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 Cambridge, Mass. (UPI) Oct 12, 2009 
Two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they were able to take photographs of the Earth from space using a camera and a balloon. The Boston Globe said Monday MIT students Oliver Yeh and Justin Lee were able to use a digital camera to take photos from 17.5 miles up in the atmosphere by placing the device inside a Styrofoam cooler attached to a helium-filled weather ... read more 
Astana, Kazakhstan (UPI) Oct 12, 2009 From aboard a space station a red-nosed clown has called to protect the world's scarce drinking water resources. Guy Laliberte, the Canadian circus tycoon, on Sept. 30 boarded a Russian Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft to rocket into space with his red clown's nose and a pledge to bring attention to water issues. On Sunday, the clown and three astronauts landed safely in the Kazakh steppe after ... more
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Prisoners used to shovel snow-bound US capital
Heavy rain, snow disrupts transport in Spain Washington slaps fee on plastic shopping bags Vietnam says parched Red River at record low Philippine volcano darkens New Year for 50,000 villagers Shocked residents survey Australia wildfire wreckage Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Residents flee terrifying Australian wildfires Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax Thrill-seeking tourists flock to Philippine volcano 
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Rome (UPI) Oct 9, 2009 Global rice stockpiles have plummeted because of poor crop yields, raising fears of upheaval in international grain markets ahead of the World Food Summit in the Italian capital next month. Sharp increases in rice prices since last year have hit consumers across the world, especially in Asia and the Americas, the Food and Agriculture Organization said. Whole communities depend on the gr ... more 
The Hague (AFP) Oct 9, 2009The Dutch cabinet gave the green light Friday to flood a 320-hectare piece of farmland reclaimed from the sea to allow the enlargement of the port of Antwerp in neighbouring Belgium. "We have decided to opt for flooding" of the Western Scheldt estuary, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende told journalists in The Hague after a weekly cabinet meeting. "We have tried everything to find ... more 
Lobira Boma (AFP) Oct 11, 2009In a rustic village at the foot of a steep mountain, women prepare meals by crushing dried grasses, all there is to eat after drought left over a million people in south Sudan short of food. "You soak the herbs in water, and then eat. This is what we eat every day," said Juspine Ifuho, showing the fine green powder collected from a hollow in the rock she uses as a mortar. At the edge of ... more |
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Nieuw-Namen, Netherlands (AFP) Oct 8, 2009It's the classic Dutch battle, land vs. sea, fought for centuries in low-lying Zeeland province by proud farmers now aghast at government plans to surrender to the "enemy" and flood their fields. "Look how beautiful it is, one cannot destroy that," Ewald Baecke, a 66-year-old a farmer in Nieuw-Namen, said incredulously -- pointing to the poplar trees lining the dyke that shields vast fields ... more  
Raichur, India (AFP) Oct 8, 2009Survivors of flash floods that killed more than 300 people in southern India began to return home Thursday to discover what was left of their houses and belongings. Close to 1.5 million residents of the states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra were displaced by days of heavy rains, according to government figures. Aid workers said water had receded enough in many areas for the ... more 
Manila (AFP) Oct 8, 2009Lying on a bamboo bed with the sickening smell of rotten garbage wafting through a tiny window at a Philippine evacuation camp, a weary Marites Gural gave birth to her sixth child on Thursday. After nearly six hours of labour, Gural delivered a 2.9-kilogramme (6.5-pound) boy her husband named King Louie, to give the boy from a sprawling Manila slum an air of royalty. "Thank you, thank ... more |
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