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Rescue Teams Scramble To Help Indonesia Landslide Victims
Kupang, Indonesia (AFP) March 04, 2007Rescue teams have been sent by air to help find dozens of people still missing after deadly landslides buried villages in eastern Indonesia, officials said on Sunday. The landslides and flash floods on Flores island on Saturday killed at least 32 people, and distraught families reported another 38 were missing, said disaster relief coordinator Lazarus. A Roadmap For Climate Change 
United Nations (UPI) Mar 05, 2007Despite a recent plunge into the deep freeze, much of the U.S. East Coast and Midwest have been going through an extraordinarily warm winter with temperatures running 10 to 20 degrees higher than normal in many places. This unusually warm weather, coupled with severe droughts and downpours worldwide, demonstrate how climate change may be one of the greatest environmental threats for humanity. Asia Sees Warmest Winter On Record, Tokyo Goes Snowless As Temperatures Jump 
Tokyo (AFP) March 01, 2007The Japanese capital Tokyo has ended winter without snow for the first time on record, the weather agency said Thursday, amid rising global concern about climate change. The Japan Meteorological Agency recorded no snow in central Tokyo by February 28, which it defines as the last day of winter, for the first time since records began in 1876. |
As An Economy Blossoms An Ancient Capital Suffocates
Yerevan (AFP) March 01, 2007Waking one cold winter morning, Yerevan resident Susanna Pogosian drew back the curtains and got a shock: workmen had razed the trees opposite her home, literally overnight. "Trees that had stood there for decades were lying on the ground. We were all in shock. It happened right in front of the eyes of the police, who didn't lift a finger," said Pogosian, recalling the day last month when the trees in the nearby playground were cut down. High Temperatures Leave Five Million Chinese Short Of Water 
Beijing (AFP) March 04, 2007Nearly five million Chinese are unable to get enough drinking water because of a series of droughts caused by "abnormally high" temperatures, state media said Sunday. Crucially in a nation which still relies on agriculture for the majority of its people, the drought is also cutting off sufficient water supplies for 2.5 million livestock, the Xinhua news agency reported. Agreement Between ESA And The European Maritime Safety Agency Signed Today 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 05, 2007Mr Willem de Ruiter, Executive Director of the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) and Mr Volker Liebig, ESA's Director of Earth Observation Programmes, signed an agreement between the two agencies, strengthening the framework for cooperation in the field of maritime monitoring and surveillance. |
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NASA Detects Trends In Rainfall Traits From Drizzles To Downpours
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 05, 2007Breaking news in recent years has been swamped with stories of extreme weather -- flash floods in East Asia, prolonged drought in Africa, destructive hurricanes like Hurricane Katrina, heavy monsoon rainfall in South Asia, and an historic heat wave in Europe. The effects of these weather crises have been devastating, and their frequency seemingly on the rise. Heatwave On The Top Of The World 
Saint-Quentin, France (SPX) Mar 05, 2007The French Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC, or GIEC in French) has just announced the conclusions of its 4th report, which restates that global warming has increased the average temperature by 0.74C over the last century. However, there is very little information about some parts of the planet, such as central Asia. Gauging Earthquake Hazards Through Study Of Precariously Balance Rocks 
Reno NV (SPX) Mar 05, 2007A seismological research team from the University of Nevada, Reno is finding ways to make precariously balanced rocks talk. In so doing, they are unlocking valuable scientific information in assessing seismic hazards in areas throughout the West. Their findings are shared in the January-February issue of American Scientist magazine. Scientists believe that zones of precarious rocks - rocks that have come close but haven't tipped over in the wake of a major seismic event - provide important information about seismic risk, its magnitude and its frequency. |
Hurricane Can Form New Eyewall And Change Intensity Rapidly
Seattle WA (SPX) Mar 05, 2007Hurricanes can gain or lose intensity with startling quickness, a phenomenon never more obvious than during the historic 2005 hurricane season that spawned the remarkably destructive Katrina and Rita. Researchers flew through Rita, Katrina and other 2005 storms trying to unlock the key to intensity changes. Now, data from Rita is providing the first documented evidence that such intensity changes can be caused by clouds outside the wall of a hurricane's eye coming together to form a new eyewall. Finger Rafting - Ice Sheets That Mesh When They Meet 
New Haven CT (SPX) Mar 05, 2007A study reported in Physical Review Letters demonstrates how ice sheets sometimes interlace when they meet, rather than riding over or under each other, and discusses the implications for other phenomena from plate tectonics of the Earth's surface to the design of self-assembling nanostructures. "A surprising pattern, much like the meshed teeth of a zipper, is frequently seen when floating ice sheets collide," said John Wettlaufer, professor of geology and geophysics and of physics at Yale. Power Of Yellowstone Shapes The Land Between Eruptions 
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Mar 05, 2007A 17-year University of Utah study of ground movements shows that the power of the huge volcanic hotspot beneath Yellowstone National Park is much greater than previously thought during times when the giant volcano is slumbering. |
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