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One dead as Typhoon Megi whips northern PhilippinesBaguio, Philippines (AFP) Oct 18, 2010 Super Typhoon Megi smashed into the northern Philippines on Monday, causing landslides in mountainous areas, whipping up huge waves along the coast and killing at least one person. Forecasters said Megi was the strongest storm to hit the Philippines since Typhoon Durian unleashed mudslides that buried entire towns and killed over 1,000 in 2006, and was likely the most powerful in the world this year. It pummelled remote coastal areas of the northern Philippines with gusts of up to 260 kilometres ... read more |
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Geneva (AFP) Oct 16, 2010The United Nations top official on the right to food called for wholesale changes in farming methods to safeguard the environment and ensure everyone has enough to eat. Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, said in a statement to mark World Food Day that there is currently "little to rejoice about," and "worse may still be ahead." "Current agricultural deve ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 18, 2010The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that caused more than 200,000 casualties and devastated Haiti's economy in January resulted not from the Enriquillo fault, as previously believed, but from slip on multiple faults - primarily a previously unknown, subsurface fault - according to a study published online this week in Nature Geoscience. In addition, because the earthquake did not involve slip nea ... more  
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 18, 2010The authors of a new book have called for the development of more robust international ocean and ice sheet monitoring and modelling programs designed to help community adaptation planning keep pace with the threat of rising sea levels. "The good news is that a recent concentration of science resources is improving our insight into ocean and ice dynamics, and scientific measurement of the r ... more |
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New Japan leaders broke secret islet pact with China: mediaTokyo (AFP) Oct 18, 2010 A row between Japan and China blew up because the year-old centre left government in Tokyo unwittingly failed to keep a "secret pact" with China over disputed islands, Japanese media said Monday. Under Japan's previous conservative leadership "the Japanese and Chinese governments had a secret agreement to manage an emergency" involving the islands in the East China Sea, said the Asahi Shimbun's Aera magazine. The chain of uninhabited islands, called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese, has ... read more |
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