Ecologist to receive prize
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Oslo - Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004 on Friday at a ceremony in Oslo, making her the first African woman and first environmentalist to receive the prestigious award.
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It could be tiny fibers that may one day replace steel, or catalysts that have led to environmentally friendly plastics. Guessing the winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry has often stumped researchers and pundits alike.
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The Live Earth concerts and Denmark's Roskilde Festival are to be honoured with environmental awards at the music industry's biggest annual event.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize  Friday for leading a campaign to plant tens of millions of  trees across Africa to slow deforestation.
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OSLO -- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai defended being chosen as the first environmentalist to win the award, saying yesterday that it would help others understand the importance of protecting the world's resources.
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A top scientist in the storied, sometimes controversial field explains how a population of creatures can be viewed as a high-level organism unto itself rather than a collection of disparate individuals.
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Describing her as &quot;Africa&#39;s staunchest defender of the environment,&quot; the United Nations green agency today hailed the awarding of this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize to Prof.
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OSLO - Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, who yesterday received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, said protecting the environment was vital to promote peace and democracy.
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Two US researchers yesterday shared the Â£760,000 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for their discovery of the molecular machinery behind the scent of lilac in the spring, the bouquet of a vintage burgundy or the smell of napalm in the morning.
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By GALLOWAY, Jill  16 farmers in the region are hoping to be finalists. ------------ --------   Sixteen farmers in Horizon's Manawatu-Wanganui region are going for the top environment prize, hoping to be finalists in the region's Ballance Farm Environment awards.
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Airline tycoon Richard Branson announced on Friday a $25 million prize for the first person to come up with a way of scrubbing greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere in the battle to beat global warming.
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By Catherine Clabby, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 4--The ups and downs of N.C. State University ecologist JoAnn Burkholder offer blunt lessons about the nature of modern science.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize  Friday for aiding the continent's poor with a campaign to plant  millions of trees to slow down deforestation.
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She was cited for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has planted more than 30 million trees across Africa. Professor Wangari is the seventh African to win the prize, worth $1.
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Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai has been formally awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway. Ms. Maathai urged her audience at Oslo&#39;s City Hall to recognize that protecting
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Columbia University professor Richard Axel will share the 2004 Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine with Linda Buck of Seattle&#39;s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for their work on smell.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize on  Friday, honored for fighting poverty by trying to save the  continent's shrinking forests.