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Typhoon Slams Into Japan As Quake Rock East Russia
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 02, 2007A powerful typhoon slammed into southern Japan Thursday, injuring three people, disrupting air and land traffic and cutting power to thousands of houses. Packing winds of up to 126 kilometres (79 miles) an hour and bringing heavy rains, typhoon Usagi was moving north over Kyushu island after landing shortly before 6:00 pm (0900 GMT) from the Pacific, the meteorological agency said. The storm sys ... more Coelacanth Fossil Sheds Light On Fin-To-Limb Evolution 
Chicago IL (SPX) Aug 02, 2007A 400 million-year-old fossil of a coelacanth fin, the first finding of its kind, fills a shrinking evolutionary gap between fins and limbs. University of Chicago scientists describe the finding in a paper highlighted on the cover of the July/August 2007 issue of Evolution and Development. The fossil shows that the ancestral pattern of lobed fins closely resembles the pattern in the fins of prim ... more Pollution Amplifies Greenhouse Gas Warming Trends To Jeopardize Asian Water Supplies 
San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 02, 2007Scientists have concluded that the global warming trend caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases is a major contributor to the melting of Himalayan and other tropical glaciers. Now a new analysis of pollution-filled "brown clouds" over south Asia by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego offers hope that the region may be able to arrest some of the alarming retreat o ... more Russia Plants Flag At North Pole To Claim Arctic Seabed Riches 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 02, 2007A Russian expedition planted the country's flag on the seabed under the North Pole on Thursday, capping a mission to claim the mineral riches of the Arctic and drawing ridicule from abroad. "The Mir-1 submarine successfully reached the bottom of the Arctic Ocean... at a depth of 4,261 metres (13,980 feet)," veteran Arctic explorer and expedition leader Artur Chilingarov told the Vesti television ... more Britain To Apply For EU Aid After Floods 
London (AFP) Aug 01, 2007Britain is planning to request European Union emergency aid to help with reconstruction after flooding in central and western England at the beginning of the summer, a government minister said Wednesday. The EU emergency aid would be "a useful addition to the package of support we're already putting in place," said Communities and Local Government Minister John Healy, referring to 46 million pou ... more |
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Ottawa, Canada (SPX) Aug 02, 2007Group IV Semiconductor has announced that it received a substantial new round of investment led by Garage Technology Ventures Canada with Applied Ventures, a subsidiary of Applied Materials, and with existing investors including Khosla Ventures and BDC Venture Capital. These investments will further expand Group IV's aggressive program to use its revolutionary silicon-based nanofilm technology t ... more IAEA To Visit Japan Quake-Hit Nuclear Plant Next Week 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 02, 2007The UN's nuclear watchdog is expected to send experts to Japan next week to examine a nuclear power plant damaged during a deadly earthquake, officials said Thursday. "We've heard the IAEA's inspectors will examine the nuclear plant from Monday through Thursday and on Friday exchange information with Japanese officials in Tokyo," an official at Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.< ... more A Future Natural Gas Cartel 
Doha, Qatar (UPI) Aug 02, 2007The April 9 meeting in Doha, Qatar, of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum attracted intense media scrutiny. Pundits speculated that the hidden agenda of the meeting, the first in two years, was to explore the possibility of developing a natural gas cartel along the lines of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Such a cartel would have immense financial and political clout in the glo ... more Developing World Seeks Funds And Technology To Tackle Climate Change 
United Nations (AFP) Aug 01, 2007Rich nations were challenged Wednesday to make deeper cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions and to provide the developing world with funding and technology to help it tackle climate change. Developed countries "have a specific responsibility" to carry out deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emission "in accordance with the commitments made under the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol," Pakistani Environme ... more Bridges Too Far As Infrastructure Ages Across The Old West 
Washington (UPI) Aug 02, 2007The collapse of an eight-lane interstate bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis that was under repair reminds us that 30 percent of America's almost 500,000 bridges are categorized as "deficient" and in "urgent need of repair." The Iraq and Afghan wars have cost more than half a trillion dollars so far. The two conflicts are running at the rate of $12 billion a month, or $400 million a ... more |
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Sydney (AFP) July 31, 2007There was a time when wearing sunglasses would have been seen as too cool for school, but for pupils at a pioneering primary in Australia they are now a compulsory part of the uniform. The move is aimed at protecting young eyes from the sun's dangerous ultraviolet rays, and education authorities say they are considering adopting the plan at all state schools. The headmaster of Sydney's Arncliffe ... more Particle Emissions From Laser Printers Might Pose Health Concern 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 01, 2007Certain laser printers used in offices and homes release tiny particles of toner-like material into the air that people can inhale deep into lungs where they may pose a health hazard, scientists are reporting. Their study is scheduled for the August 1 online issue of the American Chemical Society's Environmental Science and Technology (ES and T), a semi-monthly journal. Lidia Morawska, Ph ... more Expert Challenges Earthquake Theory Behind Indonesian Mud Volcano 
Durham UK (SPX) Aug 01, 2007A leading vulcanologist has repeated his assertion that an Indonesian mud volcano was almost certainly manmade despite a new study claiming the eruption might have been triggered by an earthquake. Professor Richard Davies of Durham University's Centre for Research into Earth Energy Systems (CeREES), said the volcano, known locally as Lusi, was most likely caused by the drilling of a nearby explo ... more Waters Off Washington State Only Second Place In World Where Glass Sponge Reefs Found 
Grays Harbor WA (SPX) Aug 01, 2007Thirty miles west of Grays Harbor, University of Washington scientists have discovered large colonies of glass sponges thriving on the seafloor. The species of glass sponges capable of building reefs were thought extinct for 100 million years until they were found in recent years in the protected waters of Canada's Georgia and Hecata straits, the only place in the world they've been observed unt ... more Mapping Mountains From Space With GOCE 
Paris (ESA) Aug 02, 2007How high is Mount Everest exactly? Recent surveys have come up with heights that differ by more than five metres. An expedition called the Geodetic Journey is making its way through China and Tibet to highlight the importance of geodesy and how an accurate model of the geoid from ESA's GOCE mission will lead to a unified system for measuring heights. Geodesy is concerned with measuring and m ... more
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