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Transcontinental Wildfire Emissions Monitored From Space
Paris, France (SPX) May 09, 2007Using data from the SCIAMACHY instrument aboard ESA's environmental satellite Envisat, scientists have determined that the carbon monoxide hovering over Australia during the wildfire season largely originated from South American wildfires some 13 000 kilometres away. Using SCIAMACHY, Annemieke Gloudemans from SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research and her colleagues at Utrecht Unive ... more Researchers At Illinois Explore Queen Bee Longevity 
Champaign IL (SPX) May 09, 2007The queen honey bee is genetically identical to the workers in her hive, but she lives 10 times longer and - unlike her sterile sisters - remains reproductively viable throughout life. A study from the University of Illinois sheds new light on the molecular mechanisms that account for this divergence. The study appears in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ... more Greenhouse Gas Emissions In EU-15 Slip 
Brussels (AFP) May 08, 2007Greenhouse gas emissions from the 15 most developed EU members eased only slightly in 2005, according to EU figures on Tuesday, suggesting a lot of work remained to be done to meet Kyoto Protocol commitments. The European Environment Agency said that climate-changing greenhouse gases from the 15 countries fell only 0.8 percent in 2005 from 2004, mainly due to lower use of fossil fuels and carbon ... more Heads Begin to Roll In World Bank Scandal 
Washington DC (UPI) May 08, 2007The ongoing saga of Paul Wolfowitz and his girlfriend claimed its first victim Monday, but the first head to roll was not the World Bank president's. Instead, it was Wolfowitz's right-hand man who was pushed out amid the scandal roiling the international agency. Kevin Kellems was the first to leave among the handful of those who joined the bank when the former U.S. deputy defense secretary was ... more At Least 14 Killed In Tornado In Southern Chad 
Ndjamena (AFP) May 08, 2007At least 14 people were killed and more than 100 were injured when a ferocious tornado virtually wiped out the small town of Bebedjia in southeastern Chad, police said Tuesday. "A violent storm accompanied by a vortex (tornado) struck the town yesterday (Monday) evening. It began at around 4:00 pm (1500 GMT) and provoked general panic among the population," prefect Mbainodji Barthelemy told AFP ... more |
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New Delhi, India (ANI) May 09, 2007Chemicals and Fertilisers and Steel Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has said that the new policy on petroleum, chemicals andpetrochemical investment regions will transform India's image in the sector. Speaking to reporters after releasing the policy, Paswan said that apart from helping the overall development of the region, the PCPIRs would not only help in generating employment, but would also give a ... more NPRA Outlines Major Concerns Regarding Alternative Fuels During House Energy Testimony 
Washington DC (SPX) May 09, 2007National Petrochemical and Refiners Association Executive Vice President Charles T. Drevna voiced important concerns regarding efforts to increase renewable fuels requirements in testimony to the House Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality. Drevna said NPRA has always opposed mandates that limit refiners flexibility to meet consumer demand. He also noted it is impera ... more Southern Company Plans To Sell Interest In Proposed Nuclear Plant 
Birmingham AL (SPX) May 09, 2007Southern Company announced today that it intends to sell to Duke Energy its 500-megawatt share in the proposed William States Lee III nuclear power project in Cherokee County, S.C. Southern Company remains fully committed to nuclear development and exploring energy options that are in its customers' best interest, including its focus on the proposed new units at Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro, Ga. ... more From Waste to Watts: Restaurant Grease Converted To Renewable Power 
Rialto CA (SPX) May 09, 2007Chevron Energy Solutions has announced that it has begun engineering and construction of an innovative system at the City of Rialto's wastewater treatment facility that will transform wastewater sludge and kitchen grease from local restaurants into clean, renewable power. The environmentally friendly system will increase municipal revenues, reduce landfill wastes and lower greenhouse emiss ... more Researchers Find Meteorite Fragments In Altai 
Novosibirsk, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 08, 2007A group of Russian researchers looking for a meteorite that fell in January in the Altai Territory in southern Siberia has found an extraterrestrial substance which could be meteorite fragments, a coordinator said Monday. "We have collected about 50 samples, and vitreous threads (traces of comet substance) were discovered in the first of them using a microscope," Vadim Chernobrov of Kosmopoisk ( ... more |
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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 An Ancient Bathtub Ring Of Mammoth Fossils 
Bellingham WA (SPX) May 08, 2007Pacific Northwest National Laboratory geologists have put out a call for teeth tusks, femurs and any and all other parts of extinct mammoths left by massive Ice Age floods in southeastern Washington. The fossils, in some cases whole skeletons of Mammathus columbi, the Columbian mammoth, were deposited in the hillsides of what are now the Yakima, Columbia and Walla Walla valleys in southeastern W ... more
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