Beijing office workers wear 'gas masks' at their desks as hazardous smog ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9833371/Beijing-office-workers-wear-gas-masks-at-their-desks-as-hazardous-smog-envelops-city.html
Air quality levels rose above index limits in Beijing amid warnings that the smog may not clear until Thursday. Visibility was reduced to around 200 metres in the centre of the capital, where mask-wearing pedestrians made their way through a murky haze, ...
No survivors in plane crash in Antarctica
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/memorial-held-in-antarctica-for-three-canadians-killed-in-plane-crash-1.1133413
Search helicopters have found the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in Antarctica carrying three Canadians. Search crews said they were not able to land at the site but that nobody could have survived the crash.
Heat in the Cities Affect Faraway Places: New Modeling Research
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/climate-change/cities-waste-heat-affects-air-ocean-currents-study-20130128-2dfnj.html
According to the new modeling research conducted by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, the excess amount of heat which is produced by the cities can be responsible for heating the rural areas as far as 1000 ...
Scientists Unravel Mysteries to Spider Silk Strength Using Lasers
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/01/scientists-unravel-mysteries-spider-silk
(Photo : Jeffery Yarger/ASU) Scientists studied spider silk to map a wide variety of elastic properties of several intact spiders' webs.
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