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Friday, April 15, 2016

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Channel NewsAsia World News

White tiger kills keeper, escapes El Salvador zoo
A white tiger being kept in a private zoo in El Salvador fatally attacked its keeper on Friday and escaped but was recaptured hours later, police...
Venezuela moves clocks forward 30 minutes to save power
Venezuela will shift its time zone forward 30 minutes in order to save electricity and ease a power shortage caused by drying of its hydroelectric...
Johnson hails 'glorious' Brexit as G20 issues warning
London Mayor Boris Johnson on Friday launched a scathing attack on Brussels, urging Britons to vote for a "glorious alternative" free from "the whims...

Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News

After missile failure, higher possibility of North Korea nuclear test
The likelihood of North Korea conducting a fifth nuclear test, possibly within weeks, has increased because of a failed missile launch on Friday that...
Second big quake hits southern Japan, people flee onto streets
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck southern Japan early on Saturday, killing at least three people, injuring many more and bringing down buildings,...
New Japan quake kills one, sparks landslide
The epicentre of the quake was near the city of Kumamoto and measured at a shallow depth of 10km, the US Geological Survey said.

Channel NewsAsia Front Page News

White tiger kills keeper, escapes El Salvador zoo
A white tiger being kept in a private zoo in El Salvador fatally attacked its keeper on Friday and escaped but was recaptured hours later, police...
After missile failure, higher possibility of North Korea nuclear test
The likelihood of North Korea conducting a fifth nuclear test, possibly within weeks, has increased because of a failed missile launch on Friday that...
Venezuela moves clocks forward 30 minutes to save power
Venezuela will shift its time zone forward 30 minutes in order to save electricity and ease a power shortage caused by drying of its hydroelectric...

The Sydney Morning Herald articles

UNICEF: Australian children are falling behind in health, education
Australian children have poorer health and education outcomes than Latvia, Slovenia and Croatia, a new report from UNICEF has revealed.
Six million Australians need to be retrained
"Australia's economy is stuck in the Stone Age," innovation summit hears.
'Next big thing': Learn something from Vocation's collapse
One sector has arguably done a better job of destroying shareholder value than any other over the past few years.

The Sydney Morning Herald articles

Hep C 'viral time bomb' can be defused, says doctor who set up real-life Dallas Buyers Club operation
It is financially feasible to defuse the Hepatitis C "viral time bomb" affecting 150 million people worldwide, an international conference will hear...
'Dark thunderclouds on the horizon': The end of the Age of Antibiotics is looming
A Canberra doctor has some bad news about modern Australian medicine.
Life as we know it: ANU Symposium demonstrates potential of in vitro science
What if synthetic life could be created in a test tube?

The Sydney Morning Herald articles

Australia Post tests drones for parcel delivery
Within months, some Australians may get the option to have items they purchase online delivered straight to their doors by drones.
'Impostor' email spike as scammers pretend to be your boss
Australians are being urged to think twice before transferring funds or handing over sensitive information at work amid a global spike in...
Google's Chrome browser scraps support for XP, Vista, older versions of Mac OS X
The push for us to upgrade our old computers continues, with the latest version of Google's Chrome web browser dropping support for operating systems...

The Sydney Morning Herald articles

It's about pride, passion and tradition
With respect, a meeting of tribes can be a time for celebrating our shared culture.
Facebook hosts the conversations that keep little communities going
These days, I live a long way from the little community where I started out as a junior reporter. But every morning I get news from its people.
Editorial cartoon
The day's burning issues as seen through the eyes of the Herald's editorial cartoonist.

The Sydney Morning Herald articles

UK police arrest five people with suspected links to Paris and Brussels attacks
British police have arrested five people on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism as part of an investigation which a security source said was...
'Hello, it's the prime minister': Callers to Swedish hotline get a surprise
Some of the people dialling "The Swedish Number" just got a surprise. The call was answered by somebody who said, "Hello, this is Sweden. I'm the...
Protesters return to the streets of Cairo to demand Egyptian government resign
Thousands of Egyptians angered by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's decision to hand over two islands to Saudi Arabia called on Friday for the...

