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Deadly rainstorms paralyze Sao PauloSao Paulo (AFP) Dec 8, 2009 Heavy rain brought Brazil's biggest city of Sao Paulo grinding to a halt on Tuesday and reportedly claimed the lives of six people in landslides. The bodies of four brothers aged five to 20 were recovered by firemen from a house that crumbled apart in one landslide in a northwestern suburb, CBN radio, Globo Television and the Terra news website all said. Reports also said two more people ... read more |
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Manoa HI (SPX) Dec 09, 2009An international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have found no evidence supporting an extraterrestrial impact event at the onset of the Younger Dryas ~13000 years ago. The Younger Dryas is an abrupt cooling event in Earth's history. It coincided with the extinction of many large mammals including the woolly mammoth, the saber toothed jaguar and ... more 
Greenebelt MD (SPX) Dec 08, 2009The Geminids are one of the best meteor showers of the year and never seem to disappoint observers! Join Bill Cooke of the Meteoroid Environment Office, located at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, in a live web chat on Friday, December 11 from 3:00-4:00 EST to learn more about the Geminids meteor shower. This meteor shower gets the name "Geminids" because it appears to radiate from the ... more  
Mumbai (AFP) Dec 7, 2009India's giant Tata Group on Monday unveiled a new low-cost water purifier, hoping to do for health what it did for motoring and provide affordable, safe drinking water for millions and cut disease. The Tata Swach -- named after the Hindi for "clean" -- is designed to be used in poor, rural households that have no electricity or running water, using ash from rice milling to filter out ... more |
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  Feds set up online help for farmers   More bodies found as Saudi flood death toll rises to 116   ESA To Attend COP15 Climate Conference |
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Washington DC (SPX) Dec 07, 2009NOAA officially deactivated its Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-10 after 12 years of service. GOES-10 tracked some of the most memorable tropical cyclones in history, including Hurricane Mitch, which devastated parts of Central America in 1998; and Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged the Gulf Coast in 2005. NOAA anticipated the end of service for several months and began ... more 
Los Banos, Philippines (AFP) Dec 5, 2009Asian rice farmers typically do not fly around the world on holidays or own big-engine cars but scientists say they have an important role to play in helping cut the world's output of greenhouse gases. While much of the globe's focus in the climate change fight is on the burning of fossil fuels and the logging of rainforests, water-logged rice paddies are also a major source of global ... more 
Kathmandu (AFP) Dec 6, 2009More than a billion people in Asia depend on Himalayan glaciers for water, but experts say they are melting at an alarming rate, threatening to bring drought to large swathes of the continent. Glaciers in the Himalayas, a 2,400-kilometre (1,500-mile) range that sweeps through Pakistan, India, China, Nepal and Bhutan, provide headwaters for Asia's nine largest rivers, lifelines for the 1.3 ... more |
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 Climate change has silver lining for England's vineyards  From rice to rags in heart of Iraq's parched breadbasket   Mars Meteorite Debate Continues |
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