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Industrial Nations Agree To Look At Tough New Climate Rules (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 06:01:08
| VIENNA - Industrial nations agreed on Friday to consider stiff 2020 goals for cutting greenhouse gases in a small step towards a new long-term pact to fight climate change.
About 1,000 delegates at the Aug 27-31 U.N. talks set greenhouse gas emissions cuts of between 25 and 40 percent below 1990 levels as a non-binding starting point for rich nations' work on a new pact to extend the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012.
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Malaria Mosquito's Odour-Sensing Systems Mapped (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 06:01:08
| Vanderbilt University - Scientists have mapped a sensory organ that the principal malaria-carrying mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, uses to hunt down humans.
They hope this will help in developing better mosquito attractants that will divert them away from humans and reduce the threat of malaria infection.
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Bernanke: Fed Ready To Act If Turmoil Hits Economy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 06:01:08
| JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming - The Federal Reserve will take the necessary steps to shelter the economy from turmoil in financial markets but will not bail out investors who made mistakes, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Friday. "The committee continues to monitor the situation and will act as needed to limit the adverse effects on the broader economy that may arise from the disruptions in financial markets," Bernanke told a symposium organized by the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank.
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National Hurricane Center: Tropical Depression 6 Has Formed In Atlantic (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 06:01:08
| NEW YORK - A well-organized tropical wave in the Atlantic Ocean about 250 miles east of the Windward Islands has formed into a tropical depression, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said late today.
The NHC sent an Air Force hurricane hunter airplane to investigate the system early this afternoon to confirm if a depression had formed. It would be the sixth tropical depression of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season. |
LSU professor looks for life in and under antarctic ice (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 06:01:08
| Antarctica is home to the largest body of ice on Earth. Prior to approximately 10 years ago, no one thought that life could exist beneath the Antarctic ice sheets, which can be more than two miles thick in places, because conditions were believed to be too extreme. However, Brent Christner, assistant professor of biological sciences at LSU, has spent a great deal of time in one of the world’s most hostile environments conducting research that proves otherwise.
Christner’s discoveries of viable microbes in ancient ice cores and subglacial environments coupled with the realization that large quantities of liquid water exist beneath the Antarctic ice sheet have changed the way biologists view life in Antarctica. |
Colombia joins Countdown 2010 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 06:01:08
| Colombia has become the third country in South America to join Countdown 2010, an initiative to slow the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010
Colombia, which has the highest Biodiversity National Indicator in South America and the most biodiverse region of the world, has joined the Countdown 2010 initiative. |
Spreading deserts threaten world food supply (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 06:01:08
| Spreading deserts and degradation of farm land due to climate change will pose a serious threat to food supplies for the world's surging population in coming years, a senior United Nations scientist warned on Friday.
M.V.K. Sivakumar of the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said the crunch could come in just over a decade as all continents see more weather-related disasters like heat waves, floods, landslides and wildfires. |
USDA Orders Changes and Threatens to Revoke Organic Certification For Largest US Dairy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 06:01:08
| WASHINGTON - The USDA has ordered the nation's largest certified organic dairy to make substantial, wide-ranging changes to the livestock management practices at their operations in Texas and Colorado after violations of organic standards were uncovered in their feed lots. The USDA reached a compromise with the company, Aurora Organic Dairy, after threatening to revoke organic certification for the dairy, which supplies Wal-Mart and other major chains with "certified organic" dairy products.
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Japan Halts Nuclear Research Units On Safety Concerns (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 06:01:08
| TOKYO - Japan has halted work at three nuclear research units run by its Atomic Energy Agency due to concerns over the handling of fuel material and other problems, Kyodo news agency said on Friday.
The Science and Technology Ministry suspended activities at the units in Tokaimura, Ibaraki prefecture, after the agency reported 46 problems including procedural flaws, Kyodo said.
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Californians Switch Off To Avoid Brown Outs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 06:01:08
| California residents and businesses turned off lights, air conditioners and machinery Thursday to help the state weather an electricity shortage caused by soaring temperatures and high demand.
The state's largest energy consumers had been notified that they might have to go dark to help prevent blackouts, but the mandatory interruptions at industrial, commercial and retail businesses were not needed.
