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Antarctic Glaciers Flowing Faster
London (AFP) Jun 05, 2007Hundreds of glaciers in the Antarctic peninsula are flowing faster, adding to a rise in sea levels, British experts said on Tuesday as they pointed the finger of blame at global warming. In a study coincidentally released on the eve of the Group of Eight (G8) summit, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) reported a 12-percent increase in the speed of over 300 glaciers monitored by satellite between ... more Threats To Wild Tigers Growing 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 05, 2007The wild tiger now occupies a mere 7 percent of its historic range, and the area known to be inhabited by tigers has declined by 41 percent over the past decade, according to an article published in the June 2007 issue of BioScience. Growing trade in folk medicines made from tiger parts and tiger skins, along with habitat loss and fragmentation, is believed to be the chief reason for the losses. ... more China Says Pollution Woes To Ease This Year 
Beijing (AFP) Jun 05, 2007The amount of pollution being pumped into China's environment will finally begin to fall this year, the nation's environment ministry said Tuesday, after a similar goal was missed in 2006. "We should see a turning point... this year," Zhang Lijun, the vice minister of the State Environment Protection Administration, told reporters in a briefing to mark World Environment Day. "This will be ... more Sarkozy Debuts On World Stage At G8 Summit 
Paris (AFP) Jun 05, 2007President Nicolas Sarkozy makes his debut on the world stage at the Group of Eight summit of rich countries this week, a month after winning office on a pledge to bolster France's international role. Sarkozy is stepping into the shoes of his predecessor Jacques Chirac who was the G8 club's elder statesman when he retired after 12 years in office. But the 52-year-old French president will b ... more Why Global Warming Has Brought The G8 To Boiling Point 
Paris (AFP) Jun 05, 2007In 2004, climate change did not even rate a mention in the summary of the Group of Eight (G8) summit at Sea Island, Georgia. Today, it is the issue that may make or break the rich nations' get-together in Heiligendamm, Germany. Summit host German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces an unenviable choice. She can insist that the summit endorse an ambitious plan for tackling greenhouse gases, although t ... more |
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Vancouver (AFP) Jun 05, 2007The airline sector must aim for zero carbon-dioxide emissions by 2050, an industry association says, but not everyone is heeding its call for a joint effort by aircraft manufacturers, carriers and public authorities. "We have to move all forward in the same direction" toward reducing CO2 emissions to zero percent, the International Air Transport Association said in Vancouver Monday at the annual ... more Florida Rejects Clean Coal Bid As Public Ignores Cost Of National Self Sufficiency 
Juno Beach FL (SPX) Jun 06, 2007Florida Power and Light Company (FPL) said that it is deeply disappointed in the Florida Public Service Commission's (PSC) ruling that failed to recognize the utility's need to build an advanced clean coal technology power plant to meet customers' future energy demands. For several years, FPL has received strong encouragement through the Florida Energy Plan, the Florida legislature and the ... more Powerful Cyclone Threatens Oil Industry In Oman 
Muscat, Oman (AFP) Jun 05, 2007A cyclone packing huge winds of up to 260 kilometres an hour advanced towards the Gulf state of Oman on Tuesday, posing a potential threat to the key route for oil exports from the energy-rich region. Oman has evacuated about 7,000 people from coastal areas in the sultanate, where the weather service said Cyclone Gonu was expected to make landfall by early Wednesday. The first signs of the ... more UN Chief Concerned Over Impact Of Travel On Climate Change 
Madrid (AFP) Jun 05, 2007United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon expressed concern during a visit to Spain on Tuesday over the impact that the drastic rise in global travel is having on climate change. "Some 840 million people travel across borders each year. An even greater number move within their own countries," he said at the Madrid headquarters of the UN's World Tourism Organization. "This mass travel contributes ma ... more Restricted Zone 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2007NASA plans to send humans back to the moon, and eventually to Mars. But humans and the food they eat are chock full of microbial contaminants. Figuring out how to keep that contamination in check is the job of Dr. Cassie Conley, NASA's acting planetary protection officer. In this, the third and final part of Astrobiology Magazine's interview with Conley, she explains that, sometimes, it's okay ... more |
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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 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 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 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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