BEIJING, December 11 /PRNewswire/ --

Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) today became the only non-Chinese equity partner in "GreenGen," the first near-zero emissions coal-fueled power plant with carbon capture and storage which is under development in China. Peabody joined the initiative at a formal signing ceremony at the prestigious State Guest House in Beijing. The agreement was announced during the Sino-U.S. Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade meetings attended by U.S. and Chinese dignitaries, including U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry M. Paulson, Jr. and China's Vice Premier Wu Yi.

HERTEN, Germany, December 11 /PRNewswire/ -- A considerable reduction in carbon dioxide in the world's industrial and emerging economies is vital if global warming is to be counteracted. The problem can be solved by energy savings on the one hand and energy efficiency on the other. The German corporation Aqua Society has now developed a process which sustainably generates CO2-free electricity from waste heat at temperatures from 80 degrees Celsius, making a decisive contribution to achieving climate targets.

Electricity Without Carbon Dioxide From Low-Temperature Heat

DALLAS, December 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Kingdom sought trusted vendor for national ID project, e-government rollout to protect 27 million citizens

GOOLE, England, December 11 /PRNewswire/ --

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Afraid of chemicals? Have a look in the mirror and all you see are chemicals - they are the building blocks of the human body - what we breathe and eat - yet perceived as something alien.

The chemical company Yaaparra Ltd has created a new tool to inform about the chemical ID of mankind - a 'Human Race Identification Card'. It is a different type of ID card that does not discriminate between individuals because chemically we are all of the same stuff..

LONDON, December 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Company, Huawei Submarine Networks Ltd. Will Target Subsea Telecommunications Market

A new entrant in the submarine telecommunications market has been created with the announcement today that Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ("Huawei"), a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world and Global Marine Systems have committed to launching Huawei Submarine Networks Ltd (Huawei Submarine.) A signing ceremony held this week in London commits both companies to launch the entity in early 2008. Huawei Submarine is the culmination of the Memorandum of Understanding signed by both parties in March 2007.

LEUVEN, Belgium, December 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- TB-402 Shows Clear Promise as a Stable Long-acting Anticoagulant for the Prevention of Thromboembolic Disorders.

ThromboGenics NV (Euronext Brussels:THR), a biotechnology company focused on vascular and eye disease, announced that the results of the first Phase I trial of TB-402 were presented yesterday at the prestigious American Society of Hematology (ASH) 49th Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. TB-402 is being co-developed in collaboration with BioInvent International (Nordic Exchange: BINV).