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Ancient plant-fungal partnerships reveal how the world became greenSheffield UK (SPX) May 16, 2012 Prehistoric plants grown in state-of-the-art growth chambers recreating environmental conditions from more than 400 million years ago have shown scientists from the University of Sheffield how soil dwelling fungi played a crucial role in the evolution of plants. This ground breaking work provides fundamental knowledge of how plants colonised the land before roots evolved and the co-evolution of one of the most ancient relationships, between fungi and early plants that played a founding role in the ... read more |
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  Wasted milk is a real drain on our resources Milk poured down Britain's kitchen sinks each year creates a carbon footprint equivalent to thousands of car exhaust emissions, research shows. Scientists say the 360,000 tonnes of milk wasted ... more | .. |
  Big-mouthed babies drove the evolution of giant island snakes Some populations of tiger snakes stranded for thousands of years on tiny islands surrounding Australia have evolved to be giants, growing to nearly twice the size of their mainland cousins. Now, new ... more | .. |
 'Modern Portfolio Theory' optimizes conservation practices While climate change is likely to alter the spatial distributions of species and habitat types, the nature of those changes is uncertain, making it more difficult for conservationists to implement s ... more | .. |
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 Ancient sea reptile with gammy jaw suggests dinosaurs got arthritis too The Bristol scientists studied a giant specimen of the pliosaur Pliosaurus dating from the Upper Jurassic. Found in Westbury, Wiltshire, it has been kept since its discovery in the collections of th ... more | .. |
 UMD Finding May Hold Key to Gaia Theory of Earth as Living Organism Is Earth really a sort of giant living organism as the Gaia hypothesis predicts? A new discovery made at the University of Maryland may provide a key to answering this question. This key of su ... more | .. |
  Statistical Analysis Projects Future Temperatures In North America For the first time, researchers have been able to combine different climate models using spatial statistics - to project future seasonal temperature changes in regions across North America. They per ... more | .. |
 Tiny plants could cut costs, shrink environmental footprint Tall, waving corn fields that line Midwestern roads may one day be replaced by dwarfed versions that require less water, fertilizer and other inputs, thanks to a fungicide commonly used on golf cour ... more |
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UK lab promises air-con revolution without polluting gases
EU considers new anti-dumping action against Chinese tyres
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  Model Forecasts Long-Term Impacts of Forest Land-Use Decisions drive to develop crops for use as biofuel, continues to raise questions about additional uses of forest land. A cutting edge computer model developed at North Carolina State University offers detail ... more | .. |
  Wall art from France said world's oldest Anthropologists say a 1.6-ton block of engraved limestone found in southern France is the earliest evidence of wall art, dating to 37,000 years ago. ... more | .. |
 Amber preserves earliest pollination clue Amber from 100-million-year-old deposits in Northern Spain has preserved and revealed the first ever record of insect pollination, scientists say. ... more | .. |
  Lee makes 'landmark' visit to Myanmar South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has embarked on a "landmark" but tightly monitored visit to Myanmar for talks with President Thein Sein. ... more |
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 Report details biodiversity concerns A significant decline in biodiversity is hitting low-income countries least able to afford it, the World Wildlife Fund reported in Switzerland. ... more | .. |
 Libya's Belhaj quits military to enter politics Abdelhakim Belhaj, a Libyan Islamist who has commanded the Tripoli military council since the ouster of Moamer Kadhafi's regime, has resigned from his post to enter politics. ... more | .. |
 EU issues warning to carbon tax rebels China, India The European Union on Tuesday gave China and India a month to comply with a new airline carbon emissions fee coming into effect across the bloc, or face penalties for flights in and out of Europe. ... more | .. |
  Bardot offers to take whaling activist's place in prison Screen legend and animal rights campaigner Brigitte Bardot on Tuesday offered to take marine conservation activist Paul Watson's place in prison, saying she was "outraged" by his arrest in Germany. ... more |
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Trump's 'Golden Dome' US missile defense plan faces major challenges
Iran lawmakers ratify partnership treaty with Russia
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 Mauritania growth at four percent despite crippling drought Mauritania's economy resisted a slowdown in external demand and the effects of a severe drought, and growth is estimated at 4.0 percent in 2011, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  US AIDS relief program saved 740,000 lives: study A US aid program aimed at helping foreign countries battle the AIDS epidemic saved 740,000 lives from 2004-2008, according to a US study published Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  China urged to move ahead on dissident US lawmakers and activists called for persistent pressure Tuesday until China allows activist Chen Guangcheng to travel overseas, after a showdown between the two nations over his treatment. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong opens liaison office in Taiwan Hong Kong opened a liaison office in Taiwan Tuesday and announced visitors from the island would no longer have to pay to visit, the latest signs of warming ties between Taiwan and China. ... more |
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 China slams British PM's Dalai Lama meeting China said Tuesday British Prime Minister David Cameron's meeting with the Dalai Lama was an "affront to the Chinese people", and launched "solemn representations" with London. ... more | .. |
 Poaching puts pressure on Malayan tiger: group A Malaysian government plan to double its population of endangered Malayan tigers to 1,000 through tighter protection is under threat due to persistent poaching, a conservation group warned Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  First tropical storm of eastern Pacific season off Mexico The first tropical storm of the Pacific storm season formed Tuesday far out to sea off the Mexican coast, the US-based National Hurricane Center said in a statement. ... more | .. |
 Georgia flood disaster exposes capital's slums The weekend floods that killed five people in the Georgian capital exposed a side of the city not shown in the slick tourist ads - the ramshackle slums that are home to Tbilisi's poorest. ... more |
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Do photons wear out? An astrophysicist explains light's ability to travel vast cosmic distances without losing energy
Tracing ancient cyanobacteria reveals early origins of circadian clocks
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  German insurer Allianz says profits soar 60% German insurance giant Allianz on Tuesday said its net profits soared by 60 percent in the first quarter of 2012 and confirmed its full-year targets. ... more | .. |
 Lebanese army deploys in Tripoli areas hit by fighting The Lebanese army deployed Tuesday in sectors of Tripoli affected by clashes, calming the area after three days of sectarian fighting that killed nine people, an AFP correspondent said. ... more | .. |
  EU navies launch first land strike on Somali pirate assets European naval aircraft fired at pirate-owned supplies on the Somali coastline Tuesday for the first time since the European Union authorised such strikes. ... more | .. |
  US launches air pollution data in Shanghai The United States consulate in Shanghai has begun issuing its own pollution statistics, giving a much more pessimistic assessment of the city's air quality than official Chinese data. ... more |
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  First Forecast Calls for Mild Amazon Fire Season in 2012 Forests in the Amazon Basin are expected to be less vulnerable to wildfires this year, according to the first forecast from a new fire severity model developed by university and NASA researchers. ... more | .. |
  Plastic trash altering ocean habitats A 100-fold upsurge in human-produced plastic garbage in the ocean is altering habitats in the marine environment, according to a new study led by a graduate student researcher at Scripps Institution ... more | .. |
  Caltech researchers gain greater insight into earthquake cycles For those who study earthquakes, one major challenge has been trying to understand all the physics of a fault-both during an earthquake and at times of "rest"-in order to know more about how a parti ... more | .. |
 Anthropologist finds explanation for hominin brain evolution in famous fossil One of the world's most important fossils has a story to tell about the brain evolution of modern humans and their ancestors, according to Florida State University evolutionary anthropologist Dean F ... more |
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