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Fears for motorists in flooded Madeira carparkFunchal, Portugal (AFP) Feb 22, 2010 For more than 30 hours, rescuers have pumped millions of litres of water and mud from an underground car park in Madeira's main town Funchal, fearing motorists were trapped there during flash floods that have devastated the Portuguese island. "There are people down there for sure. I escaped in time but I heard cries and saw people carried away by the waters," Norberto Vieira, a motorist whose car was still stuck in the Anadia shopping centre car park, told AFP Monday. Vieira had a lucky escape: ... read more |
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 18, 2010New analysis of the famous Murchison meteorite that crash-landed in Australia over 40 years ago has turned up a surprise for astronomers. The space rock, which is over 4.65 billion old, contains millions of previously unseen organic compounds. Maybe the seeds that started off life right here on planet Earth. The results of the meteorite study are published in the Proceedings of the National Acad ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 19, 2010For decades, climatologists have studied the gases and particles that have potential to alter Earth's climate. They have discovered and described certain airborne chemicals that can trap incoming sunlight and warm the climate, while others cool the planet by blocking the Sun's rays. Now a new study led by Nadine Unger of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City of ... more  
Manila (AFP) Feb 18, 2010The Philippines said Thursday that its farming industry could lose about 433 million dollars this year due a drought caused by the El Nino atmospheric phenomenon. The damage estimates range from eight to 20 billion pesos (173 to 433 million dollars), depending on whether El Nino will cause a prolonged dry spell or a short one, said agricultural undersecretary Joel Rudinas. Local governme ... more |
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Untethered cows may produce less milkOslo, Norway (UPI) Feb 16, 2009 Norwegian scientists say they've determined so-called "free-stall" untethered cows in small herds produce less milk than cows tied to their stalls. The scientists who compared performance and health within the two stall types found tethered cattle have a higher reproductive performance and suffer less teat injuries and metabolic diseases. The research was in response to a government ban on the construction of new tie-stalls. Egil Simensen from the Norwegian School of Veterinary Sc ... read more |
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