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Hurricane Sandy heads for US after killing 44 in CaribbeanMiami (AFP) Oct 27, 2012 Hurricane Sandy regained strength Saturday as it lumbered northward toward an election-week collision with the US East Coast after leaving 44 people dead in the Caribbean. What has been dubbed "Frankenstorm" was expected to make landfall somewhere between Virginia and Massachusetts during the frenzied final week of campaigning before the US elections on November 6. Concern is mounting that storm damage and power outages could have a major impact on voter turnout, polling station readiness, and l ... read more |
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  Black rice and tea in Italy as China shows its green side As economic giant China ploughs ahead with modernisation and industrialisation, small-scale farmers and producers are creating pockets of resistance by going back to their roots. ... more | .. |
  U.S. faces gap in weather satellite data The United States is facing a gap in crucial satellite coverage that provides invaluable data for predicting storm tracks, officials warned. ... more | .. |
  West African pirates target oil tankers As the oil boom in West Africa swells, pirate attacks on tankers in the Gulf of Guinea are "reaching dangerous proportions," the International Maritime Bureau reports. ... more | .. |
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  EU on track to exceed Kyoto emissions goal The European Union is on track to not only meet but exceed greenhouse gas reduction goals set by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, an analysis indicated this week. ... more | .. |
  High radiation levels seen near Fukushima Elevated radiation levels in fish caught near Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear plant suggest low-level leaks are still occurring, a marine scientist says. ... more | .. |
  Google adds terrain to Maps as default Google has announced an upgrade to its Maps offering, with the default view featuring shading and color detail to convey terrain information. ... more | .. |
  Italian snow levels, glaciers retreating Climate change in Italy's mountainous areas is causing snow levels to retreat and the snow line in some areas is moving upward by 2,000 feet, researchers say. ... more |
 Renewables the light at the end of the power price tunnel Most Energy Execs Indicate Potential For US Energy Independence By 2030 Genscape Creates Largest Land and Sea Oil Supply Chain Monitoring Network European and US Cellulase Patents granted to Direvo Industrial Biotechnology Czech minister baulks at cost of nuclear plant bids Commodity markets spooked by Bernanke, China data | .. |
 Philippines storm toll rises sharply The death toll from Typhoon Son-Tinh in the Philippines rose sharply to 24 Saturday as casualty reports came in from isolated central islands and the far-flung south, the government said. ... more | .. |
  Rivals stump in US battleground states focusing on economy US President Barack Obama and his rival Mitt Romney hunted for votes in battleground states Saturday after the Republican challenger propelled the economy to the forefront of the campaign by promising to restore the country's economic engine. ... more | .. |
  Family of Chinese PM has hidden fortune: NYT Relatives of China's reformist premier have amassed huge riches during his tenure, according to a report Friday that came as the Communist Party prepares for a pivotal handover of power. ... more | .. |
Another Tibetan self-immolates in China A Tibetan man died on Friday after setting himself on fire in northwest China, state media and rights groups said, in the fourth self-immolation in the region in less than a week. ... more |
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China's Bo Xilai under formal criminal probe: Xinhua Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai has been placed under criminal investigation, state media said Friday, after he was expelled from the country's parliament and stripped of his legal immunity. ... more | .. |
Fukushima fish radiation may indicate leak: study Higher-than-normal radiation levels found in fish caught off Japan's east coast more than a year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster could indicate the plant is still leaking, new research says. ... more | .. |
 Elderly man dies as earthquake hits southern Italy Panic-stricken residents rushed into the streets fearing building collapses when a 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck a southern Italian province early Friday, while an elderly man died from a heart attack. ... more | .. |
 New York declares emergency ahead of Sandy New York's governor declared a state of emergency Friday ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Sandy, while the mayor of New York City said the Big Apple was ready for anything. ... more |
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 Syria opposition demands 'goodwill gestures' from Assad Row on arming Syria rebels deeply divides EU Gunmen kill NATO driver in Pakistan: officials Frigid Heat: How Ice can Menace a Hot Engine Palestinian-Israeli peace deal 'still possible': Abbas Manila confirms boost to military spending | .. |
