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A landslide on a mountainside in northern Tanzania triggered by four days of heavy rain has killed at least 20 people, a senior local official said on Wednesday.
Monica Mbega, regional commissioner for Kilimanjaro region, told Reuters locals had...
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TENS of thousands of Amazonians are suing Chevron, the American oil company, for poisoning their waterways in what is billed as one of the biggest environmental cases...
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On the steep, dusty slopes of the Chacaltaya mountains, thousands of meters above sea level in the Bolivian Andes, the hardy farmers tending root crops or herding...
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The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the...
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A species of snail fish–the deepest living fish in the world–have been captured on camera n the southern hemisphere for the first time. These strange,...
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Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For...
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Heavy snow has left 21 people dead in north and central China since Monday, the Ministry of Civil Affairs announced (MCA) Friday.
The ministry did not detail the...
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The World Council of Churches on Thursday called on churches around the world to ring their bells 350 times during the Copenhagen climate change summit on December 13...
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Himalayan Glaciers are not melting as been said by the Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh and VK Raina who is the India’s senior most glaciologist, states that the...
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Why there is constant hue and cry in the media about climate change. When life and earth survived millions of years. Behind the scene, I think the present talk about...
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A small grove of huarango, the storied Peruvian tree that can live over a millennium, rests like a mirage amid the sand dunes on this city’s edge. The tree has...
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Torrential rains triggered a series of landslides on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 residents and burying many more, a local official said...
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For the first time in a decade, the U.S. is reviewing the endangered status of the humpback whale, prompted by evidence that these acrobatic leviathans — once...
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This is not to use a metaphor but just a play of words to say that time ran back in Pakistan – the announcement of putting the clocks back by an hour. The...
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An early blast of winter walloped some western states with deep snow and slowly pushed into Nebraska and Kansas Thursday, bringing blizzard conditions to the eastern...
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We purchased petroleum from middle east countries with higher prices. India is not the country blessed with petroleum by the nature. We pay huge foreign currency for...
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Denmark’s prime minister says he does not think a legally binding deal on climate change will be agreed upon at a December summit in Copenhagen.
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New research published in the online journal PLoS ONE demonstrates for the first time that a non-human adult animal species regularly engages in oral sex behavior....
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Britons should turn vegetarian to help beat global warming, according to one of the world’s top experts on climate change.
Lord Stern said methane emissions from...
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Palms flourished in the Arctic about 50 million years ago as some profiting from carbon tax...
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1.02 billion people have gone hungry this year, according to a report released this year. This comes at a time when several regions in East Africa are threatened by...
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Mud and boulders loosened by heavy rains swept down a volcano and partly buried a small town Sunday, swallowing up homes as flooding and landslides across El Salvador...
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Rescuers struggled through mud and pounding rain Friday to clear mountain roads and retrieve more than 160 dead from dozens of landslides that buried villages and cut...
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Nepalese authorities say landslides and floods triggered by days of heavy rains killed at least 34 people in the western part of the Himalayan nation Tuesday.
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A major breach in the embankment of a Krishna river canal has left low lying areas of a town and many villages in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur district inundated even as...
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AT LEAST six people, five of them children, have been confirmed dead after a landslide hit Kyokyezo village in Rubanda county, Kabale district. According to Rubanda MP...
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A powerful typhoon Saturday battered extreme northern Philippines with forceful winds and heavy rains, but spared the capital and surrounding areas still recovering...
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Among the key areas to be affected are roads, water supply systems and health due to a possible outbreak of water borne and related ailments. The country went through...
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Guwahati city facing interplay of bomb blasts and floods
Guwahati city is called as the gateway of entire North east. People from all over the region reside or come...
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More than two weeks after floodwaters inundated the impoverished lowlands of the Indian state of Bihar, untold numbers of residents remain perched upon their rooftops,...
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The Mississippi River breached more than a dozen levees in the St. Louis, Mo., area Thursday as flooding continued to spread across the Midwest.
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McCain backs solid efforts and real life projects aimed at preventing such natural disasters while Obama defends pork spending and bills laden with projects for special...
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The Mississippi River’s crest rolled downstream on Friday, submerging small towns and some of the U.S. Midwest’s most fertile farm fields with a relentless...
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The North Queensland town of Normanton is flooded by monsoonal rains, Australia, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. As if torrents washing through homes and sweeping away furniture wasn’t scary enough. Authorities in storm-battered northeastern Australia are...
