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  • Opposition to Bayer´s GM Rice

    Press Release, Coalition against Bayer Dangers

    The Coalition against Bayer Dangers urges European authorities to refuse an import approval for Liberty Link Rice (LL62) produced by Bayer CropScience LL62 has been

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  • Genetic Modification Technologies: Who should Control it?

    Amit Sengupta, Newsclick, 06 February 2010

    While the controversy on genetically modified foods rages in India, very similar issues are being debated in many parts of the world.While the controversy on genetically modified foods rages in...

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  • The Tale of a Pandemic that Almost Wasn’t

    Amit Sen Gupta, Newsclick, 3 January 2010

    The jury is now almost set to pronounce its verdict – the worst of the H1N1 pandemic is over...We would, in the coming weeks and months, expect a series of self adulatory 

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  • Only a Thin Sliver of Hope-in-Hagen

    Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick, December 19, 2009

    Too many leaders had gathered in Copenhagen to have it end in a complete failure. Though the accord was a face saving device for them, it does retain global warming and climate change as an...

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  • India's Offer: Each Nation for Itself

    D. Raghunandan, Newsclick

    WHEN Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh speaks, controversy cannot be far behind. But when he spoke in Parliament last week to announce a new Indian stance for the forthcoming...

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  • Stark Choices in Copenhagen

    Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick

    The Copenhagen Conference starts today, with a stark choice facing the world. We either cut global carbon emissions soon, going to near zero by the end of the century or we are on a slippery...

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  • Global Deal on Climate Change in 2010 'All but Impossible'

    The Guardian, 1 February 2010

    A global deal to tackle climate change is all but impossible in 2010, leaving the scale and pace of action to slow global warming in coming decades uncertain, according to senior figures across...

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  • 2000s Warmest Decade on Record, Government Reports

    Randolph E. Schmid, Associated Press, 19 January 2010

    The 2000-2009 decade was the warmest on record, easily surpassing the previous hottest decade - the 1990s - researchers said Tuesday in a report providing fresh evidence that the planet may be...

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  • Chinese hackers used Microsoft browser to launch Google strike

    Bobbie Johnson, The Guardian, 15 January 2010

    Microsoft has admitted that its Internet Explorer browser was the weak link used by hackers to attack Google's systems in China.

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  • Last-ditch lobbying battle over biotech drugs

    Alan Fram, Associated Press, 14 January 2010

    Makers of generic biotech drugs, backed by President Barack Obama and a well-placed congressional ally, are waging an eleventh-hour battle to reduce the competitive protection that the emerging...

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  • Leaked UN Report Shows Cuts Offered at Copenhagen Would Lead to 3C rise

    guardian.co.uk, December 18, 2009

     With the talks entering the final 24 hours on a knife-edge, the emergence of the document seriously undermines the statements by governments that they are aiming to limit emissions to a...

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  • Stem Cell Study Leads to Breakthrough in Understanding Infertility

    Ian Sample, The Guardian, 28 October 2009

    Scientists have turned human stem cells into early-stage sperm and eggs in research that promises to give doctors an unprecedented insight into the causes of infertility.

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