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A decade without a dam breathes life in to a Maine river
By Beth Daley, Globe Staff Ten years ago today, a demolition crew in Augusta, Maine punched a hole through a 160-year-old dam on the Kennebec...
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Scientists find master heart cell
Harvard University scientists said yesterday they discovered a master human heart cell that gives rise to three major types of heart tissue, providing new tools for drug development and an important advance toward the ultimate goal of repairing damaged hearts. (By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Boston Globe)
US, Canada rank last in curbing warming, report on G-8 says
With only five months left before a summit on climate change - it's intended to produce a new global pact - none of the Group of Eight nations is doing enough to curb global warming, says one study. It ranks the United States and Canada at the bottom. (Reuters)
World failing to halt biodiversity decline
Governments are failing to stem a rapid decline in biodiversity that is now threatening extinction for almost half the world's coral reef species, a third of amphibians, and a quarter of mammals, a leading environmental group warns. (AP)
State draws zones for coast wind farms
Dozens of wind turbines could sprout within sight of the Massachusetts shoreline under a first-of-its-kind state blueprint with the promise of generating both electricity and controversy. (By Beth Daley, Boston Globe)
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Stimulus cash boosts solar plans
The state plans to use $20 million in federal stimulus money to build about 16 megawatts worth of solar installations in Massachusetts. (By Erin Ailworth, Boston Globe)
House approves overhaul of environmental policy
Package means a big victory for Obama (By Susan Milligan, Boston Globe)
N.E. fishing officials set new ground rules
New England fishing officials, hoping to revive the region’s imperiled cod and flounder populations and its distressed fishing industry, recently overhauled the way many fishermen will do their jobs. (By Beth Daley, Boston Globe)
A need for music even in cave era
Archeologists said that they had unearthed the oldest musical instruments ever found - several flutes that inhabitants of southwestern Germany laboriously carved from bone and ivory at least 35,000 years ago. (By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Boston Globe)
Month may become dimmest on record
Since the sun virtually disappeared on June 5, hidden behind an impenetrable pall of cement-colored clouds, Robert Skilling has tracked each overcast moment, anticipation building with each gray afternoon. (By Andrew Ryan, Boston Globe)
How to get drugs into the brain
Standing in the way is the blood-brain barrier, a formidable defense system that keeps out pathogens and toxins but also bars many potential therapies from reaching the seat of maladies such as brain cancer or Alzheimer's disease. (By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Boston Globe)
Seeing sea stars - and lots of them
Enormous mats of starfish are infesting pockets of New England waters, charming beachcombers but tormenting some fishermen who worry they could devour the region's bounty of oysters, scallops, clams, and mussels. (By Beth Daley, Globe Staff)