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Sub-Saharan Africa is benefiting from the massive commodity boom that has come to dominate world markets. The continent is profiting from its immense wealth in oil, minerals, agricultural products, wo
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In the continuing effort to tap the vast, unexplored reaches of the earth's microbial and plant domains for bioenergy and environmental applications, the DOE Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) has annou
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Frost & Sullivan has presented a new report titled European Markets for Naturally-Reinforced Plastic Composites , in which it shows that plastics containing a certain fraction of biobased materials a
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More than four million truckers in India have stopped working and are protesting over high fuel prices. Their strike is paralysing the country's economy and is threatening to fuel the food crisis furt
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Researchers of the Department of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth College are investigating the molecular basis and regulation of circadian rhythms in plants, and are obtaining information which could
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Louisiana's governor Bobby Jindal has signed into law the Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative, the most comprehensive and far-reaching state legislation in the United States, enacted to d
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool are investigating how a Madagascan plant could be used to help produce crops in harsh environmental conditions. The plant, Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi, is unique b
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The all-electric Tesla Roadster. Will this car become a machine that helps remove CO2 from the atmosphere, instead of being merely a 'zero emissions' vehicle?Imagine driving your car and, while doing
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The upcoming July issue of Geotimes, a publication of the American Geological Institute which deals with earth, energy and the environment, will focus on the growing biochar revolution. Check out this
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New research suggests that ocean temperature and associated sea level increases between 1961 and 2003 were 50 percent larger than estimated in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report
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