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Pakistan evacuates thousands in flooded southKarachi (AFP) Aug 22, 2010 Pakistani authorities Sunday evacuated tens of thousands from flood-threatened areas in the south but insisted that the 2.5 million people of Hyderabad were safe from the nation's worst-ever inundation. The weak civilian government has faced an outpouring of fury over sluggish relief efforts, while officials are warning the country faces ruinous economic losses of up to 43 billion dollars, ahead of IMF talks this week. The month-long floods have killed 1,500 people and affected up to 20 million ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Aug 22, 2010Tropical storm Danielle formed in the eastern Atlantic Sunday with sustained winds increasing to nearly 40 miles per hour (65 kilometers per hour), the US National Hurricane Center said. Danielle was the fourth tropical storm of the 2010 hurricane season in the Atlantic. The center said the storm, 725 miles (1,165 kilometers) west of the southernmost Cape Verde islands, posed no immediat ... more 
Geneva (AFP) Aug 20, 2010The UN disaster prevention agency said Friday that communities should have been kept away from flood-exposed river banks in Pakistan, as it underlined the human hand in a string of catastrophes. "If people had not settled on the river banks, definitely the disaster would have been less, because that is the main cause of the disaster," said Salvano Briceno, director of the UN's International ... more  
Exeter, UK (SPX) Aug 20, 2010A 48-million-year-old fossilised leaf has revealed the oldest known evidence of a macabre part of nature - parasites taking control of their hosts to turn them into zombies. The discovery has been made by a research team led by Dr David P Hughes, from the University of Exeter, who studies parasites that can take over the minds of their hosts. All manner of animals are susceptible to ... more |
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Resolving The Paradox Of The Antarctic Sea IceAtlanta GA (SPX) Aug 20, 2010 While Arctic sea ice has been diminishing in recent decades, the Antarctic sea ice extent has been increasing slightly. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology provide an explanation for the seeming paradox of increasing Antarctic sea ice in a warming climate. The paper appears in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science the week of August 16, 2010. "We wanted to understand this apparent paradox so that we can better understand what might happen to ... read more |
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