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Chile quake death toll cut to 452: officialsSantiago (AFP) March 19, 2010 Chile's government Friday lowered the official death toll from the massive February 27 earthquake to 452 in the latest development in the controversial casualty count from the disaster. Officials said that in addition to the dead, another 96 people were missing or unaccounted for. The death toll reported by officials had been as high as 802, but authorities have revised that downward. A week after the quake, officials had said 497 bodies had been identified, but the latest figures were showed fe ... read more |
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Cancun, Mexico (AFP) March 20, 2010The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has listened to and learned from recent criticism, but the threat of global warming is real and must be tackled, the group's head said Saturday. Rajendra Pachuari, the embattled head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning panel of experts, has been criticized for endorsing climate projections based on faulty or inaccurate evidence. "There's been a ... more  
Montreal (AFP) March 19, 2010Canada jumps into spring after having recorded the mildest and driest winter on record, Environment Canada reported Friday. The agency, which has compiled data from 1948, determined the average temperature throughout the country was four degrees Celsius (seven degrees Fahrenheit) above normal, said meteorologist Andre Cantin. Cantin said the country also saw 20 percent less precipitation ... more  
L'Aquila, Italy (AFP) March 21, 2010Survivors of a powerful quake that devastated many historic buildings here almost a year ago were back behind their pushcarts Sunday to remove tonnes of rubble in a silent revolt against the slow pace of rebuilding. "We need to get our city back because the government and the civil protection agency still have not cleared the centre," said a bespectacled young man who would only give his fir ... more |
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LockMart Selected To Advance Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Utility Power PlansManassas VA (SPX) Mar 22, 2010 The U.S. Department of Energy recently selected Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] to receive two grants totaling $1 million to advance the technology commercialization of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC). The grants support the company's effort to produce an economically viable, utility-scale renewable energy source leveraging the temperature difference of the ocean's warm surface water and colder water below. Under the first grant, Lockheed Martin will develop a tool to estimate the amount ... read more |
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