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Billion dollars in damage as California fires rage into 4th day
Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 24, 2007Fires raging across California have caused more than one billion dollars in property damage and left three people dead, officials said Wednesday, as a lull in winds allowed firefighters to make their first significant progress in combating the flames. Around 1,700 buildings have been destroyed in the 18 fires that have erupted since Sunday, forcing an estimated 500,000 people to flee their h ... more Heroic firefighters toiling against California inferno 
Jamul, California (AFP) Oct 24, 2007Braving ferocious, fast-moving infernos to save property and lives, California's weary firefighters are once more being feted as the heroes of the crisis ravaging the region. Some 8,900 firefighters are battling the myriad fires that have erupted across the sun-baked state since Sunday, in some cases toiling away for 18 hours at a time in thick smoke and fierce temperatures. Progress aga ... more Georgia slashes water consumption amid historic drought 
Atlanta, Georgia (AFP) Oct 24, 2007Georgia authorities have ordered drinking water distribution to be slashed as the state battles a historic drought that affects much of the southeastern United States. State Governor Sonny Perdue ordered a 10 percent cut in supplies of drinking water, stressing this was just one of several measures taken as water supplies reach critical levels. "In this unprecedented drought, we all have ... more France aims for 'green revolution' 
Paris (AFP) Oct 24, 2007Green campaigners, scientists and big business Wednesday hammered out plans to slash France's greenhouse gas emissions at a round-table aimed at launching an environmental revolution in Europe's third-biggest economy. President Nicolas Sarkozy was to conclude the two-day government summit on Thursday, outlining a raft of green measures in the presence of Nobel Peace Prize winning climate cr ... more Outside View: Arctic oil competition rages 
Moscow (UPI) Oct 23, 2007 The Arctic is rapidly becoming a scene of "competition and conflict for access to natural resources." This is how it is defined in A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower, a unified U.S. maritime strategy that explains the comprehensive role of the sea services in an era marked by increased globalization and change, presented on Oct. 17. The U.S. Senate was also urged ... more |
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 24, 2007With a click of the mouse button, the public can see NASA views from space, including some at Google Earth, of Southern California's raging wildfires and the ferocious Santa Ana winds that are driving them. Images taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (Modis) on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites are processed daily and made available by the JPL OnEarth Web Map Server, a ... more ERS-2 Data Vital For Maritime Security 
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 24, 2007Data from ERS-2, ESA's veteran spacecraft, is experiencing an increasing demand as the 12-year-old mission's products and services are playing a vital role in the initial activities for Global Monitoring for Environment and Security, such as the MARitime Security Service project which addresses the European concern of illegal marine trafficking. The MARitime Security Service (MARISS) is a ... more US in ship security deal with landlocked and navy-less Mongolia 
Washington (AFP) Oct 23, 2007The United States signed a pact Tuesday with Mongolia, which is landlocked, to carry out high-seas interceptions of ships suspected to be ferrying weapons of mass destruction. The US government said its eighth bilateral Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) would boost its campaign to intercept any oceanic trafficking in nuclear, chemical and biological arms by rogue states or extremists. ... more Indonesian volcano eruption imminent: scientist 
Blitar, Indonesia (AFP) Oct 24, 2007A scientist warned on Wednesday that all indications pointed to the imminent eruption of a volcano on the Indonesian island of Java, despite it showing few obvious signs of activity. Mount Kelut, a 1,731-metre (5,712-foot) volcano with a history of deadly eruptions, was put on high alert on October 16, triggering efforts to evacuate some 130,000 people living within 10 kilometres (six miles) ... more St. Bernard Study Casts Doubt On Creationism 
Manchester UK (SPX) Oct 24, 2007The St Bernard dog - named after the 11th century priest Bernard of Menthon - may have ironically challenged the theory of creationism, say scientists. Biologists at The University of Manchester say that changes to the shape of the breed's head over the years can only be explained through evolution and natural selection. The team, led by Dr Chris Klingenberg in the Faculty of Life Sciences, exam ... more |
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Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 23, 2007More than half a million people across California were ordered to evacuate Tuesday as wildfires raged for a third day, destroying nearly 1,300 buildings and threatening to overwhelm firefighters. Wind-driven infernos have so far scorched at least 166,000 hectares (412,000 acres) of tinder-dry forest and brush, making the blaze one of the worst wildfire crises in Californian history. One ... more What China Will Want: The Future Intentions Of A Rising Power 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 24, 2007Uncertainty over China's future strategic goals is pervasive in policy circles today. But while China's growing influence has profound consequences for the international system, understanding the ideas embraced by China's leadership about its foreign policy goals is essential to predicting future Chinese intentions. So concludes new research by political scientist Jeffrey W. Legro (University of ... more California: a victim of climate and its own success
Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 23, 2007Wildfires ravaging California are the result of the region's unique climate and geography combining with a burgeoning population that is increasingly encroaching on rural areas, experts say. As thousands of firefighters battled multiple fires that have forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people, experts said the crisis could be blamed on months of dry weather, high temperatures ... more Healing The Wounds Of War: Novel Phytochemical Agent Enhances, Improves Process Of Wound Healing 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Oct 24, 2007Researchers at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) have identified a novel phytochemical agent that enhances and improves the process of wound healing in normal and immune compromised people. In an article published in the March 2007 edition of the Journal Planta Medica, Dr. Radha Maheshwari, professor of Pathology at USU, along with Anuj Sharma, graduate student and o ... more More than 500,000 flee as California fires rage for third day 
Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 23, 2007More than half a million people were ordered to evacuate across California on Tuesday as wildfires raged for a third day, razing over 1,000 homes and threatening to overwhelm weary firefighters. Wind-driven infernos have so far scorched at least 335,000 acres (1,355 square kilometers) of tinder-dry brush, making the blaze one of the worst wildfire crises in Californian history. One perso ... more
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