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Commentary: New geoeconomic paradigm
Washington (UPI) Nov 26, 2007 In Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and the Far East, the correlation of geoeconomic forces appears to be moving against the United States. And greed, the Rh-negative bloodstream of democratic capitalism, is what triggered a global subprime mortgage fiasco, which, in turn, pushed the dollar right off its pedestal. Wall Street's largest banks lost $50 billion, with Citigroup ... more Cleaner coal key part of energy supply: environmentalists 
Hong Kong (AFP) Nov 26, 2007Coal power stations will remain central to the world's energy supply for the next 40 years, but they must slash emissions to avoid pushing up global temperatures, an environmental group said Monday. The plants could still provide 20 percent of the world's energy needs in 2050 with only a limited rise in temperatures if they used technology that could capture carbon dioxide, said Ina Pozon, c ... more China, France sign climate change pact 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 26, 2007Chinese President Hu Jintao and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday oversaw the signing of a bilateral pact on the fight against climate change. China and France "recognise the impact of climate change for the survival and development of humanity and recognise the importance and the urgency to fight against climate change and to put in place sustainable development," said the ag ... more Climate chief cautiously optimistic over key Bali meet 
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 26, 2007The head of a Nobel-winning panel of climate scientists was cautiously optimistic Monday about progress being made at a key UN global warming conference in Indonesia next month. Country delegations will be meeting on the island of Bali from December 3-14 to break a deadlock on negotiations for intensifying cuts in the world's carbon emissions five years from now. Intergovernmental Panel ... more Tree Of Life For Flowering Plants Reveals Relationships Among Major Groups 
Austin TX (SPX) Nov 27, 2007The evolutionary Tree of Life for flowering plants has been revealed using the largest collection of genomic data of these plants to date, report scientists from The University of Texas at Austin and University of Florida. The scientists, publishing two papers in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week online, found that the two largest groups of flowering plants, monocots (gra ... more |
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Canberra, Australia (SPX) Nov 27, 2007Moths and butterflies, particularly silkworms, are well known producers of silk. And we all know spiders use it for their webs. But they are not the only invertebrates who make use of the strength and versatility of silk. Dr Tara Sutherland and her group from CSIRO Entomology are looking at silks produced by other insects and the results of their recent work have been published in Molecular Biol ... more Accuracy Of Past Hurricane Counts Good 
University Park (SPX) Nov 27, 2007Counting tropical storms that occurred before the advent of aircraft and satellites relies on ships logs and hurricane landfalls, making many believe that the numbers of historic tropical storms in the Atlantic are seriously undercounted. However, a statistical model based on the climate factors that influence Atlantic tropical storm activity shows that the estimates currently used are only slig ... more Dunes, Climate Models Don't Match Up With Paleomagnetic Records 
Lincoln NE (SPX) Nov 27, 2007For a quarter-century or more, the prevailing view among geoscientists has been that the portion of the ancient supercontinent of Pangea that is now the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah shifted more than 1,300 miles north during a 100-million year span that ended about 200 million years ago in the early Jurassic Period, when Pangea began to break up. Paleomagnetic records are found in ign ... more Environmental Researchers Propose Radical Human-Centric Map Of The World 
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Nov 27, 2007Ecologists pay too much attention to increasingly rare "pristine" ecosystems while ignoring the overwhelming influence of humans on the environment, say researchers from McGill University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Prof. Erle Ellis of UMBC and Prof. Navin Ramankutty of McGill assert that the current system of classifying ecosystems into biomes (or "ecological commun ... more Typhoon Mitag slams into Philippines: officials 
Manila (AFP) Nov 26, 2007Rescuers went on full alert Monday after Typhoon Mitag slammed into the Philippines, killing at least eight people and forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes in one of the country's largest evacuation operations in recent history. Mitag hit the northern province of Isabela on the main island of Luzon late Sunday, bringing strong winds and heavy rain, knocking out power lines and caus ... more |
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Berlin (AFP) Nov 26, 2007Industrial nations should help poorer nations to develop renewable energy from the wind and sun, Germany's environment minister said Monday, days before a conference on the world's response to climate change. "Prosperity for everyone is possible and it is compatible with the environment," Sigmar Gabriel said in an interview with Bild newspaper. "We must put economic growth on a different ... more Brown says decision on British nuclear power due early 2008 
London (AFP) Nov 26, 2007British Prime Minster Gordon Brown revealed Monday that a decision on the construction of new power stations would be announced at the start of next year. "We must -- and we will -- take the right long-term decisions to invest for the next generation of sustainable and secure energy supplies," Brown told business chiefs gathered in London. "We have said that new nuclear power stations po ... more Areva announces 8 bln euro nuclear deal with China 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 26, 2007France's Areva announced here Monday it had agreed to deliver two third-generation nuclear reactors to energy-hungry China as part of a package of deals worth eight billion euros (11.9 billion dollars). "It's a record. In the history of the civilian nuclear industry, there's never been a deal of this magnitude," Areva chief executive Anne Lauvergeon told reporters. Areva signed the react ... more Planting Carbon Deep In The Earth -- Rather Than The Greenhouse 
Leeds, UK (SPX) Nov 27, 2007Storing carbon dioxide deep below the earth's surface could be a safe, long-term solution to one of the planet's major contributors to climate change. University of Leeds research shows that porous sandstone, drained of oil by the energy giants, could provide a safe reservoir for carbon dioxide. The study found that sandstone reacts with injected fluids more quickly than had been predicted - suc ... more Argonne's Nuclear Energy Research Moves Toward Greater Reliance On Computer Simulation 
Argonne IL (SPX) Nov 27, 2007The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory is taking its nuclear energy research into new territory - virtual territory that is. With the recent arrival of the new IBM Blue Gene/P and the lab's development of advanced computer models, Argonne has a critical role in making it possible to burn repeatedly nuclear fuel that now sits as waste, thus closing the nuclear fuel cycle and ... more
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