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Haiti counts 150,000 quake victims, fears 200,000 more deadPort-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 25, 2010 The final nationwide toll from Haiti's devastating earthquake is expected to be 150,000 dead, Health Minister Alex Larsen said on Monday, with 90,000 bodies already counted. "We're expecting a figure of around 150,000 dead," Larsen told journalists in Port-au-Prince of the nationwide toll. "At the health ministry, we've counted more than 90,000 bodies," he said, including those counted by the United Nations mission in Haiti, MINUSTAH. "The number of homeless is around one million." ... read more |
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IPCC Doubts: Only the Tip of the IcebergGerroa, Australia (SPX) Jan 25, 2010 When social scientists like Australia's Clive Hamilton get to run hard science processes the outcome is almost always junk science. Over the weekend more reports of "sexed" up climate science have emerged casting yet more doubt on the IPCC report, with the myriad of claims that global warming is linked to worsening natural disasters being directly questioned. What policy makers need to keenly understand is that the unraveling of the IPCC report has only just begun ... read more |
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Bucharest (AFP) Jan 25, 2010More than 40 people have died this week as eastern and central Europe battles a Siberian cold snap that has cut power and roads, disrupted air travel and stranded whole villages, officials said Monday. Snow has blanketed swathes of western Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania, with lows of minus 35 degrees Celsius (minus 31 Fahrenheit), while Poland has again been gripped by a deep freeze that has k ... more  
Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 26, 2010It is known that viral "squatters" comprise nearly half of our genetic code. These genomic invaders inserted their DNA into our own millions of years ago when they infected our ancestors. But just how we keep them quiet and prevent them from attack was more of a mystery until EPFL researchers revived them. The reason we survive the presence of these endogenous retroviruses-viruses that att ... more  
Saint Marc, Haiti (AFP) Jan 25, 2010The Haitian town of Saint Marc is sinking beneath a tide of humanity, with 10,000 refugees lodging with friends, strangers or in churches after fleeing the nightmare of the quake-hit capital. Buses incessantly pass through the town some 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Port-au-Prince, loaded with earthquake victims hoping to find food and shelter from the aftershocks of the January 12 disas ... more |
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Shoddy, Corruption Construction Cause Of Haiti DevastationBoulder CO (SPX) Jan 26, 2010 The death toll in the massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti Jan. 12 is expected to continue to rise in the coming days, likely in large part because of corruption and resulting shoddy construction practices in the poor Caribbean nation, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder seismologist. The earthquake hit about 10 miles west of the capitol city of Porte-au-Prince, which has about 2 million inhabitants, said Professor Roger Bilham of CU-Boulder's geological sciences department. The ... read more |
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