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Tainted tap water forces 1,000 Chinese to seek treatment: report
Beijing (AFP) Jan 16, 2008More than 1,000 residents have fallen ill with symptoms of poisoning in a northeastern Chinese city after drinking tainted tap water, state media reported Wednesday. More than 2,636 households in the Gaode Garden community in Fuxin city were affected in the incident on January 9 and 1,139 residents have been given medical treatment, with 59 hospitalised, the Beijing News said. Symptoms i ... more High spirits drive speedy recovery after Indonesian quake 
Bantul, Indonesia (AFP) Jan 16, 2008With every step he takes, Sukasdi feels a shard of pain shoot down his back, reminding him of the day two years ago that a powerful earthquake destroyed his home and broke his spine. "I had to stay more than a month in hospital. I didn't know what had happened to my family and home, so I insisted on going home," says the wiry survivor who still moves slowly but speaks with a lively sparkle i ... more We won't stop, activists tell Japanese whalers 
Sydney (AFP) Jan 16, 2008A militant anti-whaling group chasing Japanese whalers refused Wednesday to abandon their high-seas harassment in return for the release of two of its activists detained on board one of the ships. The standoff in the icy waters off the Antarctic has forced the government in Australia to contact Tokyo to try to secure their release. But Paul Watson, head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation S ... more Rains lash some desert Gulf states as others shiver 
Dubai (AFP) Jan 16, 2008Rare torrential rains in the United Arab Emirates forced schools to close on Wednesday and created traffic nightmares in the desert country, while neighbouring Saudi Arabia and Kuwait shivered. Pupils received an unexpected day off in Dubai, and five other emirates in the seven-member UAE were also ordered by the education ministry to shut on Wednesday and Thursday because of unstable weathe ... more US navy sonar takes precedence over whales: Bush 
Washington (AFP) Jan 16, 2008President George W. Bush has exempted the US Navy from an environmental law protecting whales and dolphins from sonar devices used in military exercises off the coast of California, the White House said Wednesday. Animal welfare groups maintain mid-frequency sonar can disorient marine mammals with sometimes lethal results, while the White House argues the naval exercises are crucial to natio ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Jan 16, 2008US President George W. Bush has called major world economies to a second round of climate change talks on January 30-31 in Hawaii, the White House's Council on Environmental Quality announced. "The two day meeting will further the shared objectives of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing energy security and efficiency, and sustaining economic growth, and will help to advance the neg ... more Slovakia halts EU legal challenge over CO2 emissions 
Bratislava (AFP) Jan 16, 2008Slovakia's government decided Wednesday to halt its legal challenge to a European Commission order to cut its carbon dioxide emissions after a compromise was reached, an official said. The commission has agreed to increase Slovakia's carbon dioxide emissions quota from 30.9 to 32.6 million tonnes, according to the ministry of environment in Bratislava. "We considered the 1.7 million (ton ... more North American Birds Moving North As A Result Of Climate Change 
Auburn AL (SPX) Jan 17, 2008A new study led by an Auburn University researcher shows that the breeding ranges of North American birds have shifted northward coinciding with a period of increasing global temperatures. Alan Hitch, a doctoral student with AU's School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, along with his master's degree advisor, Paul Leberg, studied the breeding ranges of 56 bird species using data collected ... more Climate Influence On Deep Sea Populations 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 17, 2008In an article published in the January 16 issue of PLoS ONE, Joan B. Company and colleagues at the Institut de Ci�ncies del Mar (CSIC) in Spain describe a mechanism of interaction across ecosystems showing how a climate-driven phenomenon originated in shelf environments controls the biological processes of a deep-sea living resource. The progressive depletion of world fisheries is one of t ... more Intel's India unit develops remote health monitoring device 
Bangalore, India (AFP) Jan 16, 2008US microchip maker Intel is developing a technology to allow remote monitoring of a person's health through signals from a hand-held device, the company said on Wednesday. Intel's Indian and US researchers have built a prototype which would alert a person carrying the wireless device, and doctors monitoring the person's health, to any impending medical emergency, said chief technology office ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Jan 15, 2008Twenty-three US groups launched an effort Tuesday to stop a US deal aimed at providing India with civilian nuclear fuel and technology, saying it would instead beef up New Delhi's atomic weapons capability. The Campaign for Responsibility in Nuclear Trade said the US-India civilian nuclear agreement would also "dangerously weaken" nonproliferation efforts, embolden Iran and North Korea to pu ... more Bulgaria wants EU approval to reopen nuclear reactors: minister 
Sofia (AFP) Jan 16, 2008Bulgaria should be allowed to reopen two closed reactors at its Kozloduy nuclear plant or receive larger compensation for the EU-required shutdown, the energy minister said Wednesday. "We see the European Commission's decision for the shutdown as unfair, not only towards Bulgaria but also towards the rest of the Balkans ... Everybody agrees that the blocs were closed not because they were un ... more EU wants Germany to double clean energy output: report 
Frankfurt (AFP) Jan 16, 2008The European Commission wants Germany to double the percentage of renewable energy in its overall consumption to 18 percent by 2020, a press report said, quoting EU diplomatic sources. The European Union's executive branch wants France to raise its share of energy produced by solar, wind and other clean power generating methods to 23 percent over the next 12 years, the daily Handelsblatt sai ... more The world's major oil spills and their legal follow up 
Paris (AFP) Jan 16, 2008A French court Wednesday handed down a ruling in a landmark case against oil giant Total and other parties, accused of responsibility for one of France's worst environmental disasters. The Erika tanker was carrying 30,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil when it broke in two and sank off the Brittany coast on December 12, 1999, polluting a large stretch of coastline and killing tens of thousands of ... more EU threatens 50,000 jobs with CO2 plan: German steelmakers 
Berlin (AFP) Jan 16, 2008The German steel industry warned Thursday of huge job losses if the European Commission went ahead with a new emissions trading scheme in its climate protection drive. "If by 2020 all emission rights must be bought at auction, at least 50,000 jobs in the German steel industry are in danger," the head of the industry foundation, Dieter Ameling, told the conservative daily Die Welt in an inter ... more
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