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Nine dead in Poland floods, high-water reaches WarsawWarsaw (AFP) May 21, 2010 The death toll from floods which have swept Poland for the past week rose to nine on Friday, officials said, as the waters which have battered the south finally reached the capital Warsaw. "Nine people have died, and three are missing. The latest victim was a 70-year-old man who drowned in his house in Tarnobrzeg," national rescue service spokesman Pawel Fratczak told AFP, referring to a town in the southeast. Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday presented parliament with a report on the floods ... read more |
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 19, 2010Tiny variations in the isotopic composition of silver in meteorites and Earth rocks are helping scientists put together a timetable of how our planet was assembled beginning 4.568 billion years ago. The new study, published in the journal Science, indicates that water and other key volatiles may have been present in at least some of Earth's original building blocks, rather than acquired la ... more  
Hampton VA (SPX) May 19, 2010The air we breathe doesn't always come from our own backyard. In fact, sometimes it doesn't even come from our neighbors. On April 22, 2010, a NASA satellite captured the appearance of a large dust cloud over the eastern coast of United States that originated on the other side of the world - in China. "Dust can stimulate the production of more clouds, altering local weather and potentially ... more 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 19, 2010The first tropical storm of the Northern Indian Ocean cyclone season has formed and NASA's Aqua satellite captured its birth. Tropical Storm 1B formed in the early morning hours as the convection around the low level circulation center increased since May 17. NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of 1B from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) at 7:25 UTC (12: ... more |
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US bans more Gulf fishing as oil fears grow for FloridaNew Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) May 18, 2010 The United States Tuesday closed off a large chunk of the Gulf of Mexico to fishing as fears a giant oil slick could be swept to Florida's beaches and coral reefs overshadowed progress in stemming the spill. The cautionary closure, totaling 45,728 square miles (118,530 kilometers) - around 19 percent of the Gulf's federal waters - was announced as politicians in Washington raged over the apparent lax safety standards enforcement and grilled government officials over what went wrong. The chief ... read more |
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