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Ice on a slide

Glaciers recede, implicate global warming

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Simple message

Know the problem. Deal with it

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Questions remain

In the last four months, seven people have died in Gujarat's Ankleshwar and Panoli industrial areas in three separate industrial accidents. Recently, on November 12, three girls

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IN SHORT

yes, radio: On November 17, 2006 the government approved an expansion of community radio stations by non-profit organisations. Applicants need to have a standing of at least three years.

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Avian flu drug in the making

Researchers have developed what could be used as an effective preventive drug against bird flu. In a study published online in the website of the journal Respiratory Research, researchers have

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BYTES

older, the better: Researchers studying chimpanzee-mating preferences have found that male chimpanzees prefer older females. The study, published in Current Biology , found that older females were

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Just talking renewable energy will not do

Huge difference between potential and utilisation of renewable energy

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Reported residential pesticide use and breast cancer risk on Long Island, New York

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Pesticides, common environmental exposures, have been examined in relation to breast cancer primarily in occupational studies or exposure biomarker studies. No known studies have focused on self-reported residential pesticide use. The authors investigated the association between reported lifetime residential pesticide use and breast cancer risk among women living on Long Island, New York.

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U.S. study finds slower breakdown of plutonium in stockpiled weapons

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A new U.S. government analysis has found that the plutonium at the heart of the country's nearly 10,000 stockpiled nuclear weapons could last twice as long as previously thought. That conclusion is likely to escalate the debate over the Bush Administration's campaign to build a new generation of weapons.

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Carbon-negative biofuels from low-input high-diversity grassland biomass

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Biofuels derived from low-input high-diversity (LIHD) mixtures of native grassland perennials can provide more usable energy, greater greenhouse gas reductions, and less agrichemical pollution per hectare than can corn grain ethanol or soybean biodiesel. High-diversity grasslands had increasingly higher bioenergy yields that were 238% greater than monoculture yields after a decade.

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