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New Petroleum-Degrading Bacteria Found At Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 14, 2007Environmental scientists at UC Riverside have discovered that the Rancho La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, Calif., house hundreds of new species of bacteria with unusual properties, allowing the bacteria to survive and grow in heavy oil and natural asphalt. Trapped in soil that was mixed with heavy oil nearly 28,000 years ago, the bacteria are uniquely adapted to the pits' oil and natural asphalt ... more India Wakes Up To E-Waste As Economy Booms 
New Delhi (AFP) May 13, 2007Environmentalists, alarmed by surging demand for consumer gadgets in India, are pushing manufacturers to tackle mounting piles of hazardous . India's 300-million strong middle class is grabbing gadgets as global competition pushes down costs of electronics which a decade ago were beyond the reach of many households. "We're raising the red flag," said Vinuta Gopal, spokeswoman of the Indian ... more Russia Sparks Up Tianwan First Unit 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 14, 2007Russia's nuclear equipment export monopoly said Thursday it has started a 100-hour test of the first power unit of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China at nominal capacity. Atomstroyexport is building the Tianwan NPP in eastern China's port city of Lianyungang. The plant, which is being built under a 1992 bilateral agreement, features improved VVER-1000 reactors and K-100-6/3000 turbo-genera ... more Shaw AFB To Begin One-Year Hybrid Refueler Test 
Shaw AFB SC (AFNS) May 10, 2007Fuels Airmen here are putting the Air Force's only R-11 Hybrid Electric Aviation Refueler through its paces during a one-year test that began here this month. The test will determine how much the 72,000-pound hybrid reduces emissions and conserves diesel fuel, potentially saving the Air Force money, said 2nd Lt. Zack Buckallew, 20th Logistics Readiness Squadron vehicle maintenance flight command ... more EU Sees Public Money Saving Galileo From Drifting Off Course 
Brussels (AFP) May 11, 2007The European Union sought Thursday to save its troubled Galileo satellite navigation system project from crashing, with new plans to use public money for its construction. A consortium of eight companies was originally to pay for two-thirds of the construction and launch of most of the 30 satellites required, while covering the cost of the investment by operating the network afterwards. ... more |
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Brussels (AFP) May 10, 2007Russia's top general said Thursday that an important Soviet-era arms treaty frozen by Moscow last month was "on the verge of collapse. Today I can say the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty is on the verge of collapse," General Yuri Baluyevskyi, the chief of Russia's armed forces, told reporters at NATO headquarters in Brussels. "But Russia did not want it," he said, following talk ... more Warming In Asia And Africa Threatens US 
Washington (AFP) May 09, 2007From the Niger delta to weather-blighted Somalia and teeming South Asia, global warming poses daunting risks and a knock-on threat to US national security, retired military brass and US senators warned Wednesday. Higher global temperatures, melting polar ice and rising sea waters endanger millions of people, and the US armed forces must be ready for a new age when strife in volatile regions is ... more Pakistan To Deploy New Nuclear Missile As Counter To India's Nuke Build-Up 
Washington DC (ANI) May 11, 2007Pakistan is preparing its next-generation of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles for deployment, a Federation of American Scientists report has claimed. According to the Dawn, India's nuclear build-up is motivating Islamabad to modernise its nuclear armoury. Authors of the FAS report estimate that Pakistan currently has 60 nuclear weapons ... more Urban Poor Part Of Climate Change Equation 
United Nations (AFP) May 09, 2007With more than half of mankind already living in cities and towns, the urban poor must be part of any solution to climate change, a top UN official said here Wednesday. Addressing the opening session of the UN commission on sustainable development here, Anna Tibaijuka, executive director of the Nairobi-based UN Habitat agency, said that cities "are part of the problem and part of the solution to ... more 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 |
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Washington (AFP) May 10, 2007Tropical developing nations can help drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming by reducing the rate of deforestation by half, climate researchers said Thursday. Reducing tropical deforestation by 50 percent over the next century would help prevent 500 billion tonnes of carbon from going into the atmosphere every year, the researchers said in a policy article published in ... more Drug Firms Going Green 
Boston (UPI) May 10, 2007More drug manufacturers are turning to natural substances as sources for new drugs, even though the road from plant to pill can be a bumpy one, industry executives said this week. However, the big market potential for some of the new drugs makes it worth the effort, said the executives at the BIO International conference in Boston. Drugs from natural substances, known as botanicals, that ... more New Weather Index Is Launched To Hedge Risk 
Paris (AFP) May 10, 2007France's national weather service and the market Euronext launched a scheme on Thursday aimed at helping companies anticipate risks from abrupt changes in the weather. Metnext, a joint venture of Meteo-France and the subsidiary of NYSE Euronext, aims at giving "customised indices" to individual firms that will advise them about upcoming weather risk. The garment industry, makers of soft dr ... more Self-Sufficient Danish Island Leads The Way In Clean Energy 
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
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