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Winnipeg Student Wins A Triple Crown in High School Science; Grade 12 Researcher, 17, Seeks Potential Alternative to Chemotherapy

May 8, 2007 Canadian Biotechnology Education Resource Centre A Manitoba student has a first-ever Triple Crown of high school science, his project seeking a potential

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India’s biotech industry emerging as world innovator, collaborator, competitor

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health / Program on Life Sciences, Ethics and Policy 9-Apr-2007 India’s health biotech firms are emerging as a major global player,

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Gene hunters, patent prospectors leave indigenous communities in Pacific feeling besieged, betrayed

19-Mar-2007 United Nations University Book catalogues unethical research, gene theft in Pacific countries The Pacific region has experienced some of the world’s worst examples of

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UN, industry, others partner to create world standards for e-scrap recycling, harvesting components

6-Mar-2007 United Nations University Growing need for elements in high-tech scrap –- often incinerated in poor countries Standardizing recycling processes globally to harvest valuable components

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Titans of biodiversity science call for united, authoritative voice to inform decision-makers

19 July 2006 DIVERSITAS, Paris Robert Watson Warning that Earth is on the verge of “a major biodiversity crisis,” 19 of the field’s most distinguished

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Creating a Window on ‘Oceans in Motion’: Academic, Science, Engineering Experts Illuminating Sea Life Conditions, Migrations

26 June 06 Dalhousie University Ocean Tracking Network Ron O'Dor Scientists and resource managers could soon have a highly detailed picture of marine conditions and

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Diverse sea ‘bugs’ revealed on landmark Atlantic cruise to census zooplankton

May 4, 2006 Census of Marine Life Zooplankton DNA Sequenced at Sea; scientists census tiny species with starring role in food chain, world climate Census

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Antarctic marine explorers reveal first biological changes after collapse of polar ice shelves

25-Feb-2007 Census of Marine Life Deep-sea species at unusually shallow depths on uncapped seabed (photo (c) Julian Gutt, AWI) Once roofed by ice for millennia,

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Potential new bird, bat species revealed by extensive DNA barcode studies

Rockefeller University / University of Guelph 18-Feb-2007 Scientists complete DNA portrait of US, Canadian bird species, Guyanese bats At unprecedented levels of difficulty involving highly

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Experts urge strongest isolation for new drug-resistant tuberculosis cases appearing in South Africa

University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics 22-Jan-2007 Public health trumps individual human rights, medical ethics experts say Ross Upshur Medical ethics and other experts

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Experts advise world policies to cope with causes, rising consequences of creeping desertification

14-Dec-2006 United Nations University Joint International Conference Algiers, Dec. 17-19 About 200 experts from 25 countries are convening in Algiers Dec. 17-19 to advise shifts

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Extreme Life, Marine Style, Highlights 2006 Ocean Census; Frontiers of Marine Science Stretched by Census experts

Census of Marine Life 10-Dec-2006 A host of record-breaking discoveries and revelations that stretch the extreme frontiers of marine knowledge were achieved by the Census

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Pioneering study shows richest 2 percent own half world wealth

5-Dec-2006 United Nations University Tony Shorrocks The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of global household wealth according to a

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End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources

13-Nov-2006 University of Helsinki / Rockefeller University, New York ‘Growing stock’ expanding in most forested nations, even with modest prosperity An increasing number of countries

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Child soldiers: If children are not prosecuted for war crimes, are they more likely chosen by warlords to perform the worst atrocities?

24 Oct 06 United Nations University Some 300,000 combatants under age 18 – some as young as six and 40% of them girls – are

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Carbon capture, water filtration, other boreal forest ecoservices worth estimated $250 billion per year: Economist

National Forest Congress, Ottawa www.nfc-cfn.ca Sept. 24, 2006 Create National Accounting Systems To Reflect All Values Of Boreal Forests: Economist It’s time to create a

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Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world

11-Sep-2006 University of Toronto Joint Center for Bioethics Experts rank top 10 ways of improving health in poor countries from emerging stem cell and related

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Ocean microbe census discovers diverse world of rare bacteria

31 July 2006 Census of Marine Life A startling revelation about the number of different kinds of bacteria in the deep-sea raises fundamental new questions

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How to cut energy waste in China, India, Brazil said crucial to forestalling climate change

29 May 06 United Nations Environment Programme / World Bank Without significant gains from energy efficiency efforts, China, India and Brazil within a single human

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Creating New Insight Into HIV-AIDS Virus Wins Canada’s Top Student Biotech Prize

Canadian Biotechnology Education Resource Centre 17 May 2006 Research by a 16-year-old Ottawa-area student that contributes new insights into the workings of the HIV-AIDS virus

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Landslides: Asia has Most; Americas, the Deadliest; Europe, the Costliest; Experts Seek Ways to Mitigate Losses; Danger Said Growing Due to Climate Change, Other Causes

17 Jan 06 United Nations University Asia suffered 220 landslides in the past century – by far the most of any world region – but

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Tsunami + 1 year: Reviving exhausted fisheries should trump replacing boats, gear, experts say

22 Dec 05 WorldFish Centre One year after a tsunami devastated South Asian communities, global fisheries experts say habitat restoration, retraining and education programs are

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