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In tragedy, Japan impresses the worldWashington (AFP) March 14, 2011 Despite the horrific scenes of destruction, Japan may emerge from its quake-tsunami disaster with a stronger international brand-name as the nation's resilience wins wide praise. Television stations around the world have broadcast the footage of the seismic waves as they razed homes and carried away cars as if they were toys, stranding dazed survivors on the brutalized landscape. But coverage has also shown another side - Japanese showing calm as they search for loved ones or wait for basic nec ... read more |
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  Gulf troops enter Bahrain as protests escalate Armed forces from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates rolled into Bahrain on Monday to help the government there deal with pro-democracy protesters, prompting alarm from the United States. ... more | .. |
  Arctic-Wide Measurements Verify Rapid Ozone Depletion In Recent Days Unusually low temperatures in the Arctic ozone layer have recently initiated massive ozone depletion. The Arctic appears to be heading for a record loss of this trace gas that protects the Earth's s ... more | .. |
  Untapped Crop Data From Africa Predicts Corn Peril If Temperatures Rise A hidden trove of historical crop yield data from Africa shows that corn - long believed to tolerate hot temperatures - is a likely victim of global warming. Stanford agricultural scientist Da ... more | .. |
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  How The Slime Mold Gets Organized The so-called cellular slime mold, a unicellular organism that may transition into a multicellular organism under stress, has just been found to have a tissue structure that was previously thought t ... more | .. |
 USDA And Russian Scientists Develop High-Tech Crop Map AgroAtlas is a new interactive website that shows the geographic distributions of 100 crops; 640 species of crop diseases, pests, and weeds; and 560 wild crop relatives growing in Russia and neighbo ... more | .. |
  Weed-Eating Fish Key To Reef Survival Preserving an intact population of weed-eating fish may be vital to saving the world's coral reefs from being engulfed by weed as human and climate impacts grow. A new study by researchers at ... more | .. |
  Climate-Related Disasters May Provide Opportunities For Some Rural Poor A new study in Honduras suggests that climate-related weather disasters may sometimes actually provide opportunities for the rural poor to improve their lives. Researchers found that that the ... more |
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  A Seismograph For Ancient Earthquakes Earthquakes are one of the world's biggest enigmas - impossible to predict and able to wreak untold damage within seconds. Now, a new tool from Tel Aviv University may be able to learn from earthqua ... more | .. |
 Seedless Cherimoya, The Next Banana Mark Twain called it "the most delicious fruit known to man." But the cherimoya, or custard apple, and its close relations the sugar apple and soursop, also have lots of big, awkward seeds. Now new ... more | .. |
  Tsunami survivor recounts nursing home 'nightmare' Kaori Ohashi watched with horror as the debris-heavy waves of mud swallowed houses and bulldozed fields, and then rushed towards the nursing home where she works. ... more | .. |
 'Pancake' stingrays found in Amazon Scientists say they have discovered two new species of freshwater stingrays in the Amazon rain forest and dubbed them "pancake" rays. ... more |
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 Japan quake upgraded to 9.0 magnitude US experts on Monday upgraded the strength of the earthquake which rocked Japan last week from a magnitude of 8.9 to 9.0, making it the fourth largest in the world since 1900. ... more | .. |
 Fewer Americans worry about climate change: poll The number of Americans who are worried about global warming has fallen to nearly the historic low reached in 1998, a poll released Monday showed. ... more | .. |
 American Birds Of Prey At Higher Risk Of Poisoning From Pest Control Chemicals A new study by scientists from Maryland and Colorado using American kestrels, a surrogate test species for raptorial birds, suggests that they are at greater risk from poisoning from the rodenticide ... more | .. |
  Piracy: Calls for tougher action intensify As the major powers argue about whether to launch military intervention in oil-rich Libya, calls are mounting for tougher action on another security problem, pirates plaguing the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf oil tanker lanes. ... more |
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  Dalai Lama pleads for right to 'retire' The Dalai Lama pleaded with exiled Tibetan MPs Monday to accept his resignation as their political leader, warning that a delayed handover could pose "an overwhelming challenge". ... more | .. |
Japan nuclear crisis mixed message for climate change Japan's nuclear crisis will boost interest in clean renewables such as solar and wind power but may also sharpen demand for coal, oil and gas, whose carbon pollution drives climate change, experts said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Abortions give rise to Asia's 'lost boy' generation Abortions of female fetuses have led to a massive surplus of young unmarried men in India and China, raising fears of an outcast group that could threaten the social fabric, a study said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Sinohydro inks $2 bn deal to build Iran dam: report Chinese company Sinohydro has signed a $2 billion deal to build a hydroelectric dam in Iran's southwest, state media reported on Monday. ... more |
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Japan quake shifted Earth on its axis The magnitude-9.0 earthquake that struck Japan shifted the Earth on its axis and shortened the length of a day by a hair, U.S. scientists said. ... more | .. |
 Japan struggles with enormous relief effort Millions of Japanese were without food, water or power Monday and hundreds of thousands more were homeless as the disaster-struck economic superpower battled third-world conditions. ... more | .. |
  Japan reels as second blast rocks nuclear plant A new explosion at a stricken nuclear power plant hit Japan Monday as it raced to avert a meltdown after a quake-tsunami disaster that is feared to have killed more than 10,000 people. ... more | .. |
India captures 61 Somali pirates after clash: navy The Indian navy has captured 61 suspected Somali pirates and rescued 13 fishermen after a firefight with a hijacked mothership in the Arabian Sea, a navy spokesman said Monday. ... more |
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 Operator says Japan reactor cooling system fails: Jiji The cooling system at the number two reactor at the quake-damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Japan has failed, Jiji Press reported Monday, citing operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO). ... more | .. |
 Tokyo stocks hammered, BoJ unleashes record funds Japanese stocks tumbled Monday and the central bank poured a record amount of cash in a bid to soothe money markets shaken by Japan's biggest ever earthquake, a devastating tsunami and a nuclear emergency. ... more | .. |
 China PM urges 'gradual' political reform Premier Wen Jiabao said Monday China must seek political reform but neither gave proposals nor a timetable for expanding its limited village-level elections, saying it would be a "gradual progress." ... more | .. |
Outrunning the tsunami -- a race for survival Japanese tsunami survivors who were able to outrun the killer waves that raged out of the sea, have recalled how they saw those behind them consumed by the torrent of mud and debris. ... more |
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Tibet exile MPs to debate Dalai Lama 'retirement' Tibet's exiled parliament opened an historic session Monday with the reading of a formal request by the Dalai Lama to be relieved of his title as political leader of the Tibetan movement. ... more | .. |
  New Study Reveals Aerosol Plumes Downwind Of The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Scientists from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science were part of a national research team to find two plumes of oil-based pollutants downwind of the BP D ... more | .. |
 Shallow-Water Shrimp Tolerates Deep-Sea Conditions caused extinctions of creatures living at bathyal (1,000-4,000 metres) and abyssal (>4,000 m) depths. These extinctions were apparently followed by re-colonisation of the deep sea by shallow-water s ... more | .. |
 Can Bees Color Maps Better Than Ants? In mathematics, you need at most only four different colors to produce a map in which no two adjacent regions have the same color. Utah and Arizona are considered adjacent, but Utah and New Mexico, ... more |
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