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European Hot Spots And Fires Identified From Space
Paris, France (ESA) Aug 28, 2007Hot spots across Southeastern Europe from 21 to 26 August have been detected with instruments aboard ESA satellites, which have been continuously surveying fires burning across the Earth's surface for a decade. Working like thermometers in the sky, the Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) on ESA's ERS-2 satellite and the Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) on ESA's Envisat satelli ... more Team Tracks Antibiotic Resistance From Swine Farms To Groundwater 
Champaign IL (SPX) Aug 24, 2007The routine use of antibiotics in swine production can have unintended consequences, with antibiotic resistance genes sometimes leaking from waste lagoons into groundwater. In a new study, researchers at the University of Illinois report that some genes found in hog waste lagoons are transferred - "like batons" - from one bacterial species to another. The researchers found that this migration ac ... more Adaptation To Parasites Drive African Fishes Along Different Evolutionary Paths 
Quebec City, Canada (SPX) Aug 24, 2007An international team of scientists from Canada (Universite Laval), the U.K. (University of Hull, Cardiff University) and Spain (Dooana Biological Station), have discovered that a pair of closely related species of East African cichlid fishes - a group of fish whose diversity comprising hundreds of species has puzzled evolutionary biologists for decades - evolved divergent immune gene adaptation ... more e-Science Points To Pollution Solutions 
London UK (SPX) Aug 27, 2007Results from a UK e-Science project are helping to solve two pressing environmental problems. One finding could help to avoid arsenic contamination of drinking water extracted from man-made wells. Another could lead to improved methods of removing the now-banned industrial chemical, dioxin, from soil. The results were obtained using e-Science techniques and grid computing to simulate all the pos ... more Will Baikal Become Ocean 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 28, 2007On the summer's last Sunday, Russia is celebrating the Day of Lake Baikal. This tradition was started in 1999 by the public organization Baikal Environmental Wave. By that time, it was already a UNESCO World Heritage site as a masterpiece of nature and the global strategic freshwater resource. Baikal is flanked by the Republic of Buryatia, the Irkutsk and Chita regions, where celebrations of its ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 28, 2007Duty on Russian oil exports could rise by up to $26, reaching $248-250 per metric ton as of October 1, in keeping with world market trends, a Finance Ministry official said Monday. The Russian government adjusts export duty on crude and petroleum products every two months, depending on changes in the Urals blend price on world markets. "The average oil price monitored from July to August 2 ... more Russia's Stroytransgaz Completes Gas Pipeline In Greece 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 28, 2007Russian pipeline-building company Stroytransgaz said Monday it had finished constructing a short natural gas pipe section in Greece, which extends an existing route from Alexandroupolis to Turkey. The new 53.7-kilometer (33-mile) section runs northwest from the city to Komotini. The new addition is a continuation of a pipeline built by Stroytransgaz in 1996-2000, and provides a link between the ... more China's CNPC To Fund Cross-Country Gas Pipeline From Central Asia 
Beijing (RIA Novosti) Aug 28, 2007The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) will finance the construction of a pipeline across the country, to supply Central Asian gas to China's south and east, the company said Monday. The state-owned giant, China's largest oil and gas producer, said the Second West-East Pipeline Project had been approved by the Chinese government, and that CNPC would be the sole investor ... more Boeing Projects 70 Billion Dollar Market For Russia And The CIS 
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Aug 24, 2007Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will require 1,060 new airplanes worth about $70 billion over the next 20 years, according to Boeing's updated annual forecast for the commercial airplane market. The complete forecast, known as the Boeing Current Market Outlook, is available on the Boeing web. This year marks the first year that Boeing has published its forecast for ... more Analysis: Mideast held back by cheap fuel 
Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2007 Faced with high international oil and gas prices, some Middle Eastern countries are struggling to squirm out from under hugely popular, but economically crushing, energy subsidies. Nations across the region, from Iran to Egypt, have for years been burdened with fuel subsidies that sap national budgets, cut into economic investment in other sectors and interrupt serious reforms ... more |
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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 Toxic Air Pollution In Urban Parking Garages Study Finds SUVs Bigger Polluters 
Columbus OH (SPX) Aug 27, 2007The pollution produced by light trucks, SUVs and minivans is only half a percent higher than that produced by conventional cars, based on a recent study. But researchers say that this tiny difference becomes enormous when considering the number of light trucks moving along the nation's highways. "That small difference becomes tremendously magnified when you consider the billions of miles ... more Carnegie Mellon Researchers Look At Fossil Fuel Impacts 
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Aug 27, 2007A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers report that the choices U.S. officials make today could limit how the nation's future energy needs are met and could cost consumers billions in idle power plants and associated infrastructure systems. In the upcoming Sept. 1 edition of the journal Environmental Science and Technology, Carnegie Mellon researchers Paulina Jaramillo, W. Michael ... 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 China to kick off construction on second West-East gas pipeline in 2008 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 27, 2007China will start building its second West-East natural gas pipeline in 2008, with gas transmission to come on stream in 2010, China National Petroleum Corporation, builder of the pipeline, said Monday. The company, China's largest oil producer and the parent of PetroChina, also announced the preliminary route plan of the pipeline, which is expected to deliver 30 billion cubic metres (1,050 b ... more
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