• United States: Use of wind energy expected to grow dramatically
• World tree planting drive sets goal of seven billion
• United States: System uses sound to find and avoid whales

• Maharishi Vedic Observatory: Ancient technology revived - Part III
• Revival of an ancient technology: The Maharishi Vedic Observatory - Part II
• The Maharishi Vedic Observatory: Ancient technology revived - Part I

• US: Scientists have genetically modified human embryo
• World: Women and children face tougher impact from climate change
• World: Greenhouse gases continue to increase

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Positive Trends
10 Short Summaries of Top Stories

United States: Use of wind energy expected to grow dramatically
13 May 2008 - Two decades from now Americans could get as much electricity from windmills as from nuclear power plants, according to a government report that lays out a possible plan for wind energy growth. The report concludes wind energy could generate 20 per cent of the nation's electricity by 2030, about the same share now produced by nuclear reactors. Wind energy today accounts for only about 1 per cent of the nation's electricity. If wind energy's share of power production grows to 20 per cent, natural gas consumption is expected to decline by 11 per cent and coal consumption by 18 per cent in 2030, said the report. As a result carbon dioxide emissions linked to global warming would be reduced by 825 million metric tons a year. (more)

World tree planting drive sets goal of seven billion
13 May 2008 - A campaign to plant trees worldwide set a goal on Tuesday of seven billion by late 2009, just over one for each person on the planet, to help protect the environment and slow climate change. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), an organizer of the tree planting drive begun in late 2006 with an initial goal of a billion by the end of 2007, said governments, companies, and individuals had already pushed the total above 2 billion. (more)

United States: System uses sound to find and avoid whales
7 May 2008 - New technology could soon help safeguard the whales from ships by using sound, not sight, to track the creatures' movements. In the past, tracking whales often depended on inefficient aerial surveys, which were limited by weather and how often the whales surfaced. Now researchers listen for the whales using 13 underwater microphones attached to buoys off the coast of New England. Eventually, scientists hope to follow their movements closely enough so boats can slow down and post lookouts. (more)

Mexico: Scientist rediscovers rare plant unseen since 1985
1 May 2008 - A scientist with the Missouri Botanical Garden has rediscovered and identified a rare parasitic plant that hasn't been seen by botanists in more than 20 years. A single specimen of the plant was found in Mexico in 1985, but the plant wasn't seen again until St Louis botanist George Yatskievych and a colleague found it in a pine oak forest in Mexico's mountains. (more)

Circuitry discovery could lead to more capable memory chips
30 April 2008 - For nearly 40 years, scientists have speculated that basic electrical circuits have a natural ability to remember things even when the power is switched off. Now researchers at Hewlett-Packard Company have proven them right, with a discovery they hope will lead to memory chips that store more data but consume far less power than those found in today's personal computers and other digital devices. The newly discovered circuit element -- called a memristor -- could enable cell phones that can go weeks or longer without a charge, PCs that start up instantly, and laptops that retain your session information long after the battery dies. (more)

Scientists develop new type of memory circuit
30 April 2008 - Scientists at Hewlett-Packard said on Wednesday they discovered a fourth basic type of electrical circuit that could lead to a computer you never have to boot up. In the 1970s, Leon Chua of the University of California at Berkeley, theorized there should be a fourth called a memory resistor, or memristor, and he worked out the mathematical equations to prove it. Now, a team at Hewlett-Packard has proven that 'memristance' exists. A computer that incorporates this new kind of memory circuit would never lose it place, even when the power is turned off. (more)

India launches 10 satellites in a day
29 April 2008 - India's space agency launched 10 satellites on Monday mainly belonging to Germany and Canada, the Indian Space Research Organisation said, boosting its space research capabilities. The Indian-made Cartosat-2A remote sensing satellite was the main satellite launched. High resolution images and data from the satellite will be used to manage infrastructure and natural resources in the country, officials said. (more)

Radio telescopes capture black hole
24 April 2008 - Using powerful radio telescopes, scientists have captured a supermassive black hole just as it was belching out a jet of supercharged particles, offering a first look at how these cosmic jets are formed, they said on Wednesday. A black hole is a concentration of mass so dense that little can escape its gravitational pull. Supermassive black holes form the core of many galaxies and astronomers have long believed they were responsible for ejecting jets of particles at nearly the speed of light. But just how they did it had remained a mystery. (more)

South Africans honoured at Innovative People Awards
24 April 2008 - South Africans Archbishop Desmond Tutu and physicist Neil Turok were among the 10 global luminaries who received 'Most Innovative People Awards' at this year's World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (WSIE). (more)

