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Norway: Noah's Ark of seed samples tucked into Arctic mountainside
Longyearbyen, Norway (AFP) Aug 30, 2007Carved into the permafrost of a remote Arctic mountain, a "doomsday vault" housing samples of the world's most important seeds is taking shape to provide mankind with a Noah's Ark of food in the event of a global catastrophe. At the end of a narrow gravel road in Norway's Arctic archipelago of Svalbard where, ironically, no crops grow, construction workers are toiling away on the ... more Mediterranean countries feel the force of deadly forest fires 
Athens (AFP) Aug 30, 2007While Greece edged closer to mastering forest fires that have killed more than 63 people, other countries on the Mediterranean and the Adriatic struggled with deadly woodland blazes Thursday. In Algeria, forest fires fed by winds off the Sahara and still burning out of control in the north of the country had claimed eight lives in the past 48 hours, said the country's civil protection ... more Global warming will bring stronger storms and tornadoes 
Washington (AFP) Aug 30, 2007Violent storms and tornadoes may become more common as the earth's climate warms, a study by NASA scientists showed Thursday. Researchers at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies developed what they say is the first climate model able to estimate how the strength of storms changes as the atmosphere warms. The researchers applied global computer models -- which evaluate when ... more Biosensors To Probe The Metals Menace 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 30, 2007If the pond life goes star-shaped, you'd be wise not to drink the water. Researchers from CRC CARE are pioneering a world-first technology to warn people if their local water or air is contaminated with dangerous levels of toxic heavy metals and metal-like substances. Andrew McKay, a PhD student at CRC CARE and The University of Queensland, is studying the changes that take place in a ... more Central Targets May Hinder Wider Waste Management Objectives 
London UK (SPX) Aug 30, 2007Government priorities can drive local waste partnerships towards the achievement of central targets and efficiency savings rather than wider sustainable waste management objectives, a study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council shows. Reducing levels of waste and disposing of it in environmentally acceptable ways are significant issues facing policymakers. And, as in other ... more |
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Miami (UPI) Aug 30, 2007 Nigeria loses $14 billion a year to oil theft, according to Stephen Hayes, the president of the Corporate Council on Africa. The supposed monetary losses incurred by the oil-rich West African country were calculated based on the estimated number of barrels of lost production due to corruption and crime, said Hayes. "If you are losing 600,000 barrels a day on oil at $70 a barrel ... more Indian committee to review objections to US nuke deal 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 30, 2007India's foreign minister said Thursday that the Congress party-led government would set up a committee to review objections by communist allies to a controversial nuclear deal with the United States. "The operationalisation of the nuclear deal will take into account the committee's findings," foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee said in a statement after a meeting with communist parties. ... more Grain Will Not Become Oil 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 31, 2007Russian Minister of Agriculture Alexei Gordeyev will discuss a possibility of creating an OPEC-like grain cartel with his colleagues from Australia in September. He said the United States is reviewing the idea, and somewhat earlier Ukraine and Kazakhstan accepted it as a rational suggestion. But agricultural experts are not too optimistic about the idea to control the production and trade in ... more OSU Sweet Biofuels Research Goes Down On The Farm 
Stillwater OK (SPX) Aug 30, 2007Oklahoma State University's sorghum-related biofuels research is taking a localized approach, with the aim of making possible the effective production of ethanol in the farmer's own field. Sweet sorghum can be grown throughout temperate climate zones of the United States, including Oklahoma. It provides high biomass yield with low irrigation and fertilizer requirements. Corn ethanol ... more Three maglev employees charged over fatal German crash 
Osnabrueck, Germany (AFP) Aug 30, 2007German prosecutors brought criminal charges Thursday against three employees of a magnetic levitation train operator over a crash last September that cost 23 lives. "We have charged three company staff members," public prosecutor Volker Brandt told reporters in the western city of Osnabrueck. They are accused of manslaughter through culpable negligence. The high-speed magnetic ... more |
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Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Aug 29, 2007A camper who chases a grizzly but won't risk unprotected sex. A sky diver afraid to stand up to the boss. New research shows that not all risk is created equal and people show a mixture of both risky and non-risky behaviors. The survey also shows that men are significantly riskier than women overall. The University of Michigan research refutes the standard theories of risk that group ... more MIT Probes Secret Of Bone's Strength 
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 29, 2007Scientists and engineers are eager to understand the secret behind bone's lightweight toughness so they can mimic it in the design of new materials, but experimental studies have revealed a number of different strength mechanisms at different scales of focus, rather than a single theory. New research from MIT appearing in the July 25 issue of Nanotechnology reveals for the first time the ... more NKorea searches for fugitives after floods: aid group 
Seoul (AFP) Aug 29, 2007North Korea has stepped up searches in border towns for people trying to flee the country after devastating floods, a South Korean aid group said Wednesday. Security officials in the communist state have been rounding up illegal travellers in a door-to-door search twice a day in border towns, Good Friends said in a report. Authorities are worried about an exodus across the China border ... more Global warming could delay next ice age: study 
London (AFP) Aug 29, 2007Burning fossil fuels could postpone the next ice age by up to half a million years, researchers at a British university said Wednesday. Rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere caused by burning fuels such as coal and oil may cause enough residual global warming to prevent its onset, said scientists from the University of Southampton in southern England. ... more Devastated New Orleans mourns Katrina dead two years on 
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Aug 29, 2007New Orleans Wednesday mourned the huge losses inflicted by Hurricane Katrina two years ago, as US President George W. Bush sought to dispel residents' anger vowing better days lay ahead. Scores of tiny silver hand bells tinkled, as the city's prominent Mayor Ray Nagin led a poignant memorial service to the 1,500 dead across the Gulf Coast and remembered the devastation which laid waste ... more
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