Several measures must be put in place to ensure an adequate vaccine stockpile in the event of a H5N1 avian influenza pandemic, write Tadataka Yamada, Alice Dautry and Mark Walport in Nature.- Tahar Benourad
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It's a long road to a H5N1 vaccine stockpile- Tahar Benourad
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Submitted by Tahar_Benourad on Thu, 2008-07-17 20:08. | Tags: health | health | Tahar Benourad | vaccine
The (Annotated) Gore Climate Speech- Tahar Benourad
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by Andrew Revkin: Former Vice President Al Gore is delivering a speech laying out his new approach to the entwined challenges of limiting risks from global warming while providing sufficient energy to sustain economic vigor in the United States and around the World.
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River damming leads to dramatic decline in native fish numbers- Tahar Benourad
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Damming of the Colorado River over the last century, alongside introduction of game fish species, has led to an extensive decline in numbers of native fish whilst introduced species have flourished. Scientists have found that physical changes which occur to a river when it is dammed have had an adverse effect only on native fish, due to differences in their life histories.- Tahar Benourad
Submitted by Tahar_Benourad on Thu, 2008-07-17 20:03. | Tags: nature | ecosystem | fish | Tahar Benourad