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Smoke slows race to cool Japan nuclear plantKitakami, Japan (AFP) March 22, 2011 Smoke belched from a stricken nuclear plant in Japan on Monday, disrupting urgent efforts to repair the cooling systems as Tokyo halted some food shipments owing to radiation worries. Rain meanwhile complicated rescue efforts and compounded the misery of tsunami survivors fearful of dangerous radioactive leaks from the wrecked Fukushima power station, which has suffered a series of explosions and fires. Japan has ordered the suspension of shipments of milk and certain vegetables including spinac ... read more |
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  African cities need 'greener' water infrastructure: UN African cities need to move toward greener water and sanitation projects, such as rainwater collection, to keep pace with booming urban populations, a new United Nations report said Monday. ... more | .. |
  A Carbon Cloak To Spy On Bacteria Vikas Berry, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Kansas State University, and his research team are wrapping bacteria with graphene to address current challenges with imaging bacteria und ... more | .. |
  Intervention Offers 'Best Chance' To Save Species Endangered By Climate Change A University of York scientist is proposing a radical programme of 'assisted colonisation' to save species endangered by climate change. Chris Thomas, Professor of Conservation Biology, says the str ... more | .. |
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 New Plant Species Gives Insights Into Evolution A new plant species is providing an insight into how evolution works and could help improve crop plants, scientists have revealed. The new plant species, Tragopogon miscellus, appeared in the United ... more | .. |
 'Ordinary guy' Putin meets snow leopard Prime Minister Vladimir Putin stood metres away from a snow leopard in his latest stunt involving a threatened animal but insisted Monday he was just an "ordinary guy" in touch with Russia's problems. ... more | .. |
  A New Evolutionary History Of Primates A robust new phylogenetic tree resolves many long-standing issues in primate taxonomy. The genomes of living primates harbor remarkable differences in diversity and provide an intriguing context for ... more | .. |
 Revisiting 1950s Experiments For Signs Of Life's Origin In the 1950s, biochemist Stanley Miller performed a series of experiments to demonstrate that organic compounds could be created under conditions mimicking the primordial Earth. Some unused samples ... more |
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China emissions flat in third quarter as solar surges: study
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  France fines Google 100,000 euros over Street View France's data privacy regulator said Monday it had imposed a record fine of 100,000 euros ($142,000) on Google for private information collected while compiling its panoramic Street View service. ... more | .. |
 UN atomic watchdog says Japan crisis will be overcome UN atomic watchdog chief Yukiya Amano said Monday he had "no doubt" that the current nuclear crisis in Japan would be "effectively overcome". ... more | .. |
  Passions stirred, Gbagbo backers "ready to die" for I.Coast With a tightly-clenched fist angrily puncturing the air, Guillaume, a young supporter of strongman Laurent Gbagbo declares himself ready to die to free Ivory Coast. ... more | .. |
 Iraq wastes 50% of water: UNICEF Fifty percent of water resources are wasted in Iraq, where six million people have no access to clean water, the United Nations said on Monday, the eve of World Water Day. ... more |
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 Seafood industry aims to halt that sinking feeling Seafood industry players from around the world grappled here Monday with ways to net the most elusive catch of all: a solution to the problem of feeding growing appetites with ever fewer fish. ... more | .. |
 Climate change: UN parties complete inventory of pledges Developing countries have submitted their plans for tackling greenhouse-gas emissions under the UN flag, completing a double inventory decided in Mexico in December, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change said on Monday. ... more | .. |
 More volunteers 'prepared for death' at Fukushima In the scramble to avert catastrophe at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, selfless workers are volunteering to repeatedly endure high doses of radiation for the sake of millions of people. ... more | .. |
 Disaster could cost Japan $235 billion: WBank Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami could cost its economy up to $235 billion, or 4.0 percent of output, and reconstruction could take five years, the World Bank warned Monday. ... more |
