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December 24, 2010
WATER WORLD
For Egypt, new Sudan state threat to Nile
Cairo (UPI) Dec 23, 2010
The expected emergence of a new state in southern Sudan following a January independence referendum is causing alarm in Cairo because the signs are the infant state will join other African countries battling Egypt for a greater share of the Nile River's waters. The southern Sudan leader, Salva Kiir, recently visited President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, one of the upstream states opposed to Egypt's control of the Nile waters, to discuss building hydroelectric power stations to enhance developmen ... read more

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GE to pay 500 mln dollars for New York river cleanup
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FROTH AND BUBBLE

Denmark cancels Australian toxic waste shipment
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SHAKE AND BLOW

California cleans up after deluge, more feared
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WHITE OUT

Heathrow operator launches inquiry into snow chaos
The operator of London's Heathrow airport said it had launched an external inquiry Thursday into the handling of the snow chaos that left thousands of passengers stranded just before Christmas. ... more
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ICE WORLD

Polar bear status at heart of climate war
A U.S. federal decision on the species status of polar bears has environmentalists and businesses arguing over the issue of global warming, observers say. ... more
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FARM NEWS

Price rises highlight China food supply challenges: UN envoy
Recent food price surges in China have underscored the supply challenges the country faces, as decreasing arable land is making it harder to maintain farm output, a UN envoy said Thursday. ... more
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FARM NEWS

Irrigation pump helps rural Indian farmers
For rural farmers in India, an irrigation pump means no longer having to depend on unreliable monsoon showers to sustain livelihoods. ... more
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DEMOCRACY

Revived Obama celebrates year-end wins
US President Barack Obama has capped a crisis-strewn first two White House years by flexing restored power at home and abroad as he secured big wins in Congress on nuclear arms and gay rights. ... more
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EPIDEMICS

24 swine flu deaths in Britain since October: official
A total of 24 people have died of swine flu in Britain since October with children among the dead, authorities said Thursday. ... more
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SHAKE AND BLOW

Strong aftershock hits Japanese islands
A strong 6.3-magnitude aftershock struck off southern Japan on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, a day after the region was rocked by a major earthquake. ... more
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ABOUT US

Ancient human group identified by DNA
Scientists say human fossils in Siberia have been identified as those of an ancient human group dubbed the Denisovans, cousins of the Neanderthals. ... more
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ICE WORLD

Obama gives 'lump of coal' to polar bears: activists
Environmental groups on Thursday accused US President Barack Obama's administration of failing to ensure the survival of polar bears after it stopped short of listing the animals as endangered. ... more
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AFRICA NEWS

Africa: A continent in constant conflict
Ivory Coast, the West African state that is the world's top cocoa producer, is on the brink of civil war - its second in a decade - amid mounting violence triggered by a disputed presidential election. ... more
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SHAKE AND BLOW

Lightning could signal volcanic eruptions
A worldwide network of lightning detectors is being put to a new use detecting volcanic eruptions that could be hazardous to aviation, U.S. researchers say. ... more
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WHALES AHOY

Japan reprimands fisheries officials for taking whale meat
The Japanese fisheries agency has warned officials not to accept whale meat as gifts from whalers, amid embezzlement allegations involving tax-funded whaling programmes, reports said Wednesday. ... more
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Adopted Haitian children arrive in France for Christmas
A French government-chartered plane carrying 114 Haitian children and their adoptive French families arrived in Paris from Port-au-Prince Wednesday, in time to experience their first white Christmas. ... more
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PILLAGING PIRATES

France passes law beefing up navy's anti-piracy powers
France's parliament on Wednesday passed a law giving French naval forces sweeping legal powers to detain and send for trial pirates irrespective of their nationality or that of their victims. ... more
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WATER WORLD

Ocean Acidification Changes Nitrogen Cycling In World Seas
Increasing acidity in the sea's waters may fundamentally change how nitrogen is cycled in them, say marine scientists who published their findings in this week's issue of the journal Proceedings of ... more
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TERRADAILY

Tiny 3D Images From Stanford And Slac Shed Light On Origin Of Earth's Core
To answer the big questions, it often helps to look at the smallest details. That is the approach Stanford mineral physicist Wendy Mao is taking to understanding a major event in Earth's inner histo ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE
Citizen Scientists Join Search For Earth-Like Planets

Qatar-Led International Team Finds Its First Alien World

Planetary Family Portrait Reveals Another Exoplanet

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'World's first' glasses-free 3D TV hits stores in Japan

Motorola Mobility buys cloud storage firm Zecter

Goodrich Begins Environmental Test Of ORS-1 Satellite

ROCKET SCIENCE
Galileo's Navigation Control Hub Opens In Fucino

Launch Of New Russian Navigation Satellite Postponed To Next Year

China Launches Seventh Orbiter For Indigenous Global SatNav System

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China Builds Theme Park In Spaceport

Tiangong Space Station Plans Progessing

China-Made Satellite Keeps Remote Areas In Venezuela Connected

ROCKET SCIENCE
Meteorite Just One Piece Of An Unknown Celestial Body

Building Blocks of Life Created In "Impossible" Place

Peak viewing for 'shooting stars' meteor show

ROCKET SCIENCE
Asteroid's Coat Of Many Colors

NASA Discovers Asteroid Delivered Assortment Of Meteorites

Research Points To Better Understanding Of Carbon In Comets

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TERRADAILY

How Earth's Orbital Shift Shaped The Sahara
The Sahara, the world's largest desert, was once fertile grassland. This fact has been common knowledge in the scientific community for some time, but scientists are still grappling with historic da ... more
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FLORA AND FAUNA

Research Shows That Environmental Factors Limit Species Diversity
It's long been accepted by biologists that environmental factors cause the diversity-or number-of species to increase before eventually leveling off. Some recent work, however, has suggested t ... more
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FLORA AND FAUNA

Without Intervention, Mariana Crow To Become Extinct In 75 Years
Researchers from the University of Washington say the Mariana crow, a forest crow living on Rota Island in the western Pacific Ocean, will go extinct in 75 years. The extinction could happen a ... more
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WATER WORLD

Waterways Contribute To Growth Of Potent Greenhouse Gas
Nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, has increased by more than 20 percent over the last century, and nitrogen in waterways is fueling part of that growth, according to a Michigan State Universit ... more
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FLORA AND FAUNA

Meat-Eating Dinosaurs Not So Carnivorous After All
Tyrannosaurus rex may have been a flesh-eating terror but many of his closest relatives were more content with vegetarian fare, a new analysis by Field Museum scientists has found. The scientists, L ... more
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CLIMATE SCIENCE

Reducing Emissions From Shipping
Maritime transport causes about 4% of global man-made CO2 emissions which makes its carbon footprint approximately as high as Germany's. There is no regulation of international maritime transport em ... more
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WATER WORLD

Recreating Colonial Hydrology
Hydrologists may have a new way to study historical water conditions. By synthesizing present-day data with historical records they may be able to recreate broad hydrologic trends on a regional basi ... more
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FLORA AND FAUNA

Rhino poaching on the rise in Kenya
Melita's bloody, stripped carcass still lies in a dip between two hillocks, a once stately black rhino slain by poachers in early December in Kenya's Lewa private wildlife reserve. ... more
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