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China dam safe after quake: state media Beijing (AFP) May 15, 2008 
A dam near the epicentre of a powerful earthquake that hit southwest China is "structurally stable and safe", officials told state media Wednesday, denying earlier reports of dangerous cracks. Foreign media reports quoting Chinese state media had said that 2,000 soldiers had rushed to repair Zipingpu dam, which is upriver from the quake-hit city of Dujiangyan, due to "extremely dangerous" ... read more |
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Oceans Gasping For Breath
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 14, 2008The debate over climate change and its effects is often headline news. In the near future, scientists are concerned that the Earth will experience a continuing increase in global temperature. New research is showing that even if this increase is only a few degrees, it could have important repercussions for life on our planet. In a study published in the March issue of the journal ... more Barcelona gets emergency water supplies by boat 
Barcelona, Spain (AFP) May 13, 2008A water tanker arrived in Barcelona on Tuesday as the capital of Spain's drought-stricken region of Catalonia began importing drinkable water by boat, regional authorities said. The orange and white Sichem Defender came from the city of Tarragona in Spain's northeast with 19,000 cubic metres (just under five million gallons) of water, enough to meet the daily consumption needs of 170,000 ... more Ponds Found To Take Up Carbon Like World's Oceans 
Ames IA (SPX) May 13, 2008Research led by Iowa State University limnologist, or lake scientist, John Downing finds that ponds around the globe could absorb as much carbon as the world's oceans. Professor Downing found that constructed ponds and lakes on farmland in the United States bury carbon at a much higher rate than expected; as much as 20-50 times the rate at which trees trap carbon. In addition, ponds were found ... more Scripps Oceanography Research Pegs ID Of Red Tide Killer 
San Diego CA (SPX) May 09, 2008Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have identified a potential "red tide killer." Red tides and related phenomena in which microscopic algae accumulate rapidly in dense concentrations have been on the rise in recent years, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in worldwide losses to fisheries and beach tourism activities. Despite their wide-ranging impacts ... more ESA Contributes To Ocean Carbon Cycle Research 
Paris, France (ESA) May 06, 2008The Earth's oceans play a vital role in the carbon cycle, making it imperative that we understand marine biological activity enough to predict how our planet will react to the extra 25 000 million tonnes of carbon dioxide humans are pumping into the atmosphere annually. The colour of oceanic seawater depends largely on the number of microscopic phytoplankton, marine plants that live in the ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) May 02, 2008A NASA and French Space Agency (CNES) spacecraft designed to continue a long-term survey of Earth's oceans has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base for final launch preparations. The new satellite will study ocean circulation and the effect oceans have on weather, climate and how Earth is responding to global climate change. The Ocean Surface Topography Mission, called OSTM for short, will ... more Scientists Discover New Ocean Current 
Atlanta GA (SPX) May 01, 2008Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a new climate pattern called the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation. This new pattern explains, for the first time, changes in the water that are important in helping commercial fishermen understand fluctuations in the fish stock. They're also finding that as the temperature of the Earth is warming, large fluctuations in these ... more West Africa adopts plan to save the Niger River 
Niamey (AFP) April 30, 2008West African heads of state adopted on Wednesday a 5.5 billion-euro (8.6-billion-dollar), 20-year rescue plan to save the Niger River from extinction and guarantee the future of 110 million people. The green light for the vast project was given by members of the Niger Basin Authority (ABN), an intergovernmental group comprising the nine countries irrigated by Africa's third longest river and ... more Spain approves emergency scheme for drought-hit Barcelona 
Madrid (AFP) April 29, 2008The Spanish parliament Tuesday approved a 180-million-euro (280-million-dollar) scheme to channel water from the river Ebro to combat the worst drought in decades in the region around the northeastern city of Barcelona. The ruling Socialist Party and the conservative opposition Popular Party backed the measure, which would ensure drinking water supplies for around five million people in the ... more Supporting A New Approach To Tropical Forestry 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 30, 2008CSIRO is providing technical expertise in support of what US science magazine, Discover, has described as one of 'the six most important experiments in the world' - the Planted Forests Project on the island of Borneo. "This Malaysian project is visionary," says the leader of the CSIRO team, David Boden. "Around the world we've seen that conservation in developing countries will only succeed if ... more |
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Sydney (AFP) April 22, 2008Ship-borne activists said Tuesday they had targeted fishing boats from South Korea, Taiwan and the United States in high-seas protests against the "plundering" of tuna in the Pacific. In the latest confrontation, crew from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza boarded a Taiwanese boat, the Nian Sheng 3, to inspect their catch, a spokesman said. The captain of the tuna boat, which also contained ... more Water Needed To Produce Various Energy Types 
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Apr 22, 2008It is easy to overlook that most of the energy we consume daily, such as electricity or natural gas, is produced with the help of a dwindling resource - fresh water. Virginia Tech professor Tamim Younos and undergraduate student Rachelle Hill are researching the water-efficiency of some of the most common energy sources and power generating methods. Younos, associate director at the Virgin ... more Spain approves river diversion for drought-hit Barcelona
Madrid (AFP) April 18, 2008Spain's government Friday announced a 180-million-euro scheme to channel water from the river Ebro to combat the worst drought in decades in the region around the northeastern city of Barcelona. "If we do nothing and it does not rain, five million residents of the Barcelona region will have no more water to drink in October," Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega told a new ... more Fuzzy Logic Water Quality 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 21, 2008A fuzzy logic approach to analyzing water quality could help reduce the number of people in the developing world forced to drink polluted and diseased water for survival. Writing in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, an Inderscience publication, researchers from the University of Malaya, explain how a new approach to water quality assessment ... more Multi-million dollar plan to pump water to Jordan's capital 
Amman (AFP) April 20, 2008Jordan on Sunday announced that a multi-million dollar project would begin in June to supply the capital with water from an ancient southern aquifer 325 kilometres (200 miles) away. "The capital will get water from the aquifer for the coming 100 years," Water Minister Raed Abu Soud told reporters, adding that the project in the desert kingdom was expected to be completed within three and a ... more
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