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First Worldwide Estimate Of Investments In Combating Water PollutionHanoi, Vietnam (SPX) Jun 25, 2010 An innovative market in water quality is rapidly emerging worldwide, as cash-strapped governments in countries as diverse as China, the United States, Brazil and Australia invest billions of public and private dollars in schemes that reward people who protect water resources, according to a new report that is the first to quantify payments for watershed services that could help avert a looming global water quality crisis. Calling the water crisis a threat to humanity that exceeds global warming, t ... read more |
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Amsterdam (AFP) June 24, 2010Lawyers for a firm charged with dumping possibly deadly waste in the Ivory Coast in 2006 argued Thursday that the case against it was based on a "myth", spread by greens, politicians and the media. The Ivorian government says 17 people died after caustic soda and petroleum residues were shipped away from the Port of Amsterdam and redirected to Abidjan, where they were dumped on city waste ti ... more  
Washington (AFP) June 24, 2010US scientists reported important progress Thursday towards building new human lungs by successfully implanting lab-cultivated cells into a rat's lungs, and by creating an artificial device on a microchip that mimics the human lung. Yale University researchers managed to create lungs that worked from 45 to 120 minutes by using laboratory-cultivated cells and implanted them into rats, a scient ... more  
Cleveland OH (SPX) Jun 25, 2010Meet "Lucy's" great-grandfather. Scientists from The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Kent State University, Case Western Reserve University, Addis Ababa University and Berkeley Geochronology Center were part of an international team that discovered and analyzed a 3.6 million-year-old partial skeleton found in Ethiopia. The early hominid is 400,000 years older than the famous "Lucy" sk ... more |
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Rare earthquake shakes Ottawa, MontrealOttawa (AFP) June 23, 2010 An earthquake shook Ottawa and Montreal on Wednesday, sending office workers scrambling onto downtown streets in Canada's capital, and damaging buildings and roadways in Quebec province. The US Geological Survey reported the temblor of magnitude 5.0 hit the Ontario-Quebec border area at 1741 GMT, rattling downtown Ottawa shortly after midday. The USGS, which originally reported the quake at magnitude 5.5 before downgrading it, said the epicenter was 53 kilometers (33 miles) north of Ottawa. ... read more |
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