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US proposes more fracking disclosureWashington (AFP) May 4, 2012 US regulators proposed Friday that companies using fracking to explore for natural gas must disclose the chemicals they use, but only after they drill - sparking more ire from environmental activists. Under pressure to tighten regulation of hydraulic fracturing, the technique behind the boom in US gas production, the Interior Department proposed that drillers must reveal what chemicals they pump into the ground when working on public and Native American lands. In an update of 30-year-old regula ... read more |
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  Japan switches off final nuclear reactor Japan switched off its last working nuclear reactor Saturday, leaving the country without atomic-generated electricity just over a year after the world's worst nuclear accident in a quarter of a century. ... more | .. |
  New Romania government wants moratorium on shale gas Romania's new government will seek a moratorium on shale gas drilling, putting on hold plans by US oil giant Chevron to tap reserves in eastern and southern Romania. ... more | .. |
  Outside View: U.S. work force shrinks The U.S. economy added 115,000 jobs in April - much less than expected and not enough to keep up with natural population growth. The unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent because another 522,000 adults quit looking for work and are no longer counted. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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 Dutch court OKs big gas storage project Construction on Europe's biggest natural gas storage facility can begin north of Amsterdam after a ruling this week by the Netherlands' Council of State. ... more | .. |
  Bolivia seizes Spanish electric company As confusing signals go, Bolivia achieved a double whammy by seizing a Spanish power generation company hours before welcoming Spanish energy giant Repsol into the country. ... more | .. |
 Iraq aims to double power provision in a year Iraq aims to double power provision in a year, it said Saturday, in a bid to bridge a shortage that remains a key frustration for ordinary Iraqis, though the country will still fall short of 24-hour power. ... more | .. |
 Clouds hang over gold mine plans in Romania Plans by the Canadian company Gabriel Resources to open a gold mine at Rosia Montana in Romania might be hampered by a centre-left cabinet which is to take office on Monday, analysts say. ... more |
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Underappreciated threat of nanoplastic pollution revealed in Atlantic Ocean study
Deadly China-Nepal flood caused by glacial lake: experts
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  SciTechTalk: All hail the smart card Roland Moreno, the French inventor of smart card technology who died last week, once boasted he could stop any random person on a Paris street and find at least three examples of the technology in the person's pocket or purse. ... more | .. |
 Netanyahu OKs key defenses for gas fields Amid concerns that a new Middle East war is looming, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has approved a special budget to fortify and protect Israel's rich natural gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean. ... more | .. |
  SK Hynix pulls out of bid for Japan's Elpida South Korea's SK Hynix, the world's second largest microchip maker, said Friday it had pulled out of its bid for ailing Japanese chipmaker Elpida Memory. ... more | .. |
 US receives new oil pipeline proposal from Canadian firm A Canadian firm is offering new routes to build a multi-billion-dollar Canada-US oil pipeline, after its first proposal was rejected over environmental concerns, officials said Friday. ... more |
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 Clinton presses Sudan on violence US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday pressed Sudan for a definitive end to bombings against South Sudan, after Khartoum said it would comply with a UN call to end the violence. ... more | .. |
China opens door to ending Chen crisis with study offer China said Friday that blind activist Chen Guangcheng can apply to study abroad, offering a possible resolution to a crisis that erupted when he escaped house arrest and fled to the US embassy. ... more | .. |
  Jurors at odds in high-stakes Oracle vs. Google case Jurors in a high-profile court battle between Google and Oracle struggled Thursday to agree on whether the Internet giant infringed software copyrights in Android software. ... more | .. |
 US doubles military aid to Philippines The United States will this year double military aid to its ally the Philippines, which is engaged in a prolonged maritime stand-off with China, the foreign department in Manila said on Friday. ... more |
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 Hedge fund wants Yahoo! CEO ousted A hedge fund with a large stake in Yahoo! on Friday demanded the immediate ouster of chief executive Scott Thompson, saying he had lost credibility by misrepresenting his educational background. ... more | .. |
  Australia warning over smouldering iPhone incident Australia's air safety watchdog warned Friday of the potential dangers of lithium battery-powered devices after an iPhone that had undergone unauthorised repairs started smouldering on a flight to Sydney. ... more | .. |
  Better plants for biofuels An article in F1000 Biology Reports argues that recent advances in knowledge mean that plant-derived biofuels could meet about 30% of the global demand for liquid transportation fuels, drastically r ... more | .. |
 Electronic nose out in front Chemical sensors are exceedingly good at detecting a single substance or a class of chemicals, even at highly rarified concentrations. Biological noses, however, are vastly more versatile and capabl ... more |
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 Mining for heat Underground mining is a sweaty job, and not just because of the hard work it takes to haul ore: Mining tunnels fill with heat naturally emitted from the surrounding rock. A group of researcher ... more | .. |
 First 'microsubmarines' designed to help clean up oil spills Machines could play an important role in cleaning up oil spills, like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico. It appears in the journal ACS Nano. Joseph Wang and colleagues ... more | .. |
 Squid and zebrafish cells inspire camouflaging smart materials Researchers from the University of Bristol have created artificial muscles that can be transformed at the flick of a switch to mimic the remarkable camouflaging abilities of organisms such as squid ... more | .. |
 Gas development linked to wildlife habitat loss A study by the Wildlife Conservation Society documents that intense development of the two largest natural gas fields in the continental U.S. are driving away some wildlife from their traditional wi ... more |
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Ukraine 'shouldn't target' Moscow: Trump
Trump gives Russia 50 days to make Ukraine deal
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 At smallest scale, liquid crystal behavior portends new materials Liquid crystals, the state of matter that makes possible the flat screen technology now commonly used in televisions and computers, may have some new technological tricks in store. Writing in ... more | .. |
 Venezuela spending spree clouds future As Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez clings to power while battling cancer, the country's future is further clouded by unbridled government spending that has no relation to the budget, financial analysts said. ... more | .. |
Sudans on brink of all-out war over oil Sudan and the infant state of South Sudan, which became independent a scant 10 months ago after a decades-long civil conflict with the north, are once more on the brink of all-out war over the oil-rich borderlands both need to survive. ... more | .. |
EU offers energy partnership with China The European Union on Thursday agreed to set up an energy "partnership" with China ensuring "open" access to each other's markets. ... more |
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Brazil's Lula slams rich countries and IMF Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday slammed rich nations for managing the world crisis by calling for belt-tightening by the poor while benefiting themselves from the financial system. ... more | .. |
Android expenses questioned at Oracle copyright trial Jurors on Thursday continued to weigh whether Android infringed on Java copyrights as the trial judge ordered Google to clarify how much money has been made or lost on the mobile gadget software. ... more | .. |
Greenpeace activists held after they board Shell icebreaker Swedish police said they arrested six Greenpeace activists who boarded an icebreaker in the Baltic Sea Thursday in a bid to block plans by Anglo Dutch giant Shell to drill for oil in the Arctic. ... more | .. |
 Outside View: Modest U.S. jobs growth Forecasters expect the U.S. Labor Department on Friday to report the U.S. economy added 165,000 jobs in April - better than the 120,000 in March but well below the 212,000 pace for the entire first quarter. ... more |
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