2015年9月1日 星期二

2015-09-02 Pakistan Science


The Express Tribune
   
Scavenger bird: Almost all species of vultures disappearing from Pakistan: IUCN   
The Express Tribune
The IUCN has collaborated with a local organisation, Baanhn Beli, to launch a project for vulture's conservation in Nangarparkar, Tharparkar. The bird's population has declined rapidly in the last few years in the region. PHOTO: COURTESY IUCN. KARACHI: ...

IUCN, NGO Baanhn Beli launches project for protection of fast-disappearing ...   Daily Pakistan
Plan for protection of fast-disappearing vultures   Pakistan Today

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CNET
   
5ft-long scorpion that terrorised the seas 460 million years ago   
Daily Times
The 'fantastically preserved' fossils of the largest and oldest species of sea scorpion ever found have been unearthed in Iowa. Dating back 460 million years, the eurypterid species would have measured more than 5ft (1.5 metres) long and had unique ...

Ancient scorpion of the sea is the granddaddy of arachnids   CNET

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Los Angeles Times
   
This ice cream doesn't melt -- are you freaking out yet?   
Los Angeles Times
Remember when a mother made the news last year because her son's Wal-mart ice cream sandwich just wouldn't melt? Well now scientists in Britain are attempting to make an ice cream that doesn't melt. See the most-read stories in Life & Style this hour ...

Slower-melting ice cream? Scientists may have it licked   CNET
Slow-melting ice cream comes closer to reality   Financial Express
Melt-Resistant Ice Cream May Be Coming To A Cone Near You   Huffington Post
CNBC   
Christian Science Monitor   
Daily Mail   
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The Nation
   
Adapt or die: Arctic 'habitants' cope with climate change   
The Nation
Celine SERRAT - When it comes to coping with climate change in the Arctic region, which is warming at three times the global average, some animals are more equal than others. Migrating Barnacle geese that fly north to lay eggs amid the Norwegian Arctic ...
Adapt or die: Arctic animals cope with climate change   Times of Oman
Adapting to climate change: Some animals cope better than others   Hindustan Times

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Politico
   
What's happening in Bonn right now   
Politico
Publisher will pay ancillary copyright fees for snippets of stories aggregated in a Samsung app. 1/9/15 4:30 PM CEST. Ukraine's far-right menace. BY Lev Golinkin. A bloody divorce between the Ukrainian government and the country's ultranationalist ...
Boffins upbeat over climate change pact   BDlive
UN said to summon leaders to closed-door climate change meeting   Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
UN summons leaders to closed-door climate change meeting   The Australian Financial Review
Washington Post   
The Straits Times   
Reuters   
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CNN International
   
Met the scorpion's prehistoric, bigger, badder cousin   
CNN International
(CNN) In the prehistoric oceans, this was one bad bug. Scientists are marveling at the world's oldest sea scorpion -- the Pentecopterus, named after a Greek warship. Imagine a creature nearly 6 feet in length, with a long head, a narrow body and large ...
Researchers find evidence of giant sea scorpion-like animal that lived 450 ...   NYC Today
Human-sized prehistoric scorpions discovered, too big for Starship Troopers   Morning Ticker
Ancient sea-scorpion may be the world's first predator   NewsQuench
Tribune-Review   
RT   
Gizmodo   
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Irish Examiner
   
90% of seabirds have plastic in stomachs, say scientists   
Irish Examiner
Up to nine out of 10 of the world's seabirds likely have pieces of plastic in their guts, a new study estimates. Previously, scientists figured about 29% of seabirds had swallowed plastic, based on older studies. An Australian team of scientists which ...
Nearly all of the world's seabirds have eaten plastic, study estimates   Washington Post
Shocking figures reveal 90% of seabirds have eaten plastic   Daily Times
Seabirds Keep Eating All the Plastic We're Throwing in the Ocean   VICE News
Newsweek   
RT   
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TIME
   
NASA just released this incredible video of what it was like to fly over Pluto ...   
Cheboygan Daily News
Earlier this year, NASA made history by sending the first unmanned spacecraft to one of the farthest worlds in our solar system: Pluto. Now, the agency has released this incredible video, made from real images of the spacecraft's journey, where you can ...

Pluto probe gets new assignment   FoxReno.com
Video Shows Flyby Of Pluto From New Horizons' Perspective   CBS Local
NASA is sending the probe that took pictures of Pluto to the far reaches of ...   Business Insider
The Planetary Society (blog)   
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Metro
   
The Curiosity rover spotted a 'floating spoon' on Mars   
Washington Post
You've probably read about the supposed woman on Mars, spotted in photos from NASA's rovers. Well, I've been over here rolling my eyes so hard they're in danger of falling out, because that's totally ridiculous. But have you heard about the floating spoon?
Curiosity Finds a 'Floating Spoon' on Mars   Discovery News
A Spoon On Mars!   Forbes
Curiosity's latest Mars discovery: a floating 'spoon'   SlashGear
Catholic Online   
First to Know   
Sydney Morning Herald   
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Cue the foreign affairs freakout over the Arctic   
Washington Post
I'm beginning to notice a trend in Sunday New York Times coverage: every few months, it runs a front-page story about waning U.S. influence to some great power competitor in a less-than-vital part of the globe. Five months ago, it was Jane Perlez ...

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