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Ottawa (AFP) Aug 20, 2008The Canadian city of London, Ontario on Wednesday halted sales of bottled water at all of its municipal facilities, heralding the return of water fountains, despite beverage industry protests. And similar bans are being considered elsewhere in the country, say local media, including in Vancouver, Ottawa and Kitchener, amid a public backlash against the higher cost and environmental impact of ... more Study Shows Continued Spread Of Dead Zones 
Gloucester Point VA (SPX) Aug 21, 2008A global study led by Professor Robert Diaz of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, shows that the number of "dead zones"-areas of seafloor with too little oxygen for most marine life-has increased by a third between 1995 and 2007. Diaz and collaborator Rutger Rosenberg of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden say that dead zones are now "the key stressor ... more Mirror self-recognition found in magpies 
Frankfurt, Germany (UPI) Aug 20, 2008 A German study shows self-recognition, thought a hallmark of advanced cognitive abilities in animals, might also be present in magpies. Frankfurt University psychologist Helmut Prior and Ruhr University biopsychologist Onur Gunturkun said they have discovered evidence of self-recognition in magpies -- a bird species with a brain structure very different from mammals. The research ... more Matsushita says new DNA technology identifies disease risks 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 20, 2008Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Wednesday that it had developed a new way of predicting from a person's DNA their response to medication and risk of developing disease. Matsushita, which is best known for its Panasonic brand, said it had developed a technology to electronically identify sequence variations in DNA, called single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs. ... more Five dead as Typhoon Nuri slams into Philippines 
Manila (AFP) Aug 20, 2008Five people were killed as Typhoon Nuri slammed into the northern Philippines Wednesday, triggering heavy rain and warnings of possible storm surges, officials said. Packing maximum sustained winds of 140 kilometres (86 miles) an hour at the centre and gusts of up to 170 kilometres per hour, at 4:00 pm (0800 GMT) Nuri was 90 kilometres northwest of the northern province of Cagayan, moving ... more |
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Geneva (AFP) Aug 20, 2008Up to 280 hectares (692 acres) of forests have been burnt or are alight in Georgia after its conflict with Russia, the WWF said Wednesday, warning that key conservation areas were under threat. In a statement, it called on "all parties capable of helping put out forest fires in central Georgia to work together to extinguish them". The fires are centred in the Borjomi-Kharagauli area ... more Forests Could Benefit When Fall Color Comes Late 
Houghton MI (SPX) Aug 21, 2008Fall colors seem to show up later and later-if at all--and scientists say we can blame increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for prolonging the growing season of the trees. However, that could actually be good news for forestry industries. Writing in the journal Global Change Biology, Michigan Technological University Professor David F. Karnosky and colleagues from two ... more Face Recognition: Nurture Not Nature 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 21, 2008Reporting in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, researchers have discovered that our society can influence the way we recognise other people's faces. Because face recognition is effortlessly achieved by people from all different cultures it was considered to be a basic mechanism universal among humans. However, by using analyses inspired by novel brain imaging technology, researchers at the ... more Canada, China grab jackpot on new global Monopoly board 
Paris (AFP) Aug 20, 2008Thanks to a popular vote, Canada and China are the most heavily represented nations in a new global edition of Monopoly being released next week that sees 22 cities up for grabs and offers green-friendly utilities and new forms of transport. Three cities each from the two nations are among 22 selected by more than five million fans of the game asked to vote online among 70 towns for the ones ... more Bloomberg proposes windmills for New York City 
New York (AFP) Aug 20, 2008Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed a renewable energy program for New York city that would include placing windmills on city bridges, solar panels on skyscrapers, and the use of tidal, geothermal and nuclear energy. Bloomberg unveiled the outlines of his plan late Tuesday at a major clean energy summit in Las Vegas organized by the University of Nevada. "Just five years ago last week ... more |
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Mountain View CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2008In the continuing effort to develop electricity from renewable energy cheaper than from coal, Google, through its philanthropic arm Google.org, announced $10.25 million in investments in a breakthrough energy technology called Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). This announcement also includes funding for research on next-generation geothermal resource mapping, EGS information tools, and a ... more Analysis: Venezuela offers oil to Paraguay 
Miami (UPI) Aug 20, 2008 Venezuela will supply Paraguay "with all the oil it needs," said President Hugo Chavez, who welcomed the election of another leftist leader in Latin America. While officials with the Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA refused to give explicit details of the agreement, Chavez assured new Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, a former bishop whose political leanings are in line with the ... more Analysis: Cameroon controls oil peninsula 
Yaounde, Cameroon (UPI) Aug 21, 2008Now that Nigeria has handed the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula to neighboring Cameroon following a protracted war of words that threatened to escalate, military officials in Cameroon are demanding compensation for their role in the deal. Defense Ministry officials in Cameroon told a leading newspaper there that some members of the military argue that they helped orchestrate the delivery of ... more Living With A Star 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 20, 2008What if you woke up one morning and found your whole planet had been swallowed by the atmosphere of a star? Get out of bed, look out the window. Auroras are dancing along the horizon. Dark sunspots crackle overhead-each little 'pop' more powerful than a nuclear bomb. On TV, a weather forecaster warns astronauts, "a solar flare is sure to erupt," although he can't say exactly when. Moments ... more Absolute's Computrace LoJack For Laptops Now Available At Future Shop 
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Aug 19, 2008Absolute Software has announced that its Computrace LoJack for Laptops Premium is now available at Future Shop's 133 retail outlets and online at futureshop.ca. "We're excited to introduce Computrace LoJack for Laptops to Canada's largest consumer electronics retailer," said Mark Grace, Vice President of Consumer Business for Absolute. "Having Future Shop as a retail partner will further ... more
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