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Why better TB care in Africa is in European interests

The slogan is backed by sobering statistics. More than 365 000 cases of TB were reported in the Europe in 2005, 10,000 more than for 2004. The figures for…

Microfossils unravel climate history of tropical Africa

They did this in cooperation with a German colleague from the University of Bremen. The scientists developed an entirely new method to reconstruct the history…

Scripps/UCSD geophysicist among international team finding evidence of first plate tectonics

Identification of the oldest preserved pieces of Earth's crust in southern Greenland has provided evidence of active plate tectonics as early as 3.8 billion…

New evidence puts 'Snowball Earth' theory out in the cold

Analyses of glacial sedimentary rocks in Oman, published online today in Geology, have produced clear evidence of hot-cold cycles in the Cryogenian period,…

Researchers Find Substantial Amount of Mercury Entering the Ocean through Groundwater

Mercury is toxic to animals and humans in large concentrations, particularly in the form known as methyl mercury, which accumulates in fish. To date, WHOI…

Closing salmon escape routes

According to official statistics, a million fish escaped from Norwegian fish farms in 2006. The aquaculture industry has asked SINTEF to look at the causes of…

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