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Population growth should be curbed: British expert GoodallLondon (AFP) March 24, 2010 Humans should have fewer babies to help the global battle against climate change, according to the renowned British primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall. Goodall, whose 1960s research on chimpanzees changed perceptions of relations between humans and animals, fears the controversial issue has slipped down the agenda in the debate about man's impact on the environment. "It's very frustrating as people don't want to address this topic," said the 75-year-old English scientist. "It's our p ... read more |
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Sydney (AFP) March 24, 2010The world's southernmost coral reef is on a "knife-edge" after warmer seas blamed on climate change bleached large parts of it for the first time, an Australian scientist warned on Wednesday. Peter Harrison, who has been monitoring the world heritage-listed Lord Howe Island since 1993, said a two degrees Celsius (four Fahrenheit) rise in sea temperatures had drained much of the reef of its d ... more  
Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 24, 2010Westlands Water District and Ag-Water New Sky (AGNS) have announced they will develop an integrated drainage water treatment facility in California's Central Valley. The project combines conventional desalination technology with award winning salt conversion technology developed by New Sky Energy of Boulder, Colorado. The project will design and build a demonstration water treatment facili ... more  
Waltham, MA (SPX) Mar 24, 2010Whenever you choke on acrid cigarette smoke, feel like you're burning up from a mouthful of wasabi-laced sushi, or cry while cutting raw onions and garlic, your response is being triggered by a primordial chemical sensor conserved across some 500 million years of animal evolution, report Brandeis University scientists in a study in Nature this week. Chemical nociception, the detection of t ... more |
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Bill Gates-Toshiba talk nuclear power Tokyo (UPI) Mar 24, 2009 Japan's Toshiba and TerraPower, a company backed by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, are in talks about a nuclear power venture. Gates is the principal owner of TerraPower, a spinoff from Seattle's Intellectual Ventures, founded by former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold. The company explores ways to improve emission-free energy supplies through small nuclear reactors. An agreement between the companies could be a boom to the creation of a traveling-wave reactor that runs ... read more |
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