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New Method For Producing High-Vitamin Corn Could Improve Nutrition In Developing Countries
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 22, 2008Scientists have developed a potentially powerful new tool in the fight against deficiencies in dietary vitamin A, which cause eye diseases, including blindness, in 40 million children annually, and increased health risks for about 250 million people, mostly in developing countries. This tool consists of "a new method of analyzing the genetic makeup of corn that will enable developing count ... more First Evidence Of Under-Ice Volcanic Eruption In Antarctica 
London, UK (SPX) Jan 22, 2008The first evidence of a volcanic eruption from beneath Antarctica's most rapidly changing ice sheet is reported this week in the journal Nature Geosciences. The volcano on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet erupted 2000 years ago (325BC) and remains active. Using airborne ice-sounding radar, scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) discovered a layer of ash produced by a 'subglacial' volcano. It ... more Bouncing Back From The Brink 
Bristol, UK (SPX) Jan 22, 2008The full recovery of ecological systems, following the most devastating extinction event of all time, took at least 30 million years, according to new research from the University of Bristol. The finding is helping scientists understand the interactions between past life and the environment of Earth. About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian, a major extinction event killed ov ... more Higher China fines for stars breaking one-child rule: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 21, 2008Beijing plans to make an example of celebrities who flout China's one-child policy by dramatically raising fines to prevent them buying their way past the rule, state media said Monday. "Celebrities and wealthy people will be more heavily fined for giving birth to more than one child," Xinhua news agency quoted city family planning chief Deng Xingzhou as saying. The government and its me ... more NASA Tsunami Research Makes Waves In Science Community 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2008A wave of new NASA research on tsunamis has yielded an innovative method to improve existing tsunami warning systems, and a potentially groundbreaking new theory on the source of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. In one study, published last fall in Geophysical Research Letters, researcher Y. Tony Song of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., demonstrated that real-time ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Jan 21, 2008At least 21 people have been killed in east-central China by freezing temperatures and heavy snow that have disrupted the annual New Year travel rush, state media said Monday. Eleven people were killed and 51 injured when an overloaded bus rolled off an icy road in eastern Anhui province late Sunday near Mingguang city, Xinhua news agency said. It said the passengers were mostly migrant ... more DOE Releases Soybean Genome Assembly To Support Global Bioenergy Efforts 
Walnut Creek CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2008Ppreliminary assembly and annotation of the soybean genome, Glycine max, has been made available by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), to the greater scientific community to enable bioenergy research. The announcement was made by Eddy Rubin, DOE JGI Director, during his keynote remarks Jan. 15 at the Plant and Animal Genome XVI Conference in San Diego,CA. The prelim ... more Trees And Grass May Be Able To Produce Ethanol Without Poisoning The Oceans 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 22, 2008Within five to seven years fast growing trees and grasses might become economically viable alternatives to corn as a source of renewable fuel ethanol, reducing the need for pollutants that now cause a massive "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico. "Ethanol from cellulose, whether from trees or other sources, will be the way to go in the very near future," says Dr. Gopi Podila, a University of ... more Iowa Testing Hybrid Fueled School Buses 
Ames IA (SPX) Jan 22, 2008You've got to be careful with the accelerator because hybrid school buses like to go. Dan Taghon, the director of transportation for the Sigourney Community School District in southeast Iowa, said his district's new hybrid bus has been running routes since Jan. 3. And Taghon, who drives the bus on one of the district's six routes, said he likes the 65-passenger machine powered by an electric mot ... more China Wind Systems Begins First Phase of Expansion Plan 
Wuxi, China (SPX) Jan 22, 2008China Wind Systems has purchased new equipment to expand its forged rolled rings manufacturing capabilities. The $4.13 million purchase was in line with the Company's strategy to focus on the growing wind power industry in China, and was largely funded with the proceeds from its recent private placement financing. The purchase marks the first step in execution of the Company's expansion pl ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Jan 21, 2008Twenty people were killed in a gas explosion as they tried to reopen an illegal coal mine in northern China that authorities had shut down, state media reported on Monday. The blast occurred Sunday night as a group of people attempted to extract coal from the mine in Shanxi province, Xinhua news agency said. The mine near the city of Linfen opened in 2004, but was later destroyed with ex ... more Record number of Swedes favour expanding nuclear power: poll 
Stockholm (AFP) Jan 21, 2008Nearly half of Swedes favour expanding Sweden's nuclear power stations, a poll showed Monday, despite plans to shut all of the Scandinavian country's 10 reactors over the next 20 years. A record 48 percent of Swedes favour the construction of new nuclear power stations in the country, according to a Synovate Institute poll of 1,026 people conducted between January 14 and 17. Thirty-nine ... more Abu Dhabi to build world's first zero-carbon city 
Abu Dhabi (AFP) Jan 21, 2008Construction work on the world's first zero-carbon city housing 50,000 people in a car-free environment will begin in the oil-rich Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi next month, the developers said on Monday. In Masdar City, which will be run entirely on renewable energy including solar power to exploit the desert emirate's near constant supply of sunshine, people will be able to move around in autom ... more US warns EU against using environment for protectionism 
Brussels (AFP) Jan 21, 2008US Trade Representative Susan Schwab warned Europe on Monday against using environmental issues as an excuse for protectionism amid disputes ranging from biotechnology to greenhouse gas emissions. "We have been dismayed at a variety of suggestions where we see climate or the environment being used as an excuse to close markets," Schwab said after talks with EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandel ... more Coal-fired Poland in fighting mood over EU emissions rules 
Warsaw (AFP) Jan 21, 2008Coal is king in Poland, the European Union's top producer, and Warsaw is poised for a fight to keep burning as much as possible in power stations, feeding its economy despite the pollution. Sitting on an estimated 140 years' worth of coal reserves, Poland is on tenterhooks ahead of Brussels' announcement Wednesday of final proposals for how the EU's 27 member countries will have to shoulder ... more
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