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First Draft Of Oil Palm Genome Completed Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (SPX) May 27, 2008 
Asiatic Centre for Genome Technology Sdn Bhd (ACGT), which is focused on the commercial application of genome technology to improve oil palm and other crops and Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI), a privately held company dedicated to commercializing genomic-driven solutions to address global energy and environmental challenges, has announced the completion of a first draft assembly and annotation of ... read more
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NativeEnergy And Lindblad Expeditions Advance Eco-Conscious Travel
Charlotte VT (SPX) May 27, 2008NativeEnergy announces a new collaboration with Lindblad Expeditions. By partnering with NativeEnergy, the travel company's carbon emissions will be effectively offset, while bringing critical up-front financing to new renewable energy projects with considerable social value. "I view climate change as perhaps the single most important issue of our time," said Sven Lindblad, president and f ... more Western Wind Offered 230 Million Dollars For Windstar Project By Major US Energy Company 
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) May 27, 2008Western Wind Energy is pleased to announce that Western Wind is now engaged in negotiations reviewing other offers and is in discussions with major US institutions regarding self-financing initiatives whereby its 120 MW Windstar Project will produce directly, $1.7 billion in revenue over 30 years. Although Western Wind was offered $228 million for all development rights of its 120 MW Winds ... more USA Geothermal Forms Exploration Joint Venture In Nevada 
Boise ID (SPX) May 27, 2008U.S. Geothermal has announced that it has entered into a joint venture agreement with Gerlach Green Energy of Nevada ("GGE"). The target of the joint venture is the exploration of the Gerlach geothermal system, which is located in northwestern Nevada, at the town of Gerlach. The joint venture is located near the Company's Granite Creek leases that were recently acquired as part of the Empi ... more Progress Energy Awarded Nearly 83 Million Dollars In Spent Fuel Ruling 
Raleigh NC (SPX) May 27, 2008The U.S. Court of Federal Claims issued a ruling on Monday, awarding Progress Energy $82.8 million for costs incurred as a result of the government's failure to accept spent nuclear fuel from the utility. The sum covers the costs incurred by Progress Energy to activate fuel storage facilities at plants in the Carolinas and costs to transfer used nuclear fuel between plants for storage. ... more Impending Energy Industry Perfect Storm Demands Change 
Santa Clara CA (SPX) May 27, 2008State utilities and regulators must embrace the innovative electricity technology available today if they are to provide American homes and businesses with enough power and reliable electricity to meet their growing demands, said Kurt Yeager, executive director of the Galvin Electricity Initiative, Wednesday. Delivering a keynote address before executives and entrepreneurs from leading new ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) May 25, 2008NATO needs to work with Russia, and not against Moscow's wishes, Russia's ambassador to the transatlantic military alliance told news agency ITAR-TASS on Sunday. "Common questions of security cannot be resolved without Russia, or against her," said Dmitry Rogozin, speaking from Berlin, where the NATO parliament is in session. Rogozin said global security threats are "directed every bit a ... more China targets 'quake lake' as flood fears grow 
Mianzhu, China (AFP) May 26, 2008Soldiers raced Monday to unblock a river that was dammed by landslides in China's deadly earthquake two weeks ago as flood prevention became a top priority in the disaster zone. More than 86,000 people are dead or missing following the massive quake on May 12 that destroyed entire towns and villages across an area of mountainous Sichuan province the size of South Korea. China has had to ... more Japan pushes its 'sectoral' approach in climate talks 
Kobe, Japan (AFP) May 25, 2008Japan's environment minister on Sunday urged wider support for a "sectoral" approach on the second day of climate talks amid calls for rich nations to set clear emission cut goals by 2020. Home to the landmark Kyoto Protocol, Japan hopes to use the three-day talks in Kobe to shape the course of negotiations on a new climate treaty on curbing global warming, eyeing a breakthrough when it host ... more Warm winds comfort climate change models: study 
Paris (AFP) May 25, 2008Climate change models predicting a dangerous warming of the world's atmosphere got a confirming boost Sunday from a study showing parallel trends at altitudes nearly twice as high as Mount Everest. The new research, published in Nature Geoscience, will help remove one of the remaining scientific uncertainties about the general thrust of global warming, the authors and commentators say. ... more |
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Hanwang, China (AFP) May 25, 2008The long-awaited clean-up of Hanwang has finally begun, with heavy machinery clearing away mountains of rubble that residents say conceal the bodies of those for whom help came too late. In the Heavenly Lake district of the town, 120 kilometres (75 miles) northeast of Chengdu, residents were on Saturday making a tentative return, almost two weeks after the huge earthquake drove them from the ... more Berlusconi's plan to tackle rubbish crisis hit by protests 
Naples, Italy (AFP) May 24, 2008At least a dozen people were injured Saturday in clashes with police as hundreds of locals resisted plans by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to dump waste in their neighbourhoods. Demonstrators chanted "Resistance! Resistance!" in the streets of Chiaiano on the outskirts of Naples, one of a series of localities earmarked by Berlusconi's government as sites which can absorb thousands of tonn ... more World Bank, UN agency chiefs to discuss food crisis: WB 
Tokyo (AFP) May 23, 2008The World Bank, the World Food Organisation and other aid groups will hold an emergency meeting next week to discuss ways to deal with the global food crisis, a World Bank official said Friday. Senior officials including World Bank president Robert Zoellick will meet Thursday on the sidelines of an African development conference in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, the Bank's Tokyo office chief ... more China to control building material prices in quake areas: govt
Beijing (AFP) May 23, 2008China said Friday it will impose temporary price controls on building materials in areas devastated by the massive May 12 earthquake as it steps up reconstruction to shelter the homeless. Prices of goods including steel products, cement, glass as well as tents will be controlled by limiting profit margins or setting guideline prices, the National Development and Reform Commission said. ... more
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