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Biodiversity 'doomsday vault' comes to life in Arctic
Longyearbyen, Norway (AFP) Feb 24, 2008Aimed at providing mankind with a Noah's Ark of food in the event of a global catastrophe, an Arctic "doomsday vault" filled with samples of the world's most important seeds will be inaugurated here Tuesday. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Nobel Peace Prize winning environmentalist Wangari Matai will be among the personalities present at the inauguration of the vault ... more As China's inflation soars, world fears knock-on effects 
Shanghai (AFP) Feb 24, 2008As China's factory floors feel the pressure from spiralling costs, there is growing nervousness in the rest of the world that the Asian giant's next big export could be inflation. From air-conditioned US shopping malls to bustling African street markets and remote Asian villages, shoppers have become accustomed over recent years to the vast array of ultra-cheap Chinese goods on offer. ... more Algeria inaugurates Africa's largest seawater desalination plant 
Algiers (AFP) Feb 24, 2008Africa's largest seawater desalination plant, capable of producing up to 200,000 cubic meters of potable water daily from the Mediterranean, was inaugurated in Algiers Sunday. Installed in the Bay of Algiers and inaugurated by Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the 250-million-dollar (168.5-million-euro) El Hamma plant will be able to provide water round the clock to the country's capi ... more Southern Ocean study looks at gas exchange 
Washington (UPI) Feb 23, 2008A team of more than 30 U.S. scientists is heading for the Southern Ocean to study gases relative to climate change. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Science Foundation, are sponsoring the six-week Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment aboard the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown. ... more Philippine floods and landslides toll rises to 26: officials 
Manila (AFP) Feb 23, 2008The death toll from flashfloods and landslides in the central and southern Philippines, after a week of heavy rains, rose to 26 with nine more still missing, the civil defence office said Saturday. More than 294,000 people have been displaced and more than 900 million pesos (22.14 million dollars) caused in damage to infrastructure and agriculture, the office said in a statement. ... more |
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Antananarivo (AFP) Feb 22, 2008A cyclone which swept across Madagascar this week killed at least 29 people and left nearly 70,000 homeless or otherwise affected, local authorities said Friday. Dia Stivanley, spokeswoman for the National Office for Management of Risks and Catastrophes, said 12 of the island's 22 regions had been hit by cyclone Ivan, a category three storm, notably the rice-producing area of Alaotra ... more Kenya, UN warn crisis risks incubating new AIDS infections 
Nairobi (AFP) Feb 22, 2008Kenya's crisis, which has displaced hundreds of thousands of people, risks sparking a new wave of HIV/AIDS infections that could wipe out progress achieved so far, Kenyan and UN officials warned Thursday. Of some 300,000 people displaced across the country, there are about 15,000 HIV/AIDS patients and less than 2,400 are receiving anti-retroviral treatments (ARTs), according to the state-run ... more Climate change threatens world fishing grounds: UN study 
Monaco (AFP) Feb 22, 2008Depleted by over-harvesting and pollution, the world's major fishing grounds are now severely threatened by climate change as well, according to a UN report released Friday. Warmer water and acidification caused by the seas' absorption of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) are disrupting fragile natural cycles and threaten a dramatic collapse of fish stocks, the report said. "What we do over ... more In Japan, laughter to be measured by 'aH' 
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 22, 2008Japanese professor Yoji Kimura believes laughter is a weapon that in healthy doses can end the world's wars. The only problem is finding a way to measure it. And so the expert on communications has invented a machine to chart out laughter -- and a new unit of "aH" to calculate it. "We have found that children laugh more freely, releasing 10 aH per second, which is about twice as much as ... more What Farmers Think About GM Crops 
London, UK (SPX) Feb 25, 2008Farmers are upbeat about genetically modified crops, according to new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. A group at the Open University, led by Professor Andy Lane, has taken the first systematic look at what large-scale, commodity farmers - not those mainly involved in organic growing - think about genetically-modified crops. We know how consumers, government ... more |
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London (AFP) Feb 24, 2008The first flight by a commercial airline to be partly powered by biofuels and billed as heralding a eco-friendlier and cheaper era of airline travel took place on Sunday, Virgin Atlantic said. A Virgin Boeing 747 jumbo jet, carrying biofuels mixed with kerosene, traditional jet fuel, made the short trip between London and Amsterdam with no passengers on board. Virgin Atlantic chief Richard Branson ... more Argentina, Brazil to build joint uranium enrichment plant 
Buenos Aires (AFP) Feb 22, 2008Presidents Cristina Kirchner, of Argentina, and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, of Brazil, on Friday agreed to set up a joint uranium enrichment company to build a power-generating nuclear reactor to serve both countries. "It will be a binational holding and each country will initially work with their own nuclear technology," Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorin, who is accompanying Lula on his ... more Surging demand for rare metals driven by hi-tech industry, China 
London (AFP) Feb 24, 2008Prices of rare metals like cobalt and magnesium are surging ahead in London, driven by high-end technology and soaring demand from economic powerhouse China, according to commodities experts. Glamorous raw materials such as precious metal gold and oil have long hogged the headlines -- with New York crude at a record high 101.32 dollars per barrel last week on concerns about tight global energy ... more China warns West against scrutiny of sovereign investment funds 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 22, 2008Heightened US and European scrutiny on the investments by emerging nation's sovereign funds has increased trade frictions and will hurt the global economy, China's central bank warned Friday. "Countries like the United States and those in the EU also strengthened their scrutiny over investments made by sovereign wealth funds from emerging economies," the bank said in its latest quarterly ... more Denmark sets renewable energy target at 20 percent by 2011 
Copenhagen (AFP) Feb 22, 2008Denmark aims to increase its use of renewable energy to 20 percent of its overall energy mix by the end of 2011, up from 15 percent today, the government said Friday. Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's liberal-conservative government, along with most other parliamentary parties, agreed late Thursday on the new target, the Climate and Energy Ministry said in a statement. "With its new ... more
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