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Timeline of mysterious animal deaths, thus far

Getting an overview of mass dead fish

There have been alarming unprecedented mass animal deaths around the world. The Santos Republic decided to map it out and post an updated timeline to date, in reverse date order: 01.14.11 – 200 cows found dead in Wisconsin, allegedly caused by a virus http://www.wsaw.com/news/headlines/… 01.14.11 – 100 dead carp found in U.K. pond, unknown causes http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag… [...]

Chinese Project Puts Cow Dung to Work

Gas burner: Huishan Dairy in China has installed four of these GE Jenbacher 420 engines to generate electricity from biogas. Credit: GE

LIAONING, China. November 23, 2010 (TSR) – A rapidly growing industry in China—dairy farming—is also a major new source of greenhouse-gas emissions. But Huishan Dairy in northeast China is trying to change this by installing the world’s largest system for generating electricity by collecting methane gas emitted by fermenting cow manure. The Chinese have not, historically, been big milk [...]

Leaking Siberian Ice Prompts Methane Warning

As Siberia’s thawing permafrost leaks methane, some scientists are warning of another emerging climate threat.

World’s Police Unite for Environmental Crime Crackdown

INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald Noble, left, greets Qatar's Minister for Internal Affairs, Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al Thani. (Photo courtesy: INTERPOL)

DOHA, Qatar, November 19, 2010 (ENS) – The police agencies of the world are supporting INTERPOL’s Environmental Crime Programme in an historic display of consensus. Delegates attending INTERPOL’s General Assembly in Doha, Qatar last week voted unanimously in favor of a resolution encouraging greater global policing efforts to stem environmental crimes. Environmental crime encompasses activities [...]

Iran’s Northern Fishing Industry Wanes

Caspian Sea fishermen say their hands are tied by restrictions preventing them from going far offshore. (Photo: Farshid Alyan)

TEHRAN, Iran, November 19, 2010 (TSR) - Pollution is contributing to falling catches in Iran’s Caspian fishing industry, local fishermen say. They complain that restrictions preventing them from going out to sea mean they are unable to catch more than a tiny fraction of what their counterparts in other states around the sea achieve. The six-month [...]

U.S., Kazakhstan Secure Weapons-Grade Plutonium From Soviet-era Reactor

Casks of highly enriched uranium await transport. (Photo courtesy NNSA)

WASHINGTON, DC, November 19, 2010 (ENS) – Enough plutonium and uranium to make 775 nuclear weapons has been removed from the BN-350 fast reactor in Kazakhstan, built to breed plutonium for the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons program, and placed in a secure storage facility to keep terrorists from acquiring nuclear weapons. The United States and [...]

Quantum ‘weirdness’ used by plants, animals

Birds like the European robin have an internal compass which appears to make use of a phenomenon called quantum entanglement.

Bird navigation, plant photosynthesis and the human sense of smell all represent ways living things appear to exploit the oddities of quantum physics, scientists are finding. Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics dealing with the strange behaviour of very tiny things like elementary particles and atoms, and is extremely different from the physics that [...]

Microbes for biofuel: a cleaner way to unlock their energy

Cyanobacteria are capable of producing around 15,000 gallons of biofuel per acre – roughly 100 times that of plant or forest products including corn or switchgrass – and require only simple nutrients, sunlight and CO2 for growth. But prying out the cellular ingredients needed for biofuels has so far come at a steep price, both economically and environmentally. (ASU)

Algae and photosynthetic bacteria hold a hidden treasure – fat molecules known as lipids – which can be converted to renewable biofuels. Such microorganisms offer an attractive alternative to the unsustainable use of petroleum-based fossil fuels, as well as biofuel sources requiring arable cropland.

Billions at Risk of ‘Water Insecurity’

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About 80% of the world’s population lives in areas where the fresh water supply is not secure, according to a new global analysis.

Panama Canal fossils reveal ancient collision of worlds

The creation of the Panama Isthmus – the narrow land bridge that joins the two continents – wreaked havoc on land, sea and air. It triggered extinctions, diverted ocean currents and transformed climate.


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