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Florida fears deepen as oil enters the Loop CurrentNew Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) May 19, 2010 Oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill has entered a strong ocean current that will sweep it towards Florida and Cuba in days and possibly on up the Atlantic coast, experts warned Wednesday. The Loop Current has started dragging leaking crude from the giant slick off Louisiana towards Florida's popular tourist beaches and fragile coral reefs, threatening a whole new dimension to the unfolding environmental disaster. Scientists laid out a worst-case scenario in which the oceanic conveyor belt would se ... read more |
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Harare (AFP) May 19, 2010Zimbabwe is set to export elephants, giraffes, zebras and other wildlife to North Korea, which the country's national parks boss defended Wednesday as "legitimate trade". Conservationists have raised concerns that the animals might not survive in Stalinist North Korea. In the 1980s Zimbabwe sent a pair of rhinos to North Korea, but they reportedly died a few months later. "From our profe ... more  
Paris (AFP) May 19, 2010France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy on Wednesday spearheaded an international campaign to put an end to children being born with HIV by 2015. The Global Fund, which uses donations from governments to fight HIV, TB and malaria, wants people to let world leaders know via an online petition that they support public money being pledged to the cause. With sufficient funding, the fund beli ... more  
West Lafayette, Ind. (UPI) May 19, 2010 A Purdue University study using Google Earth and satellite data has discovered evidence that North Korea has been logging in a protected U.N. forest preserve. Professor Guofan Shao said he used remote sensing data to survey the Mount Paekdu Biosphere Reserve - a 326,000-acre forest preserve in North Korea operated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. ... more |
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Hope And Healing And Local Solutions For Haitians By HaitiansPort-au-Prince, Haiti (SPX) May 19, 2010 Nouvelle Vie Haiti, a project of IAHV, launched a pilot for its Youth Corps, uniquely built around trauma relief (breathing, meditation and yoga), permaculture (sustainable agriculture design), and social entrepreneurship. The Nouvelle Vie model teaches Haitians how to manage stress and trauma, then teaches practical ways for Haitian to rehabilitate their own communities using locally available resources. In just 16 days, a volunteer team of 16 Haitian young adult leaders and 5 international train ... read more |
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