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New York NY (SPX) Jul 01, 2008The cognitive strategies humans use to regulate emotions can determine both neurological and physiological responses to potential rewards, a team of New York University and Rutgers University neuroscientists has discovered. The findings, reported in the most recent issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience, shed light on how the regulation of emotions may influence decision making. ... more Philippines: Three pct of farm output lost to typhoon 
Manila (AFP) June 30, 2008About three percent of this year's projected Philippines farm output worth five billion pesos (111 million dollars) has been lost to Typhoon Fengshen, Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap said Monday. The country can offset the loss with a good harvest over the next three months, he told reporters, allaying fears of shortages of rice and other cereals. "There's still time to run after and ... more Sichuan quake cost agriculture six billion dollars: FAO 
Rome (AFP) June 30, 2008Last month's earthquake in Sichuan caused some six billion dollars (3.8 billion euros) in damage to agriculture in the southern Chinese province, the UN food agency said Monday. "Over 30 million people in rural communities have been severely hit, losing most of their assets," the Food and Agriculture Organisation said in a statement. "Thousands of hectares of farmland were destroyed ... more Ways To Tame The Climate 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 01, 2008Scientists from 12 academies round the world have met in Tokyo to issue a statement on inevitable long-term rise in temperature. Their forecast is that in the next 20 years global temperatures will rise by 0.2-0.4 degrees centigrade. The consequences of global warming will be felt worldwide. Polar icecaps will continue to melt and the world's oceans will erode coastlines still further. ... more Early Bird Project Really Gets The Worm 
Baton Rouge LO (SPX) Jul 01, 2008Scientists from the LSU Museum of Natural Science, or MNS, recently participated in a project joining together the most prominent ornithological research programs in the world. This study - the largest study of bird genetics ever completed - has not only shaken up the avian evolutionary tree, but completely redrawn it. The results of this massive research project, which relied heavily upon ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Jun 30, 2008 A major reason for the continuing international problem of piracy on the high seas in the 21st century is that the world's leading nations do not have a common strategy and tactics to deal with the scourge that would prevent piracy in key regions. As a result, the pirates almost always go unpunished. To lift Somalia out of its war and consequent poverty would take many years of work ... more First water tanker from Greece due in drought-hit Cyprus 
Nicosia (AFP) June 30, 2008The drought-parched island of Cyprus was awaiting the arrival on Monday of its first shipment of water from Greece to replenish dwindling reserves. A Cypriot shipping firm is to ferry a total of eight million cubic metres (280 million cubic feet) of water from Greece to help ease the holiday island's severe water crisis. But Agriculture Minister Michalis Polynikis warned that the arrival ... more Epic Ebbs And Flows 
Madison WI (SPX) Jul 01, 2008If you are curious about Earth's periodic mass extinction events such as the sudden demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, you might consider crashing asteroids and sky-darkening super volcanoes as culprits. But a new study, published online June 15 in the journal Nature, suggests that it is the ocean, and in particular the epic ebbs and flows of sea level and sediment over the ... more ESA Satellite Assesses Damage Of Norway's Largest Fire 
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 01, 2008Following the extremely hot weather conditions hitting Europe, Norway experienced its biggest forest fire in the last half century earlier this month. Envisat satellite images were used in the fire's aftermath to get an overview of the damaged area for authorities and insurance companies. Extreme heat, dry conditions and strong winds quickly spread the fire in the cities of Mykland and ... more Air Monitoring Helps Anticipate Possible Ecosystem Changes 
Amarillo TX (SPX) Jul 01, 2008When rain settles the atmosphere and brings air pollutants to the ground, it can have a lasting effect on ecosystems, sometimes hundreds of miles away, according to a Texas AgriLife Research agricultural engineer. Dr. Brent Auvermann, research engineer and Texas AgriLife Extension Service specialist in Amarillo, is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Environmental ... more |
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Paris (AFP) June 30, 2008How will "DANGER!" be written 5,000 years from now? How will it be written in 50,000 years? Finding an answer to these questions may not seem like a Code Red emergency to most people. But for a growing cadre of scientists, figuring out how to alert our distant descendants to perilous nuclear waste entombed hundreds of metres (feet) below ground has become a fascinating task. ... more US 'won't allow' Iran to shut key Gulf oil route 
Manama (AFP) June 30, 2008The commander of the US navy's Fifth Fleet warned on Monday that the United States will not allow Iran to shut the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf sea lane through which much of the world's oil is supplied. "They will not close it... They will not be allowed to close it," Vice-Admiral Kevin J. Cosgriff told a press conference in Bahrain, where the Fifth Fleet is based. His remarks followed ... more Russian Technologies On The Way To Becoming Super-Corporation 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 01, 2008It was announced on June 20 that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had signed a resolution transferring Russia's only authorized arms exporter, Rosoboronexport, to Russian Technologies corporation. The government also coordinated a draft presidential decree on transferring state-held shares in 480 other enterprises to the corporation. Russian Technologies is growing into an industrial behemoth ... more Oxygen Ions For Fuel Cells Get Loose At Lower Temperatures 
Gaithersburg MD (SPX) Jul 01, 2008Seeking to understand a new fuel cell material, a research team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the University of Liverpool, has uncovered a novel structure that moves oxygen ions through the cell at substantially lower temperatures than previously thought possible. The finding announced this month in Nature Materials may be key ... more Analysis: KRG explains oil deal breakdown 
Erbil, Iraq (UPI) Jun 30, 2008 The contracts have not been published, but Ashti Hawrami, Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government natural resources minister, insists everything needed to know about what's in the dozens of contracts signed between the KRG and international oil companies is in the public domain. In a recent interview with United Press International from his office in Erbil, the capital of the KRG, Hawrami ... more
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