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China faces worst floods in 12 yearsBeijing (AFP) July 15, 2010 China could be facing the worst floods in more than a decade if rains continue to drench the Yangtze river region, an official said Thursday, as a major tropical storm threatens the southern coast. The situation along the nation's longest waterway was at a "critical point", