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Europeans face mob anger over child 'abductions' in Chad
Abeche, Chad (AFP) Oct 30, 2007Sixteen Europeans charged over the alleged abduction of 103 children faced abuse from angry protesters in eastern Chad Tuesday, as a row escalated in France over the government's failure to prevent their operation. Nine French nationals, including six members of the charity Zoe's Ark and three journalists, were charged late Monday with "kidnapping minors" and "fraud" for trying to fly the ch ... more Call For A Ban On Controversial Dolphin Assisted Therapy 
East Falmouth MA (SPX) Oct 31, 2007WDCS, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, is calling for a total ban on Dolphin Assisted Therapy (DAT), stating that the therapy provided is ineffective and potentially harmful to both people and animals. DAT is a controversial therapy that involves close interaction with dolphins, usually through swimming with these animals in captivity or in their natural environment, and is promoted a ... more Dead Clams Tell Many Tales 
Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 31, 2007Inventories of living and dead organisms could serve as a relatively fast, simple and inexpensive preliminary means of assessing human impact on ecosystems. The University of Chicago's Susan Kidwell explains how measuring the degree of live-dead mismatch could be used as an ecological tool in the Oct. 26 early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "We affec ... more Staph-Killing Properties Of Clay Investigated 
Buffalo NY (SPX) Oct 31, 2007What makes some clays such powerful antimicrobial agents capable of killing MRSA and other virulent bacteria? It's a question that University at Buffalo researchers have been studying for several years. With funding from the National Institutes of Health-National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the UB geologists are studying the surface characteristics of a broad range of natu ... more Drought slashes Australian wheat crop 
Sydney (AFP) Oct 30, 2007Australia's wheat, barley and canola winter crops were again revised lower Tuesday due to the severity of the long-running drought, the country's official forecaster said. The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics said the winter wheat crop for 2007/08 would drop from the September estimate of 15.5 million tonnes to 12.1 tonnes due to a lack of drenching rains. Barley ... more |
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Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 31, 2007Tree stumps at the feet of Western Canadian glaciers are providing new insights into the accelerated rates at which the rivers of ice have been shrinking due to human-aided global warming. Geologist Johannes Koch of The College of Wooster found the deceptively fresh and intact tree stumps beside the retreating glaciers of Garibaldi Provincial Park, about 40 miles (60 km) north of Vancouver, Brit ... more How Did Chemical Constituents Essential To Life Arise On Primitive Earth 
Atlanta GA (SPX) Oct 31, 2007Experiments show that simple molecules can combine chemically rather than biologically to form the building blocks of DNA, the key component of all life forms. These processes might have taken place on primitive earth, but how they occur is an unsolved puzzle. Chemists at the University of Georgia have now proposed the first detailed, feasible mechanism to explain how adenine, one of the f ... more Fuel Cells Gearing Up To Power Auto Industry 
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 31, 2007The average price for all types of gasoline is holding steady around $2.95 per gallon nationwide, but the pain at the pump might be short-lived as research from the University of Houston may eliminate one of the biggest hurdles to the wide-scale production of fuel cell-powered vehicles. Peter Strasser, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, led the research team i ... more Time Spent In Car Drives Up Air Pollution Exposure 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2007The daily commute may be taking more of a toll than people realize. A new study by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) and the California Air Resources Board found that up to half of Los Angeles residents' total exposure to harmful air pollutants occurs while people are traveling in their vehicles. Although the average Los Angeles driver spends about six percent (1.5 ... more Indian PM says US nuclear deal not dead 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 30, 2007India's prime minister said Tuesday he was still trying to push forward a nuclear energy deal with the United States that has been blocked by his sceptical coalition partners. But communists and left-wing parties, whose MPs prop up the government say any deal involving India being subjected to more international safeguards, including inspections, could harm the country's nuclear weapons prog ... more |
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Rome (AFP) Oct 30, 2007The Sicilian town of Castelbuono has replaced garbage trucks with donkeys and claims to be saving money as well as helping to beat global warming. Since last February, six donkeys have replaced the four rubbish trucks in the town of 10,000 people. By replacing garbage trucks with donkeys "we are making savings and making the world a better place" with less pollution, Castlebuono's mayor ... more PetroChina's domestic listing breaks record 
Shanghai (AFP) Oct 30, 2007PetroChina said Tuesday it had raised nearly nine billion dollars in the nation's largest initial public offering amid a continuing boom in China's stock market. Asia's biggest oil and gas producer said it had raised 66.8 billion yuan (8.9 billion dollars) in China's largest ever initial public offering (IPO). The figure eclipses the record of China's top coal company, Shenhua Energy, wh ... more Yemen scraps nuclear energy deal with US firm 
Sanaa (AFP) Oct 30, 2007The Yemeni government announced on Tuesday that it was scrapping a contract with the US firm Powered Corp to build five nuclear reactors at an estimated cost of 15 billion dollars. The decision was taken after "the publication of information that the company is not qualified to carry out the reactors' project," the cabinet said in a statement, quoted by the state news agency SABA. It sai ... more Outside View: Russia-EU energy fight thaws 
Moscow (UPI) Oct 30, 2007 Russia-EU energy relations saw a sudden warming last week, as both Russia and the EU made clear that they were ready to make mutual concessions. The previous excessive politicization of the energy issue has given way to pragmatism. The last bone of contention was a package of bills published by the European Commission on Sept. 19, requiring European companies to "unbundle" thei ... more Sustainable development a huge failure in Canada: audit 
Ottawa (AFP) Oct 30, 2007A decade-old plan to introduce sustainable development strategies and green thinking into the Canadian government's daily work has failed miserably, the environment commissioner said Tuesday. The 1997 plan "to encourage government departments to green their policies and programs" has become a "major disappointment," said environment commissioner Ron Thompson, releasing his annual audit. ... more
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