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It's Only Biological
Ocean seeding banned at U.N. biodiversity conference |
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30 May 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:08 AM on 30 May 2008 A 12-day United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity ended Friday with just a wee bit of progress toward salvaging the world's rapidly disappearing flora and fauna. Perhaps most encouraging: The 191 countries present agreed to ban the controversial practice of seeding the ocean with nutrients to encourage growth of carbon-sucking algae. In addition, Germany, which hosted the conferen ... |
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| Topics: biodiversity, Bosnia, Congo, geoengineering, Germany, Indonesia, Malaysia, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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