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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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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 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 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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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 |
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