Strong winds won't solve British pollution, advocacy says
London (UPI) Apr 4, 2013 -
Though no part of the United Kingdom showed maximum air pollution levels Friday, campaigners said urgent government action is needed to address the problem.
The British Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said Thursday's level of air pollution in London and southeast England hit the maximum level of 10. Forecasters said strong winds from the Atlantic may clear some of the ...
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Death, tumors harm efforts to save rare rhinos
Washington (AFP) April 04, 2014 -
Efforts to save critically endangered Sumatran rhinoceroses were dealt a double blow this week with the death of one animal at a US zoo and the discovery of reproductive tumors in another.
There are just 100 Sumatran rhinos left in the wild in their native lands of Indonesia and Malaysia, and nine are held in captivity for breeding purposes.
The lumbering creatures have dwindled rapidly ...
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Winrock develops new method for quantifying carbon emissions from logging
Arlington VA (SPX) Apr 07, 2014 -
Researchers at Winrock International have developed a first-of-its-kind method for estimating carbon emissions from forest degradation caused by selective logging in tropical regions. Refined over a period of 15 years and tested in six countries, the approach is highlighted in an article authored by Winrock's Ecosystems Services experts, Timothy Pearson, Sandra Brown and Felipe Casarim - publish ...
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NASA Radar Watches Over California's Aging Levees
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 02, 2014 -
One morning in 2008, research scientist Cathleen Jones of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., was flying over the San Andreas fault near San Francisco, testing a new radar instrument built at JPL. As the plane banked to make a turn, she looked down to see the Sacramento River delta, a patchwork of low-lying lands crisscrossed by levees.
Jones was using an instrument that ...
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A Question of Atmospheres: On Earth and Beyond
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 02, 2014 -
Scientists recently discovered the source of naturally occurring aerosol particles in Earth's atmosphere that play an important role in cloud formation. The particles in questions are known as 'climate-active organic aerosols,' and are vapors composed of large molecules that contain almost equal numbers of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen.
The international research team found that these vapors ...
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Kerry in danger of losing big bet on Middle East peace
Washington (AFP) April 05, 2014 -
John Kerry's high-stakes gamble that he could finally achieve the dream of generations and bring peace to the Middle East seems to be collapsing as easily as a house of cards.
Despite a dozen visits to Israel and the West Bank since he became US secretary of state 14 months ago and many more late-night meetings with his recalcitrant partners in capitals around the world, it appears after all ...
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20 police injured in Kyrgyzstan mining protests
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (AFP) April 04, 2014 -
Twenty Kyrgyzstan police officers were left injured after clashes with demonstrators who blocked a highway in protests against gold prospecting, the Central Asian country's government said on Friday.
Several hundred villagers in the Talas region of northwestern Kyrgyzstan launched the protest Thursday after a Kazakh company began gold prospecting at a nearby deposit.
Mining is crucial to ...
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