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 Miami (AFP) Aug 4, 2009 
Weather experts on Wednesday reduced the number of projected hurricanes in the north Atlantic this season to four, two of them major hurricanes with winds above 178 kilometers (111 miles) per hour.
After one of the calmest starts to the hurricane season in a decade, the experts from Colorado State University said the development of an El Nino effect in the Pacific had caused them to scale ba ... read more 
Geneva (AFP) Aug 4, 2009The forestry industry in Europe, the ex-Soviet Union and North America has suffered the biggest drop in demand for wood since the 1970s with the slump in housing markets, the United Nations said Tuesday. But as the industry closes down sawmills and restructures, it can see a booming new market for environmentally-friendly wood-based energy, such as pellets and biofuels, the UN Economic Commi ... more |
Flooding in Sicily as month's rain falls in four hours
Greece on high alert as quakes shake Santorini island Global warming makes French reservoir a winter resort for migrating cranes Greece orders schools to close as quakes shake Santorini island King Charles III teams up with Amazon for documentary Data centres chase water, energy savings as AI race ramps up Generative AI's environmental impact in figures Scientists cast doubt on famous US groundhog's weather forecasts World's longest cargo sail ship launched in Turkey First major chunk breaks off world's biggest iceberg 
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Cambridge, England (UPI) Aug 5, 2009 One tiny change in DNA could lead to the evolution of a new species, an English researcher reported. A team lead by a University of Cambridge scientist explored this possibility when they studied two closely related flycatcher populations in the Solomon Islands, reporting their results in the American Naturalists. The scientists said they studied two sub-species with the same bod ... more  
London (AFP) Aug 5, 2009A new plastic beehive was launched in Britain on Wednesday to encourage people to keep bees in their gardens or on rooftops to help boost declining honeybee populations. The bees seemed to like their ultra-modern home as they buzzed happily in and out of the postbox-like slot in the grey and yellow 'beehaus' on the roof of state-backed conservation agency Natural England's London offices. ... more 
Windhoek (AFP) Aug 5, 2009A South African photographer accused of documenting Namibia's annual seal cull was held Tuesday for nearly seven hours without charge, less than a month after the arrest of two journalists. The detention took place in Henties Bay, a small town 400 kilometres (250 miles) west of the capital, where two journalists were arrested and fined last month for filming the yearly clubbing of seal pups. ... more |
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Vancouver, Canada (AFP) Aug 5, 2009With thousands of evacuees still stranded, emergency officials were hoping Wednesday for cooler temperatures to help firefighters tame wildfires raging through Canada's westernmost province. The fires were set off during a recent heat wave, but weather forecasters called for normal temperatures of between 25 and 30 degrees Centigrade (77 and 86 degrees Fahrenheit) in the hard-hit west and in ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Aug 5, 2009More than 200 people fell ill Wednesday in an ammonia gas leak at a pharmaceutical plant in northern China, state media reported. The leak occurred at 9:40 am (0140 GMT) when a tanker truck was unloading 30 tonnes of liquid ammonia at the plant in Chifeng city, in Inner Mongolia, the Xinhua news agency said, citing the local district government. Twenty-one people were hospitalised and 18 ... more 
Copenhagen (AFP) Aug 4, 2009Greenland's Prime Minister Kuupik Kleist said Tuesday he would ask the United States for information on the crash of an American nuclear bomb-loaded jet near the island 40 years ago. Kleist is to ask for access to documents which contain details of possible radioactive contamination after the 1968 crash of a US B-52 bomber near the American air base of Thule, in northern Greenland. "It ... more |
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