2014年8月21日 星期四

2014-08-22 Malaysia Science

  AsiaOne   
Italian hilltop homes - on sale for just 80p  Yahoo Finance UK
A second home in the sun is a dream held by many, so the opportunity to snap up a charming Italian abode - for just one euro - will no doubt prick up ears. And in the pretty village of Gangi, Sicily, this is exactly what's on offer. However, the homes have been ...

Sicilian hilltop houses with a great view going for €1   The Malay Mail Online
Sicilian hilltop houses on sale for $1.30, great view included   CANOE
Sicilian hilltop houses on sale for €1, great view included   GMA News
Tengrinews   
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  Toronto Star   
Iceland Eruption Would Disrupt Less This Time: Chart of the Day  Businessweek
Airlines forced to tear up timetables after ash spewed from an Icelandic volcano in 2010 face less disruption from a repeat because they've adopted a more scientific process to identify the most dangerous skies. The CHART OF THE DAY shows the ...

Rumblings of Volcanic Activity in Iceland   New York Times (blog)
Iceland evacuates area near volcano amid eruption fears   RT
Volcanic ash a dangerous enemy to jet engine airplanes   Washington Post (blog)
Deutsche Welle   
News of Iceland   
Huffington Post   
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  The Times (subscription)   
Let them eat iguana — Nicaragua's answer to drought  The Times (subscription)
Nicaraguans have been advised by their government to start breeding iguanas for food after one of the worst droughts in decades devastated harvests and left thousands of cattle dying in parched fields. Faced with growing food shortages, people have been ...

Cold-Blooded But Hot For Dinner: With Food Shortages Looming, Nicaragua ...   Fox News Latino
Food Crisis In Nicaragua: Eat Iguana, Says Government   Bernama

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Sunda pangolin heading for extinction  The Star Online
KOTA KINABALU: Conservationists here fear that a shy nocturnal creature is heading for extinction due to demand for its meat. They say the Sunda pangolin is under threat due to a combination of factors, including illegal trade with organised syndicates ...


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Japan Express Symphaty For MH17 Tragedy - Abu Zahar  Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 20 (Bernama) -- Japan today expressed its sympathies to Malaysia over the Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH17 tragedy in east Ukraine on July 17. The sentiments were conveyed by the Deputy Head of the Japanese House of ...


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  Christian Science Monitor   
Global warming 'hiatus': Scientists duel over which ocean steals some heat  Christian Science Monitor
Many scientists say natural climate variability is behind a slowdown in the pace of global warming over the past 15 years. And the key to the variability is the way oceans can act as heat sinks. By Pete Spotts, Staff writer August 21, 2014. close. Illustration ...

Global Warming Slowdown Trapped in Ocean   Voice of America
Atlantic slows global warming with temperature rises seen resuming from 2030   Sydney Morning Herald
Global warming 'hiatus' means heat is hiding in ocean   Yahoo News UK
Xinhua   
The Guardian   
Irish Times   
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  Telegraph.co.uk   
The next space race is for a rental car into orbit  Washington Post
Ever since the retirement of the space shuttle three years ago, American astronauts have had to hitchhike their way to the International Space Station aboard Russian spaceships. It is an increasingly costly arrangement, which the head of NASA has called ...

Sea plankton 'found living outside International Space Station'   Telegraph.co.uk
NASA, Russia Squabble Over International Space Station Sea Plankton Claim   Forbes
Sea plankton have been found on the International Space Station – but how did ...   The Guardian
Toronto Sun   
Fox News   
The Independent   
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  New York Daily News   
Spiders get bigger, multiply faster in cities: Australian study  New York Daily News
The City That Never Sleeps may be up for a whole new reason. A new study out of Australia has found that spiders get bigger and multiply faster when living in urbanized areas, like New York City. In the report published Wednesday, researchers at the ...

city spiders getting bigger   New Zealand Herald
Bright lights, big spiders: Researchers say city life is breeding giant arachnids   Daily Mail
Terrifying city-dwelling spiders are bigger and more fertile   Atlanta Journal Constitution
Sky News   
Business Standard   
Sky News Australia   
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  National Geographic   
Western drought causes Earth's surface to rise as groundwater drops  Los Angeles Times
A year and a half of drought has depleted 63 trillion gallons of water across the Western United States, according to a new study that documents how the parched conditions are altering the landscape. The loss of groundwater, as well as surface water such as ...

Study Finds Huge Amount Of Water Loss Across Western United States   CBS Local
GPS devices find huge water loss in western US   WEAR

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  National Geographic   
Thriving ecosystem of microbes found under Antarctic ice  SFGate
An international team of scientists has discovered a living ecosystem of microbes thriving and reproducing in the frigid darkness of a shallow lake beneath thousands of feet of ice in Antarctica - the first implication that life forms might exist on ice-covered ...

World's Largest Ice Sheets Melting At Fastest Rate Ever Recorded   Huffington Post
Check Out the Freezing Cold Place Where Scientists Found Life   TIME
Greenland ice melting at record speed   Deutsche Welle
Daily Mail   
Zee News   
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