สลดหมีขั้วโลกเหนือว่ายน้ำ 9 วัน หาแพอาหารแหล่งอาหาร
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สำนักข่าวต่างประเทศรายงานเมื่อวันที่ 25 ม.ค. จากการศึกษาโดยใช้หมีขั้วโลกเพศเมีย ติดเครื่องติดตามตัว พบว่ามันต้องว่ายน้ำเป็นเวลาถึง 9 วันเพื่อค้นหาแพน้ำแข็งแผ่นใหม่
ปัจจุบัน ประชากรหมีขั้วโลกมีเพิ่มขึ้น ทำให้มันต้องว่ายน้ำหลายร้อยไมล์เพื่อค้นหาแหล่งอาหารแหล่งใหม่ ท่ามกลางสภาพอากาศที่เปลี่ยนแปลงของมหาสมุทร
จากอุปกรณ์จีพีเอสขนาดเล็ก ที่ติดตั้งบนปลอกคอของมันเมื่อ 2 เดือนก่อนเพื่อให้นักวิจัยสามารถวิเคราะห์แผนการค้นหาพื้นที่ที่มีการล่าสัตว์ได้อย่างแม่นยำพบว่า หมีขั้วโลกเพศเมียตัวนี้ต้องว่ายน้ำเป็นระยะทาง 420 ไมล์ผ่านกระแสน้ำที่เย็นเฉียบของทะเลโบฟอร์ต ทางตอนเหนือของอลาสกา ทำให้มันต้องสูญเสียลูกน้อยวัย 1 ปี และต้องสูญเสียน้ำหนักตัวไปถึงประมาณ 1 ใน 5
ทราบกันดีว่าหมีขั้วโลกสามารถว่ายน้ำในระยะทางไกล เพื่อไปมาระหว่างแพน้ำแข็งได้ แต่ด้วยภาวะโลกร้อนทำให้จำนวนแพน้ำแข็งลดลงส่งผลให้มันต้องเดินทางในระยะที่ใกล้ขึ้น และเสี่ยงถูกสัตว์ร้ายโจมตีระหว่างทางได้
สำนักข่าวต่างประเทศรายงานเมื่อวันที่ 25 ม.ค. จากการศึกษาโดยใช้หมีขั้วโลกเพศเมีย ติดเครื่องติดตามตัว พบว่ามันต้องว่ายน้ำเป็นเวลาถึง 9 วันเพื่อค้นหาแพน้ำแข็งแผ่นใหม่
ปัจจุบัน ประชากรหมีขั้วโลกมีเพิ่มขึ้น ทำให้มันต้องว่ายน้ำหลายร้อยไมล์เพื่อค้นหาแหล่งอาหารแหล่งใหม่ ท่ามกลางสภาพอากาศที่เปลี่ยนแปลงของมหาสมุทร
จากอุปกรณ์จีพีเอสขนาดเล็ก ที่ติดตั้งบนปลอกคอของมันเมื่อ 2 เดือนก่อนเพื่อให้นักวิจัยสามารถวิเคราะห์แผนการค้นหาพื้นที่ที่มีการล่าสัตว์ได้อย่างแม่นยำพบว่า หมีขั้วโลกเพศเมียตัวนี้ต้องว่ายน้ำเป็นระยะทาง 420 ไมล์ผ่านกระแสน้ำที่เย็นเฉียบของทะเลโบฟอร์ต ทางตอนเหนือของอลาสกา ทำให้มันต้องสูญเสียลูกน้อยวัย 1 ปี และต้องสูญเสียน้ำหนักตัวไปถึงประมาณ 1 ใน 5
ทราบกันดีว่าหมีขั้วโลกสามารถว่ายน้ำในระยะทางไกล เพื่อไปมาระหว่างแพน้ำแข็งได้ แต่ด้วยภาวะโลกร้อนทำให้จำนวนแพน้ำแข็งลดลงส่งผลให้มันต้องเดินทางในระยะที่ใกล้ขึ้น และเสี่ยงถูกสัตว์ร้ายโจมตีระหว่างทางได้
จากผลการวิจัยของสำนักงานสำรวจทางธรณีวิทยาแห่งชาติสหรัฐฯ ถูกตีพิมพ์ในชีววิทยาขั้วโลก แสดงความกังวลว่า "เราขอยืนยันว่า ความสามารถพิเศษในการว่ายน้ำระยะไกลของหมีขั้วโลก ช่วยให้พวกมันสามารถรับมือกับจำนวนน้ำแข็งที่ลดลงในมหาสมุทรอาร์กติกได้ แต่เราตั้งข้อสังเกตว่าการว่ายน้ำระยะทางไกล ๆ และการเดินทางผ่านน้ำลึกที่มีแต่ก้อนน้ำแข็งเล็ก ๆจำนวนมาก จะทำให้มันต้องเสียพลังงานอย่างมหาศาล และยังทำให้ความสามารถในการสืบพันธ์ลดลงอีกด้วย".
