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Scientists seek new ways to feed the world amid global warming
Los Banos, Philippines (AFP) Aug 17, 2007On an agricultural research station south of Manila a group of scientists are battling against time to breed new varieties of rice as global warming threatens one of the world's major sources of food. According to the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) more than half the world's 6.6 billion people depend on rice for nourishment. "Parts of the world will become drier and apparen ... more UN team probes mountain gorilla shooting deaths in DRC 
Kinshasa (AFP) Aug 18, 2007A joint mission of several UN agencies is conducting an emergency investigation into the shooting of endangered mountain gorillas in a Democratic Republic of Congo national park, UNESCO said Saturday. In the last two months, seven of the primates have been killed in separate incidents in the Virunga park in northeastern DRC, a World Heritage site and tourist attraction, the United Nations cu ... more Blue-eared pig disease has spread to 26 Chinese provinces 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 17, 2007A mystery virus that has killed tens of thousands of pigs in China has spread to 26 provinces, the agriculture ministry said Friday. The ministry told the official Xinhua news agency that the highly infectious blue-eared pig disease was detected in north China's Shanxi province, making it the 26th out of the country's 33 provinces and regions that has been infected. ... more Student Joins AMASE Expedition In Svalbard 
Svalbard, Denmark (SPX) Aug 20, 2007For two weeks, an international crew of scientists and engineers are field-testing instruments for future Mars missions. Thea Falkenberg, winner of a student contest to join the AMASE expedition, reports back on her experiences through a daily blog. The Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition (AMASE) takes advantage of similarities between the conditions on Mars and those at Svalbard in order to ... more NASA Ozone Instrument TOMS Laid To Rest After Three Decades 
Greenbelt MA (SPX) Aug 20, 2007During its almost 30-year lifespan, the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) program provided unique and valuable information that shaped public policy and international perspectives on the environment. The instrument was important because its data established the geographical extent of the "ozone hole" over the Antarctic, and monitored its year-to-year evolution. With the recent decomm ... more |
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Charlotte NC (SPX) Aug 20, 2007Enjoying your August vacation? Well, (as they say in the summer movies) there's a killer in the woods. Its strike has been consistently quiet, sudden, and deadly. Unknowingly, we have all been playing into its hands... But put down that rock -- you personally are not in any danger. It's the woods themselves that are getting axed and you may be an accomplice. Melodrama aside, the threat is ... more The quake escape 
Tambo De Mora, Peru (AFP) Aug 17, 2007As Peru's powerful earthquake brought down their prison's walls and lights, 66 guards could only watch helplessly while nearly 700 inmates escaped into the night. The Chincha Prison, located in the town of Tambo de Mora, held many hardened criminals, including rapists, kidnappers and drug dealers, when its doors and walls were forced open by the 8.0-magnitude earthquake that devastated the ... more Hundreds evacuated amid Indonesian volcano alert 
Jakarta (AFP) Aug 19, 2007Some 300 families have been evacuated from the slopes of a volcano on the northern Indonesian island of Siau, a day after authorities said an eruption could be imminent, reports said Sunday. Authorities raised the alert on Saturday for Mount Karangetang, meaning they fear an eruption could soon take place, and advised that at least two villages be evacuated, Indonesia's volcanology office sa ... more SAsia flood death toll tops 2,700 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 19, 2007The death toll from floods triggered by heavy rains and snow melt in South Asia topped 2,700 Sunday as some rivers in India continued to overflow, delaying relief efforts, officials said. In the eastern Indian state of Bihar -- one of the worst hit -- the Ganges and other rivers surged above the danger mark, a government statement said, adding that efforts to distribute food and drinking water ... more Rescue efforts end in quake-hit Pisco 
Pisco, Peru (AFP) Aug 19, 2007After four sleepless nights, firefighters abandoned their rescue efforts Sunday as hopes for finding survivors evaporated in Pisco, the Peruvian town ravaged by a massive earthquake. Rescuers had been toiling through the rubble day and night since Wednesday's quake, hoping to dig as many survivors as possible out of collapsed homes and the San Clemente church in the town's main square ... more |
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Kampala (AFP) Aug 18, 2007Heavy rains continued to wreak havoc in East Africa Saturday, as floods that have already displaced hundreds of thousands heightened fears of food shortages and disease outbreaks across the region. In Kampala, Uganda's minister for relief, disaster preparedness and refugees, Musa Ecweru, said high waters had submerged entire villages and destroyed many farms in the east of the country. ... more At least 12 dead in China storms 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 19, 2007At least 12 people were killed as a tornado ripped through the coast of eastern China while Typhoon Sepat battered the country further south, state media reported on Sunday. The tornado cut a corridor of destruction 800 metres wide in Zhejiang province, destroying 156 houses Saturday around Wenzhou City. Nine people were killed and eight left in a serious condition, Xinhua news agency said. ... more China bridge death toll rises to 64 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 18, 2007The death toll from the collapse of a new bridge in central China has risen to 64, state media reported late Saturday, as rescuers recovered more bodies from underneath the massive piles of debris. The 328-metre (1,076-foot) bridge over the Tuo river in Hunan province crumbled on Monday as workers were removing steel scaffolding erected during its construction, the government said earlier. ... more Airline pilots call for talks with climate change protesters 
London (AFP) Aug 18, 2007The British Airline Pilots' Association called Saturday for talks with demonstrators staging an ongoing climate change protest at Heathrow airport west of London. Several hundred activists have set up temporary home near the village of Harlington, close to Heathrow, in a tented village called the "Camp for Climate Action." "We would like to come to a common understanding about carbon ... more Yemen says foreign firms to build nuclear reactor 
Sanaa (AFP) Aug 19, 2007Yemen's energy minister said on Sunday that international companies would build a nuclear reactor in the impoverished Arabian peninsula state, the official Saba news agency reported. "International companies will undertake building... the nuclear reactor that Yemen aspires to own for peaceful purposes of producing electricity," Mustafa Yahia Bahran said. He did not give details about the ... more
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