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Haiti quake victims stuck in a time warpPort-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 10, 2012 In the Port-au-Prince suburb of Petionville, some 2,500 people subsist in a crowded public park near open ditches flowing with human waste, a grim scene frozen in time two years after Haiti's earthquake disaster. Valerie Loiseau, 28, recalled the fateful day - January 12, 2010 - when she lost everything and her life changed forever. "I got here at 6:00 pm, a few moments after the earthquake, with my children, my daughter, a few months old, in my arms, and nothing else." Two years after the ... read more |
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 The nuclear, biological and climate threat - 2011 reviewed In this special issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by SAGE, experts reflect on 2011 and highlight what to look out for in 2012 in the areas of nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, ... more | .. |
  Could Siberian volcanism have caused the Earth's largest extinction event? Around 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian geologic period, there was a mass extinction so severe that it remains the most traumatic known species die-off in Earth's history. Although t ... more | .. |
  Chemical measurements confirm official estimate of Gulf oil spill rate By combining detailed chemical measurements in the deep ocean, in the oil slick, and in the air, NOAA scientists and academic colleagues have independently estimated how fast gases and oil were leak ... more | .. |
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 Death toll in Brazil floods, landslide rises to 28 Torrential rains lashing southeastern Brazil have killed at least 28 people, including 13 buried in a landslide, according to an updated official death toll released Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Avalanche risk down but Austrian resorts still cut off Road and railway connections in western Austria improved Tuesday, although some popular ski resorts remained cut off after extreme snowfall over the past week, local authorities said. ... more | .. |
  European mountain vegetation shows effects of warmer climate The decade from 2000 to 2009 was the warmest since global climate has been measured, and while localized studies have shown evidence of changes in mountain plant communities that reflect this warmin ... more | .. |
 Colorado mountain hail may disappear in a warmer future Summertime hail could all but disappear from the eastern flank of Colorado's Rocky Mountains by 2070, according to a new modeling study by scientists from NOAA and several other institutions. ... more |
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Overlooked cells might explain the human brain's huge storage capacity
Key climate target of airline decarbonisation 'in peril': IATA
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  Simpler times: did an earlier genetic molecule predate DNA and RNA? In the chemistry of the living world, a pair of nucleic acids-DNA and RNA-reign supreme. As carrier molecules of the genetic code, they provide all organisms with a mechanism for faithfully reproduc ... more | .. |
 UCSB scientists say topography played key role in Deepwater Horizon disaster When UC Santa Barbara geochemist David Valentine and colleagues published a study in early 2011 documenting how bacteria blooms had consumed almost all of the deepwater methane plumes following the ... more | .. |
 New Cores From Glacier In The Eastern European Alps May Yield New Climate Clues Researchers are beginning their analysis of what are probably the first successful ice cores drilled to bedrock from a glacier in the eastern European Alps. With luck, that analysis will yield a rec ... more | .. |
 Team finds a better way to gauge the climate costs of land use changes Those making land use decisions to reduce the harmful effects of climate change have focused almost exclusively on greenhouse gases - analyzing, for example, how much carbon dioxide is released when ... more |
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  Tiny worm points to big promise Two related studies from Northwestern University offer new strategies for tackling the challenges of preventing and treating diseases of protein folding, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Hunting ... more | .. |
 Italy violated human rights in garbage crisis: court The Italian government violated residents' human rights by allowing festering heaps of garbage to go uncollected from the streets for months, a European high court said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 7.3 magnitude quake strikes off western Indonesia: USGS An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 struck off the west coast of Indonesia's Northern Sumatra on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey reported. ... more | .. |
 'Doomsday' ticks closer on nuclear, climate fears Global uncertainty on how to deal with the threats of nuclear weapons and climate change have forced the "Doomsday clock" one minute closer to midnight, leading international scientists said Tuesday. ... more |
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UK to build attack subs as part of major defence review
Ukraine strikes Russian bombers ahead of Istanbul talks
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  US rescues six more Iranians despite tensions A US ship on Tuesday rescued six Iranian mariners in the Gulf after their boat broke down, the Pentagon said, in the latest such gesture despite soaring tensions between Washington and Tehran. ... more | .. |
  Huntsman White House hopes on the line Former US envoy to China Jon Huntsman's presidential hopes faced a do-or-die test Tuesday in New Hampshire, where he may have hit his stride too late against frontrunner Mitt Romney. ... more | .. |
  Chile's Mapuche denies role in deadly arson Leaders of an activist group of Chilean indigenous Mapuche people Tuesday denied government accusations they might have set a forest fire that killed seven firefighters last week. ... more | .. |
 New oil leak as wreck's stern sinks off N. Zealand Fresh oil leaking from the wrecked cargo ship Rena off the New Zealand coast is expected to reach shore overnight, salvage officials said Tuesday. ... more |
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'Off the scale' smog grounds flights in Beijing More than 150 flights to and from Beijing were cancelled or delayed Tuesday as a thick cloud of acrid smog shrouded the city, with US figures saying the pollution was so bad it was off the scale. ... more | .. |
  Buyers target Hong Kong's 'haunted houses' It may not be everyone's idea of a dream home, but for bargain hunters in Hong Kong's turbocharged property market apartments that belonged to the recently deceased are proving irresistible - and the more gruesome the occupant's demise the better. ... more | .. |
 Rare Sumatran tiger rescued from trap in Indonesia An endangered Sumatran tiger found with serious arrow wounds all over its body was rescued from a wire trap in protected Indonesian jungle, officials said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Japan to hand over Australian anti-whaling activists An Australian customs vessel was Tuesday steaming towards a Japanese whaling ship to pick up three activists held on board after Tokyo agreed to release them without charge. ... more |
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China expands satellite networks for smart connectivity
Iridium and Syniverse to Enable Direct-to-Device Satellite Connectivity for MNOs Worldwide
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  Fisherman's gold: Shark fin hunt empties west African seas Retired fisherman Sada Fall is upbeat. His two sons are returning from sea with a boatload of "gold", as he calls shark fins, whose value has near-obliterated the ocean's top predator in these seas. ... more | .. |
China dissident's family says denied prison visit Chinese authorities on Tuesday prevented relatives of prominent dissident and human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng from visiting him in prison, his brother said. ... more | .. |
  Exercise in a pill may protect against extreme heat sensitivity Headlines usually tell the story. A young athlete who seems no different from his colleagues on the football field dies suddenly during exercise under the baleful sun of a blistering summer day. ... more | .. |
 Differing dangers at sea The probability of being killed at work is 25 times higher for a coastal fisherman than for an offshore worker, according to a study from the UiS. Seafarers also run a high risk of accidents. ... more |
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  Scientists Refute Greenpeace Claims About GM Corn An article in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of Integrated Pest Management (JIPM) refutes claims by Greenpeace Germany that the western bean cutworm (WBC), Striacosta albicosta (Smith), is "a ... more | .. |
 UF research on newly formed plants could lead to improved crop fertility A new University of Florida study shows genomes of a recently formed plant species to be highly unstable, a phenomenon that may have far-reaching evolutionary consequences. Published online in ... more | .. |
 Evolution of complexity recreated using 'molecular time travel' Much of what living cells do is carried out by "molecular machines" - physical complexes of specialized proteins working together to carry out some biological function. How the minute steps of evolu ... more | .. |
 Climate change is altering mountain vegetation at large scale Climate change is having a more profound effect on alpine vegetation than at first anticipated, according to a study carried out by an international group of researchers and published in Nature Clim ... more |
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