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Global Warming Ravaging Mount Everest
London (AFP) Jul 06, 2007Global warming is radically changing the face of Mount Everest, the sons of the men who first reached its summit 54 years ago said in an interview published Friday. The sons of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay told British newspaper The Independent that their fathers would no longer recognise the world's highest mountain, saying the base camp is now 40 metres (132 feet) lower than it was 53 ... more Waste Not Stay Hot Says Spanish Government With New Air Con Rules 
Madrid (AFP) Jul 06, 2007The Spanish government led by example Friday on energy waste, ordering pubic buildings to stick to a minimum summer temperature of 24 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit). With much of Spain baking in rising summer temperatures that can surpass 40 degrees, the government is courting unpopularity by making people work under the restrictions. But Spanish First Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa ... more Eurobot Makes A Splash 
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 05, 2007Many of the best-loved science fiction movies show intelligent robotic servants working alongside their masters. Fiction is rapidly becoming fact as European engineers develop increasingly sophisticated machines that can operate in space. One of these, known as Eurobot, has just completed trials in the giant pool at the European Astronaut Centre. Eurobot has been under development since 20 ... more 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 |
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Washington (UPI) Jul 05, 2007Tibotec's HIV drug, TMC125, may be better at fighting resistant strains of the virus than current medications, according to two phase 3 trials released Thursday. In the trials, known as DUET-1 and DUET-2, TMC125, a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, or NNRTI, suppressed virus levels better than placebo in patients who had previously been treated with other medications and had develo ... more Oldest DNA Ever Recovered Shows Warmer Planet 
Washington (AFP) Jul 05, 2007Scientists who probed two kilometers (1.2 miles) through a Greenland glacier to recover the oldest plant DNA on record said Thursday the planet was far warmer hundreds of thousands of years ago than is generally believed. DNA of trees, plants and insects including butterflies and spiders from beneath the southern Greenland glacier was estimated to date to 450,000 to 900,000 years ago, according ... more Let Them Raise Catfish Says Indonesian Minister As Future For Mud Volcano Victims 
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 60 Feared Killed As Landslide Engulfs Bus In Mexico 
Puebla, Mexico (AFP) Jul 05, 2007Rescuers pulled more bodies, including children, on Thursday from the wreckage of a bus swallowed by a landslide in Mexico which may have killed up to 60 people, local authorities said. Emergency workers, who spent the night digging up the bus with the help of the army, said they had recovered a total 14 bodies at the site of the accident in the central state of Puebla. They earlier expressed li ... 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 |
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Brussels (AFP) Jul 05, 2007The European Commission called Thursday for the increased use of biofuels to help fight global warming but warned that production had to be carefully managed to avoid damage to the environment. "This clean, renewable source of energy has the potential to help us respond to the dual climate change/energy security challenges we face," EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said. ... 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 Iridium Passes First Milestone On Way To Deploying NEXT 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jul 04, 2007Iridium Satellite announces it has released a Request for Information (RFI) to potential partners interested in participating in the design, development and deployment of "Iridium NEXT," the company's next-generation satellite communications network. The Iridium RFI is the company's first official step toward the procurement of the NEXT system. Today's Iridium constellation provides the only mob ... more Russia Threatens Missile Deployment But US Shrugs Off Threat As Not Constructive 
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
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