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• Frozen pair of fighting moose discovered in remote Alaska village

  19-11-2016 18:13
  
  Middle school teacher photographs animals encased in ice, lying on their sides with antlers apparently locked, in ‘vision of how brutally harsh life can be’Two moose were recently discovered frozen in battle and encased in ice near a remote village on Alaska’s unforgiving western coast.Brad Webster, a middle school social studies and science teacher in Unalakleet, captured images of the huge animals poking through the ice as they lay on their sides with antlers apparently locke
  
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• A Mars 160 Crew Message: CapCom, We Hear You!

  19-11-2016 13:45
  
  The Mars Society is conducting the ambitious two-phase Mars 160 Twin Desert-Arctic Analog missionto study how seven crewmembers could live, work and perform science on a true mission to Mars. Mars 160 crewmember Annalea Beattie is chronicling the mission, which will spend 80 days at the Mars Desert Research Station in southern Utah desert before venturing far north to Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station on Devon Island, Canada in summer 2017. I'm Bernard, and I will be your CapCom for this ev
  
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• All the news you missed while you were freaking out about Trump

  19-11-2016 13:00
  
  Zika virus is no longer a world threat, the Trans Pacific Partnership was abandoned, Airbnb launched a new service and more news that you missed
  The World Health Organization declared on Friday that Zika virus, shown to cause microcephaly in infants and spread by mosquitos, is no longer an international emergency. The virus causes a mild fever and flu-like symptoms in healthy adults but has been linked to malformed heads in newborns, and research has suggested possible links to other birth defec
  
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• Leaked map reveals chronic mercury epidemic in Peru

  19-11-2016 12:51
  
  People living upriver from gold-mining are the most contaminated, according to US-based scientistsAsk about the fish in restaurants in the centre of Puerto Maldonado, the biggest town in Peru’s south-east Amazon, and you’ll hear all kinds of things. Some people will shake their heads and say there isn’t any fish on the menu “because of the contamination” or “out of protocol”. Others might say there is fish available, before sometimes hastily clarifying t
  
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• Oil may rise to $55 if all producers cooperate - Iran

  19-11-2016 12:30
  Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh expressed optimism on Saturday about an upcoming OPEC meeting and said crude prices could jump to $55 (44.56 pounds) a barrel if an agreement is reached and non-OPEC producers cooperate. "We are receiving positive signals that increase the likelihood of agreement at the meeting ... and I'm optimistic about the situation," Zanganeh told state television by telephone, after meeting OPEC Secretary-General Mohammed Barkindo in Tehran ahead of the Nov. 30 meeting.
  
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• Why don’t we grieve for extinct species?

  19-11-2016 10:17
  
  We have no rituals for coping with extinction, ecological destruction or environmental loss. And that’s a problem. Now, an impassioned group of artists and activists are trying to create them.In early 2010, artist, activist and mother, Persephone Pearl, headed to the Bristol Museum. Like many concerned about the fate of the planet, she was in despair over the failed climate talks in Copenhagen that winter. She sat on a bench and looked at a stuffed animal behind glass: a thylacine. Before
  
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• Is there a plan B for elephants? The next step in saving them is even harder

  19-11-2016 09:11
  
  Ending global legal markets is a great plan A, but that alone won’t stop elephant poaching or stem the illegal consumption of ivoryIt appears inevitable now that almost all legal domestic ivory markets will be closed. This is the plan A of a large consortium of animal rights and welfare organisations aimed at stopping elephant poaching – informed by the belief that legal trade provides cover for illegal trade and stimulates demand.Do away with legal trade, say the ban proponents, and
  
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• The Sarto Seta review: a frame pretty close to perfection

  19-11-2016 09:00
  
  Weighing just 750g, the Italian-made frame is stiff in sprints and doesn’t twitch in corners – even during one of the toughest bike challenges aroundThe greatest compliment you can pay a suit is that you forget you’re wearing it. The fit is so good, the stitching so subtle and the fabric so well cut that it exists as a background reality; seamless tailoring that never distracts by being too lose or too tight. The Sarto Seta is that in a bike, and the sartorial comparison is tot
  
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• OPEC head to meet Iran oil minister - SHANA

  19-11-2016 08:03
  OPEC Secretary-General Mohammed Barkindo and Iran's Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh will meet in Tehran on Saturday to discuss issues linked to an upcoming OPEC meeting, the ministry's official website reported. "Consultation about the topics of the OPEC ministers meeting in Vienna on November 30 ... as well as reviewing recent developments of the oil market will be the main topics of the discussions between Zanganeh and Barkindo in Tehran," SHANA said. OPEC is moving closer towards finalising this
  
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• Smallscale farmers need the spotlight now: Africa Food Prize winner Kanayo Nwanze speaks out at COP22

  19-11-2016 07:30
  
  The influential African figure champions smallscale agriculture in an increasingly insecure global climateAt vast global gatherings like the COP22 UN climate conference, which has just concluded in Marrakech, the seductive grandeur of the occasion frequently strips attention from the people, in faraway places, who climate change threatens the most. But on Wednesday at the COP, during a panel discussion on how agriculture can support the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal for zero hunger, Kanayo F
  
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• In a Lilliputian world of leaf litter

  19-11-2016 06:30
  
  Holmsley Inclosure, New Forest Each silk button spangle gall has a minute larva inside. Looked at later under the microscope, they remind us of a scrumptious doughnutWe drop down the side of this woodland on a bright day buffeted by a cold wind. First planted in 1811 with scots pine and oak, its fences now enclose a wide variety of trees. We turn along the eastern edge to find the lower gate and, on entering, are plunged into a claustrophobic tangle of branches, before quickly coming to a narrow
  
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• Academics 'must not be used as Brexit pawns'

  19-11-2016 04:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Theresa May is being warned not to use scientists and academics as pawns in negotiations over Brexit.
  
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• Climate talks: 'Save us' from global warming, US urged

  19-11-2016 03:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The next head of the UN global climate talks calls on the US to save Pacific islands from global warming.
  
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• Under Trump shadow, climate talks set 2018 deadline to agree rules

  19-11-2016 01:32
  By Alister Doyle and Megan Rowling MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) - Nearly 200 nations agreed around midnight on Friday to work out the rules for a landmark 2015 global deal to tackle climate change within two years in a new sign of international support for a pact opposed by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. At the end of two-week talks on global warming in Marrakesh, which were extended an extra day, many nations appealed to Trump, who has called climate change a hoax, to reconsider his threat
  
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• SpaceX Tests Huge Fuel Tank for Mars Colony Spaceship (Photo)

  19-11-2016 00:00
  
  SpaceX has successfully tested a prototype of the gigantic fuel tank the company is developing for its planned Mars spaceship, company representatives said. SpaceX towed the full-size carbon-fiber tank — the largest such vessel ever produced, according to company founder and CEO Elon Musk — out to sea on a barge last week, then tested how the tank performed under pressure. "Hit both of our pressure targets — next up will be full cryo[genic] testing," SpaceX wrote via Twitter, w
  
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