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China warns of more snow during holiday periodBeijing (AFP) Feb 15, 2010 Snow was expected to sweep across large swathes of China's north, forecasters said on Monday, possibly disrupting festivities during the most important holiday of the year. The Chinese are currently in the midst of Spring Festival, a week-long holiday marking the beginning of the new year which sees families around the country of 1.3 billion reunite and attend traditional temple fairs. Every year, the event triggers an exodus believed to be the world's largest annual human migration as hundreds ... read more |
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Porong, Indonesia (UPI) Feb 12, 2009 Scientists and drilling experts say they're in disagreement about whether a gas exploration well triggered a fatal mud volcano in Indonesia. The world's biggest mud volcano killed 13 people and displaced 30,000 more May 29, 2006, in the Porong sub-district of Sidoarjo, East Java. Mud from the volcanic dome destroyed four villages and continues to ooze enough to fill 50 Olympic-size swim ... more  
L'Aquila, Italy (AFP) Feb 15, 2010Piles of rubble still lie in the streets of L'Aquila 10 months after an earthquake struck the central Italian city, as many of its thousands of displaced residents wonder if they will ever be able to return home. Scaffolding and steel supports shore up treasured architecture in the centre of the medieval walled city, which experts predict will remain a "red zone" for the next 10 years. " ... more  
Livermore CA (SPX) Feb 16, 2010Through Laboratory soil cleanup methods, residents of Bikini, Enjebi and Rongelap Islands - where nuclear tests were conducted on the atolls and in the ocean surrounding them in the 1950s - could have lower radioactive levels than the average background dose for residents in the United States and Europe. The National Nuclear Security Administration's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ... more |
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Suspended animation coming to life: researcherLong Beach, California (AFP) Feb 13, 2010 A gas proven deadly in chemical weapons could one day be used to put people into life-saving suspended animation. While hydrogen sulfide is toxic in large doses, small amounts of the gas have the potential to make animals appear dead for a while then allow them to wake up unharmed, according to biochemist Mark Roth. "I think we are on the path of understanding metabolic flexibility in a significant way," said Roth, whose work at an eponymous lab in Washington State has gotten funding from a rese ... read more |
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