US and EU greenhouse gas emissions fall in 2006
23 April 2008 - US and European Union emissions of greenhouse gases fell in 2006, data published on a UN Web site show, offering some positive news amid a global picture of rising emissions. (more)

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Success of Maharishi's Programmes
10 Short Summaries of Top Stories

Maharishi Vedic Observatory: Ancient technology revived - Part III
2 May 2008 - Aligning one's vision with this ancient observatory aligns our individual awareness with Nature's Intelligence leading to life lived in accord with all the Laws of Nature for greater harmony, balance, and success in life. (more)

Revival of an ancient technology: The Maharishi Vedic Observatory - Part II
20 April 2008 - With the rapid rise of global invincibility, and expansion of educational programmes offering total knowledge of Natural Law through all the disciplines of Maharishi's Vedic Science, Global Good News continues this series of articles about the Maharishi Vedic Observatory, a collection of instruments used to observe the movements of the stars and planets. Aligning one's vision with this ancient observatory aligns individual awareness with Nature's Intelligence, leading to life lived in accord with all the Laws of Nature for greater harmony, balance, and success in life. (more)

The Maharishi Vedic Observatory: Ancient technology revived - Part I
13 April 2008 - As Maharishi's teaching of Total Knowledge continues to expand in colleges and schools around the world, Global Good News presents articles about the Maharishi Vedic Observatory, a collection of instruments used to observe the movements of the stars and planets. Aligning one's vision with this ancient observatory aligns our individual awareness with Nature's Intelligence, leading to life lived in accord with all the Laws of Nature for greater harmony, balance, and success in life. (more)

Maharishi University of Management, Iowa, USA: Dr Arenander addresses Iowa Brain Injury Association
5 April 2008 - Dr Alarik Arenander, director of Maharishi University of Management's Brain Research Institute, was recently invited to give a keynote address to the Brain Injury Association of Iowa -- the third time he has addressed this group. Approximately 350 specialists heard about the potential of Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation Technique for rehabilitating individuals with brain injuries. (more)

Science Daily reports: Transcendental Meditation can lower blood pressure
15 March 2008 - A new University of Kentucky study, which appears in the March issue of the American Journal of Hypertension, reports that Transcendental Meditation can effectively control high blood pressure without causing the possible negative side effects associated with anti-hypertension drugs. (more)

Maharishi School students in Iowa, USA win four international photography awards
1 March 2008 - Four photography students at the Maharishi Middle and Upper School in Fairfield, Iowa, USA recently won awards in the 2008 PIEA (Photo Imaging Education Association) International Photography Competition. The 2008 contest received 6,150 entries from 1,309 participants from 115 schools in nine countries. (more)

Prime Minister of the Global Country of World Peace gives introduction to the Unified Field conference series - Part I
23 February 2008 - On the Maharishi Channel's 'News from Around the World', Dr Bevan Morris, Prime Minister of the Global Country of World Peace, gave a live inaugural address for the launching of a new series of videotaped lectures on the Unified Field by renowned physicist Dr John Hagelin, Raja [Administrator] of Invincible America for the Global Country of World Peace. (more)

25 Unified Field Conferences are launched today in cities across Russia and Ukraine
3 February 2008 - The unique new 12-part videotaped conference series, entitled 'The Unified Field: The Key to Enlightenment, National Invincibility, and World Peace' and featuring world-renowned quantum physicist Dr John Hagelin, was launched today in the following 25 cities of Russia and Ukraine. (more)

Dr John Hagelin to present the Unified Field as the key to enlightenment, national invincibility, and world peace
3 February 2008 - A unique new 12-part videotaped conference series, entitled 'The Unified Field: The Key to Enlightenment, National Invincibility, and World Peace' and featuring world-renowned quantum physicist Dr John Hagelin, will be launched on 4 February 2008, in cities throughout the United States and around the world. (more)

India's timeless Vedic heritage: Meeting the challenges of our modern age - Part II
29 January 2008 - A series of Nobel-Prize-winning discoveries during the past quarter century have revealed a universal field of intelligence at the basis of mind and matter--the Unified Field or 'heterotic superstring.' During the meditative state, which is very easily and systematically achieved during Transcendental Meditation, human awareness opens to the direct experience of the Unified Field, resulting in a wide range of benefits. (more)

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Flops
10 Short Summaries of Top Stories

