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Greenhouse Earth: Methane powered runaway global warming
Paris (AFP) Sept 19, 2007Methane released from wetlands turned the Earth into a hothouse 55 million years ago, according to research released Wednesday that could shed light on a worrying aspect of today's climate-change crisis. Scientists have long sought to understand the triggers for an extraordinary warming episode called the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), which occurred about 10 million years after t ... more In Ladakh, glacier melt raises fears of water woes 
Leh, India (AFP) Sept 19, 2007Rinchen Wangchuck remembers slipsliding his way down a glacier that stretched far down the mountains toward his village in the Nubra Valley, in India's far north, after school ended for the summer. Today, Wangchuck says that glacier is all but gone. Like him, many who live in the trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh where glaciers are a part of daily life are reporting similar disquieting ch ... more Greenland's Jakobshavn glacier sounds climate change alarm 
Jakobshavn Glacier, Greenland (AFP) Sept 19, 2007The chaotic cavalcade of blueish ice tumbling into the sea from the world's fastest-moving glacier is sounding a daily climate change alarm, say scientists ahead of International Polar Day on Friday. The Jakobshavn Glacier, on Greenland's west coast, is melting twice as fast as 10 years ago and advancing toward the sea at 12 kilometres (seven miles) per year, compared with six kilometres (th ... more UT Researcher Sheds New Light On Hybrid Animals 
Knoxville TN (SPX) Sep 20, 2007What began more than 50 years ago as a way to improve fishing bait in California has led a University of Tennessee researcher to a significant finding about how animal species interact and that raises important questions about conservation. In the middle of the 20th century, local fishermen who relied on baby salamanders as bait introduced a new species of salamander to California water bodies. ... more Malaysia's Smart Satellite Teleport Plays Role In Tsunami Warning 
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (XNA) Sep 20, 2007Malaysia's Smart Satellite teleport has played a role in the tsunami warning recently by providing vital information to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Malaysian Smart Digital Communications Bhd president and chief executive officer Khairuddin Abdul Rahman said Monday. The information was later shared with their Indonesian counterpart as well as the Malaysian Meteorological Department, he ... more |
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Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Sep 20, 2007The European Commission proposed a new energy policy package on Wednesday, seeking to split European energy giants and curb foreign takeovers in an effort to boost competition and ensure security of supply. "An open and fair internal energy market is essential to ensure that the European Union (EU) can rise to the challenges of climate change, increased import dependence and global competitivene ... more Indian stalemate continues on US nuclear deal 
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 19, 2007India's ruling Congress party held a new round of tense talks Wednesday with its communist allies, who are trying to block a nuclear energy deal with the United States, its leaders said. The discussions, however, remained inconclusive, with the two sides agreeing to continue talks next month. "The discussions were constructive and will continue at the next meeting of the committee," Fore ... more Analysis: Venezuela, Russia team up on oil 
Miami (UPI) Sep 19, 2007 PDVSA is teaming up with Russia's Lukoil to build a refinery in Venezuela pending a thorough exploration of a block in the oil-rich Orinoco Reserve the two nations agreed to develop jointly. Lukoil officials said Tuesday "the contract has been finalized and is waiting to be signed," Russia's Itar-Tass news agency reported. However, the agreement won't be signed by Lukoil, Russia ... more Russia to ban gas flaring 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 19, 2007Russia will stop the practice of gas flaring, in which unwanted gas is burned as it is released from oilfields, acting deputy prime minister Sergei Ivanov said on Wednesday. "We will not allow anyone to flare gas, at least in Russia. The decision has already been taken," Ivanov was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency. "We are not yet rich enough to allow ourselves such a luxury, and ... more UN nuclear chief faces new US criticism 
Vienna (AFP) Sept 19, 2007UN atomic chief Mohamed ElBaradei faced new criticism of his drive to keep the Iranian nuclear crisis peaceful when the US secretary of state warned his IAEA this week not to interfere in diplomacy. The comments by Condoleezza Rice were but the latest in a series of on and off-the-record statements from Western diplomats, as well as editorials in influential Western publications, which imply ... more |
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Buenos Aires, Argentina (SPX) Sep 20, 2007In the wake of growing energy consumption and the most urgent need for sustainable energy resources, Latin American governments are beginning to accord high priority to the generation of energy from renewable energy sources (RES). Although some of them, such as solar and geothermal, are not entirely competitive in terms of costs and efficiency, others such as wind power and biomass have seen ... more Brussels to present finance plans to save Galileo satnav project 
Brussels (AFP) Sept 18, 2007The European Commission will on Wednesday present its public financement plans for the troubled Galileo satellite navigation network, with unused farm funds viewed as a potential piggy bank, according to sources. Whatever the solution, the warnings are growing that the whole project, seen as a showcase for Europe's technical know-how, could crash and burn without a swift funding agreement. ... more DoD Permanently Discontinues Procurement Of Global Positioning System Selective Availability 
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 19, 2007The Department of Defense has announced that it intends to stop procuring Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites with the capability to intentionally degrade the accuracy of civil signals. This capability, known as Selective Availability (SA), will no longer be present in the next generation of GPS satellites. Although the United States stopped the intentional degradation of GPS ... more Magnetic Trilobite 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 19, 2007"We've never seen anything quite like it," says solar physicist Lika Guhathakurta from NASA headquarters. Last week she sat in an audience of nearly two hundred colleagues at the "Living with a Star" workshop in Boulder, Colorado, and watched in amazement as Saku Tsuneta of Japan played a movie of sunspot 10926 breaking through the turbulent surface of the sun. Before their very eyes an object ... more US, other states urged to ratify nuclear test ban treaty 
Vienna (AFP) Sept 18, 2007The United States and other laggards should ratify the nuclear test ban treaty as soon as possible, UN chief Ban Ki-Moon and others attending a nuclear conference in Vienna said Tuesday. ""We want US leadership in the CTBT ratification process," said Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik, referring to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. She said the treaty and UN nuclear watchdog ... more
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