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Pioneering 3D View Of Near-Earth Magnetic Dance
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 05, 2007Scientists have obtained the first-ever 3D picture of interconnected magnetic 'dances' in near-Earth space, known as magnetic reconnection events. The data from ESA's Cluster satellites will help to understand better magnetic reconnection, a process related to star formation, solar explosions and the entry of solar wind energy into the near-Earth environment. Magnetic reconnection is the p ... more How To Manage Floating Fluids In Space 
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 05, 2007Six months is a long time to be away from home. But Astronaut Sunita Williams had plenty of work to keep her busy during her stay on the International Space Station, including a group of experiments she dubbed "lava lamp." "I call it the 'lava lamp' experiment because some of the fluid is pink, and we hang out watching it with video and pictures," she wrote in her mission log. "If only we had a ... more Missiles In Kaliningrad 
Washington (UPI) Jul 05, 2007The ballistic missile defense showdown in Central Europe between the United States and Russia took another grim leap forward this week: Russian First Deputy Premier and former Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said that if the Bush administration pushed ahead with its plans, Russia would respond by openly deploying ballistic missiles targeted on the bases in its oblast or region of Kaliningrad. ... more Interpreting Nukes In Japan 
Washington (UPI) Jul 05, 2007If the United States had not dropped nuclear bombs on Japan, World War II could have dragged on even longer and claimed more Japanese as well as American lives. That line of thinking is a mainstream U.S. theory when justifying the Truman administration's decision to attack Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. But merely mouthing that idea in front of a group of university students is ill-advised for ... more Non-hospital MRSA More Deadly 
Washington (UPI) Jul 05, 2007Hospital-acquired infections increase mortality rates and healthcare costs, and a growing number each year withstand traditional treatment. Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, represents the most dangerous form of staph infections because it can't be cured by normal antibiotics. The percentage of MRSA infections has steadily increased since the 1980s, and a recent study conduct ... more |
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Jakarta (AFP) Jul 05, 2007Hundreds of hectares of land inundated by sludge spewed from a devastating "mud volcano" in Indonesia should be developed to raise catfish, a minister said Thursday. "We have tested this and it has been proven that catfish can be raised in ponds made of the mud," environment minister Rachmat Witoelar told AFP. Witoelar said the government's priority was now to try to reduce the mud outflow or ha ... more Ancient Toba Mega-Eruption Not So Catastrophic 
Washington (AFP) Jul 05, 2007One of the biggest eruptions in Earth's history some 70,000 years ago, the Toba volcano in Indonesia, was not as much a world climate catastrophe as first thought, a study said Thursday. The Toba eruption, in northern Sumatra, was the strongest felt by the planet in the last two million years, said an international team of scientists. However, the hypothesis that it may have drastically co ... more Lula Defends Brazil Biofuels Industry 
Brussels (AFP) Jul 05, 2007Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended biofuels Thursday aimd growing concerns about their drawbacks, saying they offer an "opportunity" to lift developing countries out of poverty. The Brazilian leader said that the success his country's booming biofuels industry has enjoyed could be reproduced in some of the poorest parts of the world, helping to alleviate poverty. "I am convin ... more Nearly Half Of Electricity From Renewable Resources By 2030 Says Berlin 
Berlin (AFP) Jul 05, 2007Germany plans to boost the percentage of electricity generated by renewable resources to 45 percent by 2030 in a bid to curb global warming, environment minister Sigmar Gabriel said Thursday. Gabriel told reporters that a progress report on a renewable energy law (EEG) passed in 2000 showed that the country had already surpassed the quota of 12.5 percent set for 2010. He said Berlin was now sett ... more Malaysian Rainforests Not Cleared For Palm Oil In A Decade 
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Jul 05, 2007A minister on Thursday defended Malaysia's plantation industry and said tropical rainforests have not been cleared to plant palm oil in the last 10 years. Plantations Minister Peter Chin was refuting allegations that palm oil production destroys rainforests and wildlife habitats or that it increases greenhouse gas emissions and leads to a loss in biodiversity. "I would like to reiterate here tha ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Jul 04, 2007Russia issued a veiled threat on Wednesday to deploy rockets in its Kaliningrad region bordering the European Union if the United States built a missile defence shield in central Europe. Moscow and Washington are locked in a standoff over the US plans for a radar station in the Czech Republic and interceptor rockets in Poland. Russia says the plans threaten its security. The threat to put missil ... more India Monsoons Leave Hundreds Dead And Millions Stranded 
New Delhi (AFP) Jul 04, 2007The death toll from this year's monsoon climbed to 474 on Wednesday as blinding rains lashed eastern India, according to officials and media reports. Two more deaths in the past 24 hours pushed the death toll to 13 in drenched West Bengal, officials said in state capital Kolkata where knee-deep flood waters invaded homes and offices. The city of 16 million people had received 300 millimetres (11 ... more Ancient Arctic Ponds Drying Up 
Montreal (AFP) Jul 04, 2007Ancient ponds in the Artic tundra in northern Canada are drying up and some will disappear in less than a quarter-century due to global warming, Canadian researchers report in a new study. "Using these data, we show that some high Arctic pond ecosystems, which represent the most common aquatic habitat in many polar regions, have desiccated as a consequence of climate change," says the study, pub ... more Environmental Degradation A Growing Public Danger To People In China 
Beijing (AFP) Jul 04, 2007China's environment is close to breaking point and the situation is endangering people's lives, one of the nation's top anti-pollution officials said in comments published Wednesday. Pan Yue, an outspoken vice minister at the State Environmental Protection Administration, said campaigns to clean-up the environment were going backwards because the country's primary focus continued to be on econom ... more Activists Demand Full Details Of German Nuclear Plant Fire 
Kiel, Germany (AFP) Jul 04, 2007Environmentalists on Wednesday blasted an energy company for failing to reveal the full extent of a fire last week at a German nuclear power plant. The German branch of Friends of the Earth, BUND, demanded from European energy group Vattenfall "full transparency in the investigation of the causes of the fire and possible dangers." A company spokesman dismissed the criticism, saying it had provid ... more
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