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Cholera-hit Haiti braces for looming stormPort-Au-Prince (AFP) Nov 4, 2010 Haiti reeled from a spike in cholera deaths as authorities planned mass evacuations from squalid tent cities ahead of a major storm set to lash the Americas' poorest nation beginning Thursday. Tropical Storm Tomas was barreling toward Haiti, threatening a direct hit early Friday as a hurricane bringing "life-threatening flash floods and mudslides over mountainous terrain," according to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC). A hurricane warning was issued, which means hurricane conditions are ex ... read more |
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  First Complete Early Sauropod Dinosaur Found Scientists have discovered in China the first complete skeleton of a pivotal ancestor of Earth's largest land animals - the sauropod dinosaurs. The new species, tentatively dubbed Yizhousaurus sunae ... more | .. |
 Phosphorus Identified As The Missing Link In Evolution Of Animals A University of Alberta geomicrobiologist and his PhD student are part of a research team that has identified phosphorus as the mystery ingredient that pushed oxygen levels in the oceans high enough ... more | .. |
 Haiti Quake Caused By Unknown Fault Researchers found a previously unmapped fault was responsible for the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti and that the originally blamed fault remains ready to produce a large earthquake. ... more | .. |
  Researchers Could Use Plant Light Switch To Control Cells Chandra Tucker shines a blue light on yeast and mammalian cells in her Duke University lab and the edges of them start to glow. The effect is the result of a light-activated switch from a plant that ... more |
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 New Evidence Supports Snowball Earth As Trigger For Early Animal Evolution A team of scientists, led by biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside, has found new evidence linking "Snowball Earth" glacial events to the rise of early animals. The controv ... more | .. |
  Syr Darya River Floodplain, Kazakhstan, Central Asia Central Asia's most important cotton-growing region is concentrated in the floodplain of the Syr Darya. The river was one of the farthest points reached by the ancient Greek leader Alexander of Mace ... more | .. |
 Continuing Biodiversity Loss Predicted But Could Be Slowed A new analysis of several major global studies of future species shifts and losses foresees inevitable continuing decline of biodiversity during the 21st century but offers new hope that it could be ... more | .. |
 Earth's First Great Predator Wasn't The meters-long, carnivorous "shrimp" from hell that once ruled the seas of Earth a half billion years ago may have been a real softy, it turns out. A new 3-D modeling of the mouth parts of th ... more |
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  After bitter row, Google launches Street View in Germany Following months of controversy over privacy, US Internet giant Google put its first images from Germany online Tuesday as part of its Street View navigation service. ... more | .. |
  US election narrows climate agenda Republicans' victory in US elections has all but doomed prospects for a national plan to battle climate change, but President Barack Obama voiced hope Wednesday of finding areas of cooperation. ... more | .. |
 UN urges aid to counter Djibouti's five year drought The United Nations on Wednesday launched an appeal for 38.9 million dollars in aid for 120,000 people struck by a five year drought in the east African state of Djibouti. ... 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 |
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  Obama to work through 'shellacking' U.S. President Barack Obama struck a conciliatory tone Wednesday, taking responsibility for the slow pace of economic progress the day after Republicans walloped Democrats, winning a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and raking in major wins in senatorial and gubernatorial races. ... more | .. |
 Earthquake hits Serbia, kills two An earthquake struck Serbia early Wednesday, killing two people, injuring dozens and causing substantial damage in the central city of Kraljevo, where electricity and other services were cut. ... more | .. |
 Thai flood death toll hits 122 The death toll from Thailand's crippling floods has risen to over 120, officials said Thursday, after the weeks-long crisis spread south and affected tens of thousands more people, including tourists. ... more | .. |
  Chinese man arrested for spreading Nobel Peace Prize news Police in southern China have arrested and charged a rights campaigner with subversion for handing out flyers announcing Liu Xiaobo's 2010 Nobel Peace Prize win, fellow activists said Wednesday. ... more |
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 Mountains of trash fished from China's Three Gorges Dam Workers in central China have fished 3,800 tonnes of rubbish out of the Three Gorges Dam in just six days, state media said Thursday, as the trash threatened to jam up the massive structure. ... more | .. |
Police stop China environmentalist from seeking retrial Plainclothes police prevented a prominent Chinese environmentalist convicted of extortion in 2007 from requesting a retrial Thursday, blocking him inside China's top court, the activist said. ... more | .. |
  Indigenous Colombians shun turtle meat to save dying species Indigenous Wayuu people living on South America's northernmost tip are dropping their age-old tradition of eating turtle meat as a main protein source because the reptile is dying out. ... more | .. |
Asian Flood Report: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia Fifteen people have been killed and one person is missing after flash floods in a village in eastern Indonesia, sending residents fleeing their homes, an official said Thursday. ... more |
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Australia's Rudd, in China, calls for Nobel winner's release Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has again called for the release of jailed Chinese Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, and indicated he would not shy away from raising the issue while in Beijing. ... more | .. |
 Don't put us on the Google map, says German village A day after a small town became the first in Germany to welcome Google's controversial Street View service with open arms and cake, a tiny northern village responded Wednesday with a resounding "nein." ... 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 | .. |
 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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