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Hurricane Flossie rolls toward Hawaii
Los Angeles (AFP) Aug 14, 2007A powerful storm in the Pacific Ocean was expected to graze Hawaii on Tuesday, delivering strong winds, heavy rain and high surf, US weather forecasters said. The National Weather Service said while a tropical storm warning and hurricane watch remained in effect for Hawaii's big island, Hurricane Flossie appeared to be slowing down on Monday evening. Forecast to pass just south of the is ... more Cost of South Asia floods nears one billion dollars 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 14, 2007The cost of South Asia's worst flooding in decades has reached nearly one billion dollars, officials said Tuesday, as Bangladesh struggled to cope with a major outbreak of water-borne disease. Losses in India's worst-hit northeast amounted to 875 million dollars so far, including damage to crops and property, India's home ministry said, while Bangladesh said it had counted crop damage of at ... more AIDS rate in Kenya drops due to increased ARV use 
Nairobi (AFP) Aug 14, 2007Kenya's AIDS prevalence rate has dropped to 5.1 percent last year from 5.9 percent in 2005 mainly due to the increased rollout of anti-retrovirals, the national AIDS council said Tuesday. The state-run National AIDS Control Council (NACC) said the growing use of life-prolonging therapy averted around 57,000 deaths in 2006. "The annual death of adult AIDS deaths in Kenya reached a peak of ... more Global warming boosts crop disease 
Paris (AFP) Aug 14, 2007Global warming will fuel a disease that annually causes hundreds of million dollars in damage to rapeseed plants, used to make canola oil, according to a study released Tuesday. Using weather-based computer models, researchers in Britain predicted that climate change will expand the range and increase the severity of phoma stem canker, which already accounts for 900 million dollars (650 mill ... more Northern Indonesian volcano spews smoke, heat clouds 
Jakarta (AFP) Aug 14, 2007A volcano on Indonesia's Sulawesi island spewed smoke into the sky and spat heat clouds down its slopes Tuesday, but no evacuation of people in its surrounds was needed, an official said. A column of smoke soared 1,500 metres (yards) above Mount Soputan and clouds of gas shot down its western slope, said Sandi, an official manning the vulcanology observation post on the volcano's slopes. ... more |
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Troy NY (SPX) Aug 15, 2007Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new energy storage device that easily could be mistaken for a simple sheet of black paper. The nanoengineered battery is lightweight, ultra thin, completely flexible, and geared toward meeting the trickiest design and energy requirements of tomorrow's gadgets, implantable medical equipment, and transportation vehicles. Along ... more Production Costs Of Advanced Biofuels Is Similar To Grain-Ethanol 
London UK (SPX) Aug 12, 2007Second generation biorefineries - those making biofuel from lignocellulosic feedstocks like straw, grasses and wood - have long been touted as the successor to today's grain ethanol plants, but until now the technology has been considered too expensive to compete. However, recent increases in grain prices mean that production costs are now similar for grain ethanol and second generation biofuels ... more Adding Up Renewable Energy 
Thessaloniki, Greece (SPX) Aug 15, 2007Do the overall efficiencies of renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar, and geothermal add up in terms of their complete life cycle from materials sourcing, manufacture, running, and decommissioning" Researchers in Greece have carried out a life cycle assessment to find the answer. Increasing energy consumption and a growing world population implies shrinking reserves of fossil fuels ... more LSU Professors Work To Improve Efficiency Of Ethanol Fuel 
Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Aug 15, 2007Lowering fuel emission levels is a topic facing constant scrutiny by the global public. Rising gas costs, environmental concerns and conflicts in oil-producing areas have made consumers, corporations and researchers more than curious about the potential of alternative, or "green," fuels, such as ethanol. James Spivey, McLaurin Shivers professor of chemical engineering at LSU, and Challa Ku ... more Analysis: Kazakhstan's nuclear future 
Washington (UPI) Aug 14, 2007 While Western attention focuses on the rising oil and natural gas potential of Caspian states, rising energy player Kazakhstan has another energy asset up its sleeve: uranium. Kazakhstan contains the world's second-largest uranium reserves, estimated at 1.5 million tons. In 2006 it produced 5,279 tons of uranium, 21 percent more than in 2005, and intends in 2007 to increase uranium prod ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Aug 13, 2007 The announcement Saturday by President Vladimir Putin that Russia has launched a vast program to improve the country's missile defense system is being presented as a response to American plans to deploy a similar new U.S. anti-missile system in Eastern Europe. But it comes in the context of other recent Russian steps that suggest a determined and coordinated effort by the Kremlin to ass ... more Keeping The Plates Of Planet Earth Well Oiled 
Paris, France (ESF) Aug 14, 2007Earth's surface is a very active place; its plates are forever jiggling around, rearranging themselves into new configurations. Continents collide and mountains arise, oceans slide beneath continents and volcanoes spew. As far as we know Earth's restless surface is unique to the planets in our solar system. So what is it that keeps Earth's plates oiled and on the move? Scientists think tha ... more Clones On Task Serve Greater Good Evolutionary 
East Lansing MI (SPX) Aug 14, 2007"Don't ever change" isn't just a romantic platitude. It's a solid evolutionary strategy. At least if you're among the creatures that produce scads of genetically identical offspring - like microbes, plants or water fleas. These creatures provide a chance to wonder about the clones raised in near-identical environments that turn out differently than their kin. In this week's Proceedings of ... more Bursts Of Waves Drive Immune System Soldiers Toward Invaders 
San Francisco CA (SPX) Aug 14, 2007Scientists have discovered that torrents of microscopic waves propel white blood cells toward invading microbes. The discovery - recorded on videotape -- holds the potential for better understanding and treatment of cancer and heart disease. Visible only under a very high-resolution light microscope, the dynamic waves are made of a signaling protein that directs cell movement. This protein and a ... more Change On The Range 
Madison WI (SPX) Aug 14, 2007In the Southwestern U.S., land managers face equally critical and difficult decisions when it comes to their ranges. The region is known for its climate variability which has strong influences and impacts on range conditions. Access to the latest climate and range science information is vital for managers to make effective short and long-term decisions. An experiential learning exercise was held ... more
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