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Hybrid copper-gold nanoparticles convert CO2
By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office | 11 Apr 2012
Research by MIT suggests copper-gold nanoparticles may reduce greenhouse gas emissions and turn carbon dioxide into hydrocarbon fuels with relatively little energy
Glass sponge as a living climate archive
07 Apr 2012
3D planning tool for the city of tomorrow
03 Apr 2012
Reducing cash bite of wind power
By By Megan Fellman | 02 Apr 2012
Pesticides killing queen bees, says study
30 Mar 2012
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No luck for Posco’s Odisha plant as green clearance cancelled
30 Mar 2012
Posco’s steel project, slated to be the biggest FDI in India, has run into fresh trouble as its go-ahead has been cancelled by the National Green Tribunal
Greenhouse gas can find a home underground
By David L. Chandler | 20 Mar 2012
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Nobel laureate F Sherwood Rowland, 84, ozone study pioneer dies
14 Mar 2012
F Sherwood Rowland, the Nobel prize-winning chemist who sounded the alarm on the thinning of the earth’s ozone layer, has passed away at the age 84
Scientists explore rare environment in deep sea hydrothermal vent
By By Mario Aguilera | 10 Mar 2012
Preventing contamination in recycling
By by David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 06 Mar 2012
Environmentally-friendly cleaning, washing
05 Mar 2012
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BP in $7.8-bn deal to settle part of Gulf of Mexico oil spill claims
03 Mar 2012
BP Plc has reached a $7.8-billion deal with the group of aggrieved parties suing it over the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Brahmaputra river dries up in Arunachal
01 Mar 2012
Volcanoes deliver two flavours of water
01 Mar 2012
Small-scale gold mining impacts river algae
29 Feb 2012
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
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