Sydney Morning Herald RSS News Headlines

Three dead after truck and car collide in Burrumbeet near Ballarat
Two men and a woman have been killed in a collision between a truck and a car in the Victorian town of Burrumbeet near Ballarat.
Moscow anti-doping lab has status revoked by WADA
A Moscow laboratory used for anti-doping tests had its accreditation revoked by the WADA on Friday after failing to comply with international...
Ex-ASIC lawyer Vanessa Ash and Bradley Grimm accused of defrauding her father
A dispute between an elderly father and his former ASIC lawyer daughter is tied to a wider investigation by the corporate watchdog.

TO DO

renewable recycling conservation

The fuzzy accounting behind renewableenergy's falling prices

The Hill (blog)

Renewable energy defenders point out that fossil-fuel producers are also subsidized by the federal government. But those subsidies are miniscule compared to wind and solar. In fact, the federal government now subsidizes solar 345 times more than coal, ...

French industry body backs ambitiousrenewable energy targets

Reuters

In coming weeks, the government will publish a decree with targets for renewableenergy capacity, which will implement broad targets set in France's energy transition law and will give firms like EDF and Engie as well as smaller and foreign players ...

Norway Seeks to Quit Joint RenewableSubsidy System With Sweden

Bloomberg

Norway joined the Swedish market-based electricity certificates system for subsidies in 2012 with the joint goal of adding 28.4 terawatt-hours of renewable generation by 2020. Since then renewable units with an average annual production of almost 14 ...

Orange Renewable inks pact with SECI for 100-MW solar project

Economic Times

MUMBAI: Orange Renewable, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Singapore-based AT Holdings Pte, today said it has signed a power purchase agreement with Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) for development of a 100-MW solar power project in ...

HUMAN HABITAT

ecology water energy

Create Your Own Biodome in 'Tyto Ecology'

GeekDad (blog)

Tyto Ecology is a videogame by Immersed Games about creating and maintaining biomes, filling them with plants and animals and keeping them in balance. It's a little bit like the old SimCity type of games, except instead of building a city, you're ...

Ecology lab sets up shop at East Alton facility

AdVantage News

Research in the Dell Ecology Lab addresses basic and applied questions in ecology, with a particular interest in species interactions and the role of the physical environment. Dell's lab focuses on the interaction between human and natural systems, ...

Not Your Everyday Art Space – YBCA Spurs Conversations on Labor and Ecology

SF Weekly

Grisha Coleman, a dancer, writer and scholar who brings together the focus on labor andecology in her echo::system — treadmill dreamtime, running in place, which draws the audience into an multi-media performance and installation. The performance ...

Outdoor Ecology 101: Students work together to improve Rock Spring Park

RiverBender.com

ALTON - Various local organizations joined together Friday to help the local ecology of Rock Spring Park. Through initiatives to remove invasive species and decrease erosion from surges of water during storms, representatives of Rock Spring 2020, the ...

WATER POWER

water floods pollution

The Water in Your Glass Might Be Older Than the Sun

New York Times

But do you know what may be even older than both? Water. It's a mystery how the world became awash in it. But one prevailing theory says that water originated on our planet from ice specks floating in a cosmic cloud before our sun was set ablaze, more ...

Asia Faces Water Shortages

Scientific American

Share via. Google+; Stumble Upon. A new study points to the risk that China and India will be facing severe water shortages by 2050 due to a perfect storm of economic growth, climate change, and fast growing populations. Ben Gruber reports. Full ...

Flint to Gov. Snyder on drinking tap water: You first

Detroit Free Press

FLINT — Gov. Rick Snyder said Friday he wants Flint residents to start drinking more filtered water out of their taps, instead of bottled water. But many Flint residents don't trust the tap water – even with a filter – and want to see Snyder drinking ...

Artificial leaf? Successful synthesis of ammonia using visible light, water ...

Science Daily

By combining an optical antenna structure that can concentrate light into a nano-space, and a co-catalyst that selectively adsorbs nitrogen, we have succeeded in selectively synthesizing ammonia from water and di-nitrogen under visible light irradiation.