en-za-hotdailynews: 2015-04-16 South Africa Science

Pollution check for Mumbai: What you can do to clear the air around you?
Hindustan Times
Burning of fuel, garbage and wood, vehicular emissions due to traffic congestion and dust from construction activity are releasing toxic pollutants into the air, that Mumbaiites inhale every day. (HT Photo/Sunil Ghosh) ...

For an India that is clean and green   The Hans India
Lack of data prevents air quality measurement in Delhi   News Tonight Africa
Move over Beijing, New Delhi has the world's worst air pollution   The Weather Network
Sierra Leone Times
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'Tail' of Comet 67P Grows as it Closes in on the Sun Watched by Rosetta
Yibada (English Edition)
Montage of photos showing Comet 67P (left) and the comet's coma as seen with the OSIRIS wide-angle camera (right). (Photo : European Space Agency). The fiery "tail" emerging from the coma or halo of comets are their most distinctive feature as seen from ...

Comet Shines in Rosetta Mission's Time-Lapse Gallery   NBCNews.com
Comet 67P: A Comet with No Magnetic Field and It's Giving NASA some Food for ...   Empire State Tribune
Experience 2 months of Rosetta's comet   EarthSky
The Hindu
Astronomy Magazine
Covered Globe
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Chile Caval corruption scandal: President Michelle Bachelet's name used during ...
International Business Times UK
Chile's president Michelle Bachelet Chilean President Michelle Bachelet denied rumours she would be resigning from office on 7 April. (Reuters). Chilean President Michelle Bachelet's name was used during loan negotiations in the Caval scandal, former ...

Chile eyes new environment rules to spur investment   Reuters Africa
Chile to host 70 percent of world's astronomical infrastructure by 2020   Business Standard

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Citizens Of The Netherlands Suing Their Government Over Inaction On Climate ...
CleanTechnica
A coalition of 900 Dutch citizens has taken the government of the Netherlands to court over its inaction with regard to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and addressing climate change. groningen_city_center_6_ This represents (arguably) the first time ever ...

Dutch citizens sue government over climate change   News24
Dutch Citizens Sue Over Climate Inaction, A Sign of Things to Come   SustainableBusiness.com
Dutch citizens sue the government over human rights for lack of action against ...   ZME Science
legalera.in
Pacific Standard
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Extreme fishing: "Tiger" hunting in hippo and croc country
Reuters Africa
KOMATIPOORT, South Africa, April 15 (Reuters) - You know the fishing is "not run of the mill" when your guide points to the path you're on and says "those are hippo tracks". But if you are after tigerfish, you sometimes need to stray onto a hippo-beaten path.
Extreme fishing: 'Tiger' hunting in hippo and croc country   Reuters UK

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What really happens when you crack your knuckles
Sydney Morning Herald
In what might be one of the most obscure scientific discoveries of 2015, researchers have identified once and for all what happens when you crack your knuckles. It had been assumed for almost 50 years that joint cracking – which gives great relief to some yet ...

Watch This Gross MRI of a Knuckle Cracking   Wired
researchers crack the knuckle mystery   Toronto Sun
Knuckle Cracking Secret Revealed - It's A Gas!   Tech Times
ABC Science Online
Telegraph.co.uk
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Earth ate a Mercury-like body early in its history, study finds
WA today
The earth's electromagnetic field, visible in an aurora borealis, may have been created when Earth gobbled up another planet. Photo: Brenda Ahearn. A Mercury-like body smashed into a young Earth and gave our planet's core the radioactive elements ...

Earth's collision with a Mercury-like planet may have been vital to life flourishing ...   The Independent
Early Earth May Have Swallowed a Mercury-Like Planet   Discovery News
Planetary science: A new recipe for Earth formation   Nature.com

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First color pics: Pluto, Charon as you've never seen them before
The Register
Pic NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has taken the first true color photograph of Pluto and its largest moon Charon – all while speeding toward the dwarf planet at four kilometres a second (8,950 miles per hour). The pictures were taken from around 115 ...

Closing in on Pluto   San Antonio Express-News
Pluto's secrets to be revealed this summer   Houston Chronicle
New Horizon's Sends Back First Color Image of Pluto and Charon   Science Times
KABC-TV
TheCelebrityCafe.com
Telegraph.co.uk
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