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New Orleans a 'ghost town' after thousands flee Gustav: mayor
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Aug 31, 2008New Orleans has become a "ghost town" with only 10,000 residents left after thousands fled to avoid the wrath of Hurricane Gustav, Mayor Ray Nagin said Sunday. "We think at a maximum we may have 10,000 people left in the city. It is a true ghost town," said Nagin, who said police estimate that as many as 327,000 have evacuated New Orleans. "If there's any area where people did not evacua ... more Louisiana's levees likely to withstand Gustav's fury: Jindal 
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Aug 31, 2008Louisiana's levees, which gave way during Hurricane Katrina three years ago causing massive flooding throughout the state, likely will withstand the powerful winds and torrential rains of Hurricane Gustav, Governor Bobby Jindal said Sunday. "If they are 100 percent accurate, they are saying the levees will barely hold or barely be overtopped," citing predictions from weather forecasters and ... more The stubborn hunker down in New Orleans as hordes flee 
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Aug 31, 2008As highways out of New Orleans crammed with people escaping the wrath of Hurricane Gustav, Jack Bosma shuttered the windows of his home, ate gumbo and stayed put. "I'm shutting my shutters, but then I'm going to drink," Bosma said, explaining that he and a group of longtime neighbors were hunkering down for the duration of the storm. He opened his "porch bar" and ate seafood stew, or gum ... more New Orleans scrambles to evacuate ahead of monster storm 
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Aug 31, 2008Desperate to avoid a repeat of the 2005 Katrina catastrophe, residents of New Orleans evacuated their city Sunday as a new hurricane hailed as "the mother of all storms" threatened the disaster-scarred metropolis. Bumper-to-bumper traffic clogged roads leading out of the city and shops began running low on fuel and emergency supplies as the "monster" Category Four hurricane barreled toward ... more Gulf Coast braces, flees as deadly Gustav takes aim at US 
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Aug 31, 2008More than a million people fled Louisiana as killer Hurricane Gustav on Sunday roared toward New Orleans, a fragile US coastal city still deeply scarred by the devastating 2005 Katrina storm. Highways out of New Orleans have been crammed since before dawn as people scurried to escape a monster storm that could slam the Louisiana coast as early as midday Monday. The state's governor ... more |
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Sofia (AFP) Aug 31, 2008Summer drought, lagging dam construction and persistent leaks and failures in old pipes have again made water rationing a part of life for hundreds of thousands of Bulgarians this summer. On Monday, a state of emergency was declared in the central municipality of Panagyurishte, after already three weeks of shortages. Major breaks in the main pipe channelling water uphill from the ... more Cubans pick up pieces of Gustav-battered homes 
Los Palacios, Cuba (AFP) Aug 31, 2008Trees and telephone poles littered the streets and houses were missing doors and roofs, as residents of Los Palacios, western Cuba, despaired Sunday at hurricane Gustav's path of destruction. A slightly weakened Gustav -- still a dangerous Category 3 storm with winds near 125 miles (205 kilometers) per hour -- battered Cuba Sunday after claiming at least 81 lives in its tear across the ... more Ghana's grass-roots bid to save country's last forests 
Kakum, Ghana (AFP) Aug 31, 2008For five years now the heat has been less intense and the rainfall more abundant in a small cocoa farming area in Ghana's Upper Volta region, thanks to villagers bent on affecting climate change. In this region in Afiaso in the country's south, their efforts have focused on conserving the nearby Kakum National Park. "We used to cut down many trees for agricultural use, which brought us a ... more Methane gas oozing up from Siberian seabed: Swedish researcher 
Stockholm (AFP) Aug 30, 2008Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is leaking from the permafrost under the Siberian seabed, a researcher on an international expedition in the region told Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter on Saturday. "The permafrost now has small holes. We have found elevated levels of methane above the water surface and even more in the water just below. It is obvious that the source is the seabed," Oerjan ... more Past evidence boosts concern for Greenland icesheet: scientists 
Paris (AFP) Aug 31, 2008Scientists Sunday said they could no longer rule out a fast-track melting of the Greenland icesheet -- a prospect, once the preserve of doomsayers, that would see much of the world's coastline drowned by rising seas. The researchers found that the great Laurentide icesheet which smothered much of North America during the last Ice Age melted far swifter than realised, dumping billions of ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Aug 31, 2008At least 32 people were killed or reported missing and about 258,000 homes destroyed in a powerful earthquake in southwest China, state media said Sunday. More than 460 people were injured in Saturday's 6.1-magnitude earthquake, which rocked Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing the Ministry of Civil Affairs and local agencies. Most of those killed ... more China warns on rural, urban income gap: report 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 29, 2008The income gap between urban and rural areas in China is the worst in a generation, state media reported Friday, six years after a new leadership took over in Beijing promising to address inequality. The average city dweller received an income last year that was 3.33 times larger than that of his compatriot in the countryside, the China Youth Daily said, citing Agriculture Minister Sun Zheng ... more Whales shedding blubber, Japan study says 
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 1, 2008Japan, under fire overseas for whaling it justifies as research, has released its findings - whales are losing blubber because ocean resources are growing scarce. But critics said the recent study, which involved the slaughter of thousands of whales, is little more than window-dressing for Japan's pursuit of commercial whaling. Japan is frequently criticised by the West for conducting a ... more Gulf oil production halted ahead of Hurricane Gustav 
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Aug 31, 2008Oil production in the Gulf of Mexico was almost completely shut down and most rigs and platforms evacuated, as Hurricane Gustav churned towards the United States, US officials said Sunday. "From the operators' reports, it is estimated that approximately 96.26 percent of the oil production in the Gulf has been shut-in," the Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) said i ... more US to tap oil reserve if storm batters oil-rich Gulf of Mexico 
Washington (AFP) Aug 29, 2008US officials are prepared to tap the government's strategic oil reserve if a storm damages oil installations in the Gulf of Mexico, a Department of Energy spokeswoman said Friday. "We're standing ready to use every available authority to provide supplies of energy in the event of a disruption," spokeswoman Bethany Shively told AFP. "The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a key safeguard that ... more
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