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Geopolitical instability and AI drive transformation in EO market
'Western tech dominance fading' at Lisbon's Web Summit
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  Tanks deploy in Yemen capital as top general defects Tanks were deployed outside the presidential palace in Yemen on Monday, as a top general announced his allegiance to the protest movement seeking to oust President Ali Abdallah Saleh from power. ... more | .. |
  Japan halts some food shipments due to radiation Japan has ordered a halt to shipments of certain foods from four prefectures after abnormal radiation levels were found in products near a quake-hit nuclear plant, a government spokesman said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Beijing targets luxury ads amid wealth gap China's capital has banned outdoor advertising that promotes hedonistic or high-end lifestyles as the government seeks to ease public concerns about the country's widening wealth gap. ... more | .. |
 Together, but apart at Japanese refugee centre The sign on the wall of the school hall that is now home to hundreds of Japan's tsunami homeless reads: "Let's all support each other. One for all and all for one." ... more |
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 World learns from Dutch to keep head above water Dubai's Palm Island, New Orleans' upgraded dykes and Australia's water recycling plants all have one thing in common: they benefited from Dutch know-how gained in the country's age-old quest for dry feet. ... more | .. |
  Japan's tsunami holds tight to its dead An unbearable sense of conflict shadows visitors to a stadium-turned-morgue in the northeastern Japanese city of Rifu, where hundreds of white-draped coffins lie waiting for identification. ... more | .. |
 Ecologists Use 70-Year-Old Pressed Plants To Chart City's Vanishing Native Flora More than half of the world's population now lives in cities, yet we know little about how urbanization affects biodiversity. In one the first studies of its kind, ecologists in Indianapolis, USA ha ... more | .. |
 Optimizing Yield And Fruit Size Of Figs The common fig is a subtropical, deciduous fruit tree grown in most Mediterranean-type climates. Although some believe that figs may be the oldest cultivated fruit species on earth, global expansion ... more |
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Tiangong hosts dual crews after debris impact delays Shenzhou-20 return
Dust and Sand Movements Reshape Martian Slopes
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 Max Planck Researchers Urge More Prominent Role For Zoos Of around seven land vertebrate species whose survival in the wild is threatened one is also kept in captivity. These and other data on the protection of species in zoos and aquaria have now been re ... more | .. |
 Green Sludge Can Protect Groundwater From Radioactive Contamination Radioactive waste decaying down at the dump needs millions of years to stabilize. The element Neptunium, a waste product from uranium reactors, could pose an especially serious health risk should it ... more | .. |
 Chemical-Free Pest Management Cuts Rice Waste In 2006, Maria Otilia Carvalho, a researcher from the Tropical Research Institute of Portugal had an ambitious goal: to cut the huge losses of rice - a staple food crop for half of humanity - due to ... more | .. |
 New Software Calculates Heating Costs In Greenhouse Operations In parts of the United States where ornamental and vegetable plants are produced in greenhouses during cold seasons, heating costs are second only to labor costs for greenhouse operators. Greenhouse ... more |
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  Pounding rain fuels radiation fears in Japan Driving rain on Monday disrupted rescue efforts in Japan and compounded the misery of disaster survivors now fearing radioactive fallout from the smouldering wreck of a nuclear plant. ... more | .. |
 Berkeley Lab Scientists Take A Look At Systems Biology And Cellular Networking Systems biology is a holistic approach to the study of how a living organism emerges from the interactions of the individual elements that make up its constituent cells. Embracing a broad rang ... more | .. |
 Iraqis rally for third day of Bahrain protests Thousands of protesters in southern Iraq chanted slogans and carried effigies of Gulf rulers on Saturday in a third day of rallies supporting Shiite-led pro-democracy protests in Bahrain. ... more | .. |
 Quake, tsunami could cost Japan $235 billion: WBank The massive quake and tsunami of March 11 could cost Japan's economy up to $235 billion, or 4.0 percent of output, but reconstruction will spur recovery later this year, the World Bank said Monday. ... more |
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