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Tapping Into Space For Energy Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 06, 2007 
The main source of energy for humankind is still fossil fuels, or hydrocarbons (oil, gas and coal). Their use, however, has a markedly adverse effect on the environment, not to mention their scarcity. Nuclear power and renewable energy sources (hydro, tidal, geothermal and wind-driven power plants) offer a partial solution. But even they do not address the issue of transport, which uses mostly l ... read more
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See What You're Spewing As You Speed Along
Manchester UK (SPX) Aug 06, 2007In future drivers may only have to glance at the dashboard to see the pollution spewing out of their vehicle's exhausts. A team from The University of Manchester has constructed a laser measuring device capable of recording levels of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane from directly inside an exhaust. Once optimised, the process could be incorporated into onboard diagnostic systems that ... more ABC Solar Expands Solar Offices To Orange County, California 
Rancho Santa Margarita CA (SPX) Aug 06, 2007ABC Solar Inc, a leading California retailer and installer of solar electric systems, announced today that it has opened a new office in Rancho Santa Margarita, California. The new office represents the growing importance and acceptance of solar from Southern Californian homeowners and businesses. The office has its own website at www.sunkits.com. Going solar in Orange County has just been ma ... more Nuclear Booms Almost Everywhere 
Berlin (UPI) Aug 03, 2007In most of Europe, nuclear energy is seen as a vital tool to guarantee energy security; in the continent's largest economy, however, things are a bit different. One of the fiercest opponents of nuclear energy is a German federal minister. Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel of the center-left Social Democratic Party is one of the architects of the German plan to phase out nuclear energy by 2021. ... more China Economic Boom Polluting Seas And Skies Of East Asia 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 04, 2007China's booming economy is wreaking havoc on the nation's coastal waters, with sewers often spilling right into parts of the sea reserved for tourism or aqua-farming, state media said Saturday. This is the conclusion of a new survey of China's coastal environment over the first six months of the year, published by the State Oceanic Administration, the China Daily reported. According to the surve ... more Nuclear Plant Adviser Quits After Calling Quake Experiment 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 03, 2007The head of a board inspecting a Japanese nuclear plant that leaked radiation in an earthquake resigned Friday after calling the incident an "invaluable experiment." The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata prefecture, some 250 kilometres (155 miles) northwest of Tokyo, leaked a small amount of radioactive water after a 6.8 Richter-scale earthquake on July 16. The plant's operator said the amount ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Aug 01, 2007A senior US legislator Wednesday introduced a resolution expressing strong concern with Russia's decision to withdraw from a key European arms control pact, the 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty. Democratic Congressman Alcee Hastings, Chairman of the US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (the US Helsinki Commission), called Moscow's move "troubling" and said it reflec ... more Typhoon Slams Into Japan As Quake Rock East Russia 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 02, 2007A powerful typhoon slammed into southern Japan Thursday, injuring three people, disrupting air and land traffic and cutting power to thousands of houses. Packing winds of up to 126 kilometres (79 miles) an hour and bringing heavy rains, typhoon Usagi was moving north over Kyushu island after landing shortly before 6:00 pm (0900 GMT) from the Pacific, the meteorological agency said. The storm sys ... more Britain To Apply For EU Aid After Floods 
London (AFP) Aug 01, 2007Britain is planning to request European Union emergency aid to help with reconstruction after flooding in central and western England at the beginning of the summer, a government minister said Wednesday. The EU emergency aid would be "a useful addition to the package of support we're already putting in place," said Communities and Local Government Minister John Healy, referring to 46 million pou ... more Pollution Amplifies Greenhouse Gas Warming Trends To Jeopardize Asian Water Supplies 
San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 02, 2007Scientists have concluded that the global warming trend caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases is a major contributor to the melting of Himalayan and other tropical glaciers. Now a new analysis of pollution-filled "brown clouds" over south Asia by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego offers hope that the region may be able to arrest some of the alarming retreat o ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Aug 02, 2007The collapse of an eight-lane interstate bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis that was under repair reminds us that 30 percent of America's almost 500,000 bridges are categorized as "deficient" and in "urgent need of repair." The Iraq and Afghan wars have cost more than half a trillion dollars so far. The two conflicts are running at the rate of $12 billion a month, or $400 million a ... more Developing World Seeks Funds And Technology To Tackle Climate Change 
United Nations (AFP) Aug 01, 2007Rich nations were challenged Wednesday to make deeper cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions and to provide the developing world with funding and technology to help it tackle climate change. Developed countries "have a specific responsibility" to carry out deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emission "in accordance with the commitments made under the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol," Pakistani Environme ... more A Future Natural Gas Cartel 
Doha, Qatar (UPI) Aug 02, 2007The April 9 meeting in Doha, Qatar, of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum attracted intense media scrutiny. Pundits speculated that the hidden agenda of the meeting, the first in two years, was to explore the possibility of developing a natural gas cartel along the lines of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Such a cartel would have immense financial and political clout in the glo ... more US Eyes Nigeria Oil Deals 
Washington (UPI) Aug 03, 2007The U.S. Justice Department is reportedly investigating whether nearly a dozen companies operating in Nigeria made illegal payments to Nigerian customs agents for certain services. Eleven oil and oil-related firms have already been asked by the Justice Department's criminal fraud section to provide details about their relationship with the Swiss-based company Nigeria's Vanguard newspaper report ... more
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