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DNA barcoding: from fruit-flies to puffer fish
Washington (AFP) Sept 14, 2007Hundreds of experts in DNA barcoding meet in Taiwan next week for a major conference on this young, cutting-edge science which could have wide-ranging implications for health and the environment. Major advances in this field could be used to improve public health, consumer protection and food safety and will be discussed by some 350 experts from 46 countries at the seminar in Taipei from ... more HARDY Rice: Less Water, More Food 
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Sep 17, 2007An international team of scientists has produced a new type of rice that grows better and uses water more efficiently than other rice crops. Professor Andy Pereira at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) has been working with colleagues in India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Mexico and The Netherlands to identify, characterize and make use of a gene known as HARDY that improves key features ... more Typhoon kills at least one, strands 15,000 in South Korea 
Seoul (AFP) Sept 16, 2007A powerful typhoon killed at least one person in South Korea on Sunday, grounded 280 flights and stranded 15,000 passengers on its southern resort island of Jeju, officials said. The anti-disaster agency reported one dead and two missing on Jeju. South Korea's Yonhap news agency put the total typhoon death toll at six -- on Jeju and elsewhere. The agency said Typhoon Nari, expected to ... more Relief on way to quake-ravaged Indonesian islands 
Jakarta (AFP) Sept 16, 2007Indonesian disaster relief officials waited for word Sunday that aid had finally reached an isolated island group hit hard by a series of quakes and aftershocks. Three boats carrying relief aid set sail for ports in the Mentawai islands Saturday off the west coast of Sumatra. "They are likely to have arrived there as the trip would need between eight to 12 hours," said Ade Edward, an ... more Worst pollution sites include India, China: survey 
New York (AFP) Sept 16, 2007Poisonous industrial sites in India, China and the former Soviet Union topped a new ranking this week of the world's most polluted places, where millions of people are threatened by toxic chemicals, a US-based environment watchdog said. The lead production base of Tianying, eastern China and the industrial town of Vapi, India were among new additions to the top 10 list of "worst polluted ... more |
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Seoul (AFP) Sept 14, 2007South Korea on Friday began operating a nuclear fusion test reactor using an advanced superconducting magnetic system, as part of an international search for a limitless clean energy source. Seoul hopes the reactor, developed over 12 years at a cost of some 330 million dollars, will make it a world leader in fusion technology. The Ministry of Science and Technology said the Korea ... more Analysis: Mideast turns to nukes for water 
Washington (UPI) Sep 14, 2007 The idea of using nuclear-powered desalination plants is becoming popular in the Middle East and North Africa, where tension over water rights has gone on for millennia, but it is controversial, and without significant foreign assistance it may turn out to be a mirage. During a visit to Libya by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in late July, the leaders signed a memorandum of ... more More countries join US-led nuclear energy programme 
Vienna (AFP) Sept 16, 2007Eleven countries joined Sunday a US-led initiative to spread atomic power but not technology which can be used to make nuclear weapons. Australia, Bulgaria, Ghana, Hungary, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Ukraine signed in Vienna a statement of principles for the programme, the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP). It called for the "the expansion of ... more Personalized Greenhouse Effect For Commercial Buildings 
San Francisco CA (SPX) Sep 17, 2007Just as a lizard can find the perfect spot in the sun or shade to control its body temperature, Australian award winning solar heating and cooling innovation Sun Lizard can help heat or cool offices and factories while cutting energy bills and greenhouse emissions. Companies can run up large energy bills and contribute to greenhouse emissions for the sake of a few extra degrees in room ... more Phoenix Canada Oil Extends International Patent Filings On Hydrogen Gas Generation Technology 
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Sep 17, 2007Phoenix Canada Oil reports that new patent filings, deriving from the recent issue of U.S. Patent number 7,122,171, have been completed under International Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) rules. Under the Technology License Agreement with a major U.S. research university, held by its U.S. unit, Phoenix International Energy Inc., Phoenix holds exclusive worldwide rights to the proprietary ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Sept 13, 2007North Korea may be helping Syria build some kind of nuclear facility, The Washington Post reported Thursday citing unnamed intelligence sources. Israeli secret service relayed the information to the US government, which the Post described as "dramatic. The new information, particularly images received in the past 30 days, has been restricted to a few senior officials under the instruct ... more Montreal environment forum to hasten HCFC phase-out: UN 
Nairobi (AFP) Sept 13, 2007A United Nations conference in Canada will next week consider ways to speed up the phasing out of ozone-depleting chemicals, the UN environment agency said Thursday. Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer will gather for the ministerial meeting in Montreal September 17-21 during which means to hasten a ban on the use of hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFC) ... more 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
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