2015年3月5日 星期四

2015-03-06 Pakistan Science


The Express Tribune
   
Bid to smuggle 'largest' turtle parts shipment foiled   
DAWN.com
KARACHI: A Hong Kong-bound consignment of over 4,000 dried body parts of freshwater turtles, a protected species in the country, was confiscated last week by the customs authorities at Karachi port, it emerged on Thursday. The dried body parts were ...

Shells in trouble: Meat of over 4000 turtles seized from Karachi port   The Express Tribune

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NewsHub.org
   
Ministry gets go-ahead on Climate Change Policy   
The Nation
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has given go-ahead to newly-inducted Federal Minister for Climate Change, Mushahid Ullah Khan for the implementation of first Climate Change Policy and taking the provinces into confidence in this regard, The ...

Business Preparedness and the New Normal of Climate Change   EconomyWatch.com
Climaction: The differentiated impacts of climate change   The Hindu
Climate Watch the Gambia Launched   The Point
AllAfrica.com   
The Conversation US   
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NDTV
   
Mars Had an Ocean, Scientists Say, Pointing to New Data   
NDTV
An artist's rendering of what researchers believe Mars looked like 4 billion years ago, when water now frozen in the planet's icecaps formed a great northern ocean. (Greg Shirah/NASA via The New York Times) ...

Very Deep Water Once Covered Mars, NASA Says   Voice of America
Mars once had an ocean with more water than the Arctic – NASA   RT
Mars once had an entire ocean -- and then lost it, scientists say   Los Angeles Times
Zee News   
Discovery News   
CNET   
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Christian Science Monitor
   
Two new spider species: 'Skeletorus' and 'Sparklemuffin'   
Christian Science Monitor
A scientist in Australia has discovered two new species of peacock spider, which she bestowed with memorable names. By Agata Blaszczak Boxe, LiveScience March 3, 2015. close. A male of the peacock spider species Maratus jactatus, which is nicknamed ...

Newly Discovered Colorful Spiders Named Sparklemuffin and Skeletorus   News Every day
Skeletorus and Sparklemuffin: 2 new peacock spiders discovered in Australia   Times Gazette
“Sparklemuffin” and “Skeletorus” are two new spider species   ZME Science
Customs Today Newspaper   
KSL.com   
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Geek
   
Look for fingerprints of life on other planets   
The Daily Star
The recent discovery of two new planets, dubbed Kepler-438b and Kepler-442b, proves that small habitable-zone planets exist – something we did not know only five years ago. The question of whether alien worlds like our own exist around other stars has ...

MIT can detect alien weather, including clouds laced with liquid rock   Geek
Cloud behavior expands habitable zone of alien planets   Customs Today Newspaper

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West Texas News
   
Metal Rain Could Explain Why the Earth Made of Different Stuff Than the Moon   
Smithsonian
We already know that Earth's formation would have been a rough time for the planet — asteroids and even other young planets from the Solar System's birth slammed into our planet repeatedly. Now, though, researchers suspect that that bombardment may ...

Research Reaches to the Center of the Earth's Formation   Empire State Tribune
Iron Rain Helped in Formation of Earth's Core: Study   West Texas News
Collision fueled iron vapors give clues to formation of Earth's core   Business Standard
Livermore Independent   
Voice Chronicle   
Morning Ticker   
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Forbes
   
Human Missing Link - Fossil Found   
Forbes
A gaping hole in the fossil record has been plugged with the discovery of a jawbone fragment showing how our ancestors evolved from Australopithecus aferensis, a primitive “ape man”, to modern Homo sapiens. The lower mandible with five teeth also ...

Fossil jaw sheds more light on early humans   Arab News
Ancient teeth chew up ancestral theory   Times LIVE
Looks like humans are actually hundreds of thousands of years older than we ...   Quartz
ABC News   
The News International   
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Empire State Tribune
   
"Ultra-little Microorganisms" Likely to be the Littlest Living Things on the Planet   
Empire State Tribune
Researchers don't simply set out for some searching for gigantic and far cosmic systems when they need to investigate the obscure. There's bounty to be gained from the flip side of nature's size range, as well. In a new Nature Communications paper, ...

“Ultra-small bacteria”, .009 cubic microns scientists found on earth   Customs Today Newspaper
First-ever image of world's smallest microbes captured   RedOrbit

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SBS
   
Comment: Lifting India out of poverty and pollution   
SBS
India's air is cutting 660 million lives short by about three years, while nearly all of the country's 1.2 billion citizens are breathing in harmful pollution levels. By. Kelly O'Shanassy. 6 Mar 2015 - 1:34 PM UPDATED 49 MINS AGO ...

Bad Air Chokes New Delhi's Livability Ranking   Wall Street Journal (blog)
The Fog of War Over India's Polluted Skies   Foreign Policy (blog)
Pollution levels reach global high in India   Johns Hopkins News-Letter
The Nation   
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CBC.ca
   
Turtle trafficking investigation gets help from Alberta paleontologist   
CBC.ca
Environment Canada announced this week that an Ontario herbal supply company pleaded guilty to unlawfully importing protected species of turtles and tortoises into Canada. Don Brinkman, a paleontologist at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, played a key role in ...

Drumheller paleontologist helps crack turtle smuggling case   Calgary Herald
Canadian palaeontologist assists in cracking turtle smuggling case   Customs Today Newspaper

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