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Wind power to make up half of Danish energy use in 2020
Denmark aims to have wind power supply half of the country’s electricity needs in 2020, under a new programme presented by Climate and Energy Minister Martin Lidegaard on Friday. “Denmark must use a lot more renewable energy and we will have to become much better at using energy efficiently,” Lidegaard…
Australia plans world’s largest marine reserve
The Australian government has said it plans to establish the world’s biggest marine protection zone to safeguard a huge swathe of the Coral Sea, a biodiversity hotspot brimming with life. The proposed Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve off the northeast coast of Australia would cover about 990,000 square kilometres (380,000…
Oil sands digger uncovers dinosaur
OTTAWA — A heavy equipment operator unearthed what appears to be a nearly complete plesiosaur while digging in Canada’s oil sands, Syncrude announced Thursday. The fossil was discovered on November 14 and is now being examined by Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology scientists who aim to have it removed by…
Global warming rate less than feared: study
WASHINGTON — High levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have less of an impact on the rate of global warming than feared, a study said Thursday. The authors of the study funded by the US National Science Foundation stressed that global warming is real, and that increases in…
Russia ‘makes first contact’ with stranded Mars probe
MOSCOW — Russia on Thursday announced its scientists had for the first time made contact with its stranded Mars probe Phobos-Grunt, a day after the European Space Agency said it had received a signal. “A signal from the probe has been received and some telemetry data. At the moment our…
U.S. approves drug for middle-of-the-night insomniacs
The US Food and Drug Administration, for the first time, approved Wednesday medication specifically designed for those who wake up in the middle of the night and cannot fall back to sleep. Intermezzo, manufactured by Transcept Pharmaceuticals of California, is a lower-dose formulation of zolpidem, first approved in the United States in…
Russia’s stranded Mars probe sends signal to Earth
Engineers fought desperately on Wednesday to save Russia’s Phobos-Grunt spacecraft after the Martian probe sent “a first sign of life” more than two weeks after being stranded in orbit. After days of frustrating silence, contact with the probe was made on Tuesday at 2025 GMT at a European Space Agency ground station in Perth, Western Australia,…
BPA spikes 1,200 percent after eating canned soup: study
WASHINGTON — People who ate canned soup for five days straight saw their urinary levels of the chemical bisphenol A spike 1,200 percent compared to those who ate fresh soup, US researchers said on Tuesday. The randomized study, described as “one of the first to quantify BPA levels in humans…
Russia brings astronauts safely back to Earth
Three astronauts landed safely in the Kazakh steppe aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule on Tuesday after a stay of over five months aboard the International Space Station, Russian mission controlsaid. American Mike Fossum, Japan’s Satoshi Furukawa and Russia’sSergei Volkov touched down outside the remote settlement of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan just before sunrise after undocking from…
‘Little chance’ of saving stranded Mars probe
Russia’s space agency said Tuesday there was little chance of saving its Phobos-Grunt probe that aimed to bring back soil from Mars’ largest moon but has been stranded in Earth orbit since its launch. “There is little chance that we will be able to realise this mission,” the deputy head of Roscosmos Vitaly Davydov said in…
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