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| September 26, 2013 |
 Livestock is major contributor to global warming: UN Rome (AFP) Sept 26, 2013 - Livestock farming makes up 14.5 percent of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, the UN food agency said Thursday, proposing solutions like breeding less-flatulent types of cows. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said the methane from livestock every year was equivalent to around 144 million tonnes of oil - enough to power the whole of South Africa. The Rome-based agency ... more |  |
 Spinning CDs to Clean Sewage Water Washington DC (SPX) Sep 26, 2013 - Audio CDs, all the rage in the '90s, seem increasingly obsolete in a world of MP3 files and iPods, leaving many music lovers with the question of what to do with their extensive compact disk collections. While you could turn your old disks into a work of avant-garde art, researchers in Taiwan have come up with a more practical application: breaking down sewage. The team will present its ne ... more |  |
Economic rewards of better land management New York NY (SPX) Sep 26, 2013 - Adopting proven sustainable land management practices could raise world crop supplies by an estimated 2.3 billion tonnes, worth $1.4 trillion, experts say in a study being released at a major global desertification conference. Conducted by the international Economics of Land Degradation initiative, the scientific interim report says land's economic value "is chronically undervalued and com ... more |  |
 Putin says Arctic activists broke law but 'not pirates' Moscow (AFP) Sept 25, 2013 - President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday 30 Greenpeace activists arrested by Russia were not "pirates" but had broken the law in a protest against Arctic oil exploration, as the authorities detained all the campaigners pending trial. On Tuesday, Russia opened a criminal probe into suspected piracy by the four Russian and 26 foreign Greenpeace activists, with charges carrying the maximum punis ... more |  |
 Pollution deadlier than road accidents in Sao Paulo Sao Paulo (AFP) Sept 24, 2013 - Air pollution kills more people annually than road accidents in Sao Paulo, Brazil's most populous city which will host the opening game of the 2014 World Cup, a study found. The survey by the Health and Environment out Tuesday said at least 4,655 people died from pollution-related ailments in the city which is home to 11 million, compared with 1,556 killed in crashes. With four million v ... more |  |
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 Climate change nothing new in Oz Cairns, Australia (SPX) Sep 26, 2013 - While we grapple with the impact of climate change, archaeologists suggest we spare a thought for Aboriginal Australians who had to cope with the last ice age. "The period scientists call the Last Glacial Maximum, or LGM for short, is the most significant climatic event ever faced by humans on this continent," Associate Professor Sean Ulm from James Cook University in Cairns said. Re ... more |  |
 Genetic study pushes back timeline for first significant human population expansion Oxford, UK (SPX) Sep 26, 2013 - About 10,000 years ago, the Neolithic age ushered in one of the most dramatic periods of human cultural and technological transition, where independently, different world populations developed the domestication of plants and animals. The hunter-gatherers gave rise to herders and farmers. Changes to a more sedentary lifestyle and larger settlements are widely thought to have contributed to ... more |  |
 Pakistan quake death toll surges above 300 Awaran, Pakistan (AFP) Sept 25, 2013 - Desperate villagers in southwest Pakistan clawed through the wreckage of their ruined homes Wednesday, a day after a huge earthquake struck, killing more than 300 people and creating a new island off the coast. The 7.7-magnitude quake hit on Tuesday afternoon in Baluchistan province's remote Awaran district - a dirt-poor expanse of land that is roughly the size of Wales. At least 328 p ... more |  |
Pakistan quake island unlikely to last: experts Gwadar, Pakistan (AFP) Sept 25, 2013 - A small island of mud and rock created by the huge earthquake that hit southwest Pakistan has fascinated locals but experts - who found methane gas rising from it - say it is unlikely to last long. The 7.7-magnitude quake struck on Tuesday in Baluchistan's remote Awaran district, killing at least 271 people and affecting hundreds of thousands. Off the coastline near the port of Gwadar ... more |  |
Mexico storms: 139 dead, 53 still missing Mexico City (AFP) Sept 25, 2013 - The death toll from twin storms that battered Mexico has risen to 139 from 130 while 53 people remain missing after a mudslide buried their village, officials said Wednesday. Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said a further 35 people were injured in the landslides and floods that hit several states after tropical storms Ingrid and Manuel pummeled the country last week. The bigg ... more |  |
