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Indigenous Groups Seek Millions From Credit Suisse Over Timber Deal
Zurich (AFP) May 03, 2007Groups representing indigenous peoples in Guyana, Cambodia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea on Thursday urged the Swiss bank Credit Suisse to pay them 10 million dollars (7.0 million euros) in compensation because of its links with a Malaysian timber company. The company, Samling, retained Credit Suisse as an adviser during its stock market flotation in February, along with HSBC and Australian ban ... more WHO's Steps To Patient Safety 
Washington (UPI) May 02, 2007All countries -- from richest to poorest -- can make patients safer by following nine steps, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. "Healthcare has a ways to go in order to become a high-reliability industry," said Karen Timmons, president and CEO of Joint Commission International, a body that accredits hospitals. About 10 percent of hospital patients in the developing world are har ... more Scientists Offer New View Of Photosynthesis 
Tempe AZ (SPX) May 04, 2007During the remarkable cascade of events of photosynthesis, plants approach the pinnacle of stinginess by scavenging nearly every photon of available light energy to produce food. Yet after many years of careful research into its exact mechanisms, some key questions remain about this fundamental biological process that supports all life on earth. Now, a large research team led by Neal ... more Melting Greenland Ice Could Raise Ocean Seven Meters 
Vancouver (AFP) May 01, 2007The world's oceans could rise by up to seven meters if Greenland's ice cap entirely melts because of global warming, climate scientists said Tuesday. Glaciers on Greenland, the world's most icy land mass, are now melting most quickly where they are in contact with surrounding ocean, while ice in the high centre remains intact, said Garry Clarke, a professor at the University of British Columbia ... more US To Lock Horns Over Tigers And Whale Trade 
Washington (AFP) May 03, 2007US delegates plan to lock horns with China and Japan over protecting tigers and whales, while lobbying to remove bobcats from endangered lists next month, witnesses told Congress Thursday. "China is seriously considering lifting its domestic ban on trade in tiger parts," said Todd Willins, who will head the US delegation to the meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ... more |
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Atlanta GA (SPX) May 04, 2007GE Energy will provide an additional 600 megawatts of wind turbines to Invenergy Wind for 2008 projects in the United States and Canada. Invenergy previously announced the purchase of 600 megawatts of GE Energy wind turbines for 2007 projects. The latest order brings the total to 1,200 megawatts of GE 1.5-megawatt machines for projects over the next two years -- enough power for more than 300,00 ... more Scientists Seek Ways To Bury Greenhouse Gases 
Bangkok (AFP) May 03, 2007Scientists believe that finding a way to bury the world's greenhouse gas problem -- quite literally -- could be an important step to curbing climate change, but the technology is still in its infancy. The technology would capture carbon dioxide released by power plants or other factories, transport it and bury it underground -- either in old oil fields or coal mines, or even at the bottom of the ... more Old King Coal Hard To Dethrone 
Paris (AFP) May 03, 2007Dirty and dangerous, coal is a notorious source of climate damage yet is destined to remain a key energy source for decades to come. Coal's 19th-century image of puffing steam trains and billowing factory chimneys belies the fact it is firmly cemented in the 21st century, accounting for nearly half of the planet's energy mix. It is especially popular in China, which is expected to outstrip ... more Al Gore Urges Chinese Technology Entrepreneurs To Champion Environment 
Santa Clara (AFP) May 03, 2007With a blend of dark humor and dire predictions, former US vice president Al Gore called on Chinese technology entrepreneurs to champion the environment in their prospering homeland. Gore, who won an Academy Award for his global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," made the plea at a Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association's conference in the California city of Santa Clara on Wednesd ... more Viaspace Expands Focus On Energy Products 
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 04, 2007Viaspace has announced plans to expand its energy-based products into a major business focus. The company has established Viaspace Energy as a business unit to accelerate the growth of its existing direct methanol fuel cell cartridge business and fuel cell humidity sensor product line and to pursue new opportunities identified within the $55.4 billion clean energy sector. Based on positive ... more |
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Washington (UPI) May 03, 2007The media, it is said, is the watchdog of democracy. As such, it was the press that brought down a president in the United States because he had cheated and broken the law. And it was the press that made it possible for a president opposed to democratic norms to be voted out of office in a Ukraine that was still hanging by threads onto the remains of the Soviet orbit. It is also the press ... more Amphibians In Losing Race With Environmental Change 
Corvallis OR (SPX) May 03, 2007Even though they had the ability to evolve and survive for hundreds of millions of years - since before the time of the dinosaurs and through many climatic regimes - the massive, worldwide decline of amphibians can best be understood by their inability to keep pace with the current rate of global change, a new study suggests. The basic constraints of evolution and the inability of species ... more NASA Satellite Captures Image Of Georgia Wildfires 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 03, 2007A number of fires continue to burn in southeastern Georgia, as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite passed over, capturing this image on April 30. Active fire regions are indicated on the image with red pixels. Gusting winds and a lack of precipitation have added to the intensity of these fires, according to fire officials. Smoke continues to blow o ... more Drought Resistance Is Key To Plants In Tropical Forests 
Paris (AFP) May 02, 2007Sensitivity to water is a major factor in determining which plant species succeed in tropical habitats, a finding that suggests climate change could reshape rainforest diversity, a study says. Biologists led by Bettina Engelbrecht of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama looked at the distribution of 48 species of trees and shrubs, growing in study plots on the Panamanian isthmus ... more Climate Changes Caused Neanderthal Extinction On The Iberian Peninsula 
Granada, Spain (SPX) May 03, 2007Climate - and not modern humans - was the cause of the Neanderthal extinction in the Iberian Peninsula. Such is the conclusion of the University of Granada research group RNM 179 - Mineralogy and Geochemistry of sedimentary and metamorphic environments, headed by professor Miguel Ortega Huertas and whose members Francisco Jose Jimenez Espejo, Francisca Mart�nez Ruiz and David Gallego Torres work ... more
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