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Asia-Pacific bears brunt of disasters in recent years
Sydney (AFP) Aug 20, 2007Asia-Pacific countries accounted for 90 percent of people affected by natural disasters around the world since 2000, the region's emergency management chiefs were told Monday. Climate change and population growth were likely to increase the incidence and severity of the disasters, which already affect about 250 million people globally each year, said UN expert Terje Skavdal. The Asia-Pac ... more Milestone In The Regeneration Of Brain Cells: Supportive Cells Generate New Nerve Cells 
Neuherberg, Germany (SPX) Aug 21, 2007The research group of Prof. Dr. Magdalena Gotz at the Institute of Stem Cell Research of the GSF - National Research Centre for Environment and Health, and the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, has achieved an additional step for the potential replacement of damaged brain cells after injury or disease: functional nerve cells can be generated from astroglia, a type of supportive cells in the ... more Scientists Verify Predictive Model For Winter Weather 
Lexington MA (SPX) Aug 21, 2007Scientists have verified the accuracy of a model that uses October snow cover in Siberia to predict upcoming winter temperatures and snowfall for the high- and mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. The model is called sCast, short for seasonal forecast model. Atmospheric scientist Judah Cohen of AER, Inc., in Lexington, Mass., and colleagues analyzed seven real-time winter forecasts and 33 w ... more Russia's New Research Station In Arctic To Open In Late September 
St Petersburg (RIA Novosti) Aug 21, 2007Russia's new drifting research station in the Arctic will begin working in late September, the press spokesman of the Artic and Antarctic Research Institute said Monday. The North Pole 35 station being set up with the help of the Akademik Fedorov research vessel and the nuclear icebreaker Rossiya, which brought mini-submarines to the pole for the first ever dive to the seabed earlier in Au ... more Nanoparticle Could Help Detect Many Diseases Early 
Atlanta GA (SPX) Aug 21, 2007Most people think of hydrogen peroxide as a topical germ killer, but the medicine cabinet staple is gaining steam in the medical community as an early indicator of disease in the body. Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University researchers are the first to create a nanoparticle capable of detecting and imaging trace amounts of hydrogen peroxide in animals. The nanoparticles, tho ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Aug 20, 2007Local authorities may have covered up outbreaks of a disease that has killed tens of thousands of pigs in China, the nation's chief vet said Monday, but insisted there was no cause for panic. The highly infectious blue-ear pig disease has killed 68,000 pigs across China and led to another 175,000 being slaughtered, Jia Youling, chief veterinary officer at the Ministry of Agriculture, told re ... more Outrage in China over coal mine tragedy 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 21, 2007Bosses at a Chinese coal mine where 172 workers are feared dead following a flash flood ignored warning signals, and the tragedy could have been avoided, China's official media said Tuesday. As rescue efforts continued following Friday's flooding with few hopes of finding anyone alive, outrage was building over what appeared to be the latest example of abysmal work safety practices in China' ... more China foundry blast kills 14: report 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 20, 2007Fourteen workers were killed and 59 other injured in an explosion that destroyed an aluminium foundry in eastern China, state media reported Monday. Molten aluminium heated to about 900 degrees Celsius (1,600 Fahrenheit) overflowed from a vat and triggered a massive blast that ripped the roof off the plant at Zouping, Shandong province, late Sunday, Xinhua news agency said. Windows were ... more Walker's World: Do we face another 1931? 
Washington (UPI) Aug 20, 2007 The bad news is that the market turmoil could get worse, a great deal worse, despite the Fed's lowering of the discount rate Friday that spurred the Dow Jones to jump by 230 points. The good news is that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is an academic expert on the Great Depression of the 1930s, and he's pretty sure he knows what not to do. Bernanke, who once wrote that "to ... more Indian govt grapples with US nuclear deal gridlock 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 21, 2007A nuclear cooperation accord between India and the United States was billed as historic for bringing New Delhi into the nuclear fold and delivering energy security, but it may now threaten the Indian government. India's ruling Congress party and its communist allies are at loggerheads over the issue, with neither side willing to back down. Early elections could be on the cards if the Mar ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 21, 2007Russia's Natural Resources Ministry is offering 93 new deposits for prospecting, including fields in East and West Siberia, the ministry's press office said Monday. "The ministry has approved new lists of deposits offered for geological prospecting in 2007 at the expense of natural resources companies," the ministry said in a statement. The ministry will offer 38 hydrocarbon deposits with ... more Online gamers rehearse real-world epidemics 
Paris (AFP) Aug 21, 2007A fantasy plague that accidentally ran amok in the Internet's most popular game world, populated by nine million flesh-and-blood players, may help scientists predict the impact of genuine epidemics, according to a study released Tuesday. Virtual playgrounds such as World of Warcraft, launched in 2004, could soon become testing grounds for the all-too-real battle against bird flu, malaria or ... more Rumbling Indonesian volcano spews more lava, smoke 
Jakarta (AFP) Aug 20, 2007A rumbling volcano on a northern Indonesian island spewed lava and smoke Monday, as authorities warned that searing clouds of debris could rush down its slopes at any time. Mount Karangetang, on the sparsely-populated island of Siau off North Sulawesi, was put on its highest alert on Saturday, meaning an eruption could occur at any time. More than 500 people have been evacuated from two ... more Bulldozers get to work in quake-ravaged Peruvian town 
Pisco, Peru (AFP) Aug 20, 2007Bulldozers moved in Monday to tear down the ruins of shattered buildings in this quake-hit Peruvian town, starting with the main church, which has come to symbolize the country's tragedy. Operations also began to fumigate whole sectors of the town to head off diseases before they turn into possible epidemics. More than 1,000 police and soldiers have also been deployed to halt the looting ... more Pisco residents live amid rubble, uncertainty 
Pisco, Peru (AFP) Aug 19, 2007The Gutierrez family cooks big pots of red beans over a wood fire on the street and sleeps outdoors behind the ruins of their home in this Peruvian town ravaged by a massive earthquake. They are among the many Pisco residents who live amid rubble, dust and a daily dose of nerve-wracking aftershocks, uncertain of what the future holds for them since Wednesday's 8.0-magnitude earthquake left t ... more
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