Antidote to lethal germ 'closer'
BBC News (Free subscription) | 26 minutes ago
Scientists work on an antidote for botulinum toxin - one of the world's most feared biological weapons.
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Betting on climate change
Environment (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
The recent Nature paper suggesting that the world may experience a few years of cooling prompted predictable responses from climate sceptics. Suddenly global warming had been proved "wrong" . Commentators who had actually read the paper rightly pointed out that a temporary drop in global temperatures won't mean much , as global warming is a long-term phenomenon. But more recently there has been some...
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Microwaves 'cook ballast aliens'
BBC News (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
A microwave system that kills "invasive species" lurking in ships' ballast water is developed by a team of US researchers.
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Holy cow! Britain's tallest bovine at 6ft 6ins is in a cattle of his own
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 48 minutes ago
Chilli the giant cow is set to stampede into the record books as Britain's tallest bovine. The black and white Freisan bullock stands at 6ft 6ins and weighs well over a ton. He dwarfs most horses, is the same height as a small elephant and casts a shadow over his cattle companions who are about 5ft in height. But despite his grand stature, Chilli only grazes on grass during the day and enjoys the occasional...
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Satnav that tells you not to break the speed limit
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 48 minutes ago
A road safety system that warns drivers when they go above the speed limit via their satnavs will be up and running within a year. Transport for London is drawing up a digital map of the capital, complete with information about the maximum speed allowed on every street within the M25
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Weekly Links - 12/05/2008
Greenman's Occasional Organ (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Blogs Critical Labour Left blogger Dave Osler has started a discussion on the class nature of Ken Livingstone's "progressive alliance" following Ken's latest Guardian article. Green Left blogger Jim has an article on the Green-Ken "alliance" from the Green perspective (responding to the Independent publishing a critical letter on it from a "former" ultra-rightist, political tourist and all round dodgy...
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Consensus Reached in Britain: Global Warming is a Hoax
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Well, will wonders never cease! Results from a recent poll: the majority of voters in Britain think that the “green” movement is, first and foremost, a means to raise taxes! It looks like the Global Warming advocates will have to find another hobby horse to ride. The last 10 years show a definitive global cooling trend; much of the manipulative hysteria behind the Global Warming panic is rendered...
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Last Assignment
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 29 minutes ago
spent the entire day working on my ecology assignment then fixing my anthro essay as I had had a few people edit it for me...stayed up later than usual to finish everything but all is complete.
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Australian pokes shark in eye during attack
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian swimmer survived a great white shark attack by poking the creature in the eyes as it dragged him through the water after badly savaging his left leg.
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Strong quake hits China
IOL (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
An earthquake measuring 7.5 has rocked China's Sichuan province.
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Apple Given Poor Green Rating - Digitaltrends.com- About: Technology
Technology Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Apple has been given a rating of 11 (from a possible 100) in a new report by Climate Count on the way electronics companies are taking steps to reduce global warming. Apple projects a strong public image, but it might take a dent thanks to a new report by Climate Counts in its second annual [...]
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Arctic ice melting fast, warn scientists
IOL (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The area covered by ice sheets in the ocean could shrink, according to Japanese scientists.
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Back to Basics
SafetyAtWorkBlog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
According to an Associated Press report (and appearing elsewhere) on 11 May 2007 Labour officials from the Group of Eight industrialised nations began a three-day meeting today to seek ways of reducing workplace emissions of “greenhouse” gases blamed for global warming, officials said………. Japan hopes to lead the discussions with its experience of so-called “Cool-Biz” - a [...]
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Are fossil fuels too limited to change the world'€™s climate?
Free Frank Warner (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Here’s an argument by John Busby that many scientists are miscalculating the global warming threat because they assume we’ll be burning ever-increasing quantities of fossil fuels, when there might not be enough usable fossil fuels to do that much damage....
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'We could smell it for miles'
IOL (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
"Serious doubts" have been voiced about the safety of human waste that West Coast farmers are reportedly spraying on their crops.
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