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Go East old man: Neanderthals reached China's doorstep
Paris (AFP) Sept 30, 2007European Neanderthals, modern man's ill-fated cousins who died out mysteriously some 28,000 years ago, migrated much further east than previously thought, according to a study released Sunday. Remains from the slope-browed hominid have previously been found over an area stretching from Spain to Uzbekistan, but the new study extends the eastern boundary of their wanderings another 2,000 kilom ... more Almost 90 dead in fresh India monsoon rains 
Kolkata, India (AFP) Sept 29, 2007At least 88 people have died in rain-related accidents in eastern India since the start of September with tens of thousands stranded in state-run relief camps, officials said. Rain-related accidents in the state of West Bengal have claimed 48 lives there in recent days, a minister told AFP. "The death toll rose to 48 today with 19 more people dying of snake bites, electrocutions and wall ... more Taiwan Issue Puzzles China As Frontiers Stir 
Hong Kong (UPI) Sep 28, 2007 At its 17th National Congress next month the Chinese Communist Party will discuss its future policy and principles regarding Taiwan, a spokesman of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council announced this week. This indicates that conflict over how to handle the Taiwan issue is escalating within the party, which has maintained a clear Taiwan policy for decades -- pursuing unification unde ... more Washington Climate Meeting Wraps Up As Bush Goes On Attack 
Boston (AFP) Sep 28, 2007 In the wake of the U.N. climate-change summit earlier this week, a more intimate gathering of the world's greatest emitters convened Thursday for a discussion many have tentatively hailed as a positive move. President Bush announced his plan to host climate-change meetings, including this week's two-day "Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change," in the spring. The ... more GMES Space Program Reaches Important Development Milestone 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 01, 2007Yesterday ESA's Member States participating in the GMES Program approved the transition to Phase-2 of Segment 1 of the GMES Space Component Program. Oversubscription of the program by the ESA Council at ministerial level in 2005 was confirmed, with oversubscription to phase 2 of 116%, giving a total amount of 500 million euros. This additional contribution to the program will allow ESA to confir ... more |
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London (AFP) Sept 29, 2007Demolition experts blew up Saturday the giant cooling towers of the world's first commercial nuclear power station, 51 years after it was opened in northwest England. The first two of the four 88-metre (288-foot) high cooling towers at Sellafield were demolished at 9 a.m. (0800 GMT), sending a cloud of dust over the Irish Sea before hundreds of onlookers. Four minutes later the final pai ... more Site For New Michigan Clean Coal Power Plant Announced 
Bay City MI (SPX) Oct 01, 20070Consumers Energy has selected its Karn/Weadock Generating Complex near Bay City as the site for construction of an 800-megawatt clean coal power plant, the start of a new generation of power for Michigan, top utility executives announced today. The utility's plans call for 500 megawatts of the plant's output to be used to help serve its 1.8 million electric customers with 300 megawatts going to ... more Infinity Bio-Energy Wants To Make Cleanest And Greenest Production Ethanol From Sugarcane Yet 
New York NY (SPX) Oct 01, 2007Infinity Bio-Energy announced a commitment to encourage the development and implementation of new self-imposed standards and guidelines for the production of sugarcane fuel ethanol as well as the production of energy co-generated from sugarcane and green coal produced from the same biomass. "As the world faces the challenge of climate change, the transportation sector is pushing to establish hig ... more Fire breaks out at Japanese nuclear plant construction site 
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 29, 2007A minor fire broke out at a nuclear power plant construction site in northern Japan on Saturday but there was no danger of radiation leakage, an official said. No one was hurt in the small fire at a half-built reactor at Tomari Nuclear Power Plant on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, which is scheduled to be tested early next year. "A guard found white smoke coming out of textile shee ... more Praxair To Participate In Spanish Clean-Coal Project 
Danbury, CT (SPX) Oct 01, 2007Praxair will work with Fundacion Ciudad de la Energia (CIUDEN), a Spanish government agency, to develop a pilot facility incorporating advanced technologies for carbon dioxide abatement and capture from coal-fired electricity generating plants.To be located in El Bierzo, in northern Spain, the initial phase of project is scheduled to be completed by mid-2009. It will conduct tests using anthraci ... more |
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Woods Hole MA (SPX) Sep 28, 2007On September 26-27, scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will host an international, interdisciplinary conference on the proposed "iron fertilization" of the ocean as a means to combat rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Several times over the past century, scientists and environmental engineers have proposed spreading slurries of dissolved iron ... more President of Rwanda Announces Historic Forest Protection Project 
New York NY (SPX) Sep 28, 2007Rwandan President H. E. Paul Kagame unveiled his country's first national conservation park to promote reforestation and conservation, and research to enhance knowledge of the world's rapidly diminishing number of great apes. In collaboration with Ted Townsend, founder of Earthpark and Great Ape Trust of Iowa, President Kagame announced at the Clinton Global Initiative a joint 10-year program ca ... more Remarkable Drop In Arctic Sea Ice Raises Questions 
Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 28, 2007Melting Arctic sea ice has shrunk to a 29-year low, significantly below the minimum set in 2005, according to preliminary figures from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, part of the University of Colorado at Boulder. NASA scientists, who have been observing the declining Arctic sea ice cover since the earliest measurements in 1979, are working to understand this sudden speed-up of sea ice de ... more Northrop Grumman Completes Implementation Of Los Angeles Emergency Communication System 
Mclean VA (SPX) Sep 28, 2007Northrop Grumman has completed the installation of a new computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system for improved emergency response for the City of Los Angeles. Northrop Grumman's Information Technology (IT) sector led the seven-year migration of the Los Angeles Police Department's (LAPD) legacy CAD system to an enhanced emergency command control communications system. The implementation included a ne ... more Joint Venture To Strengthen Cotton Breeding 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Sep 28, 2007CSIRO Plant Industry and Cotton Seed Distributors Ltd (CSD) announced the Cotton Breeding Australia joint venture, to fund cotton breeding and targeted research for a 10-year initial term. Both parties will contribute A$2 million per annum for research, with CSD also co-funding the cotton breeding work previously co-funded by the Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC). The firs ... more
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