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| Relief Camps Overrun in Bangladesh (Time Magazine) Overburdened relief centers scrambled to help tens of thousands of people and fist fights broke out Wednesday among some survivors of last week's cyclone that killed at least 3,100 us.rd.yahoo.com |
RIPTA offers free bus rides to honor Rosa Parks (WPRI 12 Providence) PROVIDENCE, R.I (AP) -- Rides on RIPTA buses are free next Saturday in honor of Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks became a symbol of the civil rights movement when she refused to give up her seat to white passengers and move to the "colored" section at the back of a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Food shortage hits refugee camps (Nepalnews. com) Bhutanese refugee camps in Jhapa and Morang district are witnessing acute food shortage since one week, leaving thousands of refugees to starve. Supply food in the camps refugees, which is done once in a fortnight, has not been regular for the last three weeks, reports say. us.rd.yahoo.com |
News: Letting Microbes Do the Dirty Work--Not to Mention Boost Energy, Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Millions of years ago, the microbes in river bottoms disappeared into the earth, buried by successive layers of sediment. Over hundreds of millions of years, these microbes--syntrophic bacteria and methanogenic Archaea--evolved to thrive in this underworld, slowly consuming the rich hydrocarbons that surrounded them in the form of oil. As a result, a large amount of the planet's petroleum stash has been ruined, becoming instead a "hot spot" for deep microbial life that consumes it and taints the rest with sulfur and other byproducts. Over time, however, these microbes finish their feast, leaving behind oil transmuted into methane--another, cleaner fossil fuel. Now researchers think they may have figured out how this process works and how to accelerate it to create a vast new energy resource. rss.sciam.com |
Help Us Find the Web's Best Stories on the Environment [News] How often have you come across a great story about climate change, sustainable energy or biodiversity, and wished you could share it with others who care deeply about the subject? This week, in preparation for Earth Day, you have your chance: Scientific American is partnering with NewsTrust, a not-for-profit Web site designed to "help people find good journalism online" by encouraging its readers to submit and review articles from across the Web.We'd like to invite you to participate in this partnership by signing up for NewsTrust and submitting articles that relate to the environment. Everything from basic research findings to policy and lifestyle coverage is fair game. [More] rss.sciam.com |