A handful of proteins, detected in incredibly tiny amounts, may help doctors distinguish between a…
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Cleaning Up Oil Spills Can Kill More Fish Than Spills Themselves
A new study shows that detergents used to clean up spills of diesel oil actually…
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How Cancer Cells Become More ‘Gloopy’ As They Die
The viscosity, or “gloopiness,” of different parts of cancer cells increases dramatically when they are…
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Master Molecular Switch May Prevent The Spread Of Cancer Cells To Distant Sites In The Body
Researchers identified a switch that might prevent cancer cells from metastasizing from a primary tumor…
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United Kingdom: Have we seen our final big freeze?
Independent: A curious thought keeps nagging at me and will not go away: have we…
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UN May Allow Carbon Credits Even as Rules Tightened
Bloomberg: The United Nations may allow greenhouse-gas cutting projects to get credits for as long…
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Islands disappear in India
National Geographic: As islands in eastern India disappear under rising seas, residents are losing land,…
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Why clean coal is years away
U.S. News and World Report: America runs on coal. It’s cheap, plentiful (at least for…
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United Kingdom: Without commercial carbon capture, it’s ‘game over’, E.ON boss tells government
Guardian: Leading energy industry executives today called on the government to ensure the development of…
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UN: Financial Crisis Puts Pressure on World’s Forests
Environment News Service: The global economic turmoil has resulted in reduced demand for wood, shrinking…