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Gustav becomes hurricane, threatens Haiti
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Aug 26, 2008Tropical Storm Gustav grew into a hurricane Tuesday after emerging in the Caribbean, threatening Haiti with powerful winds less than two weeks after the country was hit by a deadly storm. "Reports from an air force hurricane aircraft indicate that Gustav has become a hurricane with maximum winds near 80 mph (130 kilometers per hour)," the US National Hurricane Center said in a 2:20 am (0620 ... more UC San Diego Engineers Helping To Make Buildings Earthquake Safe 
San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 26, 2008Engineering researchers from UC San Diego and the University of Arizona have concluded three months of rigorous earthquake simulation tests on a half-scale three-story structure, and will now begin sifting through their results so they can be used in the future designs of buildings across the nation. The engineers produced a series of earthquake jolts as powerful as magnitude 8.0 on a ... more Walker's World: The world and Joe Biden 
Paris (UPI) Aug 25, 2008 The initial reaction among America's allies to the choice of Sen. Joe Biden as running mate has been to see him shoring up Sen. Barack Obama's weaknesses. The Sunday Times of London said, "He compensates for Mr. Obama's relative youth, and as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he makes up for the candidate's acknowledged lack of experience on the international stage." ... more Shipwrecks On Coral Reefs Harbor Unwanted Species 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 26, 2008Shipwrecks on coral reefs may increase invasion of unwanted species, according to a recent U.S. Geological Survey study. These unwanted species can completely overtake the reef and eliminate all the native coral, dramatically decreasing the diversity of marine organisms on the reef. This study documents for the first time that a rapid change in the dominant biota on a coral reef is ... more Tornadoes strike near Denver on eve of convention 
Denver, Colorado (AFP) Aug 24, 2008Tornadoes touched down just outside Denver amid stormy weather on the eve of the Democratic National Convention, the US National Weather Service said. The service issued tornado warnings for four counties immediately south and east of Denver, but not for the city itself. "Numerous trained weather spotters reported several tornadoes between Parker and Castle Rock," two towns south of ... more |
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Champaign IL (SPX) Aug 26, 2008Hurricane season has arrived, sparking renewed debate regarding possible links between global warming and the frequency and severity of hurricanes, heat waves and other extreme weather events. Meanwhile, a related discussion has ensued among international-security experts who believe climate-change-related damage to global ecosystems and the resulting competition for natural resources may ... more August Brings Hot Days And Big Catastrophes 
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 26, 2008The month of August is known for more than the northern hemisphere's hottest, most sultry days of summer. Geoscientists who study Earth's natural hazards can tell you it's also a big month for disasters. Anniversaries marked this month include the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that buried Pompeii in 79 A.D., and the monstrous 1883 eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia that affected Earth's climate ... more Tropical Storm Fay downgraded to depression 
Miami (AFP) Aug 24, 2008Tropical Storm Fay, which left at least 11 people dead as it passed through Florida, was downgraded late Saturday to a tropical depression. "Fay weakens to a depression, but heavy rains and flooding could continue for several days," the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said in a statement. Fay, which now swirled over the Florida Panhandle, earlier spawned tornadoes that ripped ... more A New Biopesticide For The Organic Food Boom 
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Aug 26, 2008With the boom in consumption of organic foods creating a pressing need for natural insecticides and herbicides that can be used on crops certified as "organic," biopesticide pioneer Pam G. Marrone, Ph.D., is reporting development of a new "green" pesticide obtained from an extract of the giant knotweed in a report scheduled for presentation here at the 236th national meeting of the American ... more Nuke reactor designated historic landmark 
Washington (UPI) Aug 25, 2008 U.S. officials Monday officially designated the "B reactor" at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation as a historic landmark. The reactor was the world's first industrial-scale nuclear reactor. Located at the Hanford site in south-central Washington state, the reactor was, among other things, used to produce plutonium for the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, to end World War II ... more |
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Scottsdale AZ (SPX) Aug 26, 2008GWS Technologies has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Urban Green Energy, Inc. to distribute its incredibly advanced 2nd generation 4kW vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT), the first in a line which will include several other sizes, including a 1kW VAWT available this fall. The 4kW VAWT uses composite materials to create a wind turbine that is, according to Urban Green ... more Heads of Spain's nuclear plants to meet after fire: watchdog 
Madrid (AFP) Aug 25, 2008Spain's nuclear watchdog Monday called an extraordinary meeting of the heads of the country's nuclear plants to discuss safety issues following the latest incident at a reactor. It also sent a team of investigators to the Vandellos II complex near Tarragona in northeastern Spain, where an electrical generator fire broke out on Sunday. The Spanish Nuclear Safety Authority (CSN) said the ... more China considers 54-billion-dollar stimulus plan: state media 
Shanghai (AFP) Aug 25, 2008China is considering a 54-billion-dollar stimulus plan involving tax cuts and government spending, state media said Monday, in another sign that boosting the economy is becoming a priority. The 370-billion-yuan proposal, which has yet to be finalised, includes 220 billion yuan in fiscal spending and 150 billion yuan in tax cuts, according to the Economic Observer, a weekly newspaper. ... more Liquid Water in the Martian North 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 25, 2008Perchlorate. Never heard of it? Join the club. But NASA's Phoenix spacecraft has found it in the soil in the icy northern plains of Mars. And now that it's been found, scientists are scrambling to explain how it got there, and what, if anything, its presence means about the habitability of the martian north. Phoenix didn't go to Mars to find perchlorate. It went looking for evidence of ... more Meteorite Fast Track 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 25, 2008For the last few years, astronomers have faced a puzzle: The vast majority of asteroids that come near the Earth are of a type that matches only a tiny fraction of the meteorites that most frequently hit our planet. Since meteorites are mostly pieces of asteroids, this discrepancy was hard to explain, but a team from MIT and other institutions has now found what it believes is the answer to the ... more
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