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UN Calls Climate Debate Over
United Nations (UPI) May 10, 2007A former chief of the U.N. World Health Organization who also is a former prime minister of Norway and a medical doctor has declared an end to the climate-change debate. Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, one of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's three new special envoys on climate change, also headed up the 1987 U.N. World Commission on Environment and Development where the concept of sustainable ... more Upgraded Lockheed Martin WC-130J Weatherbirds Will Improve Hurricane Hunting 
Marietta GA (SPX) May 11, 2007Lockheed Martin is in the process of installing a new system on WC-130J 'Hurricane Hunter' aircraft that will greatly enhance the accuracy of data collected during storm tracking missions. The system, called a Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR), will accurately measure wind speed and rainfall at sea level, enabling more precise forecasting of the severity and direction of storms. ... more Fraud Storm Brews Over UN Weather Agency As Auditor Speaks Out 
Geneva (AFP) May 09, 2007The United Nations weather agency remained mired in scandal on Wednesday, as a former auditor asked to address its annual congress over an alleged fraud scandal involving some 3.5 million dollars (2.6 million euros). Maria Veiga, a former World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) internal auditor who claims she was fired after probing the scandal, alleged that the embezzled funds were partly linked ... more Egyptians, Not Greeks, Were True Fathers Of Medicine 
Manchester, UK (SPX) May 11, 2007Scientists examining documents dating back 3,500 years say they have found proof that the origins of modern medicine lie in ancient Egypt and not with Hippocrates and the Greeks. The research team from the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology at The University of Manchester discovered the evidence in medical papyri written in 1,500BC - 1,000 years before Hippocrates was born. ... more Wife Of Arrested Environmentalist Sues China Government 
Beijing (AFP) May 10, 2007The wife of an arrested environmental campaigner Thursday said she has filed a lawsuit aimed at censuring the eastern Chinese city where he is awaiting trial for blackmail. Xu Jiehua, wife of Wu Lihong, is seeking a court ruling that will remove Yixing in Jiangsu province from an official list of "model environmental cities," she said. ... more |
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Samsoe, Denmark (AFP) May 10, 2007Battered by winds in the waters off eastern Denmark, the picturesque island of Samsoe has broken free of its dependence on oil and gas and, thanks to devoted residents, is now powered solely by renewable energies. A former Viking stronghold with rolling hills, small villages and vast golden fields of rapeseed, Samsoe touts itself as a model to follow in the fight against global warming. Th ... more Russia Sets Up Nuclear Energy Corporation 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 11, 2007The establishment of the state-owned holding Atomenergoprom under a recent presidential decree is a result of a large-scale reform of the nuclear sector, which began in 2006. It is the core asset that will carry out challenging plans aimed to raise the Russian nuclear sector to new highs. The Federal Agency for Nuclear Power (Rosatom), which proposed the idea and drafted the reform plan, a ... more Warsaw Energy Summit's Bleak Prospects 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 11, 2007The energy summit scheduled to take place in Warsaw on May 11-13 makes little sense. Poland, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Kazakhstan, the so-called Five, planned to agree on the construction of the Odessa-Gdansk gas pipeline and other routes of energy supplies bypassing Russia. About two weeks ago Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko said it w ... more Russia And Kazakhstan Sign Deal On Uranium Enrichment Center 
Astana, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 11, 2007Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Kazakhstan has produced a bilateral agreement to set up an international uranium enrichment center in East Siberia. The venture, which was part of Moscow's non-proliferation initiative to create a network of enrichment centers under the UN nuclear watchdog's supervision, will be based at a chemical plant in Angarsk and will also be responsible for the ... more Coal-Fired Power Stations Dominate Europe's Dirty Thirty 
Geneva (AFP) May 11, 2007Coal-fired power stations in Greece, Germany, Poland and Spain rank as Europe's dirtiest electricity plants, the environmental group WWF International said Thursday. In its latest survey of the worst power station pollution in the European Union, WWF said the "dirty 30" in seven countries pumped out 393 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2006, or 10 per cent of all EU CO2 emissions. Greec ... more |
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Washington (UPI) May 9, 2007The black-market nuclear network established by the father of Pakistan's nuclear program, A.Q. Khan, broken up in 2004, may be dormant but could resume operations in the future, according to a just-released report by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. The IISS study found no evidence to indicate that Pakistan sanctioned or encouraged the sales of nuclear technology a ... more Revising The CFE Treaties To Counter ABM Doctrinal Changes 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 9, 2007U.S. forces in Europe are being rapidly decreased. In the late 1980s there were four divisions, plus one brigade in West Berlin and nine tactical wings of the U.S. Air Force. Now there are two divisions, one brigade and three wings; moreover, both divisions are actually not even in Germany but in Iraq. The United States has signed agreements on leasing some facilities in Bulgaria, Romania ... more First Named Storm Forms Ahead Of Atlantic Hurricane Season 
Miami (AFP) May 09, 2007Subtropical Storm Andrea formed off the southeastern US coast Wednesday, becoming the first named storm of the year three weeks before the Atlantic hurricane season officially starts. On Wednesday morning, the storm was 240 kilometers (150 miles) northeast of Daytona Beach, Florida, and packed sustained winds of 75 kilometers (45 miles) per hour, according to the National Hurricane Center. ... more White House Denies Iraq War Hampers Home Rescue Efforts 
Washington (AFP) May 08, 2007The White House on Tuesday dismissed charges that the Iraq war effort had stripped the United States of resources needed to fight catastrophes at home in the wake of a devastating Kansas tornado. "I think they're separate issues... just as in a time of war, you know, the Pentagon plans for more than one conflict at a time, you have to be able to do more than one thing at a time," White House spo ... more Carbon Monoxide Pollution Over Australia Came From South America 
Paris (AFP) May 09, 2007A pall of carbon monoxide that hovered over Australia during wildfires there in 2004 came mainly from forest fires in South America, some 13,000 kilometers (8,000 miles) away, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesday. The discovery was made by scientists evaluating data from ESA's environmental satellite, Envisat, which is equipped with a highly-sensitive instrument for mapping sources ... more
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