| January 28, 2008 |  |
TerraDaily Advertising Kit |
| Previous Issues | Jan 25 | Jan 24 | Jan 23 | Jan 22 | Jan 21 |
US pushes its climate change agenda despite criticism
Washington (AFP) Jan 25, 2008The United States pushed forward with its own agenda on climate change Friday despite criticism that Washington is attempting to undermine the global effort led by the United Nations. But as senior officials outlined the broad agenda of a meeting the United States is hosting next week in Hawaii -- which includes an emphasis on controversial uses of nuclear power and technology to trap emissi ... more Iraq ratifies Kyoto Protocol on climate change 
Baghdad (AFP) Jan 26, 2008Iraq has formally ratified the UN's Kyoto Protocol on climate change, according to a government statement seen by AFP on Saturday. "The presidential council ratified in its session on January 23 a law according to which the Republic of Iraq will join the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol," the statement said. The Kyoto Protocol legally commits i ... more Benin's Cotonou - a city slowly swallowed by waves 
Cotonou (AFP) Jan 25, 2008Gilbert Adikpeto remembers the night he lost much of his shorefront home, literally washed away by the sea. "We were asleep with the children when there was a deafening noise from the living room. I got up in a panic and the whole room had disappeared under the waves," said the 62-year-old retired railway worker, still in shock two months later. Adikpeto's story could become all too comm ... more Rains offer hope for bird virus outbreak 
Murshidabad, India (UPI) Jan 26, 2008An outbreak of avian flu in Murchidabad, India, may have been temporarily restrained thanks to a series of unseasonal rains. Animal Resources Development Minister Anisur Rehman said that while the increased rainfall has prevented the culling of potentially infected animals, the unseasonal weather may be the key to limiting the spread of the potentially deadly virus, the Press Trust of I ... more Snow storms cause deaths in China ahead of Lunar New Year 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 27, 2008The worst snows to hit parts of China for 50 years killed at least a dozen people at the weekend, state media said, with thousands more injured as they headed home for the Lunar New Year holiday. The conditions brought traffic to a standstill in eight provinces, cut off a key rail link and left thousands of vehicles marooned on icy highways, reports said, with the cold snap causing power cut ... more |
disaster-management:
 whales:  whales:  |
Cairo (AFP) Jan 25, 2008From blaring car horns to wedding parties, rising noise pollution in the 24-hour metropolis of Cairo has reached alarming levels, leading to hearing problems, irritability and even death. Living in the city centre, where noise levels reach an average of 90 decibels (dB) and never drop below 70 dB, is like spending all day inside a factory, a 2007 study by the Egyptian National Research Centr ... more Nearly all nuclear fuel now delivered by Russia to Iran: report 
Tehran (AFP) Jan 26, 2008Russia delivered the seventh out of eight consignments of fuel for Iran's first nuclear power plant in the Gulf port of Bushehr on Saturday, the official IRNA news agency reported. "The seventh load of nuclear fuel arrived at the Bushehr plant on Saturday morning," Iran's Organisation for Production and Development of Nuclear Energy said in a statement. The delivery brings the amount of ... more Bulgarian leader urges EU to allow reactors' reopening 
Sofia (AFP) Jan 27, 2008Bulgaria's President Georgy Parvanov urged the European Commission Sunday to order a new peer review to reexamine safety at two shut reactors at its Kozloduy nuclear plant and allow for their reopening. "There is not a single survey proving the reactors are unsafe to operate," Parvanov said at a press conference marking the first year into his second mandate. "But we signed a treaty (for ... more Can India and China save the world's economy 
Shanghai (AFP) Jan 27, 2008With fears mounting of a global economic slowdown, some analysts predict developing giants China and India, with their booming growth, will help lessen the impact. Stock market turmoil this week triggered by fears of a US recession in the wake of a massive mortgage crisis has ignited debate over whether Asia's two rising economic stars are strong enough to power the world economy. This d ... more Indian PM hopes nuclear talks with IAEA will conclude soon 
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 25, 2008Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday said talks with the UN's nuclear watchdog on a pact allowing New Delhi to buy nuclear power plants and technology will be soon completed. Indian negotiators have held several rounds of talks at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since last month. The IAEA negotiations follow India and the United States signing a pact in 2006 reversin ... more |
nuclear-civil:
 nuclear-civil:  gps:  nuclear-doctrine:  |
Abu Dhabi (AFP) Jan 24, 2008NATO chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer urged Russia on Thursday to abandon "unhelpful rhetoric" and talk through its differences with the alliance. "From time to time, we hear rhetoric coming from Moscow which I do think is unhelpful," said Scheffer on a visit to the United Arab Emirates -- the first by a NATO chief. "We have our differences ... These differences are fundamental and I take the ... more US scientists close to creating artificial life: study 
Washington (AFP) Jan 24, 2008US scientists have taken a major step toward creating the first ever artificial life form by synthetically reproducing the DNA of a bacteria, according to a study published Thursday. The move, which comes after five years of research, is seen as the penultimate stage in the endeavor to create an artificial life form based entirely on a man-made DNA genome -- something which has tantalized sc ... more Global slowdown could impact China: analysts 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 24, 2008Global economic weakness may be about to do what China's own policy-makers have been unable to: pull growth in the world's fourth-largest economy down from its current dizzying heights. Government data published Thursday showed the Chinese economy grew by 11.4 percent in 2007, the fastest pace in 13 years, but cooled slightly towards the New Year, as the alarm bells over the US economy got l ... more Climate change 'significantly worse' than feared: Al Gore 
Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 24, 2008Climate change is occurring far faster than even the worst predictions of the UN's Nobel Prize-winning scientific panel on climate change foresaw, Al Gore warned Thursday. New evidence shows "the climate crisis is significantly worse and unfolding more rapidly than those on the pessimistic side of the IPCC projections had warned us," the former US vice president and climate campaigner told d ... more EU aims to adopt energy, climate laws by spring 2009: presidency 
Brussels (AFP) Jan 24, 2008The European Union aims to enact sweeping new legislation on energy and climate change by the spring of 2009, the EU's Slovenian presidency said Thursday. "We are counting on a constructive approach and support of the member states and the parliament for a final adoption of the package by spring 2009," said Slovenian Environment Minister Janez Podobnik. The measures, presented by the Eur ... more
|
climate:
 earth:  economy:  life:  |
|
| Previous Issues | Jan 25 | Jan 24 | Jan 23 | Jan 22 | Jan 21 |
| The contents herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2008 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy statement |
