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Britain rallies G20 on climate change Saturday 07th of November 2009 06:20:03 AM by Katherine Haddon ST ANDREWS, Scotland (AFP) -- Hosts Britain urged G20 finance ministers to put aside their differences and strike a deal on climate funding on Saturday despite fading hopes for an accord at key UN talks next month.Politicians... Read more	Dinosaur prints found in New Zealand's South Island Saturday 07th of November 2009 01:05:32 AM NELSON, New Zealand (AFP) -- Scientists have discovered the first evidence that dinosaurs roamed the South Island of New Zealand with 70-million-year-old footprints found in six locations.They are the first dinosaur footprints found in the cou... Read more
Dinosaur prints found in New Zealand's South Island Friday 06th of November 2009 10:40:25 PM NELSON, New Zealand (AFP) -- Scientists have discovered the first evidence that dinosaurs roamed the South Island of New Zealand with 70-million-year-old footprints found in six locations.They are the first dinosaur footprints found in the country although... Read more	China a big winner in carbon credit game Friday 06th of November 2009 09:35:09 PM by Jerome Cartillier KUNMING, China (AFP) -- In energy-hungry China's southwestern Yunnan province, power is being produced at wind farms, dams and garbage dumps as the Asian giant adopts more "green" technology thanks to carbon trading.The UN's Clean Develo... Read more
Mercury probe fly-by maps mysterious inner planet Friday 06th of November 2009 04:55:19 PM WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The US space probe MESSENGER's third and final fly-by of the planet Mercury in September revealed an almost complete view of the solar system's smallest planet, leaving only the polar regions to be surveyed, NASA said.Flying at a low al... Read more	Gonorrhea drug halts tumor growth Friday 06th of November 2009 01:38:53 PM BALTIMORE, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A gonorrhea medicine used since the 1930s has shown an ability to halt the growth of blood vessels in cancerous tumors, scientists in Maryland say. Preliminary tests showed mice engineered to develop cancer had no tumor growth if treated daily with the gonorrhea drug acriflavine, said Jun Liu, who teaches pharmacology and molecular sc... Read more
British scientists seek more respect Friday 06th of November 2009 01:17:38 PM LONDON, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A group of British scientists is asking the government to respect the independence of scientific advisers and protect them from political interference. British politicians should not use disagreement over government policy as a reason to criticize or dismiss scientists, said the scientists' statement, released Thursday after the recent ... Read more	Kilauea's new lava flow reaches ocean Friday 06th of November 2009 12:42:53 PM HONOLULU, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- New lava flows from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano have reached the ocean, creating a new lava tube separate from the main tube, geologists said. Dozens of small lava flows have joined to enter the Pacific Ocean about 2,300 feet west of the main tube at Waikupanaha, said Jim Kauahikaua, lead scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian... Read more
Senegalese NGO plants 34 million mangroves Friday 06th of November 2009 12:20:12 PM DAKAR (AFP) -- A Senegalese environmental NGO announced on Friday that it had planted 34 million mangrove trees in three months in a project largely financed by French dairy giant Danone to offset its carbon footprint.According to the environm... Read more	New duck-billed dinosaur discovered Friday 06th of November 2009 12:13:30 PM BILBAO, Spain, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A new hadrosaur, or duck-billed dinosaur, has been discovered in Huesca, Spain, scientists at the University of Basque Country said. Several species of hadrosaurs inhabited the Iberian Peninsula until about 65.5 million years ago when some sort of catastrophic event caused their extinction, university paleontologist Xavier Pereda... Read more
China supports peaceful use of space as air force modernises Friday 06th of November 2009 12:10:36 PM BEIJING (AFP) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao said his nation supported the peaceful use of outer space Friday, days after his air force commander sparked concerns by saying an arms race in space was inevitable.Hu's comments, which echoed those made the day... Read more	Boat tails on trucks save fuel Friday 06th of November 2009 11:35:42 AM DELFT, Netherlands, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Tapered devices -- boat tails -- fitted on the rear of trucks can reduce fuel consumption by as much as 7.5 percent, scientists in the Netherlands said. Researchers at Delft University of Technology experimented with varying lengths of boat tails for a year to determine which was most fuel efficient. Working first wit... Read more
Unique supernova found in constellation Friday 06th of November 2009 11:02:14 AM BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 6 (UPI) -- An exploding star known as SN2002bj could be a new class of supernova that resulted in a true thermonuclear explosion, a California researcher said. The star at first seem liked any other that flashes into existence all the time. A closer look, however, revealed unusual spectral details, Dovi Poznanski, a University of Califor... Read more	Saber-toothed cats practiced equality Friday 06th of November 2009 11:01:36 AM LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Despite their long fangs, male saber-toothed tigers may have been less aggressive than other big cats of their time, researchers in California said. The saber-toothed tiger, Smilodon fatalis, inhabited North and South America from about 1.6 million to 10,000 years ago, sharing its roaming grounds with a prehistoric cat called the Am... Read more
40 leaders to attend Copenhagen climate conference: UN Friday 06th of November 2009 08:55:17 AM BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) -- Forty heads of state or government have signalled they will attend the world climate talks in Copenhagen next month, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer said here Friday."My understanding from the Danish authorities is that already, even... Read more	Newborns cry, coo in their own language: study Friday 06th of November 2009 08:05:20 AM PARIS (AFP) -- A baby's very first cry is audibly shaped by the language heard while in the womb, according to a new study.Comparing the gurgles, coos and cries of French and German newborns, a team of scientists from both countries found that babytalk is n... Read more
Climate talks enter final day amid row Friday 06th of November 2009 06:35:18 AM by Richard Ingham BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) -- UN climate talks headed into their final sessions here Friday amid scant progress towards a post-2012 pact and anger that a timetable to conclude the deal next month could slip by up to a year.Senior ... Read more	APEC seeks to slash emissions by 2050 Friday 06th of November 2009 05:10:24 AM by Martin Abbugao SINGAPORE (AFP) -- Asia-Pacific powers including the United States, China and Russia are expected to call next week for sweeping cuts in greenhouse gas emissions on the final countdown to a crunch climate meeting.US President ... Read more
APEC seeks sweeping world emission cuts by 2050 Thursday 05th of November 2009 10:45:09 PM SINGAPORE (AFP) -- Asia-Pacific leaders plan to call for sweeping cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 at a summit here next week, according to a draft communique obtained by AFP Friday."We believe that global emissions will need to peak over the... Read more	Florida grapples slippery giant snake invasion Thursday 05th of November 2009 09:10:08 PM by Juan Castro Olivera MIAMI (AFP) -- Florida homes and swamps more used to dealing with dangerous critters like alligators now face a more foreign invader -- giant pet snakes escaped into the wild whose numbers are growing at an alarming rate.Several speci... Read more