Translation Thai to English
A decrease over the polar bear swim raft for nine days of food sources.
Researchers found female polar bear swim the Arctic Ocean for 9 days to find a patch of ice sheets and find new food sources. Point caused by global warming.
Foreign news agencies reported on 25 January from studies using male and female polar bears. The air-track. Found it to swim up to 9 days to find a new patch of ice sheets.
Current polar bear population has increased. Made it to swim hundreds of miles to find new sources for food. Midst of the ocean climate change.
From the GPS device small. Installed on the collar of it when two months before the researchers can analyze to find an area with plans to hunt precisely that. Advices that female bears this world to swim a distance of 420 miles through the current, extreme cold of the Beaufort Sea. North of Alaska. Cause it to lose the baby aged one year and lose weight to about 1 in 5.
Known to bear advices that the world can swim long distances. To go to the ice patch. but with global warming , the decline of the ice pad affect the distance it must travel in closer And risk being attacked on the way to the beast.
Based on the research of the Office of the U.S. National Geological Survey. Was published in Polar Biology. Expressed concern that "We would like to confirm that Talent in swimming distance of the polar bear Help them cope with the amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean have decreased. However, we noted that swim long distances and travel through deep water with only a small number of large ice cubes to make it an enormous waste so much energy. And the ability to spy thousands down with. "
Asean hopes to mediate
Asean hopes to mediate
- Published: 5/02/2011 at 01:20 PM
- Online news:
The deteriorating situation along the Thai-Cambodian border is undermining confidence in Asean and affecting economic recovery, tourism and investment prospect in the region, said Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in his urgent message to the two ASEAN Member States now trading fires with casualties on both sides.
"I am deeply concerned about the serious situation on the border between Thailand and Cambodia. This violent conflict must be brought under control and return to negotiating table soonest," said Dr. Surin.
The violent conflict started with gun fire and artillery duels mid afternoon Friday near the Preah Vihear temple. While the International Court of Justice decided in favor of Cambodia in 1962, the areas adjacent to the Temple remain under dispute.
"I have been in touch with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cambodia Hor Namhong, and the Foreign Minister of Thailand, Kasit Piromya, and I have appealed for calm, maximum restraint on both sides, and expressed my fervent desire to see both sides return to a negotiating table as soon as possible, said the Asean Secretary-General.
Dr Surin Pitsuwan also called both sides to allow Asean to help bring them to some form of a temporary truce and cool down the emotions and temper so that a higher interest of both peoples and that of Asean can be protected and enhanced.
"The situation has escalated into open conflict. And that will definitely affect our economic development, confidence in our region, and tourism and prospect for foreign investment, which have just been picking up in light of the world economic recovery," said Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan, who is a former Foreign Minister of Thailand.
Diplomatic sources said Indonesia, the current chair of Asean, is also stepping up its diplomatic efforts to help the two sides arrive at a temporary solution so as to allow the bilateral mechanisms between them to accomplish their objectives of border demarcation and a general peace in the areas.
"I understand both sides now welcome some form of mediation by the Asean leadership," Surin said, without elaborating.
who :Surin Pitsuwan,
what : the Thai-Cambodian border is undermining confidence in Asean and affecting economic recovery, tourism and investment prospect in the region, said Surin Pitsuwan,
where: The Thai Combodia.
when :The violent conflict started with gun fire and artillery duels mid afternoon Friday
why .the border between Thailand and Cambodia. This violent conflict must be brought under control and return to negotiating table soonest
Villagers want poisonous ore removed
KANCHANABURI : Klity villagers want ore tailings left over from an abandoned mine moved to a landfill site remote from waterways.
They have asked the Pollution Control Department to find a new place to bury the lead-contaminated tailings to prevent further poisoning of natural waterways and farmland.
Local mining company Lead Concentrate Co buried almost 3,000 tonnes of ore tailings from its mining venture, which closed in 1999. Tests of the water supply showed that the ore had contaminated Klity Creek, making many of the residents fall ill.
The company buried the tailings at sites about 10 metres away from the creek, the main water source of the village's Karen ethnic residents.
Many villagers developed lead poisoning symptoms.
Tests found the ore tailings contain 51,984 to 170,697 milligrammes of lead per kilogramme, which is considered hazardous waste under the Industry Ministry's definition.
The villagers met department staff yesterday to discuss how to deal with the vast amount of tailings at the site.
