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Plant 'Breathing' Mechanism DiscoveredPalo Alto CA (SPX) Jul 14, 2010 A tiny, little-understood plant pore has enormous implications for weather forecasting, climate change, agriculture, hydrology, and more. A study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, with colleagues from the Research Center Julich in Germany, has now overturned the conventional belief about how these important structures called stomata regulate water vapor loss from the leaf-a process called transpiration. They found that radiation is the driving force of ... read more |
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Paris (AFP) July 13, 2010The Gulf of Mexico oil disaster is likely to cost far more than cleanup and compensation for lost income once damage to ecosystems is factored in, a top expert said Tuesday. In an interview coinciding with a UN-sponsored report on the link between business and biodiversity, economist Pavan Sukhdev said the BP debacle underscores the need for a sea change in how the "natural capital" upon whi ... more  
Washington (AFP) July 13, 2010US President Barack Obama's top Senate ally said Tuesday he and other senior lawmakers had drawn up a "rough draft" of climate and energy legislation to be introduced in two weeks. "I now have a rough draft of what we're going to do," Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters. "I hope to be able to have a bill introduced (the) week after next." Obama has pushed the US C ... more 
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) July 13, 2010BP may finally have capped the well which has been gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but the cleanup is far from over and the damage to the region's environment and economy could last decades. An estimated two to four million barrels of oil have poured into the sea since the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon drilling rig sank spectacularly on April 22, and if the higher end of that range is cor ... more |
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Elite European producers push for fine wines in ChinaPenglai, China (AFP) July 13, 2010 Wine-loving China, the world's fifth-biggest consumer, is not known for making top-quality wine but its potential is drawing elite vintners like Spain's Torres and France's Lafite. "We are looking to make the best wine possible, but not necessarily the best wine in the world," said Gerard Colin, managing director of Lafite's wine estate in China. Colin spoke on a hilltop on the Penglai peninsula in eastern China's Shandong province as a bulldozer flattened ochre earth into neatly terraced viney ... read more |
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