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Chennai, India (SPX) Sep 19, 2007Retrieving material for composting from open dumps across the developing world could reduce the environmental impact of growing mountains of waste, according to researchers in India, writing today in the Inderscience publication, International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management. These days we in the developing world are encouraged to compost our garden and kitchen waste. ... more China warns foreign polluters 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 18, 2007China warned it will impose equally harsh penalties on domestic and foreign companies after finding two overseas firms violating environmental rules in a random inspection, state media said Tuesday. The inspection found earlier this year that Unilever China and the China branch of Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. were discharging wastewater with higher chemical content than permitted, the ... more Typhoon Wipha slams into China's east coast 
Shanghai (AFP) Sept 19, 2007Typhoon Wipha, potentially the most destructive storm in a decade, slammed into China's eastern coast early Wednesday packing winds of 45 metres (150 feet) per second, state media said. The typhoon struck south of China's financial capital Shanghai at 2:30 am (1830 GMT Tuesday), the Xinhua news agency reported. Millions of people have been forced to leave their homes along China's east c ... more Cyprian Honeybees Kill Their Enemy By Smothering Them 
Thessaloniki, Greece (SPX) Sep 19, 2007For the first time, researchers have discovered that when Cyprian honeybees mob and kill their arch enemy, the Oriental hornet, the cause of death is asphyxiation. They reported their findings in the September 18, 2007, issue of Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press. "Here, for the first time we detail an amazing defense strategy, namely asphyxia-balling, by which Cyprian honeybees ... more Outside View: Ozone hits defense industry 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 18, 2007 Having signed the Montreal Protocol 20 years ago, on Sept. 16, 1987, the world agreed to renounce the industrial use of substances depleting the ozone layer. Like many other countries, Russia has honored its commitments under this protocol. But has it all been worth it? In the 1980s, scientists startled the world with the discovery that the ozone layer was being depleted, which ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Sept 18, 2007Communist allies of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh issued a fresh warning Tuesday against implementing a controversial civilian nuclear deal with the United States. Communist Party head Prakash Karat said the government should put the pact on hold for six months and give lawmakers a chance to decide whether it threatens India's sovereignty and if it would curb its military capability. ... more Chad president to hold Darfur talks in China 
N'Djamena (AFP) Sept 18, 2007Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno is to discuss the Darfur conflict and sign oil and gas deals during a four-day visit to China starting Wednesday, Chadian officials said. Deby will meet Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday to discuss "security problems" tied to the Darfur conflict in Sudan, just across Chad's western border, a Chadian diplomatic source told AFP. Numerous human ... more Analysis: Iraq, oil and Greenspan's Gospel 
Washington (UPI) Sep 18, 2007 History and reality cap the fallout from former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's one-liner in his new book that the war in Iraq is "largely about oil." The mere 20 words in the 500-plus page memoir elicited much media hype and a prompt defense from the Bush administration. Greenspan used the media circuit to qualify -- though not contradict -- what he originally wrote. "I am ... more Advance By Chemists May Lead To Better Displays On Laptop Computers And Cell Phones 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2007UCLA chemists working at the nanoscale have developed a new, inexpensive means of forcing luminescent polymers to give off polarized light and of confining that light to produce polymer-based lasers. The research, which could lead to a brighter polarized light source for LEDs in laptop computers, cell phones and other consumer electronics devices, currently appears in the advance online edition ... more The Light Of Alien Life 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 18, 2007The Voyager 1 spacecraft, after traveling about 4 billion miles into space, turned around and looked back home. From such a distance, the Earth appeared as a pale blue dot, a single point of light suspended in the vast blackness of space. If aliens from much more distant worlds were to look at our solar system, the Earth, if it could be seen at all, would seem even more tiny and faint. How ... more |
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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 Eco-awareness shaping Western design 
Paris (AFP) Sept 17, 2007Recycling has long fed African and Asian markets, where cash-poor craftsmen retool tin into toys and rubber tyres into flip-flops. Now recycling is moulding design in the richer West as eco-awareness -- or eco-guilt -- shapes consumer demand. For the first time, this week's big Paris home show "Maison et Objet, a twice-yearly trade fair that attracts a whopping 75,000 professionals, put its ... more Typhoon Wipha approaches northern Taiwan 
Taipei (AFP) Sept 17, 2007People in northern Taiwan were Monday told to brace themselves for downpours and strong winds as Typhoon Wipha approaches. Wipha, a woman's name in Thai, was located 520 kilometres (322 miles) off Ilan along Taiwan's northeastern coast at 4:00pm (0800 GMT) Monday. Packing winds of up to 126 kilometres per hour, Wipha was heading towards land at 20 kilometres per hour, the Central ... more
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