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 April 24, 2014 |
60% of China underground water polluted: report Beijing (AFP) April 23, 2014 - Sixty percent of underground water in China which is officially monitored is too polluted to drink directly, state media have reported, underlining the country's grave environmental problems. Water quality measured in 203 cities across the country last year rated "very poor" or "relatively poor" in an annual survey released by the Ministry of Land and Resources, the official Xinhua news agen ... more Catching more than fish: Ugandan town crippled by AIDS  Kasensero, Uganda (AFP) April 23, 2014 - When you risk your life fishing on dangerous seas, a drink in the bars back on shore seem a welcome relief, but in Uganda, it has created a culture with staggering rates of HIV. Exhausted from a night of hard fishing on the vast inland sea of Uganda's Lake Victoria, fishermen come off the boats as the first rays of light glimmer at dawn. Once the fish is sold and the nets untangled, some ... more South Africa's defence minister admits military meltdown  Johannesburg (AFP) April 23, 2014 - South Africa's military is in urgent need of investment to ensure it can meet its international commitments after two decades of budget cuts have left it under-equipped, the defence minister said Wednesday. In 1998, it was assumed South Africa would only deploy a single battalion to foreign missions, but by 2006 the country had committed to four to missions across Africa, overstretching its ... more Cancellations on Everest amid talks to save climbing season  Kathmandu (AFP) April 23, 2014 - Nepal's government strove Wednesday to save the Everest climbing season from an unprecedented walkout by sherpa guides as another major mountaineering company abandoned its expedition following a deadly avalanche last week. New Zealand-based Adventure Consultants lost three people in Friday's avalanche, which struck a party of sherpas preparing routes for commercial climbers up the world's h ... more Australia says cost not a concern in MH370 search  Perth, Australia (AFP) April 23, 2014 - Australia said Wednesday cost was not a concern in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, after the mini-submarine plumbing the depths of the Indian Ocean for wreckage ended its ninth mission empty-handed. Searchers were also investigating "unidentified material" which washed up on the country's southwest coast to see if it was linked to the Boeing 777, which vanished on March 8 with ... more Taking the pulse of mountain formation in the Andes  Rochester NY (SPX) Apr 23, 2014 - Scientists have long been trying to understand how the Andes and other broad, high-elevation mountain ranges were formed. New research by Carmala Garzione, a professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester, and colleagues sheds light on the mystery. In a paper published in the latest Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Garzione explains that the Altiplano plat ... more Lab researcher discovers the green in Greenland  Livermore CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2014 - At one point in history, Greenland was actually green and not a country covered in ice. An international team of researchers, including a former scientist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has discovered that ancient dirt in Greenland was cryogenically frozen for millions of years under nearly two miles of ice. More than 2.5 million years ago. Greenland looked like the green Ala ... more Everest guides abandon climbing season after deadly avalanche Kathmandu (AFP) April 22, 2014 - Nepalese guides on Mount Everest said Tuesday they would abandon this year's climbing season to honour 16 colleagues killed in an avalanche last week, throwing hundreds of mountaineers' plans into chaos. Scores of foreign climbers have been waiting in base camp after paying tens of thousands of dollars to scale the world's highest peak. The sherpas perform essential tasks on the 8,848-me ... more Researchers question emergency water treatment guidelines  Washington DC (SPX) Apr 22, 2014 - The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) recommendations for treating water after a natural disaster or other emergencies call for more chlorine bleach than is necessary to kill disease-causing pathogens and are often impractical to carry out, a new study has found. The authors of the report, which appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science and Technology, suggest that the agency revi ... more Building 'Smart' Cell-Based Therapies  Chicago IL (SPX) Apr 22, 2014 - A Northwestern synthetic biology team has created a new technology for modifying human cells to create programmable therapeutics that could travel the body and selectively target cancer and other sites of disease. Engineering cell-based, biological devices