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Copenhagen "Climate Talks Are Last Chance To Avoid Catastrophe"Says UK Prime Minister »
Posted by: Mikunited 3 weeks, 2 days ago in Political News
Pact to cut greenhouse gas emissions cannot be delayed, says PM
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El Nino Is Back Spreading Havoc »
Posted by: Mikunited 4 months ago in Science & Technology
El Niño, the warming of the Pacific Ocean that creates chaos in global weather patterns, is on its way back, threatening droughts, floods, crop ...
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Cleanup continues, shots administered in E.Ky. »
Posted by: STONERS 6 months ago in News
As cleanup efforts continued Monday across Pike and other Eastern Kentucky counties, schools were closed and tetanus shots were offered.
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Tuvan Throat Singers: Huun Huur Tu at Philadelphia Folk Festival, August 2006 »
Posted by: gamahuche 8 months, 4 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
Just heard them on the BBC - a trip down memory lane.
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They came to play a gig in Prague in 2002 in a club which ...Read (270) | Share | Discuss (4) | Read Full Story at youtube.com
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Storm-Fed Floods Hit Kentucky, Indiana »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 3 months, 1 week ago in News
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Aug. 4) -- Heavy thunderstorms fed floods in Kentucky and Indiana on Tuesday, shutting down a university campus in Louisville, closing highways and cutting ...
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BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | Rain floods London Tube stations »
Posted by: ConquistadorForLife 4 months, 1 week ago in News
A number of London Underground stations are closed due to flooding after heavy thunderstorms.
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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Dozens dead in Philippine floods »
Posted by: kelvinlls 1 month, 2 weeks ago in News
At least 50 people have been killed and thousands more evacuated as floods caused by heavy rain brought chaos to the Philippines, officials say.
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Officials: 5 Houston Children Dead in Swamped Car »
Posted by: WikiMap 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Five Houston children died after their sedan slid into a rain-swollen ditch when the driver lost control while trying to answer a cell phone, authorities ...
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Climate Change Found To Have Paradoxical Effects In Coastal Wetlands »
Posted by: myfairlady 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide is largely responsible for recent global warming and the rise in sea levels. However, a team of scientists, including two Smithsonian ...
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350,000 displaced by floods in West Africa - CNN.com »
Posted by: travelcn 2 months, 1 week ago in News
At least 30 people were killed and 350,000 displaced when torrential rains soaked much of West Africa, the United Nations said Friday.
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Snorkel rice could feed millions »
Posted by: skhosla 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
A new "super" rice plant is developed which grows "snorkels" when exposed to floods, Nature journal reports.
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Manitoba workers battle flooding, exhaustion »
Posted by: ELISHEVA1 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
The mayor of a flood-fighting Manitoba town is calling on all able-bodied residents to come out and lend a hand as rising waters threaten more ...
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Dramatic Rise In Sea Level And Its Broad Ramifications Uncovered »
Posted by: myfairlady 9 months ago in Science & Technology
Scientists have found proof in Bermuda that the planet’s sea level was once more than 21 meters (70 feet) higher about 400,000 years ...
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Southeast floods block highways; toll rises to 8 - Yahoo! News »
Posted by: padmaja_ch 1 month, 2 weeks ago in News
Washed-out roads and flooded interstate highways around Atlanta added to the misery Tuesday after days of torrential rain in the Southeast that claimed at least ...
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Flood-born disease kills 89 | PerthNow »
Posted by: hoo1live 3 weeks, 5 days ago in News
MASSIVE floods brought by powerful storms have caused an outbreak of the deadly disease leptospirosis, which has claimed 89 lives in the Philippine capital alone ...
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