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Norway police probe sabotage claim in whale ship sinking
Oslo (AFP) Sept 13, 2007Norwegian police said Thursday they were investigating a claim from a group of environmental activists that it deliberately sank a whaling ship last month. Activists calling themselves Agenda 21 claimed responsibility for the sinking "to celebrate the end of commercial whaling in Iceland," according to a message posted on the US-hosted website www.directaction.info. They said they ... more Climate change and desertification two sides of same coin 
Madrid (AFP) Sept 13, 2007Climate change and desertification are two sides of the same coin and must be tackled together, according to participants at the Madrid conference on desertification. "These two issues are very intimately related in the way you can describe them as two halfs of a coin," according to Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Spanish ... more EU proposes easing grain rules to help fight high prices 
Brussels (AFP) Sept 13, 2007The European Commission proposed Thursday to drop for a year rules obliging grain farmers not to plant all of their land to help combat spiralling prices for cereals like wheat. "The Commission has today cut the rate of compulsory set-aside to zero percent for grain planted either now, in the autumn or next spring, in other words for next year's harvest," said farm spokesman Michael ... more Microsoft largely unscathed after US antitrust ordeal 
New York (AFP) Sept 13, 2007Microsoft emerged largely unscathed from a long antitrust ordeal in the United States, as it successfully overturned on appeal a judge's ruling that would have broken up the world's biggest software firm. Yet Microsoft has had to pay hefty damages to rivals and remains under court supervision. One issue before the court is a complaint from rival Google, which ironically is seen by some ... more UD Leads 5 Million Dollar Research Project On Rice Epigenetics 
Newark DE (SPX) Sep 14, 2007Using a novel "deep sequencing" technology that can in one fell swoop decode 50 million sequences representing well over a billion bases of DNA, a research team led by University of Delaware scientists is working to unmask where, why and how certain genes are switched on or off in rice--a crop vital to the world's food supply. The goal of the four-year project, which is supported by a ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 14, 2007On September 11, the Conference of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) met in Vienna, Austria, to discuss oil-production quotas. Most OPEC countries said the cartel should not produce more than 25.8 million barrels of oil per day, citing slackened projections for global and U.S. economic growth. Although OPEC said a year ago that a barrel of oil should cost $60, it is ... more Next Thai government urged to pursue nuclear project 
Bangkok (AFP) Sept 13, 2007Thailand's energy minister on Thursday urged the nation's next government to press ahead with a proposed six-billion-dollar nuclear power project to safeguard the national energy supply. Piyasvasti Amranand, who was appointed after a coup one year ago, said nuclear energy was vital to Thailand's long-term energy supply and that the next government should pursue it immediately. ... more China's industrial output eases, but curbs to stay 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 13, 2007China's industrial output eased during August in a sign that efforts to curb growth were kicking in, official data showed Thursday, but the government was expected to continue its tightening policies. Production at plants and factories across China was up 17.5 percent last month from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said. While impressive by most nations' standards, in ... more Analysis: Nigeria to mimic Saudi Arabia 
Miami (UPI) Sep 13, 2007 Nigeria is keen on creating a state-owned petroleum firm modeled after Saudi Arabia's Aramco, according to the country's energy minister who acknowledged Nigeria is a long way away from rivaling the Middle East oil giant. Odein Ajumogobia called Aramco, which exercises full control of Saudi oil reserves, Nigeria's "goal of where we would like to be." Nigeria's energy minister ... more Boeing Builds First GPS IIF Satellite 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Sep 13, 2007Boeing has successfully assembled and integrated all flight hardware onto the first Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite. GPS llF will bring new capabilities to the GPS constellation such as full onboard encrypted military code, a new civil signal, crosslink enhancements, signal power increases and longer design life. "GPS IIF is on track because of the team's stellar application ... more |
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Geneva (AFP) Sept 12, 2007The hole in the protective ozone layer over the Antarctic is forming again but should remain just below the record size it reached last year, a scientist at the UN's weather agency said Wednesday. The gap in the ozone in the upper atmosphere, at altitudes of up to 25 kilometres (15 miles), has reached a size of about 23 million square kilometres (8.9 million square miles), said World ... more Auto Immune Response Creates Barrier To Fertility; Could Be A Step In Speciation 
Chapel Hill NC (SPX) Sep 13, 2007Plant biologists at the Max Planck Institute of Developmental Biology and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered that an autoimmune response, triggered by a small number of genes, can be a barrier to producing a viable offspring. Studying Arabidopsis thaliana, sometimes called thale cress, the researchers identified a phenotype that, when paired together from a male and ... more 'Global extinction crisis' predicted by conservation group 
Paris (AFP) Sept 12, 2007Gorillas, China's baiji dolphin, Asian vultures and Pacific corals on Wednesday joined the list of species hurtling to oblivion as the World Conservation Union (IUCN) warned of a fast-track "global extinction crisis." In an update of its famous Red List of biodiversity, the Swiss-based IUCN said it had identified 41,415 species at threat. Of this, 16,306 species -- equivalent to 39 ... more Slash global meat consumption to tackle climate change: Lancet paper 
Paris (AFP) Sept 13, 2007People in rich countries should limit their meat-eating to the equivalent of one hamburger per person per day to help stave off global warming, a study published by the Lancet on Thursday suggests. That would be their contribution to a proposed 10-percent cut in global meat consumption by 2050, a goal that would brake greenhouse-gas emissions from agriculture yet also improve health for ... more Walker's World: Dangerous times 
Washington (UPI) Sep 12, 2007 Under the old rule one should never believe anything until it has been officially denied, then whenever some authoritative public figure solemnly asserts that "the economic fundamentals are good" it may be time to sell everything and buy gold. So it was less than reassuring when Joaquin Almunia, the European Union's commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, said Monday, "The ... more
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