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Canada says science backs up its Arctic claim
Ottawa (AFP) Aug 9, 2008Canada says it has scientific proof of its territorial claims over a vast portion of the Arctic, amid debate between northern nations over sovereignty in the oil-rich region. Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn said Friday joint research with Denmark had found that the undersea Lomonosov Ridge is attached to the North American and Greenland plates, directly challenging a Russian claim. ... more Electronic-Only Voting Presents Risk Of Inaccurate Counts 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Aug 11, 2008A Purdue University computer security expert says electronic voting includes the risk of fraud or computer malfunction that could cause voters to be skeptical of the results. Measures can be taken, however, to protect the integrity of electronic voting, says Eugene H. Spafford, the executive director of Purdue's Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security. ... more AIDS: Male circumcision could be even greater boon than thought 
Mexico City (AFP) Aug 7, 2008Circumcision appears to offer men even greater protection against the AIDS virus than thought and also partially shield them against a common sexually-transmitted disease, two studies presented at the world AIDS conference said Thursday. US researcher Robert Bailey of the University of Illinois at Chicago put forward long-term data from a trial in Kisumu, Kenya, that in its initial phase ... more CSIRO Opens Rapid Response Animal Disease Centre 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 11, 2008"The new 'state of the art' laboratory will be able to process more samples, faster, in the event of an emergency animal disease outbreak, and will be located within the AAHL's advanced high biocontainment facility," Senator Carr said. "AAHL's core responsibility is to respond to outbreaks of emergency animal diseases such as foot and mouth disease or equine influenza. The emergency response ... more Patagonian Glacier Yields Clues Of Global Climate Change 
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 11, 2008A better understanding of climate variations at planetary scale is one of climate scientists' crucial concerns. Stable water isotope analysis, the chemistry of ice cores taken from the Arctic and Antarctic polar ice caps and of air bubbles trapped in them now allow a chronology to be drawn up of the climate changes that took place over the past 800 000 years. However, those data, collected ... more |
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Mexico City (AFP) Aug 8, 2008"Save someone's life and you have a burden for life," goes the proverb, and its truth seems horribly apt for the campaign against AIDS. After years of battling for funds and anti-HIV drugs for needy people in poor countries, activists are finally making headway. But the 17th International AIDS Conference that ended here Friday has highlighted the dilemma of this success: the more lives ... more UN criticises displacement of Panama dam tribe 
Geneva (AFP) Aug 8, 2008A UN special representative on the rights of indigenous people on Friday urged the government of Panama to intervene in a dam project that has allegedly forced an indigenous community from their land. The company AES Changuinola has been constructing the CHAN 75 hydroelectric project since 2007 in western Panama's Bocas del Toro Province. "I observe with concern the human rights violation ... more Humans' Evolutionary Response To Risk Can Be Unnecessarily Dangerous 
Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Aug 11, 2008The traffic light ahead of you is turning yellow. Do you gun the engine and speed through the intersection, trusting that others will wait for their green, or do you slow down and wait your turn? That depends more on experience than personality, according to new research from Tel Aviv University. Arnon Lotem, a behavioral ecologist from the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University ... more Genetic Variations In European Americans 
Troy NY (SPX) Aug 11, 2008An international team of researchers has identified just 200 positions within the curves of the DNA helix that they believe capture much of the genetic diversity in European Americans, a population with one of the most diverse and complex historic origins on Earth. Their findings narrow the search for the elusive ancestral clues known as single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, that cause ... more Iran in new oil money move to dodge sanctions: report 
Tehran (AFP) Aug 9, 2008Iran's government has ordered the state oil company to deposit oil revenues only in selected banks in a bid to dodge toughening sanctions over its nuclear drive, local media reported on Saturday. The state-run National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) had been free to choose where to deposit the tens of billions of dollars Iran receives annually in earnings from its crude oil exports. But a ... more |
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Charlotte NC (SPX) Aug 11, 2008Beginning in 2009, gas produced from a landfill in Durham, N.C., will be turned into power to serve customers of Duke Energy Carolinas. The company has announced that it has signed an agreement with Methane Power Inc. to purchase two megawatts of renewable energy generated from the city of Durham landfill, which was closed in the mid-1990s. "This is a great opportunity for the city ... more Bush confident China's future to reflect universal aspirations 
Washington (AFP) Aug 9, 2008US President George W. Bush expressed confidence Saturday that China's future will reflect "the universal aspirations of mankind," despite criticism of a lack of freedom in the world' most populous country. "The China of the future will reflect its own culture and traditions, but it will also reflect the universal aspirations of mankind -- and there's no deeper human desire than liberty." ... more Australia to work with China to revive world trade talks: PM 
Sydney (AFP) Aug 8, 2008The Australian and Chinese trade ministers will work together to attempt to revive the global trade talks which collapsed last month, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Friday. The latest Doha round of World Trade Organisation negotiations, which saw emerging powers such as India, China and Brazil take centre stage, fell apart in July in a potentially devastating blow to millions of the world's ... more Atlantic Energy Begins Energy Efficiency Project For NJ School District 
Saratoga Springs NY (SPX) Aug 11, 2008Atlantic Energy Solutions has just initiated a turn-key energy efficiency and conservation project for its first Southern New Jersey Regional School District. What is going to occur is a significant annual energy savings in cost and wattage usage for the district with a payback of 1.9 years. This equates to taking 6 cars off the road with the 31.8 metric tons of decreased carbon emissions. ... more A Source Of Oil In Lake Baikal 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 11, 2008The deepwater exploration of Lake Baikal by two MIR mini-submarines attracted global attention and has met with significant success. Besides new kinds of worms inhabiting the deep waters, the submarines discovered a crack in the lakebed from which crude oil seeps into the lake. The risk of an environmental disaster threatening Baikal shouldn't be exaggerated, however. The oil thread ... more
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