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Highly Sensitive Weather Radar A Gain For Climate Research
Delft, Holland (SPX) Aug 27, 2007TU Delft has taken a new weather radar system into use, the 'Drizzle Radar', which can observe even the lightest of drizzles. This is an enormous gain for climate researchers and is attracting international attention. The radar was successfully installed on the 213 metre-high Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) measurement tower in Cabauw, near Lopik, on Thursday, August 23. ... more Los Angeles Enjoying One Thousand Year Seismic Lull 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2007The Los Angeles basin appears to be in a seismic "lull" characterized by relatively smaller and infrequent earthquakes, according to a study in the September issue of Geology. By contrast, the Mojave Desert is in a seismically active period. Seismic activity alternates between the two regions, the study suggests. The lull in the Los Angeles basin began 1,000 years ago, said the authors ... more White Rice A Mutation Spread By Early Farmers 
Ithaca NY (SPX) Aug 24, 2007Some 10,000 years ago white rice evolved from wild red rice and began spreading around the globe. But how did this happen? Researchers at Cornell and elsewhere have determined that 97.9 percent of all white rice is derived from a mutation (a deletion of DNA) in a single gene originating in the Japonica subspecies of rice. Their report, published online in the journal PloS ... more NASA Eyes Current Sea Surface Temperatures For Hurricanes 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 24, 2007Sea surface temperatures are one of the key ingredients for tropical cyclone formation and they were warming up in the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and eastern Atlantic Ocean by the middle of August. As a result, they helped spawn Hurricane Dean in the central Atlantic, and Tropical Storm Erin in the Gulf of Mexico, both during the week of August 13. ... more New Continent And Species Discovered In Atlantic Study 
Aberdeen, UK (SPX) Aug 23, 2007A scientist from the University of Aberdeen is leading a team of international researchers whose work will continue our understanding of life in the deepest oceans, and contribute to the global Census of Marine Life. Exploring life in the North Atlantic Ocean at various depths of 800 to 3,500 metres, a team of 31 scientists are returning from a five-week scientific expedition which has surfaced ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Aug 24, 2007China's two leading oil producers have snubbed a new policy forcing companies to buy pollution insurance, claiming insurers cannot afford the compensation, state media said Friday. China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and China Petroleum and Chemicals Corporation (Sinopec) said that large chemical firms should not be forced to buy the insurance, according to the China.com.cn website. ... more Offshore platform tests bird-friendly lighting 
The Hague (AFP) Aug 24, 2007Dutch Petrol company NAM is testing new lighting by electronics giant Philips to improve safety for migratory birds who can get disoriented by brightly-lit offshore platforms, the companies said Friday. They said the new green-hued lighting on the platform "less distracts birds during their migration across the North Sea". Some 60 million birds cross the North Sea on their way to warmer ... more Japan plant designers did not foresee strong quake 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 26, 2007An earthquake last month that forced the closure of the world's largest nuclear plant in Japan was about 2.7 times stronger than the maximum considered in the plant's design guidelines, a report said Sunday. The Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), which operates the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, registered the July 16 quake at 993 gals, the Mainichi Shimbun reported. ... more King wants to speed up Jordanian nuclear energy drive 
Amman (AFP) Aug 26, 2007King Abdullah II called Sunday for Jordan's drive to set up a civilian nuclear programme to be accelerated in order to wean the desert country off oil and gas imports. "Energy represents the main challenge and we must think about radical long-term solutions," the king told the supreme committee for nuclear energy strategy, according to a palace statement. ... more India's 'Red Czar': plotting to end US nuclear deal 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 24, 2007India's Prakash Karat, the Communist Party leader who wants to halt an Indo-US nuclear deal, is an old school Marxist but his methods have so far proven highly effective, plunging the government into crisis. Amiable but dogmatic, Karat -- nicknamed the "Red Czar" for his opinions -- has caught the government of Manmohan Singh off-guard with his anti-US stance on the landmark agreement. ... more |
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Berlin (AFP) Aug 23, 2007The German government and four companies operating nuclear power plants in the country on Thursday agreed they would tighten safety measures, a month after two incidents sparked a national outcry. "We have agreed to put in place steps that will further improve the safety climate at nuclear power plant operations within a year," the environment ministry said in a statement. ... more ASEAN agrees to set up nuclear energy safety network 
Singapore (AFP) Aug 23, 2007Southeast Asian countries agreed Thursday to establish a regional nuclear energy safety network, amid warnings from environmental activists that the risks of atomic power outweigh the benefits. Energy ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) tasked senior officials to work out the details of the ASEAN Nuclear Energy Safety Sub-Sector Network, they said at the end of ... more Ground-Breaking Antilandmine Radar 
Amsterdam, Holland (SPX) Aug 24, 2007Researchers in The Netherlands are developing a radar system that might one day see through solid earth and could be used to clear conflict zones of landmines, safely and at low cost. Writing in Inderscience's Journal of Design Research, the team explains how the new technology, with further industrial development, could eventually make vast tracts of land around the globe safe once more. ... more No hope for 181 Chinese miners: official 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 23, 2007Two coal mines in eastern China that flooded last week have claimed the lives of 181 workers, a senior official said Thursday, confirming for the first time the full extent of the tragedy. "They have no hope of survival," Shandong province vice governor Huang Sheng told reporters here, even as rescuers continued to pump water out of the two pits that have been submerged since Friday. ... more Dean's death toll rises with new deaths in Mexico 
Puebla (AFP) Aug 23, 2007A couple and their two children were killed in central Mexico Thursday by a landslide caused by driving rains blamed on the remnants of hurricane Dean, raising to at least 25 the death toll from the storm's rampage. The four were killed when a chunk of mountainside buried the path on which they were walking in Xochitlaxco, according to Puebla state Governor Mario Marin. ... more
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