France Introduces New Carbon Tax To Cut Carbon Fuel Emissions

In a move to make people reduce their consumption from using oil and gas energy, France will impose a levy on oil, gas and coal consumption by households and businesses from next year.
This Green Carbon Tax will be 17 Euro per ton of Carbon emission. While Sweden and Finland already have such taxes, France is [...]

N95 Face Mask is Recommended Swine Flu Mask

First and most important: All Face Masks Are Not The Same! A regular face mask offers not much protection against influenza (swine flu or avian flu). You can not rely on the commonly available dust mask. The face mask has to be a good quality mask with certain minimum specifications.
For people exposed to infectious viruses [...]

Air France Plane From Rio to Paris Disappers over Atlantic Ocean

The display at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris shows the plane status as: Delayed
Wish it were just delayed, but it has been out of communication for over 14 hours now. There were 228 people on board, including 12 crew members. The latest from BBC news

Swine Flu vaccine update: WHO raises alert level to 5

New swine flu cases continue to emerge, and its not clear who exactly is the patient zero in this case, and when it really started. For now, we will continue to go with the proposed name of a Mexican boy.
This is a new strain of the flu virus and currently there is no tested/proven Swine [...]

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