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Floods soak northeastern USNew York (AFP) March 31, 2010 The worst floods in decades washed over large areas of the northeastern United States on Thursday as authorities mobilized emergency services to brace for more to come. In one of the worst hit states, Rhode Island, Governor Donald Carcieri told all non-essential government employees to stay at home Wednesday, recommending that businesses, schools and local government buildings also close. Government officials said that flooding, which started on Monday, was the worst in Rhode Island since 1955. ... read more |
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Qixingcun, China (AFP) March 29, 2010Peasant farmer Dong Guicheng wakes up every morning hoping for rain, but each day a crippling drought instead brings more disappointment and desperation. In a scene repeated by millions of people in a vast area of China's parched southwest, Dong treks daily to a dwindling reservoir to fetch scarce water for his walnut and chestnut trees, which have seen almost no rain for half a year. Hi ... more  
Boston MA (SPX) Mar 30, 2010A new approach to desalination being developed by researchers at MIT and in Korea could lead to small, portable desalination units that could be powered by solar cells or batteries and could deliver enough fresh water to supply the needs of a family or small village. As an added bonus, the system would also remove many contaminants, viruses and bacteria at the same time. The new approach, ... more  
Schriever AFB CO (AFNS) Mar 29, 2010Through the years, the Global Positioning System has become one of the most widely-used Air Force applications. Today GPS is used in everything from farming and aviation to public safety, disaster relief and recreation, not to mention its military purpose of providing precision navigation and timing to combat forces. This dependence requires a keen focus on maintaining and modernizing the ... more |
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Even Soil Feels The HeatCollege Park MD (SPX) Mar 29, 2010 Twenty 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 percent higher than previous measurements. That number - about 98 petagrams of carbon a year (or 98 billion me ... read more |
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