that monitor and modify human physiology is a promising frontier in clinical synthetic biology. However, no existing technology enabled ... more Study shows lasting effects of drought in rainy eastern US  Boston MA (SPX) Apr 22, 2014 - This spring, more than 40 percent of the western U.S. is in a drought that the USDA deems "severe" or "exceptional." The same was true in 2013. In 2012, drought even spread to the humid east. It's easy to assume that a 3-year drought is an inconsequential blip on the radar for ecosystems that develop over centuries to millennia. But new research just released in Ecological Monographs shows ... more Westinghouse and Ontario Power Gen Sign Agreement to Service Global Nuclear Markets  Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Apr 22, 2014 - Westinghouse Electric Company and Ontario Power Generation, Inc. (OPG), through its subsidiary, Canadian Nuclear Partners (CNP), have announced an agreement that would enable the two companies to work together on a wide range of global nuclear projects. Under the agreement, the companies will consider a diversity of nuclear projects including refurbishment, maintenance and outage services, ... more Ant colonies help evacuees in disaster zones  London, UK (SPX) Apr 22, 2014 - An escape route mapping system based on the behavior of ant colonies could give evacuees a better chance of reaching safe harbor after a natural disaster or terrorist attack by building a map of showing the shortest routes to shelters and providing regular updates of current situations such as fires, blocked roads or other damage via the smart phones of emergency workers and those caught up in t ... more New tool advances investigations of disease outbreaks  Oxford UK (SPX) Apr 22, 2014 - To combat disease outbreaks, public health officials often use painstaking fieldwork to try to stay one step ahead of the infectious bugs, linking patients' symptoms to a source of infection to quickly identify the common culprit in related cases. Now, a new field called genomic epidemiology is taking advantage of the rapidly reduced costs of next-generation DNA sequencing to better inform ... more Earthquake simulation tops one quadrillion flops  Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 19, 2014 - A team of computer scientists, mathematicians and geophysicists at Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) and Ludwig-Maximillians Universitaet Muenchen (LMU) have - with the support of the Leibniz Supercomputing Center of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (LRZ) - optimized the SeisSol earthquake simulation software on the SuperMUC high performance computer at the LRZ to push its pe ... more Air temperature influenced African glacial movements  Hanover NH (SPX) Apr 19, 2014 - Changes in air temperature, not precipitation, drove the expansion and contraction of glaciers in Africa's Rwenzori Mountains at the height of the last ice age, according to a Dartmouth-led study funded by the National Geographic Society and the National Science Foundation. The results - along with a recent Dartmouth-led study that found air temperature also likely influenced the fluctuati ... more Study provides crucial new information about how the ice ages came about  Southampton, UK (SPX) Apr 19, 2014 - An international team of scientists has discovered new relationships between deep-sea temperature and ice-volume changes to provide crucial new information about how the ice ages came about. Researchers from the University of Southampton, the National Oceanography Centre and the Australian National University developed a new method for determining sea-level and deep-sea temperature variabi ... more | . | MORE DISASTER NEWS Algeria army hunts Islamists behind deadly attack Drone strike in Yemen kills 5 'Qaeda' militants: source Nepal calls off search for missing guides on Everest: official President says ferry crew's actions 'tantamount to murder' Death toll in US landslide rises to 41 Cyclone curtails aerial search for MH370 Tension at Everest base camp over sherpa strike threat Giant lasers could control the weather South Sudan on brink of collapse as war rages Guides, climbers cancel Everest expeditions after tragedy Two-thirds of underwater search done, no sign of MH370 S. Korea prosecutors turn to mobile app for ferry probe West Africa's Ebola outbreak prompts changes in I.Coast cuisine Fresh tremor rattles Papua New Guinea after 7.5 quake Taiwan anti-nuclear activist starts hunger strike Taiwan premier rejects call to scrap nuclear plant NextGen Drone Tracker Kit Now Available Researchers use Twitter to predict crime Recycling industrial waste water Preparing for the next Sandy Potential Use of Google Glass in Surgical Settings 4,000 Peruvians evacuated from homes surrounding erupting volcano Everest avalanche death toll reaches 13 |
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