NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–30 December 2010 – United Nations humanitarian officials are calling for “massive mobilization activities” in Haiti to promote prevention and early treatment in the cholera epidemic which has already killed more than 2,760 people and infected over 130,000 others, nearly 71,000 of whom were hospitalized. Major gaps and constraints[Read More…]
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IDNR Reminds Snowmobile Operators to be Cautious this Winter
SPRINGFIELD–(ENEWSPF)–December 29, 2010. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is reminding snowmobile operators and riders to take extra caution this year as the snow begins to fall in Illinois. Every year throughout the state, people are seriously injured or lose their lives on snowmobiles. Many of these accidents could have[Read More…]
NOAA Finalizes Plans for 2011 Hydrographic Survey Season
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 29, 2010. As the new year approaches, NOAA ships and independent contractors are preparing for the nation’s 177th hydrographic surveying season, aiming to collect critically needed ocean and coastal mapping data for 2,525 square nautical miles in high-traffic coastal waters of the continental United States and Alaska. “The[Read More…]
NOAA Website Launched Housing Previously Released Public Information from the Deepwater Horizon Response
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 29, 2010. NOAA today unveiled a web archive of the maps, wildlife reports, scientific reports and other previously released public information used by emergency responders, fishermen, mariners and local officials during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The NOAA Deepwater Horizon Library can be accessed via http://www.noaa.gov/deepwaterhorizon. “This website[Read More…]
New UN-Korean Partnership Aims to Boost Transfer of ‘Green’ Technologies
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–29 December 2010 – The United Nations today announced a new partnership with the Republic of Korea’s international development agency to facilitate the transfer of environmentally sound technologies to help Cambodia tackle pollution. The agreement signed in Vienna is the first between the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and[Read More…]
Costly Australian Floods Highlight Need for Disaster Mitigation Planning, UN Warns
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–29 December 2010 – With unpredictable and extreme weather the “new normal,” both developed and developing countries must plan ahead by anticipating the consequences of development or face increasing economic losses, according to the United Nations disaster mitigation secretariat. Citing torrential rains that have severely flooded parts of north-eastern[Read More…]
Farmers’ Fear of Cholera Threatens Rice Harvest in Haiti – UN Agency
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–29 December 2010 – Farmers in north-western Haiti are likely to lose a significant portion of their rice harvest due to reluctance to work in paddy fields they fear are contaminated by the cholera-causing bacteria, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today, adding that it is[Read More…]
When the black hole was born
TAU astronomers identify the epoch of the first fast growth of black holes University of North Texas-(ENEWSPF)-Most galaxies in the universe, including our own Milky Way, harbor super-massive black holes varying in mass from about one million to about 10 billion times the size of our sun. To find them,[Read More…]
Comprehensive report on sudden oak death
10-year cooperative research effort provides basis for containment ALBANY, CA-(ENEWSPF)- Synthesizing more than 10 years of cooperative research on the exotic invasive, quarantine sudden oak death pathogen, the USDA Forest Service’s Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW) recently published "Sudden Oak Death and Phytophthora ramorum: A Summary of the Literature." This 181-page[Read More…]
Researchers: Pay more attention to epilepsy
ST. PAUL, Minn.-(ENEWSPF)- Epilepsy, a common and serious neurologic disorder that affects millions of people, is not getting the public attention and funding for research it deserves, according to an editorial on a study published in the January 4, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of[Read More…]
