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 Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 22, 2009 
Supervolcanoes and cosmic impacts get all the terrible glory for causing mass extinctions, but a new theory suggests lowly algae may be the killer behind the world's great species annihilations. Today, just about anywhere there is water, there can be toxic algae. The microscopic plants usually exist in small concentrations, but a sudden warming in the water or an injection of dust or ... read more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 22, 2009The Hot Zone, a climate change and global warming blog sponsored by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Astrobiology Magazine, recently featured a conversation with Dr. Philip Rasch, chief scientist for climate at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Dr. Rasch's work focuses on understanding the connections between clouds, chemistry, and the climate. He co-chairs the ... more |
South Korea pledges to phase out coal plants at COP30
Record support in Norway for fossil fuel drilling: study EU defends carbon tax at COP30, urges quick adoption COP30 talks enter homestretch with UN warning against 'stonewalling' UN climate chief urges COP30 negotiators to not 'waste time on stonewalling' South Korea pledges to phase out coal plants Death toll from Indonesia landslides rises to 18 Press Release from Business Wire: Bureau Veritas Carbon capture promoters turn up in numbers at COP30: NGO Landslides in Vietnam kill at least six 
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New Delhi (UPI) Oct 21, 2009 India and China signed an agreement Wednesday to cooperate on ways to fight climate change and pledged to establish a group to exchange views concerning international negotiations on climate change. The agreement emphasizes that the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol are the most appropriate framework for addressing climate change. According to a ... more  
London (AFP) Oct 21, 2009Britain launched a mass vaccination programme Wednesday to prevent the spread of swine flu, following similar action in other European countries and the US where the vaccine has drawn a mixed reaction. Seriously ill patients in hospitals and the doctors and nurses caring for them will be the first of 14 million people identified as priority cases to receive the jab in Britain, the European ... more  
Jakarta (AFP) Oct 21, 2009Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono unveiled a rainbow cabinet Wednesday stacked with party-political appointees to lead Southeast Asia's biggest economy for the next five years. The 60-year-old liberal ex-general, who was inaugurated Tuesday, resisted pressure to name a team of non-political experts for his second and final term, and instead chose to reward coalition partners for ... more |
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Mexico City (UPI) Oct 20, 2009 Mexicans are being told to cherish water as a member of the family -- to value and hold it in high regard -- as part of a major campaign to stem wastage amid chronic shortages of the resource. Mexican President Felipe Calderon is exhorting Mexicans to be aware of the importance of conserving water and to consider saving water as important as protecting their family. "The water ... more 
Rockville, Maryland (AFP) Oct 21, 2009It is "vaccination by natural selection," lamented 51-year-old Cindy Rochen as she waited with thousands of others outside a clinic in this Washington suburb for a swine flu shot. "You could be Stephen Hawking and you wouldn't get this flu shot if you didn't have an inside track to get inside that clinic," said Rochen, who walks with the aid of a cane, suffers from an autoimmune disease, a ... more  
San Francisco (AFP) Oct 21, 2009General Electric (GE) on Tuesday unveiled an ultrasound device about the size of an iPhone, saying the gadget could become "the stethoscope of the 21st century." "We are going to put this in the clinicians' hands," GE chief executive Jeffrey Immelt said after pulling a Vscan from a suit jacket pocket during an on-stage talk at a Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. "This really could be the ... more |
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