en-na-hotdailynews: 2015-02-28 Namibia Science

U.N. Climate Chief Quickly Resigns Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations
TheBlaze.com
A United Nations climate chief who stepped down from his position this week after allegations of sexual harassment will not be allowed to leave India or enter his office under an interim bail order issued by an Indian court, the BBC reported. Rajendra Pachauri ...

Pachauri asked to quit PM panel   Times of India
RK Pachauri: Dr Lecherous   Pune Mirror
UN climate head Pachauri resigns   Beacon Review
The Heartland Institute
Irish Times
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Spacewalk to go ahead despite helmet leak
Sydney Morning Herald
Two US astronauts will go ahead with a spacewalk this weekend despite a flaw in one of the spacesuits that allowed water to seep into the helmet. Mission managers have made the decision to proceed after discussing what NASA is calling a minor seepage.
ISS spacewalk to continue despite water leak   SMN Weekly
Spacewalk is a 'go' despite water found in helmet   WTMA

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A Majority Of Americans Have "Moral Obligation" To Fight Climate Change
Design & Trend
(Photo : Getty Images/Uriel Sinai) A majority of Americans believe that fighting climate change is a moral issue that obligates them and world leaders to reduce carbon emissions. A majority of Americans believe that fighting climate change is a moral issue that ...

Most Americans see combating climate change as a moral duty   Brisbane Times
The Pope Backs the Global Warming Hoax, So Suddenly the Anti-Catholic ...   RushLimbaugh.com (subscription)
Could the moral angle get Christian conservatives to care about climate change?   Grist
Al Jazeera America
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Switzerland's contribution to UN climate deal comes first
GlobalPost
BERLIN, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Switzerland became the first country to submit its intended contribution to a new global climate deal to the United Nations(UN) on Friday. According to the submission posted on the website of the UN Framework Convention on ...

Switzerland first to submit climate plan for Paris UN treaty   Sydney Morning Herald
Switzerland first to submit climate plan for Paris UN deal   Daily Mail
Switzerland 1st country to submit pledge for UN climate pact   San Francisco Chronicle

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As Dawn Spacecraft Approaches, A Second Bright Light Emerges from Ceres
Science Times
Originally discovered in 1801 by an astronomer in Sicily, Ceres has had quite an interesting history to date. Originally believed to be a shining star in the sky, when it was first observed to move, it was redesignated as a comet. "I have announced this star as a ...

Whaa? Now there's a second bright light on dwarf planet Ceres   CNET
What the heck are these weird shiny dots on the dwarf planet Ceres?   Vox
What are those white spots on that planet you've probably never heard of?   wtkr.com
The Week Magazine
euronews
NDTV
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UK Leadership Closes Ranks on Climate Change
SustainableBusiness.com
In what I would call a beautiful move, leaders of the UK's three main political parties came together in a moment of unity - to say they are all on the same page when it comes to climate change. David Cameron (Conservative), Ed Miliband (Labor) and Nick ...

Cold weather doesn't mean climate change isn't happening: Bob McDonald   CBC.ca
'Climate change and you'   Clarkston News
Democrat-led witch hunt into 'climate change deniers' picks up force   Watchdog.org
Net Newsledger
Lexology (registration)
Blue & Green Tomorrow
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Single gene that made us more intelligent than chimps is identified for the first time
Daily Mail
While we share 99 per cent of our genes with chimpanzees, our brains are still three times as big. Scientists believe that during evolution our genome must have changed in order to trigger such a massive brain growth. Now, for the first time, researchers in ...

Gene unique to humanoid primates may have triggered brain size increases   SMN Weekly
Human intelligence sparked by a single tiny gene, new study suggests   Science Recorder
Scientists Use Human 'Big Brain' Gene To Give Mice More Brain Cells   The Inquisitr
Nature World News
Scientific American
ValueWalk
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AsiaOne

Japanese volcanic island grows to 11 times its original size - and ain't stopping
RT
Japanese island Nishinoshima has grown to 11 times its original size due to the volcanic eruption started in 2013. A recent observation has shown that the volcano goes on erupting ever since and a new increase of the island's area is expected. The actual ...

New volcano island getting bigger in Japan   News24
New volcano island getting big in Japan   Bangkok Post

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