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Indian Villagers Oppose Uranium Mines Shillong (AFP) India, June 17, 2007 
Villagers are fighting back against plans to mine uranium in northeast India, saying it will put their health at risk and destroy the environment. Residents voiced opposition at this week's hearing into the state-run Uranium Corporation of India Ltd's plan to mine in hilly, tribal-run areas. News of the hearing by Meghalaya state's pollution control board, held in a remote village north ... read more
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Canada Okays Plan For Nuclear Waste Depot
Ottawa (AFP) June 15, 2007The Canadian government has approved a plan for a below-ground nuclear waste depot that is backed by the nuclear power industry but branded by environmentalists as dangerous. Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn said Thursday that the government had accepted a plan to bury radioactive waste from nuclear plants in deep subterranean storage depots after first temporarily storing it in shallower ... more Russia Needs 92 Billion Dollars To Develop Eastern Gas Deposits By 2030 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 18, 2007A program to develop gas deposits in East Siberia and the Far East will require 2,400 billion rubles (about $92 billion) in investment by 2030, an official of Russia's industry and energy ministry said Friday. At its meeting June 15, the government commission for the fuel and energy complex discussed a program to create a single system of gas production, transportation, and supply in East ... more Debate Heats Up In US Over Coal Fuel For Cars 
Washington (AFP) June 17, 2007A fiery debate has been rekindled in Washington as US lawmakers mull proposed incentives to produce diesel fuel from coal. Backers of coal-based liquid fuels say they can help reduce US dependence on imported oil. Critics contend the use of coal in any form would lead to increased greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful environmental effects. Synthetic motor fuel from coal has been ... more Russia Steps Up Efforts To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emission 
Moscow (AFP) June 16, 2007Russia is to intensify efforts to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions in order to stay in compliance with the Kyoto treaty as its economy rebounds from the economic collapse of the early 1990s, the country's deputy economic development minister said. The 1990s dramatic drop in economic production made Russia's Kyoto targets more achievable, but Moscow hopes to begin to improve remaining ... more Call For Spain To Switch Fully To Renewables 
Madrid (AFP) June 16, 2007Some 4,000 environmental campaigners gathered in Barcelona on Saturday to press the government to commit Spain to switch fully to renewable energy sources by 2050, Greenpeace said. Greenpeace in February began a campaign to urge Spain to boost use of renewables, although the country is already a European leader in the field. Eva Salana, spokeswoman for the environmental pressure group ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) June 14, 2007China on Thursday criticised what it called "irresponsible" comments by a US defense official who said the nation's military transformation should raise alarm bells overseas. Pentagon official Richard Lawless had said Beijing's lack of military transparency was forcing the United States to "prepare for the worst" and was causing unease over China's intentions towards its rival Taiwan. ... more Human Activities Increasing Carbon Sequestration In Forests 
Corvallis OR (SPX) Jun 15, 2007Human-caused nitrogen deposition has been indirectly "fertilizing" forests, increasing their growth and sequestering major amounts of carbon, a new study in the journal Nature suggests. The findings create a more complex view of the carbon cycle in forests, where it was already known that logging or other stand-replacement events - whether natural or not - create periods of 5-20 years when ... more Beijing Chokes On Illegal Straw Burning While Hong Kong Waters Drown In Rubbish 
Beijing (AFP) June 14, 2007The outlawed practice of burning waste straw in China's farming areas is behind the thicker than normal smog that has choked Beijing in recent days, state media reported Thursday. A satellite map showed how smoke from five provinces was blown north, causing even more pollution in Beijing's already heavily contaminated skies, Xinhua news agency reported. ... more Annan Leads Drive To Reverse African Farming Decline 
Cape Town (AFP) June 14, 2007Former UN chief Kofi Annan was tasked with leading a 150 million dollar drive Thursday to reverse the decline in Africa's farming sector, earmarking it as key to lifting the continent out of poverty. Sub-Saharan Africa's food production had been dropping year-on-year for more than a decade as a third of the continent's population, or some 200 million people, suffer from hunger, he said at the ... more |
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Paris (AFP) June 14, 2007European aircraft manufacturer Airbus is committed to reducing carbon dioxide emissions from its planes by half between now and 2020, company chief executive Louis Gallois said here Thursday. Gallois also appealed to Airbus competitor Boeing to take take part in an industry conference on protecting the environment. "The industry must do everything it can to ensure that the contribution to ... more Plastic That Grows On Trees 
Richland WA (SPX) Jun 15, 2007It has been an elusive goal for the legion of chemists trying to pull it off: Replace crude oil as the root source for plastic, fuels and scores of other industrial and household chemicals with inexpensive, nonpolluting renewable plant matter. Scientists took a giant step closer to the biorefinery this week, reporting in the June 15 issue of the journal Science that they have directly converted ... more Russian Utility Eyes 700-Million-Euro Kyoto Windfall 
Moscow (AFP) Jun 15, 2007Russia's electricity monopoly United Energy Systems hopes to attract investment worth 700 million euros under the Kyoto Protocol to combat global warming, CEO Anatoly Chubais said on Thursday. But he also issued a warning to consumers that they would have to foot the bill for technology needed to limit emissions within Russia, where electricity production has been booming. "Our aim is to ... more Alternative Energy Comes Closer With Advances In Hydrogen Fuel Cell Sealing Technology 
Chulalongkorn, Thailand (SPX) Jun 15, 2007Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) have attracted major interest from research and development communities as an alternative source of power, with commercial trials already under way. In these fuel cells electricity is generated via electro-chemical reactions using hydrogen based gas and oxygen as a fuel and oxidant, respectively. Sealing these units is a critical technical issue that needs ... more
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