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Melting Of The Greenland Ice Cap May Have Consequences For Climatic Change
Barcelona, Spain (SPX) May 08, 2007According to two international-research studies on the last ice age, studies with the participation of Dr Rainer Zahn, research professor in the ICREA at the UAB Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), before the great ice sheets of the Arctic Ocean began to melt, early sporadic episodes of melting of the old ice sheet which covered the British Isles had already begun to affect ... more New Knowledge Improves Rice Quality 
Los Banos, Philippines (SPX) May 08, 2007A major international initiative is being launched to try to boost the income of the world's millions of poor rice farmers and at the same time provide consumers with more nutritious, better tasting food. New scientific knowledge is allowing rice researchers to develop better quality rice varieties that could fetch a higher price from consumers, especially increasingly affluent rice consumers in ... more Countries Warn UN Weather Agency Of Damage Over Fraud Case 
Geneva (SPX) May 08, 2007Fifteen countries want reforms at the UN's weather agency following a fraud scandal which has seriously damaged the organisation, a senior Swiss official said Monday. The 15, including Switzerland, will present a resolution at the World Meteorological Organisation's (WMO) congress over the coming two weeks to increase transparency and give the 188 member states greater oversight over its managem ... more Scientists Gather As Japan Prepares For Whaling Fight 
Washington DC (AFP) May 08, 2007Japan geared for its perennial clash with conservationists over lifting a commercial hunting ban Monday ahead of the polarized International Whaling Commission's annual meeting. But as the IWC's scientific committee began two weeks of closed sessions in Anchorage, Alaska to prepare a report for the May 28-31 meeting, the global body's future could also be at stake as Japan has warned it could qu ... more Tropical Plants May Acclimate As Rainfall Changes 
Gainesville FL (SPX) May 08, 2007Tropical plants may be more adaptable than commonly thought to changing rainfall patterns expected to accompany a warming climate, new research shows. A University of Florida scientist and other researchers have found that plants in Hawaii have the ability to acclimate to big changes in rainfall in at least one important respect - how they get nutrients. The plants largely rely on one form of th ... more |
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New Delhi, India (ANI) May 08, 2007US President George W Bush today made a telephone call to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and discussed about the ongoing bilateral negotiations on finalisation of the 123 agreement the successful of which would ratify the civilian nuclear energy cooperation between the two countries. Both the leaders "expressed happiness at the strengthening of the bilateral relations and reviewed devel ... more Thorium Reactors Integral To Indian Energy Independence 
Athens, Greece (ANI) May 08, 2007Speaking to scientists and academicians at the National Centre for Scientific Research at Demokritos, Athens, on Friday, President A.P.J.Abdul Kalam said that "energy independence is India's first and highest priority." Kalam also advocated the need for using thorium reactors for the country, saying, "India has to go for nuclear power generation in a big way using thorium-based reactors. Thoriu ... more Duke Energy Adds Energy Efficiency To Nuclear, Coal, Natural Gas And Renewables 
Charlotte NC (SPX) May 08, 2007Duke Energy Carolinas has filed a far-reaching energy efficiency plan with the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) that makes energy efficiency the company's "fifth fuel" in meeting customer demand, along with advanced nuclear, clean coal, natural gas and renewable energy. "We are proposing an innovative approach to help meet growing customer demand with new and creative ways to sav ... more New Layered-Layered Materials For Rechargeable Lithium Batteries 
Argonne IL (SPX) May 08, 2007Researchers at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new approach to increasing the capacity and stability of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. The technology is based on a new material for the positive electrode that is comprised of a unique nano-crystalline, layered-composite structure. Argonne's strategy uses a two-component "composite" structure -- ... more Indian Farmers Halt Work On Hydro Project 
Rampur, India (SPX) May 04, 2007Farmers have called a halt to work on the 412 Megawatt Rampur Hydel Project, claiming that project authorities have gone back on their promise to provide an adequate compensation package. The Satlej Hydel Power Corporation is overseeing the project. "In 2006, the project authorities had promised that they would provide us with water, money for schools and other facilities. It has been a year and ... more |
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Washington (AFP) May 5, 2007At least nine people were killed by a massive tornado that wrecked a small town in Kansas, collapsing a hospital and reducing homes to piles of broken timber, local officials said Saturday. Six people were killed in Greensburg, Kansas, after the storm made a direct hit on the small prairie town late Friday, said City Administrator Steve Hewitt. Some 30 people were pulled from the rubble of ... more Ecology In An Era Of Globalization 
Washington DC (SPX) May 07, 2007by Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) May 07, 2007 In a special issue, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment explores ecology in an era of globalization, looking at the impacts of human migration, production systems, and invasive species on ecosystems and people throughout North, Central, and South America. Scientists from throughout the Americas gathered last year in Merida Mexico and held ... more Wildlife Caught In Web Of Internet Sales 
Washington (AFP) May 3, 2007The wildlife poacher has a new ally: the Internet, say activists who plan to tame this illegal trade in live animals and the remains of their slaughter, such as ivory, skins and tusks. "Illegal trade has increased exponentially because of the ease of selling by Internet," said Lynne Levine, a spokeswoman for the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). Her group began a letter-writing ... more US Control Strategies May Make Flu Epidemics Worse 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 07, 2007Regular as clockwork, the flu arrives every year. And, according to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 5 to 20 percent of the U.S. population on average will come down with it. About 36,000 people will die. But among health experts, a bigger concern than the seasonal flu is an outright flu pandemic, such as a human strain of avian flu. And officials say it is not a question ... more Scientists Retrieve Pristine Record of the Continent's Climate Cycles From Beneath Antarctica's Ross Sea 
Lincoln NE (SPX) May 07, 2007Frequent climate fluctuations on the world's southernmost continent have been so extreme over the past 5 million years that Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, a floating slab of ice the size of France, oscillated in size dramatically, and perhaps even disappeared for periods of time when the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may have been smaller, according to scientists engaged in an unprecedented internation ... more
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