Food to combat conflicts at global fair in Italy In a world dogged by conflicts and wars, the key to peace and reconciliation lies in food, say chefs, small-scale producers and Slow Food campaigners at the world's biggest food fair in Turin. ... more | .. |
Gazans produce fish and vegetables in tiny rooftop spaces Abu Ahmed looks out over a sea of grey, empty Gaza rooftops, and smiles as he looks back at the lush greenery sprouting in tubs and pipes on top of his apartment building. ... more | .. |
  Australia pumps $1.83 bln into food bowl river The government Friday pledged Aus$1.77 billion (US$1.83 billion) to pump more than 450 billion litres of water into the ailing Murray-Darling River and help rejuvenate a crucial system supplying Australia's food bowl. ... more | .. |
  Brazil's Indians appeal for help to stop eviction The Guarani-Kaiowa Indians of central Brazil are desperately urging authorities to demarcate their ancestral lands to stop plans to evict them in a dispute with wealthy white ranchers, a Catholic Church group said Thursday. ... more |
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  From Discovery, To Solution, To Evolution: Observing Earth's Ozone Layer Remember the ozone hole? A signature environmental concern of the 1980s has become a signature environmental success story. While a strong international treaty regulates ozone-depleting substances, ... more | .. |
 Opposite Behaviors? Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks, Antarctic Grows The steady and dramatic decline in the sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean over the last three decades has become a focus of media and public attention. At the opposite end of the Earth, however, some ... more | .. |
  Migratory birds' ticks can spread viral haemorrhagic fever A type of haemorrhagic fever (Crimean-Congo) that is prevalent in Africa, Asia, and the Balkans has begun to spread to new areas in southern Europe. Now Swedish researchers have shown that migratory ... more | .. |
  Oxygen's ups and downs in the early atmosphere and ocean Most researchers imagine the initial oxygenation of the ocean and atmosphere to have been something like a staircase, but with steps only going up. The first step, so the story goes, occurred around ... more |
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 Herschel Space Observatory Finds Galaxy Mega Merger Researchers Explain Magnetic Field Misbehavior in Solar Flares Johns Hopkins undergraduates help design space stethoscope for NASA atrexx Launches Cost Effective Broadband Services to Libya and Afghanistan via Ka-Band Satellite Hylas 2 NASA's BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons Trip into space with DiCaprio costs $1.55m | .. |
 Helping North America's marine protected areas adapt to a changing climate Top marine predators like tuna and sharks are suffering from the effects of climate change as the availability of prey decreases and the spatial distribution of their prey shifts. Countless other ma ... more | .. |
 100 million-year-old coelacanth discovered in Texas is new fish species from Cretaceous A new species of coelacanth fish has been discovered in Texas. Pieces of tiny fossil skull found in Fort Worth have been identified as 100 million-year-old coelacanth bones, according to paleontolog ... more | .. |
 Plants provide accurate low-cost alternative for diagnosis of West Nile Virus While the United States has largely been spared the scourge of mosquito-borne diseases endemic to the developing world-including yellow fever, malaria and dengue fever-mosquito-related illnesses in ... more | .. |
 Formula unlocks secrets of cauliflower's geometry The laws that govern how intricate surface patterns, such as those found in the cauliflower, develop over time have been described, for the first time, by a group of European researchers. In a ... more |
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 Genetic Patterns of Deep-Sea Coral Provide Insights into Evolution of Marine Life The ability of deep-sea corals to harbor a broad array of marine life, including commercially important fish species, make these habitat-forming organisms of immediate interest to conservationists, ... more | .. |
  Grandmas made humans live longer Computer simulations provide new mathematical support for the "grandmother hypothesis" - a famous theory that humans evolved longer adult lifespans than apes because grandmothers helped feed their g ... more | .. |
 Tokyo prepares for the 'Big One' Seen from atop the towering Tokyo Sky Tree, the patchwork of narrow alleyways and ramshackle houses that make up Tokyo's Sumida district is a picturesque throwback to the Japan of yesteryear. ... more | .. |
 Suez reports operating profit fall on delay to Melbourne water plant French utilities group Suez Environnement reported on Thursday a 4.1-percent fall in operating profit for the first nine months of the year to 1.77 billion euros ($2.3 billion). ... more |
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