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Thousands stranded by Australian floodsSydney (AFP) Feb 3, 2012 More than 10,000 Australians were Friday stranded by flooding in the country's east, with thousands ordered to leave their homes or businesses and the military called in to airlift supplies. The New South Wales State Emergency Service said about 10,500 people were thought to be isolated by the waters that have rushed across the state's north and southeast Queensland after days of constant rain. More than 2,000 people have been ordered to evacuate buildings in the New South Wales town of Moree, w ... read more |
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Big freeze tightens grip in Europe as death toll tops 220 NASA's GCPEX Mission: What We Don't Know about Snow Ukraine's cold snap claims over 100 lives: ministry Correlation between summer Arctic sea ice cover and winter weather in Central Europe India's air the worst, says study Homeless go underground to survive deep freeze Livestock, not Mongolian gazelles, drive foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks Floods create 'inland sea' in Australia Temperate Freshwater Wetlands Are 'Forgotten' Carbon Sinks Deep freeze hits Poland's hardy lake swimmers Colosseum closes as snow blankets Rome New technology allows scientists to watch cancer cells in action at unprecedented resolution UN says 30,000 fled recent Sudan fighting Voyage to the most isolated base on Earth Africa land grabs 'could cause conflicts' | .. |
![]() Search goes on for thousands of Japan's tsunami missing Leaden winter skies lour on a coastguard boat as it cuts its way through the seas off Japan's tsunami-wrecked shores. ... more | .. |
![]() Flood survivors rebuild in Philippine danger zones Less than six weeks after killer floods swept away their slum homes along a Philippine river, Lydia Abulanda and her neighbours are rebuilding despite warnings disaster could strike again. ... more | .. |
![]() Haiti should brace for more devastating quakes: study The 2010 earthquake that devastated southern Haiti may have opened a new era of seismic activity and residents should brace for more massive temblors, said a US study on Thursday. ... more | .. |
![]() Satellite snaps Costa Rica volcano action A new vent has opened on one of Costa Rica's active volcanoes, the latest activity following a series of small eruptions beginning in 2010, researchers say. ... more |
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![]() Waiting for Death Valley's Big Bang In California's Death Valley, death is looking just a bit closer. Geologists have determined that the half-mile-wide Ubehebe Crater, formed by a prehistoric volcanic explosion, was created far more ... more | .. |
![]() Italy's ex-safety chief faces homicide probe over quake Italian justice has begun investigating ex-civil security chief Guido Bertolaso, who could face involuntary homicide charges of under-estimating the impending dangers ahead of a killer quake in 2009. ... more | .. |
![]() Mozambique tropical storms kill 25 people: officials At least 25 people have been killed as a result of two tropical cyclones that hit central and southern Mozambique over the past two weeks, government officials said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
![]() Thousands evacuated in flooded Australia Thousands of Australians were evacuated Wednesday, with dozens being rescued, as monsoonal rains sparked flash flooding and landslides and a cyclone threatened to form in the Pacific Ocean. ... more |
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![]() Japan and New Zealand were hit hardest by earthquakes Last year, earthquakes and their consequences, such as tsunamis, landslides, and ground settlements, caused a damage of 365 billion US dollars. Hence, 2011 was the year with the so far highest econo ... more | .. |
![]() New floods hit northeastern Australia Flooding in northeastern Australia caused thousands of homes to lose power Tuesday and prompted authorities to start evacuations, around a year after deadly floods devastated the region. ... more | .. |
![]() Setting off a supervolcano So far, most of what scientists know about supervolcanoes comes from studying the aftermaths of eruptions in places like Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming or Lake Toba in Indonesia. "Most p ... more | .. |
![]() Efforts to control Mississippi River result in flooded farmland and permanent damage When the water in the Mississippi River rose to 58 feet with a forecast of 60 feet or higher in May 2011, the emergency plan to naturally or intentionally breach the levees, established over 80 year ... more |
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![]() Study: Big quake could hit Tokyo 'within 4 years' Japanese researchers have warned of a 70 percent chance that a magnitude-seven earthquake will strike Tokyo within four years, a report said Monday - much higher than previous estimates. ... more | .. |
![]() Tropical cyclone hits Mozambique, 12 dead: report At least 12 people have been killed and thousands displaced when cyclone Funso hit central Mozambique at the weekend, state television said Monday. ... more | .. |
![]() At least 100 hurt in Iran earthquake: reports A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck the area of the city of Neyshabour in northeast Iran on Thursday, injuring at least 100 people and damaging several houses, state media reported. ... more | .. |
![]() Flooding forces South Africa's Kruger Park to close gates Severe flooding has forced South Africa's world-famous Kruger National Park to close its gates after dozens of tourists on safari had to be airlifted to safety, an official said Thursday. ... more |
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Feb 13 set as new date for Europe's Vega rocket New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby star Capsule failure delays ISS crew mission U.K. study: Mars surface too dry for life Armadillo rocket flys high New Horizons Aims to Put Its Stamp on History NASA Receives Final NRC Report On Space Technology Roadmaps Scientists help define structure of exoplanets Russia to Start Own Search for Extrasolar Planets Eight more Galileo navsats agreed Space Radiation Blamed for Phobos-Grunt Crash Final Call to Register and Win Suborbital Research Flight Radio Doppler Tracking Continues at Cape York A dark spot on Mars - Syrtis Major Russia May Repeat Mars-500 Simulation on Space Station | .. |
![]() Mozambique tropical storm kills five Five people died and thousands were affected in the first tropical storm to hit southern Mozambique since 1984, an official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
![]() British scientific expedition discovers world's deepest known undersea volcanic vents A British scientific expedition has discovered the world's deepest undersea volcanic vents, known as 'black smokers', 3.1 miles (5000 metres) down in the Cayman Trough in the Caribbean. Using a deep ... more | .. |
![]() Strong quakes rattle remote Antarctica Two strong earthquakes 40 minutes apart rocked the remote South Orkney Islands in Antarctica on Sunday, experts from the US Geological Survey said. ... more | .. |
![]() Death toll in Brazil floods, landslide rises to 33 Torrential rains lashing southeastern Brazil have killed at least 33 people, including five members of one family buried in a landslide, according to a new official death toll issued Wednesday. ... more |
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![]() World's most extreme deep-sea vents revealed Scientists have revealed details of the world's most extreme deep-sea volcanic vents, 5 kilometres down in a rift in the Caribbean seafloor. The undersea hot springs, which lie 0.8 kilometres deeper ... more | .. |
![]() 7.3 magnitude quake strikes off western Indonesia: USGS An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 struck off the west coast of Indonesia's Northern Sumatra on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey reported. ... more | .. |
![]() Could Siberian volcanism have caused the Earth's largest extinction event? Around 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian geologic period, there was a mass extinction so severe that it remains the most traumatic known species die-off in Earth's history. Although t ... more | .. |
![]() Death toll in Brazil floods, landslide rises to 28 Torrential rains lashing southeastern Brazil have killed at least 28 people, including 13 buried in a landslide, according to an updated official death toll released Tuesday. ... more |
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