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Indonesia mud volcano still spewing sludge four years laterPorong, Indonesia (AFP) May 29, 2010 Four years after it erupted from the well of a gas company linked to one of Indonesia's richest men, the mud volcano known as "Lusi" is still spewing its toxic sludge over Java's countryside. All attempts to plug the geyser have failed and new spouts are opening up, threatening to destroy more villages, homes and livelihoods in the East Java district of Sidoarjo. The mud lake is so huge - seven square kilometres (almost three square miles) and 20 metres (66 feet) thick - it is now visible from ... read more |
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London, UK (SPX) May 28, 2010The world's most ancient frogs may soon be mined to extinction, if the New Zealand government's plans to open up a conservation area for mining go ahead. The primitive Archey's frog (Leiopelma archeyi) and Hochstetter's frog (Leiopelma hochstetteri) are two of the species that inhabit the area of 'high conservation value' on New Zealand's North Island where the mining is planned to take pl ... more  
Kuwait City (AFP) May 30, 2010Kuwaiti opposition lawmaker Khaled al-Tahus on Sunday filed a petition to question the prime minister over alleged inaction on pollution in a residential area in the oil-rich southern region. "This is a humanitarian grilling in the first place. I filed the request after all my attempts to resolve the pollution problem have failed," Tahus said after filing the request to question Prime Minist ... more  
Canberra, Australia (SPX) May 28, 2010The climate of the Pacific region will undergo significant changes as atmospheric temperatures rise but scientists can not yet identify the influence it will have on the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) weather phenomenon. This is a central finding of an international science review by the World Climate Research Program's Climate Variability and Predictability Pacific Panel, published i ... more |
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'Top kill' bid to plug oil leak fraught with uncertaintyNew Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) May 29, 2010 BP offered little insight Saturday as to whether its latest effort to plug a disastrous Gulf of Mexico leak would work, as local officials sought million of dollars from the oil giant. BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said engineers were still feeding heavy drilling fluid into the leaking well head, hoping to overcome it and ultimately seal it with cement, but that the results would not be clear for at least another day. "To date it hasn't yet stopped the flow. That's what I do know," he ... read more |
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