en-za-hotdailynews: 2015-03-20 South Africa Science

Study: 9.2% of Europe's Wild Bee Species Face Extinction
Voice of America
OSLO—. Almost one in 10 of Europe's wild bee species is at risk of extinction because of threats from the spread of farms and pesticides among other factors, a first assessment of the continent's bee populations showed Thursday. Bees are vital to food ...

Europe's bees may face extinction   Express.co.uk
A tenth of Europe's wild bees risk extinction -report   Reuters Africa
Tenth of Wild Bee Species Risk Extinction in Europe   Discovery News
BBC News
Digital Journal
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Eclipse peril warning for the selfie generation
Malay Mail Online
Women take a selfie at a concert by country music super star Luke Bryan during spring break festivities in Panama City Beach, Florida March 12, 2015. — Reuters picPARIS, March 20 — An eclipse that will sweep Europe and parts of Africa and Asia today ...

Selfie generation warned over eclipse peril   The Straits Times

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Trafficked Animals To Be Released Back Into Amazon
Tech Times
Colombia is returning animals siezed from illegal wildlife traffickers back into the wild. Release coming after 10 months in a rehabilitation center, officials say. (Photo : Joe Raedle | Getty Images). Conservationists in Colombia say almost 150 animals, seized ...

After 10 months training, 149 animals released back into Amazon by Colombia   Inferse
Trafficked Animals Finally Free, Released Back into Amazon   Nature World News
Colombia Takes Charge, Trafficked Animals Finally Free   Times Gazette
American Register
Uncover Michigan
Immortal News
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Solar eclipse set to plunge UK and Europe into darkness
BBC News
Millions of people could witness the best solar eclipse in years seen from the UK and northern Europe later. A path across the Earth's surface will be plunged into darkness as the Moon covers up the Sun. The event's geometry means that in the UK the Sun ...

Friday features a total solar eclipse, a supermoon and the spring equinox   Mashable
Solar Eclipse Watchers Hope For Clear Skies   Sky News
Eclipse-watchers hope for clear sky   Daily Mail
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Coverage of Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to a Winter Low
New York Times
There was less sea ice coverage in the Arctic this winter than in any year since satellite measurements began nearly four decades ago, researchers said Thursday. The National Snow and Ice Data Center, a government-sponsored research group, said that in ...

Extent of Arctic sea ice falls to record low   Toronto Star
Winter's Arctic Sea Ice is Smallest On Record   Voice of America
Arctic sea ice recorded at new winter low   RTE.ie
Aljazeera.com
Business Standard
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Revealed: the terrifying 9ft-long crocodile that walked upright
The Guardian
A computer generated reconstruction of the crocodile ancestor Carnufex carolinensis which lived on land and walked on two legs and may have been a top predator before dinosaurs took over the world, scientists believe. Photograph: Jorge Gonzales/PA.
Scientists locate a reptile that predates dinosaurs   NEWS.com.au
'Carolina butcher', the giant, upright crocodile that roamed the earth before ...   Sydney Morning Herald
Huge 9-foot 'butcher croc' walked on two legs and ruled 230 million years ago   National Monitor
Yibada (English Edition)
Frontline Desk
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Oxford boffins publish fine-scale regional genetic map of UK
The Register
An international team of researchers have created a fine-scale genetic map of the UK, the first time such a map has been produced for any country in the world. The fine-scale genetic variation between human populations is of interest to researchers both as a ...

Study Reveals Genetic Path of Modern Britons   New York Times
Britons still live in Anglo-Saxon tribal kingdoms, Oxford University finds   Telegraph.co.uk
DNA study shows Celts are not a unique genetic group   BBC News
Washington Post
Mashable
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Solved: the mystery of the 'strangest animals ever discovered'
Daily Times
Charles Darwin himself described them as the 'strangest animals ever discovered' and was baffled as to how they could have evolved. Now scientists have unraveled a 180 year old mystery of the evolutionary origins of South America's hooved mammals that ...

Mystery of Darwin's strange South American mammals solved   The Straits Times
Strange mammals' family tree mystery solved   Natural History Museum
Proteomic Analysis Answers True Identity Of Darwin's Strangest Animal Ever ...   Yibada (English Edition)
Times LIVE
Telegraph.co.uk
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Mushroom glows in the dark like a fungal firefly
Los Angeles Times
Why on earth would a mushroom glow at night? lRelated Study of Britain produces first fine-scale genetic map of a nation · Science Now · Study of Britain produces first fine-scale genetic map of a nation. See all related. 8. The existence of bioluminescent ...

Glowing mushrooms get the bugs   ABC Science Online
Now We Know Why Some Mushrooms Glow   ValueWalk
Scientists Discover Why Some Mushrooms Glow In The Dark   Immortal News
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Reuters
Discovery News
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Where might eclipse watchers be at danger from polar bears?
Irish Examiner
Worried about the damage you could do to your retinas during today's eclipse? Well that would be the least of your worries if you were trying to catch the best views of the eclipse on the Norwegian-owned island of Svalbard. The Norwegian authorities are ...

Polar bear injures tourist on Arctic island   The Daily Star
Bear attacks Arctic tent   Gulf Daily News
Polar bear attacks tourist camping out ahead of solar eclipse   Washington Post
Telegraph.co.uk
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