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Seven killed as rains pound Kenya: police
Nairobi (AFP) March 31, 2008At least seven people have died and thousands displaced in Kenya in incidents linked to heavy rains pounding the country, marking the start of the wet season, police said Monday. Two children died at a camp in the Rift Valley regional capital Nakuru while three people drowned when western Kenya's River Nyando burst its banks, police said. Police in Nyanza, one of the most affected region ... more Outside View: Old, new Europe clash 
Washington (UPI) Mar 31, 2008 President Bush's two-day visit to Kiev on the eve of NATO's April 2-4 summit in Bucharest, Romania, is his first visit to Ukraine and therefore long overdue. His predecessor, Bill Clinton, visited Ukraine on three occasions. Bush's visit to Ukraine ahead of the NATO summit is seen as a strong show of U.S. support for NATO enlargement to Ukraine and Georgia. Bucharest will be dominated ... more Disasters In Small Communities: Researchers Discuss How To Help 
Buffalo NY (SPX) Apr 01, 2008Whether it's springtime flooding, an infectious disease outbreak or a volcanic eruption, small or rural communities affected by natural disasters often suffer additional hardship because of their size, say organizers the of "Natural Disasters in Small Communities: How Can We Help?" conference. The conference was open to faculty, students, researchers and all stakeholders in the consequence ... more AIDS May Partly Be The Consequence Of An Evolutionary Accident 
London, UK (SPX) Apr 01, 2008AIDS, a fatal disease in humans, may partly be the consequence of an evolutionary accident, scientists heard today at the Society for General Microbiology's 162nd meeting being held this week at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. "AIDS is a deadly disease in people that is caused by human immunodeficiency virus. But similar viruses such as simian immunodeficiency virus ... more Specially-Designed Soils Could Help Combat Climate Change 
London, UK (SPX) Apr 01, 2008Could part of the answer to saving the Earth from global warming lie in the earth beneath our feet? A team from Newcastle University aims to design soils that can remove carbon from the atmosphere, permanently and cost-effectively. This has never previously been attempted anywhere in the world. The research is being funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The ... more |
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Jakarta (AFP) April 1, 2008Once a golden promise in the fight against climate change, biofuels are fast losing their lustre as high demand for essential crops drives land clearing and pushes up the price of food. Biofuels made from food crops such as corn, sugar, soybeans and oil palm burn cleaner than fossil fuels, but experts say high demand is sending ripples through the world economy, and could be doing the ... more With Ambitious EU Legislation, Wind Energy Can Provide Huge Benefits To Europe 
Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Apr 02, 2008"Wind has delivered the most promising results out of all renewable energy technologies so far, with 57 GW of total capacity installed in the EU by the end of 2007. In order to ensure that this trend continues, we need to have a secure and favourable EU legislative framework", EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs told delegates at the opening session of the European Wind Energy Conference ... more Building A Better Gas Turbine 
Abu Dabi, UAE (SPX) Apr 02, 2008Could combustion without flames be used to build industrial gas turbines for power generation that are much more efficient than current models and produce almost no polluting emissions? Researchers in the Middle East provide a possible answer in the current issue of the Inderscience publication, International Journal of the Environment and Pollution. Mohamed Sassi of The Petroleum Institute ... more Indonesia's palm oil boom takes environmental toll 
Kuala Cenaku, Indonesia (AFP) April 1, 2008Marto Wijoyo and his family left the overcrowded Indonesian island of Java 27 years ago in search of a better life on neighbouring Sumatra. The government had given Wijoyo, now 60, a tract of fertile land to plant with rice and a home to call his own as part of a plan to ease Java's population pressures. Soon, he was producing twice-yearly harvests of more than ten tonnes of rice. Life ... more UPC Wind Signs Agreement With US DoE To Establish National Wind Technology Center 
Honolulu HI (SPX) Apr 02, 2008UPC Wind Partners has signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to study the integration of wind technology into the Hawai'i utility system. As part of the agreement, NREL will establish a Remote Research Affiliate Partner Site at UPC's Kaheawa Wind Farm in West Maui. It is the first such partner site for the National ... more |
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Brookings SD (SPX) Apr 01, 2008VeraSun Energy has announced the startup of its 110 million gallon per year production facility located near Bloomingburg, Ohio. With the closing of the merger between VeraSun and US BioEnergy becoming effective April 1, 2008, the Bloomingburg biorefinery represents the 11th VeraSun facility in operation, pushing the company's annual operating capacity to more than one billion gallons. ... more Qaeda in Yemen says it attacked foreign oil assets: SITE 
Dubai (AFP) March 31, 2008Al-Qaeda's wing in Yemen has said it carried out separate attacks on a French oil pipeline and a Chinese oilfield last week in Yemen, web monitoring group SITE said on Monday. The attackers, calling themselves the Jund Al-Yemen Brigades claimed they detonated a timed explosive Thursday on a pipeline belonging to France's Total in the western Saah district, the SITE Intelligence Group reported ... more New Colorado - Wyoming Transmission Offering 
Cheyenne WY (SPX) Apr 01, 2008A new transmission line connecting the Front Range of Colorado with the wind-rich high plains of eastern Wyoming is planning to offer capacity rights in an open auction in June 2008. The Wyoming-Colorado Intertie Project has announced its time line for an Open Season auction for up to 900 MW of transmission capacity between the two states. If the auction is successful the project ... more Examples of eco-friendly measures in Swedish town of Vaexjoe 
Vaexjoe, Sweden (AFP) March 31, 2008The southern Swedish town of Vaexjoe is a world leader in environmental protection, with many international delegations visiting the town to see the measures it has implemented. The following are some concrete examples of the initiatives Vaexjoe has introduced to help fight climate change, such as new apartment buildings constructed entirely out of wood. ... more Conocophillips Energy Prize To Recognize New Energy Ideas, Solutions 
University Park PA (SPX) Apr 01, 2008ConocoPhillips and Penn State have announced they are launching the ConocoPhillips Energy Prize, an awards program that seeks to recognize new ideas and original, actionable solutions that can help improve the way the United States develops and uses energy. In its inaugural year, the program will award up to $300,000 in cash prizes and focus on generating innovative ideas and solutions that help ... more
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