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Over 100,000 die in road and industrial accidents in China in 2007: report
Beijing (AFP) Jan 13, 2008Industrial and road accidents killed 101,480 people in China last year, a drop of about 10 percent compared to 2006, the state's safety watchdog said in a report seen Sunday. Most fatalities occurred on China's dangerous roads, although there were fewer traffic deaths in 2007 than in 2006, Li Yizhong, head of the State Administration of Work Safety, said. Although Li did not say how many ... more Africa's Biggest Mammals Key To Ant-Plant Teamwork 
Gainesville FL (SPX) Jan 11, 2008Throughout the tropics, ants and Acacia trees live together in intricate interdependent relationships that have long fascinated scientists. Now researchers are reporting that in Africa, this plant-insect teamwork depends on the very antagonist it is intended to ward off: Africa's big browsing mammals. In a paper set to appear this week on the cover of the journal Science, the researchers r ... more Micro-Grant Makes Business Boom For Iraqi Butcher 
Forward Operating Base Kalsu, Iraq (AFNS) Jan 14, 2008Business is booming for a butcher in Arab Jabour, Iraq, thanks to the micro-grants program being implemented by the 3rd Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team. Hussen Jowd's success even garnered mention from President Bush during a Nov. 2 Basic Combat Training graduation speech at Fort Jackson, S.C., as an example of improving conditions in Iraq. The micro-grants program is designed ... more Older Arctic Sea Ice Replaced By Young, Thin Ice 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 14, 2008A new study by University of Colorado at Boulder researchers indicates older, multi-year sea ice in the Arctic is giving way to younger, thinner ice, making it more susceptible to record summer sea-ice lows like the one that occurred in 2007. The team used satellite data going back to 1982 to reconstruct past Arctic sea ice conditions, concluding there has been a nearly complete loss of th ... more Meat, milk from cloned animals appear safe for humans: EU agency 
Rome (AFP) Jan 11, 2008Meat and milk from healthy cattle and pig clones are probably safe for human consumption, the EU's food safety watchdog said Friday, although it said some data on cloned farmed animals remained sketchy. "Food products obtained from healthy cattle and pig clones... are within the normal range with respect to the composition and nutritional value of similar products obtained from conventionall ... more |
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Bristol, UK (SPX) Jan 14, 2008Increasing amounts of ice mass have been lost from West Antarctica and the Antarctic peninsula over the past ten years, according to research from the University of Bristol and published online this week in Nature Geoscience. Meanwhile the ice mass in East Antarctica has been roughly stable, with neither loss nor accumulation over the past decade. Professor Jonathan Bamber at the Universit ... more First snow for 100 years falls on Baghdad 
Baghdad (AFP) Jan 11, 2008Light snow fell in Baghdad early on Friday in what weather officials said was the first time in about a 100 years. Rare snowfalls were also recorded in the west and centre of Iraq, plunging temperatures to zero degrees Centigrade (32 degrees Fahrenheit) and even colder, an official said. The snow in Baghdad, which melted as it hit the ground, began falling before dawn and continued until ... more Cellphone obsession leads Japanese children into a 'scary world' 
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 11, 2008Young Japanese people are evolving a new lifestyle for the 21st century based on the cellphones that few are now able to live without. While about one-third of Japanese primary school students aged 7-12 years old use cellphones, by the time they get to high school that figure has shot up to 96 percent, according to a government survey released last month. They are using their phones to r ... more Greenpeace says Japanese whalers left hunting grounds 
Sydney (AFP) Jan 13, 2008A Greenpeace protest vessel has chased a fleet of Japanese whalers out of their Southern Ocean hunting grounds, the environmental group said Sunday. Greenpeace said its ship Esperanza pursued the lead Japanese boat, the Nisshin Maru, for 24 hours and over hundreds of kilometres before it left the area in which it is taking part in the slaughter of 1,000 whales. "We came here to stop the ... more Highest Antarctic icecap peak reached 
Beijing (UPI) Jan 12, 2008A Chinese team culminated a 21-day quest to scale the highest peak on the Antarctic icecap Saturday when the 17 scientists reached the top of Dome A. It was the second time Chinese scientists have reached the peak, Xinhua reported Saturday. Another team became the first to reach the summit Jan. 18, 2005, the state-run Chinese news agency said. This time, the team faced strong win ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Jan 13, 2008French nuclear giant Areva announced a deal with Niger on Sunday fixing uranium prices for the next two years and green-lighting production at the billion-euro (1.5-billion-dollar) Imouraren site. The agreement marks a return to harmonious relations with the west African state after authorities deported a local manager in July amid accusations Areva was financing a Tuareg rebel group in an a ... more New Understanding For Superconductivity At High Temperatures 
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Jan 14, 2008An international research team has discovered that a magnetic field can interact with the electrons in a superconductor in ways never before observed. Andrea D. Bianchi, the lead researcher from the Universite de Montreal, explains in the January 11 edition of Science magazine what he discovered in an exceptional compound of metals - a combination of cobalt, indium and a rare earth - that loses ... more Enel And GE Soar To New Heights At Texas Wind Farm With Tallest Turbine Towers In US 
Snyder TX (SPX) Jan 14, 2008Enel SpA, through its subsidiary Enel North America, announced the completion of a wind farm in Texas with the tallest utility-scale wind turbines in the United States as well as investments by an affiliate of GE Energy Financial Services, the energy investing unit of GE. The Snyder Wind project in Scurry County, Texas, between Abilene and Lubbock, comprises 21 Vestas V90 3.0 megawatt wind turbi ... more General Cable Announces First Offshore Windfarm Contract Award 
Nordenham, Germany (SPX) Jan 14, 2008General Cable reported that its subsidiary, Norddeutsche Seekablewerke GmbH (NSW), has been awarded its first submarine power contract by BARD Engineering GmbH, for more than $30 million related to the construction of BARD Offshore 1. BARD Offshore 1 is a 400 megawatt wind farm consisting of 80 wind turbines that will be located north-west of the Isle of Borkum in the North Sea. BARD Offsh ... more China's crude oil imports hit new record in 2007: customs 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 11, 2008China's crude oil imports hit a new record of 163.17 million tonnes in 2007, up 12.4 percent over the previous year, the government said Friday. Meanwhile, crude exports dropped by 38.7 percent to 3.89 million tonnes, the General Administration of Customs said, as the country strove to meet fast-rising energy demand accompanying double-digit economic growth. China spent 79.77 billion dol ... more
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