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UN gives aid to Guinea Bissau to fight cholera epidemic
Bissau (AFP) Aug 16, 2008The United Nations gave 400,000 euros (600,000 dollars) in aid to the tiny west African nation of Guinea Bissau to fight a cholera epidemic that has claimed 40 lives to date, the UN said Saturday. "The funds complement contributions by all the local United Nations agencies," in response to an urgent June appeal by the government, the UN said in a statement. The money will partly be used ... more Sanitation and hygiene in focus at World Water Week 
Stockholm (AFP) Aug 17, 2008As the world races to find solutions to the planet's climate woes, some 2,500 experts meet in Stockholm this week to put the spotlight on one of the most pressing issues, that of water resources, at World Water Week. The theme of this year's annual gathering is sanitation and hygiene issues. Almost half of the world's population lacks proper toilet facilities, a situation that can have ... more Predicting Aerosols' Effect On Cloud Cover 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 15, 2008Using a novel theoretical approach, researchers from NASA and other institutions have identified the common thread that determines how aerosols from human activity, like the particles from burning of vegetation and forests, influence cloud cover and ultimately affect climate. The study improves researchers' ability to predict whether aerosols will increase or decrease cloud cover. ... more Death toll rises from Vietnam floods 
Hanoi (AFP) Aug 15, 2008The death toll from tropical storm Kammuri and subsequent floods has risen to at least 127 in northern Vietnam, with 34 others still listed as missing, an official said Friday. "In recent days, we have been focussing our efforts on helping those in the disaster area," an official from the national flood and storm control committee told AFP. Heavy rains followed by flash floods and landslide ... more Germans try to slow glacier melt with giant screen 
Geneva (AFP) Aug 14, 2008German researchers trying to slow melting glaciers have set up a large screen in the Swiss Alps that they hope will trap cold air over the icy mass, Johannes Gutenberg University said Thursday. "We hope our installations will bring about a net cooling of the area. And if the melt is not stopped, that it is at least slowed," the project's leader, geography professor Hans-Joachim Fuchs, said ... more |
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Kampala (AFP) Aug 14, 2008A hepatitis E epidemic in northern Uganda has killed 110 people since last October and continues to spread across the region, the health ministry said Thursday. The virus, concentrated in the Kitgum district which is home to numerous camps for civil-war displaced, has caused 6,762 infections, with 232 new cases reported last week alone. "The biggest problem has been personal hygiene ... more UN finances '1,000 microprojects' for ex-fighters in I.Coast 
Abidjan (AFP) Aug 16, 2008The United Nations' peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast said Saturday its will finance "1,000 microprojects" to rehabilitate the country's ex-fighters. The ONUCI programme aims to create "a stable security environment" ahead of the country's presidential election on November 30, which is to be the culmination of the Ivory Coast peace process. The programme was officially launched Friday ... more Metropolitan Wastewater Ends Up In Urban Agriculture 
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Aug 18, 2008As developing countries confront the first global food crisis since the 1970s as well as unprecedented water scarcity, a new 53-city survey conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) indicates that most of those studied (80 percent) are using untreated or partially treated wastewater for agriculture. In over 70 percent of the cities studied, more than half of urban ... more Mekong river water levels drop after floods: govt 
Hanoi (AFP) Aug 15, 2008The Mekong river, which reached record highs in Laos in recent days, started to fall Friday in the capital Vientiane and should spare the city serious flooding, a government spokesman said. "The water (level) has begun to drop," foreign ministry spokesman, Yong Chanthalangsy, told AFP by telephone. Nonetheless, we are paying a lot of attention to the situation." Large swathes of Laos ... more Manta UAVs Certified By Korean Civil Aviation Safety Authority 
Jeju Island, South Korea (SPX) Aug 15, 2008Three Manta UAVs received airworthiness certification from the Korean Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) to fly from Jeongseok Airport at the beginning of the research project. The Manta UAVs, manufactured by Advanced Ceramics Research (ACR) of Tucson, Arizona, were issued official consecutive Korean CASA tail numbers: S7049, S7050 and S7051. Under a program funded by the U.S. National ... more |
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Caracas (AFP) Aug 17, 2008President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Russian President Dimitri Medvedev wants to send a Russian naval fleet to visit Venezuela. "Russia has informed us they intend to visit Venezuela, that is, the intention that a Russian fleet should come to the Caribbean," Chavez said on his weekly radio program. "I told the president (Medvedev), 'If you're coming to the Caribbean, we'll welcome you ... more Japan, China foreign ministers discuss gas projects, NKorea 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 17, 2008The foreign ministers of Japan and China were to meet Sunday to discuss joint development of gas fields in the East China Sea and North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, an official said. The talks between Japan's Masahiko Komura and China's Yang Jiechi come amid rapidly warming relations between the two Asian economic giants after decades of mistrust due in part to the legacy of ... more Amiworld Plans To Increase Biofuel Production By 300 Percent 
New York NY (SPX) Aug 18, 2008Amiworld has announced a strategic plan to increase both diesel and biodiesel production by at least 300% at the Company's South American facility. The strategic plan further validates the Company's aggressive business strategy to capitalize on the growing energy needs of emerging economies in South America. The Company intends to see production more than triple to 100,000 Bpm (barrels ... more Indra Heads Study To Define Future European Multiconstellation SNS 
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 15, 2008Indra is heading the industrial group in charge of studying the feasibility and definition of the current EGNOS satellite navigation system towards a future Multiconstellation Regional System (MRS) for the European Space Agency (ESA). This system will offer a superior range of services to a greater number of users. The project budget is 1.5 million euros and the execution period is 18 months. ... more The Stuff Of Life On Titan 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2008For almost thirty years, scientists have known that complex carbon compounds called tholins exist on comets and in the atmospheres of the outer planets. Theoretically, tholins might interact with water in a process called hydrolysis to produce complex molecules similar to those found on the early Earth. On the Earth, complex organic molecules are believed to have been an early step in the ... more
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