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Scientists Discover New Way To Make Water
Champaign IL (SPX) Nov 01, 2007In a familiar high-school chemistry demonstration, an instructor first uses electricity to split liquid water into its constituent gases, hydrogen and oxygen. Then, by combining the two gases and igniting them with a spark, the instructor changes the gases back into water with a loud pop. Scientists at the University of Illinois have discovered a new way to make water, and without the pop. ... more Wildfire Drives Carbon Levels In Northern Forests 
Madison WI (SPX) Nov 01, 2007Far removed from streams of gas-thirsty cars and pollution-belching factories lies another key player in global climate change. Circling the northern hemisphere, the conifer-dominated boreal forests - one of the largest ecosystems on earth - act as a vast natural regulator of atmospheric carbon levels. Forest ecologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are studying how environmental ... more At least 59 killed in Tropical Storm Noel's Caribbean rampage 
Santo Domingo (AFP) Oct 31, 2007The death toll from Tropical Storm Noel's rampage through the Caribbean rose to at least 59 on Wednesday as torrents of water swept away entire families in the Dominican Republic. Floods forced people to climb onto their roofs or to perch on trees in affected areas of the Dominican Republic, where at least 41 people were killed and another 38 were reported missing. In one neighborhood of ... more China orders 40 high-speed trains from Bombardier unit 
Paris (AFP) Oct 31, 2007China has ordered 40 high-speed trains from the Canadian firm Bombardier and its Chinese partner for 1.0 billion euros (1.44 billion US dollars), Bombardier said in a statement received here. It said the order won by Bombardier Sifang Power Transportation (BSP) "is the largest ever for a passenger train in the history of the Chinese rail sevtor." Initial deliveries of trains, which will ... more California gets new 'Big One' reminder 
San Francisco (AFP) Oct 30, 2007A 5.6 magnitude earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay region late Tuesday giving a new reminder of its vulnerability to a much-forecast "Big One". No injuries or damage were immediately reported from the 56 second quake which was felt across northern California. But though it was only described as moderate by the US Geological Survey (USGS), it was the biggest seismic shock since San ... more |
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Princeton NJ (SPX) Nov 01, 2007Princeton researchers have invented a computer architecture that enables the secure transmission of crucial rescue information to first responders during events such as natural disasters, fires or terrorist attacks. Electrical engineering professor Ruby Lee said the new architecture allows for what she describes as "transient trust" - the ability to transmit sensitive information to parties on a ... more Tropical Storm Noel: No Trick Or Treat, Headed To The Bahamas
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2007Tropical Storm Noel lashed Hispaniola and Cuba with heavy rainfall, and on the morning of Halloween, Oct. 31, Noel exited Cuba and is headed to the Bahamas. At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Halloween, Tropical Storm Noel re-strengthened after moving off the northern coast of Cuba and into open waters. The Bahamas are now expecting the ghoulish storm to hit on Thursday, Nov. 1. Noel is already responsible fo ... more World Toilet Summit opens in India 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 31, 2007Delegates from dozens of nations gathered in India on Wednesday to open a World Toilet Summit aimed at finding low-cost methods to give billions of people access to sanitation. The four-day meeting and seventh such summit brought 170 experts from more than 40 countries to swap ideas on improving basic sanitation to stem the spread of water-borne diseases that kill millions worldwide annually ... more US Senate Committee Votes To Ratify UN Sea Law Convention 
Washington (RIA Novosti) Nov 01, 2007The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday approved by a 17-4 vote the ratification of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and submitted it to the Senate for final consideration. The 1982 convention outlines the rights and duties of countries in their use of the oceans, establishing guidelines in a wide range of areas, including the environment. Harper's Magazine reported in ... more Analysis: U.S. OK's Saddam law oil deals 
Washington (UPI) Oct 31, 2007 The U.S. State Department says an oil law implemented under Saddam Hussein is good enough for Iraq's national government to sign oil deals, though it would prefer a new national law -- mired in controversy and far from approved -- to be used instead. The new position is a shift for the U.S. government, or at least a nuance in its stance, which has pressed hard for a new hydrocarbons leg ... more |
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Laurel MD (SPX) Oct 31, 2007MESSENGER entered solar conjunction on October 26, when the spacecraft's trajectory moved it behind the Sun and out of clear view from Earth for several weeks. The team has just a limited time left before the Sun's interference with the probe's radio transmission severely limits communication with mission operations at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. ... more Washington University Scientists Analyze Solar Wind Samples From Genesis Mission 
St Louis MO (SPX) Oct 31, 2007As reservoirs of valuable information go, nothing beats the sun. This sphere of heat and energy holds 99.9 percent of the solar system, saved in all original proportions after planets and meteorites formed. Analyzing the mix of hydrogen, oxygen and noble gases found in the sun can answer one of the biggest questions of the universe: How did our solar system evolve? Scientists at Washington ... more IAEA conference to discuss beating nuclear trafficking 
Vienna (AFP) Oct 30, 2007Experts in nuclear security, border control and law enforcement will meet in Edinburgh in late November to discuss ways to combat trafficking of nuclear materials, the UN atomic watchdog said Tuesday. The conference, organised by the International Atomic Energy Agency, will take place on November 19-22, with some 300 participants expected from 70 countries, the IAEA said in a statement. ... more US forces may stay longer in Europe: Pentagon 
Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2007US forces may stay longer than planned in Europe if Defense Secretary Robert Gates agrees to a request from his top commander there, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday. Two of the four US combat brigades left in Europe were supposed to move to US bases over the next year, but General Bantz Craddock, the commander of US forces in Europe, has recommended postponing the move by about a year. ... more Birth defects soar in polluted China 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 30, 2007Birth defects in heavily polluted China have increased by nearly 40 percent since 2001, with a deformed baby born every 30 seconds, state media reported on Tuesday. The rate of defects appeared to increase near the country's countless coal mines, which produce the bulk of China's energy but are also responsible for serious air and water pollution, the China Daily newspaper said, quoting gove ... more
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