en-zw-hotdailynews: 2014-12-11 Zimbabwe Science

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New Research Quantifies the Oceans' Plastic Problem
NDTV
In an undated handout photo, plastic debris on a beach in Azores, Portugal. (Marcus Eriksen via The New York Times). submit to reddit; inShare; Add to Flipboard Magazine. email. It is no secret that the world's oceans are swimming with plastic debris - the ...

No part of the ocean untouched by plastic rubbish   ABC Online
260000 tons of plastic floating in the ocean: study   CTV News
New Study Estimates There Are Now Five Trillion Pieces of Plastic in World's ...   Slate Magazine (blog)
Jakarta Post
Reuters
Tech Times
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Rosetta science: Study suggests water on Earth did not come from comets
Los Angeles Times
After a 10-year journey through the solar system, an epic rendezvous with a speeding comet, and the drama of Philae's triple landing, the science phase of the Rosetta mission has officially begun. In a study published Wednesday in the journal Science, ...

Comet's water different from Earth's   USA TODAY
Earth's water did not come from comets, Rosetta mission proves   Examiner.com
Rosetta Data Suggest Earth's Water Didn't Come From Comets After All   Huffington Post
Deutsche Welle
Tech Times
BBC News
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Al Gore Recites Poetry At The UN Climate Conference
Daily Caller
Former Vice President Al Gore showed up at the United Nations climate summit in Lima, Peru Wednesday to show creative support for an international global warming treaty. Gore quoted poets from three different languages, according to the news site ...

US says no China-style climate deal in works for India   Livemint
Climate change: United Nation wants India's support in final negotiations   Firstpost
Aust watching trade partners on climate   The Australian (blog)
Business Standard
The Guardian
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Lawmakers: Orion flight shows need for Mars mission
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — NASA's successful test flight of a deep-space capsule last week should compel the Obama administration to focus more of its limited resources on getting humans to Mars as soon as possible, key House lawmakers said at a hearing ...

NASA Says SLS and Orion Will Slip to 2018 Despite Extra Funding   Space News
NASA's New Space Launch System Mega Rocket Won't Fly Until 2018   Yahoo News UK
NASA's Michoud facility preparing for future work on Orion deep space ...   WDSU New Orleans
Trend.az
New York Daily News (blog)
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Newly Found Massive Asteroid Not a Threat to Earth
Discovery News
Claims that Russian scientists have discovered a huge asteroid that could threaten Earth in the near future are just not correct, according to NASA. Play Video · The U.N.'s Plan to Defend Earth from Asteroids. The U.N. has announced it's undertaking an effort ...

Behemoth asteroid plays footsy with Earth   Times LIVE
The Age of Asteroids   The New Yorker
A giant asteroid that crosses paths with Earth every three years has been ...   The Times (subscription)
Voice of America (blog)
Business Standard
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Crow-sized dinosaur is oldest North America; discovery suggests link to Asia
OCRegister
Paleontologists discovered the skull of the dinosaur, described as not much bigger than a crow, in Montana in 1997. But only recently was it classified and named. The rock in which the remains were embedded dated from 109 million to 104 million years old.
108 million year old Horned dinosaur discovered in Montana was Rabbit size ...   Inferse
Horned dinosaurs landed in America 110 million years ago, some rabbit-sized   Science Recorder
North America Has Oldest Known Horned Dinosaur   Tech Times
Krank.ie
The Utah People's Post
Nature World News
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Greenpeace apologizes for protest at Peru's Nazca Lines
Daily Mail
LIMA, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Environmental activist group Greenpeace apologized on Wednesday for a protest it organized at the ancient Nazca Lines etched in a desert in Peru. The group said it was sorry if the protest at the historical site on Monday caused any ...

Peru Says Greenpeace Damaged Nazca Lines   Wall Street Journal
Greenpeace sorry for Nazca stunt   Irish Independent
Greenpeace crosses the line with stunt   The Times (subscription)
Economic Times
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Watch: Great white shark breaches off South Africa's coast
Telegraph.co.uk
A magnificent great white shark leaps from the water to take a chunk out of a would-be seal. These amazing full breaches were conceived using a plastic seal decoy – which is dragged behind a tourist diving boat, as a way of enticing the hungry predator.
Great White Sharks Strike In Stunning Images   The Inquisitr
VIDEO: Watch the moment a great white shark is enticed by a meal   Express.co.uk

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