Agence France-Presse: Global warming could cause temperatures in Japan to rise an average of 4.7…
Month: January 2008
Guyana grants 1 million acres of Amazon rainforest to U.S. logging firm
Mongabay: Guyana has awarded a 988,4000-acre logging concession to a U.S. forestry company, reports the…
GE to invest in $350 million Texas wind farm
Associated Press: GE Energy Financial Services, the investment arm of General Electric Co., said Wednesday…
Could global gardening fix climate change?
Nature: Using biomass fuel on a massive scale in combination with carbon sequestration could return…
‘Go-ahead’ for UK nuclear expansion
Press Association: The Government will give the go-ahead for a new generation of nuclear power…
Australian ship seeks out whalers
An Australian customs vessel heads south to Antarctica to monitor activities of the Japanese whaling…
Fix will give Hubble major boost
The US space agency Nasa announces details of a mission to give the Hubble space…
China cracks down on sex-drug Web sites (Reuters)
Reuters – China is shutting down about 200 Web sites for carrying illegal sex-drug advertisements,…
Significant Racial Disparities In Cancer Therapy Still Exist
Black patients are significantly less likely than their white counterparts to receive therapy for various…
Will Intensive Forest Practices Impact Water Quality?
In order to increase productivity, forest practices have become more intense in recent decades. Forest…