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Seed vault in Arctic is mankind's 'insurance policy': project leader
Longyearbyen, Norway (AFP) Feb 26, 2008An airtight vault carved into the Arctic permafrost and filled with samples of the world's most important seeds is an insurance policy for mankind, according to the project head. "We're going to be having new climate conditions, (and) pests and diseases continue to evolve and mutate and they mount ever better attacks against our crops," Cary Fowler, executive director of the Global Crop ... more 'Frozen garden of Eden' seed vault blooms in Arctic 
Longyearbyen, Norway (AFP) Feb 26, 2008A vault carved into the Arctic permafrost and filled with samples of the world's most important seeds was inaugurated Tuesday, providing a Noah's Ark of food crops in the event of a global catastrophe. "This is a frozen garden of Eden," said European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the opening ceremony. Aimed at safeguarding biodiversity in the face of climate change, wars ... more Biodiversity 'doomsday vault' in numbers 
Longyearbyen, Norway (AFP) Feb 26, 2008Here are key figures regarding the Arctic "doomsday vault", to be inaugurated on Tuesday, which holds samples of the world's most important seeds and aims to provide mankind with a Noah's Ark of food crops in the event of global catastrophe. Minus 18: The constant temperature, measured in degrees Celsius (minus 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit), in the three cold chambers that make up the vault. Even ... more MBL Creates Portal for Online Macroscope To Explore Life's Mysteries 
Woods Hole MA (SPX) Feb 27, 2008The first 30,000 pages of a massive online Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) have been unveiled as scientists assemble for the prestigious Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference in Monterey, California. Intended as a tool for scientists and policymakers and a fascinating resource for anyone interested in the living world, the EOL is being developed by a unique collaboration between ... more Voyage To Southern Ocean Aims To Study Air-Sea Fluxes Of Greenhouse Gases 
New York NY (SPX) Feb 27, 2008Scientists will embark this week from Punta Arenas, Chile, on the tip of South America, to spend 42 days amid the high winds and waves of the Southern Ocean. Here they hope to make groundbreaking measurements to explain how huge fluxes of climate-affecting gases move between atmosphere and sea, and vice-versa. The cruise, which departs Feb. 28, should provide important information on how ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Feb 26, 2008Normal water supplies to more than 200,000 people in central China have been cut due to pollution in a local river, state media reported Tuesday. The water supply to more than 60,000 residents of Jianli county in Hubei province was cut Sunday after water in a branch of Hanjiang River turned red and foamy, the Chutian Metropolis Daily said. Authorities in nearby Qianjiang county also ordered ... more Brazilian police in huge crackdown on Amazon deforestation 
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Feb 26, 2008Three hundred police and security agents have been deployed to the Amazon in a massive crackdown ordered by the Brazilian government against loggers illegally stripping the forest, officials said Tuesday. "Operation Arc of Fire" was started Tuesday in the Amazon town of Tailandia, 250 kilometers (150 miles) from the city of Belem, the head of the state environmental agency Ibama, Flavio ... more LSU Researchers Study Coastal Community Bounce Back 
Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Feb 27, 2008Two LSU researchers are taking what might be the most comprehensive approach ever to determine how some coastal communities bounce back from disaster. The end goal of the project, which is in the early stages of a two-year grant, is to be able to develop and use an index of coastal community resilience to educate and inform decision and policy makers about ways to increase resilience in weaker a ... more Food inflation hits Cambodia's poor, threatens hunger 
Chrang Chamres, Cambodia (AFP) Feb 26, 2008On the long, gently sloping bank of Cambodia's Tonle river, Doem Lao chops half a dozen large fish heads in the early morning for the one meal that her family will eat that day. It is the 45-year-old farmer's fourth unseasonably cold dawn in this quiet Muslim neighbourhood on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, where her extended family has set up camp with others from their village in the southern ... more Destruction Of Sumatran Forests Driving Global Climate Change And Species Extinction 
Pekanbaru, Indonesia (SPX) Feb 27, 2008Turning just one Sumatran province's forests and peat swamps into pulpwood and palm oil plantations is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands and rapidly driving the province's elephants into extinction, a new study by WWF and partners has found. The study found that in central Sumatra's Riau Province nearly 10.5 million acres of tropical forests and peat ... more |
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Rockville MD (SPX) Feb 27, 2008Faced with skyrocketing crude oil and petroleum product prices, the U.S. has adopted its most aggressive plan yet for the increased use of ethanol and biodiesel. The job of implementing these new federal blending targets falls to refiners, importers, biofuels producers and fuel marketers who are now working through how they can comply with the new law and maintain a profit. Hear from ... more Nuclear Plants Are Designed To Respond Safely To Electrical Grid Disturbances 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 27, 2008As the result of a disturbance in off-site power that led to an electricity outage throughout much of Florida, the two reactors at the Turkey Point power station in south Florida safely shut down earlier today. They were among several power plants, including fossil-fired power plants, that shut down today. The Nuclear Energy Institutes executive vice president, Marvin Fertel, made the ... more Coal-Fired Power Industry Now In Similiar Position To Nuclear Power In 1970s 
New York NY (SPX) Feb 27, 2008With rising construction costs, regulatory uncertainties, environmental concerns and other growing risks, the U.S. utilities with more than 100 proposed new coal-fired power plants now face comparable risks and uncertainties to those that derailed the U.S. nuclear power industry in the 1970s, according to a major new report prepared by Synapse Energy Economics, Inc., for the Interfaith Center on ... more Greenpeace says will challenge completion of Slovak nuclear plant 
Bratislava (AFP) Feb 23, 2008The Slovak branch of environmental organisation Greenpeace said on Tuesday it will launch a legal challenge against plans by Slovakia's biggest electricity producer to complete two blocs of a nuclear power plant. Greenpeace said it would challenge state institutions for not carrying out an environmental impact assessment of Slovenske Elektrarne's plans to complete two reactors at an existing ... more China's listed firms forced to submit environmental data: report 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 26, 2008China's heavily-polluting and energy-intensive companies will be forced to make full disclosures of their environmental impact, state media reported Tuesday. All companies, not just those seeking to list on the stock market, will be required to make the disclosures, Xinhua news agency reported, citing a regulation released by the State Environmental Protection Administration. The government ... more
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