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Thousands evacuated in Italy after landslides: reportMaierato, Italy (AFP) Feb 17, 2010 Mudslides caused by torrential rains in southern Italy sparked the evacuation of thousands of villagers in Calabria on Wednesday, officials said as they launched an emergency rescue. All the estimated 2,300 villagers in the Calabria village of Maierato were taken to safety after a nearby hillock collapsed, local media said. About 300 of them were housed in impromptu shelters, a police school and a gymnasium. The prefect, or the seniormost official, of the Vibo Valentia region - where the vi ... read more |
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Yanqing, China (AFP) Feb 17, 2010China's ever-growing taste for luxury goods is extending into the culinary world - and that's good news for Jean-Marie Vallier, who runs a duck farm and foie gras factory outside Beijing. Two years ago, French group Euralis - the world leader in foie gras production - invested 2.7 million dollars in the facilities, aimed at producing the delicacy for high-end restaurants under the Rougie ... more  
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 18, 2010When Earth was young, it exhaled the atmosphere. During a period of intense volcanic activity, lava carried light elements from the planet's molten interior and released them into the sky. However, some light elements got trapped inside the planet. In this week's issue of Nature, a Rice University-based team of scientists is offering a new answer to a longstanding mystery: What caused Earth to h ... more  
Quebec City, Canada (SPX) Feb 18, 2010The southern limit of permanently frozen ground, or permafrost, is now 130 kilometers further north than it was 50 years ago in the James Bay region, according to two researchers from the Department of Biology at Universite Laval. In a recent issue of the scientific journal Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, Serge Payette and Simon Thibault suggest that, if the trend continues, permafro ... 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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