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Whale lovers and hunters still at odds as ICW meet closes
Santiago (AFP) June 24, 2008The International Whaling Commission ended its annual meeting Friday leaving unchanged both its long-standing row over commercial whaling and Japan's "scientific" hunting quota of 1,000 whales. The divided, 80-nation IWC also sidestepped a proposal for a whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic, and instead agreed to create a 24-nation working group to recommend solutions ahead of next year's ... more Tropical storm Fengshen kills nine in China: report 
Beijing (AFP) June 28, 2008Tropical storm Fengshen killed nine people as it tore across China's south, pounding the densely populated area with torrential rains, state media said Saturday. Fengshen, which means "God of Wind", made rivers swell in most parts of Guangdong province, China's industrial powerhouse, after it made landfall in the middle of the week, Xinhua news agency said. The strong rain affected about ... more Sweat, luck and eureka: Recipes for scientific discovery 
Paris (AFP) June 29, 2008Every week thousands of academic articles heralding discoveries in medicine and science are vetted and validated before being published in no-nonsense journals with names such as "Acta Crystallographica," "Methods in Enzymology," or "Macromolecules". Like works of art, these building blocks of human knowledge vary in quality and importance. Some are trivial, or just plain wrong. But a ... more Kazakhstan To Introduce State Monopoly On Caviar Sales 
Astana, Kazakhstan (RIA Novosti) Jun 30, 2008The lower house of the Kazakh parliament has approved in its first reading a bill to introduce a state monopoly on caviar production and sales, the parliamentary press service said on Wednesday. The move comes as part of an effort to combat the declining sturgeon population in the Caspian Sea, which has dwindled almost forty-fold in the last 15 years due to rampant poaching in the region. ... more North Pole may have no ice this summer: US expert 
Washington (AFP) June 27, 2008There could briefly be no ice at the North Pole this summer, a US scientist said Friday, an event that would mark a new stage in the melting of the Arctic ice sheets due to global warming. "We could have no ice at the North Pole at the end of this summer," Mark Serreze, a scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, told AFP in an interview. "And the reason ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Jun 27, 2008 The ongoing hijacking of ships off the Somalia coast long ago became a routine part of maritime life in the Arabian Sea. One of the most recent incidents was the seizure of the tanker Amiya Scan, which is owned by Dutch company Reider Shipping. Pirates are still holding the crew, consisting of four Russian officers -- including the captain -- and five Filipino sailors, hostage. But the ... more Geologists Discover Signs Of Volcanoes Blowing Their Tops In Deep Ocean 
Woods Hole MA (SPX) Jun 30, 2008A research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has uncovered evidence of explosive volcanic eruptions deep beneath the ice-covered surface of the Arctic Ocean. Such violent eruptions of splintered, fragmented rock-known as pyroclastic deposits-were not thought possible at great ocean depths because of the intense weight and pressure of water and because of the ... more Cooling global economy makes Chinese exporters hedge their bets 
Shanghai (AFP) June 29, 2008Feeling the chill from the US subprime crisis, Chinese exporters such as Zhejiang New Oriental Fastener Company no longer take it for granted that their customers will pay them. The company, whose 600 staff produce screws, nuts and bolts by the millions, has found that in an age of uncertainty it has to rethink the nuts and bolts of global trade. "With the subprime crisis, each of our ... more Chinese-funded hydro-dams bring hope and fear to Cambodia 
Phnom Penh (AFP) June 29, 2008Hydropower is held up as the beacon of hope for millions of electricity-starved Cambodians, with ten planned hydro-dams set to power up their homes for the first time. But flicking the switch comes at a price as critics say the controversial deals made with mostly Chinese companies to build the dams will create further hardship for Cambodia's poor and ruin the environment. For window ... more China's Hu says 'time is limited' in curbing climate change 
Beijing (AFP) June 28, 2008Chinese President Hu Jintao urged renewed efforts to curb global warming on Saturday, stressing "time is limited" in finding efficient solutions to the problem, state media reported. "How we cope with climate change is related to the country's economic development and people's practical benefits. It's in line with the country's basic interests," Hu said according to the official Xinhua news ... more |
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Nusa Dua, Indonesia (AFP) June 28, 2008A conference in Indonesia on the international waste trade ended without breaking a 14-year impasse over the sale of hazardous waste across borders, the host's delegate said Saturday. The five-day conference on the resort island of Bali ended late Friday with a coalition of countries again stalling the ban proposal, Agus Purnomo said. "The problem is we have almost a dozen countries who ... more Spanish PM firm on phasing out nuclear power 
Madrid (AFP) June 28, 2008Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Saturday he would not extend the life of Spain's ageing nuclear plants as he repeated his government's commitment to phasing out nuclear power. "We are committed to respecting the normal life-span of the plants unless there are urgent energy needs, and to not building new nuclear plants," he said in an interview with top-selling daily El Pais. ... more Putin says central Asia wants to raise gas price for Ukraine 
Moscow (AFP) June 28, 2008Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday told his Ukrainian counterpart that Central Asian countries were urging Moscow to increase gas prices for Ukraine. Putin made the comments at the end of talks in Moscow with Ukranian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko during which he also threatened to restrict military cooperation if the neighbouring country joined the NATO military alliance. ... more Brown Researchers Create Mercury-Absorbent Container Linings For Broken CFLs 
Providence RI (SPX) Jun 30, 2008With rising energy prices and greater concern over global warming, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) are having a successful run. Sales of the curlicue, energy-sipping bulbs, which previously had languished since they were introduced in the United States in 1979, reached nearly 300 million last year. Experts expect that figure to rise steeply by 2012, when a federal law requiring energy ... more China's top court overturns 15 percent of death sentences: report 
Beijing (AFP) June 27, 2008China's supreme court overturned 15 percent of all death sentences handed down by lower courts in the first half of 2008, state media said Friday. Gao Jinghong, presiding judge of the supreme court's Third Criminal Law Court, said most of the sentences were overturned because they were "inappropriate" or lacked sufficient evidence, the China Daily reported, without further detail. ... more
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