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 May 28, 2007 |
| CLIMATE SCIENCE + Yangtze Flood Alert As Tibetan Glaciers Melt  Beijing (AFP) May 24, 2007 - Melting Tibetan glaciers could cause the worst flooding on the Yangtze since 1998, when more than 3,000 people were killed as China's longest river overflowed, state media said Thursday. "Meteorological and hydrological features in the Yangtze River valley this year are similar to those in 1998," said Cai Qihua, deputy chief of the Yangtze River Flood Control Headquarters, according to the China ... moreWOOD PILE + Uganda Shelves Plan To Convert Rainforest  Kampala (AFP) May 26, 2007 - Government plans to convert thousands of hectares of rainforest on an island on Uganda's Lake Victoria into a palm oil plantation have been shelved, officials said on Saturday. Environment Minister Mary Mutagamba said the government abandoned the idea after the Kenyan company Bidco that applied for the licence backed off fearing negative publicity about the project would harm its efforts to ... moreEARLY EARTH + Definitive Evidence Found Of A Swimming Dinosaur  Boulder CO (SPX) May 28, 2007 - An extraordinary underwater trackway with 12 consecutive prints provides the most compelling evidence to-date that some dinosaurs were swimmers. The 15-meter-long trackway, located in La Virgen del Campo track site in Spain's Cameros Basin, contains the first long and continuous record of swimming by a non-avian therapod dinosaur. ... moreSHAKE AND BLOW + Hurricane Risks Higher Than Usual For Most Of US Coasts  Orlando FL (SPX) May 28, 2007 - Much of the nation's Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastlines face substantially higher-than-normal risks for hurricanes in 2007, according to an analysis by a University of Central Florida researcher and his Georgia colleague. Nationally, Carteret County on the North Carolina coastline has the highest probability of hurricane-force winds in 2007 at 22.4 percent, according to the analysis by UCF ... moreDISASTER MANAGEMENT + Chinese Space Agency Joins The International Charter Space And Major Disasters  Paris (ESA) May 28, 2007 - The China National Space Administration has become the newest member of the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters', a joint initiative that works to provide emergency response satellite data free of charge to those affected by disasters anywhere in the world. China National Space Administration (CNSA) Administrator Prof. Dr Sun Laiyan signed the Charter on 24 May at ESA headquar ... more | WHALES AHOY:  ICE WORLD:  FLORA AND FAUNA:  WHALES AHOY:  |
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| ENERGY TECH + Japan Proposes Halving Emissions By 2050  Tokyo (AFP) May 24, 2007 - Japan called Thursday for the world to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, proposing a successor to the Kyoto Protocol it hopes will win over top offenders the United States and China. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, unveiling the proposal ahead of the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Germany, pledged to bring all nations onboard in the fight against global warming by making the post-Kyoto framework ... moreENERGY TECH + Indian Businessman Capitalizes On Global Warming Concerns  Bangalore (AFP) India, May 27, 2007 - Indian businessman Tulsi Tanti, who has just bought German turbine maker REpower, stumbled into wind energy almost by accident when he was calculating the cost of power for his textile plant. More than a decade on, he believes increasing concern about global warming means the wind energy business will only turn in yet more profits. Tanti, 49, found that he was paying 25 percent of his ... moreTIME AND SPACE + NIST Atom Interferometry Displays New Quantum Tricks  Washington DC (SPX) May 28, 2007 - Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a novel way of making atoms interfere with each other, recreating a famous experiment originally done with light while also making the atoms do things that light just won't do. Their experiments showcase some of the extraordinary behavior taken for granted in the quantum world-atoms acting like waves and ... moreCLIMATE SCIENCE + US Clash With G8 Partners Looms Over Climate Issues  Paris (AFP) May 27, 2007 - The prospect looms of a major clash between the United States and its G8 partners over global warming, with Washington's view threatening to block agreement at next month's summit of the leading industrial nations. German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel Saturday criticised the US climate policy in a newspaper interview, saying it "was going to be difficult to achieve success" at the June 6-8 ... moreENERGY TECH + New Fabrication Technique Yields Nanoscale UV LEDs  Washington DC (SPX) May 28, 2007 - Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with scientists from the University of Maryland and Howard University, have developed a technique to create tiny, highly efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) from nanowires. As described in a recent paper, the fabricated LEDs emit ultraviolet light-a key wavelength range required for many light-based ... more | CIVIL NUCLEAR:  ENERGY TECH:  FAST TRACK:  TECH SPACE:  |
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