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UN relief at French help against Somali pirates
Nairobi (AFP) Sept 26, 2007The World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday welcomed a French offer to send a warship to protect international food shipments to Somalia from pirate attacks. Aid ships heading for the strife-torn Horn of Africa nation have become a magnet for pirates and international agencies have been demanding greater protection for several years. At least 17 ships have been attacked along the 3,700 k ... more Food crisis could loom after Africa floods: Red Cross 
Geneva (AFP) Sept 26, 2007The Red Cross warned on Wednesday that a food crisis could be looming across east and west Africa due to the massive damage wrought on crops by ongoing flooding. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies highlighted the situation in Ghana, Sudan and Uganda, which are among the largest nations out of the 22 struck by floods that have affected an estimated 1.5 millio ... more Cyclones: Nature's Fury Or Nature's Friend 
Cairns, Australia (SPX) Sep 27, 2007Tropical cyclones can cause terrible damage to anyone and anything caught in their path, but scientists are also interested in the natural role cyclones play in shaping our environment. Over the next two days, CSIRO scientists will present the results of environmental research undertaken in the aftermath of Cyclone Larry, which hit north Queensland in March 2006, and Cyclone Monica, which swept ... more Howard Plays Down Drought Causes As Fire Risk Blows Out 300 Percent 
Sydney (AFP) Sept 26, 2007Prime Minister John Howard warned against linking Australia's worst drought on record to doomsday forecasts about climate change Wednesday, saying "a sense of proportion" was needed. A day after announcing a major aid package for drought-hit farmers, Howard played down the link between climate change and the "Big Dry." "Even the most pessimistic predictions about climate change, which I ... more Cave Records Provide Clues To Climate Change 
Atlanta GA (SPX) Sep 27, 2007When Georgia Tech Assistant Professor Kim Cobb and graduate student Jud Partin wanted to understand the mechanisms that drove the abrupt climate change events that occurred thousands of years ago, they didn't drill for ice cores from the glaciers of Greenland or the icy plains of Antarctica, as is customary for paleoclimatolgists. Instead, they went underground. Growing inside the caves of ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Sept 26, 2007Two of Britain's best known scientists proposed Wednesday to curb global warming by sowing the world's oceans with thousands, perhaps millions, of giant vertical pipes 100-to-200 meters deep. "We need a fundamental cure for the pathology of global heating," wrote James Lovelock and Chris Rapley in a letter to the British journal Nature. "Emergency treatment could come from stimulating the Ea ... more EU clears French loan guarantees for Finnish nuclear plant 
Brussels (AFP) Sept 26, 2007EU competition regulators gave their approval Wednesday to French state-guaranteed loans to Finnish power company TVO to pay for the construction of a nuclear power plant by French company Areva. After an in-depth competition probe, the European Commission ruled that the loan guarantees did not break EU state-aid rules because they were deemed to give no advantage to TVO over its competitors ... more Analysis: Exxon in oil row with Venezuela 
Miami (UPI) Sep 25, 2007 ExxonMobil is still seeking arbitration over its long-running dispute with Venezuela months after pulling out of the country in the wake of the nationalization of its oil and gas industries. Though Exxon decided to pull up stakes in June, the U.S. petroleum giant is keen on being compensated for its multimillion-dollar investment in South America's largest oil producer. The com ... more Chinese experts warn of Three Gorges Dam 'catastrophe' 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 26, 2007China's giant Three Gorges Dam project could lead to an ecological "catastrophe", Chinese experts warned in comments published Wednesday. Environmental problems triggered by the dam began to emerge at the world's largest hydropower project after it started operations last year, the official Xinhua news agency reported. "If no preventive measures are taken, the project could lead to catas ... more Boeing Projects 120 Billion Dollar Latin America Market For New Commercial Airplanes 
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (SPX) Sep 27, 2007Boeing forecasts that Latin American airlines will need 1,730 airplanes worth $120 billion over the next 20 years, according to an analysis presented Monday at the Latin America Airfinance Conference in Rio de Janeiro. Air travel within Latin America will grow 6.6 percent during this period, well above the world average growth of 5 percent -- second only to China's 8.8 percent forecasted growth ... more |
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United Nations (AFP) Sept 25, 2007Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said Tuesday that his country yielded tangible economic benefits from its decision to voluntarily renounce nuclear arms and urged others to follow suit. Without naming Iran or North Korea, he described as "irrational" the aspiration to acquire weapons of mass destruction. Speaking at the UN General Assembly session, he pointed to Kazakhstan's decisio ... more '100 dollar laptops' for poor students to go on sale 
Washington (AFP) Sept 24, 2007Inexpensive laptop computers designed for students in developing countries will be sold to the public in a buy-one, give-one scheme, the non-profit organization behind the project said Monday. The "100 dollar laptops" -- which currently cost nearly twice that amount -- will go on sale for two weeks starting November 12, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) said in a statement. The non-profit grou ... more Human Ancestors More Primitive That Once Thought 
St Louis MO (SPX) Sep 26, 2007A team of researchers, including Herman Pontzer, Ph.D., assistant professor of physical anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, has determined through analysis of the earliest known hominid fossils outside of Africa, recently discovered in Dmanisi, Georgia, the former Soviet republic, that the first human ancestors to inhabit Eurasia were more primitive than previously thought. ... more Africa flood crisis deepens 
Nairobi (AFP) Sept 25, 2007Fresh rainfalls and slow relief have deepened the humanitarian crisis caused by record floods in Africa which have affected more than 1.5 million people and killed at least 300, aid agencies warned Tuesday. The worst floods in three decades have now affected 22 countries, displacing hundreds of thousands and starkly raising the risk of epidemics since the deluge hit parts of the continent in ... more Germany to build first commercial Maglev train line 
Berlin (AFP) Sept 25, 2007Germany's richest state agreed Tuesday to build the country's first commercial high-speed magnetic levitation train line, but officials warned the price tag could be heftier than first thought. After months of talks, the Bavarian government, industry leaders and Deutsche Bahn rail company signed an agreement to build the line after a late-night deal capped with a champagne toast. Authori ... more
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