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US And Russia Begin Nuclear Reduction Talks
Washington (AFP) Jul 03, 2007The United States and Russia on Tuesday pushed for peaceful nuclear energy use and said they had begun talks to trim their nuclear arsenals "to the lowest possible level" ahead of the expiry of a landmark strategic weapons agreement. The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which led to the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive weapons under the largest arms control accord in histo ... more Corruption Remains Critical Obstacle To Africa 
Washington (UPI) Jul 03, 2007The apparent drug-related murder of Brahim Deby, son of Chad's President Idriss Deby, Monday morning outside Paris points to the excesses of an heir to kleptocracy. The 27 year-old Deby had held several administrative posts in his father's government, but was dismissed in 2006 after French police -- following a brawl at a disco -- raided his apartment to discover cocaine and cannabis as well as ... more Cities To Boom In Africa And Asia 
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 03, 2007The urban populations in Africa and Asia will at least double over the next 30 years to 1.7 billion, adding more people than the Chinese and U.S. populations combined. According to a recent U.N. study, urban populations are growing at more than 1.2 million people a week. In 2008, for the first time in history, city residents outnumber rural population, the report's principal author George Martin ... more Japan Defence Chief Sorry For Atom Bomb Remarks, Despite The Obvious 
Tokyo (AFP) July 1, 2007Japan's defence minister apologised Sunday after sparking outrage over remarks which implied that the atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Japan were the inevitable way to end World War II. Defence Minister Fumio Kyuma said in a speech on Saturday: "I understand the bombings brought the war to its end. I think it was something that couldn't be helped." He apologised on Sunday durin ... more BAE Systems Completes Major New Facility For Ionospheric Physics Research 
Gakona, Alaska, June 27, 2007BAE Systems has completed work on the world's largest and most capable ionospheric research facility. The facility will be used to study interactions between high-power radio signals and the earth's ionosphere. As the prime contractor for the U.S. Defense Department's High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) research station, BAE Systems designed and built the facility, operating s ... more |
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United Nations (UPI) June 28, 2007Climate change manifests itself in many ways in different parts of the globe. While flooding is the fear of small island states and seaside communities in several parts of the globe, it is desertification in many other regions, fertile fields transformed into "drylands," threatening international stability. Desertification has been dubbed "the greatest environmental challenge of our times. ... more Australian Drought Turns To Flood As California Dries Out 
Sydney (AFP) July 1, 2007As severe water restrictions take effect in Australia's major agricultural area, experts say there are signs the country's worst drought in a century may finally be coming to an end. Torrential rain last week flooded parts of Victoria state, just weeks after a deluge hit New South Wales and left nine people dead. The rains helped replenish dwindling dam levels in some of Australia's major ... more Islands Off China Vanishing Under Weight Of Exploitation 
Beijing (AFP) June 29, 2007China boasts tens of thousands of islands but many are disappearing and others are being devastated by uncontrolled quarrying and other industrial practices, state media reported Friday. "Rampant stone quarrying and rubbish dumping have accelerated the deterioration of island eco-systems," said a circular issued by the State Oceanic Administration (SOA), according to the Xinhua news agency. ... more GOP House Science Committee To Evaluate NASA Earth Science Budget 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 28, 2007Today, the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics heard from a panel of expert witnesses who discussed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) fiscal year 2008 (FY08) budget request and plans for the agency's Earth science programs. At the hearing, Space and Aeronautics Ranking Member Tom Feeney (R-FL) made the following statement: "Today's hearing on NASA's Earth Science ... more In Russian Far East Nature Makes No Allowances For Tourists 
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (AFP) Jun 28, 2007In a vast wilderness in eastern Russia, scientists and tourism entrepreneurs are anxiously working out how much is left of one of the world's great natural wonders, Geyser Valley. Hidden behind a veil of secrecy in Soviet times, the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula boasts nature at its most unpredictable, as demonstrated by a recent landslide that obliterated many of its prized geysers. In ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007Belarus will soon announce a tender for the construction of its first nuclear power plant, the prime minister said Friday. "The amount of finance will be determined shortly, and a tender will be announced," Sergei Sidorsky said after a ministerial Russia-Belarus union session in Moscow, adding a potential construction site was already being selected. Belarusian officials have said that Rus ... more India-Iran-Pakistan Talks On Gas Pipeline Still To Continue 
New Delhi (RIA Novosti) Jun 30, 2007India, Iran and Pakistan failed to reach a compromise on tariffs on natural gas deliveries and will continue talks on signing a tripartite gas pipeline agreement in July, the Indian press said citing government sources. Talks ended in New Delhi Friday on the $7.5 billion pipeline, which will have annual capacity of at least 21.1 billion cubic meters and is expected to come on stream in 2011. ... more Russia And France Establish JV To Produce Nuclear Power Planet Turbines 
Paris (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007Russia's Atomenergomash and France's Alstom signed Friday documents to establish a $400-million joint venture to manufacture half-speed turbines for nuclear power plants in Russia and abroad. The companies reached a deal in April with Russia's state controlled nuclear power corporation having a 51%-share in the JV, which will operate on the platform of the machine-building firm ZIO Podolsk in th ... more Hong Kong Choked By Growing Pollution Problem 
Hong Kong (AFP) June 30, 2007Discarded cigarette packets, McDonald's wrappers and even old socks litter the shores of Lau Fau Shan in Hong Kong's far north, home to what remains of the territory's oyster farming industry. From across the border in China, factories belch smoke into the fetid air over Deep Bay, one of Hong Kong's most polluted stretches of water. Ten years after the territory was handed back to the Chin ... more Subcommittee Continues Look At Status of NASA Earth Science Programs 
Washington, DC (SPX) Jun 29, 2007The House Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics continues to examine the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Fiscal Year 2008 budget request and plans for the Earth science and applications programs. The latest hearing built upon the Science and Technology Committee's February 13th hearing which examined the findings and recommendations o ... more
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