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Whales Face The Harpoon As Norway Labels Opponents Hypocrites
Anchorage (AFP) Alaska, May 28, 2007The fate of the great whales hung in the balance Monday as officials from 75 nations gathered for talks amid pressure, notably from Japan, to reverse a 20-year ban on commercial hunting of the mammals. As the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) prepares to open in Alaska's capital, environmental groups warned of the possibility of the United States striking a compromise ... more Northern Sea Route Of Russia Nothing But A Dotted Line On A Map 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 28, 2007Debates over the Northern Sea Route, a shipping lane from the Atlantic to the Pacific along the coast of northern Russia, have been going on for many years. Local residents are sounding the alarm, scientists and journalists are crossing swords, and even MPs are worried about this problem, unable to take a nap in their comfy chairs. Russia's State Council, an advisory body consisting of the ... more Indian Monsoon Arrives On Southwest Coast 
Thiruvananthapuram (AFP) India, May 28, 2007The first rain from India's annual monsoon, which is crucial to its farm-dependent economy, hit the southwest coast on Monday, a weather official said. "The onset of the annual southwest monsoon has begun over Kerala today," said K. Santosh, director of the Indian meteorological department's office in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala state. A monsoon season, which lasts from June ... more Chimp Ban May Impact Research 
Washington (UPI) May 25, 2007Animal rights groups are celebrating the National Institutes of Health's recent decision to permanently end breeding of government-owned chimpanzees, but researchers say the move could be detrimental to biomedical and pharmaceutical research. The NIH's National Center for Research Resources, which has had a moratorium on breeding of federally supported chimpanzees since 1995, said this ... more How Much Will Beijing Pay For The Olympics 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 28, 2007The Chinese authorities are sparing no expense for the 2008 Olympic Games. They are eager to show the whole world China's impressive economic success, growing prosperity, openness and love of peace. The Chinese Olympics promises to be the most expensive sports event in human history. In the past hundred years, the summer 2004 Olympics in Athens had the biggest price tag - seven billion ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) May 28, 2007India said Monday it would reject proposals to limit greenhouse gas emissions at a summit meeting of the world's leading economies next month because stricter limits would slow its booming economy. "Legally mandated measures for reducing greenhouse gas emissions are likely to have significant adverse impacts on GDP growth of developing countries, including India," environment ministry secretary ... more Kuwait To Splash Out On Power Projects As Cuts Loom 
Kuwait City (AFP) May 28, 2007Kuwait announced it plans to spend 27 billion dollars on power and water projects over the next eight years as the oil-rich emirate braced for power cuts this summer. Electricity and Water Minister Mohammad al-Olaim told parliament during a special debate that his ministry will next month begin "programmed power and water cuts" as the temperature soars to around 50 degrees Celsius (122 F) in the ... more Follow The Green Brick Road 
Washington DC (SPX) May 29, 2007Researchers have found that bricks made from fly ash--fine ash particles captured as waste by coal-fired power plants--may be even safer than predicted. Instead of leaching minute amounts of mercury as some researchers had predicted, the bricks apparently do the reverse, pulling minute amounts of the toxic metal out of ambient air. Each year, roughly 25 million tons of fly ash from ... more Pelosi Non-Committal On Climate As Germany Increasingly Frustrated By US Policy 
Berlin (AFP) May 28, 2007US House of Representatives leader Nancy Pelosi refused here Monday to be drawn on whether the United States would back Germany's strong position on climate change at next week's G8 summit. Pelosi held talks with German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel on the first stop of a European tour she is making accompanied by a delegation of high-ranking Democrat and Republican politicians. ... more Greenpeace Protest At Finnish Nuclear Plant 
Helsinki (AFP) May 28, 2007Finnish, French and British Greenpeace activists protested on Monday against "security breaches" at the building site of Finland's fifth nuclear reactor, the ecological pressure group said. Police removed a group of activists who were blocking the road to the site where the world's first third-generation European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) is being built. According to Greenpeace spokesman ... more |
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Kampala (AFP) May 26, 2007Government plans to convert thousands of hectares of rainforest on an island on Uganda's Lake Victoria into a palm oil plantation have been shelved, officials said on Saturday. Environment Minister Mary Mutagamba said the government abandoned the idea after the Kenyan company Bidco that applied for the licence backed off fearing negative publicity about the project would harm its efforts to ... more Definitive Evidence Found Of A Swimming Dinosaur 
Boulder CO (SPX) May 28, 2007An extraordinary underwater trackway with 12 consecutive prints provides the most compelling evidence to-date that some dinosaurs were swimmers. The 15-meter-long trackway, located in La Virgen del Campo track site in Spain's Cameros Basin, contains the first long and continuous record of swimming by a non-avian therapod dinosaur. ... more Hurricane Risks Higher Than Usual For Most Of US Coasts 
Orlando FL (SPX) May 28, 2007Much of the nation's Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastlines face substantially higher-than-normal risks for hurricanes in 2007, according to an analysis by a University of Central Florida researcher and his Georgia colleague. Nationally, Carteret County on the North Carolina coastline has the highest probability of hurricane-force winds in 2007 at 22.4 percent, according to the analysis by UCF ... more Chinese Space Agency Joins The International Charter Space And Major Disasters 
Paris (ESA) May 28, 2007The China National Space Administration has become the newest member of the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters', a joint initiative that works to provide emergency response satellite data free of charge to those affected by disasters anywhere in the world. China National Space Administration (CNSA) Administrator Prof. Dr Sun Laiyan signed the Charter on 24 May at ESA headquar ... more New Tactic Urged In Fight Against Japanese Whaling 
Sydney (AFP) May 28, 2007Governments critical of Japanese whaling will be pressed to take the fight up a notch -- from diplomacy to the courts -- at the International Whaling Commission's annual meeting this month. Australia and New Zealand in particular are being urged to match their tough anti-whaling talk with legal action to stop Japan's annual hunting raids into the icy waters of the Southern Ocean off Antarctica. ... more
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