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Greenland: roar of melting glacier sounds climate change alarm Ilulissat, Denmark (AFP) Sept 23, 2008 
Flying low over the vast, white expanse of Greenland's Ilulissat glacier, one of the biggest and most active in the world, the effects of global warming in the Arctic are painfully visible as the ice melts at an alarming rate. The helicopter lands on a granite cliff overlooking the Ilulissat ice fjord, or Kangia in Greenlandic, offering a magnificent, panoramic view of elaborate ice ... read moreWork Together Or Face Disastrous Consequences For Health In Africa 
Nairobi, Kenya (SPX) Sep 24, 2008Faced with the prospect of more variable and changing climates increasing Africa's already intolerable disease burden, scientists must begin to reach out to colleagues in other fields and to the people they want to help if they hope to avert an expected "continental disaster," according to leading climate, health, and information technology experts, who met in Nairobi last week. Climate ... more |
Search called off after Indonesia landfill collapse kills seven
February fifth warmest on record, extreme rain in Europe: EU monitor Venezuelan lawmakers advance mining reforms sought by US UN warns of environmental hazards from Middle East war Antarctic sea ice improves after four years of extreme lows: US scientists Water emerges as a dangerous new war target Indonesia landfill collapse kills five Indonesia landfill collapse kills four Swiss vote down proposal for massive 'climate fund' Philippines' 'Cockroach Lord' goes to bat for misunderstood bugs 
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To Queue Or Not To Queue
Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Sep 24, 2008If there's one thing that separates humankind from the animals, it's that human beings wait in lines. To make a deposit at the bank, to pay for groceries, even to vote -- we've all learned to queue, one behind the other. And we've learned, if not to like it, then at least to grin and bear it. But time is money, and both individuals and businesses may suffer as lines get longer and longer ... more Thailand and China to launch monsoon study 
Bangkok (AFP) Sept 23, 2008Thailand and China will sign an agreement this week to launch a three-year study of climatic changes in the Andaman Sea so they can better predict monsoon patterns, an official said Tuesday. Some experts have blamed global warming for increasingly unpredictable and severe weather in Southeast Asia. "The aim is to understand the changing of monsoons," said Somkiat Khokiattiwong ... more Preventing Forest Fires With Tree Power 
Boston MA (SPX) Sep 24, 2008MIT researchers and colleagues are working to find out whether energy from trees can power a network of sensors to prevent spreading forest fires. What they learn also could raise the possibility of using trees as silent sentinels along the nation's borders to detect potential threats such as smuggled radioactive materials. The U.S. Forest Service currently predicts and tracks fires ... more  |
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Poor water supplies killing millions of children, NGO says
Tunis (AFP) Sept 23, 2008Corrupt governments and the greed of Western companies is blighting the supply of water in Africa and killing millions of children worldwide, a leading NGO said Tuesday. Peter Eigen, the outgoing president of Transparency International, told a press conference in Tunis that Africa is "one of the most corrupt regions" and that this is "hindering progress on improving water and sanitation ... more Long-Term Study Shows Effect Of Climate Change On Animal Diversity 
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Sep 24, 2008Two species of giraffe, several rhinos and five elephant relatives, along with multitudes of rodents, bush pigs, horses, antelope and apes, once inhabited what is now northern Pakistan. But when climate shifted dramatically there some 8 million years ago, precipitating a major change in vegetation, most species became locally extinct rather than adapting to the new ecosystem, according to ... more Hong Kong braces for Typhoon Hagupit 
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 23, 2008Hong Kong braced itself for severe storms on Tuesday as Typhoon Hagupit hurtled towards the southern Chinese city. Heavy rain and strong winds lashed the city in the early afternoon as Hong Kong Observatory issued a number three tropical cyclone warning, as winds of up to 70 kilometres (43 miles) an hour hit the territory. A total of 47 flights in and out of Hong Kong had been cancelled ... more Global financial crisis hangs over UN General Assembly debate 
United Nations (AFP) Sept 23, 2008World leaders open their annual UN debate here Tuesday, with top geopolitical issues like the crisis in Georgia, Iran's nuclear ambitions and rights abuses in Darfur overshadowed by the global financial crisis. More than 120 heads of state or government are attending the week-long General Assembly's general debate, which UN chief Ban Ki-moon is to open at 9 a.m. (1300 GMT). Britain's UN ... more |
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