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More than 30,000 trapped by floods in China's northeastBeijing (AFP) July 28, 2010 More than 30,000 people are thought to be trapped by floodwaters in a town in northeast China, state media said Wednesday, as torrential rain that has killed over 300 in two weeks continues. China is struggling with its worst flooding in a decade tat has left 1,405 dead or missing since the beginning of the year and caused at least 26 billion dollars in damage, and authorities have warned of more to come. In the central city of Wuhan, tens of thousands of people have been evacuated as authoritie ... read more |
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Moscow (AFP) July 28, 2010Muscovites Wednesday coughed their way through the hottest days of weather on record in the Russian capital as a smog cloud created by peat fires blanketed the city for a third day in a row. The smog cloud - which has left the spires of the Kremlin and onion domes of churches shrouded behind a misty curtain - has been sparked by dozens of peat fires burning in the countryside around the ci ... more  
Beijing (AFP) July 28, 2010More than a thousand barrels of explosive chemicals were washed into a major waterway in northeastern China on Wednesday, state media said, in the country's latest environmental accident. The incident occurred around 10 a.m. (0200 GMT) in Jilin province after floodwaters swept the barrels into the Songhua river, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing the local government. The b ... more  
New York NY (SPX) Jul 28, 2010The memory of last winter's blizzards may be fading in this summer's searing heat, but scientists studying them have detected a perfect storm of converging weather patterns that had little relation to climate change. The extraordinarily cold, snowy weather that hit parts of the U.S. East Coast and Europe was the result of a collision of two periodic weather patterns in the Atlantic and Pac ... more |
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Joggers T-Shirts May Someday Power Their Cell PhonesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 29, 2010 A University of Southern California team has produced flexible transparent carbon atom films that the researchers say have great potential for a new breed of solar cells. "Organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells have been proposed as a means to achieve low cost energy due to their ease of manufacture, light weight, and compatibility with flexible substrates," wrote Chongwu Zhou, a professor of electrical engineering in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, in a paper recently published in the journal AC ... read more |
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