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CLIMATE change , *CONFERENCES & conventions , *INTERNATIONAL law , *NATURAL resources , *MONETARY unions , *TREATIES - Abstract
The article presents news related to the scientific field. The world's top science academies from the U.S., Great Britain, China and Russia, have issued an unprecedented joint statement ahead of the G8 summit, putting pressure on governments to take action on climate change. An online academic paper detailing how bioterrorists could contaminate the U.S. milk supply with the botulinum toxin has been removed from the Web site by the journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences." According to the UN University Institute of Advanced Studies in Yokohama, Japan, exploitation of deep-sea organisms is not regulated by existing treaties.
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- 2005