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China is no longer a developing nation, at least in terms of CO2 emissions. The country has graduated to "developed" status, according to a new report claiming that the country could meet or surpass U.S CO2 levels by 2017. The report , written by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, claims that the combination of China's carbon-heavy industries and rapidly increasing infrastructure are responsible for the growth.

In remote areas where clean water is scarce, Sarvajal's water-dispensing ATMs provide a cheap solution.

Hydrogen is a clean fuel, but making it usually takes fossil fuels, until now: A new discovery allows hungry bacteria to eat dirty water to make the fuel. Hydrogen has potential as a clean-burning fuel. It leaves behind only water as it burns

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit a remote Himalayan region in northern India on Sunday evening, killing at least four people and five in neighboring Nepal as well as damaging buildings and blocking roads, officials said. Two people, including a child, died in Sikkim state, the epicenter of the earthquake, and two others died in Bihar state in a stampede sparked by the quake, CNN-IBN broadcaster said.

While the United States might be done with the Space Shuttle, the rest of the world is picking up the slack. Iranians are planning new space capsules, China is launching Martian satellites... and India wants to put a man on the moon

Launching a new brand is expensive. Far easier, these days: Bring back (or polish up) an old one. "At one point , we were going to call ourselves 'The Re Company,'" says Mark Thomann.

Tainted blood was given to poor children receiving transfusions at government hospital in western India

Combining principles of conservation with the needs of agriculture might be the only way to keep growing enough food to feed an exploding global population.

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Good ideas that work aren't always as "nice" as we'd like.

The knock on LED bulbs has always been their incredibly high price point. But the new Definity bulb has a price so low, it may get people to make the switch. They may cast a warmer glow than CFLs, but LED bulbs are still a long way from becoming energy-efficient incandescent bulb replacements.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Results presented by CERN1's LHCb experiment at the biennial Lepton-Photon conference in Mumbai, India on Saturday 27 August are becoming the most precise yet on particles called B mesons, which provide a way to investigate matter-antimatter asymmetry.

Using an engine design that was largely abandoned after World War II, new engines find fuel savings where big auto companies--weighed down by the inertia of their designs--can't. Decades of refining today's automobile engine technology has come to this: We're investing more and more, but getting less and less in terms of efficiency, performance, and durability

Crystals can guide and control light and electricity by creating spatially periodic energy barriers. An electron (or

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