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Russian boy discovers 'woolly mammoth of the century'Moscow (AFP) Oct 05, 2012 An 11-year-old boy from a nomadic family in Russia's north has stumbled upon a massive well-preserved woolly mammoth, in what scientists describe as the best such discovery since 1901. Yevgeny Salinder, whose family lives near a polar station in the northern Taimyr Peninsula, discovered the frozen prehistoric animal when he was strolling along the banks of the Yenisei River in late August. "He sensed an unpleasant odour and saw something sticking out of the ground - it was the mammoth's heels," ... read more |
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  All 18 children confirmed dead in China landslide The bodies of all 18 schoolchildren buried in a landslide in China have been recovered, officials said Friday, as authorities defended returning them to school following recent deadly earthquakes. ... more | .. |
  Ivory trade ban up for vote at UN wildlife summit The question of whether to extend a trade ban on African ivory is set for a vote at the next meeting of UN wildlife trade regulator CITES, the organisation said Friday. ... more | .. |
  Canada high court lowers bar for HIV disclosure Canada's Supreme Court on Friday decriminalized the non-disclosure of HIV status prior to sex where no realistic possibility of transmitting the potentially deadly virus exists. ... more | .. |
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  Activists work to register felons to vote Civil right activists stepped up efforts this week to allow more than 1.5 million voting-eligible felons in Florida - and millions more nationwide - access to elections, urging that laws they see as discriminatory need to be changed. ... more | .. |
  S. Korean villagers evacuate after toxic leak Dozens of South Korean villagers evacuated to a temporary shelter Saturday following a toxic chemical leak in the southeastern city of Gumi as officials assessed the extent of the damage. ... more | .. |
  Sri Lanka says South Koreans killed in lightning strike Two foreign tourists killed by lightning in Sri Lanka's central region have been identified as South Koreans, police said Sunday, correcting earlier reports they were Chinese. ... more | .. |
  Bo's son 'suspected in plot to poison wife': report Months before his fall from power, Chinese politician Bo Xilai suspected a plot to poison his second wife and questioned whether his son by his first marriage was involved, a report said Sunday. ... more |
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China first-quarter emissions fell despite rising power demand
Belgium parliament votes to ditch nuclear power phase-out
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 S. Korea labels chemical leak area 'disaster' zone The South Korean government on Monday designated an area hit by a toxic chemical leak as a "special disaster" zone, after more than 3,000 people were treated for ailments ranging from nausea to chest pain. ... more | .. |
  Australia scientists tackle reef-killing starfish An Australian research team said Monday they have found an effective way to kill the destructive crown-of-thorns starfish, which is devastating coral reefs across the Pacific and Indian oceans. ... more | .. |
 Tree rings go with the flow of the Amazon Tree rings go with the flow of the Amazon University of Leeds-led research has used tree rings from eight cedar trees in Bolivia to unlock a 100-year history of rainfall across the Amazon basin, whi ... more | .. |
 The water flow of the Amazon River in a natural climate archive Oxygen isotopes in tree rings are an excellent archive of precipitation dynamics in the tropical Amazon region. The precise determination of the ratios of stable oxygen isotopes (18O/16O) proves to ... more |
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  NASA Radar to Study Volcanoes in Alaska, Japan A NASA aircraft carrying a unique 3-D aerial radar developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has left California for a 10-day campaign to study active volcanoes in Alaska and ... more | .. |
 Chloroquine makes comeback to combat malaria Malaria-drug monitoring over the past 30 years has shown that malaria parasites develop resistance to medicine, and the first signs of resistance to the newest drugs have just been observed. A ... more | .. |
 Sea-level study shows signs of things to come Our greenhouse gas emissions up to now have triggered an irreversible warming of the Earth that will cause sea-levels to rise for thousands of years to come, new research has shown. The result ... more | .. |
 Homolog of mammalian neocortex found in bird brain A seemingly unique part of the human and mammalian brain is the neocortex, a layered structure on the outer surface of the organ where most higher-order processing is thought to occur. But new resea ... more |
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Britain, Germany jointly developing missiles: ministers
Kazakhstan denies reports Russia to leave Baikonur spaceport
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  Egyptian toe tests show they're likely to be the world's oldest prosthetics The results of scientific tests using replicas of two ancient Egyptian artificial toes, including one that was found on the foot of a mummy, suggest that they're likely to be the world's first prost ... more | .. |
 Venice Lagoon research indicates rapid climate change in coastal regions Research undertaken by the University of Southampton and its associates in Venice has revealed that the sea surface temperature (SST) in coastal regions is rising as much as ten times faster than th ... more | .. |
 New Fish Species Offers Literal Take on 'Hooking Up' Fishing hooks aren't the only hooks found in east-central Mexican waters. A new species of freshwater fish described by a North Carolina State University researcher has several interesting - and per ... more | .. |
 Nadine ties Atlantic storm record Tropical Storm Nadine dissolved into a cyclone Thursday morning after 21 days, falling short of the all-time Atlantic Ocean longevity record, forecasters said. ... more |
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  African land grabs are 'out of control' The Oxfam charity has called on the World Bank to stop aiding foreign investors, including oil-rich Persian Gulf monarchies that can't grow their own food, buying up vast tracts of farmland in Africa and other developing regions. ... more | .. |
 Life found in lake frozen for centuries The world's most northerly lake, entombed under a layer of ice 2,400 years ago, is thawing and showing a return of organic life, European researchers say. ... more | .. |
  Last speaker of 'fisherfolk' dialect dies The last native speaker of the Cromarty dialect, spoken by fisherfolk in the far north of Scotland, has died, the BBC reported. ... more | .. |
 Giant spiders to be released in Britain British scientists say they've raised thousands of the country's largest spiders in preparation for reintroduction to their former stronghold in the southeast. ... more |
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 Study: Wetlands drove birth of cities Natural wetlands rather than irrigated fields are the fertile ground from which cities first emerged in Mesopotamia, a scientist doing research in Iraq says. ... more | .. |
 Scrutinizing the women's vote scrutiny If it were decided by polls - 2012 might be called the year of the woman voter. ... more | .. |
Pinera losing Chilean middle class support Chilean President Sebastian Pinera is losing middle class support for his administration in a further setback after the government appeared to minimize the impact of student protests, business data and opinion polls cited in the media say. ... more | .. |
Council of war gathers for world's biodiversity crisis Efforts to save Earth's natural resources kick into high gear next week amid warnings that as little as a decade remains to fend off a species extinction that also poses a threat to humanity. ... more |
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 Hong Kong mourns victims of boat tragedy Flags flew at half mast and leaders observed three minutes of silence Thursday as Hong Kong mourned the 38 victims of a ferry collision that sent shockwaves through the Asian financial centre. ... more | .. |
  Climate: Scepticism highest in US, Britain - poll Awareness of climate change is high in many countries, especially the tropics, but in Britain, Japan and the United States many are doubtful about the cause, a poll published on Thursday said. ... more | .. |
All 18 children confirmed dead in China landslide Rescuers have found the bodies of all 18 children buried when a landslide engulfed their primary school in China as they made up classes lost due to recent deadly earthquakes, state media said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Predatory bacterial crowdsourcing Move forward. High-five your neighbor. Turn around. Repeat. That's the winning formula of one of the world's smallest predators, the soil bacteria Myxococcus xanthus, and a new study by scientists a ... more |
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