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EarthWinged solution to biopollution?
Government officials have released alien moths in hopes that they will rein in the spread of an aggressive climbing fern now invading some 100,000 acres in south Florida.
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Healing secret lies in blood
An unknown factor in blood may be the key to why young people and animals heal much faster than old ones do.
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EcosystemsReturn of the Wetlands? Restoration possible for some Iraqi marshes
Field studies conducted in Iraq last year suggest that some of the region's ecologically devastated marshes could be returned to health.
By Sid Perkins -
Health & MedicineTo Stanch the Flow: Hemophilia drug curbs brain hemorrhage
A blood-clotting drug helps some people recover from a bleeding stroke.