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FDA closes farmed salmon border seizure case (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2008 at 10:00:57
| A B.C.-based farmed salmon company said Friday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has informed it that the December detention of its fillets at the border for possible toxic contamination was not warranted.
Creative Salmon Farming Company Ltd. said it received a Notice of Action from the FDA stating that its fillets were “released” and that the case is closed.
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How to Cut Your Heating Costs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2008 at 10:00:57
| Those of you in Australia and other southerly regions may be spending your weekends sunbathing at the beach, but for most of us in the Northern hemisphere, we've still got months of scarves, earmuffs, and snow shoveling to look forward to. The only way to escape the winter chill is to cozy up in your nice, heated house — but once you get the bill for all that hot air, you start thinking hypothermia doesn't sound so bad, after all. |
Banks set emissions standard for U.S. power sector (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2008 at 10:00:57
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three Wall Street banks said on Monday they will set environmental standards that factor in risks posed by carbon-emissions when lending to power companies that seek to build coal-fired power plants.
Citigroup Inc, JP Morgan Chase & Co and Morgan Stanley will form "The Carbon Principles," climate change guidelines for advisors and lenders to power companies in the United States. |
The Lawn Mower of My Dreams (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2008 at 10:00:57
| I’m in love. With a lawn mower. I’ve never seen her in person, as it were. I’ve never taken her for a stroll around my yard. I’ve only seen her in pictures and I’ve reviewed her, ah, “specifications.” That’s enough. I know she’s perfect for me.
The lawn mower in question is Remington Power Tools new cordless PowerMower (tm). It has all the features necessary, for most of us, to replace our dirty and heavily-polluting gasoline-powered mower.
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Off India's Beaten Path (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2008 at 10:00:57
| Sometimes it takes Dayamani Barla three days to collect news at a village and return. She must cover her own transportation, food and lodging costs -- spending a hundred times what she earns for providing news in Prabhat Khabhar newspaper.
"The reason why I got into journalism” [was] to get the voice of the people out," Barla said in an interview with AsiaMedia. "If you're thinking of change, you have to deal with these issues and not run away."
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You are what you eat: diet shown to be factor in evolution (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2008 at 10:00:57
| Humans consume a distinct diet compared to other apes. Not only do we consume much more meat and fat, but we also cook our food. It has been hypothesized that adopting these dietary patterns played a key role during human evolution. However, to date, the influence of diet on the physiological and genetic differences between humans and other apes has not been widely examined. |
Roost Of Millions Of Migratory Swallows Threatened (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2008 at 10:00:57
| Wildlife Conservation Society scientists say the site is only one of two known roosts in Cross River State, a coastal region in southeastern Nigeria. The site is approximately two kilometers outside of Cross River National Park. Preliminary surveys by WCS indicate that the site may attract millions of swallows and be of international significance.
The roost appears to be under threat of destruction from advancing farms and may require conservation measures to survive, according to WCS, which has already contacted park officials to see if the roost can be formally protected.
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Top 10 Green Business Trends - State of Green Business 2008, Pt. 1 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2008 at 10:00:57
| This week, GreenBiz.com launched its inaugural report, "State of Green Business 2008." In it, you will find a wealth of information on green business trends with a cross-sectoral approach. Over the next week, we will bring to you a synopsis of some of those trends. To start off, here's a list of the "Top Green Business Stories of 2007." |
World Bank head sees Mozambique AIDS spread threat (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2008 at 10:00:57
| MAPUTO (Reuters) - The head of the World Bank said on Monday he was worried very high rates of HIV/AIDS infections and related tuberculosis in Mozambique could spread as new transport routes are developed to meet growing economic activity.
World Bank President Robert Zoellick met government officials, donors and non-profit groups, urging them to ramp up prevention and awareness efforts among the population. |
Using DNA, Scientists Hunt For The Roots Of The Modern Potato (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2008 at 10:00:57
| Many political analysts concur that we are entering a multipolar world order. In the New York Times Magazine (Jan. 27), Parag Khanna argues that the new world order will be a tripolar competition between Europe, China, and the United States, each struggling to gain and maintain influence over a set of second-tier powers and peripheral regions.
Khanna also argues that each of these three "empires" has a different mode of engagement with other nations: the American model of aggressive military and political interventions, the European model of voluntary annexation of nearby states into its transnational institutions, and a Chinese style of consultative and pragmatic leadership based on mutual noninterference and national sovereignty. |
Banks to launch environmental standards: report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2008 at 10:00:57
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top U.S. investment banks are set to impose environmental standards that will make it harder for companies to acquire financing for coal-fired power plants, in preparation for government caps on greenhouse-gas emissions, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
The report said Citigroup Inc, JP Morgan Chase & Co, and Morgan Stanley, expect the U.S. government to cap power-plant emissions in the next few years, and will thus require utilities seeking financing for plants to prove that those facilities will be viable under new regulations. |
Dutch mull ideas to defend coast from rising seas (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2008 at 12:00:52
| AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch water experts met on Monday to look at ways of protecting the nation's fragile coast from rising sea levels, including one proposal to build man-made islands -- one in the shape of a massive tulip.
"We will discuss plans that can change the Netherlands forever," Economy Minister Maria van der Hoeven told the meeting at a seaside hotel in Scheveningen overlooking the North Sea. |
Bush budget doesn't alter ethanol import tariff (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-04-2008 at 01:00:56
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration did not propose any changes to the expiring U.S. ethanol import tariff in its new 2009 government budget that was sent to Congress on Monday, an Energy Department spokeswoman said.
The spokesperson said while the 54-cent-a-gallon tariff is set to expire at the end of December during the 2009 budget year, which begins this October 1, the administration will have discussions with lawmakers later this year on what should be done with the tariff. |
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