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Ike strengthens to hurricane status
Miami (AFP) Sept 3, 2008Tropical Storm Ike strengthened to a Category One hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, the US National Hurricane Center said. Ike, the fifth hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic season, is still far from any of the islands east of the Caribbean like the Bahamas, according to information released by the Miami-based Hurricane Center. "It is too early to determine what if any land areas ... more Subsaharan Africa is missing out on clean energy: forum 
Dakar (AFP) Sept 3, 2008Sub-Saharan Africa is missing out on investments from industrialised countries to develop clean energy projects in the region, participants at Africa's first "carbon market" said Monday in Dakar. Organised by the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), the Africa Carbon Forum is being held September 3-5 in Senegal and is looking at how the continent could make better use of ... more Magmatically Triggered Slow Earthquake Discovered At Kilauea Volcano 
Honolulu HI (SPX) Sep 04, 2008From June 17-19th 2007, Kilauea experienced a new dike intrusion, where magma rapidly moved from a storage reservoir beneath the summit into the east rift zone and extended the rift zone by as much as 1 meter. Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM), Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Hawaiian Volcano Observatory have ... more Key Discovered To Cold Tolerance In Corn 
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 04, 2008Demand for corn -- the world's number one feed grain and a staple food for many -- is outstripping supply, resulting in large price increases that are forecast to continue over the next several years. If corn's intolerance of low temperatures could be overcome, then the length of the growing season, and yield, could be increased at present sites of cultivation and its range extended into colder ... more Flood-hit Indian state appeals for more help 
Saharsa, India (AFP) Sept 3, 2008Flood-hit northern India is in dire need of international aid on the scale of that seen after the 2004 Asian tsunami, a state official said Wednesday. A large swathe of the already desperately poor state of Bihar is likely to remain under water for several months, leaving authorities coping with millions of people who have lost everything, officials and aid workers said. "We will ... more |
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana (AFP) Sept 3, 2008Residents of storm-battered Louisiana should wait to return home until authorities give them the all-clear, a top disaster relief aide to US President George W. Bush warned Wednesday. "We caution people not to come back in until they're sure that their parish has power, has water, sewer, and all those types of things it takes to survive," Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Dave Paulis ... more Greenpeace gives Lula fireman outfit to fight Amazon blazes 
Brasilia (AFP) Sept 3, 2008A group of Greenpeace activists gave Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a fireman's outfit Wednesday in a symbolic request asking him to do more to combat forest fires in the Amazon. The members of the environmental organization had to leave the suit with security after being prevented from walking into Lula's presidential palace to hand it to him personally. They also left ... more Canada's Arctic ice shelves break apart, drift away 
Ottawa (AFP) Sept 3, 2008Two ice shelves in Canada's far north have lost massive sections since August while a third ice shelf now is adrift in the Arctic Ocean, said researchers Wednesday who blamed climate change. The entire 50 square-kilometer (19 square-mile) Markham Ice Shelf off the coast of Ellesmere Island broke away in early August and is now adrift, while two sections of the nearby Serson Ice Shelf detached ... more Ghana, EU clinch deal to crackdown on illicit timber trade 
Lagos (AFP) Sept 3, 2008The European Union on Wednesday inked a landmark deal with Ghana to fight illegal timber exports from the west African country, the EU said. The agreement signed in the Ghanaian capital Accra, on the sidelines of an international forum on the effectiveness of aid, would stop timber illegally logged in Ghana from entering the European Union market. Around 60 percent of logging across ... more Coca-Cola to buy China juice maker for 2.4 bln dollars 
Shanghai (AFP) Sept 3, 2008Coca-Cola moved Wednesday to further strengthen its global reach by announcing plans to buy Huiyuan Juice Group for 2.4 billion dollars, the US soft drink maker's biggest acquisition in China. The deal, which Chinese authorities have yet to approve, is part of the drive by the world's largest soft drink maker to buy up juice, water and other non-carbonated drink producers around the globe to ... more |
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Taipei (AFP) Sept 3, 2008Taiwan called Wednesday for expansion in cooperation on oil exploration and development with China amid warming ties between the two rivals. The CPC Corp., Taiwan, the island's state-run oil refiner, said it has proposed to work with China's CNOOC Ltd. to explore possible oil reserves in the East China Sea. "We have expressed the willingness to CNOOC to work together in the East China ... more New controversy in India over US nuclear deal 
New Delhi, India (AFP) Sept 4, 2008India's government was Wednesday hit by a fresh storm over its nuclear energy deal with the United States following reports of new US stipulations. The agreement, which is entering the final stages of approval, offers India access to Western technology and cheap atomic energy on the condition that it allows UN nuclear inspections of some of its nuclear facilities. But Indian media ... more Iberdrola Renewables Announces Second Wind Farm In Brookings County 
Portland OR (SPX) Sep 04, 2008Iberdrola Renewables has announced that construction is underway on a 50 megawatt (MW) wind farm, the Buffalo Ridge Wind Power Project near White, South Dakota. The project, expected to be complete in 2009 contingent upon passage of the Production Tax Credit, will export enough energy for approximately 15,000 homes each year. "The construction of yet another large-scale wind energy project ... more Bush says will release reserve oil if firms ask 
Baton Rouge, Louisiana (AFP) Sept 3, 2008US President George W. Bush said Wednesday that he would release oil from the US strategic reserve "upon requests" from companies in the wake of Hurricane Gustav. "Last night we got a request from a company doing business here in Louisiana and we met that request. And so oil was released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. And we will continue to do that upon requests by companies," he ... more AltaRock Energy And Weyerhaeuser Explore Engineered Geothermal System (EGS) 
Sausalito CA (SPX) Sep 04, 2008AltaRock Energy has announced it had finalized agreements with Weyerhaeuser and the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation allowing it to explore the potential for developing geothermal projects in California, Oregon, and Washington. The geothermal rights, totaling nearly 667,000 acres, include approximately 25,400 acres in Northern California, 378,500 acres in south-central and western Oregon ... more
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