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Experts Clash Over Mud Disaster London, UK (SPX) Oct 23, 2008 
Geological experts are set to face off on the cause of a disastrous mud volcano eruption on the island of Java, which has displaced 40,000 residents and caused billions of dollars in damage. Two international conferences are scheduled to discuss the mud volcano; the first in London on October 21 at the London Geological Society and the second on October 28 in Cape Town, South Africa ... read moreUN agency publishes first world map of shared aquifers 
Paris (AFP) Oct 22, 2008The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on Wednesday published the first global map of cross-border aquifers with the aim of helping management of a precious and often-threatened resource. The inventory comprises 273 aquifers that straddle internal or international boundaries. Aquifers are sponge-like underground rock that hold water. They exist on all ... more |
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 Eight dead as tornados surge across central US In Finland, kids take hovercraft to school over frozen Baltic Sea 
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Interview: Turkish President Abdullah Gul
Ankara, Turkey (UPI) Oct 22, 2008 Turkey is playing a major role in geopolitics side by side with the United States, President Abdullah Gul insisted as he took questions from visiting American journalists, bloggers and think-tankers. Gul painted Turkey as a mediator of sorts. It's creating a space to end the territorial dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia -- at the same time Turkey and Armenia attempt to move past ... more NATO ships on piracy duties off Somalia soon: spokesman 
Brussels (AFP) Oct 22, 2008NATO warships will start to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia in the next few days and escort aid ships to the largely lawless Horn of Africa country, an alliance spokesman said Wednesday. "In a few days, operations will begin," chief NATO spokesman James Appathurai told reporters in Brussels. "The operational plan and the rules of engagement should be agreed and finalised in the next ... more Carbon project brings sustainable hope to remote tract of Amazon 
Juma Reserve, Brazil (AFP) Oct 22, 2008Juma Reserve, in the heart of Brazil's vast Amazon forest, stands as an example of the perils weighing on the world's largest tropical woodland. Illegal loggers are tearing down the green canopy, and residents in this, one of the most remote zones on Earth, live in extreme poverty. But the situation is changing, thanks to a pioneer carbon project organized by the government of Amazonas ... more  |
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Impacts Of Climate Change On Lakes
Sapporo, Japan (SPX) Oct 23, 2008Climate change will have different effects on lakes in warmer and colder regions of the globe. This is the conclusion reached by Japanese and German researchers following studies of very deep caldera lakes in Japan. Scientists from Hokkaido University, the Hokkaido Institute of Environmental Sciences, Kagoshima University and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) compared ... more Storm leaves 250,000 homeless in Central America 
Tegucigalpa (AFP) Oct 22, 2008A tropical depression has sown devastation across Central America since last week, killing at least 39 people, leaving six missing and 250,000 others homeless, local authorities reported Wednesday. Close to 10,000 homes have been destroyed by widespread flooding, as well as roads and bridges in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Authorities also reported thousan ... more Walker's World: Year of the frog 
Paris (UPI) Oct 22, 2008 Given his prominence and his gift for self-promotion, it was perhaps understandable that many thought it was to honor French President Nicolas Sarkozy that 2008 was formally known as The Year of the Frog. The super-Frog has, after all, been everywhere, with his beautiful new wife, the pop singer and former model Carla Bruni. They have been to Windsor Castle to stay with the queen of ... more Taiwan independence groups plan huge China envoy protest 
Taipei (AFP) Oct 23, 2008Taiwanese pro-independence activists plan to stage their biggest rally Saturday since President Ma Ying-jeou took office as his China-friendly government readies the red carpet for a top Beijing envoy. Organisers say they expect half a million people to take to the streets of the capital Taipei to protest against China's continued claim of sovereignty over the self-ruled island. ... more |
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