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Indonesia aims to tap volcano powerKamojang, Indonesia (AFP) April 24, 2010 Indonesia has launched an ambitious plan to tap the vast power of its volcanoes and become a world leader in geothermal energy, while trimming greenhouse gas emissions. The sprawling archipelago of 17,000 islands stretching from the Indian to the Pacific Oceans contains hundreds of volcanoes, estimated to hold around 40 percent of the world's geothermal energy potential. But so far only a tiny fraction of that potential has been unlocked, so the government is seeking help from private investors, ... read more |
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Kinshasa, Democratic Republic Of Congo (UPI) Apr 23, 2010 Former rebel fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo have seized rich mineral mines in the eastern part of the country and are forcing civilians, including children, to work them, the Global Witness group reports. This has intensified a seemingly interminable 12-year-old war over the central African state's vast mineral resources, deemed the bloodiest conflict since World War II. / ... more  
College Park, Md. (UPI) Apr 22, 2010 Derivatives are as ancient as civilization. Greek farmers insured crops with investors prepared to speculate on the weather, just as life insurers hedge mortgage-backed securities by purchasing credit default swaps. When written against real assets - farmers' crops or homes - derivatives spread risk, lower capital costs and foster growth. Like any other financial contrac ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 08, 2010A low-cost water purification technique published in Current Protocols in Microbiology could help drastically reduce the incidence of waterborne disease in the developing world. The procedure, which uses seeds from the Moringa oleifera tree, can produce a 90.00% to 99.99% bacterial reduction in previously untreated water, and has been made free to download as part of access programs under ... more |
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Commentary: 'Be as one' in SingaporeSingapore (UPI) Apr 19, 2010 The rule book on unintended and unanticipated global disasters is yet to be written. In the past decade, the world has experienced several surprise disasters that dwarfed 9/11, in either casualties and/or cost - e.g., the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake that triggered a gigantic tsunami that killed more than 200,000 in 11 countries; the 2007 criminally inspired Wall Street subprime mortgage meltdown that triggered a worldwide financial and economic crisis and left tens of millions jobless; the Ha ... read more |
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