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Scotland Launches World’s Biggest Prize for Marine Renewable EnergyEdinburgh, Scotland, UK - Move over, Richard Branson: Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister, has just announced the Saltire Prize, a 10m (or $20m) award aimed at jump-starting research in marine renewable energy. |
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New Fossil Is World’s Oldest Plant-Eating Lizard
A rare fossil discovered in Japan is the oldest known plant-eating lizard, scientists say, shedding light on an evolutionary puzzle that stymied Charles Darwin.
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‘I’m so grateful for getting shot out of the sky’Bialla, Papua New Guinea - The Japanese fighter caught the American pilot from behind, riddling his plane with machine-gun rounds. The left engine burst into flames. It was time to bail out. |
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Japanese sailor to embark on world’s longest wave-powered voyageHonolulu, Hawaii, USA - Kenichi Horie, who has crossed the Pacific in a solar-powered boat made of recycled aluminum, is getting ready for his next solo adventure. |
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Rare Sandpipers Found in MyanmarCoast of Myanmar - Eighty-four spoon-billed sandpipers have been discovered in a coastal stretch of Myanmar (Burma), offering hope for the endangered birds, a conservation group said Thursday. |
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Video: Anti-Whaling Activists Released
Two anti-whaling activists were returned to their ship in Antarctic waters Friday after a tense standoff with Japanese whalers.
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Solar energy ‘revolution’ brings green power closerSilicon Vlley, California, USA - The holy grail of renewable energy came a step closer yesterday as thousands of mass-produced, wafer-thin solar cells printed on aluminium film rolled off a production line in California, heralding what British scientists called "a revolution" in generating electricity. |
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Humpback Whale Hunt HaltedAfter negotiations with the chairman of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), Japan has agreed not to target humpback whales during its annual whale hunt that is underway in the seas off Antarctica. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Asian “Atlantis” Shows Strange StructureYonaguni Jima, Japan - Not far from Taiwan, Pacific waters engulf stone structures just off the coast of the tiny Japanese island of Yonaguni Jima, part of the Ryukyu archipelago in this undated photo. |
news from East Asia
- Beijing air measures ‘must stay’
- Boost for China panda population
- China, Taiwan resume direct flights
- China Watch: Plastic Bag Ban Trumps Market and Consumer Efforts
- China, Taiwan sign historic deals on travel
- Sixty pandas safe after China quake
- World powers, Asian neighbours offer help after China quake
- China opens door to talks with Dalai Lama representative
- Taiwan-China meet started to “thaw the ice” president-elect
- First S Korean astronaut launches
