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Geothermal power gaining attentionWashington (UPI) Sep 1, 2010 The heat in the upper six miles of Earth's crust contains many times the energy found in all the world's oil and gas reserves combined, experts say. Despite the abundance, researchers say, only 10,700 megawatts of geothermal electricity generating capacity have been harnessed worldwide, Inter Press Service reported. The oil, gas, and coal industries have been providing cheap fuel by omitting the costs of climate change and air pollution from fuel prices, environmentalists charge, so litt ... read more |
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Washington (UPI) Sep 1, 2010 China's monopoly on elements used in computer disc drives, electric cars, military weapons and other key products could mean a crisis for the West, experts say. China's control of the supply of most of the world's "rare earth" elements, and its increasingly hard-line stand on limiting exports, could create a supply crisis for the United States and other countries, an article in the maga ... more 
Algiers, Algeria (UPI) Sep 1, 2010 Algeria's recent invitation to India to join the $13 billion, delay-plagued Trans-Sahara Gas Pipeline project is an indirect acknowledgment the project's in "deep trouble," an African business Web site says. "The prospect of a quick start to the pipeline has dimmed even further since the beginning of the year with the departure of two of its strongest champions over the past decade, Alg ... more  
United Nations (AFP) Aug 30, 2010An international review panel on Monday called on the UN global climate change body to carry out fundamental reforms after embarrassing errors in a landmark report dented its credibility. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was caught in an international storm after it admitted its landmark 2007 report exaggerated the speed at which Himalayas glacie ... more |
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Human impact on a food source unexpectedRaleigh, N.C. (UPI) Aug 31, 2010 Human impact on a shellfish consumed in the Pacific for thousands of years may have caused the species to actually increase in size, U.S. researchers say. Scientists at North Carolina State University, in a counterintuitive finding, say the average size of the humped conch, a food source in the Pacific islands for 3,000 years, has increased in spite of - or even possibly because of - increased human activity in the area, a university release said Tuesday. "What we've found indicates th ... read more |
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