07/06/2010

Dispersants: lesser evil against oil spill or Gulf poison?

Nearly a million gallons of dispersant have been poured into the Gulf of Mexico to fight the largest oil spill in US history, even though little is known about their effects fishermen claim makes them sick and kills sea life.

AT&T in informal talks on buying stake in Reliance

US telecom giant AT&T is in informal discussions with Reliance Communications Ltd. about taking a significant minority stake in the Indian cellphone company, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

BP sucking up half of oil leaking from Gulf well

Engineers hoped Monday to make more headway in their bid to contain a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after energy giant BP announced it was now capturing about half of the oil gushing from its ruptured well.

Testing predictions in electrochemical nanosystems

German physicists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are gearing up for experimental tests of findings they arrived at through theoretical considerations: that electrochemical reactions take place more rapidly ...

Paper industry tests genetically altered trees

The commercial paper industry's plans to plant forests of genetically altered eucalyptus trees in seven Southern states has generated more cries from critics worried that such a large introduction of a bioengineered nonnative ...

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