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• EXPERIMENTAL WIND PARK INAUGURATED
1,000-plus tons of CO₂ will no longer be released into the atmosphere
March 2, 2007
THE start-up of the Los Canarreos Experimental Eolian Park, located 37 km east of the capital of the special municipality of the Isle of Youth in southern Cuba, will make it possible, via the use of wind energy, to generate electricity and stop the release of 1,462 tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) into the atmosphere.

• 42 million Brazilians at risk
March 2, 2007
ALMOST 42 million Brazilians who live in coastal areas could be impacted by a half-meter rise in Atlantic Ocean levels in the 21st century, according to a study published by the Ministry of the Environment.

• 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON SATISFACTORY LONGEVITY
Science and Technology for quality of life
February 27, 2007
ADVANCES in science and technology in the function of reaching 120 years of age with quality of life is the principal theme of the 5th International Satisfactory Longevity Congress: an Integral Vision, scheduled from May 22 to 25 in the capital’s Nacional Hotel.

• Cubans experience the coldest morning of the winter season
February 16, 2007
HAVANA, February 19 (PL)—. The Cuban people awoke today to the lowest temperature of the current winter season due to the 16th cold front to enter national territory.

• CUBA-VENEZUELA
Fiber optic connection would facilitate cooperation 
February 16, 2007
A submarine fiber optic cable that would connect La Guaira in Northern Venezuela, with Siboney in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, would break the U.S. telecommunications blockade of the island while facilitating cooperation in areas such as health and education between the two countries.

• Cuban university exhibits its advances in Informatica 2007
February 15, 2007
HAVANA, February 15 (PL) —. The University of Computer Science (UCI), created at the initiative of President Fidel Castro, is demonstrating today the work carried out by this institution to develop this sector in the country.

• U.S. blockade affects Internet use
February 13, 2007
THE U.S. blockade extends over Cuba’s use of the Internet, according to Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdés, minister of informatics and communications (MIC), on opening the 12th International Convention and Exhibition Informatics 2007.

• CUBAN TELEVISION BROADCASTS DOCUMENTARY BY ALBERT GORE
Former U.S. vice president asks for political will to save the planet
February 9, 2007
THE February 8 edition of the regular “Roundtable” program on Cuban Television broadcast the documentary An Inconvenient Truth, in which former U.S. vice president Albert Gore criticizes the Bush government’s environmental policies and makes an urgent appeal to save life on the planet.

• 2006, the 6th hottest year in history
January 5, 2007
PLANET Earth is going down the wrong road, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the UN agency that measures the variables of the weather on a planetary scale.

• First face transplant, one year later
December 7, 2006
PARIS (PL).— Isabelle Dinoire, the French woman whose face transplant operation shook the world last year, continues to recover satisfactorily and plans to return to work in 2007, it was learned here.

• First clinical trials against cervical cancer
November 15, 2006
IN 2007, the clinical trials phase is set to begin for the first Cuban therapeutic vaccine against cervical cancer, associated with the most common of the human papilloma virus (HPV-16), which has been developed by specialists at the Center for Genetical Engineering and Biotechnology in Havana.

• Cuban rice fields: alternative habitat for some 100 species of birds
November 14, 2006
ALMOST 100 species of aquatic birds use the island’s rice fields as an alternative habitat in the face of a reduction and degradation of natural wetlands.

• Key Challenge For The 21st Century
Planting 140 billion trees in 10 years
November 14, 2006
QUALIFYING climate change as the main threat to planet Earth in the 21st century, a United Nations meeting in Nairobi, Kenya called for the immediately planting of one billion trees in what would be an essential step in confronting a global disaster.  The United Nations Climate Change Conference, held in the second week of November in this African capital, affirms that all can participate in this practical step, which would contribute to reducing the negative impact of global warming on the Earth’s atmosphere.
 
• Cuban biotechnology working for healthcare
November 14, 2006
Cuba’s potential in carrying out projects to develop therapeutic vaccines against a variety of diseases are currently on display at the 2006 Havana International Biotechnology Congress which was underway at the close of this edition. Health Minister José Ramón Balaguer and Concepción Campa, director of the Finlay Institute – both members of the Political Bureau of the Party – presided over the opening of the event, which brings together almost 600 participants from 40 countries.

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