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Oil shock helps put global warming on G8's back burner
Paris (AFP) July 1, 2008The Group of Eight (G8) is set to fudge its decision on climate change next week, reflecting the issue's weaker status in the absence of European campaigning and in the face of sky-high oil prices. A year ago, on the back of blunt warnings by UN scientists, global warming dominated the G8 summit in Heiligendamm. Overcoming fierce US resistance, Germany coaxed the rich nations' club into ... more Wool Proves Its Worth In Respirator Market 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jul 02, 2008Cutting-edge wool textile technology developed by CSIRO for industrial air filtration systems has found its first lucrative commercial application in the manufacture of respirators for the personal protective equipment (PPE) market. Developed in collaboration with Australian Wool Innovation Ltd. and Michell Pty Ltd, the new filters consist of a combination of wool and synthetic fibres. ... more West Bank faces grave water shortages: Israeli rights group 
Jerusalem (AFP) July 1, 2008The occupied West Bank faces grave water shortages largely as a result of "discriminatory" Israeli policies, an Israeli human rights group said on Tuesday. "The shortage will have serious repercussions on the economy and the health of tens of thousands of Palestinians," the B'Tselem group said in a statement. "The chronic water shortage results in large part from Israel's discriminatory ... more Nearly 2 mln without livelihood after China quake: state press 
Beijing (AFP) July 1, 2008China's devastating earthquake has left nearly two million people without a means to make a living, state press said on Tuesday. The 8.0-magnitude quake in the southwest has left 700,000 people unemployed and deprived 1.15 million farmers of their livelihood, Xinhua news agency said, quoting provincial vice-governor Li Chengyun. The number of jobless jumped after it was determined that ... more Closing The Gap Between Fish And Land Animals 
Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Jul 02, 2008New exquisitely preserved fossils from Latvia cast light on a key event in our own evolutionary history, when our ancestors left the water and ventured onto land. Swedish researchers Per Ahlberg and Henning Blom from Uppsala University have reconstructed parts of the animal and explain the transformation in the new issue of Nature. It has long been known that the first backboned land animal ... more |
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London, UK (SPX) Jul 02, 2008A new publication answers centuries' old questions regarding the mechanism and function of humour, identifying the reason humour is common to all human societies, its fundamental role in the evolution of homo sapiens and its continuing importance in the cognitive development of infants. Alastair Clarke explains: "The theory is an evolutionary and cognitive explanation of how and why any in ... more Growth hormone might increase life span 
Dallas (UPI) Jul 1, 2008 A U.S. study has linked growth hormone to starvation in what scientists say might be a clue to increasing life span and developing diabetes treatments. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center researchers used genetically altered mice in the study that found the actions of growth hormone are blocked during fasting by a fat-burning hormone called FGF21. Growth hormone has ... more Growth hormone in dairy cows a greenhouse-gas plus: study 
Washington (AFP) July 1, 2008Giving one million dairy cows a growth hormone makes them produce more milk would cut greenhouse gas emissions equal to taking 400,000 cars off the road, a US study found. Large scale cow milk production requires the use of huge amounts of land, water and feed resources, noted Judith Capper, a researcher at Cornell University in New York. But using rbST -- the first biotech product used ... more Early Origins Of Maize In Mexico 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 02, 2008The ancestors of maize originally grew wild in Mexico and were radically different from the plant that is now one of the most important crops in the world. While the evidence is clear that maize was first domesticated in Mexico, the time and location of the earliest domestication and dispersal events are still in dispute. Now, in addition to more traditional macrobotanical and archeological ... more DNA Test To Revolutionise Sheep Worm Control 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jul 02, 2008CSIRO scientists have moved a step closer to developing a novel DNA test which has the potential to revolutionise management of one of the biggest threats to sheep health in Australia, the barber's pole worm. Barber's pole worm, Haemonchus contortus, is one of the top three nematode parasites of sheep. Nematode parasites cost the Australian industry hundreds of millions of dollars each ... more |
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Oslo (AFP) July 1, 2008Norway, which already has some of the highest fuel prices in the world, on Tuesday introduced a new tax on petrol and diesel aimed at curbing climate change. Although the new charge was no more than 0.05 kroner (0.6 euro cents, 1.0 dollar cent) per litre of petrol and 0.10 kroner per litre of diesel, it outraged many Norwegians, who are already concerned about runaway prices at the pump. ... more Russia Says Nuclear Sector Open To Foreign Investment 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 02, 2008Russia's nuclear industry is open to both domestic and foreign investors, a Russian deputy prime minister told an international nuclear forum on Wednesday. "In addition to large-scale investment of state funds, we have grounds to count on substantial private investment. The Russian nuclear sector is now open to cooperation. Furthermore, not only with domestic businesses, but also with ... more Analysis: Government invests in clean tech 
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 02, 2008Burdened by a host of energy woes, U.S. government agencies are passing out incentives for a number of renewable energy technologies. Department of Energy officials said Monday the department will provide $30.5 billion in loan guarantees for clean technology, a quick follow-up to an announcement at the end of June that the department will invest $90 million in geothermal technologies. ... more Kenya greenlights sugar power project 
Nairobi (AFP) July 1, 2008Kenya has given the green light to a project where sugar will be grown to generate power in coastal wetlands, despite objections by environmentalists, its government said Tuesday. The 24-billion-shilling (369.3-million-dollar or 235-million-euro) Tana Integrated Sugar Project will mill 8,000 tonnes of sugar cane daily, generate 34 megawatts of electrity and produce 23 million litres of ethanol ... more Voith Siemens Hydro Awarded Contract For New Hydro Turbine Generators 
York PA (SPX) Jul 02, 2008Voith Siemens Hydro and American Municipal Power-Ohio (AMP-Ohio) have signed a contract for the complete supply of mechanical, electrical, automation and balance of plant equipment on a significant hydroelectric project that will add more than 208 MW of emission-free generation to existing dams on the Ohio River and has the potential to bring green manufacturing jobs to Ohio. The new ... more
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