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One dead, 11 missing after China ship sinks: state media
Beijing (AFP) May 15, 2009One person was killed and 11 were missing on Friday after a ship carrying sand sank amid rough seas off northeastern China, state media reported. The ship from central China's Hubei province, went down Thursday night in the Bohai Gulf off Liaoning province, Xinhua news agency said, quoting local officials. It quoted local fish farmers as saying the ship was seen earlier with 11 men and o ... more Global Action Urged To Preserve Water Supplies For Billions Worldwide 
LaJolla CA (SPX) May 18, 2009Melting glaciers, weakening monsoon rains, less mountain snowpack and other effects of a warmer climate will lead to significant disruptions in the supply of water to highly populated regions of the world, especially near the Himalayas in Asia and the Sierra Nevada Mountains of the western United States, according to an international group of scientists who met for three days at the University ... more Drinking Water Watched By Queensland's Seventh Sense 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) May 18, 2009One of the major sources of drinking water for south-east Queensland is now under the watchful eye of Australia's largest integrated intelligent wireless sensor network. CSIRO and a local water authority in Queensland, SEQWater, have joined forces to monitor the Lake Wivenhoe catchment, which spans an area about the size of the city of Brisbane, and supplies water to the region's 1.5 milli ... more Move On To Mars 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 15, 2009Science fiction writers have long imagined a future for humans on Mars, and Hollywood has created several movie fantasies about what the experience could be like (with a few improbable aliens added for extra drama). NASA has addressed the possibility of creating human colonies on Mars someday, but so far, only robots have stepped foot on the red soil. How long will we have to wait for scie ... more Flu shows China still finding its feet on health threats: experts 
Beijing (AFP) May 14, 2009Six years after its sluggish response to SARS, China has been criticised for overreacting to swine flu, showing it has not yet found the right prescription for dealing with a health crisis, experts said. With memories of the Severe Acute Respiratory Disease outbreak still fresh, China reacted quickly and aggressively to prevent swine flu, or the A(H1N1) virus, from reaching its soil. ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) May 15, 2009The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) has welcomed the White House's announcement that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will finally publish proposed rules to implement the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). UNICA confirmed that it would submit formal, detailed comments to the EPA in coming weeks. UNICA President and CEO Marcos Jank said from Brazil that his organizatio ... more Spirit rover stuck in Martian soil: NASA 
Los Angeles (AFP) May 12, 2009NASA's Spirit rover, which has been exploring Mars for evidence of water, has gotten stuck, perhaps inextricably, in the soft Martian soil, said officials from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. "Spirit is in a very difficult situation. We are proceeding methodically and cautiously," JPL's John Callas, project manager for Spirit and its twin rover, Opportunity, s ... more Better Water Use Could Reduce Future Food Crises 
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) May 12, 2009The challenge of meeting future water needs under the impacts of climate change and rapidly growing human demands for water may be less bleak than widely portrayed a team of Swedish and German scientists says. If the overall water resources in river basins were acknowledged and managed better, future food crises could be significantly reduced, say researchers from Stockholm Resilience Cent ... more CARE Recieves Grant For Sustainable Agriculture Program In Peru 
New York NY (SPX) May 12, 2009The ACE Group has announced that the ACE Charitable Foundation is making a three-year, $600,000 grant to CARE, one of the world's largest humanitarian aid agencies, to help create and support the Sustainable Andean Agriculture program in Peru. The program, designed by CARE, offers an innovative response to the global food crisis by training and organizing local farmers to increase the prod ... more Air Quality Funding Boost For California Agriculture 
Fresno CA (SPX) May 12, 2009Dave White, Chief of the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service, enriched California's air quality resources by $5 million during his first visit to California as head of the national conservation agency. The additional money will bring to $20.9 million the funds NRCS in California is making available to help farmers and ranchers reduce air quality emissions from off-road mobile or ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) May 12, 2009The five wheels that still rotate on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit have been slipping severely in soft soil during recent attempts to drive, sinking the wheels about halfway into the ground. The rover team of engineers and scientists has suspended driving Spirit temporarily while studying the ground around the rover and planning simulation tests of driving options with a test rover ... more NOAA, NASA Select Contractor To Build GOES-R Series Satellite 
Washington DC (SPX) May 11, 2009NOAA and NASA officials announced Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. Has been selected to build two satellites for NOAA's next generation geostationary satellite series, GOES-R. The new series, poised to begin launching in 2015, will double the clarity of today's satellite imagery and provide more than 20 times the information. A previous contract award was re-evaluated by NASA and ... more Defense Focus: The Age of Wars Part 7 
Washington (UPI) May 8, 2009 Small professional armies are much more popular for large, prosperous, secure nations and empires to run than massive conscript armies. That is why the army of the Roman Empire for hundreds of years was far smaller than the enormous citizen armies that the old Roman Republic was able to raise in earlier centuries from a seemingly limitless reservoir of sturdy yeoman farmers in the Italian peni ... more Virtual Earth gets 3D Photosynth views 
San Francisco (AFP) May 7, 2009Microsoft on Thursday enhanced its Virtual Earth online mapping service with Photosynth technology that melds pictures to create 3D views of places and spaces. The move allows businesses or government agencies to provide virtual tours of locations displayed online with 360-degree views. "The integration of Photosynth into Virtual Earth marks an important step in enabling businesses to us ... more Premier Power Continues Growth In Spain Despite Crash Of Spanish PV Market 
Madrid, Spain (SPX) May 11, 2009Despite the once hot Spanish solar farming market coming to a grinding halt, Premier Power Renewable Energy's business in Spain will grow by more than 200 percent this year with future prospects increasingly bright. ASIF, a Spanish solar PV industry association, estimates that the commercial rooftop market will become the leading market segment in Spain, growing to more than 4.4 gigawatts ... more
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