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Drought forces hosepipe ban for 20 million BritonsLondon (AFP) April 5, 2012 Around 20 million Britons were banned on Thursday from using garden hoses, after one of the driest two-year periods on record. Seven water companies in southern and eastern England, covering around 20 million people, have imposed restrictions banning people from using hoses for gardening or cleaning. People who ignore the ban face a Pounds 1,000 ($1,600, 1,200 euro) fine as suppliers battle to top up depleting reservoirs. "It's impossible to say how long the hosepipe ban may last," Paul Kent, asse ... read more |
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  Radioactive fluid leaks at French nuclear reactor Radioactive cooling fluid leaked at a French nuclear reactor Thursday following two small fires, but the spillage was safely collected in special tanks, officials said. ... more | .. |
  What the future of water means to business What precious liquid has the automotive company set its sights on? The humble three-atom compound H2O. While experts say it's a while before water plays a predominant role in the global marketplace, some companies have started taking the resource more seriously. In the past 10 years, companies like Ford, Coca-Cola Co., IBM and Intel Corp. have made water conservation or stewardship a part of their company profile. At least one city is building on its proximity to fresh water to spur economic growth. In 2009, the Milwaukee Water Council, a non-profit, was formed to promote collaboration among the city's growing water industry. The group also works to attract water industry businesses to Milwaukee, likening the city to a water hub in the way other cities brand themselves as a hub for the arts or technology. ... more | .. |
  Drones will seek pirates at sea The U.S. Navy says it will begin tests of airborne pilotless drones equipped with sensors that could distinguish small pirate boats at sea from other vessels. ... more | .. |
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  US Coast Guard sinks Japan tsunami 'ghost ship' The US Coast Guard on Thursday sunk a Japanese "ghost ship" with bursts of heavy gunfire when it drifted into Alaskan waters more than a year after being set adrift by a devastating tsunami. ... more | .. |
  Antibody clues to AIDS vaccine success The success of an AIDS vaccine trial that in 2009 was shown to protect 31 percent of people studied may have been due to varying levels of antibody responses in the patients, researchers said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Japan passes $1.1 trillion budget Japan passed a 90.3 trillion yen ($1.1 trillion) budget on Thursday, with about half the spending expected to be financed by new bonds that will add to Japan's massive debt mountain. ... more | .. |
  Key ice shelf in Antarctica has shrunk by 85 percent A vast ice shelf in the Antarctic peninsula, a hotspot for global warming, has shrunk by 85 percent in 17 years, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday. ... more |
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  Internet can help, not start, democracy The use of the Internet to promote democracy is most effective in countries already enacting reforms to move in that direction, U.S. researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Fukushima leak may have flowed into Pacific: TEPCO About 12 tonnes of radioactive water has leaked at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, with the facility's operator saying Thursday that some may have flowed into the Pacific Ocean. ... more | .. |
 China calls for lifting of all Myanmar sanctions China on Thursday reiterated its call for all international sanctions on Myanmar to be lifted, after landmark elections in the long-closed nation gave Aung San Suu Kyi her first seat in parliament. ... more | .. |
  China places six Uighurs on 'terror' list China has placed six men from the Uighur ethnic minority on a "terror" list, accusing them of involvement in terrorist training camps and of inciting attacks in the restive western Xinjiang region. ... more |
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  At least 14 dead in Argentina storms At least 14 people died overnight into Thursday in Argentina following storms that saw strong winds cause damage across the capital region. ... more | .. |
 China tries alleged smuggling kingpin: state media The alleged mastermind of a multi-billion-dollar smuggling racket whose extradition to China sparked a bitter diplomatic row with Canada went on trial Friday, state media reported. ... more | .. |
  Going ape for apps: young orangutan plays with iPad The young orangutan reaches his hand through the cage and rubs his knuckles over an iPad, drawing wide colors across the screen with his favorite app. ... more | .. |
  New forage plant prepares farmers for climate changes Researchers, including plant researchers from the University of Copenhagen, have developed a new type of the corn-like crop sorghum, which may become very significant for food supplies in drought-pr ... more |
