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Work on building the Nokia plant in Cluj, Romania has begun after a long time of debates and agreements set between local authorities and the Finnish company. An opening ceremony has taken place today in order to mark the beginning of work on the factory.The Nokia plant in Cluj is the eleventh such production facili... |
29 June 2007
05:43 GMT |
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A person may be a "vegetable", but many plants definitely aren't. It seems that plants are not that docile as it was widely assumed, and they can have quite nasty reactions towards strangers. A new research at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, has showed that plants can recognize one another when they shar... |
18 June 2007
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Svalbard is like a bridge between Norway and the North Pole: an icy Norwegian archipelago famous for glaciers, freezing winds, polar bears, harboring the northernmost human settlements in the world. 10,000 years ago Svalbard was completely covered by ice and now it still covers 60 % of its surface. The rest of the ... |
15 June 2007
06:08 GMT |
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Plants make photosynthesis to get all the food they need. And food, for both plants and animals, is represented by three classes of chemicals: sugars, fats and proteins. Sugars and fats are made of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen: these elements are easily extracted from air (carbon dioxide) and water. But proteins conta... |
9 June 2007
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Coca-Cola and Cargill have announced that they have developed a new natural sweetener from the sweet grass or honey leaf (Stevia rebaudiana), a South American bush whose leaves are used by Guarani Indians (Paraguay and Southern Brazil) for centuries as sweetener in mate beverage. The plant is highly popular in Paragu... |
4 June 2007
14:56 GMT |
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During 4 million years of evolution, people just gathered, hunted and fished what nature offered, living just like another intelligent mammal. But about 12,000 years ago, with the Neolithic ("new stone") era, people started to be producers, creating voluntarily their subsistence means and breaking their dependence on... |
24 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Faster mating means safer existence. This is valid at least in the case of the large herbivorous mammals, from rhinos and elephants to deer and antelopes: the slower their reproductive period, the higher the risk of extinction. Habitat loss and naturally limited living areas are also great factors of risk, but under ... |
16 May 2007
06:52 GMT |
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The European Union rules and regulations imply having increased taxes for products that are being manufactured in Asia. Of course, the main purpose of this rule is to make the Europeans buy stuff that are made in, you guessed it, Europe, and shy away from the oh, so dreaded Made in China logo. But this rule applies t... |
3 April 2007
10:51 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and the University of Bonn, Germany have realized the first global map of estimated plant species richness. The map assessed three hundred thousand species and is the most extensive map of the distribution of biodiversity on Earth to date. The map signals very cl... |
21 March 2007
09:16 GMT |
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