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A Whale Of A Problem For Japan At Home And Abroad
Anchorage (AFP) June 01, 2007The International Whaling Commission (IWC), the world's only regulator of whale hunting, risks collapse as Japan threatens to quit the 77-nation group, raising fears of a free-for-all slaying of the majestic creatures. Following stormy annual IWC talks this week, Japan said it was seriously considering setting up a breakaway group after failing in its two-decade crusade to lift a moratorium on c ... more Wildlife Talks Focus On Survival And Human Livelihood As Asian Trade Booms 
The Hague (AFP) June 03, 2007Representatives from 171 nations, monitored by a small army of wildlife advocates, began debating dozens of sharply contested measures Sunday on how best to regulate the global trade in wildlife. "You are making policy for the biodiversity of the future," Gerda Verburg, chairwoman and Dutch agriculture and nature minister, told some 2,500 delegates from the Convention on the International Trade ... more Corporate Giving - With Strings 
Washington (UPI) June 01, 2007Multinational businesses -- desperate to solve their public image crisis -- used to be content to simply shell out donations. Now, they want a share of the action, executives from some of the world's largest companies said Friday. Corporate giving "has always been based on the private partner owing something," said John Damonti, head of corporate giving at drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb. ... more Building A Habitable Earth 
Lyon, France (SPX) Jun 04, 2007Astrobiologists have a strong interest in understanding the conditions that prevailed on the early Earth, but the record for the first 650 million years of Earth history is gone. The earlier stages that made our planet fit for life are not recorded in the rocks we have today. The Earth was not a habitable planet when it first formed: it was a seething cauldron of molten material, with impa ... more EU, US Agree 15 Years Left To Avert Climate Disaster 
Berlin (AFP) June 03, 2007The United States and the European Union agree that the next 15 years will be decisive in averting a global warming disaster but disagree on a strategy, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Sunday. "I do not think that we are so far apart in our underlying analysis of the situation," Steinmeier told Deutschlandfunk radio. He said Washington and Europe concurred that "politicians ... more |
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Oslo (AFP) June 01, 2007A Russian nuclear waste storage facility on the Kola Peninsula runs the risk of exploding soon due to severe corrosion on three tanks, the Norwegian environmental organisation Bellona warned on Friday. "The risk of an uncontrolled chain reaction in the storage facility is imminent," Bellona, which works with nuclear contamination on the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia, said in a statement. ... more Kenyan Ingenuity Takes A Byte Out Of E-Waste 
Nairobi (AFP) June 03, 2007Subjected nightly to his wife's soap opera fetish, used-computer refurbisher Norman Mutunga began to look desperately for a way out. From the corner of his eye, Mutunga -- whose single television set is a luxury -- glimpsed a blank computer screen and an idea to solve both his company's problem with excess monitors and end to his own torture. With the help of a colleague, Mutunga hatched a ... more Airline Sector Puts Global Warming High On Meeting Agenda 
New York (AFP) June 02, 2007The world's airline industry opens its annual meeting in the Canadian city of Vancouver Sunday with the link between increased air traffic and global warming front and center on its radar screen. "This year, one of the top issues is going to be the environment," said Anthony Concil, spokesman for the International Air Transport Association. IATA represents some 250 airlines, or 94 percent of sch ... more GE Unit To Double Renewable Energy Investing And Disclose Greenhouse Gas Emissions 
Universal City CA (SPX) Jun 04, 2007GE Energy Financial Services has announced that it would double its renewable energy investments by 2010, and has become one of the first financial institutions to disclose the greenhouse gas emissions from its power plant equity investments. "We are taking these steps because 'green is green' -- good for the environment and for business -- not only for GE's manufacturing but its financial ... more GE's Jenbacher Engine Powers Commercial Landfill Gas Conversion Plant Supplying Fuel For Public Vehicles 
Atlanta GA (SPX) Jun 04, 2007A GE Energy ecomagination-certified Jenbacher landfill gas engine is powering the world's first commercial landfill gas (LFG)-to-liquid natural gas (LNG) conversion facility designed to create alternative fuel for vehicles. The LNG produced at the new facility is primarily targeted to be used as fuel for mass transit and other large vehicle fleets in the Los Angeles, Calif. region. Accordi ... more |
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Paris (ESA) Jun 01, 2007Huge waves that struck Reunion Island and coastlines across Indonesia earlier this month all originated from the same storm that occurred south of Cape Town, South Africa, and were tracked across the entire Indian Ocean for some 10 000 kilometres over a nine-day period by ESA's Envisat satellite. Waves reaching up to 11 metres devastated France's Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean when it ... more Space Systems/Loral Awarded NASA Contract For Landsat Data Continuity Mission Accommodation Study 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jun 01, 2007Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) announced that the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Rapid Spacecraft Development Office (RSDO) recently awarded SS/L a delivery order for a Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Spacecraft Accommodation Study. The Landsat Program is a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The satellites prov ... more Vote Boycott Over Japan Mars Whaling Talks 
Anchorage (AFP) Alaska, May 30, 2007An unprecedented voting boycott of a resolution on Japan's "lethal" whale hunts marred talks Wednesday of the International Whaling Commission and intensified rifts in the 75-nation group. The resolution urging Japan to suspend the "lethal aspects" of its scientific whaling program was adopted 40-2 but prompted a boycott by Japan and 26 other mostly pro-whaling nations making up more than one th ... more Research Finds Evidence Tropical Cyclones Have Climate-Control Role 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jun 01, 2007These findings support a 2001 theory by Kerry Emanuel, a professor of atmospheric science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and suggest that there is an additional factor to be included in climate models that may change predictions of future climate scenarios. "It was thought that hurricanes occurred over too short of a time period and over too small of an area to affect the global ... more Space-Inspired Garden Takes Top Prize At UK's Chelsea Garden Show 
London UK (SPX) Jun 01, 2007Sarah Eberle, designer of "600 Days with Bradstone," consulted with ESA human spaceflight experts to perfect her award-winning garden. Her garden, intended to realistically model what might be used in a future human habitation on Mars, won a Gold Medal last week at the Chelsea Flower Show, operated by the UK's Royal Horticultural Society. "600 Days with Bradstone" was also named 'Best Show Garde ... more
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