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Satellites Watch As China Bulds Massive Dam
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 13, 2007Some call it the eighth wonder of world. Others say it's the next Great Wall of China. Upon completion in 2009, the Three Gorges Dam along China's Yangtze River will be the world's largest hydroelectric power generator and one of the few man-made structures so enormous that it's actually visible to the naked eye from space. NASA's Landsat satellites have provided detailed, vivid views of the dam ... more Chinese Premier Wants Action On Taihu Lake Pollution 
Shanghai (AFP) June 12, 2007Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has demanded action after a pollution crisis in China's third-largest lake led to the contamination of drinking water for millions, state press said Tuesday. "The pollution of Taihu Lake has sounded the alarm for us," various media outlets quoted Wen as telling an environmental meeting held by China's cabinet on Monday. He asked the participants, including offici ... more Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Achieves Major Milestone 
Minneapolis (SPX) Jun 12, 2007Alliant Techsystems, the U.S. Navy team of PMA-242, the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division - China Lake, and the Italian Air Force recently conducted the first Developmental Test (DT) firing of an Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) from an F/A-18 aircraft on the China Lake test ranges on 25 May 2007. The test firing confirmed the effective integration of AARGM with the F/A-18 ... more Beijing Offers New Model For Superpower Public Relations 
Washington (UPI) June 11, 2007It may simply be that President George W. Bush makes a perfect villain. But the way in which so much of the world's media, so many of its politicians of all nations and so many protesters in so many countries all combine to vilify the American president is truly remarkable, once the alternatives are considered. If Bush is the bad boy of global warming, despite his latest rhetorical accepta ... more Wild Relatives Sweeten Breeding Program 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jun 08, 2007Wild relatives of sugarcane hold genes that could be bred into commercial sugarcane varieties in Australia to help increase sugar production. Imported from China by the BSES-CSIRO Plant Industry Joint Venture for Variety Improvement, clones produced from crosses between sugarcane and three wild relatives of sugarcane are now available to Australian sugarcane breeding programs. This cooper ... more |
weather
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Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jun 07, 2007CSIRO and the Australian Greenhouse Office (AGO) have signed a two-year funding agreement for collaboration between CSIRO statisticians and the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Science. The project will investigate climate and rainfall linkages between China and Australia. "The objective of this project is to improve understanding of the interaction of the Australian an ... more Drought Hits Millions In Southwestern China As Polluted Lake Forces Factory Shutdown 
Beijing (AFP) Jun 05, 2007A severe drought has left four million people short of drinking water in southwest China, state media reported Tuesday, as the vast country battles a crippling water shortage. Some 4.46 million head of livestock were also affected by the drought in Sichuan, where parts of the province have not seen any rain for up to 40 days, Xinhua news agency reported, citing the province's meteorological bure ... more China Says Pollution Woes To Ease This Year 
Beijing (AFP) Jun 05, 2007The amount of pollution being pumped into China's environment will finally begin to fall this year, the nation's environment ministry said Tuesday, after a similar goal was missed in 2006. "We should see a turning point... this year," Zhang Lijun, the vice minister of the State Environment Protection Administration, told reporters in a briefing to mark World Environment Day. "This will be ... more US Encourages Responsible Behavior In Space-Faring Nations 
Washington DC (USINFO) Jun 05, 2007U.S. officials say the National Space Policy, released in October 2006, is the natural evolution of a half-century of space-related policies, and that China's anti-satellite test in January, though cause for concern, is not part of a new "arms race" in orbit. Also, some technical experts and members of Congress have expressed concern that President Bush's policy conveys a unilateralist attack ... more |
energy-news
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Beijing (AFP) June 01, 2007China launched a telecommunications satellite Friday that aims to bring television signals to every home in the nation, on the 100th flight of the homegrown Long March rocket series, state press said. The satellite was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China's Sichuan province just after midnight Friday morning, China News Service reported. The Sino-Sat III satellite ... more Gates Urges China To Explain Military Intentions 
Honolulu HI (AFP) Jun 01, 2007US Defense Secretary Robert Gates called on China Thursday to explain its intentions in undertaking a major military buildup that the Pentagon warns is altering the military balance in the region. "There is no question that the Chinese are building significant capacity," Gates said. "Our concern is over their intent." Gates spoke to reporters during a stopover here on his way to Singapore ... more China Launches Communications Satellite SinoSat-3 
Xichang, China (SPX) Jun 01, 2007China on early Friday morning launched "SinoSat-3", a communications satellite for radio and television broadcasting, aboard a Long March-3A carrier rocket, marking the 100th flight of its Long March series. The satellite, launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwest Sichuan province at 0:08 a.m. (Beijing Time), separated from the rocket about 24 minutes after lift-off, bef ... more Eating Ammonia 
Atlanta GA (SPX) May 31, 2007A new study led by University of Georgia researchers finds that crenarchaeota, one of the most common groups of archaea and a group that includes members that live in hot springs, use ammonia as their energy source. Chuanlun Zhang, lead author of the study and associate research scientist at UGA's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, said such a metabolic mode has not been found in any of the ... more
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