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Scientists Develop Computer Model Of Iraq Surface Water System
Albuquerque, NM (SPXl) Jul 14, 2008In an effort aimed at building technical capacity, resource sustainability, and regional stability, a team of scientists from Sandia National Laboratories spent the past year working with engineers and modelers from Iraq to build a computer model of the country's surface water and related systems. The model, aimed at assisting a longer-term national water and land planning effort by the ... more Schwarzenegger slams Bush administration on global warming 
Los Angeles (AFP) July 13, 2008California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said the Bush administration's decision to delay a decision on regulating greenhouse gases showed that it did not believe in global warming. Schwarzenegger, in an interview with ABC television broadcast Sunday, said it would have been insincere for the administration to take action on the harmful emissions with only six months left in George W. Bush ... more Russia, China veto UN sanctions on Zimbabwe 
United Nations (AFP) July 11, 2008China and Russia on Friday vetoed targeted UN sanctions on Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe over his disputed re-election, prompting an angry reaction from the United States which cast doubt on Moscow's reliability as a G8 partner. The Chinese and Russian envoys joined their colleagues from South Africa, Libya and Vietnam in opposing a US draft resolution in the Security Council which would ... more Researchers Design Model For Automated, Wearable Artificial Kidney 
Los Angeles, CA (SPX) Jul 14, 2008Two researchers from UCLA and the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System have developed a design for an automated, wearable artificial kidney, or AWAK, that avoids the complications patients often suffer with traditional dialysis. The design for the peritoneal-based artificial kidney - which is "bloodless" and reduces or even eliminates protein loss and other dialysis ... more Hurricane Bertha weakens to tropical storm near Bermuda 
Miami (AFP) July 13, 2008Hurricane Bertha weakened to a tropical storm on Sunday as it lost steam near the British Atlantic islands of Bermuda, the US National Hurricane Center said. The winds of the first hurricane of the 2008 season slowed down to 70 miles (113 kilometers) per hour, the Miami-based center said. Tropical Storm Bertha was in a near stationary position about 220 miles (355 kilometers) southeast ... more |
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Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 14, 2008Temperatures spiked 22 degrees F in just 50 years, researchers say Information gleaned from a Greenland ice core by an international science team shows that two huge Northern Hemisphere temperature spikes prior to the close of the last ice age some 11,500 years ago were tied to fundamental shifts in atmospheric circulation. The ice core showed the Northern Hemisphere briefly emerged from ... more China trade deficit in food up 14-fold: report 
Beijing (AFP) July 13, 2008China registered a 7.57 billion dollar trade deficit in agricultural products during the first five months of 2008, up by more than 14-fold over the same period last year, state press said Sunday. China imported 23.75 billion dollars of agricultural products in that period, up 59 percent over last year, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing the agriculture ministry. The nation ... more Bush administration puts off greenhouse gas regulation 
Washington (AFP) July 12, 2008Environmentalists are seething after the administration of US President George W. Bush delayed any decision on regulating greenhouse gases, likely leaving any substantive action to his successor. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a 588-page report Friday that cites "the complexity and magnitude" of the issue and calls for 120 days of public comment. The decision follows a ... more Asia sets stage for disaster relief exercise with key powers 
Washington (AFP) July 12, 2008After much debate, Asia is finally expected to agree to hold its first civilian-military disaster relief exercise with key powers such as the United States, Russia and the European Union. It will set the stage for real emergency response to disasters, such as the recent cyclone that ravaged Myanmar and left 138,000 dead or missing as its ruling military junta came under strong criticism for ... more Two die and 300 are evacuated in northern Italy storms: report 
Rome (AFP) July 13, 2008Two people were killed and around 300 were evacuated from their homes on Sunday as bad weather pounded northern Italy, the Ansa news agency said. A father and son died near the northern city of Milan after being knocked into a river by a falling tree as they were out walking, Ansa reported. Farther north, near the border with Switzerland, 300 people were evacuated from several towns as ... more |
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Berlin (AFP) July 11, 2008German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has warned that it could prove dangerous to give nations around the world nuclear power plants in an interview published here Friday. "A nuclear power station is not a fridge. That is why I am worried about attempts to hand out nuclear power stations all over the world as a kind of cure-all," Steinmeier told the Frankfurter Rundschau. ... more Nuclear accident exercise in Mexico a 'success', IAEA says 
Vienna (AFP) July 11, 2008The nuclear accident response exercise conducted at the Laguna Verde nuclear power plant in Mexico this week was a "success", the UN's atomic watchdog said Friday. "The exercise was a success in that it demonstrated strengths but also the weak points in the international emergency response system," said International Atomic Energy Agency official, Rafael Martincic, who led the preparation ... more Lithuania plans EU talks to delay Soviet-era reactor closure 
Vilnius (AFP) July 11, 2008Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus said Friday he was planning talks with fellow EU leaders, as Vilnius pushes to delay the closure of an aging Chernobyl-type nuclear plant which provides the bulk of its power. Adamkus told reporters he would meet with other top officials from the rest of the 27-nation European Union "in the near future". "We're not asking for talks, or for the opening ... more Outside View: Gazprom raises prices 
Moscow (UPI) Jul 11, 2008 On July 8 Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller reported his company's plans to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. He spoke about a steady, long-term growth of gas prices for all consumers, be they in Western Europe, next-door neighbors or at home. Miller specified that by the end of this year the average European price for natural gas will exceed $500 per 1,000 cubic meters, compared with the current ... more Arctic gas plant resumes production: StatoilHydro 
Oslo (AFP) July 11, 2008Production from the pioneering Snoehvit gas field in the Arctic, the world's northernmost liquefied natural gas plant, has resumed after a two-month stoppage for repairs, Norwegian oil and gas company StatoilHydro said Friday. The liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing plant at Hammerfest, a Barents Sea port some 2,000 kilometres from the North Pole, is now operating at 60 percent of its ... more
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