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Disease Hits As Aid Trickles Into Solomons Disaster Area
Gizo (AFP) Solomon Islands, April 4, 2007Disease began breaking out among victims of the Solomon Islands tsunami on Wednesday, as aid workers urgently appealed for more water, tents and medicine for thousands of homeless people. Rescuers fear major outbreaks of infection in the tropical heat as assistance trickles painfully slowly into refugee camps near the remote towns and villages hit by an 8.0-magnitude earthquake and the tsu ... more Weighing The Financial Risks Of Nuclear Power Plants 
Berkeley CA (SPX) Apr 05, 2007Enticed by the gleam of government subsidies, many companies are rushing to invest in nuclear power, expecting that new technology and safer reactors will make them as good an investment as other types of power plants. A new study appearing in the April 1 issue of the journal Environmental Science and Technology notes, however, that the country's history of unexpected cost overruns when bu ... more Discovery In Plants Suggests Entirely New Approach To Treating Human Cancers 
Bloomington IN (SPX) Apr 05, 2007For the first time, scientists from the University of Washington School of Medicine, Indiana University Bloomington and the University of Cambridge have determined how a plant hormone -- auxin -- interacts with its hormone receptor, called TIR1. Their report, on the cover of this week's issue of Nature, also may have important implications for the treatment of human disease, because TIR1 is simi ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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Very Active Atlantic Hurricane Season Looms Miami (AFP) April 03, 2007 
Forecasters warned Tuesday the Atlantic hurricane season would be a very active one, predicting 17 named storms would form of which nine could become hurricanes, highly likely to strike Caribbean and US coasts. "We have increased our forecast for the 2007 hurricane season, largely due to the rapid dissipation of El Nino conditions. We are now calling for a very active hurricane season. Landfall probabilities for the 2007 hurricane season are well above their long-period averages," said Colorado State University experts Philip Klotzbach and William Gray ... read moreEnvironmentalists Hail US Supreme Court Ruling As Bush Says Issue Serious 
Washington (AFP) April 02, 2007Environmentalists hailed a US Supreme Court ruling that the government has the power to regulate greenhouse gases, as a watershed decision in fighting global warming. In a sharply divided judgment, the court ruled Monday that greenhouse gases are pollutants, and so the federal Environmental Protection Agency was wrong to say it had no mandate to regulate such emissions. The decision dealt ... more South Pacific Ill-Equipped To Predict Tsunamis 
Sydney (AFP) April 03, 2007Australia's hasty reaction to the threat of a tsunami which hit the Solomon Islands contrasted sharply with a lack of equipment and expertise to warn South Pacific nations, experts said Tuesday. A massive undersea 8.0-magnitude earthquake spawned the deadly tsunami Monday that pounded the Solomon Islands and triggered emergency warnings around the Pacific of possible sea surges there. Aust ... more DHS Rolls Out New Chemical Plant Regulations 
Washington (UPI) April 03, 2007The U.S. Department of Homeland Security rolled out new rules governing security at chemical plants Monday, saying they would not pre-empt existing stricter state laws as it had earlier planned. The regulations require owners of plants that use larger-than-specified quantities of certain particularly dangerous chemicals to conduct a "preliminary screening assessment" via a secure online po ... more MORE HEADLINES
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Pessimistic Climate Surrounds UN Report Brussels (AFP) April 02, 2007 
The world's top climate scientists gathered here Monday to hammer out the summary of a massive report that predicts dire consequences from global warming, especially for poor nations and species diversity ... read moreResearchers Help Find Master Switch In Plant Communication 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 03, 2007Scientists have puzzled for years in understanding how plants pass signals of stress, due to lack of water or salinity, from chloroplast to nuclei. They know that chloroplasts -- the cellular organelles that give plants their green color -- have at least three different signals that can indicate a plant is under stress. Given the challenges the environment will be facing over the coming de ... more Nevada Scientists Improve Tsunami Warning Systems 
Reno NV (SPX) Apr 03, 2007Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno are at the forefront on a number of seismological fields, including helping the world better determine whether an earthquake is big enough to generate an ocean-wide tsunami. Through work at the Nevada Seismological Laboratory on the Nevada campus, important data on seismological events throughout the world is compiled, including Monday's fatal o ... more Climate Change Set To Worsen Health Burden 
Brussel (AFP) April 02, 2007Malaria, cholera, malnutrition, heatstroke and pollen allergies are just a few of the health problems set to worsen because of global warming, according to a report prepared by UN climate experts meeting here. Climate change has already extended the range of mosquitoes and ticks, helped spread diarrhoeal disease, boosted the length and location of pollen seasons and pumped up the intensity ... more MORE HEADLINES
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Climate Change Could Carry Huge Hidden Costs
Paris (AFP) April 01, 2007Climate change will inflict steadily rising costs that could become astronomical if greenhouse gas emissions rise unabated and countries delay preparations for the likely impacts, UN experts will say next week. Their vast report will shed light on the costs from heightened water stress, tropical storms, floods, droughts, species loss and human disease this century as a result of global war ... more Disruptive La Nina Weather Phenomenon Looming 
Geneva (AFP) March 30, 2007The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said Friday that a disruptive La Nina weather pattern in the Pacific basin was looming this year but might not take shape for another two to three months. La Nina, effectively a drop in sea surface temperatures off the western coast of South America, can cause havoc with weather patterns in many parts of the globe. "There is a definite indi ... more Wine Industry Faces Major Challenge From Global Warming 
Dijon, France (AFP) April 01, 2007A hot year is normally associated with a vintage year for wine growers but global warming could, by the end of the century, have adverse effects and already poses a major challenge to vineyards in southern France and California. "The first studies on the consequences of global warming show that warming favours the quality of the wine, said Gregory Jones, an Associate Professor of Geography ... more MORE HEADLINES
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