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 Miami (AFP) Oct 13, 2009 
Tropical Storm Patricia advanced toward Mexico's Baja California Peninsula with landfall possible late Tuesday or early Wednesday, weather forecasters said. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said a tropical storm warning was in effect along the southern area of Baja California from the town of Buena Vista to Agua Blanca, an area that includes the popular Cabo San Lucas tourist resort ... read more 
Paris (AFP) Oct 13, 2009More than 100,000 people in northern Iraq have abandoned their homes since 2005 because of water stress, after drought and over-extraction of groundwater caused the collapse of an ancient water system, UNESCO said on Tuesday. "Drought and excessive well pumping have drawn down aquifer levels in the region, causing a dramatic decline of water flow in ancient underground aqueducts" known as ... more |
Trump leaves Paris climate agreement, doubles down on fossil fuels
Trump's climate retreat shines light on green leaders Brazil drought lights a fire under global coffee prices Trump's climate retreat shines light on other green leaders The global forces sending coffee prices skyward CORRECTED: US to withdraw from Paris agreement, expand drilling UN climate chief says door still open to Paris deal US to withdraw from Paris agreement, expand drilling Activists slam 'destructive' Indonesia forest conversion plan Indonesia launches international carbon exchange 
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Srinagar, India (AFP) Oct 13, 2009Rising winter temperatures are shrinking Himalayan glaciers in Indian Kashmir at "alarming" speeds, threatening water supplies to vast tracts of India and Pakistan, according to a new study. The Kolahoi glacier, the largest in the region, has shrunk by 2.63 square kilometers (one square mile) in the past three decades to just over 11 square kilometers, said the study presented at a three-day ... more  
Paris (AFP) Oct 14, 2009Chinese and British palaeontologists have identified a crow-sized fossil that they believe fills a key gap in our understanding of the mysterious flying reptiles known as pterosaurs. The species has been baptised Darwinopterus modularis in honour of Charles Darwin, who was born 200 years ago and 150 years ago published his ground-breaking work on evolution, "On the Origin of Species." ... more  
Baltimore (UPI) Oct 13, 2009 U.S. and South Korean scientists say they've created a statistical program that can predict potential power outages in advance of hurricanes and other storms. "Hurricanes have caused severe damage to electric power systems throughout the world, and electric power is critical to post-hurricane disaster response, as well as to long-term recovery for impacted areas," study co-author Seth ... more |
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Padang, Indonesia (AFP) Oct 13, 2009Indonesian authorities declared as mass graves Tuesday seven villages destroyed by earthquake-triggered landslides, as they called off the search for over 200 people believed buried. The decision to cancel the search in villages obliterated by landslides caused by the huge 7.6-magnitude quake that struck Sumatra island on September 30 had been made in consultation with the local community ... more  
Abuja (AFP) Oct 13, 2009The junta in Guinea should step down and make way for a new transitional body after the army massacred dozens of opposition protestors, regional and international groups said on Tuesday. The International Contact Group on Guinea "has called for a new transitional authority in Guinea" which should be "based on the withdrawal" of the 10-month-old ruling junta, it said in a statement. ... more  
London (AFP) Oct 13, 2009A Briton facing the death penalty for drug trafficking in China probably has serious mental illness and should not be executed, supporters said Tuesday. Akmal Shaikh, who is thought to have bipolar disorder, was arrested in 2007 at Urumqui in China's western Xinjiang province with around four kilograms of heroin. Supporters say he was tricked into carrying it. He was sentenced to death ... more |
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