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Researcher Breaks New Ground With Study On Human Responses To Climate Change
Waco TX (SPX) Dec 12, 2007While climate change has been an emerging topic of interest to the world community, little scientific data exists on the vulnerability and resilience of households to climate-related "shocks" and events like hurricanes and prolonged drought. But a Baylor University researcher has received more than $235,000 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to start a study that loo ... more Researchers Build New Model Of Bio-Exploration In Central Asia 
Champaign IL (SPX) Dec 12, 2007Two land-grant universities have developed a new approach to global bio-exploration, one that returns most of the fruits of discovery to the countries that provide the raw materials on which the research depends. The Global Institute for Bio-Exploration, a joint initiative of the University of Illinois and Rutgers University, has become a model of sustainable, non-exploitive research in the deve ... more Scientists Seek To Assess The Microbial Risks In The Water We Drink 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 12, 2007It is a familiar scenario experienced around the world: an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness suddenly emerges in a community, and no one knows where it came from or how to stop it. At the start of the outbreak, only a few people are affected, most often the very old and the very young. As the outbreak worsens, more and more people fall ill, and people who were weak or unwell may develop life- ... more Norway's Arctic islands at their hottest since Viking era: scientists 
Oslo (AFP) Dec 11, 2007Norway's Arctic archipelago of Svalbard recently experienced its highest temperatures since the end of the Viking Age around 800 years ago, the Norwegian Polar Institute said Tuesday. Analysis of ice taken from Lomonosovfonna, one of the highest glaciers on Svalbard, confirms that recent local temperatures have been at their highest since the 13th century, the institute said in a statement. ... more Greenland Melt Accelerating 
Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 12, 2007The 2007 melt extent on the Greenland ice sheet broke the 2005 summer melt record by 10 percent, making it the largest ever recorded there since satellite measurements began in 1979, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder climate scientist. The melting increased by about 30 percent for the western part of Greenland from 1979 to 2006, with record melt years in 1987, 1991, 1998, 20 ... more |
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Nusa Dua, Indonesia (AFP) Dec 11, 2007Wealthy countries and a US green group donated 160 million dollars Tuesday for a new climate-change project aimed at encouraging poor developing nations to conserve their tropical forests. The World Bank-led plan was launched in Bali amid negotiations over a new framework on climate change once Kyoto Protocol commitments to curb gas emissions end in 2012. Emerging nations are demanding g ... more Arctic Impact Crater Lake Reveals Interglacial Cycles In Sediments 
Fayetteville AR (SPX) Dec 12, 2007A University of Arkansas researcher and a team of international scientists have taken cores from the sediments of a Canadian Arctic lake and found an interglacial record indicating two ice-free periods that could pre-date the Holocene Epoch. Sonja Hausmann, assistant professor of geosciences in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas, and her colleague ... more Analysis: More than Putin's puppet? 
Berlin (UPI) Dec 11, 2007 The candidacy of Dmitry Medvedev to become the next Russian president means continuity for the current system. It also paves the way for Vladimir Putin, the current president, to retain at least some of his overwhelming influence. Dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin is a game of give-and-take. If you give him something valuable, you may get something in return. This time it wa ... more New Model Revises Estimates Of Terrestrial Carbon Dioxide Uptake 
Champaign IL (SPX) Dec 12, 2007Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a new model of global carbon and nitrogen cycling that will fundamentally transform the understanding of how plants and soils interact with a changing atmosphere and climate. The new model takes into account the role of nitrogen dynamics in influencing the response of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change and rising atmospheric carbon d ... more Kadhafi defends Chinese role in Africa 
Paris (AFP) Dec 11, 2007Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi on Tuesday defended Beijing's growing influence in Africa, saying China was helping build a "multipolar" world. "China arrived gently in Africa, nothing like the brutality of the United States," Kadhafi said, arguing that "China does not seek to install military bases in Africa or to put political regimes in place." He said growing Chinese influence in resour ... more |
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Minneapolis MN (SPX) Dec 11, 2007Twenty-two proposed renewable energy projects featuring wind, hydroelectric, solar, biomass and biofuel technologies have been selected to receive nearly $23 million from the Xcel Energy Renewable Development Fund. An advisory board with representation from Xcel Energy, environmental groups, Xcel Energy customers and the Prairie Island Indian Community recommended to the Minnesota Public Utiliti ... more Darfur rebels say they attacked Chinese-run oilfield in Sudan 
Khartoum (AFP) Dec 11, 2007Darfur rebel group the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) said on Tuesday it had attacked and taken over a Chinese-run oilfield in central Sudan. "We attacked the oilfield of Rahaw this morning at 6:00 am (0300 GMT) and took control of the facility" in the south Kordofan region, JEM commander Abdel Aziz Nur al-Ashr told AFP by telephone. "Our attack is another attempt at telling Chinese ... more Solar Energy To Power Pumping Station For Geothermal Plant 
Roseville CA (SPX) Dec 11, 2007Northern California Power Agency (NCPA), located in Roseville, CA and SPG Solar, located in San Rafael, CA have announced that they will join forces to build one of the largest solar arrays on the West Coast, near the City of Clearlake. The 1 megawatt single-axis solar tracking system will provide renewable energy to an existing pump station that supplies the NCPA Geysers Geothermal Energy Plant ... more Recurrent Energy Closes 200 Million Dollar Staged Solar Project Fund With Morgan Stanley 
San Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 11, 2007Recurrent Energy announced the close of a $200 million staged solar project fund with Morgan Stanley. The fund represents a commitment by Morgan Stanley to provide financing for $100mm of Recurrent Energy's solar electric power projects in 2008 and an additional $100mm in 2009. "Morgan Stanley is a leader in the industry and their commitment to financing renewable energy has been clear fro ... more Constellation NewEnergy Signs Renewable Energy Agreement With The InterContinental Chicago Hotel 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Dec 11, 2007Constellation Energy has announced that its subsidiary, Constellation NewEnergy, has entered into a green electricity purchase agreement with the InterContinental Chicago Hotel. As part of the agreement, Constellation NewEnergy will secure approximately two million kilowatt hours of Green-e certified Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) through its NewMix Super(SM) product to match 50 percent of ... more
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