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Gainesville FL (SPX) Jan 18, 2008Mangroves in coastal Thailand are the main protection against deadly flooding from tsunamis, so it might seem wise to protect them at all costs. However, ripping out a few mangroves and replacing them with shrimp farms, an important local industry, doesn't necessarily have to reduce the plants' power to blunt tsunamis. And in that observation lies a fresh, quantitative approach to how policy mak ... more California Flood Risks Are A Disaster Waiting To Happen 
College Park MD (SPX) Jan 18, 2008While flooding in California's Central Valley is "the next big disaster waiting to happen," water-related infrastructure issues confront almost every community across the country, according to engineers at the University of Maryland's Clark School of Engineering in separate reports to California officials and in the journal Science. An independent review panel chaired by Clark School Resea ... more English to be the world's 'language of choice': British PM 
London (AFP) Jan 17, 2008British premier Gordon Brown Thursday pledged to make English the world's "language of choice", announcing a huge programme to boost teaching and access to resources, particularly in China and India. Brown, who heads to China later Thursday on his maiden visit as leader, said the British Council cultural organisation will offer English students and teachers greater access to materials, resou ... more Parts of China's Yangtze at lowest level in 140 years: report 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 17, 2008A severe drought has left parts of China's famed Yangtze river suffering their lowest water levels in at least 140 years, state media reported Thursday. The drought has made navigating the Yangtze a risky affair, with more than 40 ships running aground since October, according to the China Daily, which quoted officials rejecting any link with the Three Gorges Dam. In Hankou, a major port ... more Profile of Sea Shepherd environmental group 
Sydney (AFP) Jan 17, 2008The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, engaged in a standoff with Japanese whalers in the Antarctic, is a small but militant environmentalist group specialising in "direct action." In the past that has included ramming a Japanese whaling vessel, while the current confrontation off the Antarctic erupted when two of its activists boarded a Japanese vessel. With a mandate to protect marine ... more |
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Riverside CA (SPX) Jan 18, 2008The direct effect predators have on their prey is to kill them. The evolutionary changes that can result from this direct effect include prey that are younger at maturity and that produce more offspring. But killing prey also has indirect effects - rarely characterized or measured - such as a decline in the number of surviving prey, resulting, in turn, in more food available to survivors. ... more Dallas Judge Reverses Jury Verdict, Awards TXU Nothing In Dispute Over Wind Energy 
Dallas TX (SPX) Jan 18, 2008In a court battle closely watched by the growing wind energy industry, a Dallas judge has reversed an earlier jury verdict and ruled that Dallas-based TXU Corp. is not entitled to any damages in a contract dispute with major wind farm operator FPL Energy. The dispute centered on claims that Florida-based FPL Energy had not supplied levels of wind energy from three West Texas wind farms as agreed ... more Babcock And Brown Acquires Seven US Wind Farms Under Development 
San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 18, 2008International investment and specialized fund and asset management group Babcock and Brown, a leading wind energy developer and operator, announced it has acquired seven Midwestern wind energy projects, under various stages of development, from Gamesa Energy USA and Navitas Energy, a subsidiary of Gamesa. The seven wind energy projects, totaling more than 750 megawatts (MW), enough to powe ... more GE Unit Boosts 2010 Renewable Energy Investing Target, Announces Its Largest Wind Deal 
Stamford CT (SPX) Jan 18, 2008Reinforcing GE's ecomagination program, GE Energy Financial Services announced that it has raised its 2010 renewable energy investing target by 50 percent to $6 billion, and has just topped $3 billion. GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE, crossed the $3 billion mark with its single highest-value wind deal, a $300 million investment in wind projects spanning four states. GE Energy Fi ... more Multi-nationals in China face sharp rise in salary demands: survey 
Shanghai (AFP) Jan 17, 2008Multi-nationals in China face more serious challenges than anywhere else in Asia, paying more to attract talent but facing the region's worst turnover levels, a survey said Thursday. Across all sectors of China's roaring economy, 32 percent of employers said job seekers expect salary increases of at least 20 percent over their previous position, a report by human resources firm Hudson said. ... more |
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Boston MA (SPX) Jan 17, 2008Our planet is changing before our eyes, and as a result, many species are living on the edge. Yet Earth has been on the edge of habitability from the beginning. New work by astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that if Earth had been slightly smaller and less massive, it would not have plate tectonics - the forces that move continents and build mountains. And witho ... more USAF And LockMart Team Completes On-Orbit Deployment Of Modernized GPS Satellite In Record Time 
Denver CO (SPX) Jan 17, 2008The modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral on Dec. 20, 2007, has been declared fully operational for military and civilian navigation users around the globe, following a record-setting on-orbit deployment by a joint U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] team. Lockheed Martin's operations team assisted Air Force Space Command' ... more US calls January 30-31 climate talks 
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 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
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