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September 01, 2010
SHAKE AND BLOW
US coast braces for 'large and intense' Hurricane Earl
Miami (AFP) Aug 31, 2010
Hurricane Earl churned toward the US mainland Tuesday, posing a threat to a big beach holiday weekend over a vast section of the eastern seaboard after pummeling several Caribbean islands with heavy winds and rain. A hurricane watch was issued for the North Carolina coast, the National Hurricane Center said, calling Earl a "large and intense" storm. Earl remained a strong category four hurricane with fierce winds of up to 135 miles (215 kilometers) an hour, moving to the northwest at 14 miles (2 ... read more

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SHAKE AND BLOW

China's flood toll rises to 4,200 dead or missing
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CLIMATE SCIENCE

UN climate panel ordered to make fundamental reforms
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WATER WORLD

Ancient Microbes Responsible For Breathing Life Into Ocean 'Deserts'
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FLORA AND FAUNA

Carnivore Species Shrank During Global Warming Event
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Satellite Services supplies on-board sub-systems for smallsats and microsats.

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FLORA AND FAUNA

Scientists Say Natural Selection Alone Can Explain Eusociality
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AFRICA NEWS

Rwanda threatens Sudan peacekeeper pullout over UN report
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CLIMATE SCIENCE

Rajendra Pachauri: IPCC chief in the spotlight
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WATER WORLD

Delhi notes China's Indian Ocean 'interest'
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SHAKE AND BLOW

Niger floods bring disaster on top of food crisis
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SINO DAILY

Once-banned, Jia Zhangke seeks wider audience in China
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT

NASA team advises Chile on trapped miners
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CLIMATE SCIENCE

Climate: New talks aim for push on finance
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DEMOCRACY

Myanmar's cyber generation boots up for first-time vote
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FLORA AND FAUNA
Cold snap decimates Amazon aquatic life
Santa Cruz De La Sierra, Bolivia (UPI) Aug 31, 2010
Millions of aquatic animals in land-locked Bolivia's river systems have perished in unusually cold weather during the ongoing winter. The casualties include at least 6 million fish, thousands of alligators, turtles and river dolphins, scientific reports cited by Nature News said. Losses of penguins were reported in Brazil and cattle deaths, affected by a cold snap from the Antarc ... more

FARM NEWS
Nepal's food supply at risk
Kathmandu, Nepal (UPI) Aug 31, 2010
Nepal, already struggling with high levels of malnutrition and food insecurity, could see its harvests cut in half this year due to late monsoon rains, the World Food Program says. Of particular concern, said Dominique Hyde, deputy country director of WFP in Nepal, is the mid and far western area of the country, home to 600,000 of the country's estimated 3.6 million people who are consi ... more

FARM NEWS
Human impact on a food source unexpected
Raleigh, N.C. (UPI) Aug 31, 2010
Human impact on a shellfish consumed in the Pacific for thousands of years may have caused the species to actually increase in size, U.S. researchers say. Scientists at North Carolina State University, in a counterintuitive finding, say the average size of the humped conch, a food source in the Pacific islands for 3,000 years, has increased in spite of - or even possibly because of - ... more

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DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Tensions build as flood-hit Pakistanis flee to the hills

SHAKE AND BLOW

Rumbling volcano keeps Indonesians in shelters


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MISSILE NEWS
Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Transiting A Single Star

Seven-Planet System Discovered

Richest Planetary System Discovered

MISSILE NEWS
Ice Cloud And Land Elevation Mission Comes To An End

Student Competition 'In The Can'

Canadian PM Announces Support For Next Gen Of Satellites

MISSILE NEWS
First Boeing-Built GPS IIF Satellite Enters Service With USAF

China Launches New Mapping Satellite

Venture Capital Fund Backs Business Opportunities From Space

MISSILE NEWS
China Finishes Construction Of First Unmanned Space Module

China Contributes To Space-Based Information Access A Lot

China Sends Research Satellite Into Space

MISSILE NEWS
Catch A Falling Star

Perseid Meteors Return: Viewing Conditions Excellent

Fireball heralds arrival of meteor shower

MISSILE NEWS
Sunlight Spawns Many Binary And 'Divorced' Binary Asteroids

Some Asteroids Live In Own Little Worlds

NASA prepares for asteroid rendezvous

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FARM NEWS
Russia will not curb soaring food prices: minister
Moscow (AFP) Aug 31, 2010
The Russian government will not intervene to curb prices for basic food stuffs as inflation soars after the country's worst ever drought, Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina said Tuesday. "I think it does not make sense to impose (price) limits," Nabiullina was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying. "We are of course monitoring what is happening to prices. In August, the average weekly rate of inflation sped up. This is primarily due to the drought," she said. Under Russian l ... read more

FARM NEWS
NASA team advises Chile on trapped miners

Tensions build as flood-hit Pakistanis flee to the hills

Obama hails New Orleans 'resilience' five years post-Katrina

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FARM NEWS
Ice Cloud And Land Elevation Mission Comes To An End

Student Competition 'In The Can'

Canadian PM Announces Support For Next Gen Of Satellites

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FARM NEWS
Ancient Microbes Responsible For Breathing Life Into Ocean 'Deserts'

Geo-Engineering And Sea-Level Rise Over The 21st Century

Delhi notes China's Indian Ocean 'interest'

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FARM NEWS
Researchers Find A 'great Fizz' Of Carbon Dioxide At The End Of The Last Ice Age

Why Fish Don't Freeze In The Arctic Ocean

Receding ice could unlock arctic trove

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FARM NEWS
Nepal's food supply at risk

Human impact on a food source unexpected

Russia will not curb soaring food prices: minister

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