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Indonesia Allots One Billion Dollars To Prevent Floods
Jakarta (AFP) March 12, 2007Indonesia has earmarked more than one billion dollars to prevent flooding in the capital where an inundation earlier this year killed dozens, a report said Monday. The flooding in February following monsoon downpours killed 85 people across Indonesia, displaced some 340,000 and paralysed Jakarta, a city of some 12 million people. Germans Urged To Give Foreign Travel A Rest To Curb Global Warming 
Berlin (AFP) Mar 13, 2007As the global warming debate heats up, Germans are being urged to swap their holidays on faraway tropical islands for trips to less glamorous Baltic beaches to help save the planet. "In the near future, people are going to become increasingly aware that aircraft emit vast amounts of greenhouse gases, far more than cars or trains," said Manfred Stock. Scientists Read History Of Rocks With Unprecedented Precision 
Amherst, MA (SPX) Mar 13, 2007Assigning dates to the events in the life of a rock-for example, a collision with a piece of continent, or a journey through the Earth's crust-has long challenged geologists, as the events themselves can confound evidence of the past. |
Hydrogel Particles Pave Way For New Bedside Diagnostics
Boston MA (SPX) Mar 13, 2007MIT researchers have created an inexpensive method to screen for millions of different biomolecules (DNA, proteins, etc.) in a single sample--a technology that could make possible the development of low-cost clinical bedside diagnostics. Acid-Washed Pink Genes 
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Mar 13, 2007Pink slime at the surface of water trickling through an old mine in California is proving to be a treasure for researchers in their quest to learn more about how bacterial communities exist in nature. A letter published in the online edition of Nature shows that it is possible to follow what microorganisms are doing in their natural environment by identifying the range of proteins that they produce. Up To One Million Fish Found Dead In Thai River 
Bangkok (AFP) Mar 13, 2007Hundreds of thousands of farmed fish have been found dead in one of Thailand's key rivers, the fisheries department said Tuesday, prompting fears that factories were polluting the waterway. Parts of the central provinces of Ang Thong and Ayutthaya along the Chao Phraya river were officially declared disaster zones Tuesday, after the fish started dying there on Sunday night. |
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Yellow River Running Dry In Parts
Beijing (AFP) March 11, 2007Unseasonably warm weather in northern China has led to parts of the Yellow River, the nation's second-longest waterway, drying up, state press reported Sunday. High temperatures this winter, a lack of rain fall in the upper reaches and rising industrial and agricultural water use has resulted in low water levels in the river at Lanzhou city, capital of Gansu province, the China News Service said. Indonesia To Rehabilitate Failed Peatland Project From Suharto Era 
Jakarta (AFP) March 11, 2007The Indonesian government is planning to rehabilitate a sprawling peatland in Central Kalimantan which was converted to agriculture during the reign of former president Suharto causing widespread environmental damage, an official said Sunday. "We have approval, in principle, from the president to rehabilitate the 'One Million Hectare Peatland' but we still are awaiting the necessary presidential decree to start," Central Kalimantan governor Agustin Teras Narang told AFP. Indonesian Mud Volcano Might Be Calming Down 
Jakarta (AFP) March 12, 2007An attempt to plug an Indonesian "mud volcano" with concrete balls has managed to calm it, an expert said Monday, nine months after the crater began oozing sludge that displaced 15,000 people. "If you ask me, it appears calmer, but that is a subjective view," said Satria Bijaksana from Indonesia's Bandung Institute of Technology, which devised the plan to slow the disastrous mudflow. |
Genome Sequence Shows What Makes Bacteria Dangerous For Troops In Iraq
New Haven CT (SPX) Mar 12, 2007Researchers at Yale have identified multiple pathogenic "alien islands" in the genome of the A. baumannii, bacteria that has been responsible for new and highly drug-resistant infections in combat troops in the Middle East, according to a report in the March 1 issue of Genes and Development. Indefinite Donor To Preserve World Rice Varieties 
Manila (AFP) March 12, 2007The Rome-based Global Crop Diversity Trust and the International Rice Research Institute agreed Monday to spend 600,000 dollars a year in perpetuity to protect thousands of varieties of rice. The agreement, described by Philippines-based IRRI as the first of its kind in the history of modern agricultural research, will benefit the IRRI-run Genetic Resources Center, which houses more than 100,000 samples of rice and is the biggest and most important such collection in the world. These Legs Were Made for Fighting Not Just Climbing Over You 
Salt Lake City, UT (SPX) Mar 13, 2007Ape-like human ancestors known as australopiths maintained short legs for 2 million years because a squat physique and stance helped the males fight over access to females, a University of Utah study concludes. "The old argument was that they retained short legs to help them climb trees that still were an important part of their habitat," says David Carrier, a professor of biology. |
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