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 Japan suspends senior official over tsunami victims blog Tokyo (AFP) Sept 26, 2013 - Japan's government on Thursday suspended a senior bureaucrat who blogged about the pointlessness of rebuilding tsunami-wrecked towns because they were populated mostly by economically unproductive old people. The 51-year-old career civil servant said coastal areas that were destroyed in March 2011 were "almost in ruins" even before the disaster, which claimed more than 18,000 lives and turne ... more |  |
NASA tests space radar for finding buried victims Washington (AFP) Sept 25, 2013 - A portable radar device that can sense live victims beneath a collapsed structure was inspired by the same technology used to detect distant objects in space, NASA said Wednesday. The prototype for the new tool was demonstrated for reporters by US space agency experts who are collaborating with the Department of Homeland Security. Known by the acronym FINDER, short for Finding Individual ... more |  |
Sands of time running out for rare Canadian desert Winnipeg, Canada (AFP) Sept 25, 2013 - As desertification creeps into parts of the world, a rare stretch of sand in Canada's vast western plains is oddly doing the reverse - slowly sprouting with vegetation. Tufts of prairie grasses are emerging throughout Spirit Sands, a stretch of dunes steeped in local lore in a popular nature park in Manitoba province. The sands cover only about four square kilometres (1.54 square miles) ... more |  |
German election seen as boost for EU emissions trading scheme fix Berlin (UPI) Sep 25, 2013 - The results of this week's German federal elections could pave the way for a fix of the European Union's carbon emissions trading scheme, analysts say. The European Commission is seeking emergency measures to "backload" carbon allowances from the market in a bid to bolster their low prices, which is hamstringing their ability to persuade polluters to invest in green technologies. ... more |  |
 Zimbabwe poachers jailed 15 years for elephant poisoning Harare (AFP) Sept 25, 2013 - A Zimbabwe court on Wednesday sentenced three poachers to at least 15 years in prison each for poisoning and killing 81 elephants, state radio reported. A provincial magistrate sentenced 25-year-old Diyane Tshuma to 16 years in prison for poisoning elephants with cyanide at in Hwange National Park, in the west of Zimbabwe, Spot FM reported. His co-accused Robert Maphosa, 42, and Thabani ... more |  |
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In new report, climate experts to warn of sea peril Stockholm (AFP) Sept 25, 2013 - UN experts are expected to warn on Friday that global warming will hoist sea levels higher than was projected six years ago, threatening millions of lives. In a report touching on a high-stakes, contentious issue, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will predict sea levels to rise by between 26 and 81 centimetres (10.4 and 32.4 inches) by 2100, according to a draft seen by A ... more |  |
Big blast, then quiet, from Nicaraguan volcano Managua (AFP) Sept 25, 2013 - A volcano in Nicaragua erupted Wednesday with a mighty blast and a column of ash, then quieted down again, the government said. No one was hurt but villagers near the Telica volcano in the northwest of the Central American nation were told to remain on alert. The mountain is about 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) tall. The morning blast spewed ash 50 meters (165 feet) into the air, said Gui ... more |  |
 Danone's Nutricia accused of bribing China doctors: media Beijing (AFP) Sept 25, 2013 - French conglomerate Danone faced fresh bribery accusations in China on Wednesday, made by a newspaper against its healthcare subsidiary Nutricia, as authorities investigate corruption among drug and dairy firms. Nutricia "provided improper benefits on a large scale to more than 100 doctors at 14 hospitals in Beijing in order to spur medicine sales", the 21st Century Business Herald said, ci ... more |  |
FBI releases chilling video of navy yard shooter Washington (AFP) Sept 25, 2013 - The gunman who slaughtered 12 people last week in Washington is seen darting through a Navy building like a special forces operator in a chilling video released Wednesday. The FBI also said analysis of Aaron Alexis's medical history shows he believed he was being controlled or influenced by extremely low frequency, or ELF, electro magnetic waves. Alexis used a sawed-off shotgun and a han ... more |  |
Twitter launches emergency alerts San Francisco (AFP) Sept 25, 2013 - Twitter on Wednesday launched a system for emergency alerts which can help spread critical information when other lines of communication are down. The popular messaging service said its Twitter Alerts could be useful in natural disasters or other emergencies when traditional channels may be overloaded or unavailable. "We know from our users how important it is to be able to receive relia ... more |  |
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