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Taiwan fishermen fall victim to climate change: reportTaipei (AFP) Dec 13, 2009 The haul of grey mullets Taiwan fishermen catch each year has plunged from a peak of 2.7 million 10 years ago to just 100,000 in a worrying sign of damaging climate change, it was reported Sunday. Fishermen on the west of the island used to look forward to the winter when cold currents from north Asia would bring huge shoals of mullets to the Taiwan Straits to lay eggs. Over the past few ... read more |
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Shanghai (AFP) Dec 10, 2009The price of garlic has shot up 40-fold this year in China, the world's largest producer of the plant, in part due to an unexpected factor -- a popular belief that it can help ward off swine flu. Garlic has outperformed stocks, property and even gold after low demand due to the financial crisis late last year led Chinese farmers -- responsible for about three-quarters of world supply -- to p ... more  
Sydney (AFP) Dec 10, 2009More than 120 wildfires fanned by high winds and soaring temperatures raged in southeastern Australia Thursday, prompting emergency warnings for several towns, officials said. Some 2,000 firefighters tackled the fires in New South Wales, where a large blaze was burning dangerously close to farming properties in the state's northwest. "A fire is burning in very high fire-danger conditions ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Dec 9, 2009China will resettle at least 440,000 people to make way for a massive and much-delayed project aimed at diverting water to meet growing demand in the parched north, state media said Wednesday. Authorities will move around 100,000 residents a year to allow construction of the South-to-North Water Diversion project, the Beijing News said, which aims to divert water from a tributary of the ... more |
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  Copenhagen hosts alternative climate summit   The 2009 Geminid Meteor Shower   NASA Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Passes Major Review |
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Sao Paulo (AFP) Dec 8, 2009Heavy 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 ... more 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Dec 09, 2009An international group of anthropologists offers a new theory about the diffusion of maize to the Southwestern United States and the impact it had. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study, co-authored by Gayle Fritz, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and colleagues, suggests that maize was passed ... more 
Washington (UPI) Dec 8, 2009 Millions of people in the United States have been exposed to unsafe drinking water over the past five years, records suggest. The New York Times says a review of regulatory records shows more than 20 percent of U.S. water treatment systems have violated the Safe Drinking Water Act since 2004 but less than six percent of those water systems have been fined or punished by state and ... more |
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