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Atomic crisis deepens in disaster-struck JapanSendai, Japan (AFP) March 16, 2011 Japanese crews grappling with the world's worst nuclear incident since Chernobyl temporarily pulled out Wednesday as radiation rose following feared damage to a reactor containment vessel. The evacuation order at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, where a tall stack of white cloud billowed high into the sky, deepened the crisis gripping Japan after an earthquake and tsunami pulverised its east coast on Friday. "Around 10:40 am (0140 GMT) we ordered the evacuation of workers... due to the rise in ... read more |
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 Japan disaster in numbers The following is a list of facts and figures about the devastating 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that battered Japan's northeast coast on March 11, sparking a nuclear emergency. ... more | .. |
  US overdue for huge Pacific quake: experts The western United States is overdue for a huge earthquake and tsunami much like the one that devastated Japan last week, and is nowhere near ready to cope with the disaster, experts say. ... more | .. |
  'We need world's help': Japan evacuee town mayor The mayor of a town near Japan's quake-damaged and stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said Wednesday that it desperately needs help for thousands of evacuees sheltered there. ... more | .. |
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Unique Japan tsunami footage boon to scientists Vision of the disastrous tsunami rolling onto Japan after last week's massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake will provide valuable data to scientists for years to come, Australian experts said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Iraq Shiite authority condemns Bahrain crackdown A leading Iraq-based Shiite Muslim authority on Wednesday condemned a deadly government crackdown on mainly Shiite protesters in Bahrain, saying the violence must stop immediately. ... more | .. |
  Haiti cholera epidemic to hit 800,000: study Up to 800,000 Haitians will contract cholera this year, double the estimates of UN agencies, a report published by The Lancet on Wednesday claimed. ... more | .. |
  Wheels Up for Extensive Survey of Arctic Ice Researchers and flight crew arrived in Thule, Greenland, on Monday, March 14, for the start of NASA's 2011 Operation IceBridge, an airborne mission to study changes in Arctic polar ice. This year's ... more |
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China emissions flat in third quarter as solar surges: study
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 Japan disaster survivors search for the missing Tomeko Sato spent two agonising days searching for her daughter after the giant waves crashed ashore. They are now looking for 10 missing relatives in the wasteland they once called home. ... more | .. |
  Water For An Integrative Climate Paradigm International climate negotiations are deadlocked between the affluent global North and "developing" South, between political Left and Right, and between believers and deniers. Now, authors writing ... more | .. |
  Seedlings Thrive With Distant Relatives, Seeds With Close Family A variety of plant seedlings suffer most from competition when planted with close relatives, and grow best when planted alongside distant relatives in field soils, researchers from Case Western Rese ... more | .. |
  Old-Growth Tree Stumps Tell The Story Of Fire In The Upper Midwest Researchers have constructed a 226-year history of fire in southern Illinois by looking at fire scars in tree stumps. Their study, the most in-depth fire history reported for the upper Midwest, reve ... more |
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 U.S. researcher makes Atlantis claim The latest claim of "finding" the legendary lost island of Atlantis comes from a U.S. researcher who pinpoints it in a vast marsh in southern Spain. ... more | .. |
 Outside View: Disaster's consequences The toll in human misery wrought by the tsunami and earthquakes in Japan test the imagination of economists but the effects on Japan's gross domestic product and wealth are a different matter. ... more | .. |
  Hong Kong extends 'black' travel alert for Japan Hong Kong has widened its top-level black travel alert to three more Japanese prefectures after explosions at a nuclear plant in the quake-stricken country deepened concerns of a meltdown. ... more | .. |
  Where the winds blow: Experts ponder fallout risks Experts monitoring weather patterns for any fallout from Japan's stricken nuclear plant said Tuesday the winds had so far been favourable but they were less confident about the outlook later this week. ... more |
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Geopolitical instability and AI drive transformation in EO market
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  Indian navy captures pirates, rescues crew The Indian navy captured 61 suspected pirates and freed kidnapped crew members after a gun battle aboard a hijacked fishing trawler in the Arabian Sea. ... more | .. |
 Knee-high fence to halt rampaging Australian toads Australia's popular Kimberley wilderness region has resorted to a long knee-high fence to keep out the poisonous cane toad, which is rapidly overrunning the tourist attraction. ... more | .. |
 EU clears aid for flood-ravaged eastern Europe EU governments voted Tuesday to grant 182 million euros in aid to help Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and EU membership candidate Croatia rebuild areas ravaged by floods last year. ... more | .. |
  Tibet exile MPs oppose Dalai Lama retirement The Dalai Lama faced stiff resistance Tuesday from Tibet's parliament-in-exile over his plans to retire as political head of the movement, with most lawmakers against the change. ... more |
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  Cameroon suspends Twitter for 'security reasons' Cameroon's government has asked a cell phone service provider to suspend its mobile Twitter service for "security reasons," an activist at a media watchdog said Tuesday. ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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Tiangong hosts dual crews after debris impact delays Shenzhou-20 return
Dust and Sand Movements Reshape Martian Slopes
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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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 In tragedy, Japan impresses the world 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. ... 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 | .. |
 US West Coast: on frontline from nuclear cloud? California is closely watching the crisis at a Japanese nuclear plant, but officials downplayed the threat that a radioactive cloud blown across the Pacific could pose for the US West Coast. ... more |
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