Wind and solar benchmarks for a 1.5°C world
This report presents a detailed methodology for determining the amount of wind and solar capacity that is required for a country to align with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C temperature goal. While the focus
Germany
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Hitler s minefield
Lithuania is up in arms against a recent gas pipeline agreement between Germany and Russia. The pipeline under the Baltic Sea would disturb stockpiles of Hitler's chemical weapons lying on the bed of
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Taste for nuclear waste
A bacterium that mops up uranium <br>
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Exhaustive predicament
Nitrogen dioxide is proving a dificult vehicular emission to control
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Bytes
sleepless babies: Newborn dolphins and killer whales don't sleep for a whole month after birth, says a study by a team led by Jerome Siegel of the University of California at Los Angeles, US. The
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So say the experts
Camel experts from research institutions and non-government organisations in India, France, Germany, Kazakhstan, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and the UK met at the training centre of Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan near Mammaji-ki-dhuni at Sadri, District Pali, Rajasthan, India, on 23-25 November 2004, and came up with the following recommendations:<br> <br> <font face=arial size=3 color=#CE181E><b>•</b></font> Urgently investigate how to restore sufficient pastureland for camels in order to halt the decline in camel numbers.<br>
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Hunting highs and lows
<b>1975:</b> Rasheed Jamshed becomes the first markhor trophy hunter<br> <br><b> 1983:</b> A trophy hunting scheme is formally launched. Foreign hunters invited <br> <br> <b> 1990:</b> Germany and the UK move a case at CITES to ban export of markhor trophy to prevent its poaching and extinction. Pakistan says the fears are unfounded. CITES puts markhor in Appendex-1. Trophy hunting halts<br> <br> 1992: NWFP government prepares conservation plan with communities<br>
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X is not an unknown quantity
<font class="UCASE">an international </font> team of geneticists has done a complete analysis of the <font class="UCASE">x</font> chromosome
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Gene arsenal
To combat AIDS
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Herd movements: the exchange of livestock breeds and genes between North and South
This report focuses on the exchanges of livestock and poultry breeds and their genetic materials between developed countries (
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Hit hard
Germany imposes strict rules on genetically modified crops