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BBC News
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A US government aid agency has formed an alliance with a group headed by former UN chief Kofi Annan to try to boost African agriculture.
Mr Annan has called for a "green revolution" to solve the food crisis.
The new partnership aims to invest in Afr..
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MSNBC
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If trees grow on other planets, their leaves might be red, orange or yellow, and not only in autumn, scientists say.
Two new studies detailed in the March issue of the journal Astrobiology find that the color of a planet’s photosynthetic organisms de..
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BBC News
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Some of the first farmers in the Near East probably used green beads as amulets to protect themselves and their crops, a study suggests.
The authors of the research suggest that early agriculturalists attached special importance to this colour.
Bead..
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BBC News
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The number of government grants made to people who want to fit solar panels or other green energy systems to their homes has halved, the BBC has learned.
It comes after the low carbon buildings programme cut the maximum grant on offer from �7,500 to..
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BBC News
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Former UN head Kofi Annan has called for a "green revolution" to solve the food crisis threatening Africa.
"A genuinely African green revolution could lead to a doubling or tripling of food production," he told the BBC.
Africa needs direct, immediat..
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BBC News
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The UK Treasury has "continually demonstrated a lack of ambition and imagination" when it comes to green taxes, a report by MPs has concluded.
The Commons Environmental Audit Committee says there is little sign that ministers have acted on the recommen..
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BBC News
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Regulators have given scientists the green light to create human-animal embryos for research.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority granted permission after a consultation showed the public were "at ease" with the idea.
Experts said it wa..
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BBC News
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Most cars sold in Europe are becoming more fuel-efficient, but German carmakers are going backwards according to a study by a green pressure group.
Transport and Environment (T&E) says an average new German car produced more CO2 per kilometre in 2006 t..
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BBC News
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UK pioneers of research into new materials, green energy and future communications will share a �100m government fund to back innovation.
More than 76 research and development projects covering eight technology priority areas will share the money...
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BBC News
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A team of Canadian surgeons got a shock when the patient they were operating on began shedding dark greenish-black blood, the Lancet reports.
The man emulated Star Trek's Mr Spock - the Enterprise's science officer who supposedly had green Vulcan blood..
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Daily Mail
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They have to be left on all the time, they're made from banned toxins and they won't work in half your household fittings. Yet Europe (and Gordon Brown) says 'green' lightbulbs must replace all our old ones.
Every day now we are being deluged with news..
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