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NEC develops first translation software on cellphone
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 30, 2007Japanese electronics giant NEC Corp. said Friday it has created a world-first real-time translator on a cellphone, which can instantly turn Japanese travellers' words into English. One second after the phone hears speech in Japanese, the cellphone with the new technology shows the text on the screen. One second later, an English version appears. NEC said it was the first time in the worl ... more Improving Drought Forecasts 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 03, 2007From the deserts of the American southwest to the pine forests of the Deep South, drought-weary residents have one thing on their minds: "I wish it would rain!" Technically, what they should be wishing for is "more streamflow," says Dr. Ashutosh Limaye, a hydrologist at the National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) in Huntsville, Alabama. Streamflow is a term used by water manag ... more Mountain Summits In The Alps Becoming Increasingly Similar 
Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Dec 03, 2007Alpine summit vegetation will become increasingly homogenized as a result of climate change, say researchers from the University of Bayreuth and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research writing in the international Journal of Vegetation Science. The biologists assessed data on the composition and species numbers of plants on the summits of seven mountains measuring over 3000 metres in the ... more Global warming is pushing edges of tropics towards poles: study 
Paris (AFP) Dec 2, 2007The greenhouse effect is causing Earth's zone of tropical climate to creep towards the poles, according to a study whose release on Sunday coincided with the eve of a major UN conference on climate change. The poleward expansion of the tropics will have far-reaching impacts, notably in intensifying water scarcity in the Mediterranean and the US "Sun belt" as well as southern Africa and south ... more World's largest mangrove badly hit by cyclone: official 
Dhaka (AFP) Dec 1, 2007A quarter of Bangladesh's Sunderbans forest has been damaged by a deadly cyclone that left a trail of devastation in the vast mangrove swamp, a top forestry official said Saturday. The world's largest mangrove forest bore the brunt of the cyclone that smashed into Bangladesh on November 15, killing more than 3,200 people and wiping out thousands of villages. "The cyclone has left huge de ... more |
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Nairobi (AFP) Dec 2, 2007Somali pirates on Sunday released a Comoran-flagged cargo vessel that was captured off the country's coast in October, the US Navy said. The MV Al Marjan, with 22 mostly Asian crew members on board, was seized on October 19 as it sailed to Mogadishu port from the United Arab Emirates port of Dubai. "The ship was released a couple of hours ago off the coast of Central Somalia," Commander ... more Between Water And Rock -- A New Science 
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Dec 03, 2007Water chemistry and mineralogy are scientific fields that have been around long enough to develop extensive knowledge and technologies. The boundary of water and rock, however, is not a thin wet line but the huge new field of nanoparticle science. Scientists are discovering that aquatic nanoparticles, from 1 to 100 nanometers, influence natural and engineered water chemistry and systems differen ... more Massive landslide threatening homes in central Austria: authorities 
Vienna (AFP) Dec 1, 2007A massive landslide was threatening dozens of houses on the banks of Traunsee lake in central Austria, local authorities said Saturday. The mass of rock and debris descending Traunstein mountain, near Gmunden, moved another 1.5 metres (5 feet) between Friday and Saturday, said Wolfgang Ebner, spokesman for the nearby city of Gmunden. It had already moved several metres on Friday, causing ... more Telemedicine: Health Alert Via Satellite 
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 03, 2007An earthquake has just shaken the Greek island. Damage is widespread and all conventional, terrestrial communications have been destroyed. The rescue operations have only one means at their disposal that has not been affected by the quake - a satellite which, from its altitude of 36 000 kilometres, can immediately link the locations involved in the catastrophe with the appropriate authorities. ... more Nine killed in China mine blast: report 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 3, 2007Nine miners were killed and six injured after an explosion Sunday at a private coal mine in southwest China's Yunnan province, state media reported late Sunday. The explosion Sunday morning at the Shizishan Colliery in Zhaotong city killed eight people on the spot while a ninth died later in hospital, Xinhua news agency said, citing the local government. The head of the coal mine and tho ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 1, 2007Japan wants to reach an accord with China over exploring lucrative gas fields in the East China Sea by the beginning of 2008, an official here said Saturday. The Asian nations, two of the world's largest energy importers, are locked in a disagreement over the boundaries of their territorial waters. Eleven previous rounds of talks on the issue since 2004 have failed to reach a breakthrough. ... more The Energy Ties That Bring Turkey And Iran Together 
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 30, 2007One casualty of the Bush administration's ambiguous attempts to mollify Turkey over the issue of clamping down on Kurdish insurgents in northern Iraq may well be Washington's larger agenda of isolating Iran. Ankara and Tehran have signed $1.5 billion in agreements providing for the joint construction of three 2,000-megawatt thermal power plants -- two in Iran and one in Turkey, and several hydro ... more French, Italian energy groups reach deal on nuclear cooperation 
Nice, France (AFP) Nov 30, 2007French energy group EDF and Italian counterpart Enel said Friday they had reached agreement to enable Enel to take part in the development of a third generation nuclear reactor in France. The accord, signed during a French-Italian summit here, calls for Enel to take a 12.5 percent stake in an ongoing project to build the reactor in Flamanville in northern France. Enel in addition would h ... more China's largest-ever coal-fired power plant starts operation: report 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 30, 2007China's largest coal-fired power plant, a 2.1-billion-dollar complex supplying the energy-hungry east coast, has entered into operation, state media reported Friday. The four 1,000-megawatt generating units that make up the plant are located in east China's Zhejiang province and operated by China Huaneng Group, one of the nation's top energy producers, the Xinhua news agency said. The fa ... more Two years to start Japan's giant nuke plant: expert 
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 1, 2007The world's largest nuclear plant in central Japan, which was shut in July after a major earthquake, will not be able to resume operation for at least two years, a top government expert said Saturday. The seven-reactor Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant, a crucial source of electricity for the Tokyo region 250 kilometres (150 miles) to the south, suffered a fire, a small radioactive leak and other pro ... more
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