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Analysis: Water complicates CO2 laws
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 10, 2009Policies that cut carbon emissions may be counterproductive if they strain dwindling water supplies -- a problem that has already stemmed from some poorly crafted laws, experts said. Water and energy systems are intertwined throughout the world. Forty percent of the United States' freshwater withdrawals are used to produce energy, and 18 percent of the nation's electricity goes to treat ... more Deadly violence taints China's village elections 
Nanfanzhuang, China (AFP) March 9, 2009When Zhou Changshun complained about the fairness of elections in his home village in China's Hebei province, he had just three days left to live. On the third day the farmer was found dead at home alongside the butchered remains of his 60-year-old wife and daughter-in law. His grandson, aged three, died later in hospital from axe wounds. "There is no doubt about it, we suspect Zhou ... more It's Raining Pentagons 
London, UK (SPX) Mar 10, 2009This week's Nature Materials (09 March 2009) reveals how an international team of scientists led by researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL have discovered a novel one dimensional ice chain structure built from pentagons that may prove to be a step toward the development of new materials which can be used to seed clouds and cause rain. Although the structure of reg ... more Hong Kong bird tests positive for H5N1 
Hong Kong (AFP) March 6, 2009Hong Kong authorities said Friday that a dead chicken found in the southern Chinese territory had tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus. The government said laboratory tests had confirmed that the chicken found floating in the sea off Hong Kong on March 2 carried the deadly strain. The statement said there were no poultry farms within three kilometres (two mile ... more Growth Energy Slams ARB Staff Report On New Low Carbon Fuel Standard Rules 
Sacramento CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2009Growth Energy has called on the California Air Resources Board (ARB) to reject rules developed by its staff that would impose unfair standards in calculating the carbon intensity of fuels as part of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). The ARB staff report calls for the adoption of a flawed indirect land use change (ILUC) theory that would only penalize biofuels while ignoring the signific ... more |
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Hong Kong (AFP) March 5, 2009An outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus at a Hong Kong farm last year which led to the slaughter of 90,000 chickens was likely spread by wild birds, an investigation found Thursday. The December outbreak was the first discovered at a Hong Kong poultry farm in six years, and raised fears about the city's biosecurity measures and whether the deadly H5N1 virus had mutated. "As with ma ... more Raytheon Technology Protects Crops From Frost 
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Mar 06, 2009Raytheon Company is taking the fight to the frost with a new system using radio frequency technology. Raytheon's Tempwave radiant heating system offers a more efficient way to warm crops and avoid the adverse effects of frost on the growing season. The Tempwave system delivers energy directly to a crop without heating the intervening air. It works to prevent freeze damage in both radiatio ... more Farmers Saving The Economy Again, But For How Long 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 06, 2009"The national account figures are a timely reminder of how fundamental our farm sector is to our economy, with agricultural production and growth - in seasonally adjusted terms up 10.9% this quarter on top of last quarter's 13.4% - yet again, helping to stave off recession," National Farmers' Federation (NFF) President David Crombie said. "Mining booms come and go, but Australian agricultu ... more Scientists Expose Buried Fault That Caused Deadly 2003 Quake 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 05, 2009Using satellite radar data, NASA-funded scientists have observed, for the first time, the healing of subtle, natural surface scars from an earthquake that occurred on a "buried" fault several miles below the surface-a fault whose fractures are not easily observed at Earth's surface. Reporting in of Nature, geophysicist Eric Fielding of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Cali ... more Jordan's Fossil Water Source Has High Radiation Levels 
Durham NC (SPX) Mar 05, 2009Ancient groundwater being tapped by Jordan, one of the 10 most water-deprived nations in the world, has been found to contain twenty times the radiation considered safe for drinking water in a new study by an international team of researchers. "The combined activities of 228 radium and 226 radium - the two long-lived isotopes of radium - in the groundwater we tested are up to 2000 percent ... more |
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Berlin (AFP) March 3, 2009Humans and farm animals were known to emit harmful greenhouse gases through digestion, but German researchers said Tuesday that aquatic worms and bugs are also culprits, releasing laughing gas. Scientists at the Max Planck Institut and Denmark's Aarhus University found that mussels, freshwater snails and other underwater creatures release nitrous oxide - laughing gas - when nitrate is pres ... more Sudan inaugurates massive Nile dam 
Merowe, Sudan (AFP) March 3, 2009Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir inaugurated a massive hydroelectric project on Tuesday that has displaced tens of thousands of people and is the largest to be built on the Nile in 40 years. The more than two-billion-dollar (1.590-billion-euro) Chinese-engineered Merowe Dam will eventually double Sudan's power capacity to about 1,250 megawatts. Two of its 10 turbines, which were built by Fr ... more Chinese courts to accept milk-scandal cases: report 
Beijing (AFP) March 3, 2009Chinese courts are now ready to accept lawsuits by families of children sickened in last year's tainted milk scandal, state media said Tuesday, quoting a top official. The report in the newspaper China Daily follows months of delays in which lawyers for plaintiffs told AFP they were warned not to sue over the scandal, which embarrassed China by exposing chronic holes in food-safety mechanism ... more Doubling A Gene In Corn Results In Giant Biomass 
Champaign IL (SPX) Mar 04, 2009University of Illinois plant geneticist Stephen Moose has developed a corn plant with enormous potential for biomass, literally. It yields corn that would make good silage, Moose said, due to a greater number of leaves and larger stalk, which could also make it a good energy crop. The gene known as Glossy 15 was originally described for its role in giving corn seedlings a waxy coating that ... more Financing Confirmed For Navajo Wind Energy's Joint Venture Wind Farm 
Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 04, 2009Navajo Wind Energy has announced that it has received a confirmation letter of financing from Xiyas Development Capital for the Company's 50% joint venture partnership interest in the CSRI Xuzhou Nantung wind farm project. This financing is in addition to the funding announced on January 20, 2009 and is debt based, which will not affect the capital structure of the Company. As previo ... more
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