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World ports tackle greenhouse gas emissions
Rotterdam, The Netherlands (AFP) July 9, 2008Ports authorities from around the world gathered in Rotterdam Wednesday to adopt a plan to cut CO2 emissions from the activities of some 100,000 large ships sailing global waters. Alongside scientists, lawmakers and businessmen, officials from more than 50 ports in 35 countries started a three-day meeting at the home of Europe's largest harbour. They are looking at regulatory and technologic ... more Will Our Future Brains Be Smaller 
Bristol, UK (SPX) Jul 10, 2008The speed at which we react to threatening situations can have life or death implications. In the more primitive past, it could have meant escaping a wild animal; today it might mean swerving to avoid a head-on car crash. It has been thought for some years that mammals have two decision-making systems in their brains which operate at different speeds to cope with different situations. ... more Rich nations pledge action on food, oil, but deadlock on climate 
Toyako, Japan (AFP) July 9, 2008Leaders of the world's top industrial powers ended a summit Wednesday with pledges to act on soaring oil and food prices, but failed to bridge deep differences with poor nations on fighting climate change. US President George W. Bush hailed his last Group of Eight summit, at which rich nations agreed to at least halve global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, as "very productive". ... more Pesticides Persist In Ground Water 
Madison WI (SPX) Jul 10, 2008Numerous studies over the past four decades have established that pesticides, which are typically applied at the land surface, can move downward through the unsaturated zone to reach the water table at detectable concentrations. The downward movement of pesticide degradation products, formed in situ, can also contribute to the contamination of ground water. Once in ground water, pesticides ... more Species Diversity Less Dramatic Than Believed 
College Station TX (SPX) Jul 10, 2008A study published in the current issue of Science challenges the long-held belief that diversity of marine species has been increasing continuously since the origin of animals. Dr. Thomas D. Olszewski, a geology and geophysics professor at Texas A and M University, has been a part of the international team that carried out this decade-long study, which concludes that most of the ... more |
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London UK (SPX) Jul 10, 2008Scientists have discovered how bird flu adapts in patients, offering a new way to monitor the disease and prevent a pandemic, according to research published in the August issue of the Journal of General Virology. Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus has spread through at least 45 countries in 3 continents. Despite its ability to spread, it cannot be transmitted efficiently ... more Next three years of Sudan peace 'critical': British FM 
Khartoum (AFP) July 9, 2008British Foreign Minister David Miliband said Wednesday that the next three years of implementing the accord ending Sudan's civil war were "absolutely critical", as the six-year deal marked its mid-term. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed by north and south Sudan in 2005 kicked off a six-month interim period followed by a six-year transition period whose half-way point was marked on ... more New technique may help predict quakes: study 
Paris (AFP) July 9, 2008Scientists in the United States have devised a method for measuring changes in the speed of seismic waves that could one day help predict earthquakes, a study said Wednesday. In experiments conducted at the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) in Parkfield, California, Fenglin Niu and colleagues measured the speed of so-called shear waves -- "S-waves" -- before, during and after ... more Improving Swine Waste Fertilizer 
Madison WI (SPX) Jul 10, 2008Swine production generates large amounts of waste. While this waste contains nutrients that may serve as fertilizer when applied to agricultural fields, the ratio of nutrients in the waste is different than what a crop requires. Application of waste to meet the nitrogen needs of a crop results in application of excess phosphorus which increases the potential for environmental contamination ... more Global Food Crisis As An Opportunity To End Hunger In Africa 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 10, 2008The soaring cost of basic food commodities was the subject of intense discussions at this week's Group of Eight summit in Japan. The leaders of the world's wealthiest countries vowed to support not only immediate food aid, but also medium- and long-term solutions to the food crisis that is destabilizing many developing countries and driving millions more into hunger and poverty. ... more |
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Houston TX (SPX) Jul 10, 2008Shell Hydrogen has announced the opening of California's first hydrogen refueling station on a conventional Shell gasoline forecourt in West Los Angeles (LA). Located on Santa Monica Boulevard and Federal Avenue (near I-405) the station joins California's 'hydrogen highway', and gives consumers a taste of the future, with refueling services for hydrogen powered fuel cell vehicles becoming ... more PowerVerde Plans To Deploy Non-Fossil Fuel Technology 
Phoenix AZ (SPX) Jul 10, 2008PowerVerde has entered into discussions with a large domestic utility to test its patented Gas Pressure Motor ("Motor"). The concept involves positioning its non-fossil fuel motors on existing gas transmission pipelines, and utilizing the already present pressure and volume of natural gas, inherent in these designs, to power the motor. Fred Barker, co-inventor of this unique electric ... more GE Energy Supplying 32 Jenbacher Gas Engines To Power Oil Pipeline In India 
Jenbach, Austria (SPX) Jul 10, 2008GE Energy is supplying Cairn India with 32 of its J420 GS Jenbacher gas engines that will generate the electricity for India's first cross country, heated crude oil pipeline, which is currently under construction. The project represents the largest single order of Jenbacher engines in India as the country works to rapidly expand its energy generation and delivery infrastructure to support ... more French authorities keep water ban after nuclear leak 
Marseille, France (AFP) July 9, 2008Residents in southern France were told not to drink water or eat fish from rivers on Wednesday following an uranium leak at a nuclear plant that Germany's junior environment minister said was "not a trivial matter." French nuclear safety officials said Tuesday's leak at the Tricastin nuclear plant in Bollene was not as serious as previously thought, with some 75 kilogrammes (165 pounds) of ... more Analysis: Mongolian energy prices 
Washington (UPI) Jul 9, 2008 Since the 1990-1991 unraveling of communism in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, countries liberated from socialist state planning have sought to convert their centrally planned economies into market ones, with varying degrees of success. To assist in the process they often have sought Western advice, but such assistance often has come at a high social price, as free market "shock therapy" frequently ... more
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