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Antarctica's Coldest, Darkest Season Draws MSU Researchers
Bozeman MT (SPX) Mar 11, 2008John Priscu normally works in Antarctica during its warmest and longest days. He usually shares the continent with scientists from all over the world. This year is different. The Montana State University scientist with an international reputation for polar research is spending his 24th season in Antarctica with no other researchers except the 17 members of his team. They're there for 2 1/2 ... more Brazilian minister defends river diversion project 
Sao Paulo (AFP) March 10, 2008An ambitious plan by Brazil to irrigate its parched northeast region with a vast network of canals and reservoirs is more about giving water to residents than to agri-business, a minister argued Monday. National Integration Minister Geddel Vieira Lima told reporters that detractors' claims that the four-billion-dollar project was designed primarily to benefit huge cattle ranches and commercial ... more China says death penalty system improved 
Beijing (AFP) March 10, 2008Use of the death penalty has been checked in China since the top court began reviewing capital cases, the chief justice said Monday, but he withheld data on executions, which remain a state secret. State-run Xinhua news agency quoted Xiao Yang, president of the Supreme People's Court, as saying "very few" death sentences had been handed down. "The SPC has been working to ensure ... more China to stick with one-child policy 
Beijing (AFP) March 10, 2008China will keep its controversial one-child policy unchanged for at least 10 years, the country's family planning chief was quoted as saying Monday, amid a government debate over easing the controls. Any changes to strict family planning laws would only come after an expected peak in the number of births in the next decade, Zhang Weiqing, minister of the State Population and Family Planning ... more Seal cubs threatened by global warming, WWF warns 
Hamburg, Germany (AFP) March 10, 2008Hundreds of newborn seal cubs risk dying of hunger and cold because global warming is making ice in the Arctic Circle melt too fast, the World Wide Fund for Nature in Germany warned Monday. "In some parts perhaps not a single one of the seal cubs born in the past few weeks will survive," the WWF said in a statement. It said hundreds of the roughly 1,500 ringed seal cubs born this month ... more |
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London (AFP) March 11, 2008Heavy storms were expected to cause more travel chaos in Britain Tuesday, with France also preparing for more bad weather, after three vessels ran into problems in the Channel a day earlier. Five French fishermen were rescued from a trawler which sank late Monday in gale-force winds off the Channel island of Guernsey, maritime officials said, while a body was separately recovered off the ... more Merkel against NATO membership for Georgia, Ukraine 
Berlin (AFP) March 10, 2008German Chancellor Angela Merkel signalled on Monday that she opposes granting NATO membership to former Soviet republics Ukraine and Georgia. "A country should become a NATO member not only when its temporary political leadership is in favour but when a significant percentage of the population supports membership," Merkel said in Berlin in reference to Ukraine and Georgia. ... more Scientists Simulate Pandemic Influenza Outbreak In Chicago 
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Mar 11, 2008By using computer simulations and modeling, an international group of researchers including scientists from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech's Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory have determined how a pandemic influenza outbreak might travel through a city similar in size to Chicago, Ill. This information helped them to determine the ... more Stratospheric Ozone Chemistry Plays An Important Role For Atmospheric Airflow Patterns 
Bremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Mar 10, 2008Interactions between the stratospheric ozone chemistry and atmospheric air flow lead to significant changes of airflow patterns from the ground up to the stratosphere. This is the result of climate simulations, which have just been published in the journal "Geophysical Research Letters". Scientists at the Research Unit Potsdam of the Alfred Wegener Instite ... more Alarming Increase In Expected Growth of China's CO2 Emissions 
La Jolla CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2008The growth in China's carbon dioxide emissions is far outpacing previous estimates, making the goal of stabilizing atmospheric greenhouse gases much more difficult, according to a new analysis by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, and UC San Diego. Previous estimates, including those used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, say the region that include ... more |
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Idaho Falls ID (SPX) Mar 11, 2008Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory, in partnership with three other science and engineering powerhouses, reached a major domestic milestone relating to nuclear fuel performance on March 8. David Petti, Sc.D., and technical director for the INL research, says the team used reverse engineering methods to help turn the fuel test failures from the early ... more Clean Coal Agreement With China 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 10, 2008In an important step towards a greener global future, Australia and China signed a formal international agreement for clean coal research in Beijing. The agreement, between CSIRO and China's Thermal Power Research Institute, will see TPRI install, commission and operate a post combustion capture pilot plant at the Huaneng Beijing Co-Generation Power Plant as part of CSIRO's research program ... more China's trade surplus drops sharply in February: official data 
Beijing (AFP) March 10, 2008China's trade surplus shrank in February to a third of the level in the same month a year ago, customs authorities said Monday, as analysts said the US economic slowdown was starting to bite. The surplus of 8.56 billion dollars in February compared with a surplus of 23.8 billion dollars a year earlier, according to customs. The lower surplus came amid a 35.1 percent rise in imports, which ... more Urban, rural income disparity keeps growing in China: govt 
Beijing (AFP) March 10, 2008The income gap between urban and rural areas in China kept growing last year and there is a long way to go to narrow it down, a senior agricultural official said Monday. "The income gap between urban and rural areas has indeed kept widening," vice agriculture minister Wei Chao'an told reporters at a briefing on the sidelines of the ongoing national parliamentary session. Per capita net ... more Newly Defined Signaling Pathway Could Mean Better Biofuel Sources 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Mar 10, 2008A newly defined biochemical pathway in plants may provide the scientific tools to design plants that will yield larger quantities of alternative transportation fuels than currently can be produced, according to Purdue University researchers. The pathway moves materials that determine cell shape and size through a system of signaling proteins, said Dan Szymanski, a plant geneticist and cellular ... more
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