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Genetically Altered Trees, Plants Could Help Counter Global WarmingWashington DC (SPX) Oct 04, 2010 Forests of genetically altered trees and other plants could sequester several billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere each year and so help ameliorate global warming, according to estimates published in the October issue of BioScience. The study, by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, outlines a variety of strategies for augmenting the processes that plants use to sequester carbon dioxide from the air and convert it into long-lived forms of ca ... read more |
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Lagos (AFP) Oct 3, 2010Pirates have abducted two sailors off the coast of Nigeria's main oil-producing region and military boats were out Sunday searching for them, a navy spokesman said. The kidnappings occurred early Friday about 10 miles (16 kilometres) off Bonny, where Nigeria's main oil export terminal is located, said Commodore David Nabaida. Abductors took the victims from the MV Eckhardt, he said. "Pir ... more  
London (UPI) Oct 3, 2010 The oceans hold far more biodiversity than imagined, with as many as a million species, a global network of scientists says in London. The first Census of Marine Life, which is being published Monday, says almost 250,000 marine species have now been identified, and there may be at least another 750,000 waiting to be discovered, The Sunday Telegraph reported. More than 2,700 sci ... more  
Dubai (AFP) Oct 1, 2010Osama bin Laden has expressed concern about global climate change and flooding in Pakistan, in an audiotape aired on the Internet, his first public remarks since March, a monitoring group said on Friday. "The number of victims caused by climate change is very big... bigger than the victims of wars," said the voice, whose authenticity could not be immediately verified and was made available b ... more |
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US closes response command for BP oil wellWashington (AFP) Oct 1, 2010 US authorities Friday closed the special incident command center for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill more than five months after the accident that led to the worst-ever maritime environmental disaster. Retired US Coast Guard admiral Thad Allen, who headed the response team, said officials in the region will continue to supervise the clean-up from the BP Macondo well off the Louisiana coast. "Today the National Incident Command is disestablished and I have transferred oversight of the BP oil spill r ... read more |
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