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Victims struggle six months on from Japan quakeTokyo (AFP) Sept 9, 2011 As Japan prepares to mark six months since the March earthquake, tens of thousands remain in temporary housing, mourning loved ones, fearful of radiation and despairing over a marathon road to recovery. The raging wall of water unleashed by the record 9.0 magnitude March 11 quake left an indelible scar on Japan's northeastern Pacific coast, killing 20,000 and sparking the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl 25 years ago. Much rubble has been cleared, leaving vast empty mud fields. Makeshift ... read more |
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  Deadly floods hit US northeast in wake of Irene Heavy rain on Thursday swamped areas of the US northeast already sodden from Hurricane Irene, with up to five people killed as flash floods forced over 100,000 to leave their homes. ... more | .. |
 Mystery blobs surface after U.S. hurricane Mysterious gray blobs washing up on eastern U.S. beaches in the wake of Hurricane Irene are alive, a researcher says - they are in fact sponges. ... more | .. |
  East Africa, Arab world face food crisis The United Nations warns that the famine in war-wracked Somalia is spreading and that 750,000 people could die in the next six months if international aid isn't increased. ... more | .. |
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  Ultrafast substorm auroras explained From time to time, sudden releases of energy in Earth's magnetosphere lead to major disturbances that result in bright auroral displays over the planet's polar regions. These auroras are caused by a ... more | .. |
  Almost 90% of Tripoli now has water: NTC Nearly all of Tripoli has regained access to running water after nearly two weeks of shortages, the head of a prime ministerial task force told AFP on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 La Nina returns, bringing more severe weather: US The weather phenomenon known as La Nina is returning for another season, likely bringing more drought, heavy rains and severe weather to some parts of the world, US forecasters said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Pakistan asks UN for international flood appeal Pakistan on Thursday asked the United Nations to issue an international appeal for humanitarian assistance for up to five million people affected by the recent monsoon rains, an official said. ... more |
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UK nuclear site could leak until 2050s, MPs warn
ABC Solar Marks 25 Years With Grand Opening at AltaSea
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  World needs to do more against desertification: Algeria The world needs to do more to combat desertification, which threatens close to a third of the planet's population, Algeria said Thursday at the opening of a conference here. ... more | .. |
 Pacific summit sounds alarm on climate change Pacific leaders identified climate change as the greatest threat to the region Thursday, ordering officials to start work on plans to help people forced to relocate by rising sea levels. ... more | .. |
  China veteran rights activist jailed for 9 months Chinese veteran rights activist and doctor Wang Lihong was sentenced Friday to nine months in jail for "creating a disturbance", as part of what campaigners say is a broad crackdown on dissent. ... more | .. |
 Europe's anti-GM nations warned against unilateral action US biotech giant Monsanto scored points Thursday in a battle with GM sceptics in the EU, when Europe's highest court warned against fresh unilateral action against genetically-modified crops. ... more |
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 New tropical storm takes aim at Mexico: forecasters A new tropical storm in the Caribbean, the 14th named system of the 2011 season, took aim at Mexico on Thursday and threatened to grow into a hurricane in the next two days, US forecasters said. ... more | .. |
  Somali soldier kills five during food aid handout A Somali soldier killed five people and wounded three others in the famine-struck Somali capital Thursday as starving women and children gathered for food aid handouts, witnesses said. ... more | .. |
 Officials eye cut in Haiti UN force to pre-quake level South American nations with forces in the UN mission in Haiti opened talks Thursday on cutting troop levels, with some officials saying the unit could be cut soon to levels used before the January 2010 earthquake. ... more | .. |
  Chinese HIV-positive man files discrimination suit An HIV-positive man in China said Thursday he was suing local authorities for denying him a job as a primary school teacher, in a sign of growing assertiveness among the nation's HIV/AIDS sufferers. ... more |
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Attacking Iran, Israel brazenly defies 'man of peace' Trump
Rubio warns Iran against targeting US over Israeli strikes
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 Sustainable development world's top issue: UN chief United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday singled out sustainable development as the top issue facing the planet with the world's seven billionth person expected to be born next month. ... more | .. |
  NASA Spacecraft Sees Wind-Whipped Fires in East Texas As most of Texas continues to experience the worst one-year drought on record, more than 170 wildfires have erupted across the Lone Star State so far this month alone. The Texas Forest Service repor ... more | .. |
 Study finds crop performance matters when evaluating greenhouse gas emissions Measuring the emission of greenhouse gases from croplands should take into account the crops themselves. That's the conclusion of a study in the Sept.-Oct. issue of the Journal of Environmental Qual ... more | .. |
  Neurosurgeons use adult stem cells to grow neck vertebrae Neurosurgery researchers at UC Davis Health System have used a new, leading-edge stem cell therapy to promote the growth of bone tissue following the removal of cervical discs - the cushions between ... more |
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  Culturomics 2 forecasts human behavior by supercomputing global news A paper published yesterday in the peer-reviewed journal First Monday combines advanced supercomputing with a quarter-century of worldwide news to forecast and visualize human behavior, from civil u ... more | .. |
 Record drought keeps grip on U.S. states The percentage of land suffering from exceptional drought reached record levels in August in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, scientists said. ... more | .. |
 Ancient human DNA still with us "Archaic" humans interbred with anatomically modern humans in Africa in the last 20,000 to 60,000 years and some of their DNA exists today, researchers said. ... more | .. |
 Date palm decline: Iraq looks to rebuild Iraqi officials are pushing re-planting programmes for the country's date palms, which are famed across the Middle East as the region's best but have suffered terrible losses in past decades. ... more |
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NASA Mars Orbiter Captures Volcano Peeking Above Morning Cloud Tops
Unexpected Dust Patterns Found on Uranus Moons Confound Scientists
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 Japan's new PM in crisis-hit Fukushima Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Thursday visited Fukushima for the first time since he took office a week ago, paying tribute to hundreds of workers battling to contain the nuclear crisis. ... more | .. |
 China struggles to tame microblogging masses Beijing has moved to stem a tide of online criticism by tightening its grip on China's hugely popular microblogs, but experts say it will struggle to control the country's online masses. ... more | .. |
  Republican Perry touts jobs role in US debate debut Texas Governor Rick Perry made his closely-watched debut at a Republican debate on Wednesday, weeks after surging into the race as frontrunner to fight Barack Obama for the White House. ... more | .. |
 Clouds affect, don't start climate change Clouds can amplify climate change but are not a root cause of it, a U.S. researcher says in a study that rebuts claims that clouds are prime climate suspects. ... more |
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 Floating islands mulled as sea levels rise The small Pacific island nation of Kiribati says it's considering building what it describes as 'floating islands' to deal with rising sea levels. ... more | .. |
 Sticky future for honey imports to EU after GM ruling Honey from nations such as Argentina and China using genetically-modified cereals could face import restrictions into the EU following a key judicial ruling, the European Commission said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 More than 100 dead or missing after Japan typhoon A deadly typhoon has left at least 100 people dead or missing after ravaging western Japan, officials said Wednesday, heaping yet more misery onto a nation trying to recover from the March tsunami. ... more | .. |
 Spain awards "heroes" of Japan nuclear disaster The "heroes of Fukushima" who braved high radiation to battle nuclear disaster in Japan won Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Concord prize, the jury said Wednesday. ... more |
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