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A Climate-Change Amplifying Mechanism
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 27, 2007During the past ninety thousand years there were alternating hot and cold periods lasting several thousand years each which resulted in a modification of global oceanic circulation. With the help of paleoclimatic and paleooceanographic indicators, scientists at CEREGE1 have highlighted a feedback mechanism of ocean circulation on the climate which reinforces this heating or cooling. One Million In China Face Water Shortage 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 26, 2007A severe drought in southwestern China is threatening the water supplies of one million people and crippling navigation on the depleted Yangtze River, state media reported on Monday. Authorities in Chongqing municipality have sent water trucks into the most parched areas to provide water for residents and livestock hit by weeks without rain, Xinhua news agency said. Soil Nutrients Shape Tropical Forests 
Champaign IL (SPX) Feb 27, 2007Tropical forests are among the most diverse plant communities on earth, and scientists have labored for decades to identify the ecological and evolutionary processes that created and maintain them. A key question is whether all tree species are equivalent in their use of resources - water, light and nutrients - or whether each species has its own niche. |
To Reach 100 Manage Your Health
Washington (SPX) Feb 27, 2007Twenty percent of Americans think they are going to live into their 90s, according to a recent Zogby/UPI poll, even though the average American lives about 77 years. The poll also found about 40 percent of Americans think they will live into their 80s, and more than 5 percent believe they will live past the century mark. More than 65 percent of those polled believed they would live into their 80s and beyond. Carnegie Mellon Researchers Study Harmful Particulates 
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Feb 27, 2007Reducing barnyard emissions is one way to help reduce the harmful effects of tiny atmospheric air particles that can cause severe asthma in children, and lung cancer and heart attacks in some adults. UN Forum Makes Limited Progress On Mercury Emissions 
Nairobi (AFP) Feb 09, 2007A key UN environment meeting Friday agreed to launch partnerships between governments and industries to slash mercury emissions, officials said. Environmentalists have been pushing for a legal framework to cap emissions, but governments attending the UN Environment Programme's 24th governing council settled for partnerships, they said. |
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Resistant TB Spreads In Africa
Los Angeles (UPI) Feb 26, 2007A deadly form of tuberculosis -- resistant to virtually all drugs -- has spread across South Africa and continues to be rapidly fatal to people living with the virus that cause AIDS. The strain had been reported in all nine provinces of South Africa, expanding from an outbreak at one local hospital to a nationwide threat. E. Coli Bacteria Migrating Between Humans And Chimps In Ugandan Park 
Champaign IL (SPX) Feb 27, 2007Scientists from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana have found that people employed in chimpanzee-focused research and tourism in a park in western Uganda are exchanging gastrointestinal bacteria - specifically Escherichia coli - with local chimpanzee populations. And some of the E. coli strains migrating to chimps are resistant to antibiotics used by humans in Uganda. Bird Flu Spreading In Central Russia 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 26, 2007Recent cases of avian flu in dead poultry have been registered in the Russian capital and two adjacent regions, the emergencies ministry said Monday. "Since February 10, dead poultry have been found in Moscow, eight districts of the Moscow Region and a district in the Kaluga Region," the ministry said. "Traces of the deadly H5N1 virus have been confirmed at private farms at 10 locations in these areas." |
Efforts To Plug Indonesian Mud Volcano Resume
Jakarta (AFP) Feb 26, 2007Engineers dropped chains of concrete balls into a "volcano" oozing hot mud in Indonesia's East Java province Monday as they resumed a bid to stem the flow which has submerged entire villages. "We have been able to insert four chains of concrete balls today, before changing smoke from the hot mud forced the operations to be halted," Rudi Novrianto, a spokesman for the audacious bid to plug the crater, told AFP. Satellite Method Measures Water Vapor 
Boulder (UPI) Feb 26, 2007U.S. government scientists say they've discovered satellite technology that overcomes an obstacle to measuring atmospheric water vapor from space. Immunologic Memory Discovery Reported 
Cambridge (UPI) Feb 26, 2007British scientists say they've discovered why people, as they age, develop so-called immunologic memory to newly encountered pathogens. Kenneth Smith and colleagues at the University of Cambridge found plasma cells, which make antibodies tailored for specific pathogens, express a protein called FcgammaRIIb on their surface, with older plasma cells expressing more of it than newly generated ones. |
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