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Sustainable development world's top issue: UN chiefSydney (AFP) Sept 8, 2011 United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday singled out sustainable development as the top issue facing the planet with the world's seven billionth person expected to be born next month. Key to this was climate change, and he said time was running out with the population set to explode this century. "Next month, the seven billionth citizen of our world will be born," the UN secretary general said during a speech at Sydney University. "For that child, and for all of us, we must keep working ... read more |
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  Chinese HIV-positive man files discrimination suit An HIV-positive man in China said Thursday he was suing local authorities for denying him a job as a primary school teacher, in a sign of growing assertiveness in the nation's AIDS community. ... more | .. |
  NASA Spacecraft Sees Wind-Whipped Fires in East Texas As most of Texas continues to experience the worst one-year drought on record, more than 170 wildfires have erupted across the Lone Star State so far this month alone. The Texas Forest Service repor ... more | .. |
 Study finds crop performance matters when evaluating greenhouse gas emissions Measuring the emission of greenhouse gases from croplands should take into account the crops themselves. That's the conclusion of a study in the Sept.-Oct. issue of the Journal of Environmental Qual ... more | .. |
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  Neurosurgeons use adult stem cells to grow neck vertebrae Neurosurgery researchers at UC Davis Health System have used a new, leading-edge stem cell therapy to promote the growth of bone tissue following the removal of cervical discs - the cushions between ... more | .. |
  Culturomics 2 forecasts human behavior by supercomputing global news A paper published yesterday in the peer-reviewed journal First Monday combines advanced supercomputing with a quarter-century of worldwide news to forecast and visualize human behavior, from civil u ... more | .. |
  Record drought keeps grip on U.S. states The percentage of land suffering from exceptional drought reached record levels in August in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, scientists said. ... more | .. |
 Ancient human DNA still with us "Archaic" humans interbred with anatomically modern humans in Africa in the last 20,000 to 60,000 years and some of their DNA exists today, researchers said. ... more |
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Oxford team unveils air-powered robots that synchronize without electronics
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 Date palm decline: Iraq looks to rebuild Iraqi officials are pushing re-planting programmes for the country's date palms, which are famed across the Middle East as the region's best but have suffered terrible losses in past decades. ... more | .. |
  Japan's new PM in crisis-hit Fukushima Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Thursday visited Fukushima for the first time since he took office a week ago, paying tribute to hundreds of workers battling to contain the nuclear crisis. ... more | .. |
  China struggles to tame microblogging masses Beijing has moved to stem a tide of online criticism by tightening its grip on China's hugely popular microblogs, but experts say it will struggle to control the country's online masses. ... more | .. |
  Republican Perry touts jobs role in US debate debut Texas Governor Rick Perry made his closely-watched debut at a Republican debate on Wednesday, weeks after surging into the race as frontrunner to fight Barack Obama for the White House. ... more |
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 Clouds affect, don't start climate change Clouds can amplify climate change but are not a root cause of it, a U.S. researcher says in a study that rebuts claims that clouds are prime climate suspects. ... more | .. |
  Floating islands mulled as sea levels rise The small Pacific island nation of Kiribati says it's considering building what it describes as 'floating islands' to deal with rising sea levels. ... more | .. |
  More than 100 dead or missing after Japan typhoon A deadly typhoon has left at least 100 people dead or missing after ravaging western Japan, officials said Wednesday, heaping yet more misery onto a nation trying to recover from the March tsunami. ... more | .. |
 Sticky future for honey imports to EU after GM ruling Honey from nations such as Argentina and China using genetically-modified cereals could face import restrictions into the EU following a key judicial ruling, the European Commission said Wednesday. ... more |
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European Response to Escalating Space Security Crisis
BlackSky to deliver advanced Gen-3 tactical ISR capabilities to international customer
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  In S.Africa poaching fight, chemical makes rhino horns toxic A South African game reserve has developed a treatment for rhino horns that is safe for the animals but causes convulsions and headaches to people who consume them, a wildlife group said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 FAO chief warns of threats to global food security FAO chief Jacques Diouf on Wednesday warned that pressure on the world's soil resources and land degradation were threatening global food security. ... more | .. |
 New tropical storm develops in Atlantic: forecasters A new tropical storm, the 13th named system of the 2011 season, churned in the Atlantic Wednesday, US forecasters said, as a separate system in the Gulf showed signs of strengthening in the coming days. ... more | .. |
 Spain awards "heroes" of Japan nuclear disaster The "heroes of Fukushima" who braved high radiation to battle nuclear disaster in Japan won Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Concord prize, the jury said Wednesday. ... more |
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  Global warming brings crab threat to Antarctica The sea floor around the West Antarctica peninsula could become invaded by a voracious king crab, which is on the march thanks to global warming, biologists reported on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Pacific summit faces Fiji, climate change hurdles The Pacific Islands Forum opened Wednesday with a passionate plea from Kiribati for help staving off rising seas caused by climate change, while discontent festered over Fiji's ban from the summit. ... more | .. |
 Book recalls Japan tsunami through children's eyes Remembering Japan's quake-tsunami disaster, one child writes how the earth rumbled and roared, another recalls that the black wave stank and a third, who lost her friend, calls the tsunami "greedy". ... more |
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Solein protein tech moves toward ISS zero-gravity pilot project
Japan launches initiative for lunar construction technology
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 Digital Cameras Open New View of America's West A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) aerial photography survey of 38,000 wildfire-burned acres in Idaho provided what is believed to be the first evidence that the invasive leafy spurge weed is d ... more | .. |
  Harmless soil-dwelling bacteria successfully kill cancer A bacterial strain that specifically targets tumours could soon be used as a vehicle to deliver drugs in frontline cancer therapy. The strain is expected to be tested in cancer patients in 2013 says ... more | .. |
 Scripps Research scientists produce first stem cells from endangered species Starting with normal skin cells, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have produced the first stem cells from endangered species. Such cells could eventually make it possible to improve re ... more | .. |
  Fast, cheap, and accurate: Detecting CO2 with a fluorescent twist Detecting specific gases in the air is possible using a number of different existing technologies, but typically all of these suffer from one or more drawbacks including high energy cost, large size ... more |
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 Ancient humans were mixing it up It is now widely accepted that the species Homo sapiens originated in Africa and eventually spread throughout the world. But did those early humans interbreed with more ancestral forms of the genus ... more | .. |
 Scientists make turfgrass safer for animals, deadly for insects The right combination of compounds produced by a beneficial fungus could lead to grasses that require fewer pesticides and are safer for wildlife and grazing animals, according to Purdue University ... more | .. |
 Circadian clocks in a blind fish Do animals that have evolved for millions of years underground, completely isolated from the day-night cycle, still "know" what time it is? Does a normal circadian clock persist during evolution und ... more | .. |
 Poor outlook for water quality in Germany Good quality status of water bodies required in EU by 2015 unlikely to be attained, reveals study The good chemical and ecological status of water bodies as defined by the EU Water Framework D ... more |
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