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Massive storm buries central US in snowChicago (AFP) Dec 9, 2009 A massive storm buried much of the central United States in dangerous ice and snow Wednesday, stranding scores of motorists with massive drifts that shut down major roads and defeated plows. Strong winds created drifts as high as 15 feet (4.6 meters) as the storm dropped as much as four feet of snow (1.2 meters) in some areas, said Pat Slattery, a spokesman for the National Weather Service. ... read more |
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Copenhagen (AFP) Dec 9, 2009A leaked Danish proposal triggered outrage at Copenhagen climate talks, with developing nations condemning a draft deal that they argued would consign most of the world's poor to permanent penury. The "draft political agreement" circulated informally by the host government exposed the deep faultlines besetting a 192-nation conference aimed at averting the potential planetary catastrophe o ... more  
Copenhagen (AFP) Dec 9, 2009Amazon Indians, Malawi farmers, Tibetan monks and Inuits from Greenland exchanged ideas Wednesday on how to combat global warming at a boisterous alternative forum in Copenhagen on the sidelines of UN climate talks. "Only pressure from civil society can save the planet," insisted Elis Ngacimek, a 30-year-old American from Kodiak Island, Alaska, where the effects of global warming are being ... more 
Copenhagen, Denmark (UPI) Dec 9, 2009 A top climate scientist said the negotiations in Copenhagen are so flawed that he wants them to fail. "The whole approach is so fundamentally wrong that it is better to reassess the situation," James Hansen, one of the world's most respected climate scientists, told British daily The Guardian. "If it is going to be the Kyoto-type thing then (people) will spend years trying to determine ... more |
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Reston, Va. (UPI) Dec 9, 2009 The U. S. Geological Survey says it will allocate $7 million for research by 15 universities and state agencies into modernizing volcano monitoring networks. The USGS, an agency of the Department of the Interior, said the funding will come from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and will be used to modernize equipment, produce high-resolution maps of high-threat volcanoes for ... more 
Seoul (AFP) Dec 9, 2009North Korea announced for the first time Wednesday that it has several cases of swine flu, confirming overseas reports of an outbreak in the secretive and impoverished communist state. The health ministry has reported a total of nine cases of (A)H1N1 in the capital Pyongyang and the city of Sinuiju on the Chinese border, the official Korean Central News Agency said. Authorities put a ... more  
Berlin (UPI) Dec 8, 2009 Muslims living in Germany don't believe a Swiss-like minaret ban is possible here, but they say they feel threatened by growing Islamophobia. "I was made a Turk," says Burhan Kesici, the vice president of the Islamic Federation Berlin, a group that represents 12 Muslim congregations in this city. Born and raised in Germany, Kesici for the first 35 years of his life told everyone ... more |
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