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Russia considers ban on baby seal hunting: ministry
Moscow (AFP) April 7, 2008Russia is considering a ban on hunting baby seals, a practice that kills some 35,000 animals each year in the country, the natural resources ministry said Monday. "We consider it necessary," a ministry spokeswoman told AFP when asked about a possible ban. "It is not allowed in any other country." "A document is being prepared" on the matter, the spokeswoman said, but would not give any ... more China can meet domestic grain demand: premier Wen 
Shanghai (AFP) April 7, 2008Chinese premier Wen Jiabao has insisted that the nation was capable of feeding itself and that grain reserves were expected to meet demand despite tight global supplies, state media reported Monday. "The Chinese people completely have the capacity to feed themselves," the official Xinhua news agency quoted Wen as saying during an inspection tour in the northern part of the country. ... more Carbon credits could help save Amazon, blunt warming: study 
Paris (AFP) April 7, 2008Global carbon markets could generate billions of dollars each year for developing countries that tackle tropical deforestation, a major source of global warming, according to a new study. Reducing the rate at which Amazonian rain forests are disappearing by only 10 percent, for example, would yield 1.5 to 9.1 billion euros (2.2 to 13.5 billion dollars), depending on world carbon emission ... more China Slams US House Resolution On Tibet And Growing Chorus Of Condemnation 
Beijing (AFP) April 8, 2008International condemnation of China's crackdown in Tibet was "a typical example of confusing right with wrong," Chinese state media said in a commentary published early Tuesday. Mentioning by name US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who slammed China's "oppression" in Tibet, the article said: "The Lhasa riots were violent acts premeditated, organised and masterminded by the ... more Possible Link Found Between Earthquakes Along The Cascadia And San Andreas Faults 
San Francisco CA (SPX) Apr 07, 2008Seismic activity on the southern Cascadia Subduction fault may have triggered major earthquakes along the northern San Andreas Fault, according to new research published by the Bulletin of Seismological Society of America (BSSA). The research refines the recurrence rate for the southern portion of the Cascadia fault to approximately every 220 years for the last 3000 years. Chris Goldfinger ... more |
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Chicago (AFP) April 7, 2008Chinese- and English-speaking dyslexics have different neurological deficits, according to a study released Monday which suggests that dyslexia may be different brain disorders in the two cultures. English speakers with the reading disability typically have functional abnormalities in posterior parts of the brain associated with reading and possibly less gray matter in these areas also. ... more WHO faces up to climate change in sixtieth anniversary year 
Geneva (AFP) April 7, 2008Turning sixty is usually a time to start winding down and think of retirement, but the World Health Organisation is using this milestone as a spur to its greatest challenge yet -- climate change. The WHO was born in the shadow of the Second World War on April 7, 1948 at a time when infectious diseases such as cholera threatened a world weakened by six bloody years of conflict. Sixty year ... more Earth in crisis, warns NASA's top climate scientist 
Wilmington, Delaware (AFP) April 6, 2008Global warming has plunged the planet into a crisis and the fossil fuel industries are trying to hide the extent of the problem from the public, NASA's top climate scientist says. "We've already reached the dangerous level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere," James Hansen, 67, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, told AFP here. "But there are ways to solve ... more Viruses Keep Us Breathing 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 07, 2008Some of the oxygen we breathe today is being produced because of viruses infecting micro-organisms in the world's oceans, scientists heard Wednesday 2 April 2008 at the Society for General Microbiology's 162nd meeting held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. About half the world's oxygen is being produced by tiny photosynthesizing creatures called phytoplankton in the major ... more New Formula For Combating The Greenhouse Gas Nitrous Oxide 
Helmholtz, Germany (SPX) Apr 07, 2008The cost of treating wastewater contaminated with nitrogen could be lowered in future. Soil scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) have developed a new mathematical model which can help determine the optimum conditions for microbiological water treatment. Using the stable natural nitrogen isotope 15N, this mathematical model, which is the most accurate to date ... more |
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North Stamford CT (SPX) Apr 07, 2008A developer is taking "green" design to another level with a new community that may be one of the most eco-friendly residential developments in the nation. Windermere on the Lake, which is under construction in North Stamford, Connecticut, utilizes the latest "green" technologies and environmentally sensitive habitat management plans to create a residential enclave in harmony with the natural ... more More Solid Than Solid: A Potential Hydrogen-storage Compound 
Gaithersburg MD (SPX) Apr 07, 2008One of the key engineering challenges to building a clean, efficient, hydrogen-powered car is how to design the fuel tank. Storing enough raw hydrogen for a reasonable driving range would require either impractically high pressures for gaseous hydrogen or extremely low temperatures for liquid hydrogen. In a new paper researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Center ... more China, NZealand sign free trade pact 
Beijing (AFP) April 7, 2008New Zealand signed a free-trade agreement with China on Monday, making it the first developed economy to enter such a pact with the Asian giant, officials said. The agreement, which will eventually all but eliminate tariffs between the two nations, will also have positive effects in other areas, said New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, who attended the signing ceremony in Beijing. ... more Analysis: U.S. eyes Ukraine energy routes 
Washington, April 7, 2008 What a difference two decades and a generation make. On Aug. 1, 1991, President George H.W. Bush in Kiev addressed a session of Ukraine's Supreme Soviet. In a speech written by his Soviet and East European Affairs Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Bush cautioned the Ukrainian lawmakers Americans "will not aid those who promote a suicidal nationalism." New York Times columnist William Safire ... more AeroVironment Awarded Patents For Architectural Wind Building-Integrated Energy Generation System 
Monrovia CA (SPX) Apr 07, 2008AeroVironment has been awarded three utility patents and six design patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) along with 12 European design patents relating to new approaches to renewable energy generation on buildings. The USPTO awarded the patents relating to the incorporation of AV's Architectural Wind system on rooftops. The utility patents address a method for ... more
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