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Heavy snow hits airports and roads across EuropeLondon (AFP) Nov 30, 2010 Snow and freezing temperatures severely disrupted airports in Germany and Britain and caused chaos and deaths on roads across Europe on Tuesday. More than 200 flights were cancelled at Frankfurt airport in Germany, the continent's third busiest, while southern German states were blanketed by snow. Large parts of Poland were covered in thick snow, causing hundreds of accidents on the roads and at least four people were killed on snowbound roads in the Czech Republic. It was so cold in France ... read more |
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  NASA Compares Rainfall of 2010 and 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season Rainfall The year 2010 was accurately predicted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to be an active one with 14-23 tropical cyclones and 8-14 hurricanes predicted. NOAA's National H ... more | .. |
  ESA Attending UN Climate Conference Representatives from 194 countries have gathered at the 2010 UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, to continue working towards tackling climate change. ESA is attending 'COP16' to up ... more | .. |
 Two New Earth Observation Missions Chosen For Further Study As part of the procedure to realise ESA's series of Earth Explorers, two new mission proposals have been selected for further development. The missions, called FLEX and CarbonSat, now vying to be th ... more | .. |
  Arsenic-Polluted Water Toxic To Bangladesh Economy The well-reported arsenic contamination of drinking water in Bangladesh - called the "largest mass poisoning of a population in history" by the World Health Organization and known to be responsible ... more |
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  Freshwater Mussels Discovered In Urban Delaware River Scientists working with the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary and The Academy of Natural Sciences have made an important discovery in the Delaware River between Chester, Pennsylvania, and Trenton ... more | .. |
  Researchers Reveal Way In Which Possible Earthquakes Can Be Predicted Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who have been examining what happens in a "model earthquake" in their laboratory have discovered that basic assumptions about friction that have bee ... more | .. |
  Gene Transfer From Transgenic Crops: A More Realistic Picture A new data-driven statistical model that incorporates the surrounding landscape in unprecedented detail describes the transfer of an inserted bacterial gene via pollen and seed dispersal in cotton p ... more | .. |
 Water Resources Played Important Role In Patterns Of Human Settlement Once lost in the mists of time, the colonial hydrology of the northeastern United States has been reconstructed by a team of geoscientists, biological scientists and social scientists, including Uni ... more |
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 Japan culls 23,000 chickens to contain bird flu Japan began slaughtering about 23,000 chickens Tuesday at a poultry farm in western Shimane prefecture where an outbreak of bird flu was discovered, the local government said. ... more | .. |
 Argentina, China sign 'historic' farm trade deals Argentina and China inked five farm product agreements during a visit to Beijing by Agriculture Minister Julian Dominguez to boost trade, officials here reported Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  AIDS awareness boosts global health funding Wealthy nations boosted funding for health programs in poor countries more than fourfold between 1990 and 2010, thanks largely to greater awareness of the need to fight HIV/AIDS, a report released Tuesday said. ... more | .. |
  Negotiators get down to details at UN talks Negotiators got down to the nitty-gritty on the second day of the world climate talks on Tuesday, grappling for a breakthrough on half a dozen issues that will revive the battered UN process. ... more |
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 Flooding leaves deadly trail of destruction in Venezuela Days of driving rain have sparked massive flooding in Venezuela that has killed at least 21 people and left thousands homeless, Vice President Elias Jaua said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Study Suggests That Being Too Clean Can Make People Sick Young people who are overexposed to antibacterial soaps containing triclosan may suffer more allergies, and exposure to higher levels of Bisphenol A among adults may negatively influence the immune ... 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  Jack Pine Genetics Support A Coastal Glacial Refugium Can a road-trip across eastern North America, ancient ice sheets, and DNA samples unlock the ancestral history of jack pine trees? Julie Godbout and colleagues from the Universite Laval, Quebec, Can ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Australian firm to ship toxic waste to Denmark Australian explosives company Orica Tuesday defended plans to ship tonnes of toxic chemical waste to Denmark for disposal, despite fears it poses an environmental risk. ... more | .. |
 Fresh snow shuts down British airports, trains Britain's transport links with the rest of the world were disrupted by the early winter snowfall as key airports closed Wednesday and international Eurostar train services were cut. ... more |
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