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Beavers blamed in deadly Poland floods: ministerWarsaw (AFP) May 25, 2010 Beavers who tunnel through vital defences protecting Polish cities are partly to blame for devastating floods that have swept the country killing 15 people, Poland's interior minister said Tuesday. "The greatest enemy of the flood defences is an animal called the beaver. They live everywhere along the levees on the Vistula (river) and cause a lot of damage to them," Jerzy Miller told reporters. An estimated 50,000 of the large, mostly nocturnal, semi-aquatic rodents live in Poland where they enj ... read more |
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Norman OK (SPX) May 21, 2010At the University of Oklahoma WATER Center, researchers are working to provide solutions in developing countries where clean, safe water is nonexistent. According to Center Director David Sabatini, 1 billion people in the world do not have a safe water supply, which leads to 2 million deaths a year. Located within OU's School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, the OU WATER Cen ... more  
West Lafayette IN (SPX) May 21, 2010Indiana and Illinois may experience severe droughts in the future, but they'll be few and far between, according to a Purdue University study. Keith Cherkauer, an assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and Vimal Mishra, Cherkauer's graduate student, used historical data from the National Climate Data Center to model the likelihood of future droughts in the two stat ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) May 20, 2010Scientists monitoring the US oil spill with ESA's Envisat radar satellite say that it has entered the Loop Current, a powerful conveyor belt that flows clockwise around the Gulf of Mexico towards Florida. "With these images from space, we have visible proof that at least oil from the surface of the water has reached the current," said Dr Bertrand Chapron of Ifremer, the French Research Ins ... more |
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Action to save Baltic Sea is lagging: WWFHelsinki (AFP) May 19, 2010 Action to save the Baltic Sea is lagging far behind schedule, environmental group WWF said Wednesday, a day before regional ministers are to meet on the protection of the highly polluted sea in Moscow. "Efforts by coastal states to implement the common programme of action for the Baltic Sea are well behind schedule and schedules are being pushed further forward," WWF said in a statement, citing a monitoring report it commissioned from Gaia Consulting. Even simple measures, like replacing phosph ... read more |
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