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China braces for Typhoon MegiBeijing (AFP) Oct 20, 2010 Chinese authorities on Wednesday ordered fishermen back to shore and halted rail services as Typhoon Megi, the strongest northwest Pacific storm since 1990, barrelled towards the mainland. Megi has already wreaked havoc in the Philippines, killing at least 19 people and leaving relief workers scrambling to deliver aid to devastated, remote towns. It is now making its way towards southern China, where it is expected to make landfall in the southern province of Guangdong on Saturday, the National ... read more |
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 West African floods swamp Benin Families sleep by the roadside under shelter made of scrap wood and metal, their homes destroyed by the rains in Benin - the country seen as the hardest-hit by West African floods this rainy season. ... more | .. |
  Electrified Nano Filter Promises To Cut Costs For Clean Drinking Water With almost one billion people lacking access to clean, safe drinking water, scientists are reporting development and successful initial tests of an inexpensive new filtering technology that kills u ... more | .. |
  Canada to sell potash to China for 2.2 billion dollars Canadian fertilizer cartel Canpotex on Wednesday announced a deal to supply China's Sinofert with 3.15 million tonnes of potash over three years, for an estimated 2.2 billion US dollars. Sinofer ... more | .. |
  UBC Underwater Robot To Explore Ice-Covered Ocean And Antarctic Ice Shelf Researchers at the University of British Columbia are deploying an underwater robot to survey ice-covered ocean in Antarctica from October 17 through November 12. Scientists predict that the s ... more | .. |
 EU may slash bluefin tuna quota in 2011: spokesman The European Commission may substantially slash its fishing quota for bluefin tuna next year to ensure the long-term sustainability of the endangered fish, a spokesman said Wednesday. The Europe ... more |
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Riverside CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2010A popular view among geophysicists is that large amounts of water are carried from the oceans to the deep mantle in "subduction zones," which are boundaries where the Earth's crustal plates converge, with one plate riding over the other. But now geophysicists led by the University of California, Riverside's Harry Green, a distinguished professor of geology and geophysics, present results t ... more  
Helmholtz, Germany (SPX) Oct 21, 2010Our genetic material is often compared to a book. However, it is not so much like a novel to be read in one piece, but rather like a cookbook. The cell reads only those recipes which are to be cooked at the moment. The recipes are the genes; 'reading' in the book of the cell means creating RNA copies of individual genes, which will then be translated into proteins. The cell uses highly com ... more  
Falmouth MA (SPX) Oct 21, 2010The ordinary squid, Loligo pealii - best known until now as a kind of floating buffet for just about any fish in the sea - may be on the verge of becoming a scientific superstar, providing clues about the origin and evolution of the sense of hearing. In a hangar-like research building at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), biologist T. Aran Mooney is exploring virtually unchar ... more |
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Bear attacks surge in Japan, environmental change blamedTokyo (AFP) Oct 20, 2010 Bear attacks have shot up in Japan this year and sightings of the animals have spiked, a trend blamed on climatic changes and shifting land use patterns, officials and media reports said Wednesday. At least four people were killed and 80 wounded in bear attacks between April and September in the island-nation, much of which is covered in mountain forests, topping last year's total of 64 attacks, said broadcaster NHK. Some 400 bears were shot dead near human-populated areas by authorised hunters ... read more |
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