24/7 News Coverage
August 05, 2010
WOOD PILE
Logging a threat to Europe's last primeval forest: activists
Warsaw (AFP) Aug 4, 2010
Polish environmentalists on Wednesday warned deforestation was threatening flora and fauna in Europe's last first-growth woodland and said they had complained to the EU over logging practices. "The current way of harvesting wood from the Bialowieza forest completely contradicts European Union requirements, particularly with regard to its Bird and Habitats directives," activist Krzysztof Okrasinski said, quoted by the Polish PAP news agency. Activists insist logging is limiting habitat of certain ... read more

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FIRE STORM

Medvedev cuts holiday as Russian wildfires spread
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FROTH AND BUBBLE

Gulf spill: How 3.6 million barrels of crude can disappear
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FARM NEWS

Bee 'pastures' could help agriculture
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CLIMATE SCIENCE

New Carbon Dioxide Emissions Model
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Satellite Services supplies on-board sub-systems for smallsats and microsats.

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WHALES AHOY

Blue Whales Align The Pitch Of Their Songs With Extreme Accuracy
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BLUE SKY

Black Carbon Implicated In Global Warming
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SHAKE AND BLOW

Nearly 1,700 dead, missing in China floods
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SHAKE AND BLOW

Pakistan survivors claw at debris of flooded homes
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FIRE STORM

Devastated Russian village pins hopes on Putin's words
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WATER WORLD

Well kill doesn't mask grim reality for Gulf fishermen
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SHAKE AND BLOW

Relief critical for flood-ravaged Pakistan
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FLORA AND FAUNA

Mammal-Like Crocodile Fossil Found In East Africa
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CLIMATE SCIENCE

Climate Change By Degrees
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SHAKE AND BLOW
Desperate Pakistan flood survivors clamour for aid
Charsadda, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 4, 2010
Desperate survivors crushed into relief centres Wednesday after Pakistan's worst floods in living memory as the country braced for more storms that threaten to deepen the humanitarian crisis. With over three million people hit by the flooding, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is to chair a special cabinet meeting to speed up the relief work and estimate the damage - expected to run into mi ... more

FLORA AND FAUNA
Carnivorous Mice Spread Deadly Plague In Prairie Dog Towns
Stanford CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2010
Prairie dogs, once abundant in the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains, have been decimated in recent decades by plague - a virulent bacterial disease spread by fleas. Plague outbreaks periodically sweep through large prairie dog towns with thousands of inhabitants, killing virtually the entire population within months. Other prairie dogs move in and build a new colony, which eventually is wi ... more

FARM NEWS
Pakistan farmers see livelihoods wiped out by floods
Majuky Faqirabad, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 4, 2010
Devastating floods have swept away farmland and devastated livestock in Pakistan's northwest, costing farmers millions of dollars and sparking demands for government compensation. The land was some of the most fertile in the country: rich soil nurtured sugarcane, maize, tobacco and vegetables, fed communities and carpeted a lush landscape watered by gushing rivers and framed by mountains. ... more

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SHAKE AND BLOW

Scientists forecast nine more Atlantic hurricanes, five big ones

FARM NEWS

Argentine farmers, leaders locked in feud


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NUKEWARS
Planets In Unusually Intimate Dance Around Dying Star

Detector Technology Could Help NASA Find Earth-Like Exoplanets

NASA Finds Super-Hot Planet With Unique Comet-Like Tail

NUKEWARS
Acoustic Tests On New Glonass-K Satellite Completed

China Leads In Outer Space Pollution

MetOp-B Module Passes Crucial Vacuum Test

NUKEWARS
adidas Turns Your Smartphone Into A Personal Coach

Russia To Launch 3 Glonass Satellites In September

Soap maker creates unease over Brazil GPS spying stunt

NUKEWARS
China Contributes To Space-Based Information Access A Lot

China Sends Research Satellite Into Space

China eyes Argentina for space antenna

NUKEWARS
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Might Collide With The Earth In 2182

Research Yields Greater Precision In Determining Age of Meteorites

'Pristine' Earth impact crater discovered

NUKEWARS
WISE Discovers Over 90 Near-Earth Objects

'Sample return' space missions examined

Fascinating Images From A New World

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ICE WORLD
Ice drilling could foretell climate
Boulder, Colo. (UPI) Aug 3, 2010
Scientists drilling more than a mile deep into ice in Greenland say their findings could assess the risk of abrupt future climate changes on Earth. Researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder, as part of an international science team, hit bedrock at 1 1/2 miles deep last week after two summers of drilling, a university release said Monday. The team recovered ice from the Eemian interglacial period of 115,000 to 130,000 years ago, when temperatures were 3.6 to 5.4 degrees Fahre ... read more

ICE WORLD
Japanese rescue-bot can sniff out disaster survivors

Flood-triggered landslide in China leaves 21 missing

Haiti's homeless on the move again as hurricanes loom

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ICE WORLD
Acoustic Tests On New Glonass-K Satellite Completed

China Leads In Outer Space Pollution

MetOp-B Module Passes Crucial Vacuum Test

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ICE WORLD
Well kill doesn't mask grim reality for Gulf fishermen

Workers in China rush to restore water to 330,000 people

Pacific islands want louder voice on climate

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ICE WORLD
Ice drilling could foretell climate

Ice-Free Arctic Ocean May Not Be Of Much Use In Soaking Up Carbon Dioxide

Best Hope For Saving Arctic Sea Ice Is Cutting Soot Emissions

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ICE WORLD
Pakistan farmers see livelihoods wiped out by floods

Bee 'pastures' could help agriculture

Argentine farmers, leaders locked in feud

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