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 La Paz, Mexico (AFP) Aug 31, 2009 
Hurricane Jimena on Monday roared toward Mexico's Baja California as an extremely dangerous Category Five storm, Mexican officials said as they planned emergency evacuations for 20,000 families in its path. Jimena was packing winds of up to 155 miles per hour (250 kilometers per hour) but was expected to weaken slightly before making landfall in Baja California late Tuesday or early ... read more 
London (UPI) Aug 31, 2009 Alarmed that the Obama administration is losing momentum, the European Union is preparing a high-level lobbying effort in Washington to push for a strong U.S. commitment to prevent failure at this year's international conference on climate change. The U.N. conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, is supposed to agree the replacement of the Kyoto Protocol and restrain carbon dioxide emissions. ... more |
Japan's worst wildfire in 50 years brought under control: mayor
Floods, mass power cuts as wild weather bashes eastern Australia Wild weather blacks out 300,000 properties in Australia Wild weather leaves mass blackouts in Australia Argentina port city 'destroyed' by massive rainstorm, 13 dead Thirteen Australian troops injured in truck crash 'We have to rebuild a city,' Argentine official says after storm kills 10 Attack on Iran nuclear plant would leave Gulf without water, Qatar PM warns Troops injured as ex-cyclone batters Australia 36 injured in Australian army truck accident on storm deployment 
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St. John's, Canada (SPX) Sept 01, 2009The world's last remaining "pristine" forest - the boreal forest across large stretches of Russia, Canada and other northern countries - is under increasing threat, a team of international researchers has found. The researchers from Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, University of Adelaide in Australia and the National University of Singapore have called for the urgent ... more 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 31, 2009An offshore typhoon lashed Tokyo and eastern Japan with heavy rains and winds on Monday, injuring at least two people and grounding scores of international flights, officials said. Typhoon Krovanh uprooted trees in some coastal areas as it raged along the Pacific coast of Japan, packing gusts of up to 144 kilometres (90 miles) per hour, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The eye of ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Sept 01, 2009The ability to envisage the future may be closer than you would think. A recent paper by Sean Hammond and Karl Niklas in the August 2009 issue of the American Journal of Botany (available here) presents an algorithm that may be used to predict the future dynamics of plant communities, an increasingly interesting area of study as significant environmental changes, such as global climate change an ... more |
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Berlin (UPI) Aug 31, 2009 German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Conservatives suffered heavy losses in state elections less than a month before the country heads to the polls to choose a new government. The center-right Christian Democratic Union gave way 10 points in the states of Saarland and Thuringia and could now be unsettled by a left-wing coalition. In both states, opposition parties gained ground ... more  
Kathmandu (AFP) Aug 31, 2009Nepal's prime minister opened the first climate change conference of Himalayan nations on Monday with a warning about the dangers of melting glaciers, floods and violent storms for the region. With 1.3 billion people dependent on the water that flows down from the melting Himalayan glaciers, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said cross-border cooperation was essential in tackling the impact ... more  
Hsiaolin, Taiwan (AFP) Aug 31, 2009The Dalai Lama praised Taiwan's democracy Monday on the first full day of a tour that China has warned will hurt improving ties with the island. While members of the Beijing-friendly ruling elite said they had no plans to meet Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, he urged Taiwan to cherish its democracy, which is often contrasted with the mainland's stern one-party rule. "You enjoy democracy ... more |
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