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Walker's World: EU threat to U.K. rescue
Washington, April 28, 2008 In a striking warning of the loss of national sovereignty that comes with EU membership, Britain's $100 billion bailout plan for its banks and mortgage market is threatened with a ban from Brussels. EU competition officials are frowning on the scheme for giving "unfair" preference to British over European banks, and because it may also breach rules against state aid. Legal experts on EU ... more Study: CO2, methane up sharply during 2007 
Washington, April 28, 2008 A U.S. government study shows global levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide increased by 19 billion tons last year, while methane rose by 27 million tons. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists said the findings are part of the agency's annual update of its greenhouse gas index that tracks data from 60 sites around the world. Researchers said 20 percent of the ... more Ozone Hole Recovery May Reshape Southern Hemisphere Climate Change 
Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 29, 2008A full recovery of the stratospheric ozone hole could modify climate change in the Southern Hemisphere and even amplify Antarctic warming, according to scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. While Earth's average surface temperatures have been increasing, the interior of Antarctica has exhibited a unique cooling ... more NASA Web Tool Enhances Airborne Earth Science Mission 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 29, 2008What if you were embarking on a road trip and you had an on-board tool, complete with video screen, that let you view your projected route, real-time traffic information and current weather, at any time during the journey? Not only that, but friends and family anywhere else in the world could follow your progress on a home computer. Sound good? NASA scientists flying over the Arctic this ... more Successful Cooperation Extends Dragon Programme 
Beijing, China (ESA) Apr 28, 2008Following the success of the Dragon Programme, more than 300 leading European and Chinese scientists have gathered from 21 to 25 April 2008 in Beijing in the People's Republic of China to present their results and to kick off the programme's second phase, Dragon 2. The Dragon Programme is a joint undertaking between ESA and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of China designed to ... more |
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Berkeley CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Berkeley Geochronology Center have pinpointed the date of the dinosaurs' extinction more precisely than ever thanks to refinements to a common technique for dating rocks and fossils. The argon-argon dating method has been widely used to determine the age of rocks, whether they're thousands or billions of years old. ... more Illuminating Life 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Professor Vitaly Vodyanoy and research assistant Oleg Pustovyy of the AU Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology built the patent-pending Ilumna 120 to help NASA scientists observe microscopic life in areas where there is no electricity. The new technology could help researchers study microbes living in some of the most extreme environments on Earth. NASA used it on a preliminary ... more France, US to submit UN draft to combat Somalia piracy 
United Nations (AFP) April 28, 2008A Franco-US draft text was to go before the UN Security Council Monday authorizing states to send warships into Somalia's territorial waters to combat piracy, diplomats said. The text would give a six-month mandate to states cooperating with Somalia's transitional government "to enter the territorial waters of Somalia for the purposes of identifying and pursuing pirates and armed robbers and ... more Emissions Irrelevant To Future Climate Change 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Climate change and the carbon emissions seem inextricably linked. However, new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Carbon Balance and Management suggests that this may not always hold true, although it may be some time before we reach this saturation point. The land and the oceans contain significantly more carbon than the atmosphere, and exchange carbon dioxide with ... more Earthquake In Illinois Could Portend An Emerging Threat 
St Louis MO (SPX) Apr 29, 2008To the surprise of many, the earthquake on April 18, 2008, about 120 miles east of St. Louis, originated in the Wabash Valley Fault and not the better-known and more-dreaded New Madrid Fault in Missouri's bootheel. The concern of Douglas Wiens, Ph.D., and Michael Wysession, Ph.D., seismologists at Washington University in St. Louis, is that the New Madrid Fault may have seen its day and the ... more |
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Washington (AFP) April 28, 2008Setting aside farmland to produce biofuels like ethanol may be partly to blame for driving up world food prices, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday. "There has been apparently some effect, unintended consequence from the alternative fuels effort," Rice told a meeting in Washington when asked for the US government's view on skyrocketing food prices. "Although we believe ... more Oklahoma Set To Plant First-Ever 1,000 Acre Switchgrass Field 
Ardmore OK (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Oklahoma has secured land for the worlds largest stand of switchgrass devoted to cellulosic ethanol production. Acknowledging concerns over ethanol production impacting food prices, Oklahoma advances switchgrass, a different type of energy crop, which has higher energy output than corn and does not compete with human or animal food sources. The Oklahoma Bioenergy Center (OBC) ... more Outside View: Work on Chernobyl continues 
Moscow, April 28, 2008 The Chernobyl nuclear power plant must have a new confinement shelter for its 4th reactor, which exploded on April 26, 1986. The old shelter was built hastily, in emergency conditions when robots went mad but people continued to work. It sufficed in the short term, but time and severe weather conditions have weakened it. The new confinement will be safe for 100 years. The European Bank ... more PSE Announces Agreement With Farm Power 
Bellevue WA (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Puget Sound Energy has announced that the company has reached a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Farm Power Northwest of Skagit County to develop a dairy digester facility to produce electric power from manure, a technology that holds the promise of both an environmentally friendly energy source and a benefit to local dairy farmers and the Skagit County economy. PSE, in conjunction ... more Boost For Green Plastics From Plants 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Australian researchers are a step closer to turning plants into 'biofactories' capable of producing oils which can be used to replace petrochemicals used to manufacture a range of products. Scientists working within the joint CSIRO/Grains Research and Development Corporation Crop Biofactories Initiative (CBI) have achieved a major advance by accumulating 30 per cent of an unusual fatty acid (UFA ... more
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