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Chemistry World August 22, 2012 James Urquhart	Turning wastewater into food German researchers have developed an efficient and environmentally friendly process to recover phosphate from wastewater for use in fertilizer.
Chemistry World August 16, 2012 David Lawrence	Food security I would wholeheartedly recommend The Feeding of Nations, by Mark Gibson, as a reference source to anyone involved with, or interested in, food security. It is both succinct and well referenced.
Food Processing August 2012 Deborah Cassell	Research And Development Of New Applications For Chocolate Persist Staying current with this perennial flavor means touting and creating health benefits and paying heed to global social issues.
Chemistry World August 9, 2012 Laura Howes	Recovering chemical weapons Today, as governments finish destroying their chemical weapons, the US is looking back at the stockpiles it disposed of in the early to mid twentieth century.
Chemistry World August 7, 2012 Laura Howes	European air pollution concerns The European Environment Agency has reported that 11 of the member states of the European Union have exceeded the emission limits set by the Convention on long-range transboundary air pollution.
CFO August 1, 2012 Kathleen Hoffelder	Renewed Concerns about Renewables Key tax credits for investments in renewable-energy projects could soon begin to expire.
National Defense September 2012 Stew Magnuson	Feds Fear Coordinated Physical, Cyber-Attacks on Electrical Grids Electrical grids in the United States are vulnerable to both cyber-attacks and space weather, federal officials have said.
National Defense September 2012 Stew Magnuson	DHS' Nuclear Detection Efforts Continue on Smaller Scale The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office could never get the technology to work well enough, and estimated costs to deploy the portals swelled, so after six years with nothing to show for the millions spent, the ax fell.
National Defense September 2012 Stew Magnuson	Storm Brewing Over BioWatch3 Program Department of Homeland Security officials in July went to Capitol Hill to give House lawmakers a briefing and demonstration of the BioWatch3 program, which is designed to alert authorities to the release of potentially deadly biological weapons on U.S. soil.
Chemistry World August 1, 2012 Patrick Walter	Phenomenal Olympic science legacy (or is that sustainability?) What do you do with a lab set up solely to catch Olympic drug cheats once the games are over? In the case of the London 2012 games, the answer is to turn it into a state of the art analytical lab.
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