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Newmont Lodges Counter-Appeal In Indonesian Mining Case
Jakarta (AFP) June 27, 2007US mining giant Newmont said Wednesday it had lodged a counter-motion against an appeal by Indonesian prosecutors, the latest twist in a high-profile pollution case that the company won in April. The local unit of Newmont and its president director, Richard Ness, contended in the motion that the appeal to the Supreme Court was unlawful as the original court hearing was in compliance with applica ... more Substance In Tree Bark Could Lead To New Lung-Cancer Treatment 
Dallas TX (SPX) Jun 28, 2007Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have determined how a substance derived from the bark of the South American lapacho tree kills certain kinds of cancer cells, findings that also suggest a novel treatment for the most common type of lung cancer. The compound, called beta-lapachone, has shown promising anti-cancer properties and is currently being used in a clinical trial to examine i ... more China To Force Polluters To Pay More 
Beijing (AFP) June 27, 2007China is set to double fees that companies must pay for pollution amid concerns that efforts to clean up the environment are not working well enough, state press said Wednesday. The move is aimed at forcing companies who do not care for the environment to improve their pollution habits through cost pressures, the China Daily said, citing National Development and Reform Commission vice minister B ... more Floods And Heatwaves Offer Warning Of Impact Of Climate Change 
Geneva (AFP) June 27, 2007Recent floods in Asia and Britain, and heatwaves in southern Europe, show the world must be better prepared to cope with the impact of climate change, the United Nation's top disaster prevention official said Wednesday. "Heavy rainfalls in Pakistan, India and northern England and heatwaves in Greece, Italy and Romania are indications of what might happen more frequently and more severely across ... more AMA Cools Video Game Objections 
Chicago (UPI) June 27, 2007The Darth Vader-like image of video games sucking the psychic life out of young teenagers was ratcheted down a number of notches as the American Medical Association's House of Delegates held up stop signs to those who wanted to classify ardent gamers as suffering psychiatric illness. "I don't think we should be medicalizing something that may prove to be normal behavior," said Stuart Gitlow of W ... more |
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 28, 2007Russia's lower house of parliament ratified Wednesday two agreements regulating the ITER project, an experimental reactor in France being built with Russia's involvement, aimed at eventually generating power by nuclear fusion. Under the document now ratified by the State Duma, which was first signed in Paris on November 21, 2006, Russia, South Korea, China, Japan, India, the European Union and t ... more Southern Company And Georgia Tech Study Offshore Wind Power Potential 
Atlanta GA (SPX) Jun 28, 2007Southern Company said that a thorough two-year study conducted with the Georgia Institute of Technology has identified several conditions potentially favorable for wind power generation off the coast of Georgia, but that high costs and regulatory issues still need to be resolved. Launched in 2005, the joint study examined in detail a variety of factors -- including wind resources, technology, si ... more Standards Body Appeals For World's Experts To Help Harness Renewable Energy From Waves and Tides 
Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 28, 2007IEC, the global body for electrical energy standards, is now recruiting experts from around the world to develop international standards for wave and tidal energy technology. These experts will help establish this promising source of renewable energy as a competitive form of electrical energy production. With world production of electricity expected to double over the next 25 years, according to ... more PSE And G To Install More Energy Efficient Equipment 
Newark NJ (SPX) Jun 28, 2007The Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE And G) announced plans to invest in more efficient electric delivery equipment, a move expected to reduce energy use and cut carbon emissions by some 60,000 tons by the year 2020. Energy efficiency is considered the most cost-effective carbon reduction method available, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the need for new generation. ... more GE Unit's First Investment In NY Wind Energy To Boost State's Wind Power By Over 70 Percent 
Essex CN (SPX) Jun 28, 2007GE Energy Financial Services will help boost wind energy capacity in New York State by more than 70 percent with an investment in three Noble Environmental Power windparks that will generate 282 megawatts in Clinton and Wyoming Counties. The GE unit's first investment in wind energy in New York State will increase the state's wind energy capacity to 671 megawatts. The projects, located in the to ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) June 26, 2007Russia warned NATO on Tuesday against policies that could destabilise security in Europe, but both sides agreed to continue talks on deep divisions between the former Cold War foes. After meeting with President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer in turn said Russia's threatened pull-out from a key arms control pact would be "a very negative development." ... more Swiss Climate Warms Twice As Fast As Northern Hemisphere 
Geneva (AFP) June 26, 2007Switzerland's climate has warmed twice as fast as the average for the northern hemisphere since the 1970s, a Swiss public research institute said Tuesday. The Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research said in a study that temperatures in Switzerland increased by an average of 0.57 degrees Celsius per decade over the past 30 years, compared to an average 0.25-degree hike for the e ... more Can Government Force TB Treatments 
Washington (UPI) June 25, 2007Controlling tuberculosis requires a massive effort, and although many communities effectively track and treat the disease, success relies heavily on patient cooperation, experts say. In the aftermath of the highly publicized Andrew Speaker incident -- an Atlanta attorney who traveled across the Atlantic and back while infected with a rare strain of TB -- leaving compliance largely in the patient ... more Main Component For World Latest Satellite To Measure Greenhouse Gases Delivered 
Quebec City, Canada (SPX) Jun 27, 2007ABB has announced it has delivered a spatial interferometer which is the main component on the new Japanese satellite GOSAT (Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite). The satellite, which will be launched in 2008 by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), will enable Japanese scientists to study and measure greenhouse gases in support of the Kyoto protocol made it mandatory for developed na ... more Farmers Buckle Under As Drought Ravages Lesotho 
Mafeteng, Lesotho (AFP) June 26, 2007For Lesotho farmer Setsabo Mothibeli it has been too long since the rain came, as he stands desolately among dried maize stalks in the barren field he should have been harvesting. Like many subsistence farms in the small southern African mountain kingdom, his fields would have fed about 15 people -- but another year of drought, another failed harvest and the news could not be worse for the small ... more
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