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New flu virus found at Canadian hog farm
Ottawa (AFP) July 7, 2009
A "novel" influenza type A virus was confirmed in two hog farm workers in the central Canadian province of Saskatchewan, health authorities said Tuesday, stressing the virus was "non-pandemic." "A novel non-pandemic influenza A virus has been confirmed in two hog farm workers in Saskatchewan and a third case is under investigation," the provincial authorities said, noting the workers had ... read more

China says Urumqi 'under control' after show of force
Urumqi, China (AFP) July 8, 2009
Authorities said the restive Chinese city of Urumqi was "under control" Wednesday following sporadic violence as mobs wielding makeshift weapons roamed despite a massive security presence. President Hu Jintao abandoned a Group of Eight summit in Italy, in what observers said was an unprecedented move, to tackle one of China's worst spikes in ethnic tensions in decades. In Urumqi, the ... more

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Ancient volcano caused 10-year winter
New Brunswick, N.J. (UPI) Jul 8, 2009
U.S. scientists said they have determined the eruption of Indonesia's Toba volcano about 74,000 years ago triggered a decade-long severe winter. Previous studies suggested the massive eruption produced a 1,000-year episode of ice sheet advance, as well as a "volcanic winter," which most likely would have drastically reduced the human population at the time. ... more

Mumbai facing water cuts as lakes run dry
Mumbai (AFP) July 8, 2009
India's financial and entertainment capital is facing a 30 percent cut in water supplies, despite an overnight deluge of monsoon rains on Wednesday that left some streets and homes flooded. The civic authorities in Mumbai introduced the reduction on Tuesday as levels ran "precariously low" at the six lakes that supply the city's 18 million population with 3.3 billion litres ... more

G8 emissions cut target 'unacceptable': Medvedev aide
L'Aquila, Italy (AFP) July 8, 2009
A target set by the G8 for developed countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050 is unacceptable for Russia, President Dmitry Medvedev's top economic aide said Wednesday. "For us the 80 percent figure is unacceptable and likely unattainable," Arkady Dvorkovich told reporters. "We won't sacrifice economic growth for the sake of emission reduction," he added. ... more

Science Adopts A New Definition Of Seawater
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jul 09, 2009
The world's peak ocean science body has adopted a new definition of seawater developed by Australian, German and US scientists to make climate projections more accurate. In Paris late last month the General Assembly of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) accepted the case for the introduction of a new international thermodynamic description of seawater, cast in terms ... more

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    Major polluters water down climate warming ambitions
    L'Aquila, Italy (AFP) July 8, 2009
    Major polluting nations watered down their ambitions to tackle global warming at a G8 summit in Italy on Wednesday despite growing pressure to set tough targets to cut pollution. The Group of Eight leading industrialised nations and other major economies -- including China and India -- dropped a pledge to halve global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a European Union official said. ... more

    Ousted Honduran president, coup leader set to meet
    Tegucigalpa (AFP) July 8, 2009
    New protests were due to be held Wednesday as deposed President Manuel Zelaya prepared to meet Honduras's interim leader for the first time since his ouster late last month. Zelaya and interim leader Roberto Micheletti are Thursday due to start two days of talks to be mediated by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, at his home in San Jose. "It seems to me that ... more

    Outside View: NATO -- relevant or relic?
    Brussels (UPI) Jul 8, 2009
    Yesterday in Brussels, NATO kicked off a yearlong process to draft a new strategic concept. The last strategic concept was adopted a decade ago at the Washington Summit marking the alliance's 50th anniversary, when NATO was at war in what turned out to be a 78-day bombing campaign to stop Serbia and its autocratic leader Slobodan Milosevic's ruthless campaign of slaughter in Kosovo labeled ... more

    Satellite Survey Reveals Dramatic Arctic Sea-Ice Thinning
    Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 09, 2009
    Scientists have evaluated for the first time how much the thickness and volume of Arctic sea ice, not just the ice's surface area, have shrunk since 2004 across the Arctic Ocean basin. Even where the sea ice cover persists despite climate change in the region, a vast portion of the remaining ice layer has become thinner than it used to be, the new study finds. "Even in years when the ... more

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  • G8 rifts emerge as economic danger signs spied
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  • Tupi oil production suspended
  • EU nations slap duties on US biodiesel: diplomat
  • Toronto grapples with smelly problem
  • South Korea to expand nuclear energy
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  • First WindCube Rooftop Wind Turbine Enters Service
  • China's oil firms accelerate acquisitions
  • ADB backs China wind farm project
  • First Floating Nuclear Power Plant Construction
  • Incident fuels German nuclear debate
  • Prospects good for 40-year OK for French nuclear plants
  • Swedish nuclear plant under observation after incidents
  • South Korea courts Poland on nuclear, LNG projects

  • Proba-2's Journey To Russia Marks Its First Step Towards Space
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  • China says at least 156 dead in Uighur riots
  • US, UN chief call for restraint in Chinese restive region
  • Indonesia to clean up timber exports
  • Global swine flu infections pass 90,000: WHO
  • Climate change: G8 summit boosts pressure for pact
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