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21.08.2010, 09:55
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The Russian-built nuclear power plant in Iran’s Bushehr is an economic project and has nothing to do with politics, analyst Sergey Pereslegin has told RT.
16.06.2009, 08:03
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With the rapid progress of biotechnology and with more genomes being deciphered in full, scientists begin to speculate that someday we may be able to help bring extinct species back into existence.
20.08.2010, 22:02
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Russia has started loading fuel into the reactor at Iran’s first nuclear power plant – a key step in making the Bushehr station operational. But what is the project about? Purely business, or an ace in a political hand?
20.10.2009, 15:15
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The mass extinctions in Earth’s history may have been caused by the rapid growth of toxic algae, scientists believe. The modern environment favors such a deadly event.
14.10.2009, 09:01
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin talked to the Chinese media about a number of issues ranging from international politics to bilateral trade, to his personal feelings about chairing Russia’s government.
21.07.2010, 10:17
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has placed his First Deputy in charge of monitoring progress against a heat wave and drought that has devastated agriculture in the country.
18.07.2009, 01:36
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Life on Earth is under a serious threat. World leaders fail to reverse the trend by 2010 despite commitments made in 2002.
15.10.2010, 15:40
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What exactly is the Skolkovo innovation center and why is the world watching it so closely? Anatoly Aleksandrov, one of six co-founders of the center and the rector of Bauman University fills RT in with the details.
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18.10.2010, 23:04
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American food policy has resulted in increasing rates of obesity, particularly among lower-class and minority populations.
04.08.2009, 14:14
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A team of European and US researchers have modified the maize genome so that the plant emits a chemical compound which attracts nematode worms, which in turn kill pests damaging the crops.
Published: 23 July, 2010, 02:51
Edited: 09 August, 2010, 16:50
The Democratic Party in the US Senate was forced to kill potential clean energy legislation because there were not enough votes for it to pass. The only changes that will remain are restrictions on offshore drilling.
The problem with clean energy legislation in the US does not only involve legislators unwillingness to pass it based on economic fears of their constituents, but even more so with the Big money that Lobbyists...mostly in the form of Big Businesses throw at these same legislators to vote in Their favor! Lobbying is no more than legalized Bribery....which seems to be a way of life of most politicians anyway. If the price is right, it gets passed...if not, then it doesn't! Alternative energies and the means to implement them have existed for generations but the big businesses who profit from our unquenchable desire to speed around the countryside have kept these technologies from coming to fruition simply because of all the money to be made in keeping us using Nineteenth Century technologies. (fossil fuel combustion based tech is more like cave-man technology....what more is an automobile than a fire in a box attached to a wheel??) We'd be wiser to ride the electronic highway and surf our computers to work every day rather than waste fuels traveling to and from a job every day! The US even came up with the idea of Mag-Lev trains in the 1930's, which have finally been implemented in China! Couple that technology with Geothermal and you have very close to zero emissions...if it's global warming you're afraid of. What's Worse than global warming is the Global Control on human populations that Big Energy companies currently hold!