Science News

• November 19, 2008 - BBC News: Mammoth's genome pieced together
• A US-Russian team announces that it has sequenced most of the genome of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia.
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• November 20, 2008 - BBC News: Slow progress on ocean protection
• Two year after pledging to protect 10% of the oceans, governments have protected less than 1%, a survey finds.
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• November 19, 2008 - BBC News: Sparrow numbers 'plummet by 68%'
• The loss of green spaces in Britain has caused the number of house sparrows to drop sharply in the past 30 years.
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• November 20, 2008 - BBC News: Bush attacked over wildlife plan
• US environmentalists accuse President Bush of trying to rush through changes to the Endangered Species Act.
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• November 19, 2008 - BBC News: Final plea on Earth observation
• Leading Earth observation scientists urge Gordon Brown to back Europe's environmental monitoring project, GMES.
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• November 18, 2008 - BBC News: Windpipe transplant breakthrough
• Surgeons in Spain claim a major breakthrough by giving a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells.
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