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China tells Nepal to stop Tibet protests
Kathmandu (AFP) April 3, 2008Nepal needs to take stronger measures to prevent daily protests by Tibetan refugees in Kathmandu, China's ambassador to Nepal said in a statement Thursday. China wants Nepal to "safeguard the dignity of the law, and take severer measures to prevent those political organisations from organising and implementing illegal political activities," Ambassador Zheng Xianglin said. For the last ... more Scientists Reshape Y Chromosome Haplogroup Tree Gaining New Insights Into Human Ancestry 
Cold Spring Harbor NY (SPX) Apr 04, 2008The Y chromosome retains a remarkable record of human ancestry, since it is passed directly from father to son. In an article published in Genome Research, scientists have utilized recently described genetic variations on the part of the Y chromosome that does not undergo recombination to significantly update and refine the Y chromosome haplogroup tree. The print version of this work will ... more Fight against global warming need not dent growth: IMF 
Washington (AFP) April 3, 2008The International Monetary Fund on Thursday said it was possible to fight global warming without negatively impacting economic growth. "Climate change is a potentially catastrophic global externality and one of the world's greatest collective action problems," the IMF said in releasing analytical chapters of its twice-yearly World Economic Outlook. To curb global warming, the IMF suggest ... more Extreme weather starving Uganda's pastoralists 
Lokupoi, Uganda (AFP) April 3, 2008John Lochaon does not just survive on less than one dollar a day. He has streched out 15 dollars for nine months in a part of Uganda that climate change is plunging into famine. Lochaon has been unable to make a living because he lives in Karamoja, one of the driest and least developed areas in this east African country and one with a lack of infrastructure and basic services. Drought ... more Scientists Learn Barrier To Earthquakes Weaker Than Expected 
Austin TX (SPX) Apr 04, 2008On the one year anniversary of a devastating earthquake and tsunami in the Solomon Islands that killed 52 people and displaced more than 6,000, scientists are revising their understanding of the potential for similar giant earthquakes in other parts of the globe. Geoscientists from The University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences and their colleagues report this week that ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) April 4, 2008China has urged the United States to support its position on the Tibet crisis, state media said Thursday, after US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson expressed concern over the Chinese crackdown. Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told Paulson to see through Tibet's exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, and respect "truth" regarding the deadly protests, the Xinhua news agency reported. "China ... more Commentary: Boom to bust 
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 04, 2008Borrowing $2 billion to $3 billion a day from other countries to maintain the world's highest standard of living, based on conspicuous consumption, in an age of growing world shortages, while fighting two wars whose costs will soon ring up a $1 trillion tab, is tantamount to living on borrowed time. Valium and Tylenol sales are up, and Viagra down, in the banking world. So far, the subprime ... more Carnegie Mellon Researchers To Curb CO2 Emissions 
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Apr 04, 2008Carnegie Mellon University's Chris T. Hendrickson and H. Scott Matthews along with Alex Carpenter and Heather MacLean of the University of Toronto challenge Canadian officials to take the lead in eliminating dangerous carbon dioxide emissions that fuel global warming. The researchers found that farming and power generation are the largest sources of Canadian carbon dioxide emissions per ... more More than 1,000 caught, turn themselves in over Lhasa riot: report 
Beijing (AFP) April 3, 2008More than 1,000 people have either been caught by police or have turned themselves in after deadly unrest in the Tibetan capital Lhasa last month, state media said Thursday. Lhasa police have seized over 800 "criminals" since the violent March 14 unrest in the city, the Tibet Commerce newspaper reported, citing the deputy chief of the Lhasa communist party, Wang Xiangming. This is nearly ... more In a first, Boeing flies hydrogen-powered plane 
Ocana, Spain (AFP) April 3, 2008US aircraft giant Boeing claimed Thursday a world first in putting into the air a plane powered by a hydrogen-cell battery, a breakthrough that could herald a greener future for the industry. "For the first time in the history of aviation, Boeing has flown a manned airplane that was powered by a hydrogen battery," Boeing chief technology officer John Tracy said. The development was "a ... more |
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Frankfurt (AFP) April 3, 2008Germany's automakers association played down concerns Thursday that large numbers of cars would be incompatible with a new biofuel mix that the government wants to introduce to cut emissions. Chancellor Angela Merkel's government wants to double the proportion of biofuel in petrol to 10 percent by 2010 as part of the country's efforts to fall in with European Union aims to reduce the bloc's ... more Paris airport to go green with geothermal energy 
Orly, France (AFP) April 3, 2008Orly Airport, one of the two big airports serving Paris, is to extract geothermal energy from deep underground to slash its heating bills, the facility's owners said. Two shafts each 1,700 metres (one mile) deep will be drilled on the airport's perimeter to access a water table warmed by heat emanating from the Earth's hot core. Drawn upwards by natural pressure, the water will emerge at ... more Chinese pollution quietly takes toll in Japan 
Yamagata, Japan (AFP) April 3, 2008With a smile on her tanned face, skiier Kazumi Furukawa can vividly recall the time three years ago she stood here on Mount Zao and looked down at fir trees turned into glittering crystals. "The sky was cobalt blue and I could see the tiny snow crystals on the tips of the tree branches," Furukawa, 56, remembers. But these days the natural phenomenon is growing rarer and scientists say ... more No turnaround in China's liquidity problem: state press 
Shanghai (AFP) April 3, 2008A key Chinese government think tank warned that too much money in the financial system continues to pose a danger to the economy, defying government efforts to curb it, state media reported Thursday. "The excessive liquidity has eased but its root cause has yet to be reversed," Chen Daofu, a vice director of research of the finance research department under the Cabinet, told the official ... more Paulson urges China to lift barriers on environmental technology 
Beijing (AFP) April 3, 2008US Treasury chief Henry Paulson urged China Thursday to lift import barriers on environmental technologies, turning the tables on the Chinese, who often blame the Americans for curbing hi-tech trade. The call came as China pressed the United States to lift its own export restrictions that affect China and to reduce trade and investment barriers to boost bilateral trade, Xinhua news agency ... more
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