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Giant Greenland iceberg a climate 'warning sign'Paris (AFP) Aug 13, 2010 A giant iceberg that snapped away from Greenland last week is a signal that global warming is causing the island's continent-sized ice cap to melt faster than expected, scientists say. The 250-square-kilometre (100-square-mile) chunk, four times the size of Manhattan, broke away from the Petermann ice shelf on Greenland's northwestern tip. The breakoff - the largest in the Arctic in half a century - points to Greenland's worrying potential to stoke sea levels in the coming decades and centurie ... read more |
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Richland WA (SPX) Aug 16, 2010Like shifting sand dunes, some clouds disappear in one place and reappear in another. New work this week in Nature shows why: Rain causes air to move vertically, which breaks down and builds up cloud walls. The air movement forms patterns in low clouds that remain cohesive structures even while appearing to shift about the sky, due to a principle called self-organization. These clouds, cal ... more 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 14, 2010The first planeloads of US aid for the Russian wildfire tragedy arrived in Moscow on Saturday as officials said a fire raging close to a top nuclear facility did not risk causing an atomic catastrophe. Officials said that nationwide the area alight with fires was almost a quarter that of a week ago, although there appeared to be little progress in reducing the size of the blaze close to Russ ... more  
Washington (AFP) Aug 12, 2010The floods in Pakistan have muddied the waters for the Obama administration's long-term drive to help nuclear-armed Pakistan reduce the allure of extremism by better serving the Pakistani people. For one thing, analysts say, the floods have allowed Islamist-linked groups to score points, at least in some places, by delivering aid to the needy before the US-backed government and international ... more |
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China says no evidence milk powder caused infant breastsBeijing (AFP) Aug 15, 2010 China's health ministry said Sunday an investigation had found no evidence that milk powder produced by a Chinese company caused three infant girls to grow breasts. The clinical investigation found the hormone levels in the baby formula were within the normal range, health ministry spokesman Deng Haihua told a news conference in Beijing, according to a transcript on the ministry's website. Authorities in the central province of Hubei had been ordered to investigate milk powder after parents and ... read more |
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