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Biodiversity
Economic
Support For Peru's
Biodiversity
Opportunities to develop
bio-prospecting in Peru are on the rise
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Biodiversity Policy Established in
Philippines
Philippine
President Arroyo signs executive order
establishing a National Policy on Biological Diversity and
prescribing its implementation by all government agencies
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Justified CITES Shark Species
Disputed
A group of wildlife experts and shark-fin industry officials
weigh into the increasingly acrimonious battle over shark fishing,
saying very few species are threatened with extinction
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Radio Sensor
Can Prevent Road
Kill
Researchers in
Montana have developed a radio sensor system to combat highway
accidents involving wildlife
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Flamingoes Abandon Lake Nakuru,
Kenya
More than
800,000 flamingoes have deserted the fast receding Lake Nakuru,
while the remaining flock of about 30,000 could fly away in a
matter of weeks
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Business Corporations
Reinsurers Benefit From Climate
Change
Fears
Climate change is boosting business for
reinsurers, as rising claims from floods and storms mean higher
costs but also more scope to raise prices
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TXU to Add 9000
MW of Coal Plants in
Texas
GE
Prototype Fuel
Cell Breaks a Barrier
GE's
advance allows for a solid-oxide fuel cell to use coal-based fuels
at costs approaching that of conventional power plants
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ADM to Diversify into Biofuels Besides
Corn
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Mascoma Gets
$30M for Cellulosic Pilot Plant
Climate
Stern Report Creates
Buzz...
EU environment commissioner Stavros
Dimas has lauded the Stern report on climate change, saying it has
raised awareness of global warming
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...And Some
Criticism
If we want to curb climate change, carbon
trading won't do, argues Kevin Smith. From the Stern Review
to Europe's Emissions Trading Scheme, the aim of reducing emissions
has been perverted by neo-liberal dogma and corporate
self-interest
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EU's Mandelson Urges China on Climate
Expert: Energy Policy,
Not Tech, Lags
Behind
Sequestration technology is increasingly
ready for prime time, but the required policy lags behind, says MIT
expert Howard Herzog
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Energy
Prop 87
Oil Production Tax Defeated in California
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Texas and Illinois Top FutureGen Siting
List
Public-Private FutureGen Alliance Announces
List of Four Site Candidates for $1B Prototype, Zero Emissions Coal
Fired Electric Plant
The Ethanol Illusion
Can we move beyond an energy policy running on hype and hot
air?
Energy Technologies for
Rougher Conditions
Wind turbines that can
operate through cyclones and earthquakes are increasingly being
installed on small, isolated islands that seek improved energy
independence
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Nanotech Offers Hope for Battery
Problem
Nanostructured electrodes and active materials could
shrink batteries for portable electronics and electric vehicles
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Forests
Net Forest Loss Despite Gains in Many
Nations
New National Academy of
Sciences Study Shows Global Net Forest Cover Loss From
1990-2005 Lead By Nigeria, Brazil and Indonesia Despite Gains In
More Developed Nations
Artisanal
Mining Moves to Venezuela From Brazil
Protectionist Policies of Brazil's Lula Cause Shift in Garimpeiro Mining From
Brazilian to Venezuelan
Amazon
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Iranian Experts Recommend
Agroforestry
Some Iranian
university lecturers and experts in the field recommend
agroforestry as a suitable solution to be used in most of the
nation’s destroyed agricultural lands and jungles go
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Best Logging
Practices Improved by WTE
A portable plant might make it
economical to transform huge amounts of logging "waste" into
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Take
Me To Your Leader
Photo of the month courtesy of
MicroAngela
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Nutrition, Health, and Wealth
GM Rice Passes
Human Testing
Tamil Nadu
Agricultural University (TNAU) has clarified that it has been
proved through "precise bio-safety experiments" that proteins
contained in genetically engineered rice are non-toxic to
human beings and animals
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Nanotech Poses Danger to
Humans
A product
touted as “nano� has hospitalized six German consumers, prompting
more warnings over the dangers of nanomaterials
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North American Avian Bird Flu
Report
Thus Far This Year No Detection of HPAI
H5N1 Avian Bird Flu in North America
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2006 UNDP
Report Discussed by Lead
Author
Kevin Watkins, the lead author of the UN Human
Development Report and head of the office that produces
it, discusses this year's document
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UN Index
Shows Life Expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa Lower Now Than 30 Years Ago
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Noteworthy
Books
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have
Done So Much Ill and So Little
Good
by
William Easterly
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Understanding Environmental
Policy
Meals to Come: A History of the Future of
Food
Science and Tech
Frontiers
Sea Sponge Produces High
Tech
Learning new ways to build
complex semiconductor devices for cheaper, more efficient solar
cells from sea sponges
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Hurriquake Nail
Resists Nature's Forces
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Movement Ecology on the Move
The world’s first
international research group on this topic begins its work
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Harvesting Energy
From Human Activity
Researchers have demonstrated that easy-to-make, inexpensive
nanowires can harvest mechanical energy, possibly leading to such
advances as medical implants that run on electricity generated from
pulsing blood vessels and cell phones powered by nanowires in the
soles of shoes
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Watersand
Wetlands
EU, Russia, South Korea Block Trawling Protection Plan
for South Pacific
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Purification Technique Effective on
Arsenic
Arsenic-contaminated water can be made
drinkable cheaply and simply using tiny crystals related to rust,
scientists at Rice University in Texas say
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Honeywell to Clean Up Onandaga Lake, NY
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Fate of US Coastal
Drilling Considered
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World Bank's Award to Shrimp Farm
Innovators
A collaborative effort by FAO and a group of partner
organizations to make shrimp farming more environmentally friendly
has received the World Bank's 2006 "Green Award."
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Waste
Tanzania: Zanzibar Implements Ban On Plastics
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Nanoparticles:
the New Electronic
Waste
Preliminary studies suggest that some types of
nanoparticles might pose a health hazard
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Attorney General Spitzer Sues New
York Power Plant for Polluting Air
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Approaches to Electronic
Waste
Some
States legislate, others
take a scattershot approach
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