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Radar Opens New Window Into Antarctic Ice
London, UK (SPX) Oct 17, 2006Scientists are getting their first glimpse into the inner secrets of an ice shelf, thanks to the innovative application of a new radar technique developed by British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Getting a clearer view of how ice behaves is important because it will help scientists predict more accurately how the ice sheet will respond to future climate change. The results are published this week in the Journal of Glaciology. Study Reveals Ways To Improve Systems Using New Weather Technology 
Santa Monica CA (SPX) Oct 17, 2006Human factors/ergonomics researchers at three universities are working to ensure that improved weather radar data gathered through the Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) project will help emergency managers make faster, more accurate, and more confident decisions about approaching severe weather. The researchers will present the findings of their study at the Hilton San Francisco Hotel on Thursday, October 19, 2006, during the HFES 50th Annual Meeting, October 16-20. Australia Pumps Cash Into Drought-Hit Farms 
Sydney (AFP) Oct 16, 2006The Australian government Monday announced a new multi-million dollar relief package for farmers facing a crippling drought which is threatening the country's economic growth. Prime Minister John Howard said farmers in affected areas would receive an extra 350 million dollars (262 million US) on top of the 1.25 billion dollars in relief provided since the drought began to bite in 2001. |
Introducing The Next UN Secretary-General
United Nations (UPI) Oct 15, 2006Ban Ki-moon, foreign minister of South Korea, career diplomat, entered the U.N. General Assembly's great hall to enthusiastic applause, walking down the center aisle toward the green marble dais and black marble podium, escorted by Chief of Protocol Alice Hecht. He gave a hint of a bow as he strode purposefully toward his objective, then raised a hand in a tentative, single wave and displayed a shy smile. But as he progressed down the aisle past the rows of applauding delegates, his grin broadened and his wave emboldened. Ban Faces A Tough Start In UN Washington (UPI) Oct 16, 2006 
It is triply unfortunate that the Korean nuclear crisis should have reached the United Nations at this time as such a seminal test of its powers to enforce collective security against a rogue state going nuclear. It is unfortunate in the fist place because the United Nations itself is in an interregnum. The current Secretary-General Kofi Annan is a lame duck, due to retire at the end of the year and therefore unlikely to stay in place through whatever resolution or humiliation the U.N. process is to undergo.Haze Hits Unhealthy Levels In Singapore 
Singapore (AFP) Oct 16, 2006Singapore on Monday maintained a health advisory issued over the weekend as the pollution index soared above the unhealthy range due to smoke from forest fires in neighbouring Indonesia. A foggy haze that shrouded the city-state earlier in the day worsened in the afternoon, and the National Environment Agency put the pollution index at 127 as of 3:00 pm (0700 GMT) -- well above the 100 health threshold. |
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Billions Needed To Clean Aniva Bay In Sakhalin
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Oct 17, 2006Billions of dollars will be needed to alleviate the environmental impact in the Aniva Bay caused by the vast Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia's Far East, an environmental watchdog official said Monday. Mass fish and crab kills have been reported in the area, and inspectors earlier established that a vessel dumped a mixture of methylene dichloride and lubricating oil into the bay. Hail To The Hornworts 
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Oct 16, 2006In the history of life on earth, one intriguing mystery is how plants made the transition from water to land and then went on to diversify into the array of vegetation we see today, from simple mosses and liverworts to towering redwoods. A research team led by University of Michigan evolutionary biologist Yin-Long Qiu has new findings that help resolve long-debated questions about the origin and evolution of land plants. Scientists Give Mixed Forecast For Northeast Atlantic Fish Stocks 
Paris (AFP) Oct 16, 2006Researchers issued a patchy forecast on Monday for commercial fisheries in the Northeast Atlantic, saying herring and hake stocks had rebounded somewhat but cod, sandeel, flatfish and anchovies remained at perilously low levels. The recommendations were made by a 22-member scientific panel of the Copenhagen-based International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) in a recommendation for the European Union's executive commission. |
Learning To Live With Oxygen On Early Earth
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 17, 2006Scientists at the Carnegie Institution and Penn State University have discovered evidence showing that microbes adapted to living with oxygen 2.72 billion years ago, at least 300 million years before the rise of oxygen in the atmosphere. The finding is the first concrete validation of a long-held hypothesis that oxygen was being produced and consumed by that time and that the transition to an oxygenated atmosphere was long term. The results are published in the on-line early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science this week. Staph Bug Grows In Community 
Toronto (UPI) Oct 13, 2006A deadly version of Staphylococcus aureus has become so widespread that it now shows up more often in patients coming into the hospital for treatment than among patients already being treated. Worse, the arsenal of weapon to fight the bug - methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA - has been depleted, and the MRSA strains have begun to produce toxins that literally destroy the flesh. Embargos Failing To Disarm African Rebels 
London (AFP) Oct 16, 2006Rebels in the Democractic Republic of Congo (DRC) are fighting with bullets and small arms from US, Greece, China, Russia, Serbia and South Africa despite a UN and other embargos, a report said Monday. The Control Arms Campaign report did not suggest that firms in these countries were violating a UN arms embargo imposed in 2003, but suggested the equipment was being diverted to the DRC from third countries. |
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