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Yale Scientist Helps Pinpoint Threats To Life In World's RiversNew Haven, CT (SPX) Oct 26, 2010 The food chain - the number of organisms that feed on each other - in the world's streams and rivers depends more upon the size of the stream and whether the waterways flood or run dry than the amount of available food resources, Yale University and Arizona State University (ASU) researchers report online in the Oct. 14 issue of the journal Science Express. The findings suggest that large predators in river systems will be threatened by increased variability in water flow induced by climate change ... read more |
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  New Discoveries Concerning Pre-Columbian Settlements In The Amazon The pre-Columbian Indian societies that once lived in the Amazon rainforests may have been much larger and more advanced than researchers previously realized. Together with Brazilian colleagues, arc ... more | .. |
 Earth's Deep Water Cycle Theory Needs Revision A 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 ... more | .. |
  Naples mothers take lead in anti-landfill protests Mothers from the Naples region are taking the lead in angry anti-landfill protests, blocking garbage trucks and confronting riot police to warn about the dangers to their children's health. ... more | .. |
  UN to open peace and security office in Gabon The United Nations will in January open a central African regional bureau for peace and security in Gabon's capital Libreville, a UN political advisor announced Monday. ... 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 |
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Yangon (AFP) Oct 25, 2010At least 27 people were killed and 15 are missing after a powerful cyclone struck western Myanmar, leaving a trail of destruction in its path, official media reported late Monday. Cyclone Giri destroyed 2,800 homes, dozens of government buildings and two bridges, according to state radio in the army-ruled country. The storm slammed into the coastal state of Rakhine on Friday with winds o ... more 
Mount Merapi, Indonesia (AFP) Oct 25, 2010Indonesia ordered thousands of people to evacuate from around Mount Merapi on Monday as it raised the alert for its most active volcano to red, warning of a possible imminent eruption. Seismic activity has escalated dramatically at the volcano on the densely populated island of Java, with increasing lava spurts and about 500 multi-phased volcanic earthquakes recorded over the weekend, offici ... more  
Baghdad (AFP) Oct 25, 2010Iraq called for international help on Monday to help clear the estimated 20 million mines which pose a death threat in one of the world's most heavily mined countries after three decades of conflict. "Removing mines from Iraq is difficult because there are no maps to indicate the mined areas," Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said at a government-organised landmines conference in Baghdad. " ... more |
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Haiti cholera deaths drop offPort-Au-Prince (AFP) Oct 25, 2010 The number of new cholera deaths in Haiti dropped off dramatically on Monday, raising hopes the quake-hit nation has avoided another disaster just 10 months after January's devastating quake. The death toll of 259 from Gabriel Thimote, director general of Haiti's health department, went up by just six over the last 24 hours, although the number of new infections still rose by more than 200 to 3,342. Aid agencies, meanwhile, stepped up efforts to ring-fence the disease and keep it out of the refu ... read more |
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