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Japan Quake Kills Eight
Kashiwazaki, Japan (AFP) Jul 17, 2007A powerful earthquake struck Japan on Monday, killing eight people, injuring hundreds and causing radioactive water to leak from a nuclear plant that also caught fire. The mid-morning quake, striking northwest of Tokyo and registering 6.8 on the Richter scale, also damaged hundreds of homes, reducing some to heaps of rubble. "The television set and washing machine were thrown across the room," s ... more Extreme Weather Monitoring Boosted By Space Sensor 
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 17, 2007The first soil moisture maps with a spatial resolution of one km are available online for the entire southern African subcontinent. As soil moisture plays an important role in the global water cycle, these maps, based on data from ESA's Envisat satellite, will lead to better weather and extreme-event forecasting, such as floods and droughts. "Predicting when and where floods are likely to ... more NASA Awards Contract For Land-Imaging Instrument 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2007NASA has selected Ball Aerospace and Technologies to develop the Operational Land Imager instrument for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM). The instrument will capture images in the visible and near-infrared spectra. The cost-plus-award-fee contract, including all options, is $127.9 million. Under the contract terms, Ball Aerospace will design, develop, fabricate and integrate one ... more Evidence Found For Novel Brain Cell Communication 
Brooklyn NY (SPX) Jul 17, 2007An article published today, July 16, 2007, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides strong evidence for a novel type of communication between nerve cells in the brain. The findings may have relevance for the prevention and treatment of epilepsy, and possibly in the exploration of other aspects of brain functions, from creative thought processes to mental illnesses such as schi ... more Indonesian Volcano Alert Lowered 
Jakarta (AFP) July 16, 2007Thousands of people who fled their homes around the slopes of a smouldering volcano in Indonesia were Monday told it was safe to return after authorities downgraded the alert status. Mount Gamkonora on the northeastern island of Halmahera was put on top alert last Tuesday, meaning experts believed an eruption could be imminent. "We have downgraded the alert level because the seismic activi ... more |
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 17, 2007Since 2006, Sevmash, the main company of the Russian State Nuclear Shipbuilding Center, has been working to complete a floating nuclear power plant in northern Russia that will be launched in 2010 and moored in a nearby harbor. This technological marvel will raise quite a few eyebrows and cause widespread apprehension, because the world still fears everything connected with nuclear power. ... more Somali PM Says He Is Not Aware Of Oil Deal With China 
London, UK (AFP) Jul 17, 2007Somalia's interim prime minister said in an interview published Tuesday that he was not aware of a deal struck between Chinese energy companies and his government allotting them oil exploration rights. Ali Mohamed Gedi's comments were interpreted by the Financial Times as signalling a potential internal power struggle within the Somali government, reporting that it had seen a document signed by ... more Report Finds Forest Enterprises Stifled By Red Tape, Putting Forests And Incomes At Risk 
Rio Branco, Brazil (SPX) Jul 17, 2007A new study reports that community forest enterprises represent an invisible investment of US$2.5 billion in management and conservation in some of the planet's richest forest habitats. This is more than governments in tropical regions spend directly on forest conservation. However, these enterprises are being side-lined in the international forestry arena, putting forests at risk the world over ... more The Coming Conflict In The Arctic 
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jul 17, 2007Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush spent most of their time at the "lobster summit" at Kennebunkport, Maine, discussing how to prevent the growing tensions between their two countries from getting out of hand. The media and international affairs experts have been portraying missile defense in Europe and the final status of Kosovo as the two most contentious issues ... more Leak At Japanese Nuclear Plant After Quake 
Kashiwazaki, Japan (AFP) Jul 16, 2007A powerful earthquake in Japan triggered a small leak of radioactive material Monday from one of the world's largest nuclear plants, the operator said. The deadly 6.8 Richter-scale earthquake also ignited a fire at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa facility, the largest nuclear plant in a nation with strict safety regulations. "We have confirmed that water containing a slight amount of radioactive ma ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) July 14, 2007Russia will no longer respect a key arms treaty that limits the deployment of military forces in Europe, the Kremlin said Saturday in the latest escalation of tensions between Moscow and the West. President Vladimir Putin signed a decree suspending Russia's adherence to the 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) arms control treaty due to "exceptional circumstances ... broaching on the securit ... more Organic Farming Can Feed the World 
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Jul 16, 2007Organic farming can yield up to three times as much food as conventional farming on the same amount of land---according to new findings which refute the long-standing assumption that organic farming methods cannot produce enough food to feed the global population. Researchers from the University of Michigan found that in developed countries, yields were almost equal on organic and conventi ... more Bush administration accused of putting ideology above science 
Washington (AFP) July 15, 2007Testimony from President George W. Bush's former surgeon general last week has fueled charges that his administration has trumped science in favor of its political and religious ideologies. The administration has been at loggerheads with scientists since it came to power in 2001 on issues ranging from stem cell research to global warming and the theory of evolution. It stood accused again ... more Voracious China Gobbles Up Forests, Recycled Paper 
Washington (AFP) July 13, 2007China's soaring demand for paper on the back of rapid economic growth is threatening forests, even as it ramps up recycling of wastepaper from developed nations, a study showed Friday. The report by Washington-based Forest Trends, which conducts research on forestry trade issues, comes amid growing controversy over the influence of China's industry on the global market for paper and raw timber.< ... more Indian Kashmir Goes Digital To Discourage Shahtoosh Trade 
Srinagar, India (AFP) July 14, 2007Authorities in Indian Kashmir are using modern technology to check trade in shahtoosh products made from the fur of an endangered Tibetan antelope, officials said on Saturday. Wildlife officials say they have put microchip tags on nearly 900 shahtoosh products owned by Kashmiris to discourage trading in the fabric known as the "king of wools" for its gossamer lightness. Tags "weighing less ... more
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