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As Asia food prices bite, analysts warn of worse to come
Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 10, 2008Rising food prices have hit Asia's poor so hard that many have taken to the streets in protest, but experts see few signs of respite from the growing problem. An array of factors, from rising food demand and high oil prices to global warming, could make high costs for essentials such as rice, wheat and milk a permanent fixture, they say. "The indications are in general pointing to high ... more China telecom industry faces huge bill after snow: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 10, 2008China's telecom industry faces a huge bill after the worst winter in decades, with millions of users cut off and thousands of kilometres of phone lines damaged, state media said Sunday. Preliminary statistics from the Ministry of Information Industry showed the massive snow falls and freezing temperatures have led to losses of 1.1 billion yuan (150 million dollars), the Xinhua news agency ... more Cold snap kills 760 in Afghanistan: authority 
Kabul (AFP) Feb 9, 2008More than 750 people have died in the harshest winter to have hit Afghanistan in decades, the disaster authority said Saturday. More than 500 homes, mostly traditional mud brick houses, have been destroyed and tens of thousands damaged by the heaviest snowfalls in 30 years, said Ahmad Shkeb Hamraz, an official at the National Disaster Management Authority. Nearly half the villages in the ... more Botanists see winter fading away in U.K. 
London (UPI) Feb 8, 2008Climate change is leading some British botanists to conclude that winter is disappearing as a distinct season in the United Kingdom. Scientists from the Kew Gardens said Friday that Britain's seasons appear to go from fall to spring with only a few wet and relatively mild months in between. Their conclusions were based not only on temperature and rainfall but on plant behavior ... more Bush tours tornado-struck areas 
Lafayette, Tennessee (AFP) Feb 8, 2008US President George W. Bush on Friday promised survivors in US states hard hit by a deadly wave of tornados that the government response would be "compassionate and effective." Bush, whose response to devastating Hurrican Katrina in August 2005 was widely criticized, toured areas struck earlier this week by the killer storms that sliced through Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississsippi and ... more |
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Imus, Philippines (AFP) Feb 10, 2008Mario Sabater, 48, heads one of the last remaining farming families in this town just south of Manila, where a white-hot property market is fast gobbling up the rice paddies. With his only son in high school and showing no interest in getting his feet muddy, Sabater, a fourth generation rice farmer, is considering selling his plot to developers. "I will sell soon," he told AFP as he ... more 2007 Hurricane Season Starts Early, Ends Late 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 11, 2008The Atlantic Hurricane Season began early in 2007, and by mid-December it was still going. The season officially begins June 1 and ends Nov. 30. That means that for the most part, storms have formed and fizzled between those dates, or they used to. NASA satellites were watching and providing data from the beginning when Andrea kicked off the season on May 9 when she formed 150 miles northeast of ... more Water Planners Call For Fundamental Shift To Deal With Changing Climate 
Saettle WA (SPX) Feb 11, 2008The past is no longer a reliable base on which to plan the future of water management. So says a new perspectives piece written by a prominent group of hydrologists and climatologists, published in Science magazine, that calls for fundamental changes to the science behind water planning and policy. "With the climate changing, past years aren't necessarily representative of the future ... more Unravelling The North West's Viking Past 
Nottingham UK (SPX) Feb 11, 2008The blood of the Vikings is still coursing through the veins of men living in the North West of England - according to a new study which has been just published. Focusing on the Wirral in Merseyside and West Lancashire the study of 100 men, whose surnames were in existence as far back as medieval times, has revealed that 50 per cent of their DNA is specifically linked to Scandinavian ancestry. ... more Fertilizer Research Centre An Australian First 
Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Feb 11, 2008Farmers throughout the world stand to benefit from a new research centre - the first of its kind in Australia - that aims to develop more advanced fertilizers for agricultural use. The $5 million Mosaic Fertilizer Technology Research Centre, to be based at the University of Adelaide's Waite Campus, brings together world-leading scientists and facilities. The new centre has been established ... more |
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Jakarta (AFP) Feb 9, 2008Four people have been killed and hundreds forced to evacuate their homes due to severe floods in eastern Indonesia, an official said Saturday. Sentianus Medi of the local disaster management centre said all four victims drowned after rivers overflowed following three days of heavy rain. "Four people in three districts in East Nusa Tenggara province were killed yesterday (Friday)," he told ... more Ecuador volcano simmers, forcing more evacuations 
Penipe, Ecuador (AFP) Feb 7, 2008Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano rumbled and exploded for a second day Thursday, blanketing two villages with thick ash and forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes, authorities reported. The 5,029-meter (16,500-foot) Tungurahua, which means "throat of fire" in native Quechua language, first exploded into action on Wednesday after two years of quiet, forcing 1,450 people to abandon ... more Analysis: Fire kills nine, shocks millions 
Berlin (UPI) Feb 8, 2008A house fire in Germany that killed nine Turkish tenants has sparked serious tensions between German officials and the country's Turkish community, which suspects a racial motive behind the blaze. It's a shocking image: A baby in a striped jumpsuit is being dropped from the third story of a burning brownstone house. His uncle is looking on as the baby boy, his arms outstretched and eyes ... more MONUC chief urges DR Congo peace deal be honoured 
Goma, Drcongo (AFP) Feb 9, 2008The head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo urged Saturday all armed groups in restless eastern provinces to respect a ceasefire agreement signed last month. The warring parties must "respect their engagements, especially (starting with) respecting the ceasefire on the ground," Alain Doss, chief of the UN's MONUC mission, told reporters in Goma, the capital of ... more 'Greatest ever' downpour floods Tonga: officials 
Nuku'Alofa (AFP) Feb 9, 2008A freak storm that dumped more than a month's average rainfall in less than 24 hours has swamped the Pacific island nation of Tonga, forcing evacuations, officials said Saturday. Buildings, including the Australian High Commission, and houses in the main city of Nuku'alofa were flooded after roads turned into rivers during the storm, officials said. "This is the greatest rainfall ... more
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