2015年5月19日 星期二

2015-05-20 South Africa Science


eNCA
   
WATCH: Truck carrying sulphuric acid overturns   
eNCA
Modimolle, 19 May 2015 – Watch this CCTV footage as a truck containing 28,000 liters of sulphuric acid overturns on a street corner in Modimolle, Limpopo. The acid has spilled into the Nyl river killing fish and damaging the natural environment. A dead fish ...

Pollution in Modimolle Contained   AllAfrica.com

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The Guardian Nigeria
   
Tony Elumelu to Speak On Power Access At Major Events   
AllAfrica.com
African business leader and philanthropist, Tony O. Elumelu is billed to speak on African energy issues at the Sustainable Energy For All (SE4ALL) Global Advisory board ‎meeting in New York, on May 19. The event will be co-chaired by the UN Secretary ...

Entrepreneur-led Devt as Model   THISDAY Live

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Exhibition highlights endangered species   
The New Age Online
South Africa could be down to three of the big fives if rhino and elephants are not protected. This was the message Wildlife SA was spreading at the annual Yebo Gogga Yebo amaBlomo Exhibition at Wits University. Speaking to the SABC, the organisation's ...


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Times LIVE
   
Cats and dogs? It's raining spiders, mate   
Times LIVE
It is caused by spiders climbing to the highest heights that they possibly can before they use their web silk as tiny parachutes and leap off. File photo. Image by: UWE ZUCCHI/AFP. Residents in Goulburn, South Australia, had a horrifying shock when ...

Why spooky spiders rained from the sky in Australia   Washington Post
'Raining spiders' in rural NSW town spook locals – and the world   9news.com.au

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Sydney Morning Herald
   
A White House plan to save struggling US bees   
Sydney Morning Herald
Honeybees dying, situation 'unheard of' · Australian scientists may have solved the mystery of bee colony collapse. Los Angeles: The US government will boost research and preserve 2.8 million hectares of habitat for bees, monarch butterflies and other ...

How the honey bee population affects you   Washington Post
White House has a plan to save bees and other crop pollinators   Los Angeles Times
White House announces federal plan to feed the bees   Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Guardian   
Christian Science Monitor   
Grist   
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New York Times
   
Secret Vessel to Test Durability of Materials in Space, NASA Says   
New York Times
A secretive United States Air Force space plane is scheduled to make a fourth trip into orbit on Wednesday. As with the previous flights, the Air Force revealed few details about what the unmanned X-37B spacecraft, which resembles a smaller version of ...

Atlas V rocket set to launch 'mini space shuttle'   News 13 Orlando
Air force prepares mini space plane for launch cloaked in mystery   The Guardian
Top secret space plane X-37B to blast off but we don't know it it will come back   Daily Mail
Spaceflight Now   
Space.com   
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Los Angeles Times
   
Evolution abandoned giant pandas after they switched to a bamboo diet   
Los Angeles Times
A giant panda may look like a vegetarian on the outside, but it definitely looks like a carnivore on the inside. A genetic analysis of 121 samples of panda poop finds that the community of microbes living inside these animals' guts is optimized to digest meat.
Why Pandas Eat So Much Bamboo: They Can Bear-ly Digest It   Newsweek
Giant Pandas Have not Evolved to Eat Bamboo: Study   NDTV
Bamboo-eating giant pandas not adept at digesting bamboo: study   ecns
Nature.com   
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BBC News
   
Study to help ash mapping for flights   
BBC News
New discoveries about ash clouds could help predict where planes can safely fly following volcanic eruptions, Edinburgh researchers have said. Experts have studied ash grains taken from Icelandic eruptions to compare satellite-based measurements of ash ...

Study of ash clouds aims to avoid future air disruption   Irish Examiner
Volcanic ash found in Yorkshire could help to improve flight safety forecasts   Phys.Org

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New York Times
   
Data Suggests Legs and Toes in Ancestor of Living Snakes   
New York Times
From the robust boa constrictor to the venomous rattlesnake, all of the more than 3,400 snake species that slither today may have descended from the same prehistoric forest prowler, whose sinuous body had two small hind legs with toes and ankles, ...

Snake ancestor had tiny ankles and toes and hunted with dinosaurs   Herald Scotland
Earth's First Snake Likely Evolved On Land, Not In Water   NPR
What the First Snake Looked Like   Discovery News

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Huffington Post
   
What Is Equitable for Planet Earth? India and Climate Change: Our Record, Role ...   
Huffington Post
Climate change does not respect national borders. No country, whether rich or poor, developed or developing, can escape the impact of climate change on its land and its people. Nations, like people, are bound to each other on this Earth, and the actions of ...

Climate, Environment, and Conservation: Subnational Global Climate ...   EIN News (press release)
From Paris to Edinburgh, via Brussels, Cameron faces green foreign policy ...   Business Green
India asks developed nations at climate talks to finalise pre-2020 action plan   RenewablesBiz
Hindustan Times   
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