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 Paris (AFP) Oct 13, 2009 
More than 100,000 people in northern Iraq have abandoned their homes since 2005 because of water stress, after drought and over-extraction of groundwater caused the collapse of an ancient water system, UNESCO said on Tuesday. "Drought and excessive well pumping have drawn down aquifer levels in the region, causing a dramatic decline of water flow in ancient underground aqueducts" known as ... read more 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 12, 2009This Envisat image captures Typhoon Melor spinning in the Pacific Ocean northeast of the Philippines on 6 October before slamming into the main Japanese island of Honshu on Thursday. As the typhoon approached Honshu, it was generating winds of 198 km/h, but weakened after making landfall. The strong winds associated with Melor have toppled trees and power lines, leaving some 10 000 homes ... 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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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 ... 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  
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 |
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Canberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 09, 2009Scientists from CSIRO's Water for a Healthy Country Flagship have removed approximately 90 per cent of Australia's vegetation cover from satellite images of the continent to produce the most detailed available Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of its topography. "The DEM will revolutionise geological applications, land-use studies, soil science, and much more," CSIRO's Dr John Gallant said in ... more 
Kok Karm, Thailand (AFP) Oct 8, 2009Using nothing but bamboo poles and remarkable ingenuity, one Thai villager succeeded in beating back the waves that had slowly engulfed his seaside community and robbed it of precious land. But now that heroic feat may be undone by a new foe -- the forces of climate change that are inexorably pushing up sea levels even as Thailand's vast Chao Phraya river delta, home to 25 million people ... more 
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 |
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