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Virgin's Branson to Shun Thirsty 4-Engined Planes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 06:01:08
| Virgin Group boss Richard Branson said on Friday he would aim to avoid buying fuel-thirsty four-engined airplanes in future for both economic and environmental reasons. Virgin Atlantic's fleet of 38 planes all have four engines, and it has six four-engined Airbus A380 superjumbos on order. But in April the airline announced it was buying 15 of Boeing's new fuel-efficient carbon-composite 787 Dreamliner jets with 2 engines. |
U.S., North Korea meet for one-on-one nuclear talks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 09:00:50
| Top negotiators from the United States and North Korea met on Saturday for two days of talks meant to advance an international drive to end Pyongyang's nuclear program.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill and his North Korean counterpart Kim Kye-gwan did not speak to the press on arrival at the U.S. mission in Geneva, where the first day of the weekend talks began.
Their session, aimed at normalizing relations between the countries that fought each other in the 1950-53 Korean War, is expected to focus on how the Stalinist state will disable and account for its nuclear facilities, as promised in a February "six-party" deal. |
Climate change and N. America farms to be studied (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 09:00:50
| Iowa State University researchers will join a study of climate change to produce mid-century projections by late next year of the likely regional effects on North American farms from global warming.
"There is no question now that the climate is changing on a global scale," said Gene Takle, an Iowa State University professor of geological and atmospheric sciences who will lead a study to project North American climate from 2040 to 2070.
Iowa and Illinois are the epicenter of the U.S. Midwest farm belt, which produces the world's largest exportable surpluses of corn, soybeans and wheat and vast amounts of meat, dairy products, poultry and vegetables. |
ENN Focus: Bottom Trawling. (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 09:00:50
| Today's trawlers are capable of fishing deep-sea canyons and rough seafloor that was once avoided for fear of damaging nets. To capture one or two target commercial species, deep-sea bottom trawl fishing vessels drag huge nets armed with steel plates and heavy rollers across the seabed, plowing up and pulverizing everything in their path. For a few commercial target species, thousands of tons of coral are hauled up only to be thrown back dead or dying, along with huge quantities of unwanted bycatch. In a matter of a few weeks or months, bottom trawl fishing can destroy what took many thousands of years to create. |
WHO confirms five human bird flu cases in Vietnam (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 09:00:50
| The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed five human bird flu cases in Vietnam, four of them fatal, the U.N. agency said in a statement.
The four, including two women, died between June 21 and August 3 while a fifth person, a 29-year-old man, had recovered, it said.
All five cases, which had been confirmed earlier by Vietnam-based laboratory tests, were from the country's north. They brought the total human infections in the Southeast Asian country since 2003 to 100 with 46 fatalities.
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Tropical Storm Felix forms in Atlantic near Caribbean (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 09:00:50
| Tropical Storm Felix formed on Saturday in the Atlantic Ocean over the Windward Islands of the Caribbean, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Computer models predicted the sixth named storm of the year in the Atlantic basin would head into the Caribbean Sea in the general direction of Mexico and Central America.
None of the models indicated the storm would reach the Gulf of Mexico, home to a third of U.S. domestic crude oil and 15 percent of natural gas production. But long-range forecasts are notoriously unreliable. |
Hyundai to Unveil Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 03:06:54
| SEOUL, South Korea - Hyundai Motor Corporation will unveil the i-Blue Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle at the 2007 Frankfurt International Motor Show on September 13. The all-new i-Blue platform is tailored to incorporate Hyundai's third-generation fuel cell technology, currently being developed at Hyundai's Eco-Technology Research Institute in Mabuk, Korea.
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Pope Leads Church's First Eco-Friendly Rally (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 06:00:55
| LORETO, Italy - Pope Benedict on Saturday led the Catholic Church's first eco-friendly youth rally -- where nearly everything used was biodegradable or recyclable -- and urged his young listeners to shun "disposable love."
The 80-year-old Pope told the young people, estimated by organizers at some 300,000, to dare to change the world and search for lasting, meaningful relationships. |
Baby Yoga, Made Easy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 06:00:55
| COLUMBUS, Ohio, - It's called Itsy Bitsy Yoga. As the name implies, it's yoga for babies, taught to mom and baby via DVD. The DVD introduces babies to yoga routines that can help them learn to stretch, roll and crawl, while helping moms better understand their babies' physical development and abilities. A recent survey of fitness providers found a 40 percent increase in demand for parent-baby fitness classes(1). Additionally, research shows that having a baby triggers greater attention to health and nutrition issues(2).
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Tropical Storm Felix Could Become Hurricane (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-01-2007 at 06:00:55
| ATLANTA - Tropical Storm Felix could become a hurricane Saturday night or on Sunday in the Caribbean and may be a Category 3 hurricane by the middle of next week, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Saturday.
Felix had maximum sustained winds of near 70 mph (110 kph) and was moving west Saturday afternoon after skirting the Caribbean island of Grenada overnight. It would pass near or to the north of the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao Saturday night or early Sunday morning. |
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