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CO2 Emissions Soared From 2000 to 2004

Greenhouse gas increase tripled over '90s rate

May 22, 07 6:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Worldwide carbon dioxide emissions boomed between 2000 and 2004, a new study shows. Output of the greenhouse gas accelerated by 3.1% each year, compared to a 1.1% rate during the '90s, according to the National Academy of Sciences, faster than all but the most dire forecasts. More »

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China • pollution • greenhouse gases • India • global warming • carbon • carbon intensity • carbon emissions

EU Universities Could Lose Ground to Asia

Old-world schools hear footsteps from China, India in college rankings

May 21, 07 6:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Top-tier European universities like Oxford, Cambridge and the Sorbonne will fall behind competitors in China and India within 10 years, the EU's education commissioner warns. The Times of London reports underfunding and outmoded curricula could cost the mossier Western schools their international reputations, and international enrollments with them. More »

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China • education • India • European Union • Europe • Asia • higher education • school • university

Booming India Is
Starved for Power

Chronic electricity shortages belie booming economy

May 21, 07 8:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - India's economy is growing so fast it has outstripped its electrical capacity, leaving burgeoning businesses, industries and homes to generate their own power with soot-belching diesel-powered generators for hours every day. Half of India's populace has no connection to the grid at all, and new construction often goes up without... More »

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energy • nuclear power • India • alternative energy • power grid • coal • power • electricity • US economy

Taj Mahal
Needs a Facial

India considers mud pack to clean
yellowing monument

May 16, 07 6:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Taj Mahal doesn't have any problems that couldn't be cured by a day at the spa. Centuries of pollution have left the enormous mausoleum with a yellow tinge; to restore its marble to pristine white, India is considering applying a clay mask. More »

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pollution • India • Taj Mahal • mausoleum • clay mask

Kidney Sales Brisk On India's Black Market

Desperate tsunami survivors
sacrificing their kidneys, getting ripped off by doctors and dealers

May 9, 07 10:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Women impoverished by the catastrophic tsunami of 2004 are selling their kidneys on India's lucrative black market in ever increasing numbers. Wired reports on an international organ-donor scandal in which desperate donors are often ripped off by unscrupulous doctors and dealers who take the organs and keep the money. More »

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organ harvesting • India • women • black market • organ donor • kidney • organ trafficking

(Newser) - Richad Gere and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are hardly soulmates, but both got into trouble last week for kissing (not each other) in public. The actor was hanged in effigy by an angry mob for kissing a female Bollywood star during a charity event in India; the Iranian president  reprimanded by religious... More »

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India • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Richard Gere • Shilpa Shetty • Bollywood • Kiss • kissing

India Short On Skilled Workers

Despite the tech boom, a third of the country
is still illiterate

Apr 9, 07 10:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Why is India short on skilled labor when it's teeming with Ph.D.s? While the staggering growth of its tech industry seems to have put the country in the running for the world’s next superpower, James Surowiecki observes that the Bengal tiger could be made of paper. Thirty... More »

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education • India • globalization • labor • literacy • tech industry

Big Oil Shut Out
Of Iraq Deals

First new oil contracts go to China, India—even Vietnam and Indonesia

Apr 6, 07 8:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - U.S. oil companies are far from first in line as Iraq doles out its initial oil contracts.   China, India—even Vietnam and Indonesia—have the inside track instead, thanks to contracts and infrastructure dating back to the Saddam regime, and more positive Iraqi sentiment. "They have... More »

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Iraq • China • oil • Indonesia • Vietnam • India • Iraq oil • Exxon • Shell • Chevron • BP • business • United States • ExxonMobil • fuel

They Pay the Price of Warming

when it comes to global warming, we're not in it together

Apr 3, 07 5:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - The obligation of people who live in countries that contribute the most to climate change--the developed nations— to those who will suffer most from it —the poor ones—is the subject of a provocative piece in the New York Times. More »

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climate change • environment • technology • Australia • carbon dioxide • India • drought • global warming • science • Netherlands • aid • Peter Gleick • Malawi • flood

Thumb Prints Produce Cash in Rural India

New biometric ATMs help the illiterate poor get wages faster

Apr 3, 07 11:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Payday in rural India now comes with the scan of a fingerprint: Brand new biometric cash machines are letting illiterate laborers collect their meager wages hassle-free. Account holders are issued an ATM card bearing their thumb print information; when they withdraw money, they follow voice commands to retrieve their wages.... More »

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technology • India • biometrics • ATMs • labor • employment • fingerprinting

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