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Japan to enforce evacuation zone around plant: reportTokyo (AFP) April 20, 2011 Japan is to begin enforcing the exclusion zone around its crippled nuclear plant after midnight on Friday, a report said Wednesday, as worries mounted over the effects of long-term radiation exposure. Prime Minister Naoto Kan will announce the decision to designate the 20-kilometre (12-mile) area around the Fukushima complex legally out-of-bounds when he visits the area on Thursday, the Kyodo news agency reported, citing unnamed sources. The government will allow one member of each family forced ... read more |
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  Melting ice on Arctic islands boosts sea levels: study Melting glaciers and ice caps on Canadian Arctic islands play a far greater role in sea level rise that previously suspected, according to a study published Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Television Breakups Can Cause Some Viewers Distress And Lead To More Media Use Even temporary "breakups" can be distressing for some people - at least when it comes to their favorite television programs. A new study examined how college-aged television viewers reacted when the ... more | .. |
  NASA Specialists To Descend On Offutt More than 20 NASA flight crew, ground crew and technicians are scheduled to arrive here late this month as the base's newest, if only temporary, members. The team will bring a NASA ER-2 to par ... more | .. |
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  Simple Injection Could Limit Damage From Heart Attacks And Stroke Medical researchers have held out promise that a simple injection is being developed to limit the devastating consequences of heart attacks and strokes. Described by the lead researcher as 'a fascin ... more | .. |
 For Testing Skin Cream, Synthetic Skin May Be As Good As The Real Thing New research suggests that currently available types of synthetic skin may now be good enough to imitate animal skin in laboratory tests, and may be on their way to truly simulating human skin in th ... more | .. |
 Man's Best Friend: A Joint Tumour Marker In Man And Dog The dog may be man's best friend but even so it comes as a surprise that the two species share a common tumour marker. This finding comes from a joint study between scientists of the Vetmeduni Vienn ... more | .. |
  Report Cites "Liquefaction" As Key To Much Of Japanese Earthquake Damage The massive subduction zone earthquake in Japan caused a significant level of soil "liquefaction" that has surprised researchers with its widespread severity, a new analysis shows. The finding ... more |
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China emissions flat in third quarter as solar surges: study
Conference travel emissions exceed research energy use
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  Leaf Characteristics Improves Accuracy Measuring Past Climates A study led by Baylor University and Wesleyan University geologists shows that a new method that uses different size and shape traits of leaves to reconstruct past climates over the last 120 million ... more | .. |
  Life Among A Hundred Thousand Cousins When your family members gather at a picnic in your backyard, there may be 10 to 20 people - maybe more - enjoying your barbecue. When flies visit your party, be glad they don't bring their entire f ... more | .. |
 How Do You Manage U.S. Oceans? Look At Local Successes Policymakers are very familiar with land-use planning. But what is the best approach for planning uses of America's coastal waters and oceans? That question has gained importance since President Oba ... more | .. |
 Swiss face one of worst droughts on record Swiss officials began moving trout from a river this week to save them from plunging water levels, amid one of the worst droughts to hit the country in 150 years. ... more |
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 Sandia And UNM Lead Effort To Destroy Cancers Melding nanotechnology and medical research, Sandia National Laboratories, the University of New Mexico, and the UNM Cancer Research and Treatment Center have produced an effective strategy that use ... more | .. |
 Japan bans catching konago fish off Fukushima Japan on Wednesday formally banned the shipment and consumption of a small fish caught off its Fukushima prefecture where a crippled nuclear power plant has leaked radioactive water into the sea. ... more | .. |
  Disease hits wheat crops in Africa, Mideast Aggressive new strains of wheat rust disease have decimated up to 40 percent of harvests in some regions of north Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and the Caucasus, researchers said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Introducing World's First Intubation Robot First there was McSleepy. Now it's time to introduce the first intubation robot operated by remote control. This robotic system named The Kepler Intubation System (KIS), and developed by Dr. Thomas ... 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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 No decision yet on Mekong River dam A decision on a controversial $3.8 billion Mekong River dam in Laos has been delayed, said the Mekong River Commission. ... more | .. |
 Oxygenation At A Depth Of 120 Meters Can Save The Baltic Sea Oxygenation brings dead sea bottoms to life. This creates the necessary conditions for the establishment of new ecosystems that enable nature itself to deal with eutrophication. By conducting pilot ... more | .. |
 Change Strategy To Save Diversity Of Species Active efforts are required to preserve biodiversity in the seas - that far most people are in agreement. But in our enthusiasm to save uncommon species, we sometimes miss the common species that fo ... more | .. |
 Missing The Gorilla University of Utah psychologists have learned why many people experience "inattention blindness" - the phenomenon that leaves drivers on cell phones prone to traffic accidents and makes a gorilla in ... more |
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  The Pain Of Evolution: A Big Toothache For Reptiles Our susceptibility to oral infection has some parallels to those of ancient reptiles that evolved to eat a diet incorporating plants in addition to meat. That's according to Robert Reisz from the Un ... more | .. |
  Mercury On The Rise In Endangered Pacific Seabirds Using 120 years of feathers from natural history museums in the United States, Harvard University researchers have been able to track increases in the neurotoxin methylmercury in the black-footed al ... more | .. |
 Music can keep brain sharp into old age Music lessons in childhood may keep people's brains sharper as they age even if they don't keep up with playing an instrument, U.S. researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Germany's Munich Re issues profit warning on Japan quake Munich Re, the world's top re-insurance company, warned Wednesday it would post a loss for the first quarter because of Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami in March. ... more |
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Tiangong hosts dual crews after debris impact delays Shenzhou-20 return
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  Chile to revamp prison system Chile will revamp its nationwide prison network to address key security issues and remove overcrowding, following President Sebastian Pinera's pledge to reform what he called an inhumane system that killed more than 80 inmates in one incident last year. ... more | .. |
 India monsoon forecast brings inflation hope India's weather office on Tuesday forecast a "normal" monsoon this year that could boost food production and ease high inflation. ... more | .. |
 Leaders pledge aid to complete Chernobyl shelter International leaders pledged hundreds of millions of dollars at a conference in Kiev Tuesday to complete a permanent shelter to secure the ruins of Ukraine's exploded Chernobyl power station. ... more | .. |
  Russia risks repeat of wildfire crisis: NGO Russia is on track to experience another summer of catastrophic wildfires due to a lack of prevention measures and misdirected state funds, an environmental group warned on Tuesday. ... more |
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 Russian police arrest 10 activists for highway protest Russian police on Tuesday arrested 10 activists who were trying to stop logging in a Moscow forest for wood to be used to build a disputed highway, an environmental group said. ... more | .. |
  Work on Sudan split continues Their message was clear: the discussion over the future of Sudan isn't over but African leaders charged with overseeing the peaceful division of Sudan said Tuesday they are hopeful that most of the issues plaguing the country as it prepares to separate will be resolved soon. ... more | .. |
  Chinese rights lawyer released amid crackdown A top Chinese rights lawyer has returned home after two months in police custody, his wife said Wednesday, amid a fierce crackdown on government critics and activists. ... more | .. |
HK activists urge boycott over China crackdown Hong Kong rights groups on Wednesday urged the territory's residents to stop travelling to mainland China in protest at a crackdown on dissidents and activists. ... more |
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