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Shifting heat layers above Arctic to blame for ice crisis: study
Paris (AFP) Jan 2, 2008The dramatic loss of the Arctic ice cap may have been triggered by disruption to the thermal layers of atmosphere stacked over Earth's far north, according to Swedish research to be published Thursday. The study, published in Nature, offers a new explanation for the rise in the Arctic's surface temperature, which over the past century has been nearly two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), or ... more Indonesian landslide, floods toll at 107 dead: health ministry 
Jakarta (AFP) Jan 2, 2008Landslides and floods that struck Indonesia's main island of Java last week killed 107 people and left 12 missing, a health ministry official said Wednesday, as waters receded in the worst hit areas. Torrential rains across Central and East Java provinces triggered landslides that engulfed homes and floods along the island's longest river which displaced tens of thousands of people, hundreds ... more Chile's Llaima volcano erupts in smoke and flames 
Santiago (AFP) Jan 1, 2008Chile's southern Llaima volcano erupted Tuesday after 13 years of dormancy, shooting smoke, debris and flames from one of its two craters and forcing 150 people in its vicinity to be evacuated, the National Emergency Office said. "We don't know what the volcano will do next," said office director Carmen Fernandez, adding that all nearby villages and towns have been put on alert for possible ... more Syria presses Turkey over Euphrates water supplies: agency 
Ankara (AFP) Jan 2, 2008Visiting Syrian Deputy Premier Abdullah Dardari urged Turkey Wednesday to let more water flow into his country from the Euphrates river, Anatolia news agency reported. Dardari said after talks with Turkish officials that the recent drought in Syria had hit water supplies, the agency reported. Syria and Iraq often complain that their northern neighbour Turkey -- with a series of dams buil ... more Study Says 2000 Tigers Possible In Thailand 
New York NY (SPX) Jan 03, 2008Thailand's Western Forest Complex - a 6,900 square mile (18,000 square kilometers) network of parks and wildlife reserves - can potentially support some 2,000 tigers, making it one of the world's strongholds for these emblematic big cats, according to a new study by Thailand's Department of National Park, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation and the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society. ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jan 03, 2008The January 2008 issue of BioScience includes a special section entitled "Managing for Resilience in Coastal Marine Ecosystems." The four articles in the section highlight different aspects of attempts to incorporate modern concepts from mathematical ecology into ecosystem-based management of coastal marine areas. Appreciation of the economic importance of services that marine ecosystems p ... more Insects' Giant Leap Reconstructed By Founder Of Sociobiology 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 03, 2008The January 2008 issue of BioScience includes an article by biologist Edward O. Wilson that argues for a new perspective on the evolution of advanced social organization in some ants, bees, and wasps (Hymenoptera). Wilson's article surveys recent evidence that the high level of social organization called "eusociality," found in some Hymenoptera (and rarely in other species), is a result of natur ... more Scientists Find Missing Evolutionary Link Using Tiny Fungus Crystal 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jan 03, 2008The crystal structure of a molecule from a primitive fungus has served as a time machine to show researchers more about the evolution of life from the simple to the complex. By studying the three-dimensional version of the fungus protein bound to an RNA molecule, scientists from Purdue University and the University of Texas at Austin have been able to visualize how life progressed from an early ... more Fisheries Should Be Regarded As A Part Of The Maritime Environment 
Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Jan 03, 2008Professional fishery is in many sea areas a serious ecological threat to the maritime environment. On the other hand, changes in the environment, e.g. the increase of fish-eating animals like seals and cormorants, may impact the fisheries. One of the new guiding principles of political decision-making in fishery issues is that a holistic "ecosystems approach" should be used instead of traditiona ... more First US Commercial Wave Energy Power Purchase Agreement 
San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 03, 2008Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced that it has entered into a long-term, two megawatt (MW) commercial wave energy power purchasing agreement (PPA) with Finavera Renewables. Located off the Northern California coast, the Humboldt County Offshore Wave Energy Power Plant will be developed by Finavera Renewables. The project is expected to begin delivering renewable, clean electricity in 201 ... more |
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Pickering, Canada (SPX) Jan 03, 2008Eco-Tec is proud to announce that it has recently been awarded the contract for a biogas purification system by Regie de gestion des matieres residuelles de la Mauricie (RGMRM) of Quebec. The integrated process includes the capture, purification and use of biogas as an alternative energy source for greenhouses. "Hot house tomatoes are not the only beneficiary of biogas purification technol ... more China coal mine final death toll set at 19: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 31, 2008Eighteen miners who were trapped by a coal mine explosion in northeast China were confirmed dead on Monday, bringing the final toll to 19, state media reported. Rescuers had found the bodies of all 18 missing after the accident, which occurred Saturday evening in a coal mine near Mudanjiang city in northeastern Heilongjiang province, Xinhua news agency said. One other victim had already ... more Energy Bill Biofuels Mandates Will Be Achievable With Biotechnology Advances 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 03, 2008The new renewable fuel standard (RFS) calling for production of 36 billion gallons of biofuels by 2022 will help accelerate development of advanced industrial biotechnology applications necessary to economically produce these volumes of biofuels, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) said. "The RFS could add as much as $170 billion to the U.S. economy in advanced technology develop ... more Clark School Researchers Develop Two-Dimensional Invisibility Cloak 
College Park MD (SPX) Jan 03, 2008Harry Potter may not have talked much about plasmonics in J. K. Rowling's fantasy series, but University of Maryland researchers are using this emerging technology to develop an invisibility cloak that exists beyond the world of bespectacled teenage wizards. A research team at Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering comprised of Professor Christopher Davis, Research Scientist Igor ... more Companies Reach Agreement To Coordinate Spectrum Opertaions For New Constellation 
Reston VA (SPX) Jan 02, 2008SkyTerra Communications, Inc, Inmarsat plc, Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) and Mobile Satellite Ventures (Canada) Inc. report that that the companies have reached a comprehensive cooperative agreement for L-Band operations in North America. The agreement is intended to enable the re-banding and efficient reuse of a substantial segment of North American L-Band radio spectrum for the benefi ... more
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