Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
The more modular genetic information becomes, the more complex the web of life becomes. For example, the human being above is far more complex than the singled-celled yeast used to make these loaves of bread rise, yet humans have only about four times as many genes as yeast cells do. ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Researchers at the Wildlife Conservation Society and other institutions declare that improvements in management of existing protected areas in South Asia could double the number of tigers currently existing in the region.
Specifically, the study examined 157 reserves throughout the Indian subcontinent--comprising India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal. It found that 21 ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
A novel MIT study concludes that increasing levels of ozone due to the growing use of fossil fuels will damage global vegetation, resulting in serious costs to the world's economy.
The analysis, reported in the November issue of Energy Policy, focused on how three environmental changes (increases in temperature, carbon dioxide ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
The government is so short of nuclear inspectors that the programme of new reactors being planned may have to be put on hold, leaked papers show. The business secretary, John Hutton, yesterday warned Gordon Brown that the government has only five inspectors working on the design assessments of the three ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Culls of badgers should be carried out to control the TB epidemic in cattle, the government's chief science adviser has recommended.Sir David King's advice is diametrically opposed to a near 10-year government study of badger-culling, which said it could "make no meaningful contribution" to controlling the spread of TB in ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Lake Tai, the center of China's ancient "land of fish and rice," succumbed this year to floods of industrial and agricultural waste.
Toxic cyanobacteria, commonly referred to as pond scum, turned the big lake fluorescent green. The stench of decay choked anyone who came within a mile of its shores. At ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Genetically modified plants that can break down pollutants may be an effective way to clean soil contaminated by industrial chemicals and explosives used by the military, according to scientists.
Tests on six-inch tall GM poplar cuttings which had a gene from a rabbit inserted into them showed that they could remove ...
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