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EMCORE To Supply Mars Lab Cruise Stage Solar Panels Albuquerque NM (SPX) May 01, 2007 
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Center has awarded EMCORE Corporation a $2M contract for the design, manufacturing, testing and delivery of fully integrated solar panels for the Mars Cruise Stage spacecraft. This spacecraft is designed to carry the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover and communicate with the entry vehicle that will carry the rover to the surface of the planet. The launch of the ... read more
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Beijing Restrictions Offer Case Study In Emissions Of Key Atmospheric Gases
Cambridge, MA (SPX) May 01, 2007The Chinese government's restrictions on Beijing motorists during a three-day conference last November -- widely viewed as a dress rehearsal for efforts to slash smog and airborne pollutants during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing -- succeeded in cutting the city's emissions of one important class of atmospheric gases by an impressive 40 percent. That's the conclusion of Harvard Un ... more China Automobile Dream A Nightmare For Climate Change 
Beijing (AFP) April 29, 2007At the age of 27, marketing executive Zack Chen is living the modern China dream. Holidays in Europe, modern appliances at home and a high-paying job with a foreign car company. The problem for the world as it tries to tackle climate change is that more than one billion other Chinese want to be just like him. "My parents bought their first fridge when I was born, it was a small one from Ro ... more The Oily Diplomacy Of Japan 
Tokyo (UPI) April 30, 2007The United States remains Japan's single most important ally politically and militarily as well as economically, but that is not stopping Tokyo from making greater overtures to the Middle East. For an island nation that imports effectively all of its petroleum supply, of which 90 percent comes from the Middle East, securing sound relations with the region has been critical for its survival ... more Indian Foreign Secretary In US For Nuclear Talks 
Washington (AFP) Apr 30, 2007Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon held talks here Monday on wide-ranging issues, ahead of key discussions aimed at kickstarting a landmark nuclear cooperation deal with the US. Menon was meeting Monday with US under secretary of state for global affairs and democracy Paula Dobriansky to discuss issues of common concern such as the environment and HIV, Indian embassy officials said. ... more China Warns Against Rich Only Climate Agenda 
Bangkok (AFP) April 30, 2007China warned here Monday that the developed world should not dominate a key UN meeting aimed at tackling global warming, while insisting it was fully committed to fighting climate change. As the week-long meeting of about 400 of the world's top scientists and experts began to look at how to combat global warming, a Chinese delegate called for the interests of poorer countries to be recognised. ... more |
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Fallon NV (SPX) May 01, 2007Tungsten began increasing in trees in Fallon, Nev. several years before the town's rise in childhood leukemia cases, according to a new research report. The amount of tungsten in tree rings from Fallon quadrupled between 1990 and 2002, whereas the amount in tree rings from nearby towns remained the same, according to a research team led by Paul R. Sheppard of The University of Arizona's Laborato ... more Asian Demand For Shark Fins Threatens Colombian Species 
Bogota (AFP) April 29, 2007When Colombian naval officials seized two tonnes of shark fins in a boat off the Pacific coast last week, they threw a spotlight on a huge black market serving hungry Asian markets which is blamed for pushing some species toward extinction. Asian consumers prize the fins for use in making status-symbol soups -- and one pound (450 grams) of fin can fetch 300 dollars. Some shark-fin soups go for a ... more Satellites Shed Light On Global Warming 
Paris, France (ESA) Apr 29, 2007As climate change continues to make headlines across the world, participants at the 2007 Envisat Symposium this week are hearing how Earth observation satellites allow scientists to better understand the parameters involved in global warming and how this is impacting the planet. The cryosphere is both influenced by and has a major influence on climate. Because any increase in the melt rate ... more Weather Trumps War As Australian Labor Eyes Victory 
Sydney (AFP) April 27, 2007Australia's resurgent centre-left Labor Party Friday targeted the government's record on the Iraq war and climate change at a national conference ahead of elections it is tipped to win this year. Popular new leader Kevin Rudd, 49, swept into the conference hall to a standing ovation from a party faithful scenting victory and the upbeat tempo of a specially-commissioned song -- "A change in the ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Apr 28, 2007India and the United States will try to iron out differences next week over a crucial civilian nuclear deal amid impatience by Washington over the slow pace of talks, officials said Saturday. Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon will be in Washington on Monday and Tuesday to hold negotiations with US Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns to propel the dialogue forward. The talks ha ... more XsunX Plans Multi-Megawatt Thin Film Solar Cell Factory 
Aliso Viejo CA (SPX) Apr 30, 2007XsunX is planning to build a multi-megawatt production facility in the United States in order to supply the growing domestic demand for solar cell products that can be easily integrated into buildings and houses. In making this announcement, XsunX is revealing an important new development in its ongoing program of commercializing its thin film technologies. "The growing national and intern ... more Oddball Schemes To Fix Global Warming Get Panned 
Paris (AFP) Apr 30, 2007Unconventional schemes for tackling global warming by installing a giant sunshade in orbit, sowing the seas with iron and scattering sulphur into the upper atmosphere are set to be bluntly rejected by UN experts this week. The oddball initiatives are being fostered by "geo-engineers" -- scientists who say headway to reduce the fossil-fuel pollution which drives global warming is so ludicrously s ... more No Silver Bullet To Combat Climate Chang Says IEA Chief 
Paris (AFP) April 27, 2007International Energy Agency (IAE) chief Claude Mandil warned Friday there was no "silver bullet" which by itself would cut greenhouse-gas emissions that drive dangerous climate change. Mandil set a target of an early cut of a billion tonnes of emissions per year and said a full range of measures -- which he said included renewable energy, carbon storage, nuclear power and energy efficiency -- sh ... more
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