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Taiwan-China meet started to 'thaw the ice': president-elect
Taipei (AFP) April 14, 2008Weekend talks between Chinese President Hu Jintao and Taiwan's vice president-elect have started to "thaw the ice" in ties between the rivals, the island's incoming president Ma Ying-jeou said Monday. The landmark meeting on Saturday between Hu and Taiwan's Vincent Siew on the sidelines of a regional forum in Hainan, southern China, "has started to thaw the ice across the strait," Ma told ... more Spanish Temperature Data Compiled As Evidence Of Climatic Change 
Granada, Spain (SPX) Apr 15, 2008This research work is the first step to confirm the existence of a temperature change. Their main goal has been "to detect the signs of the Climatic Change through the temperatures in Spain", explained to SINC the researcher of the department of Applied Physics of the Universidad de Granada and main author, Matthias Staudt. The compilation of maximum and minimum temperature series of every ... more South China Sea headed for troubled waters: marine experts 
Hanoi (AFP) April 13, 2008Polluted, crossed by busy shipping lanes, and disputed by many countries, the South China Sea has taken an environmental battering that threatens future food supplies, marine scientists have warned. In a decade the sea -- at the heart of a densely populated and rapidly industrialising region -- has lost 16 percent of its coral reefs and coastal mangroves and 30 percent of its sea grass, says ... more Mangrove project creates fish, fire and hope in Eritrean desert 
Hirgigo, Eritrea (AFP) April 14, 2008Kneeling by the sparkling waters of the Red Sea, Ahmed Shengabay presses sand carefully over a mangrove seed. "When this grows, it will provide protection for fish and food for my goats," Ahmed said smiling, waving at a long and thick line of tall trees already reaching high into the sky. "We've planted all this already," the fisherman cum farmer added proudly, the mangroves lining the ... more Laser Triggers Electrical Activity In Thunderstorm For The First Time 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 15, 2008A team of European scientists has deliberately triggered electrical activity in thunderclouds for the first time, according to a new paper in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal. They did this by aiming high-power pulses of laser light into a thunderstorm. At the top of South Baldy Peak in New Mexico during two passing thunderstorms, the ... more |
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London (AFP) April 14, 2008The head of the United Nations's scientific panel on climate change said in an interview published Monday that developing countries were unwilling to sign up to a global deal on cutting carbon emissions because rich countries were not leading the way. "Looking at the politics of the situation, I doubt whether any of the developing countries will make any commitments before they have seen the ... more Japan says smaller whaling catch 'regrettable' 
Tokyo (AFP) April 14, 2008Japan said Monday it was "regrettable" that its whaling fleet had killed little more than half its intended catch of almost 1,000 whales in the Antarctic due to harassment by activists. The fleet is set to return to port on Tuesday after killing about 550 whales during a five-month voyage, officials at the fishery agency said. Japan, which says whaling is part of its culture, had aimed ... more France pushes EU to support farming as food prices soar 
Brussels (AFP) April 13, 2008Amid soaring global food prices, leading to rioting in Africa and beyond, France is pushing its EU partners to respond swiftly and return agriculture to the top of its agenda. French Agriculture Minister Michel Barnier -- whose country has the biggest farming sector in Europe -- has said he will urge his EU counterparts, at a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday, to come up with a "European ... more Forecasters Implement New Hurricane-Tracking Technique 
Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 15, 2008A new technique that helps forecasters continuously monitor landfalling hurricanes, giving them frequent and detailed images of a storm's location, will be implemented this summer. The new system, developed by National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C. ... more China conducting 'cultural genocide' in Tibet: Dalai Lama 
Washington (AFP) April 14, 2008Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama maintained Monday that Beijing was carrying out "cultural genocide" in the Himalayan territory despite denial of the charge by the Chinese leadership. In an interview with NPR, the US public radio network, the exiled 72-year-old leader currently on a US visit also expressed confidence he would eventually return to his homeland. The Dalai Lama, who ... more |
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Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia (AFP) April 14, 2008Indonesia likely overtook Malaysia as the world's top palm oil producer in 2007, due to dramatically increased area under plantation, Malaysia said Monday. "From preliminary figures in 2007 it looks like Indonesia has already overtaken us in terms of production," Plantation and Commodities Minister Peter Chin told reporters. Chin said Malaysia was still the world's top exporter but that ... more Bangladesh, India restore train link after 43-year gap 
India-Bangladesh Border (AFP) April 14, 2008Huge cheering crowds lined railway tracks on the border between India and Bangladesh on Monday as passenger train services resumed between the two countries after a gap of more than 40 years. Trains, named the Maitree (Friendship) Express, travelled in both directions for the first time since the service was suspended after a 1965 war between India and Pakistan, when Bangladesh was part of ... more 'Bin brother' tagging Australian rubbish 
Sydney (AFP) April 14, 2008Tens of thousands of Australian households will have their garbage and recycling monitored by tracking devices placed in their trash bins, a move dubbed "Bin Brother" by local media. Officials on Monday confirmed that 78,000 new council-issued garbage bins in the eastern suburbs of Sydney have been fitted with small radio frequency tags, which allow for data collection. Each bin will ... more Groom Energy Solutions Delivers Hybrid Parking Garage Lighting Fixture 
Salem MA (SPX) Apr 15, 2008Groom Energy Solutions today announced the availability of its GES Hybrid parking garage lighting fixture, a patent-pending retrofit kit that reduces by 50 percent, the energy consumed by typical parking garage lighting fixtures. The unique design quickly retrofits into existing high intensity discharge based parking garage fixtures converting them to more energy efficient fluorescent-based lamp ... more Money Doesn't Grow On Trees, But Gasoline Might 
Amherst MA (SPX) Apr 15, 2008Researchers have made a breakthrough in the development of "green gasoline," a liquid identical to standard gasoline yet created from sustainable biomass sources like switchgrass and poplar trees. Reporting in the cover article of the April 7, 2008 issue of Chemistry and Sustainability, Energy and Materials (ChemSusChem), chemical engineer and National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awardee ... more
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