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Japan Proposes Halving Emissions By 2050 Tokyo (AFP) May 24, 2007 
Japan called Thursday for the world to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, proposing a successor to the Kyoto Protocol it hopes will win over top offenders the United States and China. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, unveiling the proposal ahead of the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Germany, pledged to bring all nations onboard in the fight against global warming by making the post-Kyoto framework ... read more
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NIST Atom Interferometry Displays New Quantum Tricks
Washington DC (SPX) May 28, 2007Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a novel way of making atoms interfere with each other, recreating a famous experiment originally done with light while also making the atoms do things that light just won't do. Their experiments showcase some of the extraordinary behavior taken for granted in the quantum world-atoms acting like waves and ... more Indian Businessman Capitalizes On Global Warming Concerns 
Bangalore (AFP) India, May 27, 2007Indian businessman Tulsi Tanti, who has just bought German turbine maker REpower, stumbled into wind energy almost by accident when he was calculating the cost of power for his textile plant. More than a decade on, he believes increasing concern about global warming means the wind energy business will only turn in yet more profits. Tanti, 49, found that he was paying 25 percent of his ... more US Clash With G8 Partners Looms Over Climate Issues 
Paris (AFP) May 27, 2007The prospect looms of a major clash between the United States and its G8 partners over global warming, with Washington's view threatening to block agreement at next month's summit of the leading industrial nations. German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel Saturday criticised the US climate policy in a newspaper interview, saying it "was going to be difficult to achieve success" at the June 6-8 ... more New Fabrication Technique Yields Nanoscale UV LEDs 
Washington DC (SPX) May 28, 2007Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with scientists from the University of Maryland and Howard University, have developed a technique to create tiny, highly efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) from nanowires. As described in a recent paper, the fabricated LEDs emit ultraviolet light-a key wavelength range required for many light-based ... more Australian Aborigines Agree To Nuclear Waste Dump 
Sydney (AFP) May 25, 2007A group of Australian Aborigines agreed Friday to have a nuclear waste dump placed on their outback land in return for millions of dollars in benefits. Under the deal, the dump will be built on land leased to the government by the Ngapa clan at Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory, who will get it back in 200 years when it is declared safe. Science Minister Julie Bishop said the site ... more |
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Vienna (AFP) May 23, 2007Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Wednesday called for an emergency meeting to review an arms control deal aimed at establishing defence parity between the US and several European countries. His call to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) coincided with Russian President Vladimir Putin's statement that a US plan to build a missile defence system in eastern Europe ... more LSU And Los Alamos Team Up To Improve Evacuation Plans 
Baton Rouge LA (SPX) May 24, 2007Brian Wolshon, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at LSU and member of the LSU Hurricane Center, has been getting international recognition for his research and application of emergency evacuations and traffic modeling. But he isn't stopping there. Thanks to his expertise, prominence in the field and continued efforts, Wolshon is leading the way for LSU's students a ... more Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova Choking On Toxic Waste 
Prague (AFP) May 23, 2007Toxic waste, water pollution and the legacy of Chernobyl have plunged Ukraine and neighbouring Moldova and Belarus into an environmental crisis, according to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In a report released in Prague this week, the OSCE said contaminated military sites were also a festering problem. "Ukraine has approximately 2.5 millions tonnes of Sovie ... more Serious Health Risk In Naples Area As Garbage System Backs Up 
Rome (AFP) May 23, 2007An overloaded garbage handling system is posing a "serious health risk" in the Naples area where 15,000 tonnes of waste is awaiting treatment, a government spokeswoman said Wednesday. "There's a serious health risk," Ilaria Proietti told AFP. "It's a total exaggeration to talk about the threat of cholera, but the proliferation of rats, mice and other rodents ... could cause diseases." The ... more |
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Richardson TX (SPX) May 24, 2007Valere Power has announced it has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration to develop a management system that will dramatically improve the efficiency of solar power systems for better power extraction. The company will use the grant funds to do basic research on the management system. The SBIR grant program was begun in 19 ... more SkyPower And SunEdison Canada Awarded Ontario Solar Power Supply Contract 
Beltsville MD (SPX) May 24, 2007Joint venture partners SkyPower and SunEdison Canada are pleased to announce the award of their first Standard Offer Contract with the Ontario Power Authority. The 9.12 megawatt solar project, to be located in Norfolk County in South-Central Ontario, will interconnect with local utility Norfolk Power. The solar park will generate enough green renewable energy to displace 9,500 metric tonne ... more PowerLight Completes 2.2 Megawatt Solar Power Plant In Korea 
Seoul, South Korea (SPX) May 24, 2007SunPower announces that its subsidiary, PowerLight Corp., has completed construction of Mungyeong SP Solar Mountain, a 2.2-megawatt solar electric power plant in Mungyeong, Korea. The plant is comprised of 10,500 panels and covers an area of approximately 43,000 square meters. PowerLight worked as a subcontractor to LG CNS Co., Ltd, by supplying solar technology and providing design and in ... more ExxonMobil Shareholders To Raise Heat On Global Warming 
Washington (AFP) May 23, 2007A group of ExxonMobil shareholders, including large public US pension funds, said Wednesday they planned to raise the heat on oil giant ExxonMobil over its climate change policies. The investors, who include the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) and the New York City Employees Retirement System among others, said they would seek to reform ExxonMobil's position on global warmi ... more
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