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Haiti quake far more destructive than 2004 tsunami: studyPort-Au-Prince (AFP) Feb 16, 2010 The scale of devastation in Haiti is far worse than in Asia after the 2004 tsunami, a study said Tuesday, predicting last month's quake could be the most destructive disaster in modern history. The stark assessment from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) comes with Port-au-Prince still lying in ruins more than one month on, while the bodies of more than 200,000 dead pile up in mass graves outside the capital. The study's release coincided with what would normally be Haiti's annual carniva ... read more |
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Berkeley CA (SPX) Feb 17, 2010California's coastal fog has decreased significantly over the past 100 years, potentially endangering coast redwood trees dependent on cool, humid summers, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, scientists. It is unclear whether this is part of a natural cycle of the result of human activity, but the change could affect not only the redwoods, but the entire redwood ... more  
Iowa City IA (SPX) Feb 17, 2010Theories about the rates of ice accumulation and melting during the Quaternary Period - the time interval ranging from 2.6 million years ago to the present - may need to be revised, thanks to research findings published by a University of Iowa researcher and his colleagues in the journal Science. Jeffrey Dorale, assistant professor of geoscience in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Scienc ... more  
Berlin (UPI) Feb 16, 2009 EU and U.N. efforts to clean the polluted oceans of the world have failed, a leaked document from the German government indicated. Most of what people eat, drink or use comes packaged in petroleum-based plastic. Each year, plastic makers produce 240 million tons of the material. Some of the plastic is recycled, most is burned or buried in landfills but an increasing amount ends up pollu ... more |
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Climate skeptics exploiting scandal: US envoyWashington (AFP) Feb 16, 2010 The US pointman on climate change on Tuesday accused vested interests of exploiting scientific scandals and pledged to act even if China and India balk at the controversial Copenhagen accord. Todd Stern, the US special envoy on climate issues, downplayed recent revelations about a landmark 2007 study by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that warned of dire consequences from global warming. "What you do see sometimes is that people who have an agenda that is directed towar ... read more |
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