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China Laments Failure To Enforce Environmental Protection Laws
Beijing (AFP) June 30, 2005China's top environmental official has spoken out against the nation's failure to enforce legislation protecting the environment, state press said Thursday. Hundreds Of Villagers In Eastern China Riot Against Polluting Factory 
Shanghai (AFP) Jun 30, 2005Hundreds villagers in eastern China have taken over a battery factory they accuse of producing pollution that is poisoning their children, and locked 1,000 workers inside, residents and officials said Thursday. Chongqing, China's Western Metropolis, Balances On Economic Tightrope Chongqing, China (AFP) Jun 30, 2005 
This far upstream the brown water of the Yangtze seems to be hardly moving at all, but on the banks of the river a city the size of a small European country is frantically remaking itself. |
Honda To Lease Fuel-Cell Vehicle To California Couple
Los Angeles (AFP) Jun 29, 2005Jon and Sandy Spallino may be turning heads with their new car, since they will be the first on their block - and possibly the world - with a hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle. Russia Eyes More Nuclear Power Station Contracts In Iran 
Moscow (AFP) Jun 28, 2005Russia is keen to build more nuclear power stations in Iran as the administration of president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad plans six such stations, the head of Russia's Atomic Energy Agency was cited by ITAR-TASS as saying Tuesday. Fire Put Out At Nuclear Waste Processing Facility In Japan 
Tokyo (AFP) Jun 30, 2005Firefighters put out a fire late Thursday at a nuclear waste processing facility in central Japan, a trade ministry official said, adding that no one was injured in the blaze. |
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Theory Developed For Human Genome Evolution By Tracking 'Stealth' DNA
Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Jul 01, 2005A group of LSU researchers, led by biological sciences Professor Mark Batzer, have unraveled the details of a 25-million-year-old evolutionary process in the human genome. Cloned Cells May Be More Youthful 
Washington (UPI) Jun 29, 2005A Massachusetts biotech company said Wednesday that research it has conducted in cows indicates cloning techniques produce vivacious cells that have a competitive advantage over adult stem cells and may offer greater therapeutic potential. Oceans Turning To Acid From Rise In CO2 
Stanford CA (SPX) Jul 01, 2005A report issued by the Royal Society in the U.K. sounds the alarm about the world's oceans. "If CO2 from human activities continues to rise, the oceans will become so acidic by 2100 it could threaten marine life in ways we can't anticipate," commented Dr. Ken Caldeira, co-author of the report. |
Kids Of The Dump: Cambodia's Scavengers Scrap Out A Livelihood
Phnom Penh (AFP) June 30, 2005Hauv Sokhon wears his blue baseball cap low over his eyes as he pokes through the stinking refuse of Cambodia's most notorious rubbish dump. If he finds enough plastic and aluminium amid the oozing debris, he'll earn a dollar today. Sixty Percent Of All International Aid Is 'Phantom': Actionaid 
New Delhi (AFP) Jun 30, 2005Some 60 percent of all announced international aid does not exist, global pressure group ActionAid said Thursday, singling out the United States and France as the main culprits in "phantom" aid. WFP Ship Carrying Tsunami Aid Hijacked Off Somalia Amid New Piracy Alerts 
Nairobi (AFP) Jun 30, 2005Gunmen have hijacked a UN-chartered ship carrying food for tsunami victims off Somalia and demanding a ransom of half-a-million dollars, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the ship's owners said Thursday. |
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