en-pk-hotdailynews: 2015-06-20 Pakistan Science

El Niño Conditions Mean 2015 Could Be the Hottest Year Ever
VICE News
The first five months of 2015 were the warmest ever recorded, which means this year may well become the hottest year on record, surpassing last year's chart-topping temperatures. Temperatures in May were the highest for the month since 1880, rising 1.57 ...

'When Thunder Roars, Go Indoors' National Lightning Safety Awareness Week   Patch.com
It's Official, May 2015 Was the Warmest On Record   Curbed Seattle
2015 expected to be hottest year on record   Pakistan Today
thejournal.ie
NYC Today
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The Pope's Solution for Warming: Pray
Wall Street Journal
With unintended sacrilege one news-service headline this week credited the pope with “finding religion on climate change.” Maybe it would be truer to say Pope Francis has tried to annex one of the newer religions, that of global warming, to Catholic liturgy, ...

The Pope's Landmark Call on Climate Change   New York Times
Pope Francis' environmental encyclical is even more radical than it appears ...   Washington Post
Pope Francis and the environment   Irish Times
The Globe and Mail
Los Angeles Times
Daily Times
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New Marie Curie film showcases struggle
The Hindu
Filming is underway in Poland on a new biopic about the life of Marie Sklodowska-Curie, the first woman ever to win not one, but two, Nobel prizes for her seminal discoveries in physics and chemistry. Working in Paris, Curie coined the term "radioactivity" after ...

Marie Curie biopic spotlights women's struggles in science   Arab News
Marie Curie Is Getting a Biopic   Jezebel
New Marie Curie Film Will Highlight the Bias Against Women in Science   The Mary Sue
CTV News
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NDTV

New Year celebration lands on Mars (Pa.)
NewsOK.com
MARS, Pa. — NASA has successfully made its first trip to Mars — the Butler County borough, that is — to celebrate the new year on the planet of the same name Friday and Saturday. The celebration marks Mars Year 33. Mars's new year begins on the planet's ...

Mars New Year kicks off in style with dinner, speakers   The Cranberry Eagle
Veteran NASA Spacecraft Nears 60000th Lap Around Mars, No Pit Stops   PR Newswire (press release)
Butler County Earthlings Celebrate Red Planet's New Year   90.5 WESA
Arizona State University
The Indian Panorama
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Humans could be among the victims of sixth 'mass extinction', scientists warn
ABC Online
The world is embarking on its sixth mass extinction with animals disappearing about 100 times faster than they used to, scientists warn, and humans could be among the first victims of the next extinction event. Not since the age of the dinosaurs ended 66 ...

Earth 'entering new extinction phase' - US study   BBC News
Scientists: Man has triggered Earth's sixth mass extinction   Irish Examiner
Earth has reached sixth mass extinction: study   CTV News
SFGate
Santa Cruz Sentinel
The Manila Times
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Why solar panels won't solve climate change
Irish Times
Bill McKibben had the first hybrid electric car in Vermont. His home in the countryside of the American state is covered in solar panels, and has all the “right” lights, but, he says, “I don't try to fool myself that's how we'll solve climate change.” Described by Time ...

Climate Change and Moral Responsibility   New York Times
Mark Altgelt: The only way on our climate   Vallejo Times Herald
Why we must listen to the pope on climate change   The Guardian
Center For American Progress
Vibe Ghana
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
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Sunday is the longest day of the year, but why?
CBS News
The summer solstice arrives Sunday June 21. Those of us in the Northern Hemisphere know it as the longest day of the year. But how exactly does that work? Here's the science, put simply: Start by imagining the Earth circling around the sun. Now picture a ...

The Summer Solstice: Celebrated Through the Ages   Newsweek
Sunday 21st June is the Longest Day of the Year; Summer Solstice 2015   Maine News Online
What Is the Summer Solstice? Explaining the Longest Day of the Year   TIME
Reuters
The Independent
Mirror.co.uk
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CBC.ca

Raring to go, comet lander sends more signals
USA TODAY
Out of the shadows and into the sunlight, the sleepy-headed little comet lander Philae has again updated its status after waking from a seventh-month slumber six days ago, the European Space Agency said Friday. And its rarin' to get back to work, controllers ...

Philae comet probe transmits scientific data back to Earth, European scientists say   ABC Online
Comet lander Philae renews contact   BBC News
Philae comet lander back in touch after 5-day gap   Washington Post

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Venus, Jupiter on beautiful "collision" course
CBS News
Stargazers this weekend are in for a treat. Venus and Jupiter have been drawing nearer to each other in the sky all month. Friday and Saturday, after dusk, they will appear to come together and will most likely the brightest objects in the sky, after the sun and ...

Celestial event   The Hindu
Jupiter and Venus alignment 2015: How to watch the two brightest planets in the ...   WalesOnline
Venus, Jupiter to converge in the night sky on June 30   Daily News & Analysis
Business Standard
Sky & Telescope
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Volcanoes on Venus? Lava may still flow on mysterious planet
Los Angeles Times
Hidden beneath a thick atmosphere, volcanoes may still be erupting on the surface of Venus, a new study finds. The findings, described in the journal Geophysical Review Letters, reveal that our nearest planetary neighbor could be far more active than ...

Are There Active Volcanoes on Venus?   Wired
Venus appears to have active volcanoes   The Space Reporter
'Tantalising' glimpse of volcanic eruptions on Venus   BBC News
Forbes
Sentinel Republic
Financial Express
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