India commits to ratifying Paris Agreement climate pact on Oct. 2 and other top stories.

• India commits to ratifying Paris Agreement climate pact on Oct. 2

  

  India to ratify Paris Agreement climate pact on Oct. 2 FILE- In this Nov. 30, 2015 file photo, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses world leaders at the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris. India's leader says his country will ratify the Paris Agreement on climate change early next month. Modi said Sunday that his government will ratify the agreement Oct. 2, coinciding with the birth anniversary of India's independence leader Mohandas Gandh..

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• Rusty patched bumble bee recommended for endangered list - Twin Falls Times

  

  PORTLAND, Ore. — Federal wildlife officials on Thursday made a formal recommendation to list the rusty patched bumble bee as an endangered species because it has disappeared from about 90 percent of its historic range in just the past two decades.The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service made the recommendation after the Portland, Oregon-based Xerces Society petitioned the agency on behalf of the bee in 2013 and presented studies showing it was struggling due to a combination of disease, habitat loss, c..

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• Evidence Mounts for Ocean on Jupiter's Moon Europa

  

  Caption: Artist's concept of a plume of water vapor blasting off the icy surface of the Jovian moon Europa, located about 500 million miles from the sun. Credits: NASA/ESA/SWRINASA on Monday will release additional evidence of an underground ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa, a prime candidate in the search for life beyond Earth. Scientists' first clue that Europa has an ocean came from NASA's twin Voyager probes, which flew by Jupiter in 1979.Pictures taken by the probes showed that Europa's surf..

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• SpaceX test-fires the engines that could take humans to Mars

  

  SpaceX has conducted its first firing test of its Raptor engine, the powerful propulsion system that the company aims to use to take humans to Mars. SpaceX boss Elon Musk tweeted pictures of the tests late last night, sharing one image that showed a steady stream of flame emanating from the engine, and another showing "Mach diamonds" — patterns formed in the exhaust plumes of supersonic craft. Musk has been has been fairly vague on Raptor specifications so far, but tweeted a few extra details a..

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• A Major Maneuver By China For Their Tiangong-2 Craft

  

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• One Decade Left To Keep Global Warming Below 1.5°C

  

  Disturbing news came out of a meeting in Oxford, England, last week. Over 200 researchers, policy makers, businesspeople, and members of civil society met to reexamine Earth's deadline for human sustainability. They found it likely to be sooner than we ...

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• What keeps fish singing through the night to attract mates?

  

  Certain fish keep singing through the night to attract mates and researchers have found how melatonin, a time-keeping hormone, and daily light cycles help the fish keep a tab on the timing of their humming -- starting in the late evening and stopping suddenly in the morning. Male plainfin midshipman fish (Porichthys notatus) sing at night to attract mates, but very little is known about the roles of melatonin and circadian rhythms in nocturnal vertebrates, including fish that vocalise during ..

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