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Baffin Island Ice Caps Shrink By 50 Percent Since 1950S
Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 29, 2008A new University of Colorado at Boulder study has shown that ice caps on the northern plateau of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic have shrunk by more than 50 percent in the last half century as a result of warming, and are expected to disappear by the middle of the century. Radiocarbon dating of dead plant material emerging from beneath the receding ice margins show the Baffin Island ... more Telepathic Genes 
London, UK (SPX) Jan 30, 2008Genes have the ability to recognize similarities in each other from a distance, without any proteins or other biological molecules aiding the process, according to new research published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B. This discovery could explain how similar genes find each other and group together in order to perform key processes involved in the evolution of species. ... more Protecting The Alps From Traffic Noise And Air Pollution 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jan 29, 2008A European research project under the name of ALPNAP comes to a conclusion that helps to minimise noise and air pollution along main alpine traffic routes. The project was led by the German Aerospace Center's (DLR) Institute for Atmospheric Physics. The findings will be presented to the public from 23rd to 25th January, 2008 at a conference in Innsbruck. The growing level of goods traffic ... more Chad Air Force Hits Rebels As EU Sends Warning To All Parties Over Refugees 
Brussels (AFP) Jan 29, 2008The commander of the EU's new peacekeeping mission to Chad and the Central African Republic warned rebel groups Tuesday not to interfere with its efforts to protect refugees from strife-torn Darfur. "We have a very clear mission. If the rebels are not interfering with our mission, it is no business of ours," Irish General Pat Nash told reporters in Brussels. "That is where we take action, if ... more Tsunamis: The worst may be yet to come 
Los Angeles (UPI) Jan 29, 2008A U.S. review of potential tsunami hazards suggested 2004's catastrophic tsunami was far from the worst possible scenario in Indian Ocean borderlands. The research -- conducted by Costas Synolakis, director of the University of Southern California Tsunami Research Center, and Northwestern University Professor Emile Okal -- evaluated potential tsunami-generating sources in the area betwe ... more |
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Suva (AFP) Jan 29, 2008A tropical cyclone battered the South Pacific island nation of Fiji, causing widespread flooding, blackouts in the capital and at least three deaths, officials and reports said Tuesday. Cyclone Gene smashed into Fiji overnight, dumping heavy rain and packing wind gusts of up to 140 kilometres (85 miles) per hour, the Fiji Meteorological Service said. Interim Prime Minister Voreqe Bainim ... more Britain's spy 'listening' HQ nearly flooded out in 2007: committee 
London (AFP) Jan 29, 2008Britain's spy headquarters for listening in on signals around the world was severely disrupted by last year's floods that inundated large parts of England, lawmakers said in a report Tuesday. The Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee, which oversees the work of Britain's domestic and intelligence services, said there were "unprecedented problems" at the Government Communications ... more El Nino At Play As Source Of More Intense Regional US Wintertime Storms 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 29, 2008The next time you have to raise your umbrella against torrents of cold winter rain, you may have a remote weather phenomenon to thank that many may know by name as El Nino, but may not well understand. Researchers now believe that some of the most intense winter storm activity over parts of the United States may be set in motion from changes in the surface waters of far-flung parts of the Pacifi ... more 2005 a deadly year for Caribbean coral 
Paris (AFP) Jan 28, 2008The Caribbean's fragile coral reefs were devastated in 2005 by a doubly whammy of record-high temperatures and 13 full-on hurricanes, according to a UN-sponsored report released Monday. During the last 50 years many Caribbean reefs have lost up to 80 percent of their coral cover, damaging or destroying the main source of livelihood for hundreds of thousands of people, said the report, prepar ... more Strain shows as China buckles under harsh winter 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 29, 2008Premier Wen Jiabao rushed Tuesday to oversee disaster relief as China buckled under its harshest winter for half a century, which has affected tens of millions of people and paralysed many areas. The heavy snowfalls and freezing temperatures across China have left more than 50 dead, ravaged power supplies and hit millions of people trying to go home for the main holiday of the year. ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Jan 28, 2008US President George W. Bush called Monday for completing an international deal aimed at cutting global-warming greenhouse gases that involves "every major economy and gives none a free ride." In his annual State of the Union speech, Bush plugged a US initiative which stresses uses of nuclear power and technology to trap emissions from coal plants that critics fear will undermine UN-led effor ... more Analysis: U.S.'s post-Bali role unclear 
The Dalles, Ore. (UPI) Jan 29, 2008For a climate-change conference, last month's U.N. meeting in Bali, Indonesia, was as uncontroversial as they come. But the dissonance in opinions of where to go from here, and what role the United States should play in post-Kyoto negotiations, more than makes up for it. Most of the players in the international climate-change arena welcomed the results of the meeting, held Dec. ... more EU threatens Italy with court action over rubbish crisis 
Brussels (AFP) Jan 29, 2008The European Commission will threaten Italy Wednesday with court action if the authorities there do not resolve the rubbish crisis in Naples, an EU official said. Commissioners, at their regular weekly meeting in Brussels, are due to issue a "reasoned opinion" on the matter, the final step before turning to the European Court of Justice, which could impose fines, the official said Tuesday. ... more Bacteria might be used to make natural gas 
Amherst, Mass. (UPI) Jan 29, 2008U.S. scientists said deposits of natural gas created by bacteria during the last ice age might lead to technology making natural gas a renewal resource. Steven Petsch and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts studied natural gas reservoirs in Michigan's Antrim Shale and determined carbon-hungry bacteria trapped in the rock beneath ice sheets produced the gas during the ice age ... more Japan minister eyes deeper cuts in greenhouse gas 
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 29, 2008Japan should look at cutting greenhouse emissions by even more than the 50 percent by 2050 sought by the last Group of Eight summit, the environment minister said Tuesday. Japan, home of the landmark Kyoto Protocol, is hoping to play a major role in the fight against global warming when it hosts the next summit of the Group of Eight major economies in July. The previous summit in Germany ... more
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