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Chilean glacier will vanish in 50 years: study Santiago (AFP) Nov 1, 2008 
Chile's official water authority warned Saturday that the Echaurren glacier near Santiago, which supplies the capital with 70 percent of its water needs, could disappear in the next half century. In a new report on Chile's glaciers the main water company -- Direccion General de Aguas de Chile (DGA) -- said the ice fields of Echaurren are receding up to 12 meters (39.37 feet) per year. ... read moreUN peacekeepers under siege in DR Congo: Uruguay 
Montevideo (AFP) Oct 31, 2008Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are laying siege to 100 civilians, 150 Indian peacekeepers and half of the Uruguayan peacekeeping force attempting to secure the area, Uruguay Defense Minister Jose Bayardi said Friday. The rebels troops led by ethnic Tutsi warlord Laurent Nkunda "are backed by tanks" and "artillery" from Rwanda, according to Uruguayan ... more |
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 Four dead, at least 12 injured after tornados hit Michigan: US media 
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Scientists Probe Antarctic Glaciers For Sea Level Clues
Austin TX (SPX) Nov 03, 2008Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have teamed up to explore two of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora and Wilkes Subglacial Basins, immense ice-buried lowlands in Antarctica with a combined area the size of Mexico. The research could show how Earth's climate changed in the past and how future climate change will affect global sea level. Scientists believe the barely ... more French, Spanish defence ministers launch anti-piracy plan 
Djibouti (AFP) Nov 2, 2008The defence ministers of France and Spain on Sunday launched a European Union military operation to combat piracy off the Somali coast. "This is the inception of the operation which will be formalised on November 10" at a meeting of EU defence ministers in Brussels, French Defence Minister Herve Morin told reporters. Accompanied by his Spanish counterpart Carme Chacon, he was speaking in ... more World Bank Trys To Keep Global Warming On Agenda 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 31, 2008The World Bank's private-sector investment arm said Friday that climate change remained on the agenda despite the turmoil currently afflicting global financial markets. "We need to think about both the short term... but also about the long term, future generations," Lars Thunell, executive vice president of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), told a briefing in Beijing. He said ... more  |
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Netherlands to simulate massive flood rescue
The Hague (AFP) Oct 31, 2008Low-lying Netherlands will deploy 10,000 officials and rescue staff next week for a five-day, country-wide simulated rescue effort in preparation for doomsday flood predictions. "Next week, we will determine how prepared the Netherlands is for the consequences of a flood," Jan Franssen, who heads the government commission organising the exercise, told journalists in The Hague. Since the ... more China to tighten control of feed industry: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 1, 2008China has pledged to tighten supervision of the animal feed industry, state media said Saturday, amid signs a toxic chemical found in milk and eggs was being mixed into livestock feed. "The ministry will tighten its supervision of the feed industry and crack down on producers who add melamine to their products," the China Daily quoted Wang Zhicai, head of the Agriculture Ministry's livestock ... more China's Three Gorges Dam Providing New Opportunities 
Columbus OH (SPX) Nov 03, 2008China's farmers and merchants should take advantage of new agricultural and business opportunities that could help mitigate some effects of the annual flooding behind the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, according to an Ohio State University wetland expert. The level of water in the reservoir behind the dam will top off at 575 feet above sea level during the coming winter. The reserve ... more Aftershock rattles Pakistan as disease spreads among survivors 
Wam, Pakistan (AFP) Nov 1, 2008A strong aftershock rattled southwestern Pakistan Saturday, as aid agencies warned that disease had begun to spread among tens of thousands of earthquake survivors waiting for relief supplies. The 5.0-magnitude quake struck just before 6am in the mountainous province of Baluchistan, where a powerful pre-dawn tremor on Wednesday killed up to 300 people and left 70,000 people homeless. ... more |
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