| September 19, 2008 |  |
TerraDaily Advertising Kit |
| Previous Issues | Sep 18 | Sep 17 | Sep 16 | Sep 15 | Sep 12 |
Warming World In Range Of Dangerous Consequences
San Diego CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2008The earth will warm about 2.4 degrees C (4.3 degrees F) above pre-industrial levels even under extremely conservative greenhouse-gas emission scenarios and under the assumption that efforts to clean up particulate pollution continue to be successful, according to a new analysis by a pair of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. That amount of warming falls ... more US concerned over restrictive aid bill, food situation in Ethiopia 
Addis Ababa (AFP) Sept 18, 2008The United States expressed concern on Thursday over an Ethiopian bill that could restrict the activities of foreign aid groups and sounded alarm bells over the food situation in the country. The draft bill allows more government interference in the affairs of foreign NGOs and bans them from working on issues related to ethnicity, gender and children's rights. "We take the law seriously. ... more UN chief appoints two new special envoys on climate change 
United Nations (AFP) Sept 18, 2008UN chief Ban Ki-moon has appointed two new special envoys on climate change, one of his top priorities, his press office said Thursday in a statement. Former Botswanan president Festus Mogae and former Macedonian foreign minister Srgjan Kerim, who has just stepped down as president of the UN General Assembly, are to join two other special envoys for climate change appointed last year: former ... more Swedish city turns the tap on bottled water 
Stockholm (AFP) Sept 18, 2008Sweden's second city Gothenburg has decided to stop buying bottled water due to environmental concerns and will only provide civil servants with tap water, a city councillor said Thursday. "From October 1 city employees such as politicians and teachers will only be offered tap water in the workplace," city councillor Max Reijer told AFP. In 2007, the city -- home to Swedish industrial ... more Swashbuckling Scientists Discover Northern Vents 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2008Scientists often have a reputation for working in stuffy laboratories, cut off from the world around them. But this certainly isn't the case at the Centre for Geobiology, University of Bergen, Norway. The Centre has had two summer cruises thus far where researchers embark on a voyage to study conditions on the ocean floor. Using state-of-the-art technology including a remotely operated ... more |
human:
 climate:  life:  |
Rome, Italy (SPX) Sep 19, 2008As climate change is credited as one of the main drivers behind soaring food prices, the Global Crop Diversity Trust is undertaking a major effort to search crop collections-from Azerbaijan to Nigeria-for the traits that could arm agriculture against the impact of future changes. Traits, such as drought resistance in wheat, or salinity tolerance in potato, will become essential as crops ... more Rothschild finance company says Bank of China buys stake 
Paris (AFP) Sept 18, 2008Bank of China has taken a one-fifth share in the Edmond de Rothschild Finance Company for 236 million euros (342 million dollars), a spokesman for the European banking group told AFP on Thursday. Bank of China, one of the four major Chinese banks, also acquired a further 10 percent stake through the issue of new shares in the Rothschild wealth management company. Rothschild's French hold ... more Frustration mounts over return to hurricane stricken Texas city 
Galveston, Texas (AFP) Sept 17, 2008Frustration mounted Wednesday over delays in returning to Galveston, the Texas coastal city hard-hit by powerful Hurricane Ike over the weekend, as the death toll caused by the storm continued to rise. Ike killed at least 50 people in the 11 southern and midwestern states, CBS News reported. Of those, at least 30 were killed in Texas, according to local news media. As of late Wednesday ... more China must probe delays in uncovering milk-scandal: WHO 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 18, 2008The World Health Organisation on Thursday called for China to find out why it took months for a scandal involving deadly tainted milk powder to become public. While praising China's response since news of the contaminated products broke last week, WHO China representative Hans Troedsson said authorities must determine why reporting systems appeared to have initially failed. ... more Child traffickers arrested in India flood zone: police 
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 18, 2008Police in India's flood-hit north said Thursday they had stepped up operations and made several arrests to prevent an increase in child trafficking in the devastated region. The country's worst floods in decades have displaced nearly three million people and triggered mass migration from Bihar, which is among India's poorest states and a source of cheap migrant labour -- including children. ... more |
africa:
 pollution:  gas:  energy-tech:  |
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 19, 2008Toshiba GE Turbine Components (TGTC) has reduced the time required to inspect and measure steam turbine blades from 280 minutes to 45 minutes by using the MAXOS non-contact measurement system from Steintek GmbH (Greding, Germany) and their distributor NVision Inc (Southlake, TX and Wixom, MI). The coordinate measuring machine (CMM) used in the past to inspect the blades was not only slow ... more West's relations with Russia at turning point: Australian PM 
Canberra (AFP) Sept 18, 2008The west's relations with Russia are at a turning point after its intervention in Georgia and a pact to sell Australian uranium to Moscow is in the balance, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Thursday. Parliament's treaties committee earlier recommended that the deal signed with former president Vladimir Putin last year be put on hold because of concerns about Russia's nuclear weapons programme. ... more Detailed Transmission Plan Files For Texas CREZ Wind Power Initiative 
Austin TX (SPX) Sep 19, 2008A diversified group of qualified Texas transmission providers have announced that they jointly will file a detailed proposal with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) for the construction of electric transmission as part of the Competitive Renewable Energy Zone (CREZ) process. Members of the group include: Electric Transmission Texas, LLC, (ETT), LCRA Transmission Services ... more Economic downturn 'a chance to invest' in green energy: Gore 
Mumbai (AFP) Sept 18, 2008The global economic downturn and the crisis in the US financial markets offers the chance for investment in green energy, former US vice-president Al Gore said Thursday. Central banks have thrown billions of dollars at the global credit storm, which has seen stock markets plunge and scalped big banks exposed to the ongoing effects of last year's collapse of the US sub-prime mortgage market. ... more EU sees progress by China on market economy status: document 
Brussels (AFP) Sept 18, 2008China has made "considerable progress" on the road to winning coveted market economy status, the European Commission has concluded in an internal report obtained by AFP on Thursday. "China now has in place almost all the legislation which is necessary for granting of market economy status. That is a considerable achievement," the report said. Acknowledging China's "considerable progress" ... more
|
gas:
 wind:  gas:  gas:  |
|
| Previous Issues | Sep 18 | Sep 17 | Sep 16 | Sep 15 | Sep 12 |
| The contents herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2007 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy statement |
