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Sunken Philippine ferry carrying 862 people: company
Manila (AFP) June 23, 2008More than 800 people were on board the ferry that sank in the Philippines, its owners said Monday, up from an original number of 747 passengers and crew. The ferry was carrying 751 passengers and 111 crew when it went down in heavy seas in the central Philippines on Saturday, Sulpicio Lines vice president Sally Buaron said. But checks were underway to determine if even more passengers ... more 40 survivors washed ashore in typhoon-hit Philippines 
Manila (AFP) June 23, 2008At least 40 typhoon survivors made it to shore in the Philippines but not all were from a ferry that sunk with more than 850 onboard, a local official told a radio station on Monday. "Not all of them came from the sunken ferry," mayor Eduardo Andueza told DZBB radio from Claveria town on Burias island in the central Philippines. "Some were survivors of fishing vessels that also sank duri ... more Ice Cores Map Dynamics Of Sudden Climate Changes 
Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jun 24, 2008New, extremely detailed data from investigations of ice cores from Greenland show that the climate shifted very suddenly and changed fundamentally during quite few years when the ice age ended. Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute of University of Copenhagen have together with an international team analysed the ice cores from the NorthGRIP drilling through the Greenland ice cap, and ... more Enhanced EO Satellite UK-DMC-2 Passes Test Readiness Review 
Guildford, UK (SPX) Jun 24, 2008SSTL's privately funded UK-DMC-2 has passed its Test Readiness Review (TRR) at its Manufacturing Integration and Test Facilities in Guildford, UK. Scheduled for build completion in September 2008, the new Earth Observation satellite will provide higher performance imaging capabilities to the Disaster Monitoring Constellation which is operated by SSTL's subsidiary DMCii. UK-DMC-2 will carry ... more GAO Report Reveals Continuing Problems With NPOESS 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 24, 2008Today, the House Committee on Science and Technology's Energy and Environment Subcommittee continued its oversight of the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). "This program is vital to our daily lives," said Subcommittee Chairman Nick Lampson (D-TX). "When launched, NPOESS will be the primary source of information the National Weather Service uses t ... more |
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Newcastle, England (UPI) Jun 20, 2008 British scientists say they have produced nearly 300 hybrid embryos since they began inserting human DNA into cow eggs in January. Project leader Lyle Armstrong told the BIO biotechnology conference in San Diego the scientists found producing embryos for stem cell research in their controversial project was easier than expected, the Financial Times reported Friday. Armstrong told ... more Pandas facing enforced diet in China's quake zone 
Beijing (AFP) June 23, 2008China's famed giant pandas are being forced to diet after last month's earthquake devastated large swathes of bamboo forest in the nation's southwest, state media and officials said. The May 12 8.0-magnitude quake, which left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing, damaged bamboo forests in five areas close to a research base, sharply reducing supplies of the panda's staple food, Xinhua news a ... more Midwest floodwaters could linger for weeks 
Chicago (AFP) June 23, 2008The worst of the flooding that has ravaged the midwestern United States is nearly over, but it will be weeks before the murky water recedes in many areas, the National Weather service warned Monday. Tens of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes in Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri and Indiana due to the heavy rains and deadly storms which swept through the region in recent we ... more Indonesia's haze plan praised by region 
Singapore (AFP) June 23, 2008Regional officials on Monday praised Indonesia's efforts to reduce a haze caused by forest fires which regularly choke Southeast Asia. The blazes, set by large plantations and farmers, send smoke into Indonesian skies and across boundaries into neighbouring countries each year during the May to October dry season. "I wouldn't say that there will be no haze," Yaacob Ibrahim, Singapore's M ... more Hero porker survives 36 days in China quake rubble 
Beijing (AFP) June 23, 2008A pig that survived for 36 days buried beneath rubble in quake-hit southwest China on a diet of charcoal has been hailed as a symbol of the will to stay alive, state press reported Monday. The pig, who weighed nearly 150 kilograms (330 pounds) at the time of the magnitude-8.0 earthquake on May 12, had lost two thirds of its weight when found last week, the Chongqing Evening Post said. ... more |
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Dili (AFP) Jun 24, 2008East Timor's government is under fire over an agreement to turn more than a sixth of the country's arable land over to a 100 million dollar foreign-funded ethanol project. The Fretilin opposition has branded as a "land giveaway" a memorandum of understanding between the agriculture minister and GTLeste Biotech for a 100,000 hectare (247,000 acre) sugar plantation and ethanol plant. The agr ... more Japan Airlines plans biofuel test flight 
Tokyo (AFP) June 23, 2008Japan Airlines (JAL) said Monday that it will join a project by US aircraft maker Boeing to test biofuel for commercial airplanes as part of efforts to cope with soaring jet fuel costs. JAL, Asia's largest carrier, will fly a Boeing 747 partly using biofuel by March next year, the company said, adding that it will be the first such flight in Asia. "The technology to produce biofuel from ... more Repair of Slovenian nuclear power plant according to law: plant official 
Ljubljana (AFP) June 23, 2008No worker at Slovenia's nuclear power plant Krsko was exposed to excessive levels of radiation during a recent leak in the cooling system, a spokeswoman for the plant said on Monday. "I can assure you that none of the workers that intervened in the repair of the valve in the cooling system was exposed to a level of radiation higher than those allowed by the law," the Krsko plant's spokeswoma ... more RWE, Electrabel file binding offers for stake in Bulgarian nuclear power plant 
Sofia (AFP) June 23, 2008German power giant RWE and Belgian utility Electrabel have made binding offers to help finance and run a new nuclear plant in Bulgaria by acquiring a 49-percent stake in the operation, the Bulgarian government said Monday. "Both companies filed their preliminary binding offers within the requested deadline that expired Monday," the economy and energy ministry said in a statement. It adde ... more Analysis: Middle East nuclear renaissance? 
Washington (UPI) Jun 23, 2008 A comprehensive and well detailed report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, released last week, sheds a pile of information on the state of nuclear proliferation in one of the world's most volatile regions - the Middle East. Indeed, as John Chipman, director general and chief executive of IISS, points out in a publication entitled "Nuclear Programs in the Middle East ... more
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