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Research Team Says Extraterrestrial Impact To Blame For Ice Age Extinctions
Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Sep 25, 2007What caused the extinction of mammoths and the decline of Stone Age people about 13,000 years ago remains hotly debated. Overhunting by Paleoindians, climate change and disease lead the list of probable causes. But an idea once considered a little out there is now hitting closer to home. A team of international researchers, including two Northern Arizona University geologists, reports evid ... more Music Training Linked To Enhanced Verbal Skills 
Evanston IL (SPX) Sep 25, 2007Music training, with its pervasive effects on the nervous system's ability to process sight and sound, may be more important for enhancing verbal communication skills than learning phonics, according to a new Northwestern University study. Musicians use all of their senses to practice and perform a musical piece. They watch other musicians, read lips, and feel, hear and perform music, thus, enga ... more Africa flooding spreads, 22 countries hit: UN 
Geneva (AFP) Sept 24, 2007Flooding across a swathe of Africa now affects 22 countries, including Ethiopia, Niger and Sudan where the situation has worsened in recent days, the United Nations said Monday. More than 800,000 people are now affected by torrential rains in those three countries alone, compared to around 700,000 recorded last week, according to data from the UN humanitarian coordination office. OCHA sa ... more China's own high-speed train due by year-end 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 24, 2007China's first domestically developed high-speed train, capable of reaching 300 kilometres (190 miles) per hour, will roll off production lines by the end of the year, state media reported Monday. The train can seat around 600 passengers and will run on the 115-kilometre-long Beijing-Tianjin route prior to the Beijing Olympics in August next year, the Xinhua news agency said. It will cut ... more European polar satellite improving weather predictions 
Amsterdam (AFP) Sept 24, 2007The European polar satellite MetOp-A, launched last year, is already improving weather predictions and will soon help global environmental and security monitoring, scientists said here Monday. Scientists from Europe and the United States met in Amsterdam for a joint conference of the European meteorological satellites EUMETSAT and the American Meteorological Society, to discuss their experie ... more |
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New York NY (SPX) Sep 25, 2007Ecuador's President Rafael Correa presented the Yasuni-ITT Initiative at a United Nations meeting of world leader's on global climate change. This pioneering initiative is an unprecedented proposal by an oil exporting country to leave its largest oil reserve unexploited to contribute to the reduction of global greenhouse gases and to initiate Ecuador's transition toward the world's first truly s ... more France ready to help any country get civil nuclear power 
New York (AFP) Sept 24, 2007French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday that France was prepared to assist any country that wants to have civilian nuclear power. "France is ready to help any country which wants to possess civilian nuclear energy," Sarkozy told a landmark UN summit on climate change. "It is the best response to those who, in violation of all the treaties, want to arm themselves with nuclear weap ... more World companies show big interest in climate, US firms lag 
New York (AFP) Sept 24, 2007The world's corporate giants are increasingly focused on climate change and many see it as an opportunity for profit but US firms tend to view it as a risk to their bottom line, a new study has said. The paper, released just ahead of Monday's UN summit on climate change, is the fifth annual report by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a not-for-profit organization that vets corporate respo ... more Analysis: New sanctions may bust Iran LNG 
Washington (UPI) Sep 24, 2007 Potential European and U.N. sanctions, and an Iranian energy policy unfavorable to foreign investment, may spell disaster as Tehran struggles to develop its liquefied natural gas potential in the massive South Pars fields. With the major powers considering a third set of U.N. sanctions against Iran over worries it is using a civilian nuclear program to cover up attempts to develop nucle ... more The Climate Group Addresses UN During Pivotal Week On Climate Change 
New York NY (SPX) Sep 25, 2007Dr. Steve Howard, CEO of The Climate Group today addressed the largest ever meeting of world leaders on climate change at the United Nations' headquarters in New York. The UN event "The Future in our Hands: Addressing the Leadership Challenge of Climate Change" seeks to secure political commitment on climate change from Heads of State and top officials from more than 150 countries and build mome ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Sept 21, 2007Israel warned the United States that North Korea might be sharing nuclear know-how with Damascus before it carried out an air strike deep inside Syria, the Washington Post reported Friday. Washington was "deeply troubled" by the Israeli intelligence showing North Korean nuclear personnel were in Syria, but US President George W. Bush decided against an immediate response out of concern it co ... more Britain has enough plutonium for 1000s of Nagasakis: report 
London (AFP) Sept 21, 2007Britain has stockpiled enough plutonium to replicate the nuclear bomb attacks on Japan in 1945 thousands of times over, the country's top science academy said Friday. The Royal Society said the amount of separated plutonium, most of which is the by-product of reprocessed spent fuel from nuclear power stations, has almost doubled in the last 10 years to more than 100 tonnes. But the emine ... more Iran And Israel Face Off As Ahmadinejad Says No Need For Nukes 
New York (AFP) Sept 23, 2007Iran has no need of nuclear weapons and is not on a path to war with the United States, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview with CBS television to be broadcast later Sunday. Ahmadinejad, who is due to arrive in New York Sunday for the United Nations General Assembly, said Tehran's nuclear ambitions were open and being conducted in accordance with the UN's International Atomic ... more Age shall not wither them: Earth's oldest trees 
Schulman Grove, California (AFP) Sept 22, 2007They have neither the soaring majesty nor the celebrity of the giant redwood, but in one respect the bristlecone pine is the undisputed king of trees: longevity. Scattered on a remote mountainside of eastern California, these gnarled, twisted specimens are the oldest living organisms on Earth, the most senior among them some 4,700 years old. If the mere sight of trees that pre-date the a ... more Summer expedition confirms Russia's Arctic claims: ministry 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 20, 2007Evidence obtained by an Arctic research expedition this summer supports Moscow's view that a ridge of sub-sea territory that stretches to the North Pole is an extension of Russia, a government ministry said on Thursday. In a statement the natural resources ministry said that preliminary data obtained during the "Arctic 2007" expedition confirmed that a ridge known as the Lomonosov ridge "is ... more
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