Although there is no guarantee that any of these blood substitutes will make the grade, each holds the promise of bringing relief to the health care organizations and their patients that rely on rapidly declining supplies of donated blood. (scientificamerican.com)
Santos and its partners in the Barossa gas field off Australia's north coast have given the green light to start engineering and design work on the multi-billion project to replace declining supplies for the Darwin LNG export plant. (afr.com)
However, with declining supplies of oil in these tense times in the Middle East, and the damage Katrina wrought to the oil ports in the Gulf of Mexico, the climate may be ready for a dramatic shift away from fossil fuels, or a disruption. (treehugger.com)