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Australia's Largest City Tightens Water Restrictions As Drought Bites
Sydney (AFP) May 31, 2005Australia's largest city, Sydney, announced unprecedented water restrictions Tuesday as the country's worst drought on record left dam levels at less than 40 percent. Antarctica Conference In Sweden To Focus On Environment, Climate Change 
Stockholm, Sweden (AFP) May 31, 2005Representatives of 50 governments, researchers and experts will meet for a two-week conference in Stockholm to discuss the Antarctic, especially environmental and climate change issues, the Swedish hosts said on Tuesday. Scientists Monitor Largest Red Tide Outbreak in 12 Years In Mass. Bay 
Miami FL (SPX) Jun 02, 2005With shellfish beds from Maine to the Cape Cod coast closed from the largest outbreak of red tide in 12 years in Massachusetts Bay, scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) are studying the algae that causes these "red tides' and providing information to coastal managers using new molecular techniques and oceanographic models. |
Researchers See Upwellings That Could Be Root Of Volcanic Islands
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jun 02, 2005Deep within Earth, researchers are finding hints of exotic materials and behaviors unrivaled anywhere else on the planet. Now a team of researchers is making connections between the dynamic activities deep inside Earth and geologic features at its surface. Analysis: Dutch Put Axe To EU Constitution 
by Gareth HardingChief European Correspondent Brussels (UPI) Jun 01, 2005 The Netherlands, one of the six founding members of the EU and traditionally one of its most solid backers, delivered a potentially fatal blow to the bloc's first constitution Wednesday when voters overwhelmingly rejected the treaty. Analysis: 'Khodorkovsky Fallout' 
by Peter LavelleMoscow, June (UPI) Jun 01, 2005 Four percent of Russians polled believe former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to a nine-year prison term Tuesday for committing economic crimes. Russia's political classes are divided on this issue, and the West is decidedly skeptical of Russia's judicial system. |
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Double Star Mission Extension Approved By ESA
Paris (ESA) May 31, 2005On 10 May 2005, the ESA Science Programme Committee (SPC) approved the extension of the Double Star mission for a period of 17 months, pushing back the end date from July 2005 to December 2006. Japan's Top Court Gives OK To Reopen Monju Fast Breeder Reactor 
Tokyo (AFP) May 30, 2005Japan's Supreme Court on Monday gave the green light to reopen an experimental reactor opposed by residents on safety concerns, in a landmark ruling on the country's nuclear energy program. Underwater Volcano Discovered 
San Diego CA (SPX) May 26, 2005A team of scientists, led by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, has discovered an active underwater volcano near the Samoan Island chain. |
Californians Get Virtual Taste Of A Big One
Los Angeles (AFP) May 26, 2005As Californians brace nervously for the "big one," scientists Wednesday offered a computer-generated glimpse at the death and destruction a major earthquake could wreak in the second largest US city. Arctic Leaders Sound The Alarm Over Global Warming 
Brussels (AFP) May 24, 2005Arctic community leaders sounded the alarm Tuesday over the threat posed by global warming to their way of life, but also that of people in warmer climes. Seeing Forests In The Tree Of Life 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 24, 2005Peter Ward, a paleontologist and professor of geological sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, has written extensively about the history of life on Earth, as well as the possibility for life elsewhere in the universe. |
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