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TECHNOLOGY
UN says credit crisis could enable "green growth"
10 Oct 2008 20:51:46 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Patrick Worsnip UNITED NATIONS, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Instead of sidelining the fight against climate change, the global credit crisis could hasten countries' efforts to create "green growth& ... 

"Lost" deer rediscovered in Indonesia
10 Oct 2008 14:17:42 GMT
Source: Reuters
OSLO, Oct 10 (Reuters) - A "lost" type of deer has been found on a remote mountainside in Indonesia's Sumatra island 80 years after the last confirmed sighting, experts said on Friday. The ... 

Climate change may threaten biodiversity in tropics
09 Oct 2008 23:26:34 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Climate change may soon make the tropics too hot for many native species, which will be forced to head for higher ground to escape the heat, U.S. ... 

Drug firms agree to invest more in AIDS research-UN
09 Oct 2008 22:25:56 GMT
Source: Reuters
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 9 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday that major pharmaceutical firms promised to invest more on researching treatments for the AIDS virus and ... 

New method generates stem cells safely from mice
09 Oct 2008 20:44:36 GMT
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Japanese researchers who invented a way to make powerful stem cells out of ordinary cells say they have now found a safer way to do it. Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto ... 

Satellite images document S. Ossetia destruction
09 Oct 2008 13:00:13 GMT
Source: Reuters

Warmer world threatens "Happy Feet" penguins
09 Oct 2008 11:09:46 GMT
Source: Reuters

Climate change could force millions from homes
08 Oct 2008 22:49:54 GMT
Source: Reuters

ANALYSIS-Chavez nuclear plan helps domestic, foreign goals
08 Oct 2008 18:17:58 GMT
Source: Reuters

Scientists map genomes of two malaria parasites
08 Oct 2008 17:58:42 GMT
Source: Reuters




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