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Japan aims to bury greenhouse gas emissions

OMUTA, Japan: Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth. ...full story at Channel NewsAsia

from Channel NewsAsia on Mon, Nov 02 2009

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