Positive news from Austria
Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Agreement reached on greenhouse gas curbVienna, Austria - Negotiators from 158 countries reached basic agreement Friday on rough targets aimed at getting some of the world's biggest polluters to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. |
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Serbia to Return Lipizzaner HorsesBelgrade, Serbia - A herd of famed Lipizzaner horses, who were brought to Serbia during the Balkan wars and allegedly faced neglect here, will return to Croatia, officials said Tuesday. |
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“Momentum building” for new climate deal: U.N.Vienna, Austria - The United Nations says momentum is building for tougher long-term action to fight global warming beyond the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol and a climate meeting starting in Vienna on Monday will be a crucial part of the process. |
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Surprise! Giant panda gives birth in AustriaVienna, Austria - A giant panda on loan from China gave her Austrian zookeepers a surprise Thursday: the first panda cub born in Europe in 25 years. |
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Medieval crucifix found in Austrian rubbish skipVienna, Austria - An 800-year-old, gold-plated crucifix that went missing after being seized by the Nazis has been found in a rubbish skip in Austria, police said. |
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GPS-Galileo pact will create more accurate satnavThe US and the EU are close to an agreement that would allow their satellite-navigation systems to work together for greater accuracy |
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European Union bans sale of toxic mercury thermometersThe European Union has banned the use of mercury in thermometers and other devices as a part of a larger strategy to end the use of the highly toxic substance across the continent. |
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Animal rights activists free Bulgaria’s last 3 dancing bearsSofia, Bulgaria - After a lifetime of brutal treatment, including walking on burning embers, Bulgaria's last three dancing bears will get to rest their paws at a mountain sanctuary, in an apparent end to the centuries-old performance tradition in the Balkans. |
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News from Europe
- Six million turn out for global garbage clean-up
- Swiss Parliament Passes Plastic Bag Ban
- French move boosts shark sanctuaries
- First liver cancer ‘chemo-bath’ in the UK
- Scientists uncover gene behind skin disease
- Europe Now Creates Enough Solar Power to Fuel Austria
- London’s Eco-Friendly Olympic Games
- Portugal commissions world’s first Nissan Leaf electric car police fleet
- Long hunt detects possible ‘God particle’
- After damning research, France proposes banning pesticide linked to bee collapse