The department proposed four options: asking a mining company to extract lead from the tailings for industrial use; hiring a waste management firm to take the tailings away; removing the tailings to a site in the village more remote from the creek; and improving the landfill to prevent leaks of toxic substances.
The villagers said they preferred the third option of removing the ore tailings to another site in the village.
"Removing the lead-contaminated deposits out of the village will only cause problems to people in other places. So we have decided to keep it here, but we need to find a new site that is far from waterways and farmland," said Nitipon Tantiwanich, head of Klity village in Thong Pha Phum district.
Anuphan Ittharatana, director of the department's water quality management office, said staff would submit the villagers' demand to a subcommittee.
If approved, staff expect to move the tailings before the rainy season arrives in June, he said. The cost of moving the tailings would reach 14-30 million baht.
Mr Anuphan, however, said the department would not remove lead-contaminated sediment from Klity Creek as the mining company is obliged to handle that task.
who: Nitipon Tantiwanich, Anuphan Ittharatana,
what: They have asked the Pollution Control Department to find a new place to bury the lead-contaminated tailings to prevent further poisoning of natural waterways and farmland.
where : KANCHANABURI.
when: june.
why :The villagers met department staff yesterday to discuss how to deal with the vast amount of tailings at the site.
PM: Thai troops protecting sovereignty
PM: Thai troops protecting sovereignty
- Published: 5/02/2011 at 03:47 PM
- Online news: Local News
The border clash between Thai and Cambodia troops near Phu Ma Khua area of Si Sa Ket yesterday and this morning occurred because Thai soldiers have to protect the country’s sovereignty, Prime Minister Abhisit Said on Saturday afternoon.
Mr Abhisit said this after the meeting of heads of security and foreign affairs agencies held earlier at Government House to discuss the border clash.
The meeting was attended by Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon, army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha, Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya and Natural Resources and Environment Minister Suwit Khunkitti.
The prime minister insisted that Thailand has never invaded its neighbour’s territory as claimed. He called on Thai people to support the armed forces in protecting the country’s sovereignty.
He said the Foreign Ministry will soon issue a statement providing correct information about the military clash at Thai-Cambodian border for the international community, foreign diplomats, the United Nations Organisation and the World Heritage Committee.
who : Mr Abhisit
what : this after the meeting of heads of security and foreign affairs agencies held earlier at Government House to discuss the border clash.
where : : at Government House
where : : at Government House
when : yesterday and this morning occurred
why : The border clash between Thai and Cambodia troops near Phu Ma Khua area of Si Sa Ket yesterday and this morning occurred
Yale attack kills 1, key suspect in Pattani gunfire named
By The Nation
Published on February 5, 2011
Published on February 5, 2011
A soldier was killed and two others injured when a roadside bomb exploded in Yala's Raman district yesterday while the team was escorting teachers to school.
Corporal Phadungphong Songarjin succumbed to injuries while on his way to hospital, though the other two Army rangers suffered minor injuries. The three victims were members of the 4113 Army Ranger Company.
Meanwhile, Hasman Jehba was identified as the key suspect behind the gunfire attack in Pattani on Thursday, which killed five and wounded four others at a busy market. It is believed that the attack was aimed at Buddhists. There is already a warrant out against Hasman for shooting dead a teacher in Pattani two years ago.
Hasman was once apprehended, but he jumped bail and has been on the run since. Police say Hasman and the five gunmen who took part in the shooting were still hiding in Sai Buri district.
Narathiwat's deputy imam Abdulwahab Jehpoh, meanwhile, expressed condolence over the deaths of the five Pattani residents and denounced the violence, which he said was aimed at separating the Muslims and Buddhists.
Some 29 clerics and imams based in Narathiwat's Sungai Kolok district have taken up the mission of educating Muslims about the Islam's teachings of nonviolence as well as tell them about His Majesty's speeches on peace, reconciliation and coexistence.
An expert on the peace process in the South, Asst Prof Srisomphob Jitphiromsri, confirmed authorities' speculation that the attacks are now aimed at causing a split between Buddhist and Muslim residents.
He warned authorities and the public to watch out for possible attacks against Thai Muslims, which would drive a further wedge between the two faiths and even prompt a violent retaliation.
"This is the ultimate goal of the insurgents in the South," he added.
Army commander Prayuth Janocha, meanwhile, called on insurgents to lay down their arms and surrender to authorities by the end of March. He did not say what would happen after the deadline.
who: A soldier and person.
what: A road side bomb while the team was escorting teacher to school.
where: Yala Raman' district.
when: Febuary 5, 2011
why:The attack in Pattani on Thursday, which killed five and wounded four others at a busy market. It is believed that the attack was aimed at Buddhists. There is already a warrant out against Hasman for shooting dead a teacher in Pattani two years ago.
