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90 Billion Tons Of Microbial Organisms Live In The Deep Biosphere
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 22, 2008Biogeoscientists show evidence of 90 billion tons of microbial organisms-expressed in terms of carbon mass-living in the deep biosphere, in a research article published online by Nature, July 20, 2008. This tonnage corresponds to about one-tenth of the amount of carbon stored globally in tropical rainforests. The authors: Kai-Uwe Hinrichs and Julius Lipp of the Center for Marine Environment ... more Chinese farmers' income rises: report 
Beijing (AFP) July 27, 2008Chinese farmers' income in the first half of 2008 rose 10.3 percent in real terms from a year ago, state media said Sunday, signalling some success for policies to improve life in the countryside. By contrast, people in the cities saw a more modest 6.3 percent rise in incomes after deducting inflation, the Xinhua news agency reported, citing the National Bureau of Statistics. ... more Air Pollution Is Causing Widespread And Serious Impacts To Ecosystems 
Millbrook NY (SPX) Jul 22, 2008If you are living in the eastern United States, the environment around you is being harmed by air pollution. From Adirondack forests and Shenandoah streams to Appalachian wetlands and the Chesapeake Bay, a new report by the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and The Nature Conservancy has found that air pollution is degrading every major ecosystem type in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic ... more Greenhouse Gases May Be Released As Destruction Of Wetlands Worsens 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 22, 2008Leading world scientists convene in Brazil July 21-25 amid growing concern that evaporation and ongoing destruction of world wetlands, which hold a volume of carbon similar to that in the atmosphere today, could cause them to exhale billows of greenhouse gases. Meeting in the city of Cuiaba on the edge of South America's vast Pantanal, the largest wetland of its kind, some 700 experts from ... more UN food agency calls for research on tropical root crop 
Rome (AFP) July 25, 2008The UN food agency on Friday called for more research into the tropical root crop cassava as a way of helping poor countries threatened by soaring food and oil prices. Cassava "has enormous potential," the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a statement that cited the conclusions of a meeting of experts in the Belgian city of Ghent. "At present average cassava yields are bare ... more |
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Madrid (AFP) July 27, 2008Spain's Defence Minister Carme Chacon called Sunday for an international naval force to be sent to Somalia's treacherous waters to protect fishing fleets from rampant piracy. "Spain is ready to work for the immediate deployment of a multinational naval force in Somali waters to combat piracy," Chacon said in an interview with Spanish daily El Pais. "We want it deployed as soon as possibl ... more New UN special envoy flies in to prepare Cyprus peace push 
Larnaca, Cyprus (AFP) July 27, 2008Newly-appointed UN special envoy Alexander Downer arrived on Sunday for contacts with rival Cypriot leaders ahead of a September process aimed at reunifying the Mediterranean island. "All of us at the UN are looking forward to helping in any way we can with the process that, as the secretary general (Ban Ki-moon) pointed out, made an important step forward on Friday," Downer told reporters a ... more Baby boom at China panda centre: state media 
Beijing (AFP) July 27, 2008Four giant panda cubs have been born within just 14 hours in China, giving a rare boost to the population of the endangered species, state media said Sunday. Nine-year-old Qiyuan gave birth to a pair of twin female cubs late Saturday at the Chengdu Panda Breeding Research Centre in southwest Sichuan province, the Xinhua news agency said. Little more than an hour later, eight-year-old Che ... more At least 16 dead in flooding in Ukraine, Romania: governments 
Kiev (AFP) July 27, 2008At least 16 people have died in severe storms and flooding in western Ukraine and northern Romania that forced almost 20,000 people to abandon their homes, authorities said Sunday. The government in Kiev said 13 people, including five children, had been killed and two were missing, while authorities in Bucharest issued a toll of three dead and two missing. In Ukraine around 6,700 people ... more Hurricane Genevieve forms in Pacific 
Washington (AFP) July 25, 2008Hurricane Genevieve has formed over the Pacific to the west of Mexico but is expected to remain out at sea, the US National Hurricane Center announced Friday. With sustained winds of 120 kilometers (75 miles) per hour, the storm reached category one strength on the Saffir-Simpson 1-to-5 scale, becoming the fourth Pacific hurricane of the season, the Miami-based NHC said in its latest bulleti ... more |
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Washington (AFP) July 26, 2008The US Coast Guard and clean-up crews were struggling Saturday to rid the Mississippi River of hundreds of thousands of gallons of spilled fuel oil and unclog a backup of commercial traffic. Nearly 800 people in several oil removal operations were busy containing the spill with booms and removing what they could from the water, as a limited number of vessels were being allowed ... more Study: Early Los Alamos toxin leaks higher 
Los Alamos, N.M. (UPI) Jul 25, 2008 Contamination in the early years at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico may have been higher than originally reported, health officials say. The Los Alamos Historical Document Retrieval and Assessment Project of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has been studying and declassifying documents about contaminant releases at the lab. Investigators said ... more Scientists work on garbage for gas 
New York (UPI) Jul 24, 2008 U.S. companies are racing to bring gasoline made from wood chips, garbage, crop waste and other materials to market. The U.S. government is offering grants and subsidies to get the plants started in an effort to meet a mandated 36 billion gallons of biofuels a year by 2022, The New York Times said Thursday. Plans for about 28 different plants are in various stages of development. ... more Roadblocks hit trade at historic India, China mountain pass 
Sherathang, India (AFP) July 27, 2008Guo Ting stands patiently in the drizzling rain hoping to sell her wares, about half a dozen blankets wrapped in plastic, but only a few shoppers show up and nobody is buying. "Business is not good as the market is too small," says Guo as she waits for custom at the Sherathang mart, about five kilometres (three miles) from the ancient Nathu La border crossing between India and China. ... more California passes strict shipping pollution laws 
Los Angeles (AFP) July 25, 2008Californian environmental regulators have approved stringent guidelines aimed at forcing ocean-going vessels visiting the state's ports to use cleaner fuel, a statement said Friday. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) said the new rules would force vessels such as cruiseliners, oil tankers, and container ships passing within 24 nautical miles of the state's coastline to operate on low ... more
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