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 Beijing (AFP) Nov 11, 2009 
Rising temperatures will expose China's Yangtze River basin to extreme weather such as severe floods, drought and storms that could threaten cities such as Shanghai, a new report has said. In the coming decades, global warming will increase glacier melt in the Himalayan reaches of the Yangtze, diminish food production in the basin and lead to rising waters in coastal regions, said the World ... read more 
Dar Es Salaam (AFP) Nov 11, 2009Floods and landslides after three days of torrential rains killed at least 20 people and left 10 missing in northern Tanzania's Kilimanjaro region, officials said. Seven schoolchildren were among the dead in the village of Goha, according to local official Ibrahim Marwa. Seven houses in the village were engulfed by mud and water, the official said. Eighteen bodies were retrived from ... more
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Prisoners used to shovel snow-bound US capital
Heavy rain, snow disrupts transport in Spain Washington slaps fee on plastic shopping bags Vietnam says parched Red River at record low Philippine volcano darkens New Year for 50,000 villagers Shocked residents survey Australia wildfire wreckage Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Residents flee terrifying Australian wildfires Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax Thrill-seeking tourists flock to Philippine volcano 
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Dallas TX (SPX) Nov 12, 2009The Congo Basin - with its massive, lush tropical rain forest - was far different 150 million to 200 million years ago. At that time Africa and South America were part of the single continent Gondwana. The Congo Basin was arid, with a small amount of seasonal rainfall, and few bushes or trees populated the landscape, according to a new geochemical analysis of rare ancient soils. ... more  
Paris (UPI) Nov 11, 2009 The European Space Agency's Proba-2 spacecraft platform is in its second week in orbit and scientists say its operational health is excellent. The mini-spacecraft and the ESA's SMOS satellite were launched aboard the same rocket Nov. 2 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia. Proba-2 is designed to demonstrate 17 advanced satellite technologies while observing the sun and the ... more  
Champaign, Ill. (UPI) Nov 11, 2009 U.S. researchers say they've determined using a so-called wet ethanol production process yields not only more ethanol, but also more usable co-products. University of Illinois scientists, led by agricultural engineering researcher Esha Khullar, said the wet ethanol process involves soaking corn kernels rather than grinding them, resulting in more gallons of ethanol. ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 10, 2009People love to get the big picture of hurricane alleys, and thanks to the GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., they can now get real-time satellite animations of the eastern Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. NASA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Project is offering real-time HDTV movies of the east- and west-coast "hurricane alley" ... more 
Beirut, Lebanon (UPI) Nov 6, 2009 U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro said the Middle East is "in a challenging situation" and would need stability to achieve development, emphasizing the need to fight climate change to help avoid the next major conflict in the embattled region: "Water War." "Instability does affect (development). This is clear: Where you have instability, you cannot make development. But whe ... more 
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 7, 2009The leaders of Japan and Southeast Asia's five Mekong River nations wrapped up a summit Saturday at which Tokyo pledged more than 5.5 billion dollars in loans and grants and vowed deeper ties. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama told a press conference the Mekong region was a "priority area" for Japan's official development assistance (ODA) as it seeks to boost development in the resource-rich are ... more |
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