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Cities Incite Thunderstorms
Princeton NJ (SPX) Aug 10, 2007Summer thunderstorms become much more fierce when they collide with a city than they would otherwise be in the open countryside, according to research led by Princeton engineers. Alexandros A. Ntelekos and James A. Smith of Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science based their conclusion on computer models and detailed observations of an extreme thunderstorm that hit Balti ... more Indonesian Quake Could Trigger Volcanic Activity 
Jakarta (AFP) Aug 09, 2007A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake that shook Indonesia's main island of Java early Thursday, including the capital Jakarta, could trigger activity at some of the island's many volcanoes, experts said. The undersea quake, centred about 110 kilometres (70 miles) east of the capital Jakarta and off the north coast of Java, occurred just after midnight (1700 GMT), rattling buildings and sending pa ... more South Asia Floods Toll Passes 2000 Mark 
Patna, India (AFP) Aug 09, 2007The death toll from the worst monsoon floods to hit South Asia in decades passed 2,000 Thursday even as torrents of muddy water receded from millions of acres of farmland and rains shifted west. Thousands of villages remained under water and threatened by disease, while millions were still displaced, mainly in India and Bangladesh, where the severe floods also destroyed valuable crops. The ... more Climate Change And Permafrost Thaw Alter Greenhouse Gas Emissions In Northern Wetlands 
East Lansing MI (SPX) Aug 10, 2007Permafrost - the perpetually frozen foundation of North America - isn't so permanent anymore, and scientists are scrambling to understand the pros and cons when terra firma goes soft. Permafrost serves like a platform underneath vast expanses of northern forests and wetlands that are rooted, literally, in melting permafrost in many northern ecosystems. But rising atmospheric temperatures a ... more What We Can Learn From The Biggest Extinction In The History Of Earth 
Stanford CA (SPX) Aug 10, 2007Approximately 250 million years ago, vast numbers of species disappeared from Earth. This mass-extinction event may hold clues to current global carbon cycle changes, according to Jonathan Payne, assistant professor of geological and environmental sciences. Payne, a paleobiologist who joined the Stanford faculty in 2005, studies the Permian-Triassic extinction and the following 4 million years o ... more |
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Tokyo (AFP) Aug 09, 2007Japan will study turning inedible crops such as straw into biofuel to run cars amid concern that the growing popularity of ethanol is inflating food prices, an official said Friday. Biofuels are seen as alternative clean energy resource which can reduce the dependence on Middle Eastern oil and lessen the impact on global warming. One biofuel, ethanol, is derived from sugar beets, wheat, co ... more New World Record For A Superconducting Magnet Set At National High Magnetic Field Laboratory 
Tallahassee FL (SPX) Aug 10, 2007A collaboration between the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University and industry partner SuperPower Inc. has led to a new world record for a magnetic field created by a superconducting magnet. The new record -- 26.8 tesla -- was reached in late July at the magnet lab's High Field Test Facility and brings engineers closer to realizing the National Research Council goal ... more Nanoparticle Technique Could Lead To Improved Semiconductors 
Austin TX (SPX) Aug 10, 2007Devices made from plastic semiconductors, like solar cells and light-emitting diodes (LEDs), could be improved based on information gained using a new nanoparticle technique developed at The University of Texas at Austin. As electrical charges travel through plastic semiconductors, they can be trapped much like a marble rolling on a bumpy surface becomes trapped in a deep hole. These traps of ch ... more Division Of The Caspian 
Washington (UPI) Aug 09, 2007Russia's recent effort to claim unilaterally its northern seabed to the North Pole has highlighted the race to divide the globe's remaining waters for nation's benefits. Besides the Arctic, these include Antarctica and the Caspian. Of the three, the Caspian is the most hotly contested, as extraction efforts are already under way, and the battle involves not only the riverain powers Russia, Iran, ... more Russia To Commission Second Unit Of China Tianwan NPP In Sept 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 10, 2007Russia's nuclear equipment export monopoly Atomstroyexport confirmed Tuesday it will commission the second unit of China's Tianwan nuclear power plant in September. The company is building the Tianwan NPP in eastern China's port city of Lianyungang under a 1992 agreement. The plant features improved VVER-1000 reactors and K-100-6/3000 turbo generators. "Atomstroyexport will start commissio ... more |
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Paris (UPI) Aug 08, 2007China has suddenly become markedly less popular in Europe, and particularly in Germany, where China's rapidly growing demand for milk has boosted prices for dairy products; the price of a liter of milk is predicted to rise by 50 percent by the time schools reopen in September. It is all blamed on a now-famous remark by Chinese leader Wen Jiabao: "I have a dream -- a dream to be able to provide a ... more Russian Scientists To Study In Detail North Pole Expedition Samples 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 09, 2007Studying the geological samples taken from the North Pole seabed during Russia's symbolic expedition last week could take six months, a Russian Academy of Sciences spokesman said Wednesday. Russian researchers descended 4,200 meters (14,000 feet) below the Pole in two submersibles last Thursday to gather evidence to bolster the country's claim to a vast swathe of extra Polar territory - a missio ... more China Braces For More Disasters As Tropical Storms Approach 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 08, 2007China braced for more killer weather on Wednesday as two tropical storms approached, continuing a devastating spell of natural disasters that last month left nearly 900 people dead or missing. More than 20,000 people were evacuated from their homes and 50,000 vessels ordered to return to shore in southeastern China's Fujian province as tropical storm Pabuk neared after lashing Taiwan, the offici ... more Immunity In Social Amoeba Suggests Ancient Beginnings 
Houston (SPX) Aug 09, 2007Finding an immune system in the social amoeba (Dictyostelium discoideum) is not only surprising but it also may prove a clue as to what is necessary for an organism to become multicellular, said the Baylor College of Medicine researcher who led the research that appears today in the journal Science. Dictyostelium discoideum usually exists as a single-celled organism. However, when stressed by st ... more Dry Spell Hits Philippines Economy 
Manila (AFP) Aug 08, 2007A worsening dry spell in parts of the Philippines is destroying crops and hampering power generation, causing price rises that have hit the poor and sparked inflation fears. More than 127,000 hectares (314,000 acres) of farmland have withered in the northern third of the country after lower than normal rainfall in June and July, the civil defence office said. The weather office has warned that t ... more
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