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Summer of extreme weather fuels debate over warmingParis (AFP) Aug 9, 2010 As Russia battles wildfires triggered by an unprecedented heatwave, flood waters surge across a drenched Pakistan leaving millions of people homeless, and questions are asked about global warming. Extreme weather has been a feature of the summer of 2010, with floods in Pakistan, China and Eastern Europe seemingly matched by heatwaves in Western Europe and Russia. However, experts interviewed by AFP Monday were cautious over offering the events as proof of a changing climate, saying that while t ... read more |
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Wellington (AFP) Aug 11, 2010New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra said Wednesday it is "100 percent confident" in its milk supplies to a Chinese company under investigation over claims of tainted milk powder. Parents and doctors in China's Hubei province have expressed fears that hormones in milk powder produced by Synutra International have caused young girls to develop breasts prematurely. Synutra said the questionabl ... more  
Sukkur, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 10, 2010The United Nations is launching an appeal to help the millions of people hit by Pakistan's worst ever floods which have cut off swathes of the country and raised fears of a food crisis. A UN official said the disaster has affected almost 14 million people, eclipsing the scale of the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, as the deadly floodwaters sweep south and rescuers battle to bring aid ... more  
Zhouqu, China (AFP) Aug 11, 2010Hopes of finding survivors of China's worst mudslides in decades faded Wednesday as the death toll topped 700, with more than 1,000 people still missing under an avalanche of rock and sludge. More than 10,000 soldiers and rescuers combed through the mountains of mud that buried a remote area of the northwest province of Gansu at the weekend, but 72 hours after the disaster, the window of sur ... more |
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Ancient Blob-Like Creature Of The DeepLondon, UK (SPX) Aug 10, 2010 A unique blob-like creature that lived in the ocean approximately 425 million years ago is revealed in a 3D computer model in research published in the journal Biology Letters. The model is helping researchers to understand what primitive species on early Earth looked like and how they might have evolved into the types of creatures that are on Earth today. The scientists, from Imperial College London, have developed a detailed 3D model of the only known fossilised specimen in the world of a ... read more |
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