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The United Nations on Tuesday raised the prospect of "megadisasters" affecting millions of people in some of the world's biggest cities unless more is done to heed the threat of climate change. "We are going to see more disasters and more intense disasters as a result of climate change," UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes said at the opening of a four-day ... read more 
Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Jun 18, 2009LSU's WAVCIS, or Wave-Current-Surge Information System for Coastal Louisiana, has a few new tricks up its sleeve in preparation for the 2009 hurricane season. Drawing from a pool of scientific talent at the university, across the nation and Europe, WAVCIS now offers graphic, easy-to-understand model outputs projecting wave height, current depths and tracks, salinity ratios and water ... more |
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Ottawa (AFP) June 17, 2009Canada on Wednesday offered its pulp and paper mills up to one billion dollars (883 million US dollars) to convert to renewable energies and boost competitiveness, after a US subsidy controversially gave trade advantages to US mills. "Canada's forest industry is going through a very difficult period of restructuring and it's compounded by the collapse in markets caused by the global ... more  
Lisbon (AFP) June 16, 2009Plans to resume the hunting of humpback whales, protected by a moratorium introduced more than 40 years ago, came under fire from environmentalists Tuesday, ahead of a key meeting. The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) said Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory, intends to ask a summit on Monday to grant it permission to hunt a quota of 50 humpbacks over five years. ... more  
Waterberg, Namibia (AFP) June 16, 2009The three cheetah cubs roll around in the grass, totally involved in their game, the two males wanting to play with the wooden log their little sister has snatched away from them. "They had a bad start in life as their heavily pregnant mother was shot," said Leigh Whelpton, a volunteer at the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) in Namibia. "The farmer who killed it, noticed movement in the ... more  
Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Jun 18, 2009As a result of stronger winds caused by global warming, seeds and pollen are being carried over longer distances. An increase in temperature of only a couple of degrees may increase the dispersal of plants in Northern forests and the spread of plant species into forest clearings after felling or forest fires. University of Helsinki researcher Anna Kuparinen headed the international ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jun 16, 2009No human is a clone of their parents but the same cannot be said for other living things. While your DNA is a combination of half your mother and half your father, other species do things differently. The advantage of clonal reproduction is that it produces an individual exactly like an existing one-which would be very useful for farmers who could replicate the best of their animals or crops ... more  
Paris (AFP) June 17, 2009A young dinosaur that fatefully wandered into a mudpool around 155 million years could help explain the mysterious evolution of birds, says the world's most famous fossil-hunter. A team led Xing Xu, a Chinese dino expert with scores of astonishing finds to his name, uncovered the fossilised remains of a small, exceptional dinosaur in the Shishugou Formation in western China's Junggar Basin. ... more 
Washington (AFP) June 16, 2009The harmful effects of global warming are being felt "here and now and in your backyard," a groundbreaking US government report on climate change warned Tuesday. "Climate change is happening now, it is not something that will happen decades or centuries in the future," Jerry Melillo of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts, one of the lead authors of the report, told AFP. ... more  
Beijing (AFP) June 16, 2009China's top law official has warned social stability is under increasing threat from labour and business disputes in the midst of the global crisis, according to remarks published Tuesday. Senior Communist Party leader Zhou Yongkang said that in this situation China's security forces need to step up their efforts to quell unrest and protect people's lives and property. "We must clearly ... more |
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