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SMART-1 was created in less than four years. / Photo credit: ESA.

SMART-1 was created in less than four years. / Photo credit: ESA.

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By Julio Godoy

Trip to the Moon on Sun's Energy

The director of the first European mission to the moon explains to Tierramérica how a light, refrigerator-sized probe may transform space travel as we know it. The SMART-1 was launched Saturday.

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By Katherine Stapp

U.S. Wants to Expand Use of Methyl Bromide

The initiative that the Bush administration will present in November would undermine efforts to curb this ozone-depleting gas, say environmentalists and scientists. Thanks to the Montreal Protocol, there has been a 13-percent reduction of methyl bromide in the atmosphere.

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By Gustavo González

Eco-Demands Give Way to Money

Environmentalists say the payment of more than a million dollars to four indigenous women who had opposed construction of the Ralco hydroelectric dam is a blow to democracy. The energy plant is to begin operations in 2004.

La oveja Dolly.

Dolly, the cloned sheep.

The InterAcademy Panel, comprising 60 international scientific organizations, has called on all countries to ban human cloning experiments. The appeal reflects the viewpoint of a broad swath of the scientific community, warning that the cloning process -- which has been conducted with animals -- deteriorates genetic mechanisms and would cause human suffering.

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