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Arctic ice melting quickly, report saysBremerhaven, Germany (UPI) Sep 13, 2010 The ice around the North Pole has experienced another severe meltdown this year, German scientists said. Around 1.9 million square miles of the Arctic Ocean will be covered by ice by the end of this summer, the third-lowest figure since satellite monitoring began in the 1970s, scientists from the University of Hamburg and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research said Monday. In the past four years, the average ice coverage in mid-September was around 2 million square mi ... read more |
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Niamey (AFP) Sept 13, 2010A food shortage that has gripped Niger for months has been "largely stamped out", the United Nations special representative for West Africa Said Djinnit said Monday. "The authorities' response has been quick and the support of the international community has been quick and therefore we can consider that the food crisis has been largely stamped out," he said on public television. Djinnit ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Sept 13, 2010China will send a team to Japan this week to probe the death of a giant panda on loan to a Japanese zoo and could seek 500,000 dollars in compensation for the loss, state press said Monday. Kou Kou died Thursday of cardiac arrest after failing to recover from an anaesthetic at the Oji Zoo in the western port city of Kobe. Veterinarians had sedated the 14-year-old male as part of a progra ... more  
Copenhagen (AFP) Sept 13, 2010A NATO-led Danish warship intercepted a boat suspected of belonging to pirates and seized equipment for potential attacks off the Somali coast, a navy official said Monday. It was the third such operation since Friday for The Esbern Snare, a comnmand and support ship, in the pirate-infested Gulf of Aden, said Finn Baye, deputy head of the navy's international operations. The warship, par ... more |
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Better Ways To Engineer Earth's Climate To Prevent Dangerous Global WarmingCalgary, Canada (SPX) Sep 10, 2010 There may be better ways to engineer the planet's climate to prevent dangerous global warming than mimicking volcanoes, a University of Calgary climate scientist says in two new studies. "Releasing engineered nano-sized disks, or sulphuric acid in a condensable vapour above the Earth, are two novel approaches. These approaches offer advantages over simply putting sulphur dioxide gas into the atmosphere," says David Keith, a director in the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy ... read more |
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