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China confirms bird flu outbreak: HK official
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 17, 2007China's agricultural ministry has confirmed an outbreak of bird flu among ducks in the south of the country, Hong Kong's health secretary announced Monday. The ministry said Saturday that 9,830 ducks had died in a village outside the southern city of Guangzhou, not far from the border with Hong Kong, between September 5 and 13. Hong Kong Health Secretary York Chow told reporters late ... more Climate change tops future humanitarian challenges: Annan 
Geneva (AFP) Sept 17, 2007Former UN chief Kofi Annan warned Monday that climate change was likely to be the most urgent humanitarian challenge in the future, highlighting some one million people hit by recent flooding in Africa. Annan said he wanted the impact of climate change on refugee flows and humanitarian strife around the world to be a first priority of a new forum he is launching on October 17. "This is ... more Hong Kong must cut pollution to attract foreign cash: study 
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 17, 2007Hong Kong must take drastic action to slash pollution to keep attracting foreign investors and protect public health, a new study released Monday said. The city should follow the examples of Los Angeles and London, which have reaped the benefits from tougher emission targets and innovative anti-pollution measures, the Civic Exchange, a leading think-tank, said in a report. "Air ... more Climate talks in Montreal to take dual aim 
Montreal (AFP) Sept 17, 2007Representatives of 190 countries will meet in Montreal Monday for talks on the twin goals of combating global warming and restoring the ozone layer. The discussions come as part of a UN-sponsored conference marking the 20th anniversary of signing of the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty seeking to end production of chemical compounds that contribute to ozone depletion. ... more Pesticide blamed for 'health disaster' in French Caribbean 
Paris (AFP) Sept 17, 2007The French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique face a "health disaster" with soaring cancer and infertility rates because of the massive use of banned pesticides on banana plantations, a top cancer specialist warned Monday. Martinique and Guadeloupe are currently facing "an extremely serious crisis linked to the massive use of pesticides for a great many years," Professor ... more |
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Tokyo (AFP) Sept 17, 2007North Korea has told the United States that it procured aluminum pipes, which can be used to build uranium-enriching centrifuges, from a third country, a report said Monday. But Pyongyang stopped short of admitting that it had begun the process of uranium enrichment, Japan's Kyodo News said quoting unnamed diplomatic sources. The revelation was made by Kim Kye-Gwan, North Korea's chief ... more Praxair And Foster Wheeler Form Alliance To Pursue Clean Coal Demonstration Projects 
Danbury CT (SPX) Sep 18, 2007Praxair and Foster Wheeler North America have signed a multi-year agreement that calls for the joint pursuit of certain demonstration projects that will incorporate clean coal technologies and integrated oxy-coal combustion systems into coal-fired electric generating plants to facilitate capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2). ... more Construction Begins On First-of-Its-Kind Advanced Clean Coal Electric Generating Facility 
Orlando FL (SPX) Sep 18, 2007Officials representing the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Southern Company, KBR and the Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) broke ground to begin construction of an advanced 285-megawatt integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) facility near Orlando, Fla. The new generating station will be among the cleanest, most efficient coal-fueled power plants in the world. Southern Company ... more EOS Estate Winery Converts Entirely To Solar Power 
Franklin TN (SPX) Sep 18, 2007The EOS Estate Winery has announced plans to convert its facility entirely to solar power. The $3.8 million project, including the installation of more than two acres of ground-mounted tracking solar arrays that will provide all of the electrical power needs for the winery and tasting room, will make EOS the largest winery in California's Central Coast to run completely on alternative energy. ... more Maxwell Technologies Introduces 75-Volt Ultracapacitor Module For Renewable Energy Industrial Applications 
San Diego CA (SPX) Sep 18, 2007Maxwell Technologies is introducing a 75-volt BOOSTCAP ultracapacitor module to provide a scaleable, cost-effective, low-maintenance solution to meet the backup power and power quality requirements of wind turbines and other renewable energy generation and industrial equipment applications. Maxwell developed the new module, which will be generally available early in the fourth quarter, in ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Sept 16, 2007The United States would have a "real problem" if Syria and North Korea are collaborating on a nuclear program, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday. Gates refused to confirm the veracity of leaked intelligence reports suggesting that North Korea may be helping Syria build a nuclear weapons facility. "But all I will say is we are watching the North Koreans very carefully. We ... more Sarkozy wants German role in nuclear defence: report 
Berlin (AFP) Sept 15, 2007President Nicolas Sarkozy has asked Germany to open talks about a possible role the country could play in France's nuclear defence system, the weekly Der Spiegel reported. But the magazine said in its edition to be published Monday that Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier rejected the offer during a meeting outside Berlin last Monday. Sarkozy told ... more Urban chic: green, ethical T-shirts with a message 
Paris (AFP) Sept 16, 2007Once cheap and often nasty, T-shirts are back on the streets as ethical message-carrying PC wear that comes with a sizeable price tag for the high-end urban chic. "Absolutely everyone is making T-shirts nowadays," said Guillaume Salmon, a spokesman for Paris' trend-setting Colette concept store. "You can wear them anywhere with anything nowadays, at work or at night, like jeans -- and they ... more 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
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