August 24, 2006

Room at the bottom Injecting man-made carbon dioxide beneath ocean sediments hundreds of meters thick could be an ideal storage solution for the environmentally damaging substance, contends Daniel P. Schrag, director of Harvard's Center for the Environment, and his colleagues at Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Columbia University. (Staff file photo Jon Chase/Harvard News Office) Full story

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Hormone mix raises breast cancer risk
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Women far behind in patent awards
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How Darwin's finches got their beaks
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Obesity begins in the womb
Overweight infants on the increase, researchers find

Deep-sea sediments could safely store man-made carbon dioxide
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University testing new diesel exhaust filter
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Government reps visit campus, learn from researchers