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Big cities are not always biggest pollutersWashington (AFP) Jan 25, 2011 Big cities like New York, London and Shanghai send less pollution into the atmosphere per capita than places like Denver and Rotterdam, said a study released Tuesday. Researchers examined data from 100 cities in 33 nations for clues about which were the biggest polluters and why, according to the report in the peer-reviewed journal Environment and Urbanization. While cities across the world were to blame for around 71 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, urban dwellers who can use pu ... read more |
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  CO2-Chomping Microbes Battling For Ocean Iron Australian, Belgian and New Zealand scientists have expanded our understanding of the way phyoplankton take up scarce iron in the ocean - a process that regulates ocean food chains from the bottom u ... more | .. |
  Nailing Down A Crucial Plant Signaling System Plant biologists have discovered the last major element of the series of chemical signals that one class of plant hormones, called brassinosteroids, send from a protein on the surface of a plant cel ... more | .. |
 World needs global food system overhaul: report The world needs fundamental changes to the global food system to feed the expanding population, according to a British government report out Monday on how to feed the planet until 2050. ... more | .. |
 Battling Superweeds With Less Chemicals They pop up in farm fields across 22 states, and they've been called the single largest threat to production agriculture that farmers have ever seen. They are "superweeds" - undesirable plants ... more |
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  Staggering Brazil flood damage mounts More than a week of heavy rain in Brazil's southern Santa Catarina state has killed five people and left more than 23,000 people homeless, in addition to the deadly flooding disaster near Rio de Janeiro, officials said Monday. ... more | .. |
  China drought threatens water supplies: state media A months-long dry spell across northern China is threatening drinking water supplies and crops, and more bone-dry conditions are expected, state media said Monday. ... more | .. |
 IEA's Birol: Say goodbye to climate goals Without a serious policy turnaround from the world's largest emitters, the world won't meet its target of limiting the global temperature increase to no more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, a top IEA official has warned. ... more | .. |
  Cloud Computing Makes The Mathematics Of Evolution Easier An innovative, educational computing platform developed by University at Buffalo faculty members and hosted by the cloud (remote, high-capacity, scalable servers) is helping UB students understand p ... more |
  
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 New Anglo-Swiss Research Questions Impact Of GM Wheat On Insects An Anglo-Swiss research project has found that the impact of disease-resistant genetically-modified wheat plants on insects may be negligible. Many studies have looked at the effects of geneti ... more | .. |
  Robotic Glider To Map Moreton Bay Impacts A $200,000 CSIRO coastal glider is bound for Queensland to be deployed in Moreton Bay to investigate the impact of the recent flooding on marine ecosystems. Dr Andy Steven from CSIRO's Wealth ... more | .. |
 How Isolated Are Mountain Top Plant Populations Do mountain tops act as sky islands for species that live at high elevations? Are plant populations on these mountain tops isolated from one another because the valleys between them act as barriers, ... more | .. |
 Aquatic Food Web Tied To Land A distant relative of shrimp, zooplankton are an important food source for fish and other aquatic animals. Long characterized as algae feeders, a new study published this week in the Proceedings of ... more |
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  High-tech gear helped S. Korea raid on pirates High-tech equipment and carefully planned tactics helped Seoul's navy rescue a South Korean ship and its crew from Somali pirates, military officials said Monday. ... more | .. |
  One-clawed dino belonged to T. Rex family Researchers in China have unearthed a miniature single-clawed dinosaur that was likely an early relative of the ferocious T. Rex and is the only such creature known to have just one finger. ... more | .. |
 India environment minister rejects 'Dr No' tag India's environment minister sought Monday to reassure corporate leaders that he was pro-industry, saying he did not want to be known as the "Dr No" for blocking economic development. ... more | .. |
 'Amazing' Australian floodwaters enter new towns Surging floodwaters broke levees in disaster-hit Australia on Monday to inundate more properties in the southeast, as residents sandbagged homes against the spiralling crisis. ... more |
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 EU warns of stricter controls after German dioxin scare EU health commissioner John Dalli warned Monday that bloc-wide new measures are needed over and above German moves aimed at preventing a repeat of a damaging dioxin poisoning scare in farm produce. ... more | .. |
 Haiti violence against women on the rise since quake: HRW Haiti's devastating earthquake last year has severely compromised the state's ability to safeguard basic human rights, with women and girls more at risk of sexual violence in displaced persons' camps, a rights group said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Forest accords not saving trees, experts International accords on saving vulnerable forests are having little impact because they do not attack the core causes such as growing demand for biofuels and food crops, a new report said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 S.Africa flood death toll 123 Floods and heavy storms in South Africa have killed at least 123 people and left around 20,000 in need of immediate basic relief aid, a government official said Monday. ... more |
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  West guilty of 'cowardice' on China rights: HRW Human Rights Watch on Monday accused Western governments of a "near-universal cowardice" in dealing with China, arguing they preferred opaque talks to taking a vocal stand against enduring repression. ... more | .. |
 Hands off our trees, Karzai tells NATO Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday accused NATO-led forces fighting an Islamic insurgency in his country of illegally cutting down thousands of trees. ... more | .. |
 New Crop Of Plant Scientists Emerges At CSIRO Some of Australia's top science and engineering students have begun a ten-week, hands-on work experience program at CSIRO Plant Industry's research facilities in Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide and Nar ... more | .. |
 Nepal uses satellites to track rare tiger An injured wild tiger that strayed into a tourist resort in Nepal has been moved to a new home in the jungle and fitted with a satellite collar so its progress can be tracked, the government said. ... more |
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 Water pacts 'could bring Mideast peace' Water scarcity in the Middle East can be the catalyst for reducing, rather than causing, conflict in the volatile region, a Beirut think tank says in a report that urges a major "paradigm shift" in how regional states view the problem of dwindling water resources. ... more | .. |
 Oil-rich Abu Dhabi champions ecological cause It floats on a sea of oil in a country that has the largest ecological footprint, yet Abu Dhabi aims to convince the world of its environmental credentials through its futuristic Masdar initiative. ... more | .. |
 Japan to cull 410,000 chickens to fight bird flu Japan will cull around 410,000 chickens at a major poultry farm in western Miyazaki prefecture to tackle an outbreak of bird flu, an official said Sunday. ... more | .. |
  China fireworks plant owner held after deadly blast Police in central China have detained the owner of a fireworks plant who went missing after an explosion ripped through the factory, killing 10 people and injuring another 21, state media reported. ... more |
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  Southeast Asia facing new 'health crisis' Southeast Asia's 600 million people are facing a raft of new health challenges as the disaster-prone region undergoes some of the world's fastest social change, medical papers published Tuesday said. ... more | .. |
 Sundance film examines 'eco-terrorists' A documentary film shown at the Sundance Film Festival examines the roots of the Earth Liberation Front, a group that has been branded an "environmental terrorist" group. ... more | .. |
 La Nina weather pattern to last for months: UN agency The weather pattern behind floods and extreme conditions in Australia, Asia, Africa and South America is one of the strongest ever and could last for four more months, the UN weather agency said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Family threatens suicide in Beijing property row Wang Shibo's stricken grandparents sit drenched in petrol next to a coffin in her Beijing shop, poised to light a match in a final, desperate protest against the forced demolition of the store. ... more |
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