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Flood-hit Madeira hunts for 13 missingFunchal, Portugal (AFP) Feb 23, 2010 Divers and sniffer-dog teams mounted a last-ditch effort in Madeira on Tuesday to track down 13 people missing and feared dead following flash floods on the Portuguese tourist island. Killer mudslides ripped through the Atlantic island at the weekend, claiming 42 lives as they gutted buildings and overturned cars with the top regional official warning the final death toll could rise "dramatically". The island's regional government on Tuesday revised the number of missing down from 32 to 13, with ... read more |
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West Lafayette IN (SPX) Feb 22, 2010Several Midwestern states could be facing increased winter and spring flooding, as well as difficult growing conditions on farms, if average temperatures rise, according to a Purdue University researcher. Keith Cherkauer, an assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering, ran simulation models that show Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan could see as much as 28 perce ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Feb 21, 2010China has boosted the price it pays for rice by up to 10 percent this year to encourage farmers to plant more and increase production, state media said Sunday. China's economic planning agency set the minimum purchase price for short grain rice at 105 yuan (about 15 dollars) for every 50 kilograms, a 10.5 percent rise over last year, the People's Daily said. The lowest price to be paid b ... more  
Funchal, Portugal (AFP) Feb 21, 2010Troops and rescuers dug through mud-filled houses and streets on Portugal's tourist island of Madeira Sunday after flash floods unleashed brown torrents that killed at least 42 people. The government in Lisbon rushed medical teams, rescuers, divers and relief supplies to the Atlantic island. But morgue pathologists also sent a grim warning that more bodies would be found in the mud that swep ... more |
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Road Transport Key Driver In Global WarmingGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 19, 2010 For 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 offers a more intuitive way to understand what's changing the Earth's climate. Rather than analyzing impacts by ... read more |
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