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Posted May 6, 2008:

• Fungi Have A Hand In Depleted Uranium's Environmental Fate

Posted April 22, 2008:

• Questioning Nuclear Power's Ability To Forestall Global Warming

Posted April 21, 2008:

• Extreme Ocean Storms Have Become More Frequent Over Past Three Decades, Study Of Tiny Tremors Shows

Posted April 18, 2008:

• Broad Analysis Of Pollutants Using Fuzzy Logic Could Guide Water Quality Improvement

Posted April 3, 2008:

• Damaged Land Can Restore Itself Through Spontaneous Revegetation

Posted March 27, 2008:

• Chronic Illness Linked To Coal-mining Pollution, Study Shows

Posted February 26, 2008:

• Busy Beavers Can Help Ease Drought

Posted February 19, 2008:

• Caribou And Northern Indigenous People: Seeking Sustainability In A World Of Instability

Posted January 17, 2008:

• Seagull Blood Shows Promise For Monitoring Pollutants From Oil Spills

Posted December 4, 2007:

• New Fuel Cell Cleans Up Pollution And Produces Electricity

Posted October 18, 2007:

• Claiming Antarctica: Oil, Water And Environmental Risks

Posted October 14, 2007:

• Human Cost Of Colombian Coal Revealed

Posted September 19, 2007:

• Retrieving Compost From Dumps Would Make A Difference

Posted September 17, 2007:

• Glass Of Wine Can Help Find New Mineral Deposits

Posted September 2, 2007:

• Biosensors To Probe The Metals Menace

Posted August 20, 2007:

• Gold Obtained From A Decayed Stump

Posted August 17, 2007:

• Deady Mine 'Bump' Was Recorded As Seismic Event

Posted July 31, 2007:

• Three-pronged Nuclear Attack

Posted July 16, 2007:

• New Process Promises To Reduce Costs Of A Clean-coal Technology

Posted June 26, 2007:

• Greenhouse Gas Burial: Storing Unwanted Carbon Dioxide In Unmineable Coal Seams

Posted June 21, 2007:

• Major Boost Needed In Federal Support For Coal R&D, Report Says

Posted June 19, 2007:

• Crude Oil Contains Less Toxic Mercury Than Coal

Posted May 28, 2007:

• Iron Shows The Way To Copper And Gold

Posted May 23, 2007:

• Whales In Hot Water: Global Warming's Effect On World's Largest Creatures

Posted May 21, 2007:

• Deep-sea Mining May Pose Serious Threat To Fragile Marine Ecosystems, According To Study

Posted May 16, 2007:

• Marine Reserves Could Save Coral Reefs

Posted April 24, 2007:

• Superman Beware: Scientists Uncover Kryptonite

Posted April 6, 2007:

• Monitoring Poisons In The Environment -- A Woolly Matter

Posted March 22, 2007:

• Lack Of Fuel May Limit US Nuclear Power Expansion

Posted March 20, 2007:

• Researcher Finds High Mercury Levels In Montana Osprey
• Economic Future Of Afghanistan Grounded In Copper

Posted March 12, 2007:

• Mercury Contamination Of Fish Warrants Worldwide Public Warning

Posted February 23, 2007:

• Mining A Narrow Vein Of Research

Posted January 23, 2007:

• 'Heat Mining' Backed In Geothermal Energy Report

Posted January 9, 2007:

• Diamonds From Outer Space: Geologists Discover Origin Of Earth's Mysterious Black Diamonds

Posted January 2, 2007:

• New Sensor Simplifies Efforts To Safeguard Drinking Water From Cyanide

Posted December 22, 2006:

• Nanoorganisms: Probe Of Acid Mine Drainage Turns Up Unsuspected Virus-sized Archaea

Posted November 26, 2006:

• Scientists Find Safer Ways To Detect Uranium Minerals

Posted October 19, 2006:

• Despite Popular Belief, The World Is Not Running Out Of Oil, Scientist Says

Posted September 7, 2006:

• Sydney Harbor's Seaweed A Deadly Diet For Sea Creatures

Posted August 22, 2006:

• Sales Method Pays Off For Materials Scientists; Data Mining Used To Predict Crystal Structures

Posted August 17, 2006:

• Mixing, Then Un-mixing Oil And Water 'On Command' Could Solve Oil Recovery And Clean-up Problems

Posted August 14, 2006:

• Map Sheds Light On Ocean Floor

Posted August 11, 2006:

• Mercury Pollution Threatens Health Worldwide, Scientists Say

Posted August 2, 2006:

• The Midas Bug -- Bacterial Alchemy Of Gold
• At An Underwater Volcano, Evidence Of Man's Environmental Impact

Posted July 14, 2006:

• Undersea Vehicles To Study Formation Of Seafloor Deposits Enriched In Gold And Other Precious Metals

Posted July 9, 2006:

• Ancient Raindrops Reveal The Origins Of California's Sierra Nevada Range

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