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Gustav leaves more than 100 dead in Caribbean, US: officials
New Orleans (AFP) Sept 2, 2008Officials in Louisiana Tuesday blamed Hurricane Gustav for at least seven deaths after it struck the US coast, bringing the toll for the storm to more than 100 dead after it smashed through the Caribbean. Officials quoted by US media said four people had died in accidents during evacuations and three critically ill hospital patients perished as they were transferred from local medical center ... more Disease fears for flood-devastated India, Nepal 
Saharsa, India (AFP) Sept 2, 2008Hundreds of thousands of flood victims huddled into makeshift camps in India and Nepal face major disease outbreaks if help fails to reach them quickly, aid workers warned Tuesday. They said several camps in India's northern Bihar state and across the border in Nepal, areas devastated when a monsoon-swollen river which burst its banks and changed course, were already reporting cases of diarr ... more US monitors new storms after Gustav hits southern coast 
Miami (AFP) Sept 2, 2008US officials were keeping a close eye on another hurricane in the Caribbean and a tropical storm that formed in the Atlantic, posing a potential threat after Hurricane Gustav battered the US Gulf Coast. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Monday preparations were already underway as Hanna hit the Turks and Caicos Islands, with a forecast that it would head toward the eastern US ... more Worst believed over for storm-socked New Orleans 
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Sept 2, 2008New Orleans shrugged off a pounding blow by Hurricane Gustav, with relieved officials saying the city survived the storm's best shot and that it was time to prepare for residents to return. "It's been a hell of a day," St. Bernard Parish chief sheriff's deputy Jimmy Pohlmann told AFP as National Guard soldiers reinforced a nearby overflowing levee with sand bags at sundown Monday. "I thi ... more Grim prospects for Australian river system as drought bites:official 
Sydney (AFP) Sept 2, 2008Rivers in Australia's most important farming region are in critical condition thanks to the long-running drought, with no sign of an end to the 'big dry,' officials said Tuesday. The Murray-Darling Basin Commission, which monitors the east coast region that accounts for some 40 percent of the nation's farming production, said the level of water entering the Murray River was at a record low. ... more |
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Miami (AFP) Sept 1, 2008Tropical Storm Hanna on Monday developed into a full-fledged hurricane east of the Bahamas in the Atlantic ocean, US officials reported, as deadly Hurricane Gustav pounded the Gulf Coast near New Orleans. "Hanna becomes the fourth hurricane of the season," the National Hurricane Center reported in a bulletin, adding that the storm was very near Mayaguana Island in the southeastern Bahamas ... more Vulnerable children ride out Hurricane Gustav in hospital 
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Sept 1, 2008Too vulnerable to evacuate, dozens of children hunkered down in a New Orleans hospital as Hurricane Gustav blasted the city around them with powerful winds. While the rest of the city emptied under a mandatory evacuation order before Gustav made landfall in Louisiana Monday, about 70 kids remained at Children's Hospital, where 18 of them were in serious condition while nine were recovering ... more New Orleans levees intact as Gustav tears across Louisiana 
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Sept 1, 2008Hurricane Gustav pounded the US Gulf Coast Monday with ferocious rain and wind, but partially rebuilt levees in New Orleans appeared to be holding up three years after Katrina swamped the fabled jazz city. "We are nowhere near out of danger yet," New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin warned, with an estimated 10,000 residents still in the city after nearly two million people fled coastal areas over ... more Climate change threatens massive glacier disappearance 
Geneva (AFP) Sept 1, 2008The United Nations said Monday that swathes of mountain ranges worldwide risk losing their glaciers by the end of the century if global warming continues at its projected rate. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report that whilst nature has always observed a certain periodic rate of deglaciation, the current trends observed from the Arctic to Central Europe and South America are ... more Coastal County Gets Fine-Tuned For Hurricane Weather 
Charlotte NC (SPX) Sep 02, 2008On August 28 and 29, University of North Carolina at Charlotte meteorologist Matthew Eastin and his students turned North Carolina's coastal Brunswick Co. into one of the country's most densely and carefully monitored weather sites. The team installed five new complete weather stations in the communities of Calabash, Ash, Leeland (which will get two), and Boiling Springs Lakes ... more |
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Havana (AFP) Sept 1, 2008Hurricane Gustav damaged 100,000 homes and devastated schools, power supplies and tobacco crops in western Cuba, officials said Monday, as Fidel Castro hailed preparations that prevented any deaths. Gustav, which killed more than 80 people in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica, tore through western Cuba late Saturday as a huge Category Four storm on the five-level Saffir-Simpson Scale ... more Scientists Find More Oil Fissures In Lake Baikal's Bedrock 
Novosibirsk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 02, 2008Scientists have found two more cracks in the bedrock of Siberia's Lake Baikal from which crude oil seeps into the lake, bringing the total to three, an expedition member said on Tuesday. The second stage of a major expedition to explore the depths of the lake began on August 20. Arnold Tulokhonov, director of the Baikal Institute of Nature Management at the Russian Academy of Science ... more Pythons may help heal hearts 
Boulder, Colo. (UPI) Aug 29, 2008 A biotech firm is teaming with the University of Colorado at Boulder to use pythons as a model for new ways to treat heart disease. Pythons dramatically increase their heart size for a short time after swallowing prey, the university said in a release. Researchers are working with Hiberna Corp., based in Boulder, which is developing drugs based on natural models of extreme ... more 20 die in South African blazes 
Johannesburg (AFP) Sept 1, 2008Runaway fires driven by strong winds across South Africa at the weekend killed at least 20 people, including two children, media reported Monday. An 18-year-old boy, eight-year-old girl and 11-year-old boy burnt to death, with five others hospitalised, in the Eastern Cape province after fire engulfed their shack, the SAPA news agency reported police as saying. In northern part of KwaZulu ... more Activists seek fresh ban on Sierra Leone timber exports 
Freetown (AFP) Sept 1, 2008The Environmental Forum for Action, one of the most influentual activist groups in Sierra Leone, called Monday on the government to reimpose the ban on timber exports that was lifted in July. "With less than five percent of forested areas left in the country, the decision by the minister of forestry (Sam Sesay) to lift the ban will be disastrous for the environment and will lead to severe ... more
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