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Expert says climate change will spread global disease
Jeju Island, South Korea (AFP) Sept 11, 2007Climate change will have an overwhelmingly negative impact on health with possibly one billion more people at risk from dengue fever within 80 years, an expert said Tuesday. While there would be some positive effects, "the balance of health effects is on the negative side," Alistair Woodward, a professor at the University of Auckland, told a regional meeting of the World Health Organisation ... more Indian court says 'asbestos-laden' ship can be broken up 
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 11, 2007India's Supreme Court gave permission on Tuesday for shipbreakers to dismantle a former French cruise liner, the Blue Lady, that environmentalists say is lined with toxic asbestos. The ruling follows a year of controversy over the fate of the ship, originally launched in 1960 as the SS France, that environmental groups said contained some 1,200 tonnes of cancer-causing materials. ... more More than 2,000 ex-soldiers riot in China: rights group 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 11, 2007About 2,000 ex-soldiers rioted last week in three Chinese cities over conditions at vocational colleges where they were re-training as railway workers, a Hong Kong-based rights group said Tuesday. About 1,000 protesting former soldiers damaged facilities at a college in Baotou city in the northern Inner Mongolia region and then clashed with police sent to quell the unrest, the Information ... more Acid Rain Has a Disproportionate Impact on Coastal Waters 
Bell House MS (SPX) Sep 12, 2007The release of sulfur and nitrogen into the atmosphere by power plants and agricultural activities plays a minor role in making the ocean more acidic on a global scale, but the impact is greatly amplified in the shallower waters of the coastal ocean, according to new research by atmospheric and marine chemists. Ocean "acidification" occurs when chemical compounds such as carbon dioxide ... more Mediterranean's rich marine life under threat: study 
Rome (AFP) Sept 11, 2007Climate change has warmed up the Mediterranean Sea and threatens its rich animal and plant life, Italy's Institute of Marine Research (ICRAM) warned in a new report Tuesday. The alarm bell came a day before the start of a national conference on climate change in Rome. The experts said a cold current emanating from the Gulf of Trieste off northern Italy, which allowed the waters of the ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Sep 11, 2007 On Aug. 16, the No. 2 generating unit of China's Tianwan nuclear power plant, which was built with Russian assistance on the Yellow Sea coast, attained design capacity and currently produces 1.05 million kilowatts of electricity an hour. However, Beijing is still reluctant to commission it. This week, representatives of Atomstroiexport, the Russian nuclear power equipment and service ... more Japanese nuclear plant reports radioactive water leak 
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 11, 2007A Japanese nuclear power plant operator Tuesday reported a small leak of radioactive water, amid growing public concern about the country's nuclear industry. About 200 litres (52 gallons) of water leaked from a tank in a building adjacent to a reactor facility at the Satsuma Sendai plant on the southern island of Kyushu, a spokesman for Kyushu Electric Power said. The leak was contained ... more Iran FM to visit Russia 
Tehran (AFP) Sept 11, 2007Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is to leave for Moscow late on Tuesday amid delays to the completion of Iran's first nuclear power plant which is being built by Russia, the state run news agency IRNA reported. It quoted an unnamed informed source as saying that Mottaki is due to meet Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, Duma President Boris Gryzlov and Russia's atomic energy ... more UN nuclear chief walks out on EU speech on Iran: diplomats 
Vienna (AFP) Sept 11, 2007UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei walked out on an afternoon session Tuesday of his IAEA to protest an EU speech which did not fully support his deal for new inspections in Iran, diplomats told AFP. "He walked out because the EU did not support the Secretariat," a diplomat who was at the meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation board of governors said. ... more Seoul warns US-India nuke deal could set bad example 
Seoul (AFP) Sept 11, 2007A South Korean envoy has warned that a controversial US civilian nuclear deal with India could set a bad precedent for North Korea. Chun Yung-Woo, Seoul's chief negotiator to six-party talks on terminating North Korea's nuclear ambitions, was speaking at a forum Monday. His comments, reported by local media Tuesday, were confirmed by the foreign ministry. "The United States has made an ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Sep 10, 2007 Russia's planned suspension of participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty and its warnings surrounding the proposed American missile defense shield in Europe have reflected a post-Cold War low in bilateral relations. In light of these events, transparency regarding military capabilities and nuclear weapons takes increasing prominence. The most significant and complex ... more Icy Calculations On A Hot Topic 
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Sep 11, 2007University of Utah mathematicians have arrived at a new understanding of how salt-saturated ocean water flows through sea ice - a discovery that promises to improve forecasts of how global warming will affect polar icepacks. In the current issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters, math Professor Ken Golden and colleagues show that brine moving up or down through floating sea ice ... more 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
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