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September 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Executives from leading US clean energy and environmental companies will visit India next month to identify commercial opportunities for clean and green US technologies in India. The role of the upcoming mission and how the private sector can help India develop and deploy low-carbon technologies to combat climate change was discussed at a meeting with Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh.

September 8th, 2009 LONDON - Microbiologists have used bugs to break down and remove toxic compounds from crude oil and tar sands. Richard Johnson, a microbiology doctoral researcher at the University of Essex, described how by using mixed consortia of bacteria they have achieved complete degradation of specific compounds in only a few days.

August 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of scientists has developed a new coating which promises that grease stains can be wiped away with plain old water. According to a report by Discovery News, the new coating has been developed by Jeffrey Youngblood and colleagues at Purdue University in the US.

July 27th, 2009 Details scant in venture with IAC, NBC's SilvermanNEW YORK — A new venture that NBC Entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman is leaving the network to form with Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp promises better integration of ad campaigns by involving advertisers earlier in a show's development. It also promises to develop content and marketing across every medium, as Silverman puts it, "from Twitter to television." Yet analysts question how this marriage of television, the Internet and advertising will play out.

July 4th, 2009 NEW YORK - The US Department of Homeland Security has given three state-of-the-art radiation detectors to the New York Police Department to patrol city streets in search of dirty bombs and other nuclear threats. The 450,000-dollar worth Advanced Spectroscopic Portal Monitors will be placed in three SUVs on Wednesday at entrances to tunnels, bridges and tollbooths, the Daily News reports.

July 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Dutch researcher Laurens van der Maaten has developed a new analytical technique that enables the computer to recognize archaeological material and fake works of art. According to a report in www.physorg.com, the technique not only enables the computer to better interpret the content of photos and images, but also of data.

June 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Researchers, in a recent article in the journal PLoS Medicine Editorial, have argued that despite recent international objections, access to clean water should be recognized as a human right. At the March 2009 United Nations (UN) meetings, coinciding with the World Water Forum, Canada, Russia, and the United States refused to support a declaration that would recognize water as a basic human right.

June 29th, 2009 3 sewer workers trapped, killed in NYC manholeNEW YORK — New York City police say three workers trying to clean a sewer got trapped down a manhole and died. Firefighters had been attempting to rescue the workers, but authorities believe they were already dead when they arrived.

June 17th, 2009 LONDON - Cat owners might want to skip reading the following lines - a new study has found that dogs are smarter than felines. Up till now, it was widely believed cats are super smartypants while pooches stand no chance in front of them, when it comes to intelligence.

June 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study has determined that green-collar workers, who include everyone from energy-efficiency consultants to wastewater plant operators, are poised for explosive growth as a segment of the US economy. The study, published by the Pew Charitable Trusts, says that the "clean-energy economy" grew 9.1 percent between 1998 and 2007 to 777,000 jobs.

June 11th, 2009 States with most, fewest clean energy jobs listedHere is a look at states with the most and the fewest clean energy jobs in 2007 and the percentage of growth from 1998 to 2007 as identified in a new study by The Pew Charitable Trusts: States with highest number of jobs: California, 125,390, up 7.7 percent Texas, 55,646, up 15.5 percent Pennsylvania, 38,763, down 6.2 percent Ohio, 35,267, up 7.3 percent New York, 34,363, down 1.9 percent States with the fewest number of jobs: Wyoming, 1,419, up 56.4 percent South Dakota, 1,636, up 93.4 percent North Dakota, 2,112, up 30.9 percent Alaska, 2,140, up 9.4 percent Montana, 2,155, up 0.2 percent Source: The Pew Charitable Trusts

April 13th, 2009 NEW YORK - The long time lesbian lover of tennis great Martina Navratilova is threatening to wash their dirty laundry in public if she doesn't get a settlement to her liking based on their eight years together. "There are a lot of skeletons in Martina's closet.

April 13th, 2009 NEW YORK - A 6-month-old Portuguese water dog is set to become the envy of his fellow pooches when he paws into the house and lives of the US First Family, the Obamas. President Barack Obama had promised his daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, a puppy during the campaign.

March 19th, 2009 NEW YORK - Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is mourning the loss of one of her newly adopted pooches, Ivan. She recently took in two cocker spaniel puppies Ivan and Sadie from the PAWS Shelter in Chicago, Illinois.

December 29th, 2008 NEW YORK - Promises, the famous rehab centre in Malibu, is under scrutiny for reportedly allowing celebrities like Tara Reid to stay for free to get some publicity. According to tmz.com, there are reports that Reid is being allowed to stay for free with a luxury bedroom and a 'no bag check policy'.