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Tens of thousands camp out after Indonesian quake: official
Jakarta (AFP) Feb 21, 2008Tens of thousands of people camped outside their homes on the Indonesian island of Simeulue after a 7.5-magnitude quake that killed three, an official said Thursday. The quake hit just off the remote island located near Sumatra on Wednesday, triggering panic across the region lashed by the earthquake-triggered 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed 168,000 people in Indonesia. ... more Philippine floods and landslides leave 20 dead: officials 
Manila (AFP) Feb 21, 2008At least 20 people have been killed and more than 288,000 displaced by flash floods and landslides as heavy rain lashed the central and southern Philippines, relief workers said Thursday. Fourteen people have died in the central Philippines, while six people were killed when a landslide hit the town of Salvador on the southern island of Mindanao. The military has begun flying relief ... more Paving The Way For Green Roads 
Durham NH (SPX) Feb 22, 2008"A lot of the infrastructure in this country needs to be re-built," says Gardner, University of New Hampshire associate professor of civil engineering and director of the Environmental Research Group. "We have a real opportunity to re-build the infrastructure the right way with sustainable materials and socially sensitive designs that protect air, water, land, and human resources." Funded ... more Norway's biggest quake ever in Arctic archipelago 
Oslo (AFP) Feb 21, 2008Norway's biggest ever earthquake, measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale, shook the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard early Thursday, a Norwegian seismology institute said. No one was injured and no damage was reported after the earthquake struck about 140 kilometres (87 miles) souteast of Lonyearbyen, the main town in the archipelago that is home to some 2,300 people. "The earthquake happened ... more China, India speed climate change: Australian report 
Sydney (AFP) Feb 21, 2008The economic rise of China and India means climate change is occurring faster than previously thought, making efforts to fix the problem more urgent, an official Australian report found Thursday. The government-commissioned report called for stronger international commitment to addressing climate change, saying current efforts "still fall far short of getting deep cuts in global emissions ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 22, 2008More than 30 scientists will embark next week on a research mission to the Southern Ocean. Researchers will battle the elements to study how gases important to climate change move between the atmosphere and the ocean under high winds and seas. NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Science Foundation are sponsoring the Southern Ocean Gas Exchange ... more Japan to consider carbon cap-and-trade system: officials 
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 21, 2008Japan will study introducing a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions, officials said Thursday, as the business community hinted it will back down on its opposition amid global pressure. Japan, despite its advocacy of the Kyoto Protocol named after its ancient capital, is far behind on meeting its own obligations under the treaty as its economy recovers from recession in the 1990s ... more Imperial Scientists Explain Tectonic Plate Motions 
London, UK (SPX) Feb 22, 2008The first direct evidence of how and when tectonic plates move into the deepest reaches of the Earth is published in Nature today. Scientists hope their description of how plates collide with one sliding below the other into the rocky mantle could potentially improve their ability to assess earthquake risks. The UK and Swiss team found that, contrary to common scientific predictions, dense ... more China reports bird flu death 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 21, 2008A man has died of bird flu in southern China, the health ministry said Thursday, the second death in the country from the deadly disease in a month. The 41-year old man, identified only by his surname Liang, died in a hospital in the Guangxi autonomous region on February 20 after falling ill six days earlier, the ministry said in a report on its website. Central government laboratory ... more UniStar Nuclear Energy Identifies Constellation Energy Site In NY State For New Reactor 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Feb 22, 2008UniStar Nuclear Energy has announced it has notified the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission of its plans to submit a Combined License application in late 2008 for a potential advanced design nuclear reactor at Constellation Energy's Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station in upstate New York. UNE submitted a letter on Feb. 8 to the NRC formally selecting Nine Mile Point as the ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Feb 21, 2008A senior Iraqi delegation in Iran isn't directly focused on recent allegations of misconduct in the Iraqi oil sector -- including an Iranian takeover of some fields -- but rather settling cross-border rows leftover from war two decades ago. Although oil disputes were expected to be a portion of the agenda, Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Labeed Abbawi told United Press International the ... more Record Oil Costs Reinforce Need For Energy Independence Strategy 
Harrisburg PA (SPX) Feb 21, 2008After consecutive record-setting days where oil futures closed above $100 per barrel, and with expectations that oil-cartel nations will cut production in the coming weeks, Governor Edward G. Rendell said today Pennsylvania should be investing in homegrown alternatives rather than continuing to send billions of dollars abroad. He urged the General Assembly to move swiftly on the PennSecurity ... more Darkest material developed in lab 
Troy, N.Y. (UPI) Feb 20, 2008U.S. researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Rice University said they've created the darkest material ever made by man. The material, a thin coating comprised of low-density arrays of loosely vertically aligned carbon nanotubes that absorbs more than 99.9 percent of light, could one day be used to boost the efficiency and effectiveness of solar energy conversion, infrared ... more Beacon Energy To Acquire Biodiesel Facility 
Cranford NJ (SPX) Feb 22, 2008Metalico has announced that its biofuel affiliate, Beacon Energy, has entered into an agreement to purchase substantially all of the operating assets of Smithfield BioEnergy, an affiliate of Smithfield Foods, for an undisclosed price. Beacon, formerly known as AgriFuel Co., is an emerging producer and investor in the developing biofuels sector. Metalico, a leading scrap metal recycler and l ... more NASA Extends Mission For Ball Aerospace-Built ICESat 
Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 21, 2008The Ice, Cloud and Land Satellite (ICESat) built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. will continue operations until at least 2010 following a NASA mission extension contract. ICESat, designed for a three-year lifetime with a five-year goal, was launched Jan. 12, 2003. The Ball Commercial Platform (BCP) 2000 employed for ICESat was built under contract to NASA's Rapid Space Development Offic ... more
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