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Water crisis in Trinidad: authoritiesPort Of Spain (AFP) March 30, 2010 Trinidad and Tobago is facing a crisis in its ongoing water shortage, with consumption levels recklessly high, authorities warned Tuesday. The Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) cautioned that at current consumption levels, water will not last until the end of the dry season in June. Despite strict water restrictions on citizens, water levels "are dropping at an unprecedented level in the nation's reservoirs," WASA's Corporate Communications Manager Ellen Lewis told AFP. Levels at the natio ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2010New NASA measurements of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, part of the global ocean conveyor belt that helps regulate climate around the North Atlantic, show no significant slowing over the past 15 years. The data suggest the circulation may have even sped up slightly in the recent past. The findings are the result of a new monitoring technique, developed by oceanographer Jo ... more  
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 29, 2010CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology have developed a new data transfer format which enables the Bureau to produce a clearer picture of Australia's water resources Developed jointly by CSIRO's Water for a Healthy Country Flagship and the Bureau's Water Division, the Water Data Transfer Format (WDTF) provides the Bureau with the means to more efficiently collect and process the 6 million dat ... more  
College Park MD (SPX) Mar 29, 2010Twenty years of field studies reveal that as the Earth has gotten warmer, plants and microbes in the soil have given off more carbon dioxide. So-called soil respiration has increased about one-tenth of 1 percent per year since 1989, according to an analysis of past studies in Nature. The scientists also calculated the total amount of carbon dioxide flowing from soils, which is about 10-15 ... more |
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Chile tsunami costs Japanese fisheries 68 million dollarsTokyo (AFP) March 27, 2010 The Pacific-wide tsunami generated by the massive undersea earthquake off Chile's coast last month caused 68 million dollars of damage to Japan's fishing industry, a report said Saturday. Scallop, oyster and seaweed farms off the northeast coast of Japan were hit when waves up to 1.45 metres high smashed into Japan following the quake thousands of kilometres (miles) away. More than six billion yen of damage was caused to the facilities, Kyodo News reported, citing fisheries industry officials. ... read more |
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