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Quake kills 74 in Kyrgyz mountain village Bishkek (AFP) Oct 6, 2008 
Rescuers toiled on Monday in a remote mountain village close to Kyrgyzstan's border with China searching for survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed at least 74 people, 41 of them children. Hours later, a powerful tremor also struck a sparsely populated area of China's Himalayan region of Tibet, killing at least 30 people, Chinese state media reported. The Kyrgyz quake, which ... read moreUS aircraft carrier in SAfrica amid piracy fears 
Cape Town (AFP) Oct 6, 2008The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt was docked Monday in Cape Town, on a visit to South Africa aimed at building ties to fight piracy and other maritime problems. Lieutenant Brian Badura, the ship's spokesman, said piracy off the coast of Somalia was one of the key issues in African waters that the two nations would be interested in co-operating on. "Some of the ... more |
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 'Significant' acceleration of global warming since 2015: study 
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Nine dead as strong quake hits Tibet: state media
Beijing (AFP) Oct 7, 2008At least nine people were killed in a strong earthquake which struck the Himalayan region of Tibet, Chinese state media said early Tuesday, quoting the rescue headquarters at the epicentre. The earthquake struck at 4:30 pm (0830 GMT) Monday in a sparsely populated area about 84 kilometres (50 miles) west of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, the US Geological Survey said. US seismologists ... more Melamine found in Chinese restaurant fare in Hungary: ministry 
Budapest (AFP) Oct 6, 2008Products containing traces of the industrial chemical melamine have been found in several Chinese restaurants in Hungary, the agriculture ministry's food safety officer, Miklos Suth, announced Monday. The melamine content did not, however, reach dangerous levels, he added. "Food products with melamine levels under the limits defined by food safety rules were found in a number of Chinese ... more Emissions Rising Faster This Decade Than Last 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 07, 2008The latest figures on the global carbon budget released in Washington and Paris indicate a four-fold increase in growth rate of human-generated carbon dioxide emissions since 2000. "This is a concerning trend in light of global efforts to curb emissions," says Global Carbon Project (GCP) Executive-Director, Dr Pep Canadell, a carbon specialist based at CSIRO in Canberra. Releasing ... more  |
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Topsoil's Limited Turnover: A Crisis In Time
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 07, 2008Topsoil does not last forever. Records show that topsoil erosion, accelerated by human civilization and conventional agricultural practices, has outpaced long-term soil production. Earth's continents are losing prime agricultural soils even as population growth and increased demand for biofuels claim more from this basic resource. Top geomorphologist David R. Montgomery of the University ... more Malaysia tests for chemical in Chinese vegetables and fruits 
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Oct 6, 2008Malaysia will test fruit and vegetables imported from China following reports that they may contain the industrial chemical melamine, a senior minister said Monday. "It is a precautionary measure on our side," Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai told reporters. "We are on high alert with this issue and will zoom in on whatever news we receive for now," he said. China is a major trading ... more Egalitarian Revolution In The Pleistocene 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 07, 2008Although anthropologists and evolutionary biologists are still debating this question, a new study, published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, supports the view that the first egalitarian societies may have appeared tens of thousands of years before the French Revolution, Marx, and Lenin. These societies emerged rapidly through intense power struggle and their origin had dramatic ... more Earliest Animal Footprints Ever Found 
Columbus OH (SPX) Oct 07, 2008The fossilized trail of an aquatic creature suggests that animals walked using legs at least 30 million years earlier than had been thought. The tracks -- two parallel rows of small dots, each about 2 millimeters in diameter -- date back some 570 million years, to the Ediacaran period. The Ediacaran preceded the Cambrian period, the time when most major groups of animals first evolved. ... more |
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