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Wheels spin in US winter wonderlandNew York (AFP) Dec 27, 2010 Winter wonderland met Alice in Wonderland as a blizzard frosted the US north-east and turned a humdrum Monday morning into an upside-down adventure. In New York, a city expecting to go back to work after the Christmas weekend instead woke to almost two feet of snow (60 cms) and gale force winds that shut down airports, roads and railways. Tallia Sherman stood at her usual bus stop on the Upper East Side and could actually see the bus she was waiting for to go to work on the other side of Manhatt ... read more |
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  Season's Greetings: NASA Views The Change Of Seasons The change of seasons on Earth has been a cause for celebration since time immemorial. Caused by the tilt of Earth's axis relative to its orbital plane around the sun, seasons have profound ch ... more | .. |
 TanDEM-X Ready For Routine Operations In 2011 On 14 December 2010, TanDEM-X passed another important milestone: the radar mission's test phase has concluded in less than six months according to plan, paving the way for routine operations - the ... more | .. |
 Russia slips up on icy weather amid travel chaos Russia, which usually prides itself on coping with its bitter winter, on Monday battled the havoc wreaked by icy conditions that delayed hundreds of flights and left half a million without power. ... more | .. |
 ESA Unveils Latest Map Of World's Land Cover ESA's 2009 global land cover map has been released and is now available to the public online from the 'GlobCover' website. GlobCover 2009 proves the sharpest possible global land cover map can ... more |
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  California cleans up after deluge, more feared California began clearing up Thursday after days of torrential storms and flash floods, although more rain was forecast here and in neighboring western US states. ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
  For Egypt, new Sudan state threat to Nile 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. ... more | .. |
 Britain 'mulls law to fine airports after Heathrow chaos' Britain wants to introduce new laws which could see airports heavily fined for disrupting passengers' travel in the wake of the pre-Christmas snow chaos that hit London Heathrow, a newspaper reported Sunday. ... more |
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  Breakdown in defenses caused BP spill: NY Times probe The April 20 explosion on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that caused the largest environmental disaster in US history occurred because every defense on the BP-leased platform failed, The New York Times reported Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Mozambique's war-hit Gorongosa park slowly recovers As warthogs play in the mud behind him, park ranger Charles Pereira Aranje scans the savannah for poachers, while waterbuck and reedbuck antelopes graze in the grass. ... more | .. |
 Australia calls Denmark waste ship U-turn 'unfortunate' Australia Friday said it was "unfortunate" that Denmark had cancelled plans to receive and destroy shipments of thousands of tonnes of hazardous waste, as the company involved considered its next move. ... more | .. |
  Guns to fight Somali pirates seized in S.Africa: police South African police said Monday they had arrested four people over an illegal arms cache that investigators believe was being shipped to Somalia to help fight piracy. ... more |
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 US shark fin restrictions carry little weight in Hong Kong The US Senate's move to toughen laws on shark finning is unlikely to have much impact in Hong Kong, dubbed the "Grand Central Station" of the controversial trade, environmentalists say. ... more | .. |
  New home for Cambodian killer elephant An enraged bull elephant that killed its owner and then went on a 10-day rampage in the Cambodian countryside has been taken in by a wildlife rescue centre. ... more | .. |
 Chateau Lafite, thanks to a lucky 8, takes off in China When Chateau Lafite chief executive Christophe Salin set a modest price for the 2008 vintage in April 2009, the financial world was melting down. ... more | .. |
 Bangladesh's once plentiful rivers run low on fish Bangladesh's rivers have provided for fisherman Rafiqul Islam's family for generations but a few years ago the 27-year-old noticed his nets were coming up empty. ... more |
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 Something fishy holds hope for Angola tourism Post-war Angola may not stand out as a top African tourist destination but adventure anglers fishing for the giant tarpon look set to put the country back on the visitors map. ... more | .. |
 Expert warns on China's future food supply Land degradation in China poses a challenge to the country's future food supply, a U.N. envoy said. ... more | .. |
 7.3 quake triggers Pacific tsunami on disaster anniversary A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the western Pacific nation of Vanuatu on Sunday, triggering a small tsunami exactly six years after giant waves killed 220,000 people around the Indian Ocean. ... more | .. |
 Jailing China food activists has 'chilling effect': UN envoy Convicting food safety whistleblowers in China has a "chilling effect" on other activists, a UN envoy said Thursday, after the November jailing of a man who campaigned for victims of a tainted milk scandal. ... more |
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  H.K. duck's epic Arctic trip sheds light on migration A wild duck has returned to Hong Kong after an epic 12,000-kilometre (7,500-mile) round-trip to the Arctic which conservation experts say has provided new information about bird migration. ... more | .. |
 New species abound in Peru, but so do threats Each year, a new bird is found and every four years a new mammal discovered in the Peruvian Amazon, a haven for biodiversity where conservation and danger often go hand in hand. ... more | .. |
  Japan postpones launch of emission trading system: reports Japan on Tuesday postponed the creation of a greenhouse gas emission trading system by a year until after April 2014 in the face of strong resistance from the business lobby, news reports said. ... more | .. |
 China's Zijin Mining makes donation over deadly dam collapse China's Zijin Mining said Tuesday it would donate about 7.5 million US dollars to help victims of a dam collapse near a tin mine that killed at least 22 people. ... more |
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