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Museveni Defends Plans To Transfer Ugandan Forests To Indian Group
Kampala (AFP) April 20, 2007Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni Friday defended his backing for plans to clear forests to allow an Indian group to set up sugarcane plantations after rioting by green activists left three dead. "We need to balance the needs of preserving the eco-system with the needs for social transformation - changing the society from peasant to middle class, skilled working class society," Museveni sa ... more Mystery Of Oldest Trees Unraveled 
Binghamton, NY (SPX) Apr 23, 2007William Stein, associate professor of biological sciences at Binghamton University, and colleagues at the New York State Museum in Albany, NY, and Cardiff University in the United Kingdom, have found new evidence related to the Earth's earliest forests, putting to rest some speculation as to what trees might have looked like millions of years ago. In research published in the prestigious B ... more Orange Revolution In Russia Unlikely 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 23, 2007Russia's already poor image took another hit last weekend with the arrest of former world chess champion Garry Kasparov and the heavy-handed tactics of the police against demonstrators in Moscow, pictures of which went around the world. Despite the claims about the Kremlin's media clampdown in Russia, however, REN-TV, a private, but largely pro-Putin channel, showed vivid pictures and acco ... more Brains Versus Judgment 
Washington (UPI) April 20, 2007In his book "The Pursuit of the Ideal," the late Isaiah Berlin wrote, "Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as a guide to the future they can prove fatal." Such was Paul Wolfowitz's utopian view of Saddam Hussein's Iraq with its 25 million people desperately waiting to be liberated with a one-size-fits-all democracy. ... more Will Lemmings Fall Off Climate Change Cliff 
Bronx UK (SPX) Apr 23, 2007Contrary to popular belief, lemmings do not commit mass suicide by leaping off of cliffs into the sea. In fact, they are quite fond of staying alive. A bigger threat to the rodents is climate change, which could deprive them of the snow they need for homes and lock up their food in ice, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, which is launching a study to examine how these tiny but ... more |
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BHP Billiton Responds To Local Newspapers Fact Errors On Cabrillo Port
Oxnard CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2007Recent newspaper articles and editorials in Southern California newspapers are both premature and factually inaccurate, according to Patrick Cassidy, BHP Billiton's Director of Public Affairs. The California State Lands Commission will meet today in Oxnard to consider certification of the Final EIR on Cabrillo Port, a floating natural gas facility planned 14 miles off the Ventura County co ... more Chemists Identify Organic Molecules That Mimic Metals 
Riverside, CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2007A limitation in using hydrogen as a fuel in hydrogen-powered vehicles is the difficulty involved in storing it in a cost-effective and convenient manner. While it is possible to store hydrogen using metals, the resulting products often can be prohibitively expensive and cause environmental problems. Chemists at UC Riverside now offer a possible solution. A class of carbenes - molecules tha ... more EON To Buy Land In Finland For New Nuclear Plant 
Helsinki (AFP) Apr 17, 2007German energy giant E.ON will purchase land in Finland where it plans to build a nuclear plant, the STT news agency reported on Tuesday. The small town of Loviisa, 85 kilometres (53 miles) east of Helsinki, is preparing to sell 112 hectares (277 acres) of land near a site where two of Finland's four existing nuclear reactors are located, according to a municipal official. E.ON said last Oc ... more Ethanol Vehicles Pose A Significant Risk To Human Health 
Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2007Ethanol is widely touted as an eco-friendly, clean-burning fuel. But if every vehicle in the United States ran on fuel made primarily from ethanol instead of pure gasoline, the number of respiratory-related deaths and hospitalizations would likely increase, according to a new study by Stanford University atmospheric scientist Mark Z. Jacobson. His findings are published in the April 18 online ed ... more Fault At Controversial Czech Nuclear Plant 
Prague (AFP) Apr 17, 2007A steel cable around one of the reactors at a controversial Czech nuclear power plant fingered by critics as a safety risk was found ruptured during a routine check on Tuesday, operator CEZ announced. The flaw at one of the two reactors at the Soviet-designed Temelin plant is likely to fuel fresh protests over its safety. CEZ said in a statement that the ruptured steel cord did not r ... more Floating NPP Will Be Safer 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 23, 2007"This plant has several layers of protection, which means that it will be much safer than its land equivalents," said Sergei Kiriyenko, head of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Power, speaking at a ceremony of laying down the world's first floating nuclear power plant (FNPP). The plant will be built at the Sevmash shipyard, the core of the Russian Center for Nuclear Shipbuilding, in Severodv ... more |
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