| February 19, 2008 |  |
TerraDaily Advertising Kit |
| Previous Issues | Feb 18 | Feb 15 | Feb 14 | Feb 13 | Feb 12 |
180,000 stranded in southern China as cold weather returns: govt
Beijing (AFP) Feb 18, 2008Icy temperatures have swept through south China, stranding 180,000 people and leading to widespread power cuts just as the area was recovering from the worst weather in 50 years, the government said Monday. The latest cold snap has taken a severe toll in usually temperate Yunnan province, which has been struck by heavy snowfalls since Thursday, a government official from the provincial disaster ... more Amazon Corridors Far Too Narrow 
Norwich, UK (SPX) Feb 19, 2008Protected forest strips buffering rivers and streams of the Amazon rainforest should be significantly wider than the current legal requirement, according to pioneering new research by scientists at the University of East Anglia. Published in the journal Conservation Biology on March 21, this is the first wildlife study in remnant riparian tropical forest corridors. Brazilian forestry ... more Into The Abyss: Deep-Sixing Carbon 
Ottawa, Canada (SPX) Feb 19, 2008Imagine a gigantic, inflatable, sausage-like bag capable of storing 160 million tonnes of CO2 - the equivalent of 2.2 days of current global emissions. Now try to picture that container, measuring up to 100 metres in radius and several kilometres long, resting benignly on the seabed more than 3 kilometres below the ocean�s surface. At first blush, this might appear like science fiction, but ... more Water supplies cut in south China city due to oil slick: report 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 18, 2008Water supplies to about 100,000 residents in a southern Chinese city were suspended on the weekend after a two-kilometre (1.2-mile) oil slick tainted a local river, state media reported Monday. Domestic water supplies to about half of the population of Foshan in Guangdong province were cut for about six hours on Saturday, Xinhua news agency said. Local environment officials said that the ... more Will North Atlantic Threshold Response To Ocean Changes Be Enough 
University Park PA (SPX) Feb 19, 2008Predictions that the 21st century is safe from major circulation changes in the North Atlantic Ocean may not be as comforting as they seem, according to a Penn State researcher. "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that it is very unlikely that the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation will collapse in the 21st century. They predict a probability of ... more |
un:
 climate:  pollution:  |
Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 18, 2008Up to 14,000 Hong Kong-owned factories in southern China may close in the next few months, in part due to the crippling winter weather that hit the nation earlier in February, a report said Monday. Labour and power shortages in the aftermath of the heavy snowstorms will hurt operations, Clement Chen, chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries (FHKI), told The Standard newspaper. ... more No Easy Answers In Evolution Of Human Language 
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 19, 2008The evolution of human speech was far more complex than is implied by some recent attempts to link it to a specific gene, says Robert Berwick, professor of computational linguistics at MIT. Berwick will describe his ideas about language in a session at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Sunday, Feb. 17. The session is called "Mind of a Toolmaker ... more More than 40 percent of Chinese rural drinking water unfit: report 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 18, 2008More than 40 percent of drinking water in rural China falls short of government standards, state media said Monday, citing a health ministry study. The survey found 44.4 percent of all drinking water in the rural areas was unhealthy, leading to outbreaks of diarrhoea and other diseases, Xinhua said, citing the Ministry of Health. "The condition of drinking water in rural areas still has ... more Coal Gasification - Myths, Challenges And Opportunities 
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 19, 2008There is a growing consensus that increased demand for electricity will cement coal's place in the energy portfolio for years to come. In fact, more than half of the electricity produced in the United States comes from coal. With demand for electricity expected to double by 2050 and renewable resources still years away from offsetting increased demand, it is clear -- coal is here to stay. ... more PECO Goes Biodiesel 
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Feb 19, 2008PECO is now fueling all of its approximately 580 utility trucks with a biodiesel fuel blend, reducing the amount of carbon dioxide and other emissions released into the aosphere, all part of the company's overall efforts to aggressively seek and implement ways of being more environmentally conscious. PECO accepted its first delivery of biodiesel recently, and within days, company service ... more |
china:
 ethanol:  coal:  energy-tech:  |
Beijing (AFP) Feb 18, 2008The recent freezing weather that crippled parts of China could trigger a string of coal mining accidents as collieries ramp up operations after the Lunar New Year holiday, state media said Monday. The build-up of lethal gases, flooding and unstable power supplies could all lead to more accidents in the country's already-dangerous mining industry, the State Administration of Work Safety ... more Areva declares interest in Turkey nuclear plant project 
Istanbul (AFP) Feb 18, 2008French nuclear giant Areva said Monday it was interested in a planned tender for the construction of Turkey's first nuclear power plant. "We are going to meet the (Turkish) energy minister (Hilmi Guler) and we will clearly indicate to him that the Areva company is interested," Gabriel Saltarelli, head of the company's commercial affairs in Central and Eastern Europe, told reporters here. ... more Twenty-four dead in mine explosion: report 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 19, 2008Twenty-four people were killed and five injured in an explosion at an illegal iron mine in northern China, local government officials said Monday, according to state news agency Xinhua. The explosion happened on Sunday at the mine in Hebei Province, which is disguised as a wild boar farm, trapping 30 people, the local government said, according to Xinhua. A total of 24 bodies had been ... more Mars Rovers Sharpen Questions About Livable Conditions 
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 18, 2008Like salt used as a preservative, high concentrations of dissolved minerals in the wet, early-Mars environment known from discoveries by NASA's Opportunity rover may have thwarted any microbes from developing or surviving. "Not all water is fit to drink," said Andrew Knoll, a member of the rover science team who is a biologist at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. ... more Zoombak Showcases Advanced GPS Dog Locator At Global Pet Expo 2008 
San Diego CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2008Designed to provide dog owners with a convenient, easy-to-use, real-time solution to locate and recover their missing pets, Zoombak has introduced its Advanced GPS Locator at the Global Pet Expo 2008. Global Pet Expo is the pet industry's largest annual trade show. At the event, Zoombak demonstrated the many features of its advanced GPS dog locator to attending industry buyers and members of the ... more
|
gps:
 gps:  gps:  gps:  |
|
| Previous Issues | Feb 18 | Feb 15 | Feb 14 | Feb 13 | Feb 12 |
| The contents herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2008 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy statement |
