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 Yixian, China (AFP) Aug 4, 2009 
The river has dried up, the well yields only dust, and Li Yunxi is hard pressed to irrigate his plot of land, even though he lives right next to the largest water project in history. The elderly farmer watches in despair as his corn crop wilts under the scorching northern China sun, knowing that a fresh, abundant stream is only a stone's throw away. "We ordinary people don't dare use tha ... read more 
Sao Paulo (AFP) July 31, 2009Brazil has taken stern action after discovering 1,400 tons of waste from Britain in its ports, fining companies involved and reporting the matter to a world authority, officials said Friday. Six companies that imported and transported the waste - which include condoms, syringes and used baby diapers - have been fined a total of 1.3 million dollars, Brazil's environment ministry said in ... more |
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Homestead, Fla. (UPI) Aug 3, 2009 A tree-killing fungus near Florida's Everglades National Park could harm the area's $12.7 million avocado industry, agriculture officials said. "At this point, if your tree becomes infected, it will die,' state Agriculture and Consumer Services spokesman Mark Fagan told The Miami Herald. Scientists recently discovered a case of laurel wilt disease, carried by the invasive redbay ... more  
Washington (AFP) Aug 3, 2009Health officials said Monday they had found cases of Tamiflu-resistant swine flu along the US border with Mexico, as India and South Africa announced their first deaths from the A(H1N1) virus. "We have found resistance to Tamiflu on the border. We have observed some cases, few to be sure, in El Paso and close to McAllen, Texas," said Maria Teresa Cerqueira, head of the Pan-American Health Or ... more  
Vancouver (AFP) Aug 3, 2009More evacuations were ordered Monday in western Canada, where thousands of people have fled forest fires threatening several small towns and aboriginal communities. By late Monday some 5,000 people had been evacuated in the west and southern Interior regions of British Columbia, and emergency officials issued new orders to leave. Fire conditions are ranked high to extreme in most of the ... more |
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Mexico City (AFP) Aug 3, 2009Four earthquakes, the strongest registering 6.9 magnitude, struck the Gulf of California off Mexico's west coast Monday, according to multiple monitoring services, with no reports of damage. The tremors caused no casualties and no major damage said Carlos Valdez, head of Mexico's National Seismological Center (SSN), which has ruled out the risk of tsunamis. The series of quakes began ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 4, 2009The Chinese government has decided to cancel summer camps in areas affected by swine flu after recent outbreaks sickened children, parents and teachers, state media said Tuesday. Student activities such as summer camps should be held "only when necessary," and in areas with a high incidence of A(H1N1), they should not go ahead at all, the China Daily reported, citing the health ministry. ... more 
Manila (AFP) Aug 3, 2009Twenty-two people were reported dead or missing and more than 400,000 others were displaced after several days of floods, storms and landslides in the Philippines, rescuers said Monday. A tropical depression that struck the country last weekend left five dead and five others missing from floods and landslides in the central islands of Panay and Negros, the civil defence office here said. ... more |
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