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The area of forest burnt by wildfires in the United States is set to increase by over 50% by 2050, according to research by climate scientists. The study predicts that the worst affected areas will be the forests in the Pacific Northwest and the Rocky Mountains, where the area of forest destroyed by wildfire is predicted to increase by 78% and 175% respectively. The research is based ... read more 
Sao Paulo (AFP) July 29, 2009Governments worldwide are worried about swine flu but the worst-hit region by far is Latin America, which accounts for around two-thirds of the deaths from the disease. The outlook is especially unsettling for the estimated 380 million people grappling with winter in South America, where the A(H1N1) virus is speedily propagating. And authorities in the impoverished region have discovered ... more |
Flooding in Sicily as month's rain falls in four hours
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Beijing (AFP) July 30, 2009Torrential rain and landslides have killed at least 66 people and left another 66 missing in south and central China since the beginning of June, state media reported Thursday. More than 30,000 people have been forced to relocate to avoid floods and landslides in the provinces of Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hunan and Guizhou, and in the region of Guangxi Zhuang, the Xinhua news agency said. In sou ... more  
Paris (AFP) July 29, 2009Climate change is speeding up the release of carbon dioxide from frigid peatlands in the sub-Arctic, fuelling a vicious circle of global warming, according to a study to be published Thursday. An increase of just 1.0 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) over current average temperatures would more than double the CO2 escaping from the peatlands. Northern peatlands contain one-third of ... more  
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jul 30, 2009Genetic evidence is revealing that human populations began to expand in size in Africa during the Late Stone Age approximately 40,000 years ago. A research team led by Michael F. Hammer (Arizona Research Laboratory's Division of Biotechnology at the University of Arizona) found that sub-Saharan populations increased in size well before the development of agriculture. This research supports ... more |
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Washington (AFP) July 29, 2009US officials recommended Wednesday that children and pregnant women be among 160 million people who are first in line for swine flu shots, but said they were unlikely to have enough vaccine for all of them. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Policy recommended after a day-long emergency meeting that five target groups, totalling around 160 mil ... more  
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Jul 30, 2009After 12 years, an experiment focused on forest growth and climate change comes to an end, and researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are eager to collect and analyze data to see if their predictions match results. With the Department of Energy-sponsored free air carbon dioxide enrichment experiment, known as FACE, three plots of sweetgum trees were the control sites and two plots of ... more  
Chicago IL (SPX) Jul 30, 2009In the Late Paleozoic (260 million years ago), long before dinosaurs dominated the Earth, ancient precursors to mammals took to the trees to feed on leaves and live high above predators that prowled the land, Jorg Frobisch, PhD, a Field Museum paleontologist has concluded. Elongated fingers, an opposable "thumb," and a grasping tail of Suminia getmanovi demonstrate that this small plant-ea ... more |
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