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Warming Causing Gray Whales To Lose Weight
San Francisco (AFP) July 12, 2007Scientists on the US Pacific coast are increasingly observing emaciated gray whales in what they fear is a sign that global warming is wreaking havoc in the whales' Bering Sea summer feeding grounds. The scientists fear that the same phenomenon is cutting back reproduction in the Pacific whale population to the point it could be facing a new crisis, after recovering in the mid-1990s and graduati ... more Indonesian Volcano Calms As Hundreds More Evacuated 
Jakarta (AFP) July 12, 2007Activity at a smouldering Indonesian volcano appeared to ease slightly Thursday as hundreds more people were evacuated from its arid slopes, geologists and officials said. Mount Gamkonora, a 1,635-metre (5,461-foot) high volcano on Halmahera island in North Maluku province has been spewing rocks, ash and smoke into the air since Monday and experts fear an eruption could be imminent. "In th ... more Safer Shipping By Predicting Sand Wave Behaviour 
Amsterdam, Holland (SPX) Jul 13, 2007Dutch researcher Joris van den Berg has developed a mathematical model to predict the movement of sand waves. Sand waves are formed by an interaction between the tidal current and sand. They are larger than sand ripples on the beach but smaller than sandbanks. Sand waves largely determine the shape of the sea floor in the southern part of the North Sea. A good predictive computer model would be ... more Eco-City Seen In Water-Scarce Northern China 
Singapore (AFP) July 12, 2007Four locations in water-scarce northern China have been chosen as possible sites for an "eco-city" development with Singapore, a Chinese official was Thursday quoted as saying. The locations would allow the eco-city project to tap into Singapore's expertise in water technology, China's Vice Construction Minister Qiu Baoxing was quoted as saying in The Straits Times. He was part of a delega ... more Simulated Crop Provides Answer To Irrigation Issues 
Madison WI (SPX) Jul 13, 2007South Asia has witnessed a rapid growth in rice and wheat production that has defined the Green Revolution there. During the past 30 years, the Indian Punjab has transformed its agriculture through new technology that provides for high-producing plants, increased fertilization, and irrigation. Rice and wheat production has more than doubled with an increase in farmed areas, totaling about 6.4 mi ... more |
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Tokyo (RIA Novosti) Jul 13, 2007Participants in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project (ITER) will consider Kazakhstan's offer to join the construction of a fusion power reactor in France, a Russian official said Thursday. The $10 billion project to build the reactor in Cadarache near Marseilles in southern France is designed to demonstrate the scientific and technological potential of nuclear fusio ... more Guyana Criticizes Carbon Credit Scheme Of Kyoto Protocol 
Georgetown (AFP) July 12, 2007Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday criticized the Kyoto Protocol on climate change for failing to allow countries like his nation with pristine unharvested forests to earn carbon credits. "The Kyoto Protocol is limited in that sense, and it's short-sighted in that it encourages bad behaviour basically among countries; if you cut down trees and you plant them back you get money, if you ... more Illinois-Based Study Of Energy Crops Finds Miscanthus More Productive Than Switchgrass 
Chicago IL (SPX) Jul 13, 2007At the annual meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists in Chicago (July 7-11, 2007), scientists will present findings on how to economically and efficiently produce plant crops suitable for sustainable bioenergy. Improving the production of such biomass is important because it should significantly ease and eventually replace dependence on petroleum-based fuels. Biomass is plant materi ... more Context Affects Opinion About Novel Energy Sources 
Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Jul 13, 2007Opinions people have about innovations are influenced by the context in which they form their opinion. For example, opinions about a novel energy source like biomass are influenced by thoughts regarding other energy sources. The less knowledge, interest or time people have, the stronger this effect. Sustainable energy options must therefore be promoted in the right context says Dutch researcher ... more Japan Fury Over ABM Leaks By US Navy 
Washington DC (UPI) July 11, 2007Japanese defense officials are furious that the U.S. Navy leaked details of a successful, top-secret missile defense exercise last week to the media, the Japan Times reported Wednesday. The newspaper said the Japanese Defense Ministry had wanted the details of the July 6 exercise to be kept tightly secret. Ironically, the exercise was a complete success, the newspaper said. It was to confi ... more |
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Omaruru, Namibia (AFP) July 11, 2007The enormous horns of the sable antelope suddenly appear out of the thick Namibian bush and the man with the rifle pulls the trigger. The animal goes down -- a clean shot. In keeping with tradition, the hunting guide plucks a small branch from a bush, dips it into the blood of the dead animal and hands it to a German tourist. "Weidmann's Heil!" (Hunter's fortune) he says. "Weidmann's Dank, ... more Russian Energy Project Threatens Whales 
Moscow (AFP) July 11, 2007Environmental campaigners warned on Wednesday that noise from an offshore energy project in far eastern Russia led by state-controlled gas giant Gazprom was threatening endangered whales. "Ecological organisations have been warning for a long time of the critical danger of sound levels close to oil and gas extraction," the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) said in a statement. T ... more Rats Not Welcome As They Flee Flooded Homes In China 
Beijing (AFP) July 11, 2007Two billion rats that have fled their flooded homes are on the march in central China, destroying farmland and posing a health risk to humans, state press reported Wednesday. The rats have spread out across 20 counties in central Hunan province, gnawing on crops and roots as they search for new homes, the China Daily said. Locals have launched a massive counter-attack, beating rats to death with ... more New Study Suggests Climate Change Could Be The Root Of Armed Conflicts 
London UK (SPX) Jul 12, 2007Climate change, and the resulting shortage of ecological resources, could be to blame for armed conflicts in the future, according to David Zhang from the University of Hong Kong and colleagues. Their research, which highlights how temperature fluctuations and reduced agricultural production explain warfare frequency in eastern China in the past, has been published online in Springer's journal H ... more Indian Luxury Hotel Boss Calls For Major City Clean-Up 
New Delhi (AFP) July 11, 2007The head of one of India's top luxury hotel chains called on the country Wednesday to launch a major clean-up of its filthy cities or suffer a drop in tourist arrivals. "We have to clean our cities or risk losing tourists," said P.R.S. Oberoi, the chairman of the EIH Associated Hotels group, which includes the five-star Oberoi chain. "Water is a big problem, power is a big problem, the roa ... more
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