Tuesday, 13 April 2004

Americans Pave Road to South Pole. It seems like an impossible mission, but a team of workers are carving a 1,020-mile 'ice highway' from the New Zealand coast to the South Pole. They say it will enable supplies and equipment to be hauled to the pole's U.S. research station. [Source: Wired News] 9:06:42 PM

Plan to build emissions scrubber. Engineers try to build a system to remove the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. [Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | World Edition] 8:51:58 PM

Amazon decline alarms activists. Environmental groups call for action in the wake of alarming new figures on the scale of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon jungle. [Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | World Edition] 12:59:13 PM

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