2015年6月22日 星期一

2015-06-23 Singapore Science


Business Green
   
Ignore pinch of carbon tax for long-term benefits   
The Straits Times
I WAS disheartened to learn that, despite the majority being "very concerned" about climate change, only a minority was supportive of a carbon tax ("Very concerned? Yes. Carbon tax? No"; June 9). The poor response in the global survey reflected, first, that ...

Yes to R&D, but we must not let carbon pricing be forgotten   Business Green

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San Jose Mercury News
   
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Pope Francis urges consensus on climate change   
San Jose Mercury News
There is something I have never understood about the argument over global warming. That argument was, of course, renewed last week with the leaking, and then the official release, of a new papal letter excoriating human mistreatment of "our common home ...

Why papal encyclicals continue to be relevant   Irish Examiner
Pope Francis and climate change   Irish Times
The Miracle of Pope Francis   Wall Street Journal
San Francisco Chronicle (subscription)   
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GMA News
   
PHIVOLCS: Up to moderate steam emission from Bulusan in last 24 hours   
GMA News
Weak to moderate steam emissions were recorded at Bulusan Volcano in Sorsogon in the last 24 hours, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said Tuesday. In its 8 a.m. update, PHIVOLCS also said no volcanic quake was recorded from ...

Bulusan Volcano tightly monitored   gulfnews.com
Manila, June 21, 2015 (AFP) -   The Hindu
Philippine government takes precautions as Mount Bulusan turns lively   AsiaOne
CNN   
NDTV   
The Straits Times   
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AsiaOne
   
Plan to save Singapore freshwater crab from extinction   
AsiaOne
NParks researchers carrying out fieldwork on the Johora singaporensis crab. Experts estimate there are only a few hundred reproductively mature members of the species in the wild. Photo: CAI YIXIONG ...

5 things to know about the endangered Singapore freshwater crab   The Straits Times

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Laser radar to help cities combat smog   
eco-business.com
Chinese engineers are developing laser radar equipment that can monitor and analyze air pollutants such as PM2.5, the leader of the project has revealed. “Laser radar is a new monitor and measurement tool in the environmental and meteorological fields, ...


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Times of India
   
White House: Action needed now to slow climate change   
Times of India
WASHINGTON: Failure to act on climate change could cause an estimated 57,000 deaths a year in the United States from poor air quality by 2100, the Obama administration argued in a report released Monday that warns of dire effects of global warming.
EPA Warns of High Cost of Climate Change   New York Times
EPA: Fighting Climate Change Will Save Lives   Voice of America
Waiting for oil crisis will make it harder to tackle climate change   Sydney Morning Herald
Washington Post   
Telegraph.co.uk   
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GMA News
   
Early Europeans interbred with Neanderthals – study   
GMA News
Some 10,000 years later, if the sketchy fossil record is right, the Neanderthals had been replaced by our ancestors, and one of the greatest mysteries in anthropology was born. Were the Neanderthals wiped out by Homo sapiens, the smart hominids who rose ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals 'interbred in Europe'   BBC News
Early human may have had a Neanderthal for a great-great-grandparent   CBS News
Neanderthal hybrid suggests modern humans bred with them much later than ...   Washington Post
Reuters   
Christian Science Monitor   
Mirror.co.uk   
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Phys.Org
   
Look up: Solar storm lights up our life   
NEWS.com.au
THERE'S a battle going on over our heads: Earth's ionosphere is fighting to repel an onslaught of raw energy shot at us from the Sun. The sights are spectacular. Two strong solar storms have slammed into Earth in recent days, increasing the chances of ...

Solar storm smacks earth   Sky News Australia
Severe solar storm hits Earth, auroras expected to be visible   CBC.ca
Watch for Incredible Northern Lights From Tonight's Geomagnetic Storm   Gizmodo
USA TODAY   
Slate Magazine (blog)   
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Rappler
   
Lion among 23000 species threatened with extinction: conservationists   
ABS CBN News
GENEVA, Switzerland - The mighty lion, reclusive cave crabs and the world's rarest sea lion are among nearly 23,000 species at risk of dying out, a top conservation body warned Tuesday. In an update to its "Red List" of threatened species, the International ...

Endangered wildlife list swells in 2015, from lions to orchids   Reuters UK

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International Business Times UK
   
Japan says to resume whale hunts in Antarctic end year   
International Business Times UK
Japan has said it plans to resume whale hunts in the Antarctic later this year despite international calls for more evidence that the hunts have a scientific purpose. Joji Morishita, Japan's commissioner to the International Whaling Commission told journalists on ...

Japan intends to resume whale hunt this year   The Nation
Japan to resume whale hunts in the Antarctic   CBS News
Japan makes everyone angry by deciding to hunt whales again this year   The Week Magazine
TakePart   
RT   
ABC Online   
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