Clinton's ocean agenda offers modest treasures for science
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President Bill Clinton has pledged a wide-ranging $224 million package to protect the world's oceans and has asked the cabinet to produce recommendations for a draft oceans policy within a year. Some $194 million of the total amount will be allocated to a five-year program to rebuild marine fisheries, with a further $12 million going to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The ocean science community says that, although the announcement of funding is welcome, there was little consultation beforehand and the funding is insufficient.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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New form of hydrogen power provokes scepticism
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BlackLight Power Inc of Cranbury, NJ, has attracted more than $20 million in private investment to support its proprietary chemical process, which is claimed to create a novel type of hydrogen. This process is based on the theory of BlackLight Pres Randell Mills that hydrogen atoms can be made to exist below their ground state in a form he names 'hydrinos.' A number of leading physicists have dismissed this theory because it goes against established principles of physics. Mills rejects allegations that he has no data to support his claims.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2000
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Europe will fly animals on space station
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The European Space Agency (ESA) partners in the International Space Station programme have agreed that researchers should be permitted to propose experiments using laboratory animals for this programme. Many European scientists had regarded the ESA's opposition to rat and mice studies as a competitive disadvantage when proposing experiments in areas of space research such as muscle deterioration. The ESA believes that there is now an urgent need for an international committee to establish ethical guidelines for animal experiments in space.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1999
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