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Chemistry World January 30, 2013 Rebecca Trager	Unrest over US gas exports The controversial topic of natural gas exportation is creating a growing rift between chemical companies in the US and the manufacturing establishment.
Chemistry World January 25, 2013 Rebecca Brodie	Reassessing the health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident While the Japanese tsunami of March 2011 was devastating in its own right, the long term health consequences because of the damage to the nuclear reactor at Fukushima Daiichi are also of serious concern.
Chemistry World January 24, 2013 Tamsin Cowley	Environmentally friendly alternative to toxic heavy metals in paint Austrian scientists have shown that an environmentally friendly enzyme, laccase, can be used to replace toxic drying agents in paint.
AskMen.com January 23, 2013 Ian Lang	Acceptable Cheating Bill Belichick is still a well-respected and talented coach, while Lance Armstrong's status is now somewhere between 'child molester' and 'drunk child molester.'
Chemistry World January 21, 2013 Maria Burke	Global convention to limit mercury agreed Governments from around the world agreed to a global, legally-binding treaty on Saturday to limit mercury use. This is the first new major environmental treaty in over a decade.
CIO January 18, 2013 Stephanie Overby	How a Private Cloud Saves Money and the Environment When Ricoh Europe realized its IT environment was both spiraling out of control and environmentally unfriendly, it turned to a IT services provider for help.
Chemistry World January 17, 2013 David Bradley	Casting a shadow over green light bulbs New research suggests that the environmental legacy of the toxic metals in CFLs and LEDs, including copper, lead, mercury and zinc, needs to be given greater consideration by policymakers formulating strategies to cut energy use.
HHMI Bulletin Winter 2013 Katharine Gammon	Trash Is Treasure Steve and Kathy Stanton are repurposing all of it for Trash for Teaching, or T4T, an innovative program that reuses industrial cast-off materials to create discovery-based science learning experiences for students.
Chemistry World January 15, 2013 Josh Howgego	Spectrometry to the rescue! The next time a major earthquake strikes it could be an ion mobility spectrometer, not a sniffer dog, searching for people trapped in the rubble. The instrument can detect a pattern of 12 chemicals that signal the presence of life.
CIO January 11, 2013 Stephanie Overby	How Emerging Technology Fights Fraud in the Call Center To battle innovative attacks on call centers, enterprises and IT outsourcing service providers are looking to technologies like voice biometrics and behavioral analytics.
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