On the 10th anniversary of their capture, WDCS, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, is asking people to remember the 10 orcas (killer whales) that were trapped and removed from the wild near the coastal town of Taiji, Japan, and is asking the Japanese authorities to refuse permission for further orca captures in Japanese waters.
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Federal courts in the US are cracking down on GM foods, and now this is happening in the UK as well. Monsanto has been accused of suppressing a study of GM potatoes that showed that they damaged the internal organs of rats.
In the Western Mail, Steve Dube quotes biologist Irina Ermakova as saying that when GM NewLeaf potatoes, created by Monsanto, were fed to rats, they damaged their kidneys, liver, large gut, blood serum, testes and prostate. A study by researcher Arpad Pusztai came to a similar conclusion. These results were published only after a long campaign waged by Greenpeace.
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The space race continues: after China announced it is going to the moon in order to scoop up the valuable Helium 3 fuel for its fusion reactors, Europe and Russia said they were going too, then NASA said it was planning a mission?ostensibly to do “research,” but doubtless so that no one else can lay claim to this incredibly valuable fuel. Now the German space agency is preparing for a mission to the moon.
Walter Doellinger, the head of the German Space Program, says it will be ready to send an unmanned space shuttle into orbit around the moon by 2013. The German’s have their own cover story for making this incredibly expensive journey: Doellinger says, “We want to show that Germany has the know-how.”
Art credit: gimp-savvy.com
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We’ve written about how mice and roaches can help detect bioterrorism. Now we’ve learned that bees can too?assuming there will be any left to do so.
Researchers have discovered that bees communicate with each other by doing what may be a quantum dance. Now a University of Montana research team has learned to understand the collective buzzing of bees in their hives, which can provide a biological alert system.
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