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Floods, landslides kill 19 in northwest China
Beijing, Aug 11, 2007 Nineteen people were killed and 37 missing after violent rainstorms triggered floods in northwest China, state media reported Saturday. The rainstorms, which started to hit the southeastern part of Shaanxi province Monday, destroyed homes and ruined crops, causing 280 million yuan (37 million dollars) in damages, a provincial flood control headquarters official told Xinhua news agency. T ... more Spectre of hunger looms over flood-hit India 
Madhubani, India, Aug 11, 2007 Senior bureaucrat Nibha Thakur ran short of cash as she shopped for vegetables in India's eastern Bihar state, where severe floods have pushed basic food prices beyond the reach of millions. "Survival is now a major issue," said Thakur, lugging a bagful of potatoes she had just purchased at four times their cost last month. "We may just have to do with boiled rice in the coming days as e ... more 28 dead, hundreds homeless in S.Africa inferno 
Johannesburg, Aug 9, 2007 A total of 28 people died and hundreds of homes were destroyed by a series of forest fires which have swept through parts of South Africa and Swaziland since the end of last month, officials said Thursday. "26 deaths have been reported thus far," in South Africa alone, said a statement issued after a cabinet meeting Wednesday. Two people were reported dead as a result of the fire in n ... more No foot and mouth at fourth British farm: environment ministry 
London (AFP) Aug 11, 2007Tests for foot and mouth disease on animals on a fourth farm in south-east England were negative and a temporary zone has been lifted, the environment ministry said Saturday. A ministry spokeswoman confirmed to AFP that results for the highly contagious virus showed that none of the animals on the farm near Dorking in the county of Surrey was infected. "Tests in the temporary zone have p ... more Death toll in Karachi storms rises to 26, officials say 
Karachi (AFP) Aug 11, 2007At least 13 people, including six children, died Saturday in the aftermath of storms that pounded Karachi for two days, officials said. Separately two men were killed when they were struck by lightning in Badin district of southern Sindh province, of which Karachi is the capital, raising the total death toll in southern Pakistan to 28, provincial health minister Syed Sardar Ahmed told AFP. more |
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East Lansing MI (SPX) Aug 12, 2007Permafrost - the perpetually frozen foundation of North America - isn't so permanent anymore, and scientists are scrambling to understand the pros and cons when terra firma goes soft. Permafrost serves like a platform underneath vast expanses of northern forests and wetlands that are rooted, literally, in melting permafrost in many northern ecosystems. But rising atmospheric temperatures are acc ... more More than 2,200 dead in flood-hit SAsia 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 12, 2007The death toll from South Asia's worst floods in 30 years topped 2,200 on Sunday as torrential monsoon rains resumed in several parts of the subcontinent, officials said. The floods have affected 30 million people in India, Bangladesh and Nepal since the start of the annual monsoon season in June, and many are still dependent on food and drinking water provided by relief workers. As surv ... more Climate change, humans endanger historic Silk Road stop 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 12, 2007China's historic Silk Road city of Dunhuang and its archaeological treasures are under threat from the effects of climate change, human activity and mismanagement, state media reported on Sunday. The oasis city, home to the UN World Heritage-listed Mogao Grottoes, has recently seen rivers run dry, vegetation die off, underground water levels fall sharply and sand storms increase, Xinhua news ... more British rower sets sail on trans-Pacific quest 
San Francisco (AFP) Aug 12, 2007After weeks of weather-related delays, a British woman set out on Sunday morning from northern California in a bid to become the first female to cross the Pacific solo in a rowboat. Unfavorable weather forced Roz Savage, 38, to depart from Saint George, a small port near the Oregon border, rather than San Francisco as planned. "She had a breakfast of cornflakes and plenty of coffee," Nic ... more One killed in unrest at India flood relief centre 
Patna, India (AFP) Aug 12, 2007A man died and 12 others were injured Sunday when police beat back a crowd of hungry flood victims at a relief centre in the Indian state of Bihar, officials said. Police used batons to beat back some of the 2,000 flood victims who had gathered at the state-run centre in Saharsa district, said local administrator Niranjan Kumar Choudhry. "They became angry when they were told that there ... more |
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London UK (SPX) Aug 13, 2007As oil becomes scarce, the world needs new transportation fuels. As new fuel options develop we need means of assessing which are most effective at replacing petroleum. So far many scientists have used a measure called 'net energy'. However, Professor Bruce Dale from Michigan State University claims, "Net energy analysis is simple and has great intuitive appeal, but it is also dead wrong and dan ... more Germany And Russia Joined At The Pipe 
Berlin (UPI) Aug 10, 2007Germany's special energy relationship with Russia threatens energy security in Europe, critics say. Others argue Europe's largest economy needs to build up strong ties with Europe's biggest energy importer. Energy security has become an increasingly important topic in European politics of the past years; domestic resources of oil and gas were scarce to begin with, and they are dwindling as consu ... more Japan to fund emission-curbing projects across Asia: report 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 12, 2007Japan plans to invest in emission-curbing projects in developing Asian nations in exchange for credits that add to its own anti-global warming effort, a press report said Sunday. The Ministry of the Environment aims to obtain 3.5 million tonnes worth of emission credits through the investment, the major Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun said. The Kyoto Protocol, a landmark pact against glob ... more Biofuels Shift Seen To Put Major Squeeze On Food Prices 
Manila (AFP) Aug 09, 2007A global shift toward renewable energy could jack up food prices by up to 80 percent as crops and farmland are diverted to producing biofuels, an international agricultural think-tank warned Thursday. Joachim von Braun, director-general of the International Food Policy Research Institute, said further crop yield improvements and increased efficiency of these alternative fuels were required if a ... more British officials say no chance of hitting renewables target: report 
London (AFP) Aug 13, 2007British officials have told government ministers that the country has no chance of meeting its commitments under European Union plans to raise the proportion of energy made from renewable sources by 2020, The Guardian reported on Monday. Citing an internal briefing paper for ministers that it had obtained, the newspaper said that officials believe that the best Britain can do is to produce n ... more
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