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Indonesia Threatened By Rising Sea Levels
Jakarta (AFP) Jun 04, 2007Indonesia is particularly vulnerable to the impact of climate change as global warming threatens to raise sea levels and flood coastal farming areas, threatening food security, a report released Monday said. The report sponsored by the World Bank and Britain's Department for International Development said global warming could increase temperatures, shorten the rainy season and intensify rainfall ... more GM Field Trials Uunderestimate Potential For Cross-Pollination 
Exeter UK (SPX) Jun 05, 2007Field trials could be underestimating the potential for cross-pollination between GM and conventional crops, according to new research by the University of Exeter. The research team recommends a new method for predicting the potential for cross-pollination, which takes account of wind speed and direction. The research, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and published ... more Africa The New Terrorwar Battlefield 
Washington (UPI) June 04, 2007Recent attacks by al-Qaida affiliates in North Africa reflect the new challenges facing U.S. intelligence experts and threaten a blowback effect from Iraq. Preoccupied in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States has not had the resources or energy to focus on counter-terrorism efforts in North Africa. That attitude is changing, however, as recent attacks in Morocco and Algeria suggest that the re ... more Global Warming House Committee Visits Greenland 
Jakobshavn Glacier, Greenland (SPX) Jun 05, 2007While most Americans are enjoying the beach or barbeque at this time of year, Chairman Edward Markey of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming joined House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of the Select Committee on an international fact-finding mission on global warming impacts and solutions during Memorial Day weekend. The bipartisan delegation arrived in Gr ... more Cells Re-Energize To Come Back From The Brink Of Death 
Memphis TN (SPX) Jun 05, 2007The discovery of how some abnormal cells can avoid a biochemical program of self-destruction by increasing their energy level and repairing the damage, is giving investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital insights into a key strategy cancer cells use to survive and thrive. The finding offers an explanation of how abnormal cells that have cheated death once by disabling the main suici ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Jun 04, 2007China said Monday it would not back efforts to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius, which UN experts have warned is the threshold-level to stop the worst impacts of climate change. "Whether or not we can set a limit on a two-degree (3.6 Fahrenheit) rise in temperature I'm afraid still lacks a lot of scientific evidence and dependable and feasible research," China's top economic planner M ... more A Sound Way To Turn Heat Into Electricity 
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Jun 05, 2007University of Utah physicists developed small devices that turn heat into sound and then into electricity. The technology holds promise for changing waste heat into electricity, harnessing solar energy and cooling computers and radars. "We are converting waste heat to electricity in an efficient, simple way by using sound," says Orest Symko, a University of Utah physics professor who leads the e ... more GE Investing To Expland Wind Energy Portfolio 
Sweetwater TX (SPX) Jun 05, 2007GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of General Electric, has agreed to invest in its biggest wind farm, the 241-megawatt Sweetwater 4 facility, along with a sister project in Texas. The announcement was made today at Universal Studios California at GE's "Green is Universal" exhibition, a celebration of GE customers' improvements in operating and environmental performance. GE Energy Financ ... more Sandia And Boeing Collaborate To Develop Aircraft Fuel Cell Applications 
Albuquerque, NM (SPX) Jun 05, 2007Sandia National Laboratories and Boeing are collaborating on a project looking at the feasibility of using a hydrogen-powered fuel cell for providing backup power in aircraft. Commercial and military aircraft use a variety of techniques for providing backup electrical power to critical subsystems during emergency scenarios. Depending on the aircraft, these may include dedicated battery power, in ... more India Resists Calls To Cut Emissions As Brazil Says No To US Plans 
New Delhi (AFP) Jun 04, 2007India said Monday that it would not agree to any commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions under growing international pressure, and instead pressed for greater collaboration on clean technologies. New Delhi has already said it would reject such calls at this week's Group of Eight summit, where climate change will be a key topic, because stricter limits would slow its booming economy. "T ... more |
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Washington (AFP) June 01, 2007US President George W. Bush reached out to Russia Friday to soothe concerns over a planned US missile defense program that has cranked tension between the allies and fears of a Cold War-style arms race. "The Cold War is over. We're now into the 21st century, where we need to deal with the true threats, which are threats of radical extremists ... and the threats of proliferation," Bush said in an ... more Gates Urges China To Explain Military Intentions 
Honolulu HI (AFP) Jun 01, 2007US Defense Secretary Robert Gates called on China Thursday to explain its intentions in undertaking a major military buildup that the Pentagon warns is altering the military balance in the region. "There is no question that the Chinese are building significant capacity," Gates said. "Our concern is over their intent." Gates spoke to reporters during a stopover here on his way to Singapore ... more Is The World In For A New Cold Age 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 04, 2007Today's strategic balance is an expression of the quantitative and qualitative alignment of forces with due account of the factors determining the strategic situation. Its parameters form a sophisticated dynamic system; nuclear, primarily strategic weapons are one of its elements. But the general condition of this system largely depends on its other elements. Thus, there is an inseparable ... more Louisiana Aims To Unleash Mississippi River 
New Orleans (AFP) June 03, 2007After being hemmed in by a complex system of levees for generations, the Mississippi River could soon be unleashed in an epic project to save Louisiana's rapidly eroding coastline. The ambitious plan would create a series of gates that would control the release of silt-laden river water, which would sustain existing wetlands and rebuild some of those that have been buried by the encroaching Gulf ... more 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
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