Yangtze project dammed with faint praise

Article Abstract:

China's National Peoples' Congress approved plans for the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River at Yichang, Hubei province, by a 2/3 majority but only after a startlingly acrimonious and public debate. Of the 2,600 delegates who attended, 177 voted no and 664 abstained, indicating widespread opposition to the controversial dam. The project is intended to control flooding, make the river more navigable and produce electricity. Unfortunately, the dam will also cover 19 towns and counties and 24,000 hectares of arable land with water and will ruin a tourist attraction comparable to the US's Grand Canyon.

China, Laws, regulations and rules, Environmental aspects, Environmental policy, China. National People's Congress, Dams, Yangtze River, Three Gorges Dam, China

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Light on the faint universe

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The Nordic Workshop Symposium in May 1993 developed several problems in cosmology. Presentations dealt with background radiation, especially outside our galaxy; XUV shorter wavelength background radiation that contributes to more accurate galaxy-formation models; ultraviolet flux from quasars; galaxy brightness relative to formation through merging; possible forming deep-redshift galaxies; and former assumptions about the number density of dimmer objects in disk galaxies.

Research, Galaxies, Galactic evolution, Cosmology, Ultraviolet astronomy

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A bright future for faint stars

Article Abstract:

There is clear evidence of the existence of astronomical objects known as brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs, also called failed stars, are formed from a protostar of mass less than 0.08 solar masses. They could be a link between huge planets, such as Jupiter, and stars. They grow fainter with a decrease in temperature and are difficult to observe.

Astronomy, Observations, Brown dwarfs

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