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Iceland Resumes Commercial Whaling Reykjavik (AFP) Oct 17, 2006 
Iceland said on Tuesday it would resume commercial whaling, making it only the second country to do so after Norway, in a decision that is expected to spark protests from around the world. Iceland's fisheries ministry said it had authorized whalers to hunt 30 minke whales and nine fin whales -- on the endangered species list -- in the period from September 1, 2006 until August 31, 2007. "I don't think they'll start the hunt today ... they can start tomorrow (Wednesday) if they like," Bjoern Brynjolfsson, an assistant to Fisheries Minister Einar Kristinn Gudfinnson, told AFP. "The meat will be exported," he added. |
UN says refugees stuck in vicious cycle of conflict and climate
'I miss breathing': Delhi protesters demand action on pollution All aboard! Cruise ships ease Belem's hotel dearth Taliban govt protests no invitation to UN climate summit Super Typhoon Fung-wong makes landfall in Philippines Spanish PM 'surprised' by former king's memoirs Over 1 million evacuate as deadly Super Typhoon Fung-wong nears Philippines Spanish PM pushes back on former king's memoirs Dam reservoir levels drop below 3% in Iran's second city: media Philippines evacuates one million, woman dead as super typhoon nears 
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Icelandic Resumption Of Commercial Whaling "Disturbing" Says IUCN
Geneva (AFP) Oct 17, 2006The World Conservation Union (IUCN) said on Tuesday that Iceland's decision to resume commercial whaling was disturbing and warned that more countries could renege on the international moratorium on whale hunting. "We're disappointed by this development and disturbed by it because the amount of whaling is increasing," the IUCN's representative on whaling, Justin Cooke, told AFP. Biofuel Cells Without The Bio Cells 
Richland WA (SPX) Oct 18, 2006Proteins keep cells humming. Some are enzymes that taxi electrons to chemicals outside the cell, to discharge excess energy generated during metabolism. This maintains energy flow in the cell and, in turn, keeps the cell alive. The process has worked a little like that slogan for a hyper-electrified desert gambling town: What happens in the cellular environs stays there. More Than 4,500 Tonnes Of Toxic Waste Collected In Ivory Coast 
Abidjan (AFP) Oct 18, 2006More than 4,500 tonnes of substances contaminated by more than 500 tonnes of toxic sludge dumped in Abidjan in August have been collected since a clean-up began in mid-September, an Ivorian official said Tuesday. Safiatou Ba N'Daw, head of a government anti-toxic waste committee, told a new conference that 4,517 tonnes of solid waste excavated from 13 of the 17 polluted sites have been collected and isolated. |
Far More Than A Meteor Killed Dinos
Princeton NJ (SPX) Oct 18, 2006There's growing evidence that the dinosaurs and most their contemporaries were not wiped out by the famed Chicxulub meteor impact, according to a paleontologist who says multiple meteor impacts, massive volcanism in India, and climate changes culminated in the end of the Cretaceous Period. How Ants Find Their Way 
London UK (SPX) Oct 18, 2006Ever wondered how ants find their way straight to the uncovered food in your kitchen? Now scientists have discovered how the humble wood ant navigates over proportionally huge distances, using just very poor eyesight and confusing and changing natural landmarks. The research could have significant benefits in the development of autonomous robots and in furthering our understanding of basic animal learning processes. Scientists at the University of Sussex, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), have shown precisely how the ant's visual navigation strategy works. Researchers Name Ancient Mystery Creature 
Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Oct 18, 2006For the first time, researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada have been able to put a name and a description to an ancient mammal that still defies classification. The findings, published recently in the Journal of Paleontology provide the first and only comprehensive account of the creature, named Horolodectes sunae, for the unusual shape of the crowns of the teeth. Horolodectes lived about 60 million years ago, soon after the dinosaurs went extinct, in a period known for its rapid diversification of small mammals. |
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New Dwarf Buffalo Discovered By Chance
Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 18, 2006Almost 50 years ago, Michael Armas, a mining engineer from the central Philippines, discovered some fossils in a tunnel he was excavating while exploring for phosphate. Forty years later, Dr. Hamilcar Intengan, a friend of his who now lives in Chicago, recognized the importance of the bones and donated them to The Field Museum. Germans Are Poorer Than Ever 
Berlin (UPI) Oct 17, 2006German politicians are debating poverty in a country where some 6.5 million people feel they are increasingly left behind in society, a new underclass that may undermine the stability of any government, observers say. Commissioned by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, a think tank with close links to the governing center-left Social Democratic Party, or SPD, the study entitled "Society in the Process of Reform" was carried out by German research institute TNS Infratest and polled some 3,000 voters on their attitudes toward social justice. UN Vote For Council Continues 
United Nations (UPI) Oct 16, 2006U.S. Ambassador John Bolton may be the best prepared for the round of voting being conducted in the U.N. General Assembly. It went 10 ballots Monday with neither of the two candidates, Guatemala and Venezuela, able to bag the two-thirds of the 192 members of the assembly voting necessary to fill a two-year seat in the U.N. Security Council being saved for Latin America. Voting was to resume Tuesday. |
Australian Drought Driving Farmers To Desperation
Sydney (AFP) Oct 17, 2006Australia's worsening drought is driving desperate farmers to suicide and government funds should be used to help them leave increasingly unviable land, scientists and politicans said Tuesday. The side effects of the worst drought in living memory include mental illness, depression and suicide in rural communities, said opposition Labor Party health spokeswoman Julia Gillard. Thames Water Sold To Australian-Led Consortium 
Essen (AFP) Oct 17, 2006RWE, the second-biggest power supplier in Germany, said late Monday that it has agreed to sell its British water utility Thames Water to a consortium headed by Australian bank Macquarie. The purchase price amounted to 4.8 billion pounds (7.2 billion euros, 8.9 billion dollars), RWE said in a statement. But with Thames Water's net debt totalling 3.2 billion euros, the transaction was valued at a total 8.0 billion pounds or 11.9 billion euros, the statement said. Physicists Make Atomic Clock Breakthrough 
Sydeny, Australia (SPX) Oct 16, 2006Andrei Derevianko, Kyle Beloy, and Ulyana Safronova sat down six months ago and began work on a calculation that will help the world keep better time. In competition with scientists at the University of New South Wales, the University team led by associate professor Derevianko conducted research that increased the accuracy of atomic clocks, and they did it without running a single experiment. |
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