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Billion dollars in damage, five dead, as California fires rage for 4th day
Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 24, 2007Fires raging across California have caused more than one billion dollars in property damage and left three people dead, officials said Wednesday, as a lull in winds allowed firefighters to make their first significant progress in combating the flames. Around 1,700 buildings have been destroyed in the 18 fires that have erupted since Sunday, forcing an estimated 500,000 people to flee their h ... more Strong quake strikes off Indonesia's Sumatra 
Jakarta (AFP) Oct 24, 2007A strong earthquake measuring 7.0 struck off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island on Thursday, briefly triggering panic and a tsunami alert, the Indonesia meteorological agency said. The quake struck in the Indian Ocean about 135 kilometres (84 miles) off the town of Bengkulu at 4:02 am (2102 GMT Wednesday), at a depth of 10 kilometres (six miles), the agency said. The US Geological S ... more Study Shows Housing Development On The Rise Near National Forests 
Portland OR (SPX) Oct 26, 2007America's national forests and grasslands provide the largest single source of freshwater in the United States, habitat for a third of all federally listed threatened or endangered species, and recreation opportunities for people (about 205 million visits are made annually to national forests). These and other benefits could be altered by increased housing growth. The population of the United St ... more Study Reveals Lakes A Major Source Of Prehistoric Methane 
Fairbanks AL (SPX) Oct 26, 2007A team of scientists led by a researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has identified a new likely source of a spike in atmospheric methane coming out of the North during the end of the last ice age. Methane bubbling from arctic lakes could have been responsible for up to 87 percent of that methane spike, said UAF researcher Katey Walter, lead author of a report printed in the Oct. 26 is ... more White House defends 'health benefits' of climate change 
Washington (AFP) Oct 25, 2007The White House on Thursday defended its prediction that climate change would bring some "health benefits" to humans, a forecast unlikely to endear it to critics of the US environmental record. But a document cited to buttress the claim also warned that the advantages would be "outweighed by the negative health effects of rising temperatures worldwide, especially in developing countries." ... more |
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Nashville TN (SPX) Oct 26, 2007Lasers are at the cutting edge of surgery. From cosmetic to brain surgery, intense beams of coherent light are gradually replacing the steel scalpel for many procedures. Despite this increasing popularity, there is still a lot that scientists do not know about the ways in which laser light interacts with living tissue. Now, some of these basic questions have been answered in the first investigat ... more Save the planet? It's now or never, warns landmark UN report 
Nairobi (AFP) Oct 25, 2007Humanity is changing Earth's climate so fast and devouring resources so voraciously that it is poised to bequeath a ravaged planet to future generations, the UN warned Thursday in its most comprehensive survey of the environment. The fourth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4), published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is compiled by 390 experts from observations, studies a ... more Agricultural Soil Erosion Not Contributing To Global Warming 
Exeter, UK (SPX) Oct 26, 2007Agricultural soil erosion is not a source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, according to research published online today (25 October) in Science. The study was carried out by an international team led by researchers at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, the University of Exeter, UK, and the University of California, Davis. The researchers developed a new method to establish the net ... more Indonesian volcano erupts on North Sulawesi 
Jakarta (AFP) Oct 25, 2007A volcano on Indonesia's Sulawesi island erupted Thursday, sending ash raining down on at least one village and spewing smoke about 1,500 metres into the air, an official said. Mount Soputan in North Sulawesi province erupted at around 9:15 am (0115 GMT) but people living in the sparsely-populated area have not been evacuated, said Sandy, a scientist at the volcano's monitoring post. "Th ... more After deadly floods, Burkina Faso faces 'wet' drought 
Ouagadougou (AFP) Oct 25, 2007After deadly floods that hit Burkina Faso weeks ago, the impoverished west African country faces a drought caused by an early and abrupt end to the rainy season, experts said on Thursday. Fears run high that the weak rains will have a knock-on effect on food prices and would inevitably affect the next cotton harvests in this Africa's top lint producer. The meteorological services bureau ... more |
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Shanghai (AFP) Oct 25, 2007PetroChina, the country's largest oil and gas firm, Thursday set a price for its initial public offering that is expected to raise at least 5.0 billion dollars. The company, already listed in Hong Kong and New York, gave an indicative price range of 15.00 to 16.70 yuan (2.00 to 2.22 US dollars) each for up to four billion yuan-denominated A-shares in Shanghai, a statement said. The price ... more Oil higher in Asia as US energy inventories decline 
Singapore (AFP) Oct 25, 2007Oil traded higher in Asia Thursday on news US energy stockpiles fell sharply last week and tensions rose in the Middle East after Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel camps in Northern Iraq, dealers said. At 10:45 am (0245 GMT), New York's main futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in December, advanced 85 cents to 87.95 dollars a barrel from its close of 87.10 dollars a barrel ... more Sarkozy backs 'carbon tax' to fight climate change 
Paris (AFP) Oct 25, 2007French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday came out in support of a "carbon tax" on fossil fuels and other pollutants, as well as a possible levy on imports from countries outside the Kyoto Protocol. In a speech wrapping up four months of climate negotiations between the French government, industry and the green lobby, Sarkozy said he would consider shifting part of the French tax burden f ... more Darfur rebel group kidnaps foreign oil workers 
Khartoum (AFP) Oct 25, 2007A Darfur rebel group has attacked a Sudanese oilfield and kidnapped a Canadian and an Iraqi worker, a leader of the group said on Thursday, vowing further attacks unless foreign oil companies pull out. "We attacked Defra oilfield and kidnapped two foreign workers, one is Canadian and another is Iraqi," said Abdelaziz el-Nur Ashr, field commander for the Justice and Equality Movement in Kordo ... more New foreign-funded firm to pay for Beijing-Shanghai railway 
Shanghai (AFP) Oct 25, 2007A new investment firm funded by Chinese and foreigners will be tasked with providing up to 30 billion dollars to build a high-speed rail line linking Beijing and Shanghai, state press said Thursday. The state-run firm will seek the money from local banks and overseas private equity investors for the construction of the long-planned ultra-fast railway between China's two most important cities ... more
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