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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 killed at least 124 people, authorities 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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Scientists have unraveled the mechanism by which the fungal disease chytridiomycosis kills its victims.
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No one who saw it will ever forget Severn Suzuki’s six-minute address to the United Nations Earth Summit in Brazil in 1992. The 12-year-old Canadian schoolgirl...
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The heavily taxed French like to grouse about all the levies they pay, but there’s a new tax that’s turned that constant grumble into a roar. Called la taxe...
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French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, comes with a new measure to tax citizen for every ton of carbon dioxide they produce. The measure is to penalize not just...
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There’s nothing I love more than having a little downtime and hitting the ‘open highway’. You know what I mean, living life. It’s a chance to...
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Austria was hit by a record October snowfall late on Tuesday when strong winds and heavy snow caused power blackouts, train delays and traffic accidents.
Austria...
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Environmentalists in Kenya and Africa, want to push for compensation from developed countries that are the major polluters. Through carbon trading, Kenya could claim a...
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A German man mooning at railway staff in a departing train got his trousers caught in a carriage door and ended up being dragged half naked along the platform, out of...
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I was going through my emails and came along a photo of a dying kid who has gone for days without food and is short of some energy to even cry, the only reachable...
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Continued construction of plaza on cultivable land is becoming a growing concern among the business community in the country; the latter recently demanded that such...
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William Kamkwamba dreamed of powering his village with the only resource that was freely available to him.
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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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Victims of floods in the Philippines trudged through ankle-deep sludge to crowded relief centres in search of scarce food and clean water today, as the government...
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“After the Massive flooding that hit the West Africa and displaced a huge number of people, Morocco has decided to send an emergency humanitarian aid to Burkina...
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The only piece of furniture that survived the most recent flood in Fatou Dione’s house is her bed. It’s propped up on cinderblocks and hovers just above the...
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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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Everyday, people around the globe are threatened by storms, floods, droughts, landslides, earthquakes and other natural hazards and suffer because of their social,...
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We live in such voyeuristic times that it’s often difficult to feel anything anymore. Blasts. Floods. Torture. Terror. Every news piece is a story of victims of...
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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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As Hurricane Dolly batters the coasts of Texas and Mexico, it’s not the whipping winds that residents should be most worried about. It’s the water.
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The tragedies in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri have been terrible to watch on the news. I watched in horror, as towns and homes were flooded to almost the top of the...
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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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At least 63 people have already died in nine provinces in the south - China’s industrial heartland - this month, said the civil affairs ministry. It said 1.66...
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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...
