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Protestors Give Britain's Blair Unexpected Coal Delivery
London (AFP) Nov 14, 2005Environmental pressure group Greenpeace dumped coal at British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Downing Street offices on Monday in a protest against his action on climate change, police said. Madagascar Energy Firm Announces Green Fuel Programme 
Antananarivo (AFP) Nov 09, 2005Farmers in Madagascar are going all out to produce an environmentally friendly fuel from a shrub they hope can be used to meet five percent of diesel needs within a couple of years, a local energy firm has announced. FluWrap: Ominous Mutations Reported 
Washington (UPI) Nov 14, 2005Vietnamese scientists say new research suggests that avian influenza has mutated into a form that could be transmissible between humans. |
Walker's World: Europe's Grim Week
Paris (UPI) Nov 15, 2005It has been a bad week for Europe. France burned, and Paris was locked down under curfew. Tony Blair lost an important vote in parliament, and his grip on power faltered, while Germany dithered to put together an unconvincing new government whose first decision was to raise taxes, yet again. Australia Seeks More Palatable Name For Kangaroo Steaks 
Sydney (AFP) Nov 14, 2005Australia has launched a competition to find a new way of describing kangaroo meat which will be less offensive to diners sensitive about eating the national symbol. Rapidly Accelerating Glaciers May Increase How Fast The Sea Level Rises 
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2005Satellite images show that, after decades of stability, a major glacier draining the Greenland ice sheet has dramatically increased its speed and retreated nearly five miles in recent years. |
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Dam Projects Still Cause 'Excessive' Damage Worldwide: WWF
London (AFP) Nov 14, 2005Dam projects around the world continue to cause social and environmental damage, campaigners said Monday, despite guidelines for better practice having been in place for five years. Pharma Working With FBI To Stop Activists 
Washington (UPI) Nov 14, 2005The drug industry is working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to thwart guerilla operations of animal-rights extremists seeking to stop biomedical research involving lab animals, United Press International has learned. Researchers Devise Dinosaur Classification Method 
St Louis MO (SPX) Nov 11, 2005What do you get when you cross Carcharodontosaurus with Majungatholus? Good luck telling the two apart. Owing to paltry numbers of whole specimens that fail to illuminate a range of intraspecies morphological variation, dinosaur classification can be a task as gargantuan as some of its famed species. |
Pakistan Quake Victims Taught To Build Shelter From Ruins
Muzaffarabad, Pakistan (AFP) Nov 14, 2005Thirty thousand quake-hit families in Pakistan's wintry mountains are being taught to build shelter from the rubble of their homes under a new United Nations programme launched Monday. Quake Not To Hurt Pakistan Growth: PM 
Islamabad (AFP) Nov 14, 2005Pakistan's economic growth will survive the massive devastation caused by last month's South Asian earthquake, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said in an interview published Monday. 'Strong' Quake Off Japanese Coast 
Los Angeles (AFP) Nov 14, 2005A "strong" earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale rocked the seabed off the east coast of Japan, the US Geological Survey said in a revision of an earlier report. Ranks Of 'Environmental Refugees' Swell 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 15, 2005Amid predictions that by 2010 the world will need to cope with as many as 50 million people escaping the effects of creeping environmental deterioration, United Nations University experts say the international community urgently needs to define, recognize and extend support to this new category of 'refugee'. |
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