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Developing World Seeks Funds And Technology To Tackle Climate Change
United Nations (AFP) Aug 01, 2007Rich nations were challenged Wednesday to make deeper cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions and to provide the developing world with funding and technology to help it tackle climate change. Developed countries "have a specific responsibility" to carry out deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emission "in accordance with the commitments made under the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol," Pakistani Environme ... more Mapping Mountains From Space With GOCE 
Paris (ESA) Aug 02, 2007How high is Mount Everest exactly? Recent surveys have come up with heights that differ by more than five metres. An expedition called the Geodetic Journey is making its way through China and Tibet to highlight the importance of geodesy and how an accurate model of the geoid from ESA's GOCE mission will lead to a unified system for measuring heights. Geodesy is concerned with measuring and m ... more GT Solar To Equip One Of Largest Solar Wafer Factories In World 
Merrimack NH (SPX) Aug 01, 2007GT Solar Incorporated, one of the major providers of manufacturing equipment and turnkey manufacturing solutions to the photovoltaic (PV) industry, announced that it has signed a $171 million dollar contract with Glory Silicon Energy Co., Ltd., of JiangSu, China for GT's new and more efficient DSS450 furnaces for the production of multi-crystalline silicon ingots. The contract is the largest sin ... more China Faces Twin Woes Of Floods And Drought 
Beijing (AFP) July 31, 2007Much of China was inundated by the worst rains of the year, testing the Three Gorges Dam's anti-flood capacity, even as over a million people suffered from serious drought, state media said Tuesday. In northwest China's Shaanxi province, 21 were confirmed dead and 18 others were still missing in floods triggered by heavy downpours that began Saturday, the Xinhua news agency reported. As of Tuesd ... more Chinese Navy To Build Two Carriers With Russian Help 
Hong Kong (RIA Novosti) Jul 31, 2007Kanwa, a Hong Kong defense news agency, said Friday purchases by China of Russian aircraft carrier components suggested that Beijing was planning to build one or two aircraft carriers, possibly by 2015. The agency cited a senior source in the Russian Navy, saying that Russia and China have an agreement to purchase four deck landing systems capable of handling heavy deck-based fighters such as th ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) July 30, 2007Heavy rain and fog hampered efforts to rescue 69 workers trapped in a flooded Chinese coal mine for over a day, state media reported Monday. The state-owned mine in central China's Henan province flooded on Sunday morning with 102 workers underground, and only 33 were able to escape, Xinhua news agency reported, citing the local rescue bureau's headquarters. Efforts to save those underground wer ... more China-France Nuclear Deal Signing Postponed 
Paris (AFP) Jul 30, 2007The planned signing Tuesday of a letter of intent by China and France on the construction in China of two nuclear reactors by the French group Areva has been postponed, a French source said Monday. But he stressed that "the principle of a letter of intent remains intact, with the date (of the signing) to be decided. The initial date of July 31... was postponed for technical and calendar reasons. ... more China To Step Up Energy Efficiency Drive 
Beijing (AFP) Jul 28, 2007China has announced plans to double spending on improving energy efficiency and slashing pollution, in an effort to combat its dismal environmental record. The government will spend an extra 10 billion yuan (1.33 billion US dollars) on reducing energy use and cutting pollution, according to a statement from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the state body responsible for eco ... more Climate Change Sucks Water From China's Two Longest Rivers 
Beijing (Xinhua) Jul 27, 2007Climate change linked to the contraction of wetlands at the source of China's two longest rivers, the Yangtze and the Yellow River, has reduced the volume of water flowing in the rivers, said Chinese scientists. Scientists from the Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) studied changes over the past 40 years to the wetlands on the cold Qinghai-T ... more |
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Washington (AFP) July 25, 2007Iraq's ambassador to the United States Wednesday launched a withering attack on US reluctance to provide basic weaponry to his country's ill-equipped armed forces. Samir Sumaidaie said administration foot-dragging was inexplicable given President George W. Bush's oft-stated desire for Iraqi forces to "stand up" and so allow US troops to withdraw from the frontlines. Rejecting suggestions that th ... more Australia Considers Selling Uranium To India 
Sydney (AFP) July 26, 2007Australia is considering selling uranium to India after New Delhi finalises a landmark civilian nuclear deal with the United States, the government said Thursday. Australia has the world's largest known reserves of uranium and has been under pressure sell the nuclear fuel to India since it agreed last year to supply rival Asian giant China. But Australia has a policy of refusing to export ... more Is Russia One Of The Richest Countries 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 26, 2007The United States, Japan, China, Germany...Russia? Strange as it may seem, the world's largest country might soon also be one of its five biggest economies. On Tuesday, Russia's Economic Development and Trade Ministry submitted a remarkable document to the government - a plan for Russian social and economic development until the year 2020. With ambitious targets, it attracted the attention of ex ... more Natural Disasters Hit Chinese Grain Output 
Beijing (AFP) July 23, 2007Floods and other natural disasters are hurting China's grain output, the government said Monday, raising the prospect of higher food prices with inflation already at uncomfortably high levels. "Agricultural production is facing various problems, including flooding, drought, typhoon, plant diseases and insect pests," the agriculture ministry said in a statement posted on its website. "Stabi ... more
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