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China to step up 're-education' of Tibetans
Beijing (AFP) April 5, 2008China warned on Saturday it would step up a controversial "re-education" campaign for Tibetans after a fresh protest showed a huge security crackdown had failed to extinguish nearly one month of unrest. The statement in the state-run Tibet Daily newspaper called for Buddhist monks to become Chinese patriots, but activist groups said the heavy-handed techniques already employed in the campaign ... more Solar Science Research Contradicts Climate Change Sceptics 
London UK (SPX) April 6, 2008 A British study casts doubt on the theory that global warming is caused by cosmic rays rather than human activity. Climate change skeptics argue that cutting carbon emissions is futile because they believe climate change is caused not by burning fossil fuels but by changes in cosmic rays that determine cloudiness and temperature. Physicist Terry Sloan of Lancaster University and ... more Dalai Lama says Tibet protests disprove Chinese 'propaganda' 
Dharamshala, India (AFP) April 6, 2008The Dalai Lama said Sunday that protests in Tibet and nearby provinces had disproven Chinese "propaganda" about unrest in the region, adding the situation could no longer be "neglected". The exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader also repeated his call for an independent international probe into the unrest and subsequent Chinese crackdown, and again rejected Chinese allegations that he was behind ... more Meteorologist wants more Africa data 
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (UPI) April 4, 2008 The United Nations' top meteorologist said Africa needs to play a larger role monitoring climate change and extreme weather events. Speaking this week at an African Union conference of finance and economy ministers, World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said Africa's National Meteorological and Hydrological Services must be strengthened, the WMO said in a ... more Zimbabwe ruling party preparing 'war' against people: opposition 
Harare (AFP) April 5, 2008Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai accused President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party on Saturday of preparing a "war" against the people of Zimbabwe. "ZANU-PF is preparing a war against the people of Zimbabwe such as we witnessed in 2000," he told reporters, in reference to violence which followed Mugabe's defeat in a referendum on presidential powers eight years ago. ... more |
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Madrid (AFP) April 4, 2008The worst drought in decades in Spain is leading to regional disputes over scarce water resources with areas with more reserves resisting transfers to more parched zones. There has been 40 percent less rain than normal across the country since the meteorological year began on October 1, said Angel Rivera, the spokesman for the National Institute of Meteorology. "We can say it is the most ... more China reports fresh Tibetan unrest, police fire warning shots 
Beijing (AFP) April 5, 2008China on Friday reported a fresh outbreak of violence as it sought to contain the biggest challenge to its rule of Tibet in decades, saying police were forced to fire warning shots to quell "rioters." One local official was seriously wounded during the "riot," which took place in a Tibetan-populated area of Sichuan province in southwest China on Thursday evening, the official Xinhua news ... more Brazil to pay Amazon residents for 'eco-services': minister 
Brasilia (AFP) April 6, 2008Brazil's government is to pay residents of the Amazon money and credits for their "eco-services" in helping to preserve the vast forested area sometimes called the "lungs of the Earth" for its role its converting carbon dioxide. Environment Minister Marina Silva has presented the measure as a priority and said "keeping the forest going is an important environmental service" for the entire ... more Nations agree to look at planes, ships in climate deal 
Bangkok (AFP) April 4, 2008More than 160 nations agreed Friday to consider how to reduce rapidly growing emissions from air and sea travel as they worked toward drafting an ambitious new treaty on global warming. The five-day conference in Bangkok also reached a late-night compromise on a plan for future talks after a feud with poor nations over a Japanese proposal on setting industry standards, according to a draft ... more Germany drops plan for auto biofuel 
Berlin (AFP) April 4, 2008Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said Friday that Germany would scrap plans to develop auto biofuels because they were not appropriate for millions of vehicles. "We will not do it," Gabriel told the television channel ARD. The VDIK association of foreign automakers said that around 3.3 million vehicles were unable to use the mix of ethanol and traditional petrol that Berlin sought to ... more |
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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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