Sunday, May 15, 2016

Confirmed: Southern hemisphere CO2 level rises above symbolic 400 ppm milestone and other top stories.

  • Confirmed: Southern hemisphere CO2 level rises above symbolic 400 ppm milestone

    Confirmed: Southern hemisphere CO2 level rises above symbolic 400 ppm milestone
    Video will begin in 5 seconds. Major CO2 milestone reached Carbon dioxide continues to increase in the atmosphere with a major milestone of 400 parts per million of CO2 recorded in the Southern Hemisphere according CSIRO's Dr David Etheridge. PT1M21S 620 349 A significant marker of rising global greenhouse gas emissions has been passed, with a key monitoring site on Tasmania's north-west tip recording atmospheric carbon-dioxide exceeding 400 parts per million for the first tim..
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  • Rare beaked whale washes up with extra teeth in potential 'evolutionary throwback'

    Rare beaked whale washes up with extra teeth in potential 'evolutionary throwback'
    Rare beaked whale washes up with extra teeth in potential 'evolutionary throwback' Posted May 15, 2016 09:33:28 A rare beaked whale found on a South Australian beach in February has left scientists baffled after it was discovered with two mysterious extra teeth.The female juvenile died by the time it was discovered on Waitpinga Beach near the tourist town of Victor Harbor, prompting a team from the South Australian Museum in Adelaide to examine the mammal. "It was a v..
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  • New Photos Show The Rapid Pace Of Great Barrier Reef Bleaching

    New Photos Show The Rapid Pace Of Great Barrier Reef Bleaching
    Fish swim amid bleached coral near Lizard Island, Australia. CoralWatch hide caption toggle caption CoralWatch Fish swim amid bleached coral near Lizard Island, Australia. CoralWatch The massive bleaching hitting the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia is likely that country's "biggest ever envi..
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  • Activist and author Naomi Klein has won the 2016 Sydney Peace Prize

    Activist and author Naomi Klein has won the 2016 Sydney Peace Prize
    Canadian journalist and activist Naomi Klein has won the 2016 Sydney Peace Prize. The international peace prize by the Sydney Peace Foundation from the University of Sydney was awarded to Klein for her extensive analysis of corporate capitalism as well as climate-change activism and proposals to limit emissions and fossil fuel extraction. “Naomi Klein: For exposing the structural causes and responsibility for the climate crisis, for inspiring us to stand up locally, nationally and internationa..
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  • What I want most from Google I/O 2016 is a great camera app

    What I want most from Google I/O 2016 is a great camera app
    The Nexus 6P is wonderful. It's a superb Android phone from top to bottom — design, build quality, display, battery life, and camera. But when I say "camera," I mean the image quality that the 6P (and 5X for that matter) can capture. I'm talking about the sensor and image processing. You can take shots that stand up to the iPhone 6S, Galaxy S7, or any other recent flagship smartphone. But here's a different line of truth: the camera app that Google includes on these Nexus phones is pretty bad. ..
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  • [Update: It's now the 2nd] The Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare trailer is the 8th most hated video on YouTube

    [Update: It's now the 2nd] The Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare trailer is the 8th most hated video on YouTube
    Update (Rerepublished on 05/14) Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare has one of the most hated trailers of all time and is now the 2nd most hated video on ALL of YouTube, passing such horrible songs like 'Friday' by Rebecca Black. The official list for the most hated YouTube videos hasn't been updated properly yet and lists the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare trailer as only the 4th most hated, but when looking at the individual videos' dislike numbers we can clearly see that Infinite Warfare h..
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  • Cosmic dust unveils Earth's ancient atmosphere

    Cosmic dust unveils Earth's ancient atmosphere
    What is surprising is it contained about the same amount of oxygenas today Ancient Earth’s upper atmosphere contained about the same amount of oxygen as today, according to a new study that challenges the accepted view of our planet’s atmosphere.Using the oldest fossil micrometeorites — space dust — ever found, the new study has made a surprising discovery about the chemistry of Earth’s atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago.The findings show that the ancient Earth’s upper atmosphere contained about..
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  • Incredible Drone Video Shows Killer Whales Hunting Down a Shark (Watch)

    Incredible Drone Video Shows Killer Whales Hunting Down a Shark (Watch)
    New footage from Australia shows a pod of false killer whales hunt down a lone juvenile shark. The video, captured by drone hobbyist Bruno Kataoka, shows the false killer whales chasing the shark, tiring it out and then going in for the kill. Bruno Kataoka has filmed what experts believe to be four false killer whales, members of the dolphin family, expertly hunting the shark off Cronulla beach south of Sydney. The dolphins, which grow between three and five metres long, were hunting a..
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