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Hurricane Paul Swirls Toward Mexican Coast Miami (AFP) Oct 23, 2006 
Hurricane Paul Monday swirled toward Mexico's Pacific coast Monday with winds hitting 150 kilometers (90 miles) per hour, threatening the tourist-packed tip of Baja California and the mainland to the east, forecasters said. The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned residents of southern Baja California to brace for possible landfall Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, but the most likely track has the hurricane slamming ashore Wednesday near the port city of Mazatlan. At 2100 GMT Monday, the center of Hurricane Paul was located 680 kilometers (420 miles) south-southwest of the Baja California resort of Cabo San Lucas and moving north-northwest at seven kilometers (five miles) per hour. |
Super Typhoon Fung-wong makes landfall in Philippines
Spanish PM 'surprised' by former king's memoirs Over 1 million evacuate as deadly Super Typhoon Fung-wong nears Philippines Spanish PM pushes back on former king's memoirs Dam reservoir levels drop below 3% in Iran's second city: media Philippines evacuates one million, woman dead as super typhoon nears Philippines evacuates hundreds of thousands as super typhoon nears India mega-zoo in spotlight again over animal acquisitions Winds, rain lash Philippines as super typhoon nears Four Brazilians to watch at COP30 
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Plutonium Or Greenhouse Gases - Weighing The Energy Options
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Oct 24, 2006Can nuclear energy save us from global warming? Perhaps, but the tradeoffs involved are sobering: thousands of metric tons of nuclear waste generated each year and a greatly increased risk of nuclear weapons proliferation or diversion of nuclear material into terrorists' hands. San Jacinto Fault Is Younger Than Thought, Rises In Seismic Importance 
Eugene OR (SPX) Oct 24, 2006A detailed study of sedimentary rocks exposed along a portion of southern California's San Jacinto fault zone shows the fault to be no older than 1.1 million to 1.3 million years and that its long-term slip rate is probably faster than previously thought. Australia Unveils $500 Million Climate Change Drive 
Sydney (AFP) Oct 23, 2006Australia is to launch a 500-million-dollar drive to tackle global warming, Prime Minister John Howard announced Monday, as the country battles its worst drought in more than a century. It comes as his government, which like the United States has refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, scrambles to contain the political impact of the effects of the protracted drought on Australia's farming community. |
Global Warming And Your Health
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 24, 2006Global warming could do more to hurt your health than simply threaten summertime heat stroke, says a public health physician. Although heat related illnesses and deaths will increase with the temperatures, climate change is expected to also attack human health with dirtier air and water, more flood-related accidents and injuries, threats to food supplies, hundreds of millions of environmental refugees, and stress on and possible collapse of many ecosystems that now purify our air and water. "When most people think about climate change, they think of heat stress from heat waves," said Cindy Parker. Gulf Double Whammy: Rising Seas, Dammed Rivers 
Philadelphia (SPX) Oct 24, 2006New research finds that every U.S Gulf Coast bay in Texas and Louisiana is vulnerable to significant flooding and expansion within the coming century due to a combination of rising seas and reduced silt flowing from dammed up rivers. EU Emissions Scheme Risks Becoming 'Pointless' 
Luxembourg (AFP) Oct 23, 2006The EU's innovative emissions trading scheme risks becoming "pointless" because members are giving more pollution permits than industrial plants need, the EU environment commissioner said Monday. "If member states put more allowances into the market than are needed to cover real emissions, the scheme will become pointless and it will be difficult to meet our Kyoto targets," commissioner Stavros Dimas told journalists in Luxembourg. |
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Steep Oxygen Decline Halted First Land Colonization By Earth's Sea Creatures
Seattle WA (SPX) Oct 24, 2006Vertebrate creatures first began moving from the world's oceans to land about 415 million years ago, then all but disappeared by 360 million years ago. The fossil record contains few examples of animals with backbones for the next 15 million years, and then suddenly vertebrates show up again, this time for good. Yellow River Turns Red In Northwest China 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 23, 2006A stretch of China's Yellow River has turned red near a major industrial city, with environmental officials suspecting local heating companies of being behind the spill, state press said Monday. A one-kilometer (0.62 miles) section of the river in Lanzhou city, in northwest China's Gansu province, began turning red on Sunday afternoon, the Xinhua news agency reported. Global Forests Disappearing For A Pittance 
Washington (AFP) Oct 23, 2006Global warming caused by rapid deforestation could be curbed if developing countries were paid the proper rewards for maintaining their woodland, a World Bank study said Monday. The report noted that the world's forests are disappearing at a rate of five percent a decade as woodland is cleared for timber and production of in-demand commodities like beef, coffee and soybeans. |
Honey Bee Genome Holds Clues To Social Behavior
Champaign IL (SPX) Oct 24, 2006By studying the humble honey bee, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have come a step closer to understanding the molecular basis of social behavior in humans. "The honey bee (Apis millifera) has been called a model system for social behavior," said Saurabh (pronounced SAW-rub) Sinha, a professor of computer science and an affiliate of the university's Institute for Genomic Biology. New Evidence Of Early Horse Domestication 
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 24, 2006Soil from a Copper Age site in northern Kazakhstan has yielded new evidence for domesticated horses up to 5,600 years ago. The discovery, consisting of phosphorus-enriched soils inside what appear to be the remains of horse corrals beside pit houses, matches what would be expected from Earth once enriched by horse manure. Different Strategies Underlie The Ecology Of Microbial Invasions 
Austin TX (SPX) Oct 24, 2006Infectious disease can play a key role in mediating the outcome of competition between rival groups, as seen in the effects of disease-bearing conquistadors in the New World--or, on a much smaller ecological scale, the ability of bacteria to spread their viruses to competing bacteria. |
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