

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  The Nation   
European birds have declined by nearly half a billion since 1980  Science Recorder
European birds are disappearing fast, according to a new study published in the journal Ecology Letters, with the overall bird population declining by 20 percent since 1980. Where there were once 2.1 billion birds in the continent, there are now 1.6 billion, ...

European Birds Are Disappearing: Populations Down 20 Percent Since 1980   Newsweek
Europe's bird population falls by 421 million in 30 years, Exeter study finds   Exeter Express and Echo
European Birds Species on the Decline   Nature World News
Mic   
Salon   
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  The Nation   
Robot baby penguin infiltrates Antarctic colony  Los Angeles Times
For decades, humans have built rovers to visit places we can't easily reach, including the moon and Mars. Now scientists have built a rover to explore another challenging target: colonies of adorable penguins. A team led by scientists from the University of ...

Penguin-bot is a happy feat for science   The Star Online
Rover dressed as a penguin aids conservation   BBC News
Robotic baby penguin helps researchers get closer to shy adults   The Independent
Christian Science Monitor   
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  Science 2.0   
Why We Can't "Backup Earth" On Mars, The Moon, Or Anywhere Else In Our ...  Science 2.0
Elon Musk says he wants to create a backup of Earth on Mars - and Stephen Hawking also says that humans have to move into space to survive long term. This is hardly ever questioned in the media. Now here are other good reasons for space settlements ...

MIT astronomer says NASA's focus on 'capturing asteroids in baggies' is misguided   ExtremeTech
NASA focusing on Technologies for In-Situ Resource Utilization   PerfScience
Ebola Outbreak May Hold Lessons for Handling Samples from Mars   Yahoo News
RedOrbit   
Examiner.com   
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G20 airport ban claims third advertiser  Stuff.co.nz
Three organisations, including an official group, have been banned from advertising at the Brisbane international airport before the G20 leaders summit. The C20 - a civil society forum that engages with the G20 - wanted to place advertisements in lightboxes ...


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  New York Times   
In Traveling to the Stars, Risk and Cost  New York Times
An unmanned Orbital Sciences rocket exploded after liftoff in Virginia last Tuesday. Credit Joel Kowsky/NASA, via Associated Press. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story Share This Page.
Antares failure says nothing about NASA   The State Press
Antares rocket failure originated near its engines   Gigaom
Another View: Stunning rocket failure raises deeper space policy doubt   Kane County Chronicle
The National Interest Online (blog)   
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Sci-Tech Today   
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