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2014-12-17 South Africa Science


The Indian Express
   
From Copenhagen to Lima: An Observer's Take on Why the Lima Call to Action ...   
Huffington Post
The deadline for two long weeks of climate negotiations in Peru had already passed when the man who had presided over the entire event Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Peru's environment minister, announced the Lima Call to Climate Action. At five pages, the ...

An inadequate compromise on climate change confirms Lima was not going to ...   Irish Times
India-US climate talks to focus on clean energy, tech R&D   Economic Times
Why politicians don't fight climate change: Walkom   Toronto Star
Businessweek   
BBC News   
Daily Caller   
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Islamabad Globe
   
Google Lunar X Prize Deadline Extended until 2016   
Islamabad Globe
Google Lunar X prize is a competition about to send spacecrafts to moon.It was planning to end on this year but the officials of google announced that deadline extended to the 2016.As we can understand that its not an easy competition and the award will be ...

Pittsburgh team wins Google Lunar XPrize awards, but contest may end without ...   Tribune-Review
Google pushes back the deadline for Lunar XPRIZE competition   The Verge
Bang, Zoom ... Going Straight to the Moon!   Scientific Computing
Pittsburgh Post Gazette   
News Tonight Africa   
NBCNews.com   
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Channel News Asia
   
Volcano Erupting for Three Weeks | The Weather Channel   
The Weather Channel
On November 22nd, A rare eruption of Cape Verde volcano Pico do Fogo, its biggest in decades, caused the closure of the airport and evacuation of local residents, officials told state radio. Three weeks later, the volcano continues to erupt and lava keeps ...

Volcano Erupts Destroying Cape Verde Villages   Sky News
Video: Lava destroys two villages on Cape Verde island   The Independent
Volcanic eruption in Cape Verde destroys villages   Channel News Asia
Daily Mail   
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BBC News
   
Methane 'belches' detected on Mars   
BBC News
Nasa's Curiosity rover has detected methane on Mars - a gas that could hint at past or present life on the planet. The robot sees very low-level amounts constantly in the background, but it also has monitored a number of short-lived spikes that are 10 times ...

'A Great Moment': Rover Finds Clue That Mars May Harbor Life   New York Times
Curiosity readings point to mysterious, pulsing source of methane on Mars   Washington Post
Is there life on Mars? We are tantalisingly close to being able to say: 'Yes'   Telegraph.co.uk
Computerworld   
Irish Independent   
The Australian   
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NME.com
   
'Punk rock' snail named for the Clash's Joe Strummer   
Los Angeles Times
Scientists have named a spiky shelled, deep-sea snail after Joe Strummer, the late lead vocalist and guitarist from the famed British punk band the Clash. The researchers say the name highlights the "hardcore" nature of the snail, now known as Alviniconcha ...

When creatures are named after unlikely rock stars   Telegraph.co.uk
Joe Strummer has deep sea snail named after him   The Guardian
'Punk rock' snail named after Clash's Joe Strummer by Monterey Bay Aquarium ...   Contra Costa Times
The Verge   
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The Independent
   
Greenland ice sheet could be melting faster than thought possible   
The Independent
The Greenland ice sheet – the largest body of ice in the northern hemisphere – could melt faster than scientists had previously thought according to two independent studies suggesting that the loss could lead to a more rapid rise in global sea-levels. Satellites ...

Greenland's lakes may cause the sea to rise to unprecedented levels   Daily Times
Why Greenland could lose more of ice sheet than predicted (+video)   Christian Science Monitor
Greenland ice loss may be worse than predicted: Study   Times of India
Live Science   
NBCNews.com   
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Zee News
   
China releases ground rules for carbon trading   
Reuters Africa
BEIJING Dec 15 (Reuters) - China's top economic planning agency has released basic rules for a nationwide emissions trading scheme, expected to be launched in 2016. The regulations published by the National Development and Reform Commission ...

China's long farewell to coal   Deutsche Welle
US and India to announce joint climate change action during Obama visit   The Guardian
Climate policy pledges fall short of 2 degrees Celsius: Researchers   Zee News
New York Times   
The Hindu   
Business Standard   
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Morning Vertical
   
Craters on Mercury can be named by you, NASA`s MESSENGER EPO reveals   
Morning Vertical
NASA`s Mercury orbiter the MESSENGER has spotted its 5 impact carters over the past three years of its mission. And at present the MESSENGER Education and Public Outreach program has initiated a competition to name these carters. The MESSENGER ...

NASA is asking you to give a name to craters   Islamabad Globe
NASA asks world+dog to name Mercury's craters (back off, 4chan)   The Register
Fancy Naming A Crater On Mercury In Honour Of NASA's 10-year MESSENGER ...   Forbes
Washington Post   
Irish Times   
Phys.Org   
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Daily News & Analysis
   
Quantum Encryption Could Make Credit Cards Unhackable   
PC Magazine
Imagine credit cards and ID cards which could never be hacked. That's the promise of quantum cryptography, which harnesses peculiar properties of subatomic particles to thwart data thieves. Now a team of Dutch researchers says we're closer to making ...

Researchers propose unhackable quantum credit cards   Science Recorder
Quantum credit cards 'impossible to hack'   ABC Science Online
Quantum Credit Cards Impossible to Hack   Discovery News
PCWorld   
Capital Wired   
The Inquisitr   
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BBC News
   
Northern White Rhino on the Path to Extinction   
One Green Planet
The Northern White Rhino, for example, is a species on a fast path to extinction thanks to poaching and the illegal wildlife trade. Rhino horns are valued in the Black Market, as several cultures still maintain that the horns have medicinal value. Sadly, one of the ...

Experts make last-ditch effort to save white rhinos   Science Recorder
One of the last six surviving northern white rhino dies of old age propelling it into ...   Capital Wired
Experts on last ditch effort to save endangered rhino   BBC News
National Geographic   
Irish Independent   
Bio & Tech Insights   
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