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A New Pair Of Glasses To View EarthParis, France (ESA) Oct 18, 2010 Our view of Earth is set to become even sharper with new instruments to be carried on ESA's Sentinel-3 satellites. In many ways, it will be like looking at Earth through a new pair of glasses. Sentinel-3 is one of the five missions that ESA is developing for Europe's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative. Primarily, Sentinel-3 will deliver data for GMES services related to the marine environment, such as ocean-current forecasting services that need surface-temperature i ... read more |
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Tokyo (AFP) Oct 15, 2010An international meeting on biodiversity held in Japan Friday agreed on rules which hold businesses liable if genetically modified organisms they have imported pollute ecosystems, a report said. The meeting on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety reached agreement ahead of the major Convention on Biological Diversity which opens in the Japanese city of Nagoya on Monday. The protocol holds ... more  
Shanghai (AFP) Oct 13, 2010China should raise its 2010 inflation target to help ease pressure on Beijing let the yuan appreciate, a government think tank has said, according to state media Tuesday. Lifting the target to four percent from three percent would improve farmers' incomes and alleviate excessive liquidity, the Shanghai Securities News reported, citing the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The hike woul ... more  
Washington (AFP) Oct 13, 2010The United States on Wednesday raised the allowable limit on ethanol content in gasoline for newer vehicles amid an outcry from critics over pollution and federal subsidies for corn ethanol. In response to a request from the ethanol industry, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced it would now permit a gasoline blend with up to 15 percent ethanol, up from a previous limit of 10 per ... more |
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Ancient Colorado River Flowed BackwardsPalo Alto CA (SPX) Oct 13, 2010 Geologists have found evidence that some 55 million years ago a river as big as the modern Colorado flowed through Arizona into Utah in the opposite direction from the present-day river. Writing in the October issue of the journal Geology, they have named this ancient northeastward-flowing river the California River, after its inferred source in the Mojave region of southern California. Lead author Steven Davis, a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institu ... read more |
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