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Bangladesh wants money, not more talks on climate changeDhaka (AFP) Nov 30, 2010 The terrible human cost of cyclones and flooding are plain to see in southwest Bangladesh, a low-lying, impoverished region on the frontline of the battle to adapt to climate change. Cyclone Aila, which hit in May last year, killed 300 people, washed away the embankments which make coastal regions habitable, and left 150,000 survivors reliant on emergency relief supplies including free rice. Aila was particularly destructive as a huge volume of water, swollen by spring tides, slammed into a dens ... read more |
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  DNA Technique Aids Crops And Trees At Risk From Deadly Honey Fungus An international team of scientists has developed a new technique to aid crops at risk from a devastating agricultural parasite commonly known as the 'honey fungus', one of the most serious diseases ... more | .. |
  Air Above Dead Sea Contains Very High Levels Of Oxidized Mercury In Hebrew, the Dead Sea is called Yam ha-Melah, the "sea of salt." Now measurements show that the sea's salt has profound effects on the chemistry of the air above its surface. The atmosphere ... more | .. |
  Rainforest Collapse Drove Reptile Evolution Global warming devastated tropical rainforests 300 million years ago. Now scientists report the unexpected discovery that this event triggered an evolutionary burst among reptiles - and inadvertentl ... more | .. |
  Apes Unwilling To Gamble When Odds Are Uncertain Humans are known to play it safe in a situation when they aren't sure of the odds, or don't have confidence in their judgments. We don't like to choose the unknown. And new evidence from a Duk ... more |
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  Fire Forecast Technology Could Help Rescue Teams Save Lives A new technique is able to feed data taken from sensors located in burning buildings into computer models so that rescue services can predict how fires will spread. The technology could save f ... more | .. |
  A USB For Medical Diagnosis Biomedical engineers at UC Davis have developed a plug-in interface for the microfluidic chips that will form the basis of the next generation of compact medical devices. They hope that the "f ... more | .. |
-chasing-condont-early-vertebrate-bg.jpg) Ancient Wind Held Secret Of Life And Death The mystery of how an abundance of fossils have been marvellously preserved for nearly half a billion years in a remote region of Africa has been solved by a team of geologists from the University o ... more | .. |
 Soil Microbes Define Dangerous Rates Of Climate Change The rate of global warming could lead to a rapid release of carbon from peatlands that would further accelerate global warming. Two recent studies published by the Mathematics Research Institu ... more |
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 Non-CO2 Pollutants Are Promising Target In Cancun Led by the tiny Pacific island of the Federated States of Micronesia, a growing group of low-lying islands and other vulnerable countries are calling for fast action on the approximately 50 percent ... more | .. |
 New Edition Of Soil Analysis Bible Released A new 'bible' on analysing soils for factors like carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and toxic substances, was released in Canberra last night at the Australasian Soil and Plant Analysis Council Conferenc ... more | .. |
  S.Korea activists urge rescue of dogs left on shelled island South Korean animal activists are pushing for the rescue of hundreds of dogs left behind when their owners fled the island shelled by North Korea last week. ... more | .. |
  Scottish airports hit in British cold snap Britain shivered Monday as an unseasonal cold snap gripped the kingdom, with temperatures below freezing and snow flurries grounding flights and trapping hundreds of motorists. ... more |
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  Construction halts on India's newest hill station Building work has been halted on India's newest hill station, developers said on Monday, after the government claimed that some construction had taken place illegally and parts of it may have to be razed. ... more | .. |
 Time for compromise, troubled UN climate talks told A new round of UN climate talks got underway on Monday to appeals for action and compromise after the squabbles that drove last year's global summit in Copenhagen close to disaster. ... more | .. |
  Up to nine cholera cases in Dominican Republic Dominican authorities said Monday they have diagnosed two new cases of cholera, raising to at least nine the number of people infected with the disease in cholera-stricken Haiti's neighbor. ... more | .. |
 UN food expert urges "Green Marshall Plan" from Cancun A UN human rights expert on Monday called on the climate change conference in Mexico to launch a "Green Marshall Plan" for agriculture to counter the impact of global warming on hunger and poverty. ... more |
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  Sage-Grouse Western Habitat Map Completed Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has announced the completion of a breeding bird density map for the greater sage-grouse by the Bureau of Land Management in coordination with the Western Associ ... more | .. |
 Size Of Mammals Exploded After Dinosaur Extinction Researchers demonstrate that the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago made way for mammals to get bigger - about a thousand times bigger than they had been. The study, which is published in ... more | .. |
 Earth's Lakes Warming Due To Climate Change In the first comprehensive global survey of temperature trends in major lakes, researchers have determined that Earth's largest lakes have warmed during the past 25 years in response to climate chan ... more | .. |
 Whale Sharks Do The Math To Avoid That Sinking Feeling They are the largest fish species in the ocean, but the majestic gliding motion of the whale shark is, scientists argue, an astonishing feat of mathematics and energy conservation. In new research p ... more |
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 Koalas Are Picky Leaf-Eaters Koalas may be the pickiest marsupials around: They evolved to feed almost exclusively on the leaves of Eucalyptus trees, and they are highly selective when it comes to which species and even which i ... more | .. |
  6.6 magnitude quake near Japanese islands: USGS A strong 6.6 magnitude quake struck off Japan's southern Bonin Islands on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, with tremors felt more than 800 kilometres away in Tokyo, but no tsunami was expected. ... more | .. |
Nearly 100 children hurt in China school stampede: report Nearly 100 children were hurt in a stampede Monday at a primary school in China's far-western Xinjiang region but no deaths have been reported, state media reported. ... more | .. |
 Indonesia closes airport as volcano rumbles: official Indonesia closed Malang city's domestic airport Monday as a volcano shot ash into the sky over eastern Java, posing a risk to planes, officials said. ... more |
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