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Worldwide, 15,200 megawatts of new wind generating capacity was installed in 2006, with about 15 billion euros (US$19.5 billion) invested, an increase of 32 percent compared the previous year, VDMA said in a statement.

"We expect to achieve similar growth rates up to at least 2010," said Norbert Giese, head of the wind turbine producers in VDMA. The VDMA represents 3,000 mainly small and medium-size member companies in the engineering industry.

The first major global assessment of climate change science in six years has concluded that changes in the atmosphere, the oceans and glaciers and ice caps show unequivocally that the world is warming.

In a breakthrough that could make fuel cells practical for such small machines as lawnmowers and chainsaws, researchers have developed a new mechanism to efficiently control hydrogen fuel cell power.

Many standard fuel cell designs use electronics to control power output, but such designs require complex systems to manage humidity and fuel recovery and recycling systems to achieve acceptable efficiency.

Anopheles Mosquitoes as Prey

Professor Spielman related vector-borne diseases to human disturbances of ecology. He thus described his principal research interest: “Vector-borne infections, such as those that cause malaria and dengue, constitute a heavy and increasing burden on human health throughout much of the world's tropics, while the agents of Lyme disease and arboviral encephalitis threaten residents of more temperate regions. The insects and ticks that transmit these pathogens generally depend on features of disturbed landscapes that are caused by human activity.

The massive potential of rainwater harvesting in Africa is underlined in a new report released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Agroforestry Centre,November 13,2006, at the UN Climate Convention talks in Nairobi, Kenya.

Conservation efforts aiming at preserving one of Africa’s most important wetlands received a major boost as the Sudd region in southern Sudan was included in the Ramsar Convention List of Wetlands of International Importance.  Southern Sudan now has some of the best preserved wetland and plains habitat in all of Africa and the largest timber reserves in East  Africa.