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Flood ravaged Iowa drenched with more rain
Iowa City, Iowa (AFP) June 15, 2008More rain was headed to flood ravaged Iowa Sunday where tens of thousands of residents had been forced to flee their homes and officials struggled to reinforce breached levies and stem the rushing waters. More than 4.8 million sandbags had already been filled and damage was estimated to be in the billions of dollars with 83 of the state's 99 counties declared disaster areas. The flooding ... more China biggest CO2 emitter last year: Dutch agency 
The Hague (AFP) June 13, 2008China's carbon dioxide emissions in 2007 were about 14 percent higher than the United States and accounted for two-thirds of the global rise, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) said Friday. With an eight percent national increase, China's carbon dioxide emissions contributed the bulk of last year's 3.1 percent global rise in CO2 emissions, according to a statement released ... more French firm signs deal to combat Somali pirates: CEO 
Carcassonne, France (AFP) June 14, 2008A private French military firm has signed a contract with Somali authorities to boost security off the country's coast, plagued by high-profile piracy in recent years, the chief executive said Saturday. Pierre Marziali, CEO of the firm Secopex, said the deal would "strengthen maritime business" off Somalia. The deal, estimated to be worth between 50 million to 100 million euros ... more Drought emergency declared in vital California farmland 
San Francisco (AFP) June 12, 2008California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency Thursday to help the state's Central Valley farm region deal with a severe drought. "Central Valley agriculture is a 20-billion-dollar a year industry," Schwarzenegger said in a statement. "If we don't get them water immediately the results will be devastating. Food prices, which are already stretching many family ... more Southern Chile volcano erupts with renewed strength 
Santiago (AFP) June 13, 2008The Chaiten volcano in southern Chile has erupted with renewed strength, belching thick clouds of ash and hurling molten rocks into the air, regional authorities said Friday. The 1,000-meter (3,280-foot) tall Chaiten volcano, located some 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) south of Santiago, first began to erupt in May after lying dormant for centuries. "There has been an increase in the ... more |
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Jakarta (AFP) June 15, 2008Indonesian prosecutors have again rejected a criminal case against those allegedly responsible for a disastrous "mud volcano" which has forced thousands to flee their homes, reports said Sunday. Prosecutors returned the case to police citing a lack of evidence, the fourth time they have knocked back the brief since police started their investigations into the 2006 cause of the volcano. ... more Heavy rains in China leave at least 65 dead or missing 
Beijing (AFP) June 15, 2008Heavy rains in southern and eastern China have left at least 65 people dead or missing, while more than one million residents have been evacuated, state media said Sunday. Rains were expected to further pound southern China in the coming days, with rising river levels threatening towns in Jiangxi, Guangxi and Guangdong provinces, the state meteorological bureau said. According to the ... more EU to shut down industrial bluefin tuna fishing early 
Brussels (AFP) June 13, 2008The European Commission said Friday it would close the industrial tuna fishing season early, provoking a wave of protest from Europe's leading fishing nations. With quotas nearly full, the EU executive said that bluefin tuna fishing in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic needed to be halted early to protect the increasingly popular species. The move targets fishing by purse seiners ... more Cyclone dead wash ashore on distant Myanmar beach: official 
Yangon (AFP) June 14, 2008About 300 bloated and decaying corpses, apparently victims of Cyclone Nargis, washed up on a beach in eastern Myanmar more than one month after the storm, a local official said Saturday. The bodies had been found in the last week on the beach near Mawlamyine town, across the Gulf of Martaban, more than 100 miles (160 kilometres) east of the devastated Irrawaddy Delta, the official told AFP. ... more Cambodia approves billion-dollar Chinese dams 
Phnom Penh (AFP) June 13, 2008The Cambodian government on Friday approved two large hydropower dams to be built with more than one billion dollars in funding from Chinese companies. The new projects, Stung Tatay dam and Stung Russey Chrum Krom dam in the southwestern province of Koh Kong, were approved during a cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Hun Sen, according to a government statement. The statement ... more |
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Gaithersburg MD (SPX) Jun 13, 2008Using a convenient and flexible method for creating twin light beams, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the Commerce Deparent's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have produced "quantum images," pairs of information-rich visual patterns whose features are "entangled," or inextricably linked by the laws of quantum physics. ... more Western Australian gas explosion crisis to worsen: premier 
Perth (AFP) June 15, 2008A crisis triggered by an explosion at a Western Australian gas plant will worsen this week, state Premier Alan Carpenter said Sunday as unions warned thousands could lose their jobs. The June 3 blast at the Apache Energy plant on Varanus Island cut off one-third of the state's gas supply and the company says it will be up to two months before supply is partially resumed. Carpenter said ... more Search for trapped Chinese miners abandoned: report 
Beijing (AFP) June 14, 2008Rescue workers were Saturday forced to abandon a search for seven miners trapped after an explosion at a Chinese coal mine in which at least 27 died, state media said Saturday. The rescue effort, already hampered by high levels of toxic gas in the mine, was abandoned completely after the workers found unused explosives and detonators in the shaft, the state Xinhua news agency said. ... more Is New Transport Fuels Worth The Wait 
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 16, 2008New biofuels mandates will be essential to getting the industry up and running, proponents argue, but whether the harms outweigh the benefits is still up for debate. One of the major controversies swirling around the new law, passed by Congress in December, is its effect on food prices. As both gas and grocery bills rise worldwide, the argument has become increasingly heated, but the ... more Analysis: Security allows Iraqi oil output 
Baghdad (UPI) Jun 13, 2008 More of Iraq's oil has seen the light of day and exports have realized post-invasion records as measures to stem attacks and other interference have proved successful along the key northern pipeline system. Some who used to target the pipeline -- especially on the link from Baiji north through hot Sunni Arab insurgent territory and to Turkey -- are now paid to protect it, though ... more
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