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Warsaw braces for flood, Slovakia and Hungary reelWarsaw (AFP) June 7, 2010 Warsaw braced Monday for a new flood crest on the mighty Vistula river, as Budapest sandbagged its tourist quarter against the swollen Danube and Slovakia reeled from its worst flood in centuries. Heavy rains pounding central and eastern Europe have broken defences all along the Vistula, Poland's largest river which winds from the mountainous south to the Baltic Sea in the north, causing weeks of flooding. The crest, or high point of the flood, is moving north and is forecast to surge into the P ... read more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 03, 2010Debuting in spring 2010, the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) is the new name for a Goddard Space Flight Center organization that has provided supercomputing resources to NASA scientists and engineers for over 25 years. "Computation here at Goddard is primarily to create datasets and make them available for science researchers around the world," said Phil Webster, chief of Goddard ... more  
Ottawa (AFP) June 2, 2010Canada's major supermarket chains won unusual praise from Greenpeace on Wednesday for starting to rid their shelves of "destructively fished or farmed" seafood. In a report, Greenpeace ranked eight major grocery chains on their efforts to help improve the sustainability of the seafood they buy and sell. It said that "following pressure by environmental organizations and the public," reta ... more  
Berlin (UPI) Jun 2, 2010 Experts meeting in Berlin have urged for international cooperation to save the Aral Sea in Central Asia, which, in one of the most severe man-made ecological disasters, has lost nearly 90 percent of its water since the 1950s. "The drying-out of the Aral Sea is a worldwide symbol for increasing desertification that is sped up by climate change," said Olaf Tschimpke, the president of Germ ... more |
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Forest, agricultural fires threaten the Arctic: reportOslo (AFP) June 1, 2010 Forest fires and straw and stubble burning for farmland in regions as far afield as North America and Eastern Europe have a devastating effect on the Arctic's environment, a Norwegian study published Tuesday found. According to the study published by the Research Council of Norway, fires in North America and Eastern Europe release persistent organic pollutants (POPs), including the toxic compound polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB). These POPs, which are the result of accumulated pollution and have b ... read more |
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