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Gulf of Mexico inhabitants push for energy bill in CongressWashington (AFP) June 16, 2010 Close to 100 local officials, businessmen, fishermen and ordinary citizens from oil-stricken states on the Gulf of Mexico, went before Congress Wednesday to push for a new energy and climate change bill. "Americans don't want band-aid solutions to this crisis. They want comprehensive action. Now is not the time for delays, now is the time for leaders in the Senate to act," resort owner Kevin Overton, of Escambia, Florida, told a press conference. Hailing from Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and ... read more |
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United Nations, N.Y. (UPI) Jun 17, 2010 Argentina took its sovereignty claim over the British-ruled Falkland Islands to the U.N. decolonization talks, signaling Buenos Aires is seeking to build up its case against "imperial" Britain in its fight to wrest control of the territories. Argentina lost a 1982 war to Britain after its forces, then under the command of a military junta, invaded the islands. The 74-day conflict cost 9 ... more  
Knoxville TN (SPX) Jun 18, 2010As carbon dioxide continues to burgeon in the atmosphere causing the Earth's climate to warm, scientists are trying to find ways to remove the excess gas from the atmosphere and store it where it can cause no trouble. Sigurdur Gislason of the University of Iceland has been studying the possibility of sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in basalt and presented his findings to several thou ... more  
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jun 17, 2010A new process for storing and generating hydrogen to run fuel cells in cars has been invented by chemical engineers at Purdue University. The process, given the name hydrothermolysis, uses a powdered chemical called ammonia borane, which has one of the highest hydrogen contents of all solid materials, said Arvind Varma, R. Games Slayter Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and head of ... more |
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Genomic sequence of Atlantic salmon soughtVancouver, British Columbia (UPI) Jun 16, 2010 An international team of researchers says it is one step closer to sequencing the genome of the economically important Atlantic salmon. Researchers, funding agencies and industries from British Columbia, Chile and Norway formed the International Cooperation to Sequence the Atlantic Salmon Genome - an organization usually referred to as "The Cooperation." Organization officials said they are they are "well under way" on a multimillion dollar, multi-phased project that will produce a geno ... read more |
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