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Pacific sockeye salmon return in record numbersVancouver, Canada (AFP) Sept 9, 2010 After years of scarcity, the rivers of the US and Canadian Pacific Northwest are running red, literally, with a vast swarm of a salmon species considered to be in crisis. Sockeye salmon, whose stocks ran perilously low last year, are gushing in record numbers from the Pacific Ocean toward their spawning grounds far inland. Since mid-August, in a torrent expected to last through early October, sockeye have plunged and leapt up Alaskan streams, massed through the mouth of the mighty Fraser River i ... read more |
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London, UK (SPX) Sep 10, 2010By studying similarities in the genes of Scots Pine trees, scientists have shown that the iconic pine forests of Highland Scotland still carry the traces of the ancestors that colonised Britain after the end of the last Ice Age, harbouring genetic variation that could help regenerate future populations, according to new results published in the journal Heredity. The research was carried ou ... more  
Islamabad, Pakistan (UPI) Sep 9, 2010 The emergency in flood-ravaged Pakistan is far from over, a U.N. official warned. "Everything I saw and heard today confirmed that this disaster - already one of the largest the world has seen - is still getting bigger," U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos said Wednesday. She is on a 3-day tour of the province of Si ... more  
Moscow (UPI) Sep 9, 2010 The Russian Emergencies Ministry will boost its fire fighting squad with eight Be-200 Altair amphibious planes in the wake of the worst wildfires in the country in decades. The $330 million contract with the Beriev Aircraft Co. for the planes was signed Thursday at a hydro-aviation conference in Russia's Black Sea resort town of Gelendzhik, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reports. ... more |
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Prominent Chinese activist freed: rights groupsBeijing (AFP) Sept 9, 2010 Blind activist Chen Guangcheng, who gained worldwide fame for exposing abuses in China's "one child" population policy, was freed Thursday after four years in prison, according to rights groups. Chen was jailed in 2006 after accusing family-planning officials in eastern China's Shandong province of forcing at least 7,000 women to be sterilised or undergo late-term abortions. "I have not changed at all. I want to thank all the friends who have been concerned about me," Chen was quoted as saying a ... read more |
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