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Australia braces for 'worst ever storm'Innisfail, Australia (AFP) Feb 2, 2011 A terrifying cyclone barrelling towards Australia strengthened to the most dangerous threat level Wednesday, shaping up as one most lethal storms in the country's history. As the winds whipped up by Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi began wreaking havoc along Queensland coast, state Premier Anna Bligh warned the region's one million residents it was too late to escape "the most catastrophic storm to ever hit our coast." Yasi, the worst storm in a century, was expected to slam into the coast around mi ... read more |
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  Australia cyclone could cost farming at least $500 million A huge cyclone that was Wednesday set to slam into Australia's agricultural heartland could wipe half a billion dollars from its sugar industry and decimate the nation's banana crops, growers said. ... more | .. |
  Outside View: Egyptian unrest Is what is happening in Egypt today, and Tunisia earlier, the harbinger of viral unrest with consequences akin to the French Revolution of 1789 or the Russian Revolution of 1917 but in real time? ... more | .. |
  Taking The Scare Out Of Scarcity Spreading fear about the planet's diminishing resources serves only to keep poor people poor and enrich those already wealthy, according to leading thinkers who today attack the widespread belief th ... more | .. |
  New Approach Needed To Prevent Major 'Systemic Failures' A Purdue University researcher is proposing development of a new cross-disciplinary approach for analyzing and preventing systemic failures in complex systems that play a role in calamities ranging ... more |
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  Two Rivers Water Company Acquires Orlando Reservoir And Associated Water Rights Two Rivers Water Company has announced it has acquired the Orlando Reservoir and associated surface flow water rights in Huerfano County, Colorado. The Orlando Reservoir has an absolute decree ... more | .. |
 Iraq, Kuwait set up 'channels' for fishing dispute Iraq and Kuwait have agreed on ways to resolve disputes that arise when Iraqi fishermen enter what Kuwait alleges are its territorial waters, Baghdad's government spokesman said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
Outside View: Egypt uprising Last Wednesday, the Federal Reserve of the United States released a mixed-bag statement of the Federal Open Market Committee's assessment of the domestic economy. ... more | .. |
India's crops affected by erratic climate A number of India's key crops are experiencing the effects of climate change, experts say. ... more |
  
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Israel views Egypt's turmoil with alarm Israel is watching the turmoil in neighboring Egypt with mounting alarm as President Hosni Mubarak's grip on power appears to be weakening in the first Arab nation to make peace with the Jewish state. ... more | .. |
West caught between Mubarak, democracy The popular uprising in Egypt has left Europe navigating uncomfortably between open support for democratic reforms and concerns that an anti-Western government could form in Cairo. ... more | .. |
  Anger over 'accidental' death of Chinese activist A Chinese court ruled Tuesday that the death of a village chief crushed by a truck in December was accidental, sparking outrage from those who suspect he was murdered for campaigning over land seizures. ... more | .. |
Egypt, Mideast in focus at Munich conference Revolt in Egypt and the implications for the stalled Middle East peace process are set to be key talking points for top defence officials at the Munich Security Conference in Germany from Friday. ... more |
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China says web 'open' despite Egypt news curbs China said Tuesday that its Internet remained "open" despite the apparent muffling of discussion on the protests in Egypt on some popular microblogs and major web portals. ... more | .. |
  Indonesia makes startling admission on forests Indonesia admitted Tuesday that hundreds of mine and plantation companies are operating illegally on Borneo island, and promised to beef up law enforcement to protect forests and threatened species. ... more | .. |
  Dutch to probe claims of Trafigura bribes in Jamaica Dutch investigators will question politicians in Jamaica about bribes allegedly received from multinational oil trader Trafigura, the prosecution service in The Hague said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Spanish doctors unveil promising AIDS vaccine Spanish researchers announced Tuesday they have developed an AIDS vaccine which cuts the viral load by a significant amount in most patients although they cautioned it is still not enough as a treatment. ... more |
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  Ancestor of Tricerotops discovered An ancestor to the horned dinosaur Triceratops reigned long before its well-known descendant, making it the earliest member of the family, U.S. researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Study: Pakistan floods were predictable Monsoons that brought flooding to Pakistan last July could have been predicted days in advance if data from computer models had been processed, researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Brazil going ahead with 'monster dam' Brazil is going ahead with the construction of the giant Bel Monte hydroelectric dam despite 30 years of campaigning by opponents who say the "monster'" project will displace 30,000 poor minority people and destroy ecology of the Amazonian forest. ... more | .. |
  Senators vow to strip Obama climate power Conservative senators vowed Monday to strip President Barack Obama of his power to regulate greenhouse gases, in a move that would cripple US efforts on climate change if successful. ... more |
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  China says Sudan referendum a step towards peace China said Tuesday that a referendum in southern Sudan, in which voters overwhelmingly chose to secede from the north, was an "important step" towards a lasting peace in the oil-rich country. ... more | .. |
  The Undead May Influence Biodiversity, Greenhouse Gas Emissions It's commonly known, at least among microbiologists, that microbes have an additional option to living or dying - dormancy. Dormant microbes are less like zombies and more like hibernating bea ... more | .. |
  A New Appreciation Of The Ecology-Evolution Dynamic Ecology drives evolution. In the next issue of Science, UC Davis expert Thomas Schoener describes growing evidence that the reverse is also true, and explores what that might mean to our understandi ... more | .. |
 Fast Growth, Low Defense - Plants Facing A Dilemma Plants are attacked by a multitude of insects and mammals. As defense against these herbivores they developed complex defense mechanisms over the course of evolution: spines, thorns, leaf hairs and ... more |
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 Evolution By Mistake Charles Darwin based his groundbreaking theory of natural selection on the realization that genetic variation among organisms is the key to evolution. Some individuals are better adapted to a ... more | .. |
 Precise Way To Monitor Ocean Wave Behavior And Shore Impacts Engineers have created a new type of "stereo vision" to use in studying ocean waves as they pound against the shore, providing a better way to understand and monitor this violent, ever-changing envi ... more | .. |
 Study Finds Common Ground For Ecosystems And Fishing In Northwest Mexico Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have completed a new study on the geography of commercial fisheries in Northwest Mexico and the results could have far-ranging impl ... more | .. |
 More Frequent Drought Likely In Eastern Africa The increased frequency of drought observed in Eastern Africa over the last 20 years is likely to continue as long as global temperatures continue to rise, according to UC Santa Barbara scientist Pa ... more |
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 Uncovering Links Between Ancient Climate Change And Mass Extinction About 450 million years ago, Earth suffered the second-largest mass extinction in its history-the Late Ordovician mass extinction, during which more than 75 percent of marine species died. Exactly w ... more | .. |
  Storm threatens 100 million in US with snow, ice, cold A mammoth storm threatens to dump mounds of fresh snow, sleet and ice on about 100 million already winter-weary people from the US heartland to the east coast, forecasters said Monday. ... more | .. |
 The Cold Facts Of A Mass Extinction About 450 million years ago, Earth suffered the second-largest mass extinction in its history - -the Late Ordovician mass extinction, during which more than 75 percent of marine species died. ... more | .. |
 Pakistan floods could have been minimized: US team Last year's disastrous floods in Pakistan could have been minimized if European weather monitors had shared their data and it had been properly processed, US researchers said Monday. ... more |
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