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Floods rupture Pakistani feudal tiesSukkur, Pakistan (AFP) July 22, 2011 Bakhsh Ali Lashari has spent the last year living in a tent since floods devastated a third of Pakistan. His home is no longer under water, but death threats mean he's never going back. The monsoon-triggered floods - the worst in Pakistani history - affected up to 21 million people, killed another 1,750 and ran up losses of $10 billion; a year later a shattered economy has barely recovered. Lashari's part of southern Pakistan was one of the worst hit areas, submerged in gushing waters that too ... read more |
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  IAEA chief visits Japan's stricken nuclear plant The head of the UN atomic watchdog agency headed for Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant on Monday to survey efforts to contain the world's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years. ... more | .. |
  Aura Detects Pollution in the Great Lakes Region Fires throughout Ontario are generating pollution that is showing up in data from NASA's Aura Satellite in the Great Lakes region. The fires have also forced thousands of residents to evacuate ... more | .. |
 TerraSAR-X image of the month - Volcanic eruption in Chile The crater of the Chilean volcano Puyehue displays a striking, circular outline in this image from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) TerraSAR-X satellite - ... more | .. |
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 Horn of Africa drought seen from space Drought in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti is pushing tens of thousands of people from their homes as millions face food insecurity in a crisis visible from space. ESA's SMOS satellite shows t ... more | .. |
  Has warming put 'Dirty Dozen' pollutants back in the saddle? "Dirty Dozen" chemicals, including the notoriously toxic DDT, are being freed from Arctic sea ice and snow through global warming, a study published on Sunday suggested. ... more | .. |
 Famine in Somalia is 'immoral': UN aid coordinator With the world scrambling to rescue 12 million people on the brink of starvation in the Horn of Africa, UN emergency official Cristina Amaral said the fact that children are dying of hunger is "immoral". ... more | .. |
 Aid reaches drought-ravaged Somalia The International Red Cross said Sunday it had handed out 400 tonnes of food in drought-hit parts of rebel-held southern Somalia as the UN prepares to host emergency talks on the crisis in the region. ... more |
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Nuclearn Deploys Gamma2 AI to Revolutionize Nuclear Plant Operations
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 Swat rebuilds year after Pakistan floods A year after floods swept away homes and livelihoods, Pakistani survivors of a Taliban uprising are courting fresh disaster in the picturesque Swat valley by refusing to leave for higher ground. ... more | .. |
  How to eat well and save the planet too Eating used to be so simple. If you liked it and could afford it, down the hatch it went. Yum-yum, end of story. ... more | .. |
  Syria faces tougher EU sanctions Syria faces tougher European sanctions but there's no telling they'll work while President Bashar Assad pushes ahead with arrests and attacks on protesters he sees hindering his reforms. ... more | .. |
 Somali rebels maintain aid ban, reject famine Somalia's Al Qaeda-inspired insurgents said Friday a ban on foreign aid groups remained in force and rejected a UN declaration that parts of the country had been hit by famine. ... more |
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 Ecuador libel case, jailing, draws worldwide criticism Watchdog groups around the world denounced Thursday an Ecuadorian court decision to send four journalists to prison and impose a $40 million fine for libel against President Rafael Correa. ... more | .. |
 Central America launches its 'Google' of weather Officials launched a database Thursday they dubbed the "Google of Central American weather," designed to predict natural disasters as the region grapples with devastating consequences blamed on climate change. ... more | .. |
 Climate change 'may make truffles a German delicacy' Truffles, a luxury delicacy in French and Italian cuisine, may soon be adding flavour to blander dishes, as it migrates further north amid climate change, a Swiss scientist said Friday. ... more | .. |
  Police fire tear gas to break up Sudan water demos Police used tear gas in Khartoum on Friday to break up three separate protests at the lack of running water, witnesses said, two days after a similar demonstration in neighbouring Gezira state. ... more |
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Israel targets Iran Guards, Tehran prison in fresh wave of strikes
Israel says struck to 'obstruct access routes' to Iran's Fordo
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  More than half of US states bake in deadly heat wave A punishing heat wave blanketed much of the United States Friday, leaving hot and bothered Americans flocking to swimming pools and air-conditioned malls to escape the searing temperatures. ... more | .. |
  Dalai Lama says China demonization 'childish' The Dalai Lama said that Chinese leaders show through their strident denunciations of him that they are "childish" and lack their full brains, but voiced hope that China will change in time. ... more | .. |
 Somali relief in rebel-held areas raises challenges Relief efforts are being ramped up for two famine-struck regions of Somalia controlled by a US-designated terrorist group, but there are deep concerns as to the implications of dealing with them. ... more | .. |
 Weakened Hurricane Dora threatens Mexico's Baja Hurricane Dora lost steam early Friday as it brushed Mexico's coast, and while it was expected to remain offshore the storm could cause dangerous conditions on the Baja peninsula, officials said. ... more |
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  Wood products part of winning carbon-emissions equation Trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to grow, so forests have long been proposed as a way to offset climate change. But rather than just letting the forest sit there for a hundred o ... more | .. |
  Speed limit on babies' vision Babies have far less ability to recognize rapidly changing images than adults, according to research from the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. The results show that while infants can perceive fli ... more | .. |
 Spread Of Fungus-Farming Beetles Is Bad News For Trees North Carolina State University researchers have found that a subset of fungus-farming ambrosia beetles may be in the early stages of a global epidemic threatening a number of economically important ... more |
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Lunar dust poses lower health risk than urban air pollution study shows
Macron says Europe must become 'space power' again
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  Future fire - still a wide open climate question How the frequency and intensity of wildfires and intentional biomass burning will change in a future climate requires closer scientific attention, according to CSIRO's Dr Melita Keywood. Dr Ke ... more | .. |
  Loss of large predators disrupting multiple plant, animal and human ecosystems The enormous decline of large, apex predators and "consumers" ranging from wolves to lions, sharks and sea otters may represent the most powerful impacts humans have ever had on Earth's ecosystems, ... more | .. |
 The Future of Cover Crops Winter cover crops are an important component of nutrient cycling, soil cover and organic matter content. Although its benefits are well documented, cover crop use in farming systems is relatively l ... more | .. |
 Batman Bacteria Bacteria use various appendages to move across surfaces prior to forming multicellular bacterial biofilms. Some species display a particularly jerky form of movement known as "twitching" motility, w ... more |
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  What keeps the Earth cooking? What spreads the sea floors and moves the continents? What melts iron in the outer core and enables the Earth's magnetic field? Heat. Geologists have used temperature measurements from more than 20, ... more | .. |
 Tiny robots could find nuclear plant leaks Small, spherical robots with a camera could someday navigate the underground pipes of a nuclear reactor to check for corrosion or leaks, U.S. researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Genetic research confirms that non-Africans are part Neanderthal Some of the human X chromosome originates from Neanderthals and is found exclusively in people outside Africa, according to an international team of researchers led by Damian Labuda of the Departmen ... more | .. |
 Forest fires destroy a tenth of Greece in 25 years: report Forest fires have devastated more than 10 percent of Greek territory in a 25-year period, mostly in the southern Peloponnese peninsula, a report published Thursday said. ... more |
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