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China oil giants reject pollution insurance scheme Beijing (AFP) Aug 24, 2007 
China's two leading oil producers have snubbed a new policy forcing companies to buy pollution insurance, claiming insurers cannot afford the compensation, state media said Friday. China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and China Petroleum and Chemicals Corporation (Sinopec) said that large chemical firms should not be forced to buy the insurance, according to the China.com.cn website. ... read more
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Offshore platform tests bird-friendly lighting
The Hague (AFP) Aug 24, 2007Dutch Petrol company NAM is testing new lighting by electronics giant Philips to improve safety for migratory birds who can get disoriented by brightly-lit offshore platforms, the companies said Friday. They said the new green-hued lighting on the platform "less distracts birds during their migration across the North Sea". Some 60 million birds cross the North Sea on their way to warmer ... more Photon-Transistors For The Supercomputers Of The Future 
Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Aug 27, 2007Scientist from the Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen and from Harvard University have worked out a new theory which describe how the necessary transistors for the quantum computers of the future may be created. The research has just been published in the scientific journal Nature Physics. Researchers dream of quantum computers. Incredibly fast super computers which can ... more Thin-Layer Solar Cells May Bring Cheaper Green Power 
Durham UK (SPX) Aug 27, 2007Scientists are researching new ways of harnessing the sun's rays which could eventually make it cheaper for people to use solar energy to power their homes. The experts at Durham University are developing light-absorbing materials for use in the production of thin-layer solar photovoltaic (PV) cells which are used to convert light energy into electricity. The four-year project involves ... more Carnegie Mellon Researchers Look At Fossil Fuel Impacts 
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Aug 27, 2007A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers report that the choices U.S. officials make today could limit how the nation's future energy needs are met and could cost consumers billions in idle power plants and associated infrastructure systems. In the upcoming Sept. 1 edition of the journal Environmental Science and Technology, Carnegie Mellon researchers Paulina Jaramillo, W. Michael ... more Toxic Air Pollution In Urban Parking Garages Study Finds SUVs Bigger Polluters 
Columbus OH (SPX) Aug 27, 2007The pollution produced by light trucks, SUVs and minivans is only half a percent higher than that produced by conventional cars, based on a recent study. But researchers say that this tiny difference becomes enormous when considering the number of light trucks moving along the nation's highways. "That small difference becomes tremendously magnified when you consider the billions of miles ... more |
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Singapore (AFP) Aug 23, 2007Shifting to renewable energy could save countries in East Asia as much as two trillion US dollars in fuel costs over the next 23 years, or more than 80 billion dollars annually, environmental group Greenpeace said Thursday. A shift from oil and coal could also reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 22 percent in the same period, it said in a report released to coincide with a meeting of Associat ... more German gov't, energy companies agree to improve nuclear safety 
Berlin (AFP) Aug 23, 2007The German government and four companies operating nuclear power plants in the country on Thursday agreed they would tighten safety measures, a month after two incidents sparked a national outcry. "We have agreed to put in place steps that will further improve the safety climate at nuclear power plant operations within a year," the environment ministry said in a statement. ... more Analysis: Nigeria probes oil block awards 
Miami (UPI) Aug 23, 2007 As part of President Umaru Yar'Adua's ongoing effort to curb corruption, the Nigerian government is considering revoking licensing blocks for exploration amid accusations they were obtained through bribes. Some of the companies awarded choice blocks in the last year had close ties to government officials, This Day newspaper reported, citing a government source. ... more ASEAN agrees to set up nuclear energy safety network 
Singapore (AFP) Aug 23, 2007Southeast Asian countries agreed Thursday to establish a regional nuclear energy safety network, amid warnings from environmental activists that the risks of atomic power outweigh the benefits. Energy ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) tasked senior officials to work out the details of the ASEAN Nuclear Energy Safety Sub-Sector Network, they said at the end of ... more |
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
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Puebla (AFP) Aug 23, 2007A couple and their two children were killed in central Mexico Thursday by a landslide caused by driving rains blamed on the remnants of hurricane Dean, raising to at least 25 the death toll from the storm's rampage. The four were killed when a chunk of mountainside buried the path on which they were walking in Xochitlaxco, according to Puebla state Governor Mario Marin. ... more Global warming to decimate China's harvests 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 23, 2007Global warming is set to cut China's annual grain harvest by up to 10 percent by 2030, placing extra burden on its shrinking farmland, state press reported Thursday. Zheng Guoguang, head of the State Meteorological Administration, said the impact of global warming means that China will likely need an extra 10 million hectares (247 million acres) of farmland by 2030. ... more Wave of refugees quits Peru quake ruins 
Pisco, Peru (AFP) Aug 22, 2007The giant quake that wrecked this Pacific coastal town last week has set off a wave of refugees, driving up to 40 percent of its people to quit their ruined homes and move away, the Peruvian government said Wednesday. "Between 30 and 40 percent of the inhabitants have been forced to leave" Pisco, which formerly had a population of 130,000 people, Social Development and Women's Affairs ... more US Asks Austria To Shed Cold War Thinking As Czechs Eye Intel Deal 
Washington (AFP) Aug 23, 2007The United States on Thursday urged Austria to move beyond "Cold War thinking" after Vienna charged that Washington's plans to deploy a missile defense shield in Central Europe against Russia's wishes were a "provocation." "We view the Cold War as being over. Such comments are not helpful and we now face a new strategic environment that requires us to move beyond Cold War thinking," ... more
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