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Immediate Action Needed To Save Corals From Climate Change
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 14, 2007The journal Science has published a paper that is the most comprehensive review to date of the effects rising ocean temperatures are having on the world's coral reefs. The Carbon Crisis: Coral Reefs under Rapid Climate Change and Ocean Acidification, co-authored by seventeen marine scientists from seven different countries, reveals that most coral reefs will not survive the drastic increases in ... more Tropical Storm Olga's death toll in Caribbean reaches 25 
Santo Domingo (AFP) Dec 13, 2007The toll from Tropical Storm Olga's Caribbean rampage Thursday rose to 25 confirmed deaths, most in the Dominican Republic. The worst hit was Santiago, the second largest city in the Dominican Republic, where 17 deaths were reported after rising waters forced authorities to release water from a dam into the already swollen Yaque river. Most of the victims drowned in the floodwaters, auth ... more Air Quality Forecasts See Future In Space 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 14, 2007Weather broadcasts have long been a staple for people planning their day. Now with the help of NASA satellites, researchers are working to broaden daily forecasts to include predictions of air quality, a feat that is becoming reality in some parts of the world. Some scientists predict that an operational system of routine, global forecasts of air pollution near the ground, where it affects ... more AIDS on agenda as Bush meets Nigerian leader 
Washington (AFP) Dec 13, 2007President George W. Bush on Thursday praised visiting Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua for his commitment to democracy and offered US help in fighting AIDS and malaria. It is the Nigerian leader's first visit to the White House since taking office in late May after April elections that both Washington and the European Union judged as questionable. Nigeria is the world's fifth largest ex ... more Another Warm Year As Bali Conference Ends 
Norwich, UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2007The University of East Anglia and the Met Office's Hadley Centre have released preliminary global temperature figures for 2007, which show the top 11 warmest years all occurring in the last 13 years. The provisional global figure for 2007 using data from January to November, currently places the year as the seventh warmest on records dating back to 1850. The announcement comes as the Secre ... more |
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Stanford CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2007Like geological ninjas, earthquakes can strike without warning. But there may be a way to detect the footfalls of large earthquakes before they strike, alerting their potential victims a week or more in advance. A Stanford professor thinks a method to provide just such warnings may have been buried in the scientific literature for over 40 years. In October, Japan instituted a nationwide ea ... more Moss Is A Super Model For Feeding The Hungry 
Leeds, UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2007One of the simplest plants on the planet could help scientists create crops to survive the ravages of drought. The moss Physcomitrella patens is a primitive plant, similar to the first plants which began to grow on land around 450 million years ago. Just one cell thick, these early plants had to adapt to withstand cold, heat and drought without roots or complex leaves. The ability of mosse ... more Fish Farms Drive Wild Salmon Populations Toward Extinction 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 14, 2007A study appearing in the December 14 issue of the journal Science shows, for the first time, that parasitic sea lice infestations caused by salmon farms are driving nearby populations of wild salmon toward extinction. The results show that the affected pink salmon populations have been rapidly declining for four years. The scientists expect a 99% collapse in another four years, or two salmon gen ... more Innovation Is Essential To Increasing Energy Efficiency And Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions 
Bali, Indonesia (SPX) Dec 14, 2007Innovations will be essential to increasing the energy efficiency of buildings and transportation to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, DuPont Greater China President Doug Muzyka told participants at the Bali Global Business Day at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. "In the growing world economy, energy demand remains high and will continue to increase, particu ... more Asian datacenter energy use to double by 2010: study 
Bangalore, India (AFP) Dec 13, 2007Energy use by datacenters in the Asia-Pacific is set to double from 2005 to 2010 as growth in the region's consumption outpaces the rest of the world's, said a study released Thursday. The region excluding Japan will require electricity equal to output from two new 1,000-megawatt power plants by 2010 to run datacenters, which house computer systems, and telecommunications, storage and coolin ... more |
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Birmingham AL (SPX) Dec 14, 2007Masada Resource Group has teamed with RJ Zapata and Associates, to develop and operate commercial-scale waste-to-ethanol and electricity production facilities in the country. The two companies signed a long-term joint-venture agreement last month to build facilities in the Dominican Republic that will produce fuel-grade ethanol and electricity from ordinary household garbage. Rafael Zapata ... more Experiments Reveal Unexpected Activity Of Fuel Cell Catalysts 
Upton NY (SPX) Dec 14, 2007Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have unveiled important details about a class of catalysts that could help improve the performance of fuel cells. With the goal of producing "clean" hydrogen for fuel cell reactions in mind, the researchers determined why two next-generation catalysts including gold, cerium, titanium, and oxygen nanomaterials exhibit v ... more Bulgaria forced to import electricity after semi-closure of nuclear plant 
Sofia (AFP) Dec 13, 2007Bulgaria will be forced to import electricity soon as it is experiencing energy shortages after partially closing its only nuclear power plant at Kozloduy last year, the daily Trud reported Thursday. "Bulgaria, which only a year ago was a major electricity exporter in the Balkans, will have to start importing electricity in January 2008," Trud commented. According to an official repor ... more Iran, Russia resolve problems on nuclear station: Moscow 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 13, 2007Iran and Russia have resolved all disputes holding up construction of the Islamic republic's first nuclear power station at Bushehr, the head of the Russian contractor said on Thursday. "The difficulties with the Iranian client are resolved and we have an agreement on the timetable for construction," said the head of the Atomstroiexport company, Sergei Shmatko, at a briefing with journalists ... more India To Launch GSAT-4 For Better Connectivity In Remote Areas 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Dec 13, 2007India would launch a satellite in June next year to provide computer connectivity in remote villages, a Space Department official has said. "We are going to launch GSAT-4 which will have digital connectivity on board. It's meant for data transfers from computers at remote villages", Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation, G Madhavan Nair, told an international conference on e-science and ... more
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