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Beijing (AFP) Oct 8, 2007More than 3,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in southwestern China after a huge landslide dammed a river, creating a menacing lake that threatened to burst, state media reported Monday. The landslide occurred Friday when an estimated 500,000 cubic metres (18 million cubic feet) of mud and rock tumbled into a river near Guangyuan city in Sichuan province, Xinhua news agency sai ... more Newfound Ancient African Megadroughts May Have Driven The Evolution Of Humans And Fishes 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 09, 2007From 135,000 to 90,000 years ago tropical Africa had megadroughts more extreme and widespread than any previously known for that region, according to new research. Learning that now-lush tropical Africa was an arid scrubland during the early Late Pleistocene provides new insights into humans' migration out of Africa and the evolution of fishes in Africa's Great Lakes. "Lake Malawi, one of the de ... more Krosa weaker, but rain pounds southeast China 
Shanghai (AFP) Oct 8, 2007Torrential rains pummelled southeast China on Monday, but authorities said weakening tropical storm Krosa would not directly hit the nation's biggest metropolis of Shanghai as it moved inland. Krosa made landfall as a typhoon near the border of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces on Sunday, packing winds of 126 kilometres (78 miles) per hour, Xinhua news agency said, quoting authorities in Zhejian ... more Researchers Mimic Vascular System To Nourish Engineered Tissue For Transplants 
Ithaca NY (SPX) Oct 09, 2007One day soon, laboratories may grow synthetically engineered tissues such as muscle or cartilage needed for transplants. In a major step forward, Cornell engineers describe in the journal Nature Materials a microvascular system they have developed that can nourish growing tissues. The researchers have engineered tiny channels within a water-based gel that mimic a vascular system at the cellular ... more Ancient China Facing Testing Times 
Washington (UPI) Oct 8, 2007 These are difficult days for Chinese President Hu Jintao, as he faces a new Party Congress that was supposed to impose his stamp upon the regime and select the next generation of leaders by appointing his chosen successors to the new Politburo standing committee. But everything is going wrong at once. Another 600,000 Chinese-made toys have just been withdrawn by U.S. authorities for lea ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Oct 9, 2007Tensions in India over a civil nuclear pact with Washington that threaten the survival of the country's ruling coalition worsened on Monday ahead of a visit by the UN's atomic energy chief. The nuclear deal, if implemented, would allow energy-hungry India to buy civilian nuclear technology while possessing nuclear weapons, despite not having signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. I ... more Carbon-heavy growth 'suicide' for India, says climate expert 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 9, 2007High incomes and high carbon dioxide emissions go hand-in-hand all over the world, but the head of the globe's top scientific body on climate change says India can be different. India is drafting a climate change strategy due next month, ahead of a key United Nations meeting in Bali, Indonesia, in December to begin talks on post-2012 emissions-cuts commitments. "India shouldn't emulate t ... more Hydrogen Economy: Hype Or Potential Reality 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2007Exciting innovations take place in hydrogen production and storage technologies as countries across the world realize the need to identify alternate and self-sustaining sources of energy. This need is caused by spiraling oil and gas prices, along with mounting concerns about greenhouse gas emissions. New research from Frost and Sullivan, Innovations in Hydrogen Production and Storage Technologie ... more Wind Power Cost Is Expected To Reduce By 30 Percent By 2010 
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Oct 09, 2007Research and Markets has announced the addition of "China Wind Power Equipment Manufacturing Report 2007" to their offering. Improved technologies and increased output results in wind power cost to continuously drop, to a nickel/kilowatt-hour. Wind power cost is expected to further reduce by 30% by 2010, which has been close to the regular energy cost. In 2006, newly-increased installed capacity ... more Locally Generated Electricity Can Pay For Itself Within Five Years 
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Oct 09, 2007Research and Markets has announced the addition of Micro Generation of Energy in the Home to their offering. This home energy book details how locally generated electricity pays for itself within five years and immediately helps to avoid global warming. The Online Return on Investment (ROI) analysis tool, included in the cost of the book, allows the personalization of energy inputs for every sit ... more |
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Paris, France (SPX) Oct 08, 2007The central part of the Andes situated between southern Peru and Chile bears 50 active or potentially volcanoes, spread along a 1500 km-long arc. These volcanic structures mostly rise to between 4000 and 7000 m, are very remote with abrupt slopes and are often cloaked in snow. Few studies have been made on them as such conditions make field surveying extremely difficult. A team of IRD researcher ... more Fair Play In Chimpanzees 
Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Oct 08, 2007New research from the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany shows that unlike humans, chimpanzees conform to traditional economic models. The research, conducted by Keith Jensen, Josep Call and Michael Tomasello, used a modification of one of the most widely used and accepted economic tools, the ultimatum game (SCIENCE, October 5, 2007). In the ultimatum gam ... more Deadly storm Krosa weakens, but still lashes China 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 7, 2007Tropical storm Krosa lashed China's heavily populated southeastern coast on Sunday with torrential rains and powerful winds after leaving a path of death and destruction on nearby Taiwan. Krosa made landfall near the border of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces Sunday afternoon, packing winds of 126 kilometres (78 miles) per hour, Xinhua news agency said, quoting authorities in Zhejiang. Howe ... more Water companies need to adapt to climate change: experts 
Amsterdam (AFP) Oct 5, 2007Water management companies will face huge challenges due to climate change and need to start adapting their strategies, experts warned in Amsterdam on Friday. "Whatever we do in mitigation (trying to cut carbon emissions), global warming will still happen so we have to look at adaptation" to a higher global mean temperature, said Professor Paul Kabat, of Wageningen University in the Netherla ... more 'Made in India' rising to challenge China: report 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 7, 2007"Made in India" could be the next big economic story with the country challenging China's position as the leading global manufacturing hub within five years, says a new report. Right now China is the favourite choice for outsourcing manufacturing while India is preferred for information technology, finance and customer services, said Capgemini, Europe's largest computer consultancy. But ... more
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