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WWF: Philippines dealers to cut reef fish exports
Manila (AFP) Feb 26, 2009Live fish traders in the Philippines have accepted a quota plan designed to cut the coral trout catch and prevent a collapse of the reef fish industry, the World Wildlife Fund said Thursday. The agreement, signed on the western island of Palawan last week, would cut the live reef fish catch by 27 per cent, or around 200 tonnes a year. It aims to arrest the serious decline in the resource ... more China clears Wyeth milk powder: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 26, 2009Chinese regulators have determined that baby powder made by US company Wyeth did not contain unsafe levels of the industrial chemical melamine, state media said Thursday. The country's product-safety regulator had looked into the company's baby powder following Chinese consumer accusations that it had caused kidney stones in children, Xinhua news agency said. However, Wyeth's products we ... more Satellite Data Provide New View Of Smoke From Wildfires 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2009Scientists have a new tool for understanding how events in one region, such as wildfires, can affect air quality in areas far away. Observations from NASA's Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) show that the plumes of dust, smoke and particles from wildfires or volcanoes often rise past the atmospheric boundary layer, the turbulent lowest portion of the atmosphere, and are injected ... more Natives in Russia's far east worry about vanishing fish 
Veni, Russia (AFP) Feb 25, 2009There is only one family left in this once-thriving fishing village on the northeastern shores of Sakhalin Island, where the Nivkhs, a small indigenous ethnic group, have lived for centuries. But on a recent winter day, Pyotr Popka was not lamenting the fact that there are only 2,500 of his fellow Nivkhs on Sakhalin or that only several dozen of them can still converse in the Nivkh language ... more Vietnam battling hoof-and-mouth outbreak 
Saigon, Vietnam (UPI) Feb 24, 2009 Vietnamese agriculture officials say hoof-and-mouth disease has been detected in nine provinces during the past three weeks The latest outbreak was reported in central Quang Ngai province, where 19 cows were found to be infected, the Voice of Vietnam radio reported Tuesday. Fifty cows were also found to be infected in Nghe An province. Bird flu has been reported in 10 provinces i ... more |
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Leicester, UK (SPX) Feb 25, 2009Scientists from Leicester and Nottingham have devised a method for identifying levels of exposure to environmental arsenic - by testing toenail clippings. Arsenic occurs naturally in the environment and people can be exposed to it in several ways, for example through contaminated water, food, dust or soil. The risk of exposure is greater in certain areas of the UK where the natural geology ... more Appalachian History Gives New Perspective of How Workers View Jobs 
Columbia MO (SPX) Feb 25, 2009A preacher addresses a group of men in a town church in eastern Kentucky, but this gathering is not to hear a sermon. Instead, it is a meeting of a coal miners' union. By studying coal miners and farmers during the early 20th century, a University of Missouri researcher has discovered that religion greatly influenced coal miners' and farmers' lives. The miners used religion to negotiate ... more More Evidence For Multiple Meteorite Magmas 
College Park MD (SPX) Feb 24, 2009Cosmochemists have identified six main compositional types of magma that formed inside asteroids during the first 100 million years of Solar System history. These magmas vary in their chemical and mineralogical make up, but all have in common low concentrations of sodium and other volatile elements. Our low-sodium-magma diet has now changed. Two groups of researchers have identified a new ... more Counting Carbon 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 24, 2009Imagine if you could scoop exactly one million molecules out of the air in front of you (while being careful not to grab any water vapor). Now, start sorting these molecules into different piles. Start with the two most common molecules and you've sorted 99 percent of your sample - the nitrogen pile will have about 780,000 molecules, and oxygen pile will have about 210,000 molecules. ... more Two arrested over water contamination: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 23, 2009Two managers of a chemical company have been arrested over a spill that led to the suspension of drinking water supplies for hundreds of thousands of people in a Chinese city, state press said Monday. The two officials of the Biaoxin Chemical Company were arrested on charges of causing large-scale environmental pollution that forced water supplies for large parts of Yancheng city to be cut ... more |
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St. Louis MO (SPX) Feb 23, 2009The hot topics of global warming and environmental sustainability are concerns that fit neatly within the precepts of religious naturalism, according to Ursula Goodenough, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. In addition to being a renowned cell biologist, Goodenough is a religious naturalist and the author of The Sacred Depths of Nature ... more Algae-eating fish deployed to clean up Chinese lake: state media 
Shanghai (AFP) Feb 20, 2009Chinese authorities have again turned to algae-eating fish in a bid to clean up a pollution-linked blue green bloom on one of the country's most scenic lakes, state media reported Friday. Taihu Lake in eastern China has seen a re-emergence of algae growth that forced authorities to cut water supplies to 2.3 million residents of the nearby city of Wuxi in 2007, the official Xinhua news agency ... more Mass Media Often Failing In Its Coverage Of Global Warming 
Stanford CA (SPX) Feb 23, 2009"Business managers of media organizations, you are screwing up your responsibility by firing science and environment reporters who are frankly the only ones competent to do this," said climate researcher and policy analyst Stephen Schneider, in assessing the current state of media coverage of global warming and related issues. "Science is not politics. You can't just get two opposing ... more Google shoots down 'Atlantis' pictures 
Washington (AFP) Feb 20, 2009No, the lost city of Atlantis has not been found. Google Earth images showing what appeared to be a grid of streets on the ocean floor off the coast of Africa were actually tracks left by boat sonar. The Daily Telegraph caused the brief flurry of excitement among Atlantis hunters by publishing Google Earth pictures on Friday of an unexplained grid on the seabed 620 miles ... more China quake-damaged reservoirs fixed by end-2010: official 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 20, 2009About half the 2,125 reservoirs damaged by the massive earthquake in southwest China will be repaired this year, state media on Friday quoted a water resources official as saying. The repairs to roughly 1,000 reservoirs and 378 kilometres (234 miles) of embankment will cost 5.5 billion dollars, Leng Gang, Sichuan province's water resources director said, according to the China Daily. ... more
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