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 Cobram, Australia (AFP) Aug 24, 2009 
Farmer Mazzareno Bisogni fights back tears as he stands among the remains of trees he planted 35 years ago, victims of a drought hitting "Australia's Mississippi". Bisogni's orchard lies in the heart of the once-mighty Murray-Darling river system which irrigates Australia's food bowl, the vast southeastern corner responsible for 40 percent of agricultural output. The eight-year 'big dry' ... read more 
Taipei (AFP) Aug 24, 2009Taiwan's government on Monday confirmed that 292 people were killed and 385 missing after Typhoon Morakot struck the island and caused its worst flooding in half a century earlier this month. Those still unaccounted for include 311 from the southern village of Hsiaolin, the National Fire Agency said. With the hope of finding bodies fading, an increasing number of people still hunting for ... more |
Brazil defines boundaries for 10 new Indigenous territories
Education for girls hit hard by India's drying wells Press Release from Business Wire: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. Haitian gangs getting rich off murky market for baby eels Climate talks run into night as COP30 hosts seek breakthrough Pope decries lack of political will on climate change Two dead in northern Italy mudslide: firefighters 'In it to win it': Australia doubles down on climate hosting bid New research measures how much plastic is lethal for marine life COP30 by the numbers 
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Washington (AFP) Aug 24, 2009Swine flu could infect as much as half of the US population this fall and winter and cause up to 90,000 deaths, President Barack Obama's science advisors warned Monday. Laying out a "plausible scenario" for the epidemic's impact in the United States, the report painted a grim picture of stress on the US health care system as it struggles to cope with a flood of flu patients. The epidemic ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 25, 2009NASA's "Eyes on the Earth 3D" is back and better than ever before. This online experience now offers new features that allow users to view the latest data beamed back from NASA space satellites - in some cases, less than a few hours old. Developed using a state-of-the-art, browser-based visualization technology, "Eyes on the Earth 3D" displays the location of all of NASA's 15 currently ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 25, 2009NASA has several satellites that orbit the Earth one behind the other on the same track. They're called the "A-Train" and one of the things they study is tropical cyclones. There are also other satellites outside the A-Train that are used to study different aspects of tropical cyclones. The satellites that form the A-Train provide unique information about tropical cyclones, the collective ... more |
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Tegucigalpa (AFP) Aug 24, 2009Seven foreign ministers from the Americas and a top regional official were in Honduras Monday in a bid to end the crisis set off by the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya almost two months ago. The polarized Central American nation hit political deadlock after the June 28 military coup backed by the country's courts and Congress. The head of the Organization of American States (OAS), Jose ... more  
Cassis, France (AFP) Aug 24, 2009France intends to declare an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Mediterranean in a bid to protect dwindling fish stocks, French Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said Monday. "The French government has decided to declare an EEZ in the Mediterranean ... with a perimeter of approximately 70 nautical miles, corresponding to our existing environmental protection area," Borloo told ... more  
Brussels (AFP) Aug 24, 2009The world of Belgian homing pigeons is in a flap over fears that Chinese criminal gangs are bumping off their prized racers, after a gruesome discovery in the northern town of Antwerp. Last week a passerby spotted two men of Asian appearance dumping rubbish bags in a wood in Mol, near the Dutch border. The two men were driving a car with French plates, according to the witness, who took ... more |
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