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• Crews begin pumping oil cargo from sunken barge in Lake Erie

  21-11-2015 23:52
  
  TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Salvage crews have begun an underwater operation to pump a hazardous oil-based substance from a sunken barge that apparently had been sitting undiscovered on the bottom of Lake Erie for nearly 80 years.
  
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• £1bn Ross Fund to tackle malaria scourge

  21-11-2015 23:23
  
  Britain is to create a £1 billion fund to tackle malaria and other infectious diseases in the name of the pioneering British scientist who discovered it was transmitted by mosquitoes.
  
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• Quebec looks to tackle bee deaths with new insecticide rules

  21-11-2015 18:56 via cbc.ca
  
  Quebec Environment Minister David Heurtel is expected to present a new strategy Sunday to better control the use of pesticides — particularly neonicotinoids, a class of insecticide considered to be partly responsible for drastic reductions in bee populations.
  
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• Scientists: Fungus causes snake ailment, but reason elusive

  21-11-2015 17:11
  
  MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A fungus has been identified as the cause of a mysterious ailment that has been infecting some snake species in the eastern United States, threatening some isolated snake populations such as the timber rattlesnakes found in western Vermont.
  
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• ISIS's social media use examined at Halifax International Security Forum

  21-11-2015 17:07 via cbc.ca
  
  Combatting the use of social media as a communication, recruiting and fundraising tool in the war against ISIS is a hot topic at the Halifax International Security Forum this weekend.
  
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• In the fight against ISIS, is Anonymous the answer?

  21-11-2015 17:00 via cbc.ca
  
  In the wake of last Friday's attacks in Paris by ISIS militants, the "hacktivist" group Anonymous declared war against ISIS, promising its biggest campaign yet against the Islamist militants. But is it a wise course of action?
  
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• Paris climate conference: What you need to know

  21-11-2015 16:30 via cbc.ca
  
  At the end of November, governments from 196 nations will gather at the Paris climate conference to discuss climate change. Here's why an agreement is crucial.
  
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• Bristol Zoo celebrates birth of rare pygmy hippo

  21-11-2015 16:17
  
  A three-week-old pygmy hippo is the centre of attention at Bristol Zoo. The youngster, whose gender is not yet known, is one of just a few thousand pygmy hippos in the world. Going for a dip in a heated pool with its mother on Friday (20 November), the zoo's assistant curator of mammals, Lynsey Bugg said the birth of the rare animal was a cause for celebration.
  
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• Spooky Action Is Real: Bizarre Quantum Entanglement Confirmed in New Tests

  21-11-2015 14:40
  
  Two recent studies have confirmed that the "spooky action at a distance" that so upset Albert Einstein — the notion that two entangled particles separated by long distances can instantly affect each other — has been proven to work in a stunning array of different experimental setups. One experiment closed two of the three loopholes in proofs of spooky action at a distance. Another found that quantum entanglement works over astonishingly large distances.
  
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• Fossilized Tropical Forest Found — in Arctic Norway

  21-11-2015 14:39
  
  A tropical forest densely packed with 12-foot-tall trees with flared trunks and curved branches of needle leaves — Dr. Seuss would have felt right at home — covered an area near the equator some 380 million years ago. During the Devonian period (416 million to 358 million years ago), Earth's first large trees were emerging. Also around this time, atmospheric carbon dioxide dropped significantly.
  
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• Carbon Capture: key green technology shackled by costs

  21-11-2015 12:53
  
  Every credible plan to save humanity from global warming reserves a key role for a green energy technology called carbon capture and storage.
  
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• Nasa uses new OCO2 satellite to track rising carbon dioxide levels

  21-11-2015 12:29
  
  As world leaders prepare for climate talks in Paris at the end of November, Nasa satellites have been flying around Earth tracking rising carbon dioxide levels, which scientists say are driving climate change. It charts some 100,000 measurements across the globe daily and can detect even slight changes, according to Nasa scientist Dr Annmarie Eldering. "We seek to use these OCO-2 measurements to find out about where the carbon dioxide take up is, how it changes from season to season, and from ye
  
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• Impact of social-emotional learning on academic achievement

  21-11-2015 06:00
  
  (American Psychological Association) New evidence that teaching social and emotional skills to inner-city students can contribute to their academic achievement.
  
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• Green campaigner readies to swim the Pacific

  21-11-2015 05:17
  
  Never mind the sharks or the swirling ocean debris that await him, Benoit Lecomte is counting the days until his long-distance swim from Tokyo to San Francisco -- to raise awareness of environmental threats in the Pacific.
  
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• Nevada says national nuclear dump could harm farm community

  21-11-2015 00:38
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Radioactive well-water contamination could threaten some 1,400 people in a rural farming community if federal regulators allow the nation's deadliest nuclear waste to be buried in the Nevada desert, state officials said in a report issued Friday.
  
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• Half of Amazon trees 'face extinction'

  21-11-2015 00:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More than half of all tree species in the Amazon face extinction, warn international scientists.
  
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• NASA calls on SpaceX to send astronauts to ISS

  21-11-2015 00:04
  SpaceX received orders Friday from the US space agency to send astronauts to the International Space Station in the coming years, helping restore US access to space, NASA said.
  
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