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World Mayors Propose Urban Water Declaration (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 09:00:58
| Ankara, Turkey's capital and second largest city, dried up last summer. Faced with low rainfall and a shrinking reservoir, the city of 4 million resorted to water rationing. Hospitals delayed surgeries. Stray dogs died in the streets. Mayor Melih Gokcek asked residents to "wash your hair, not your bodies" and came under heavy criticism for alleged water mismanagement.
In an effort to be better prepared for future droughts as well as the catastrophic dry spells expected to accompany climate change, Turkey's leaders and the World Water Council (WWC), a multi-stakeholder group based in Marseilles, France, are proposing a global declaration on urban water management strategies.
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A Fake Group Fights for Monsanto's Right to Deceive You (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 09:00:58
| The American Farmers for the Advancement and Conservation of Technology, or Afact, calls itself a "grass-roots organization" that came together to defend their right to use the artificial growth hormone recombinant bovine somatotropin, also known as rBST or rBGH, in their milk production.
What they do not tell you is that Afact is not only an organization of dairy farmers. The group actually has close ties to Monsanto, the makers of rBGH, which is marketed under the brand name Posilac.
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Zero X Motorcycle: 100% Lithium-Ion Electric, 40 Mile Range, Weighs Only 140 Pounds (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 09:00:58
| The Zero X Motorcycle was designed from the ground up to be a 100% electric bike. What makes this new bike truly different is that it contains 168 individual high-power lithium ion cells and is expected to endure six years of hard riding. Zero Motorcycle’s power grid technology has the highest power density (power storage per weight) battery pack on the market, delivering the full current of the battery pack immediately, safely and without overheating. Riders get the enjoyment of up to 2 hours of quality riding without seeing any impact on performance. |
China's economic boom sparks biological invasions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 09:00:58
| The rapid growth of China’s industrial and transportation infrastructure is helping to establish non-native species throughout that country and “setting the stage for potentially rampant environmental damage,” according to an article in the April 2008 issue of BioScience. The article, by a Chinese-US team, describes how more than 400 alien plants and animals are now considered invasive in China, including some that are causing serious harm even though they were first documented in the country only a few years ago. |
GreenDisk: a viable e-waste solution? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 09:00:58
| Computers are becoming cheaper and easier to manufacture by the minute. Intel's new Atom processor is bound to create a whole new set of net-enabled devices at extremely low cost. While the processor is not out yet and prices are not set in stone, rumors price new "net-top" computers below $200.
Cheaper computers make electronic recycling all the more relevant. Computers and gadgets are being replaced more frequently as electronics become obsolete in a matter of months.
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Love in the octopus' garden (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 09:00:58
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They flirt, hold hands and guard their lovers jealously -- yet they don't even have bones.
The love lives of octopuses are far more complex than anyone thought, a team at the University of California, Berkeley, reported on Monday. |
EPA criticized over new lead paint rule (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 09:00:58
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency offered a new rule on Monday aimed at shielding children from the risks of lead-based paint, but a watchdog group said the rule needs to be tougher.
The rule affects professional contractors who renovate or repair homes, schools or child-care centers built before 1978, when lead-based paint was banned for residential use. Ordered by Congress in 1992, the rule takes effect in April 2010. |
Study sheds light on Woolly Mammoth demise (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 09:00:58
| LONDON (Reuters) - Climate change drove woolly mammoths to the edge of extinction and then humans finished them off, according to a Spanish study on Tuesday that adds to the debate over the demise of the Ice Age behemoths.
Using climate models and fossil remains, the researchers determined that warming temperatures had so shrunk the mammoths' habitat that when humans entered their territory about 6,000 years ago the species were already hanging by a thread. |
Southern utilities apply for new nuclear licenses (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 09:00:58
| HOUSTON (Reuters) - Two utility groups, including units of Southern Co and SCANA Corp, said they filed applications on Monday for separate licenses to build and operate new nuclear reactors in Georgia and South Carolina to meet growing demand for electricity.
Southern Nuclear Operating Co said it filed an application with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a combined construction and operating license (COL) to build two new reactors at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant near Waynesboro, Georgia, 105 miles southwest of Columbia, South Carolina. |
What's keeping us from Mars? Space rays, say experts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-01-2008 at 09:00:58
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cosmic rays are so dangerous and so poorly understood that people are unlikely to get to Mars or even back to the moon until better ways are found to protect astronauts, experts said on Monday.
And NASA is not properly funding the right experiments to find out how, the National Research Council committee said. |
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