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Uganda Shelves Plan To Convert Rainforest
Kampala (AFP) May 26, 2007Government plans to convert thousands of hectares of rainforest on an island on Uganda's Lake Victoria into a palm oil plantation have been shelved, officials said on Saturday. Environment Minister Mary Mutagamba said the government abandoned the idea after the Kenyan company Bidco that applied for the licence backed off fearing negative publicity about the project would harm its efforts to ... more Definitive Evidence Found Of A Swimming Dinosaur 
Boulder CO (SPX) May 28, 2007An extraordinary underwater trackway with 12 consecutive prints provides the most compelling evidence to-date that some dinosaurs were swimmers. The 15-meter-long trackway, located in La Virgen del Campo track site in Spain's Cameros Basin, contains the first long and continuous record of swimming by a non-avian therapod dinosaur. ... more Hurricane Risks Higher Than Usual For Most Of US Coasts 
Orlando FL (SPX) May 28, 2007Much of the nation's Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastlines face substantially higher-than-normal risks for hurricanes in 2007, according to an analysis by a University of Central Florida researcher and his Georgia colleague. Nationally, Carteret County on the North Carolina coastline has the highest probability of hurricane-force winds in 2007 at 22.4 percent, according to the analysis by UCF ... more Chinese Space Agency Joins The International Charter Space And Major Disasters 
Paris (ESA) May 28, 2007The China National Space Administration has become the newest member of the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters', a joint initiative that works to provide emergency response satellite data free of charge to those affected by disasters anywhere in the world. China National Space Administration (CNSA) Administrator Prof. Dr Sun Laiyan signed the Charter on 24 May at ESA headquar ... more New Tactic Urged In Fight Against Japanese Whaling 
Sydney (AFP) May 28, 2007Governments critical of Japanese whaling will be pressed to take the fight up a notch -- from diplomacy to the courts -- at the International Whaling Commission's annual meeting this month. Australia and New Zealand in particular are being urged to match their tough anti-whaling talk with legal action to stop Japan's annual hunting raids into the icy waters of the Southern Ocean off Antarctica. ... more |
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Tokyo (AFP) May 24, 2007Japan called Thursday for the world to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, proposing a successor to the Kyoto Protocol it hopes will win over top offenders the United States and China. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, unveiling the proposal ahead of the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Germany, pledged to bring all nations onboard in the fight against global warming by making the post-Kyoto framework ... more Indian Businessman Capitalizes On Global Warming Concerns 
Bangalore (AFP) India, May 27, 2007Indian businessman Tulsi Tanti, who has just bought German turbine maker REpower, stumbled into wind energy almost by accident when he was calculating the cost of power for his textile plant. More than a decade on, he believes increasing concern about global warming means the wind energy business will only turn in yet more profits. Tanti, 49, found that he was paying 25 percent of his ... more US Clash With G8 Partners Looms Over Climate Issues 
Paris (AFP) May 27, 2007The prospect looms of a major clash between the United States and its G8 partners over global warming, with Washington's view threatening to block agreement at next month's summit of the leading industrial nations. German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel Saturday criticised the US climate policy in a newspaper interview, saying it "was going to be difficult to achieve success" at the June 6-8 ... more New Fabrication Technique Yields Nanoscale UV LEDs 
Washington DC (SPX) May 28, 2007Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with scientists from the University of Maryland and Howard University, have developed a technique to create tiny, highly efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) from nanowires. As described in a recent paper, the fabricated LEDs emit ultraviolet light-a key wavelength range required for many light-based ... more Australian Aborigines Agree To Nuclear Waste Dump 
Sydney (AFP) May 25, 2007A group of Australian Aborigines agreed Friday to have a nuclear waste dump placed on their outback land in return for millions of dollars in benefits. Under the deal, the dump will be built on land leased to the government by the Ngapa clan at Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory, who will get it back in 200 years when it is declared safe. Science Minister Julie Bishop said the site ... more |
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Brussels, Belgium (SPX) May 24, 2007The European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA) and the European Space Agency signed an agreement on 16 May that opens up cooperation related to the EGNOS and Galileo programmes. The framework agreement signed by Pedro Pedreira, Executive Director of the GSA and Giuseppe Viriglio, ESA Director of Telecommunication and Navigation Programmes, is meant to ensure the continuity of the cooperatio ... more China's War Chest 
Washington (UPI) May 23, 2007With more than $1,200 billion in U.S. dollars, T-bills and securities in its piggy bank, China has been losing money as the value of the dollar has fallen against the euro. This helps explain that startling announcement last week that China is planning to launch a state investment fund that would seek better returns on its money. It plans to start by investing in stocks and private capital ... more Russia Seeks Review Of Landmark Arms Control Pact 
Vienna (AFP) May 23, 2007Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Wednesday called for an emergency meeting to review an arms control deal aimed at establishing defence parity between the US and several European countries. His call to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) coincided with Russian President Vladimir Putin's statement that a US plan to build a missile defence system in eastern Europe ... more WHOI Geologists Compile Longest Ever Record Of Atlantic Hurricane Strikes 
Wood Hole MA (SPX) May 24, 2007The frequency of intense hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean appears to be closely connected to long-term trends in the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the West African monsoon, according to new research from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Geologists Jeff Donnelly and Jonathan Woodruff made that discovery while assembling the longest-ever record of hurricane strikes in the ... more LSU And Los Alamos Team Up To Improve Evacuation Plans 
Baton Rouge LA (SPX) May 24, 2007Brian Wolshon, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at LSU and member of the LSU Hurricane Center, has been getting international recognition for his research and application of emergency evacuations and traffic modeling. But he isn't stopping there. Thanks to his expertise, prominence in the field and continued efforts, Wolshon is leading the way for LSU's students a ... more
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