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Russia strikes Kyiv after first stage of major prisoner swap
Growing Arctic military presence worries Finland's reindeer herders
South Korea says concerned by China's 'no-sail zone' in overlapping waters | .. |
  First targeted nanomedicine to enter human clinical studies A team of scientists, engineers and physicians from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), Harvard Medical School (HMS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ... more | .. |
 ESA and NASA join forces to measure Arctic sea ice Marking another remarkable collaborative effort, ESA and NASA met up over the Arctic Ocean this week to perform some carefully coordinated flights directly under CryoSat orbiting above. The data gat ... more | .. |
  Are we really a nation of animal lovers? A new study has estimated that over 260,000 cats and dogs entered the care of UK rescue organisations during 2009, the first full year since the onset of the UK recession. The aim of the resea ... more | .. |
 Is rainfall a greater threat to China's agriculture than warming? New research into the impact of climate change on Chinese cereal crops has found rainfall has a greater impact than rising temperature. The research, published in the Journal of the Science of Food ... more |
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 Thawing permafrost may have led to extreme global warming events Scientists analysing prehistoric global warming say thawing permafrost released massive amounts of carbon stored in frozen soil of Polar Regions exacerbating climate change through increasing global ... more | .. |
 Scientists find evidence that human ancestors used fire one million years ago An international team led by the University of Toronto and Hebrew University has identified the earliest known evidence of the use of fire by human ancestors. Microscopic traces of wood ash, alongsi ... more | .. |
 Burtele Foot Indicates Lucy Not Alone A new fossil discovery from Eastern Africa called the Burtele foot indicates Australopithecus afarensis, an early relative of modern humans, may not have been the only hominin to walk the plains and ... more | .. |
 Newly Discovered Foot Points to a New Kid on the Hominin Block It seems that "Lucy" was not the only hominin on the block in northern Africa about 3 million years ago. A team of researchers that included Johns Hopkins University geologist Naomi Levin has announ ... more |
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After two setbacks, SpaceX could try to launch massive Starship next week
Doubt cast on claim of 'hints' of life on faraway planet
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 Farmers Use GIS Technology for a Growing World Today's farmers have more technology at their disposal than ever before. One piece that is expected to greatly impact the production of food and fiber is geographic information systems (GIS) technol ... more | .. |
 Rising CO2 levels linked to global warming during last deglaciation Many scientists have long suspected that rising levels of carbon dioxide and the global warming that ended the last Ice Age were somehow linked, but establishing a clear cause-and-effect relationshi ... more | .. |
 Thawing permafrost 50 million years ago led to global warming events In a new study reported in Nature, climate scientist Rob DeConto of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues elsewhere propose a simple new mechanism to explain the source of carbon th ... more | .. |
 Stickleback genome holds clues to adaptive evolution Scientists searching for genetic clues to vertebrate evolution have long been fascinated by the tiny marine stickleback fish, known for its ability to adapt and thrive in salty oceans or freshwater ... more |
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 Coldest antarctic water said disappearing The amount of coldest deep ocean water in the Southern Ocean, called Antarctic Bottom Water, has been decreasing for decades, researchers say. ... more | .. |
 US forecasters see drop in 2012 Atlantic hurricanes The number of 2012 Atlantic hurricanes will be below average this season due to a cooling of tropical waters and the potential development of El Nino conditions, US forecasters said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 EU carbon price falls on lower emissions Data released this week showing Europe's carbon emissions were lower than expected put more pressure on the price of allowances under the EU trading scheme. ... more | .. |
 Outside View: A clash of titans? Last Friday's Washington Post headline read "Romney to stress foreign policy" in the presidential race. The presumptive Republican nominee clearly recognized that it isn't entirely "the economy stupid." One way to win in November may be through discrediting Barack Obama's foreign policy. ... more |
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