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EU official heads to US to discuss greenhouse gas deal
Brussels (AFP) Feb 25, 2008EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas travelled Monday to the United States for talks on a possible binding international agreement on reducing greenhouse gases, his spokeswoman said. The news came after a senior White House official announced in Paris that the US is ready to accept "binding international obligations" to cut emissions of the gases blamed for global warming. ... more Krill Discovered Living In The Antarctic Abyss 
London, UK (SPX) Feb 26, 2008Scientists have discovered Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) living and feeding down to depths of 3000 metres in the waters around the Antarctic Peninsula. Until now this shrimp-like crustacean was thought to live only in the upper ocean. The discovery completely changes scientists' understanding of the major food source for fish, squid, penguins, seals and whales. Reporting this week in ... more Life May Have Begun In The Hot Or The Cold 
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2008Our planet was born hot. Earth formed around 4.5 billion years ago by rocks bashing together so violently they became molten and stuck together. By about 4.3 billion years ago, once Earth was no longer being continuously pummeled by huge rocks from outer space, the magma had cooled and continental crust had begun to form. Water vapor rained out of the atmosphere and created oceans on the ... more Mozambican floods give life to new villages 
Guara Guara, Mozambique (AFP) Feb 25, 2008The village of Guara Guara in central Mozambique was born eight years ago by survivors of killer floods, an increasingly regular feature that continues to swell its population. Having welcomed more newcomers just last month, the sound of hammers and children's laughter resound around the village of 2,000 inhabitants that resembles a vast building site and a refugee camp at the same time. ... more Attack Of The Invasive Garden Ants 
Copenhagen, Demark (SPX) Feb 26, 2008An ant that is native to Eurasia is threatening to become the latest in a procession of species to invade Europe, as a result of inadvertent human introduction. Research published in the online open access journal BMC Biology demonstrates that the invasive garden ant, Lasius neglectus, which is a threat to native species, may already be more widely established than expected. Sylvia ... more |
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London (AFP) Feb 25, 2008The United Nations agency in charge of alleviating world hunger will be forced to consider rationing food aid because of rising prices, its executive director said in an interview published Monday. Speaking to the Financial Times, Josette Sheeran said that if World Food Programme (WFP) donors did not contribute more money, the agency would have to look at "cutting the food rations or even ... more South Africa to resume elephant culling after 13 years 
Johannesburg (AFP) Feb 25, 2008South Africa is to resume elephant culling for the first time in 13 years, lifting a moratorium on the practice to bring ballooning populations under control, the government said on Monday. After months of emotive public debate over government plans to reduce elephant numbers, Environment Minister Marthinus Van Schalkwyk announced culling would be an option from May 1, but only as a last ... more Tsunami alert after 6.7-quake hits Indonesia: seismologists 
Jakarta (AFP) Feb 25, 2008A strong 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sumatra island early Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, sparking a local tsunami alert and causing people to wake and flee outside. The quake, the second off Sumatra in 12 hours, struck at 1:06 am (1806 GMT) at a depth of 35 kilometres (22 miles), 164 kilometres southwest of Sumatra's Padang, the survey said. The Hawaii-based ... more US ready for 'binding' reductions of greenhouse gases: official 
Paris (AFP) Feb 25, 2008The United States is ready to accept "binding international obligations" to reduce greenhouse gases, which could be announced as soon as July, a senior White House official said here Monday. Daniel Price, assistant to President George W. Bush for International Economic Affairs, said the undertaking would have to be made as part of a "global agreement" in which all major economies would make ... more Washington University Unveils Draft Sequence Of Corn Genome 
St Louis MO (SPX) Feb 26, 2008A team of scientists led by Washington University in St. Louis has begun to unlock the genetic secrets of corn, a crop vital to U.S. agriculture. The researchers have completed a working draft of the corn genome, an accomplishment that should accelerate efforts to develop better crop varieties to meet society's growing demands for food, livestock feed and fuel. Corn, also known as maize ... more |
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New York NY (SPX) Feb 26, 2008GreenShift has announced that it has begun to produce crude corn oil at its 1.5 million gallon per year corn oil extraction facility co-located at Western New York Energy, LLC's 50 million gallon per year corn ethanol production facility in Medina, New York. Western New York Energy began operations in December 2007 and is the first operating ethanol plant in the Northeastern U.S. "We still ... more Tracking Your Carbon Footprint 
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 26, 2008An innovation called Carbon Hero may help reduce global warming by making people more aware of their carbon footprint. Regional prize winner in the 2007 European Satellite Navigation Competition, sponsored by ESA's Technology Transfer Programme, the device uses satellite navigation technology to track journeys. Concerned about global warming, many people are now looking for ways to reduce ... more Alternative Energy Technology Center Announces Cellulosic Ethanol Breakthrough 
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2008The Alternative Energy Technology Center announced that it completed the initial design phase of its Cellulosic Ethanol - Esterified Lignin to Gasoline Unit. This vertically integrated biorefining unit will take advantage of proprietary technology using flexible feedstocks such as forestry waste, dedicated feedstock grasses, sawdust, sorghum and corn stover. "AETC's integrated technologies ... more India to host next military exercise with China: report 
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 24, 2008India will host the second joint military exercises with China, as the neighbours continue to mend ties after a brief but bitter border war in 1962, a report said Sunday. The first-ever military manoeuvres between the world's most populous nations were held in China in December, when about 200 Indian and Chinese troops jointly "took out" a group of supposed terrorists along their border. ... more Pan-European defence too often lost in translation: ministers 
Brdo Pri Kranju, Slovenia (AFP) Feb 22, 2008European Union defence ministers said Friday that individual states were refusing to contribute military hardware for use in the 27-member bloc's missions. As a two-day informal meeting drew to a close near Ljubljana, Karl Erjavec, the defence minister of Slovenia -- which holds the EU rotating presidency -- said individual governments had to "make an effort". "Our studies clearly show t ... more
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