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Weather Extremes Hit Europe With Floods And Heatwaves
London (AFP) Jul 23, 2007The Royal Air Force (RAF) said Sunday it was carrying out probably its biggest peacetime rescue operation in Britain as its helicopters helped evacuate more than 100 people from flood-hit areas. The RAF's announcement highlighted the scale of the flooding in central and western England that caused a third day of chaos for motorists and rail passengers and forced hundreds of people to spend anoth ... more La Nina Pattern Likely To Play Havoc With Global Weather 
Geneva (AFP) July 20, 2007The UN's weather agency on Friday said a disruptive La Nina climate pattern was taking shape in the Pacific, raising the prospect of an active Atlantic hurricane season and strong monsoons in Asia. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said in a statement that the development of La Nina in the second half of 2007 was now "more likely than not" after an initial hesitation in the past two mo ... more Technology Proves Precious In Deadly Japan Quake 
Tokyo (AFP) July 20, 2007Telephone connections are always among the most vulnerable lifelines in a natural disaster, but technology has turned into a crucial asset in Japan's latest earthquake. Japan's telecom operators, like other companies, suffered damage to infrastructure in Monday's 6.8 Richter-scale earthquake in central Niigata prefecture, which killed 10 people and injured more than 1,000 others. But the m ... more By Ice Floe To The North Pole 
Potsdam, Arctic Ocean (SPX) Jul 23, 2007At the end of August, an unusual expedition under Russian leadership will leave for the Arctic Ocean. One of the participants is Jurgen Graeser of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, one of the research centres of the Helmholtz Association. For the first time in the history of Russian research using drifting stations, a German researcher will take part in the North Pole d ... more Knowledge And Technology Key To Ending Poverty 
United Nations (UPI) July 20, 2007Knowledge and technology must be harnessed to achieve the kind of economic growth needed to reduce poverty, says the latest U.N. report on improving conditions in the world's 50 Least Developed Countries. Science, technology and innovation are necessities, not luxuries, said the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development's Least Developed Countries Report 2007. It focuses on how governments of the ... more |
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Juno Beach FL (SPX) Jul 23, 2007FPL Energy, LLC, a subsidiary of FPL Group, has announced that it has signed a letter of intent with Citrus Energy, of Boca Raton, FL, to develop the first ever commercial scale citrus peel to ethanol plant. The cellulosic ethanol plant will be owned and operated by FPL Energy and is expected to produce four million gallons of ethanol per year. It will be located on the grounds of a local Florid ... more The Price Of The Question Is Too High 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 23, 2007Russia will not revise its agreements with British investment companies developing its oil and gas fields because of the sharpening of relations between the two countries, Natural Resources Minister Yury Trutnev said Tuesday. Trutnev was speaking at a meeting of the working group of the Advisory Council on Foreign Investments attended by representatives of foreign mining companies on July 17. ... more Japan Urges Power-Saving After Nuclear Shutdown 
Tokyo (AFP) July 20, 2007Japan on Friday asked businesses to save on energy during peak hours this summer after a powerful earthquake led to the closure of the country's largest nuclear power plant, officials said. The order came as authorities said that heat was contributing to illness among elderly people staying in shelters after Monday's powerful earthquake, which killed 10 people and injured more than 1,000 more. more Russian Anti-Nuclear Activist Killed In Attack 
Moscow (AFP) July 21, 2007A Russian environmental activist died on Saturday after armed attackers raided a protesters' camp outside a nuclear facility in Siberia, officials and activists said. One of some 20 protesters at the tent camp told AFP the attackers were "skinheads" who had used baseball bats, hammers, metal rods and an axe during the raid near the Angarsk uranium enrichment plant. "They came at around 5:0 ... more Sarkozy Wants All-French Energy Giant 
Berlin (AFP) Jul 23, 2007French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to kick Germany out of a Franco-German nuclear engineering joint venture to create an all-French energy giant, a German magazine reported Saturday. Sarkozy wants to buy Siemens AG's 34 percent stake in Areva NP, a joint venture set up in 2001 with French nuclear group Areva, Wirtschaftswoche said in an article to appear on Monday, citing company sources. ... more |
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Washington (RIA Novosti) Jul 20, 2007The risks of an accidental nuclear war have increased since the Cold War as Russia's early warning capability has deteriorated, a former U.S. defense official said. William J. Perry, who is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and co-Director of the Preventive Defense Project at Stanford University, said in congressional testimony Wednesday that "the danger of nuclear war occurring by accid ... more Scientists Invent Novel Hydrogels For Repairing And Regenerating Human Tissue 
Newark, DE (SPX) Jul 20, 2007University of Delaware scientists have invented a novel biomaterial with surprising antibacterial properties that can be injected as a low-viscosity gel into a wound where it rigidifies nearly on contact--opening the door to the possibility of delivering a targeted payload of cells and antibiotics to repair the damaged tissue. Regenerating healthy tissue in a cancer-ridden liver, healing a biops ... more Rise Of Dinosaurs In Late Triassic More Gradual Than Once Thought 
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jul 20, 2007Fossils discovered in the oft-painted arroyos of northern New Mexico show for the first time that dinosaurs and their non-dinosaur ancestors lived side by side for tens of millions of years, disproving the notion that dinosaurs rapidly replaced their supposedly outmoded predecessors. The fossils were excavated from the Hayden Quarry at Ghost Ranch, an area made famous through the paintings of Ge ... more New Clue Into How Diet And Exercise Enhance Longevity 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 20, 2007The traditional prescriptions for a healthy life-sensible diet, exercise and weight control-extend life by reducing signaling through a specific pathway in the brain, according to Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers who discovered the connection while studying long-lived mice. They said their findings underscore the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle and may also offer promisi ... more Glaciers And Ice Caps To Dominate Sea Level Rise This Century 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 20, 2007Ice loss from glaciers and ice caps is expected to cause more global sea rise during this century than the massive Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study. The researchers concluded that glaciers and ice caps are currently contributing about 60 percent of the world's ice to the oceans and the rate has been markedly accelerating in the past d ... more
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