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Green said that while the study reveals bias regarding the prescription of treatment, it’s unclear whether the administration of that treatment would be affected by those biases.
Now, cloud seeding is back, especially in Australia. Energy company Snowy Hydro, for example, is trying to replenish dwindling snowfall in the not-so-Snowy Mountains in New South Wales. But what's special about the Queensland project, says Roelof Bruintjes, a cloud-seeding expert with the U.S. National Center...
The trouble is that California is one of the few places to mandate that stores offer plastic-bag recycling, and the industry has been slow to volunteer elsewhere. Less than 1% of bags are recycled in the U.S., according to the Washington-based Worldwatch Institute. Major chains like Giant Foods...
Although the floods have affected more people than have suffered in many previous years, the death toll of 700 remains comparatively low - in 1998, 4,185 died; last year 2,704. were killed. Relief experts attribute this year's lower toll to improved planning and communications that allowed most people...
With nearly one in every seven citizens affected in some way by the floods, the government has prioritized flood relief and response operations. Late last month, President Hu Jintao visited flood victims in the southwestern city of Chongqing. "You have gone through a lot of hardships," Hu told them, according...