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admin /21 March, 2009
By Gerard Wynn
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Big gaps remain in a new U.N. deal on global warming meant to be agreed in December and time is running worryingly short with just 265 days left, the U.N. climate chief said on Tuesday.
Yvo de Boer criticized a meeting of European Union finance ministers last week, which he said put conditions on financial help for climate action in developing countries, contrary to promises at the launch of the two-year climate talks in Bali in 2007.
admin /21 March, 2009
Four Spanish students have sent a $100 camera into space and back to take a series of stunning pictures of the earth and its atmosphere. The camera was only one of the recording instruments the Catalonian students attached to the two metre balloon which was filled with helium. The experiment has highlighted the power of low end technology, but was assisted by Google earth which tracked the balloon in flight and helped the students retrieve the equipment.
admin /21 March, 2009
British scientists have developed a 1.5 metre long robot fish that is smart enough to navigate its own way underwater and transmit information about marine pollution to shore using Wi Fi technology. The scientists have chosen to mimic the shape of real fish because it is the most energy efficient. “The design was created by hundreds of millions of years’ worth of evolution,” explained Rory Doyle, of MBT Group, which developed the fish.
admin /21 March, 2009
From The Guardian A “perfect storm” of food shortages, scarce water and insufficient energy resources threaten to unleash public unrest, cross-border conflicts and mass migration as people flee from the worst-affected regions, the UK government’s chief scientist warned last week. In a major speech to environmental groups and politicians, Professor John Beddington, who took up Continue Reading →
admin /21 March, 2009
The poorer states in the European Union are panicking about the likely commitments to be made at the Copenhagen conference in December this year in the teeth of a global recession. European leaders confirmed their commitment following a tongue lashing from the UN climate chief last week. The world’s leading countries are falling in behind the Obama administration in the US and making renewable energy and energy efficiency an integral part of the economic rescue packages in their own country. There is also increasing political awareness that the science indicates the climate emergency is likely to be many times more catastrophic than the current economic crisis. As developed nations prepare to take the tough decisions to reduce carbon emissions, the leaders of Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary and Latvia have all expressed concern about the economic impacts.
admin /16 March, 2009
People say if farmers don’t want problems from Monsanto, just don’t buy their GMO seeds.
Not so simple. Where are farmers supposed to get normal seed these days? How are they supposed to avoid contamination of their fields from GM-crops? How are they supposed to stop Monsanto detectives from trespassing or Monsanto from using helicopters to fly over spying on them?
Monsanto contaminates the fields, trespasses onto the land taking samples and if they find any GMO plants growing there (or say they have), they then sue, saying they own the crop. It’s a way to make money since farmers can’t fight back and court and they settle because they have no choice.
