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DiscussionCentral: Biofuels and Ethics
Are new biofuels the ethical answer? On SciDev.Ne...

Health Cost of Air Pollution
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DiscussionCentral: U.S. Opinion on Global Warming
National survey research done at Yale University a...

DiscussionCentral: You Say Offset, I Say Tax
A Science Daily article published this week asks: ...

Predicting Seasonal Weather
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