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TECHNOLOGY
Free AIDS drugs slash death rate in Malawi study
08 May 2008 23:01:03 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Ben Hirschler LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - Providing free AIDS drugs to people in northern Malawi has slashed adult mortality rates, vindicating a recent ramp-up in treatment in poor parts of rural ... 

Chile gives volcano hold-outs ultimatum to flee
08 May 2008 18:50:27 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Updates with fresh quotes, details throughout) By Antonio de la Jara and Esteban Medel PUERTO MONTT, Chile, May 8 (Reuters) - Chile ordered hold-out residents to flee from an erupting volcano in ... 

Sahara dried out slowly, not abruptly - study
08 May 2008 18:00:04 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, May 8 (Reuters) - The once-green Sahara turned to desert over thousands of years rather than in an abrupt shift as previously believed, according to ... 

FEATURE-Petrify, liquefy: new ways to bury greenhouse gas
08 May 2008 12:04:31 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, May 8 (Reuters) - Turn greenhouse gases to stone? Transform them into a treacle-like liquid deep under the seabed? The ideas may sound like far- ... 

Broad climate fight best, not just gas cuts-study
08 May 2008 09:55:39 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, May 8 (Reuters) - An assault on climate change on many fronts makes good economic sense but will be money badly spent if the world focuses ... 

Military evacuated as Chile volcano eruption flares
08 May 2008 07:00:55 GMT
Source: Reuters

Australian platypus genome a link to evolution
08 May 2008 04:29:49 GMT
Source: Reuters

S.Korea says it may seek to rework U.S. beef deal
08 May 2008 01:51:23 GMT
Source: Reuters

Clean air could kill the Amazon, researchers say
07 May 2008 17:00:05 GMT
Source: Reuters

Freshwater fish haunts exposed; may help site dams
07 May 2008 17:00:03 GMT
Source: Reuters



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