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Texas girds for the worst as deadly Ike closes in
Houston, Texas (AFP) Sept 10, 2008Texas authorities ordered coastal evacuations Wednesday as deadly Hurricane Ike strengthened to a Category Two storm in the Gulf of Mexico and headed toward the southern US coast after ravaging Cuba and the Caribbean. Ike could slam into the Texas coast immediately south of the port of Galveston late Friday or early Saturday as an even stronger storm, the National Hurricane Center forecast. ... more Strong quake hits Indonesia: officials 
Jakarta (AFP) Sept 11, 2008Indonesian authorities issued a tsunami alert on Thursday after a strong 7.6-magnitude earthquake in the country's east, but lifted the warning less than one hour later. The quake happened at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) at 2200 GMT, 122 kilometres northwest of Ternate city in North Maluku province, the meteorology and geophysics bureau said. There were no immediate reports of ... more Six dead as powerful quake hits southern Iran 
Tehran (AFP) Sept 10, 2008A powerful earthquake jolted southern Iran on Wednesday, killing six people, and damaging scores of homes on a resort island in strategic Gulf waters. The US Geological Survey said the 6.1-magnitude quake hit at 1100 GMT about 53 kilometres (33 miles) southwest of the port of Bandar Abbas, which is home to an oil refinery and the country's main naval base. "Six were killed and 46 were ... more Scientists promote 'global cooling' plan 
Sacramento (UPI) Sep 10, 2008 U.S. scientists say they've found a way to determine how much carbon dioxide can be offset by expanding the reflectivity of such urban surfaces as rooftops. "White roofs can cut a building's energy use by 20 percent and save consumers money," said California Energy Commissioner Art Rosenfeld. He said the potential U.S. energy savings are in excess of $1 billion annually. ... more At least 16 dead in Iran floods 
Tehran (AFP) Sept 10, 2008At least 16 people have drowned in torrential rains and floods lashing western and southern parts of Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday. The flooding, which began late Tuesday, destroyed or damaged several villages in Chahar-Mahal Bakhtiari province in west of the country where 13 people were killed, it said. Another three people were killed and another three ... more |
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University Park PA (SPX) Sep 11, 2008Scientists at Penn State have developed a new computational method that they say will help them to understand how life began on Earth. The team's method has the potential to trace the evolutionary histories of proteins all the way back to either cells or viruses, thus settling the debate once and for all over which of these life forms came first. "We have just begun to tap the potential ... more Thawing Permafrost Holds Vast Carbon Pool 
Gainesville FL (SPX) Sep 11, 2008Permafrost blanketing the northern hemisphere contains more than twice the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, making it a potentially mammoth contributor to global climate change depending on how quickly it thaws. So concludes a group of nearly two dozen scientists in a paper appearing this week in the journal Bioscience. The lead author is Ted Schuur, an associate professor of ecology at ... more Scientists Point To Forests For Carbon Storage Solutions 
Columbus OH (SPX) Sep 11, 2008Scientists who have determined how much carbon is stored annually in upper Midwest forests hope their findings will be used to accelerate global discussion about the strategy of managing forests to offset greenhouse gas emissions. In an era of competing land use demands, the researchers argue that forests help stabilize the climate and are abundant sources of other ecological goods and ... more Russian Floating Weather Station Starts Work In Arctic 
St. Petersburg, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 11, 2008The North Pole-36 (SP-36), a manned floating weather station, has started operating in the Arctic Ocean, the hydrometeorology service's Arctic and Antarctic research institute said on Monday. "The first weather report was sent by the floating station...at 19:00 Moscow time (15:00 GMT) Sunday," a spokeswoman for the institute said. The station, which has a crew of 18 specialists, is ... more Nearly 200 officials punished over China quake relief: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 10, 2008China has received thousands of complaints over misconduct among officials involved in Sichuan earthquake relief work, resulting in the punishment of nearly 200 cadres, state press said Wednesday. Twenty Communist Party officials have been sacked while the other 164 cadres punished received unspecified discplinary measures and "administrative penalties," Xinhua news agency said, citing ... more |
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London (AFP) Sept 10, 2008Britain's Prince Charles called on the world Wednesday to act with a "sense of wartime urgency" to protect the rainforests, warning they were "umbilically connected" to the phenomenon of climate change. The heir to the British throne told a black-tie dinner in London that rainforests "are the world's lifebelt", acting as the "world's air conditioning system" and helping store the largest ... more Startech Environmental Hydrogen Fueled Electricity Powered Up At Tech Center 
Wilton CT (SPX) Sep 11, 2008Startech Environmental has announced that its hydrogen-fueled engine producing electricity is operational and available for demonstrations at Startech's Tech Center in Bristol, Connecticut. Joseph F. Longo, Startech's president, said "The line-up has started for demonstrations for our Customers, Distributors, Sales Representatives and also for the media. They're going to like what they see ... more Russia To Build Baltic Nuclear Power Plant 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 11, 2008Sergei Kiriyenko, head of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Power (Rosatom), has signed the order on the construction of a nuclear power plant in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia's exclave on the Baltic Sea. Preliminary work for the project is to start in 2009. Russia decided to build a nuclear power plant in its westernmost region to ensure its own energy security, but the new power plant will ... more Hitachi sued over nuclear reactor accident: power firm 
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 10, 2008A Japanese power company said Wednesday it was suing for nearly 400 million dollars in damages from Hitachi Ltd. over an accident at a nuclear reactor. Chubu Electric Power said it would file the lawsuit to seek compensation for the halt to the No. 5 reactor at Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station, 180 kilometres (ll5 miles) west of Tokyo. Chubu Electric Power was forced to stop operations at ... more Global 8 Environmental Technologies Announces Major Wind Project In China 
Orangeville, Canada (SPX) Sep 11, 2008Global 8 Environmental Technologies has reported the signing of a Cooperative Joint Venture Agreement with China Tong Liao Baolong New Energy Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as CTB) to develop Environmental Technology Centers focused on wind energy conversion in the region of Tong Liao City, Inner Mongolia, China. This new joint venture company, to be known as Tong Liao Wind Energy ... more
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