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Rivers Are Carbon Processors, Not Inert Pipelines
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 05, 2008Microorganisms in rivers and streams play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle that has not previously been considered. Freshwater ecologist Dr. Tom Battin, of the University of Vienna, told a COST ESF Frontiers of Science conference in October that our understanding of how rivers and streams deal with organic carbon has changed radically. Microorganisms such as bacteria and single ... more Analysis: Brazil says, drop ethanol tariff 
Miami (UPI) Dec 4, 2008 Top officials at Brazil's state-run energy company Petrobras expect big things from President-elect Barack Obama next year, in particular a reduction of the tariff on Brazilian ethanol exported to the United States. The head of the Petrobras biofuel division, Alan Kardec Pinto, couched his call for lower tariffs on Brazilian ethanol in remarks on "environmental responsibility" clearly ... more UNESCO Signs Partnership With JAXA 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 04, 2008Dr. Keiji Tachikawa, President of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Ko�chiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, on 2 December signed a cooperation agreement through which JAXA will assist UNESCO by bringing the benefits of space technology to the monitoring of World Heritage sites. With this agreement JAXA joins a group of more than 50 partners, including 25 space agenci ... more GIS Development Gives Award To Institute Of Photogrammetry 
New Delhi, India, (SPX) Dec 04, 2008In view of the exceptional value it has added towards development of geospatial science, The Institute of Photogrammetry (IPI), University of Hannover will be felicitated by GIS Development with the award for 'Building Geospatial Capacities and Knowledge Network' during the inaugural ceremony of Map World Forum on February 10, 2009 at Hyderabad, India. Prof. Christian Heipke, current Head ... more Thwarting Efforts To Use Carbon Markets To Halt Deforestation 
Nairobi, Kenya (SPX) Dec 04, 2008Carbon credit politics and misplaced technical concerns are impeding efforts to encourage sustainable land use practices in tropical regions-such as better forest management and growing more trees on farms-that could curtail up to 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions while also boosting incomes of the rural poor, according to a new analysis by the Nairobi-based World Agroforestry Centre ... more |
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Toronto, Canada (SPX) Dec 04, 2008Ontario is turning to wind turbines to help create jobs and power a green energy future. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty helped open a 44-turbine wind farm near Port Alma, on the shores of Lake Erie on November 13. The Kruger Energy Port Alma Wind Power Project will produce enough clean electricity for 30,000 households. Building the wind farm created up to 70 jobs and workers will be hire ... more NASA Selects NOAA GOES-R Series Spacecraft Contractor 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 03, 2008NASA, in coordination with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, has selected the contractor for the next series of weather satellites. Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company of Denver was selected to build the satellites for NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites, or GOES-R, Program. The basic contract is for two spacecraft. Two options each ... more Using Water To Understand Human Society 
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 03, 2008Water shapes societies, but it is a factor only just beginning to be appreciated by social scientists. The Norwegian professor, writer and film maker Terje Tvedt, of the Universities of Oslo and Bergen, argues that water has played a unique and fundamental role in shaping societies throughout human history. Speaking at a European Science Foundation and COST conference in Sicily in October ... more Trust in Chinese food exports drops over milk scandal: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 2, 2008International confidence in Chinese food exports has dived since the scandal erupted over contaminated milk in China, with dairy items the worst affected, state press reported on Tuesday. China exported just over 1,000 tonnes of dairy products in October, down 92 percent from a year earlier, the China Daily reported, quoting figures from the customs administration. In September ... more IAEA calls for renewed interest in mutant plant breeding 
Vienna (AFP) Dec 2, 2008The UN atomic watchdog called Tuesday for renewed interest and increased investment in a technique that uses radiation to improve crop yields and resistance against a backdrop of the global food and energy crises. The International Atomic Energy Agency is hoping that, given the current food crisis, countries will revive their interest in mutation induction -- a technique that has been in use ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Dec 03, 2008Keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations, a study in the journal Conservation Biology finds. The study reveals that it would take at least 75 years for the carbon emissions saved through the use of biofuels to compensate for the carbon lost through forest conversion. And if the original habitat was ... more GreenHunter BioFuels Resumes Production At Houston Biodiesel Refinery 
Grapevine TX (SPX) Dec 03, 2008Greenhunter Biofuels gas announced that startup of biodiesel production at the Company's biodiesel refinery in Houston has been initiated following repairs and recovery from Hurricane Ike. Located along the Shipping Channel in Houston, Texas, the Company's biodiesel refinery, one of the country's largest, sustained a direct hit from Hurricane Ike in mid-September of 2008. Plant debugging ... more Frost And Sullivan Lauds Rainbow Nation Renewable Fuels 
London, UK (SPX) Dec 03, 2008The 2008 Frost and Sullivan South Africa Biofuel Feedstock Market Share Advancement Award is presented to Rainbow Nation Renewable Fuels (RNRF). The company is building the biggest soybean processing facility in Africa, a particularly strategic choice of location since South Africa has the greatest demand for biofuels in Southern Africa. This, together with its coherent, growth-focused ... more Central Florida Pipeline System Begins Ethanol Transport 
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 03, 2008Kinder Morgan Energy Partners has announced it is now transporting commercial batches of denatured ethanol along with gasoline shipments in its 16-inch Central Florida Pipeline (CFPL) between Tampa and Orlando, Fla., making CFPL the first transmarket gasoline pipeline in the United States to do so. Kinder Morgan has invested approximately $10 million to modify the line for ethanol shipment ... more China scraps price control on foods 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 1, 2008China's top economic planning agency Monday removed price controls on grain and other food products that were imposed early this year when inflation was a bigger concern. Caps on the prices of grain, edible oil, meat, dairy products and eggs were lifted with immediate effect, the National Development and Reform Commission said on its website. Requirements on enterprises to submit price-r ... more
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