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Copenhagen Near Death; IPCC Finds New ErrorsParis (AFP) Feb 14, 2010 Less than two months after it was hastily drafted to stave off a fiasco, the Copenhagen Accord on climate change is in a bad way, and some are already saying it has no future. The deal was crafted amid chaos by a small group of countries, led by the United States and China, to avert an implosion of the UN's December 7-18 climate summit. Savaged at the time by green activists and poverty campaigners as disappointing, gutless or a betrayal, the Accord is now facing its first test in the political ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Feb 12, 2010Up to 17,120 people have died in the United States from swine flu-related illness, US health authorities said Friday, releasing a new high end estimate that surpasses the global tally kept by the World Health Organization. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said between 8,330 and 17,160 people died in the United States of the H1N1 virus or related illnesses since it first b ... more  
London, UK (SPX) Feb 15, 2010The recent trend towards earlier UK springs and summers has been accelerating, according to a study published February 9in the scientific journal Global Change Biology. The collaborative study, involving scientists from 12 UK research institutions, universities and conservation organisations, is the most comprehensive and rigorous assessment so far of long-term changes in the seasonal timing (ph ... more  
Haifa, Israel (SPX) Feb 15, 2010Bees prefer nectar with small amounts of nicotine and caffeine over nectar that does not comprise these substances at all, a study from the University of Haifa reveals. "This could be an evolutionary development intended, as in humans, to make the bee addicted," states Prof. Ido Izhaki, one of the researchers who conducted the study. Flower nectar is primarily comprised of sugars, which pr ... more |
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More aid needed for sustainable seafoodDurham, N.C. (UPI) Feb 12, 2009 Global food security could be enhanced if developed nations increased aid for sustainable seafood production in developing nations, U.S. scientists said. Seafood is a key source of protein for nearly 3 billion people but lack of a coordinated policy worldwide threatens the planet's seafood supply, a group of economists and marine scientists wrote in a recent issue of Science. "In an ideal world, each country governs its own resources well and the seafood trade contributes to worldwide ec ... read more |
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