US: Scientists have genetically modified human embryo
13 May 2008 - News that scientists at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Centre have for the first time genetically altered a human embryo is drawing fire from some watchdog groups that say it's a step toward creating 'designer babies'. Marcy Darnovsky, associate executive director of the Centre for Genetics and Society, said the Cornell scientists were developing techniques that others might use to make genetically modified people, 'and they're doing it without any kind of public debate'. (more)

World: Women and children face tougher impact from climate change
7 May 2008 - Climate change is harder on women in poor countries, where mothers stay in areas hit by drought, deforestation, or crop failure as men move to literally greener pastures, a Nobel Peace laureate said. 'Many destructive activities against the environment disproportionately affect women, because most women in the world, and especially in the developing world, are very dependent on primary natural resources: land, forests, waters,' said Wangari Maathai of Kenya. (more)

World: Greenhouse gases continue to increase
25 April 2008 - Major greenhouse gases in the air are accumulating faster than in the past despite efforts to curtail their growth. Carbon dioxide concentration in the air increased last year and methane concentrations also rose rapidly, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported. Some countries, particularly in Europe, have taken steps to reduce emissions. But carbon dioxide emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas have continued to increase. Methane in the atmosphere rose by 27 million tons last year after nearly a decade with little or no increase. Methane is 25 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Concern has grown in recent years about these gases, with most atmospheric scientists concerned that the increasing accumulation is causing the earth's temperature to rise, potentially disrupting climate and changing patterns of rainfall, drought, and other storms. (more)

US: Scientist says GMO coupled with organic farms best for environment
24 April 2008 - A US rice scientist says that genetic engineering combined with organic farming, may be the best way to grow food for a rising population. Pamela Ronald, a professor at the University of California at Davis and a plant pathologist, helped to develop genetically modified (GMO) disease-resistant Xa21 rice. She plays down consumer worries over the safety of GMOs, saying it is time to abandon such caricatures of genetic engineering and see it as a tool that could promote an ecological farming revolution. (more)

Genetically modified crops found to lower crop productivity, study shows
20 April 2008 - A study has exposed the myth that genetically modified (GM) crops will help feed the world's hungry. The University of Kansas study, which looked at the crop yield of Monsanto's genetically altered soybean, found that genetic modification actually lowers the productivity of crops by about 10 per cent. (more)

Dangerous animal virus on US mainland?
11 April 2008 - The US government's research into highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease likely will move from a remote island to the US mainland near livestock herds, raising concerns about the risks of a catastrophic outbreak. The White House said modern safety rules at labs are sufficient to avoid any outbreak. But incidents in Britain have demonstrated that the foot-and-mouth virus can cause remarkable economic havoc -- and that the virus can escape from a facility. Britain's health and safety agency concluded an outbreak last year was probably caused from the virus escaping from a site shared by a government research centre and a vaccine maker. Infected milk cows don't produce milk. They remain highly infectious, even if they survive the virus. (more)

Australia: Climate change threatens koala - report
5 April 2008 - Australia's unique tree-dwelling koalas may become a victim of climate change, new research reported on Saturday shows. Australian scientists say that eucalyptus leaves, the staple diet of koalas and other animals, could become inedible because of climate change. Increased carbon dioxide reduced nitrogen and other nutrients in eucalyptus leaves and boosted tannins, a naturally occurring toxin, greenhouse experiments found. (more)

UK: Scientists make human-cow embryos
3 April 2008 - British researchers say they have created embryos using human cells and the egg cells of cows, but said such experiments would not lead to hybrid human-animal babies, or even to direct medical therapies. They said they had hollowed out the egg cells of cattle and inserted human DNA to create a growing embryo. The hope would be to take it apart to get embryonic stem cells. (more)

Diesel fumes can affect your brain, Dutch scientists say
10 March 2008 - Inhaling diesel exhaust triggers a stress response in the brain that may have damaging long-term effects on brain function, Dutch researchers said. Previous studies have found very small particles of soot, or nanoparticles, are able to travel from the nose and lodge in the brain. But this is the first time researchers have demonstrated a change in brain activity. The study results appear to be another black mark for nanoparticles found in traffic fumes, which have already been linked with increased rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease. (more)

Egypt: Nile Delta under threat starting 2020 - minister
10 March 2008 - Rising sea levels will threaten 15 per cent of the Nile Delta by 2020, the rich agricultural area which is home to about half of the 75 million Egyptians, Environment Minister George Maged said. Egyptian newspapers have quoted foreign reports on the potential threat to the Nile Delta, an alluvial plain much of which lies only a few metres (feet) above sea level. (more)