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Hurricane Alex delays Gulf oil cleanup effortsNew Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) June 30, 2010 Hurricane Alex disrupted the BP oil spill clean-up effort in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday as the storm gathered strength and was expected to make landfall. US President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency in Texas as Alex strengthened into the first Atlantic hurricane of the season late Tuesday. Alex was far from the epicenter of the clean-up operation off the Louisiana coast, but churned up waves and strong winds that forced the suspension of oil skimming and booming operations. T ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) June 29, 2010Authors of a stalled Senate climate and energy bill Tuesday offered to compromise to break the logjam, but insisted after talks with President Barack Obama that it must put a price on carbon. The White House said Obama remained confident a bill would pass this year, but his Republican foes offered no sign they would water down their opposition to an approach they have branded an "energy" tax ... more  
Asuncion, Paraguay (UPI) Jun 29, 2010 Paraguay expects to reverse last year's economic contraction with a growth in excess of 4 percent in 2010, the government said Tuesday amid public celebration of an end of drought and a record harvest of soy. The announcement by Economy Minister Dionisio Borda revised economists' predictions the landlocked country of 6.3 million was headed for a deep recession after an economic downturn ... more  
Urbana-Champaign IL (SPX) Jun 30, 2010Human-driven changes in the earth's atmospheric composition are likely to alter plant diseases of the future. Researchers predict carbon dioxide will reach levels double those of the preindustrial era by the year 2050, complicating agriculture's need to produce enough food for a rapidly growing population. University of Illinois researchers are studying the impact of elevated carbon dioxid ... more |
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Aggressive Action To Reduce Soot Emissions NeededPrinceton NJ (SPX) Jun 30, 2010 Without aggressive action to reduce soot emissions, the time table for carbon dioxide emission reductions may need to be significantly accelerated in order to achieve international climate policy goals such as those set forth in last December's Copenhagen Accord, according to "Assessing the climatic benefits of black carbon mitigation," a study published online June 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The Princeton University researchers assessed the climatic contribu ... read more |
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