Archive for ‘Science’
Activate computers to save power, says Microsoft CEO
March 3rd, 2008
Computers can be activated to save electricity, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer told reporters Monday in Germany on the eve of the CeBIT computing trade fair.
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Merkel and Sarkozy at opening of CeBIT computing expo
March 3rd, 2008
The CeBIT trade fair, the world’s biggest computing expo, was officially launched late Monday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy in attendance.
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Venezuelan expedition reaches Antarctica
March 1st, 2008
Venezuelan scientists and military officers reached the Antarctica after a 15-day trip, opening the South American nation’s first expedition to the frozen continent, officials said Saturday.
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Greenhouse report makes Australia sweat
February 22nd, 2008
The Australian government’s top climate change adviser said the “awful arithmetic” of rising greenhouse gas emissions meant the 21 million people living on the world’s driest continent would be among the biggest losers from global warming.
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Venezuelan scientists head to Antarctica
February 16th, 2008
Venezuelan scientists and military officers set out on their country’s first expedition to Antarctica, leaving Friday aboard an Uruguayan naval research ship
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Investors discuss climate risks at UN
February 14th, 2008
Hundreds of investors controlling $20 trillion in capital came searching for answers Thursday on how to put a price on carbon emissions blamed for global warming and create a new — and lucrative — economy based on cleaner sources of energy.
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Ancient trees give clues to climate change
February 8th, 2008
On the shores of lake Nahuel Huapi, in the wild mountains of Argentina’s Patagonia, live some of the world’s most ancient trees. Known in Spanish as the alerce, the Patagonian cypress grows extremely slowly, but can reach heights over 50 metres (165 feet) and live for 2,000 years or more, putting some of them among the oldest living …
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$50M grant will finance plant research
January 31st, 2008
A collaboration of botanists and computer scientists is being awarded a $50 million federal grant to conduct research into plant biology with an eye toward resolving global problems related to agriculture, environment and energy production.
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Latest scientists’ views of sea level rise
January 31st, 2008
Six of the 10 experts contacted by Reuters in the last 10 days stuck to projections by the U.N. Climate Panel that sea levels will rise by between about 20 and 80 cms by 2100. Four said gains could be higher because of likely bigger thawing of Antarctica and Greenland. None thought the IPCC was exaggerating the risks.
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First Antarctic marine census launched
January 29th, 2008
U.S., New Zealand and Italian marine scientists began a two-month voyage to Antarctica’s northern coast Tuesday as part of the first-ever census of Antarctic marine biodiversity, Prime Minister Helen Clark said.
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US climate talks must focus on emissions curbs-UN
January 29th, 2008
U.S.-hosted climate talks in Hawaii this week need to focus more on agreeing curbs to greenhouse gas emissions by major polluters, the U.N.’s top climate change official said on Tuesday.
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Antarctica on alert for alien invaders
January 27th, 2008
Seeds, spores, mites, lichens and mosses alien to the continent have been brought unwittingly by scientists and tourists, and could disrupt life in the icy wilderness. Antarctica is best known for penguins as well as seals and whales, but scientists are finding a host of other tiny organisms from springtails — closely related to insects — to mosses.
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Fukuda to leave for Davos for speech on climate change, economy
January 24th, 2008
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will leave Tokyo for Switzerland on Friday to attend an international forum and unveil Japan’s new climate change initiatives as well as seek closer coordination with other economies on addressing financial market turbulence from the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis.
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Gore, Bono Talk Poverty, Warming at Davos
January 24th, 2008
Former Vice-President Al Gore and Irish rock singer Bono addressed the World Economic Forum on Thursday in Davos, Switzerland on tackling climate change and global poverty.
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Forests, carbon capture keys to climate
January 18th, 2008
Protecting forests and burying greenhouse gases are key ways of slowing world climate change, Norway’s prime minister said on Friday a day after the Nordic nation set a stiff 2030 goal of becoming “carbon neutral”.
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