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Scientists Close In On Source Of X-Rays In Lightning
Gainesville FL (SPX) Jul 18, 2008University of Florida and Florida Institute of Technology engineering researchers have narrowed the search for the source of X-rays emitted by lightning, a feat that could one day help predict where lightning will strike. "From a practical point of view, if we are going to ever be able to predict when and where lightning will strike, we need to first understand how lightning moves from one ... more Scientists to explore Russia's Lake Baikal 
Moscow (AFP) July 17, 2008Russian scientists on Thursday outlined plans for a submarine expedition this month that will for the first time probe the depths of Lake Baikal, a unique ecosystem and the deepest lake in the world. The expedition is being organised by Artur Chilingarov, a pro-Kremlin member of parliament and an Arctic explorer who led the team of scientists that planted a flag at the bottom of the North ... more Research Team Draws 150-Meter Ice Core From McCall Glacier 
Fairbanks AL (SPX) Jul 18, 2008A 150-meter ice core pulled from the McCall Glacier in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge this summer may offer researchers their first quantitative look at up to two centuries of climate change in the region. The core, which is longer than 1 1/2 football fields, is the longest extracted from an arctic glacier in the United States, according to Matt Nolan, an associate professor at the ... more Record Land Grab Predicted As Demand For Resources Soars 
London, UK (SPX) Jul 18, 2008Escalating global demand for fuel, food and wood fibre will destroy the world's forests, if efforts to address climate change and poverty fail to empower the billion-plus forest-dependent poor, according to two reports released by the U.S.-based Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), an international coalition comprising the world's foremost organisations on forest governance and conservation. ... more Tunguska Catastrophe: Evidence Of Acid Rain Supports Meteorite Theory 
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jul 18, 2008The Tunguska catastrophe in 1908 evidently led to high levels of acid rain. This is the conclusion reached by Russian, Italian and German researchers based on the results of analyses of peat profiles taken from the disaster region. In peat samples corresponded to 1908 permafrost boundary they found significantly higher levels of the heavy nitrogen and carbon isotopes 15N and 13C. The higher ... more |
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Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Jul 18, 2008Record-setting "dead zones" in the Gulf of Mexico and Chesapeake Bay appear likely this summer, according to new forecasts from a University of Michigan researcher. Donald Scavia, a professor at the U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE), makes the annual forecasts using models driven by nutrient load estimates from the U.S. Geological Survey. In this year's Chesapeake ... more Hurricane Hunters Fly First Storm Of 2008 Season 
Keesler AFB MS (AFNS) Jul 18, 2008As the Hurricane Hunters prepared to fly their first storm of the 2008 hurricane season July 11, Hurricane Bertha lumbered on a wide path toward Bermuda. At the time, the category 1 hurricane kicked up winds of 85 mph. It was about 350 miles south southeast of the island, churning northwest at about 7 mph. Air Force reservists in the 403rd Wing's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron ... more China quake zone govt to sell luxury HQ after outcry: report 
Beijing (AFP) July 17, 2008The capital of China's quake-hit Sichuan province has bowed to public pressure and will auction off its luxurious new government headquarters to aid the recovery effort, state media said Thursday. Proceeds from the sale of the controversial Chengdu city government building will go towards rehousing quake victims and for reconstruction, the China Youth Daily quoted He Huazhang, head of the ... more Australia's Rudd hits out at critics of carbon trading scheme 
Sydney (AFP) July 17, 2008Australia's government on Thursday defended its new carbon trading scheme, insisting it would reduce emissions and telling critics it was better than nothing. Climate Minister Penny Wong on Wednesday introduced a "cap-and-trade" scheme to be introduced by 2010, which she said was the country's most significant economic reform in a generation. Green groups and economists, however ... more Taiwan to continue arms build-up despite US sales freeze: gov't 
Taipei (AFP) July 17, 2008Taiwan said Thursday it would keep pushing for the procurement of self-defensive weapons from the United States despite Washington's recent decision to freeze arms sales to the island. "We'll step up communications with the United States," the island's leading arms supplier, defence ministry spokeswoman Chi Yu-lan told AFP without elaborating. Another defence ministry official who ... more |
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Pullman WA (SPX) Jul 18, 2008In the rush to develop renewable fuels from plants, converting crop residues into cellulosic ethanol would seem to be a slam dunk. However, that might not be such a good idea for farmers growing crops without irrigation in regions receiving less than 25 inches of precipitation annually, says Ann Kennedy, a USDA-Agricultural Research Service soil scientist and adjunct professor of crop and ... more Berlusconi says Naples rubbish crisis is over 
Rome (AFP) July 17, 2008Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday the rubbish crisis in Naples was over, one day before his cabinet was due to hold a meeting in the southern city. "Tomorrow I will preside over a cabinet meeting in Naples and announce that -- as residents of Naples and the region are able to confirm -- the waste disposal crisis is over and there is no more rubbish on the streets," ... more Analysis: China dedicated to Nigerian oil 
Beijing, China (UPI) Jul 18, 2008China has committed $1 billion to the creation of a six-lane highway surrounding Nigeria's de facto oil capital, Port Harcourt, the latest indicator of Beijing's intent to become a leader in African oil extraction. The China Harbor Engineering Co. signed a deal this week with the African Finance Corp. for the 75-mile road that AFC officials said in a statement also would help improve ... more Noble Environmental Power Builds Michigan's Newest Windpark 
Ubly MI (SPX) Jul 18, 2008Noble Environmental Power has announced that construction on Michigan's newest windpark is underway. The Noble Thumb I Windpark will generate 69 megawatts of clean energy using 46 GE 1.5 megawatt turbines, which is enough to power about 23,000 average homes. Over a period of 20 years, it would require burning more than 1.5 million tons of coal -- enough to fill a train 178 miles long ... more Verenium And Marubeni Advance Cellulosic Ethanol Facilities 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Jul 18, 2008Verenium and Marubeni have announced that, pursuant to the terms of their joint development agreement, they are continuing to advance the commercialization of cellulosic ethanol projects utilizing Verenium's proprietary technology in Asia with the opening of a three million-liter-per-year plant in Saraburi, Thailand. Marubeni and Tsukishima Kikai have already incorporated Verenium's ... more
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