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China bars English words in all publicationsBeijing (AFP) Dec 22, 2010 Chinese newspapers, books and websites will no longer be allowed to use English words and phrases, the country's publishing body has announced, saying the "purity" of the Chinese language is in peril. The General Administration of Press and Publication, which announced the new rule on Monday, said the increasing use of English words and abbreviations in Chinese texts had caused confusion and was a means of "abusing the language". Such practices "severely damaged the standard and purity of the Ch ... read more |
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  Reducing Emissions From Shipping Maritime transport causes about 4% of global man-made CO2 emissions which makes its carbon footprint approximately as high as Germany's. There is no regulation of international maritime transport em ... more | .. |
  France fights to clear snowbound flights backlog French officials battled to clear a backlog of delayed flights and look after travellers still stranded Tuesday, as the snowy weather that has caused days of disruption appeared to ease. ... more | .. |
  Without Intervention, Mariana Crow To Become Extinct In 75 Years Researchers from the University of Washington say the Mariana crow, a forest crow living on Rota Island in the western Pacific Ocean, will go extinct in 75 years. The extinction could happen a ... more | .. |
  How Earth's Orbital Shift Shaped The Sahara The Sahara, the world's largest desert, was once fertile grassland. This fact has been common knowledge in the scientific community for some time, but scientists are still grappling with historic da ... more |
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 Tiny 3D Images From Stanford And Slac Shed Light On Origin Of Earth's Core To answer the big questions, it often helps to look at the smallest details. That is the approach Stanford mineral physicist Wendy Mao is taking to understanding a major event in Earth's inner histo ... more | .. |
 Globalization Burdens Future Generations With Biological Invasions A new study on biological invasions based on extensive data of alien species from 10 taxonomic groups and 28 European countries has shown that patterns of established alien species richness are more ... more | .. |
  Ocean Acidification Changes Nitrogen Cycling In World Seas Increasing acidity in the sea's waters may fundamentally change how nitrogen is cycled in them, say marine scientists who published their findings in this week's issue of the journal Proceedings of ... more | .. |
 Research Shows That Environmental Factors Limit Species Diversity It's long been accepted by biologists that environmental factors cause the diversity-or number-of species to increase before eventually leveling off. Some recent work, however, has suggested t ... more |
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  Examining Immunity In Emerging Species Of A Major Mosquito Carrer Of Malaria In notable back-to-back papers appearing in the prestigioous journal Science in October, teams of researchers, one led by Nora Besansky, a professor of biological sciences and a member of the Eck In ... more | .. |
 Recreating Colonial Hydrology Hydrologists may have a new way to study historical water conditions. By synthesizing present-day data with historical records they may be able to recreate broad hydrologic trends on a regional basi ... more | .. |
 Scientists Decipher 3 Billion-Year-old Genomic Fossils About 580 million years ago, life on Earth began a rapid period of change called the Cambrian Explosion, a period defined by the birth of new life forms over many millions of years that ultimately h ... more | .. |
 Biting winters driven by global warming: scientists Counter-intuitive but true, say scientists: a string of freezing European winters scattered over the last decade has been driven in large part by global warming. ... more |
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 EU blasts 'unacceptable' airport chaos The European Commission on Tuesday blasted the "unacceptable" travel chaos caused by heavy snowfalls this week and summoned airport officials to a meeting to explain themselves. ... more | .. |
 Europe airport chaos slammed as snow piles on misery Fresh snowfall added to the misery of thousands of Christmas travellers across Europe Tuesday, paralysing flights and trains as the EU lashed out at airports for "unacceptable" disruption. ... more | .. |
 Heathrow snow chaos shames Britain, say travellers Passenger Alexander Valdarama has spent the last two nights sleeping on the floor at Heathrow airport on a foam mattress hand-out. ... more | .. |
  Ecology watchdog warns of future damage from Hungary spill A leading French environmental group warned Tuesday that October's toxic mud spill in Hungary could cause long-term damage and called for a broad European effort to monitor its effects. ... more |
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  Major 7.4-magnitude quake hits near Japanese islands: USGS A major 7.4-magnitude quake struck southern Japan Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, with people in nearby coastal regions told to evacuate ahead of a possible two-metre-high tsunami. ... more | .. |
 Australia swaps summer for Christmas snow at Charlotte Pass Snow fell in Australia on Monday, as the usual hot and summery December weather was replaced in parts by icy gusts sweeping up from the Southern Ocean, giving the country a taste of a white Christmas. ... more | .. |
  Researchers Discover Compound With Potent Effects on Biological Clock Using an automated screening technique developed by pharmaceutical companies to find new drugs, a team of researchers from UC San Diego and three other research institutions has discovered a molecul ... more | .. |
  550 Million Years Ago Rise In oxygen Drove Evolution of Animal Life Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) at the University of oxford have uncovered a clue that may help to explain why the earliest evidence of compl ... more |
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  Bioethics Commission Calls For Enhanced Federal oversight In Field of Synthetic Biology The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has released its first report-a wide-ranging review of the emerging field of synthetic biology - issuing 18 recommendations including a ... more | .. |
 Tasmanian Scientists Expand Their View of The ocean Tasmanian scientists will soon have unprecedented access to data from high-tech equipment for monitoring coastal and ocean ecosystems. The technology is being provided through the new Tasmania ... more | .. |
 Storms leave 47 sailors missing, six dead: Vietnam officials Forty-seven Vietnamese sailors were missing, most of them from a cargo ship and a fishing vessel, and six others were confirmed dead after storms hit the South China Sea, officials said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Age Doesn't Matter: New Genes Are As Essential As Ancient ones New genes that have evolved in species as little as one million years ago - a virtual blink in evolutionary history - can be just as essential for life as ancient genes, startling new research has d ... more |
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