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When The Levees Fail
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 11, 2007"A hard rain's gonna fall..." So the Dylan song went... but when rain and storm surges fall on lands protected by weak levees, this means trouble...big trouble. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were devastating reminders of this frightening fact. How then can we limit trouble when a levee breaches or, better yet, prevent such a break from ever happening again. Any solution will be difficult ... more Gray Whales A Fraction Of Historic Levels 
Silver Spring MD (SPX) Sep 11, 2007Gray whales in the Pacific Ocean, long thought to have fully recovered from whaling, were once three to five times as plentiful as they are now, according to a report to be published September 10 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Today's population of more than 22,000 gray whales has successfully been brought back from the threat of extinction and is now the most abundant ... more Over one million hit by fresh floods in India, Bangladesh 
Guwahati, India (AFP) Sept 10, 2007More than one million people have been evacuated or stranded as rivers in northeastern India and Bangladesh rose to alarming levels and submerged vast swathes of countryside, officials said Monday. In India's Assam state, the army helped shift an estimated 800,000 people as the Brahmaputra river and its tributaries -- swollen by monsoon rains -- breached their embankments late Sunday. ... more Powerful quake rattles Colombia-Ecuador border region 
Bogota (AFP) Sept 9, 2007A powerful earthquake measuring 6.2 on the open-ended Richter scale struck Colombia's Pacific coastline near the border with Ecuador on Sunday, Colombian authorities said. The quake shook much of southwest Colombia, but early reports gave no indications of victims or destruction. Colombia's Geographical and Mining Institute said the epicenter was located in El Chorro, in the department ... more Rare antelopes breeding again in Kenya 
Nairobi (AFP) Sept 10, 2007The population of rare African antelopes that were bred in captivity and re-introduced to their native habitat three years ago has increased, Kenyan officials said Monday. A first group of 18 captive-born mountain bongos (tragelaphus eurycerus) was flown from zoos in the United States to the Mount Kenya area in January 2004 to start a new breeding group whose offspring will eventually be ... more |
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Upton NY (SPX) Sep 11, 2007Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed new ways to make or modify nanorods and nanotubes of titanium oxide, a material used in a variety of industrial and medical applications. The methods and new titanium oxide materials may lead to improved catalysts for hydrogen production, more efficient solar cells, and more protective sunscreens. ... more Budget blow-out, but work to begin on fast Beijing-Shanghai train 
Shanghai (AFP) Sept 10, 2007Construction on China's high-speed rail line linking Beijing and Shanghai will begin soon but the budget for the long awaited project has blown out by five billion dollars, state press reported Monday. The line, which will cut travel time between the nation's capital and economic hub from 13 hours to five, is expected to start ferrying passengers in 2010, the China Daily quoted Railways ... more Sarkozy urges Germany to shift towards nuclear energy 
Meseberg, Germany (AFP) Sept 10, 2007French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday urged Germany to follow France's example of relying on nuclear power for much of its energy needs. "I would like France and Germany to have similar ambitions" in terms of energy policy, Sarkozy said after informal talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a castle in Meseberg north of Berlin. He said he was speaking of "renewable" energy ... more Analysis: Poland's energy ambitions 
Berlin (UPI) Sep 10, 2007 Poland is one of the least energy import dependent countries in Eastern Europe, but among the fiercest when it comes to its desire to dominate energy security policy in Europe. "Poland sees itself as a precursor in Europe when it comes to energy policy," Kai-Olaf Lang, Poland expert at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, told United Press International in a ... more Analysis: Deeper than an oil law in Iraq 
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Sep 10, 2007 Both Iraq's federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government are upset by each other's efforts in reaching a deal on a national oil and gas law and have announced moves to develop the oil sector without it. Neither has given up, however, on the hydrocarbons law, a tool that will both govern development of resources that bring in nearly all the government's revenue and allow ... more |
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Hong Kong (UPI) Sep 7, 2007 China has been upgrading its H-6 bombers and producing H-6K bombers in an effort to improve its aerial nuclear strategic deterrence. The subsonic speed of the H-6 and non-stealthy sorties prevented it from breaking through the air-defense networks of Russia, the United States and Japan. Fitted with D-30-P2 engines of greater thrust power, the H-6K has a greatly increased range and combat ... more Reporter films China's own Loch Ness monster 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 9, 2007A television reporter claims to have discovered China's answer to the Loch Ness monster, state press reported Sunday. Local journalist Zhuo Yongsheng shot footage of six "seal-like" creatures in the northeastern Tianchi lake, which local legend has long said is home to Loch Ness-style monsters. "They could swim as fast as yachts and at times they would all disappear in the water," the ... more 15 dead in Nepal floods, landslides 
Kathmandu (AFP) Sept 9, 2007Landslides and floods triggered by torrential rains in Nepal have killed at least 15 people in the last three days, officials said Sunday. "Five bodies were recovered Sunday morning after they were swept away by a flooding river in Rautahat late Saturday," local official Durga Prasad Bhandari told AFP from Rautahat district, 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Kathmandu. Bhandari said the ... more Transgenic Maize Is More Susceptible To Aphids 
Neuchatel, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 10, 2007The environmental consequences of transgenic crops are the focus of numerous investigations, such as the one published in the journal PloS ONE, which was carried out by Cristina Faria and her colleagues, under the supervision of Ted Turlings, professor in chemical ecology at the University of Neuchatel. The researchers observed that most transgenic maize lines were significantly more ... more Study Identifies Key Player In The Body's Immune Response To Chronic Stress 
Houston TX (SPX) Sep 10, 2007Osteopontin (OPN), a protein molecule involved in many different cellular processes, plays a significant role in immune deficiency and organ atrophy following chronic physiological stress, resulting in increased susceptibility to illness. These findings appear in the September 4th issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study is supported by the National Space ... more
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