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Water submerges Pakistani tourist town, hurts China tradeGulmit, Pakistan (AFP) May 17, 2010 Panicked people took everything they could carry, even doors and windows, as a lake threatened to flood dozens of villages in northern Pakistan, officials and witnesses said Monday. The lake emerged on January 4 as a result of a massive landslide that killed 20, left about 25,000 people stranded and blocked Hunza river in a remote Himalayan region about 750 kilometres (450 miles) north of Islamabad. Water from the lake has submerged parts of Gulmit, a tourist resort on the main Karakoram Highway ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) May 13, 2010An advanced JPL-built optical sensor flying aboard a NASA research aircraft is among several NASA remote-sensing assets being mobilized to help assess the spread and impact of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico at the request of U.S. disaster response agencies. As part of the national response to the spill and at the request of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adm ... more  
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) May 12, 2010Officials in Louisiana on Wednesday reopened a small stretch of the state's coastal fishing grounds that did not appear under immediate threat from the Gulf of Mexico oil slick. Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham announced that seas off Grand Isle, reaching westward from the Empire Canal near the mouth of the Mississippi River to Belle Pass, were open again for recreational and c ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) May 13, 2010Using herbicides to sterilize rather than to kill weedy grasses might be a more economical and environmentally sound weed control strategy, according to a study by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and a cooperator. Rangeland ecologist Matt Rinella at the ARS Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory in Miles City, Mont., conducted the study with colleagues at Miles C ... more |
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New vineyard to soothe Sark's grapes of wrathSark, Channel Islands (AFP) May 12, 2010 A windswept isle in the English channel might not seem the place for a world quality vineyard, yet a project to produce the finest of tipples is underway thanks to funds from the reclusive billionaire Barclay brothers. "I was walking around the island and I just thought we could do this," Henry Strachey, a former fine art dealer and a determined oenophile, told AFP. "We're producing a lot of good, successful wine in England now, so why not here?" he said of the island of 600 people where cars ar ... read more |
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