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Telekom Austria turns phone boxes into car recharging stationsVienna (AFP) May 4, 2010 If you've run out of juice for your environmentally friendly electric car, a recharge may be only a phone call away, literally, under a new scheme unveiled by Telekom Austria here Tuesday. The telecommunications company has decided to turn its public telephone boxes - which are in danger of becoming obsolete anyway thanks to mobile phones - into battery recharging stations for electric cars. Admittedly, the scheme is still in its infancy: there are just 223 electric cars currently registered i ... read more |
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London (AFP) May 5, 2010Britain and Ireland were closing parts of their airspace Wednesday after a fresh cloud of ash arrived from the Icelandic volcano that caused air travel chaos in Europe last month. British regulators ordered an airspace shutdown over parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland from 7:00 am (0600 GMT) for 12 hours for most affected airports, warning that high ash levels could damage plane engines. ... more  
On A Plane Over The Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana (AFP) May 4, 2010An impromptu recovery fleet rushed Tuesday to an uninhabited US island chain in the Gulf of Mexico as the leading edge of a giant oil slick reached its shores. Twelve shrimp trawlers and 10 official response boats frantically laid protective boom around some of the Chandeleur Islands - a prime marsh and wildlife area - but initially failed to confirm any land impacts. BP chief operatin ... more 
Hanoi (AFP) May 4, 2010Vietnam has announced an 8.5-billion-dollar economic and defence development plan for a string of islands along its resource-rich coastline, as a broader sovereignty dispute simmers with China. A copy of the plan, dated April 28, was obtained by AFP on Tuesday. It calls for development over a 10-year period of a string of islands stretching from Phu Quoc near Cambodia in the southwest to ... more |
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Thin Arctic Ice May See Drifting Stations On Artificial PlatformsMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 03, 2010 Thinning Arctic ice may cause drifting research stations to be placed on firm ground or artificially-made platforms, the head of Russian Meteorological Centre said on Thursday. "We have to think about using some... constructions, instead of blocks of drifting ice as platforms," Alexander Frolov said. Russian and Soviet polar scientists have used drifting ice stations in the Arctic Ocean since the 1930s. A new Russian drifting polar station started work in September 2009. However the ice it w ... read more |
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