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UN chief orders task force to tackle food crisis
Bern (AFP) April 29, 2008UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday ordered a top level task force to take on the global crisis caused by rising food prices and urged key producer nations to end export bans. The UN chief said the immediate priority must be to "feed the hungry" and called for urgent funding for the World Food Programme. Ban said after a meeting of the heads of 27 key international agencies that ... more NASA's Polar satellite ends its mission 
Greenbelt, Md., April 29, 2008 The U.S. space agency says its Polar satellite has concluded its 12-year mission to study the Northern and Southern lights. When the Polar satellite was launched in February 1996, the plan was for a two-year mission to study the lights that form a ring around Earth's north and south magnetic poles. Polar exceeded expectations by a decade. "We've gone well beyond our original ... more Global warming expert raises concerns for tourism industry 
Bangkok (AFP) April 29, 2008Nobel Peace Prize recipient Rajendra Pachauri Tuesday warned tourism industry chiefs they need to reduce their impact on climate change as consumers become more environmentally aware. "The tourism industry, for its own sake, will have to adapt," Pachauri said to more than 200 Asia Pacific airline, hotel and tourist company chief executives at a conference on tourism and climate change. ... more Drink wine and save Mother Earth 
Oslo (AFP) April 29, 2008Norwegians will soon be able to help save the planet from global warming by savouring a glass of Bordeaux, a wine importer said on Tuesday. For every bag-in-box of Chateau Le Cluzeau 2006 sold in Norway the importer Bevco will buy carbon credits compensating for 18 kilograms of carbon dioxide. That is almost six times the estimated amount of CO2 emitted in the production and transport of ... more Mexican sunflower origin is determined 
Tallahassee, Fla., April 29, 2008 U.S. and Mexican scientists have determined ancient farmers were growing sunflowers in Mexico more than 4,000 years before the Spaniards arrived. Florida State University scientist Mary Pohl and David Lentz of the University of Cincinnati said their evidence confirms farmers began growing sunflowers in Mexico by 2600 B.C. That contradicts the belief of some scientists that sunflowers we ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) April 29, 2008Local authorities in eastern China tried to cover up an outbreak of a highly contagious virus that has killed 20 children and left more than 1,500 others ill, Chinese press reports said Tuesday. The China Youth Daily, the official organ of the Communist Youth League, compared the situation in Anhui province to the cover-up by Chinese officials of the SARS crisis in 2003. "SARS has alread ... more Buoy network protects endangered whales 
Woods Hole, Mass., April 29, 2008 U.S. marine scientists say they've established a network of electronic buoys along Massachusetts Bay's shipping lanes to protect endangered right whales. The Right Whale Listening Network developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution recognizes the whales' distinctive calls and routes the information to a public Web site and a marine warning system ... more China jails 30 people over Tibet unrest: official media 
Beijing (AFP) April 29, 2008Chinese authorities on Tuesday jailed 30 people for between three years and life for their role in last month's Tibetan unrest, state press reported. The 30 were involved in violence on March 14 in Tibet's capital, Lhasa, CCTV news said, announcing the first verdicts for anyone connected with the unrest that has embarrassed and angered China ahead of the Olympics. Xinhua news agency ... more Dalai Lama yet to receive talks invite from Beijing: spokesman 
Paris (AFP) April 29, 2008The Dalai Lama's representative in Paris said Tuesday that Tibet's spiritual leader had yet to receive an invitation from Beijing despite China's public offer of talks. "China announced, via its official press agency, that Beijing wished to hold dialogue with a representative of the Dalai Lama," Jampal Chosang told AFP. "That announcement was made on Friday.... To-date, we have not received ... more More than 100 pro-Tibet protestors held in Nepal: official 
Kathmandu (AFP) April 29, 2008Some 114 pro-Tibet demonstrators were detained in Nepal's capital Tuesday as they tried to protest outside a Chinese embassy building, police said. Police held the Tibetan exiles, including around 50 monks and nuns, as soon as they arrived in the area close to the embassy's heavily guarded visa and trade section. "We have 114 Tibetans currently in detention," senior police officer ... more |
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Canberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 30, 2008A joint venture between CSIRO and the Queensland Government, the Australian e-Health Research Centre is a leading national research facility for health care innovations in ICT. The Centre's CEO, CSIRO's Gary Morgan, says much of Canada's success in becoming a world leader in the implementation of health information technologies can be attributed to Mr Alvarez who is currently the President and ... more China looks abroad amid global grain shortage: report 
Beijing (AFP) April 29, 2008China is looking at farms in places like Russia and South America as it seeks new ways to feed the world's largest population amid a global grain supply shortage, state media said Tuesday. Chinese companies exploring overseas agricultural resources that are in short supply will help balance domestic demand and supply, the Beijing Morning Post reported, citing the agriculture ministry. ... more Pelosi: President Should Help Lower Gas Prices By Suspending Filling Of SPR 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 30, 2008Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today following comments made this morning by President Bush on energy policy: During his press conference this morning, President Bush repeated his call for more domestic oil drilling - the same failed energy policy that has brought record gas prices. Drilling has already increased dramatically since 2000 - the number of oil wells on ... more Green Supply Chains Need Strategy - Not Hype 
Manassas VA (SPX) Apr 30, 2008INSIGHT has announced concern that hype over "green" supply chains, supply chains that are ecologically-friendly, miss the real opportunity for helping the environment and omit a rigorous approach. Currently, INSIGHT's optimization engine within their flagship software, SAILS 21 gives users the best answer to supply chain planning questions - this is not new. What is new, for many, is a ... more 'Biofuels frenzy' fuels global food crisis: experts 
Washington (AFP) April 29, 2008A "biofuels frenzy" and other misguided policies have led to the global food crisis in which prices have soared and rice consumption is outpacing production, threatening a billion people with malnutrition, experts said Tuesday. International agriculture researchers warned that farmers will need to double global food production by 2030 to meet rising demand, and said countries should impose a ... more
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