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US naval ship heads to Haiti as tropical storm approachesWashington (AFP) Nov 2, 2010 A US naval ship on Tuesday headed toward Haiti to offer humanitarian help in case Tropical Storm Tomas strikes the country as forecast, the military said. As Haiti prepared to evacuate tens of thousands ahead of the storm, naval commanders ordered the USS Iwo Jima to steam toward Haiti from Suriname. The amphibious ship has eight CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters and two MH-60 night Hawk choppers and a crew of 1,600, including medical and engineering teams ready to assist in relief efforts after the ... read more |
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  Scrambling For Climate Change Solutions The food industry generates a lot of waste products, but one of these, eggshells, could help combat climate change, according to research published in the International Journal of Global Warming thi ... more | .. |
  Scientists Urge Faster Installation Of Global Ocean Monitor System The ocean surface is 30 percent more acidic today than it was in 1800, much of that increase occurring in the last 50 years - a rising trend that could both harm coral reefs and profoundly impact ti ... more | .. |
 UN braces half a million in Haiti for storm threat Relief agencies on Tuesday stepped up emergency plans to protect up to 500,000 Haitians from a tropical storm forecast to hit the country amid fears that it could also help the cholera epidemic spread. ... more | .. |
  China starts counting its huge population China on Monday kicked off its national census, with more than six million counters fanning out nationwide to tally the world's biggest population, estimated last year to be over 1.3 billion. ... more |
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 Archaeological Sites Threatened By Rising Seas Should global warming cause sea levels to rise as predicted in coming decades, thousands of archaeological sites in coastal areas around the world will be lost to erosion. With no hope of savi ... more | .. |
  Controlling Individual Cortical Nerve Cells By Human Thought Five years ago, neuroscientist Christof Koch of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), neurosurgeon Itzhak Fried of UCLA, and their colleagues discovered that a single neuron in the human ... more | .. |
 Indonesian warns volcano 'could erupt for months' Indonesia warned Tuesday its most active volcano could continue erupting for months as 50,000 remained in temporary shelters and airlines cancelled flights over the disaster-hit nation. ... more | .. |
  How Lead Gets Into Urban Vegetable Gardens If you're a vegetable gardener in a lot of older cities, there's a fair chance you have a significant amount of lead in your soil. One common mitigation approach is to build a raised bed and fill it ... more |
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 Groundwater Threat To Rivers Worse Than Suspected Excessive groundwater development represents a greater threat to nearby rivers and streams during dry periods (low flows) than previously thought, according to research released by CSIRO. In a ... more | .. |
  A Speed Gun For The Inner Earth Researchers at the University of Bristol have revealed in the journal Nature that they have developed a seismological 'speed gun' for the inside of the Earth. Using this technique they will be able ... more | .. |
  Cincinnati's Algeo Tracks Evidence Of The Great Dying More than 251 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, Earth almost became a lifeless planet. Around 90 percent of all living species disappeared then, in what scientists have called "Th ... more | .. |
 Indonesia issues flight warning as volcano spews ash Indonesia on Tuesday warned airlines to avoid certain routes over central Java as the Mount Merapi volcano belched more heat clouds of gas and ash, while six international flights were cancelled. ... more |
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  81,000 homeless need aid after Myanmar cyclone: UN The United Nations said on Tuesday that at least 81,000 people in western Myanmar are homeless and in need of urgent aid after cyclone Giri hit the area last week, leaving 45 people dead. ... more | .. |
 Hurricane kills 12 in Saint Lucia, wipes out crops A huge storm has ravaged the Caribbean paradise of Saint Lucia killing at least 12 people, wiping out the banana crop and causing millions of dollars in damage, officials said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Plague came from China: scientists The first outbreak of plague occurred in China more than 2,600 years ago before reaching Europe via Central Asia's "Silk Road" trade route, according to a study of the disease's DNA signature. ... more | .. |
  Zambia court bails Chinese pair after mine shooting A Zambian court Tuesday bailed two Chinese managers who are charged with attempted murder after they shot 12 miners protesting over their working conditions. ... more |
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  Obama, Democrats fear rout as US polls open President Barack Obama's Democrats face a day of reckoning as US voters headed to the polls Tuesday in an election likely to see Republicans seize control of the House of Representatives and gain broad new powers to attack his agenda. ... more | .. |
  'The Cove' activist boycotts meeting with dolphin town mayor Dolphin activist Ric O'Barry, the central figure in the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove", on Tuesday boycotted a meeting with members of Japan's dolphin-hunting town of Taiji, calling it a "sham." ... more | .. |
 Are public service announcements effective By now, you've probably heard that taking illicit drugs might have the unfortunate effect of frying your brain - especially if you're familiar with the now-cliche 1980s anti-drug ad that elegantly compares drug use to egg frying with the pithy message: ... more | .. |
 Elephant smuggling gang busted in India Police in northeast India said Wednesday they had busted an elephant smuggling racket which is suspected of selling nearly 100 animals across the country and to Nepal. ... more |
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 Clinton urges PNG to end 'culture of violence' against women US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for an end to the "culture of violence" against women in impoverished Papua New Guinea Wednesday during a lightning stop in the South Pacific nation. ... more | .. |
 China says countries have 'common duty' on climate change China said Wednesday countries have a "common duty" to tackle global warming, pointing to a rift between rich and developing nations on climate change policy in the run-up to a UN meeting on the issue. ... more | .. |
UN raises winter funds alarm in flood-hit Pakistan The United Nations on Wednesday expressed increasing alarm over sluggish funds for Pakistan's 21 million flood victims, appealing to donors to act swiftly to stave off a new winter emergency. ... more | .. |
Light fantastic: Retinal implant brightens future for blind German doctors on Wednesday announced a breakthrough in retinal implants, the fledgling technology that aims to restore sight in people cursed by a form of inherited blindness. ... more |
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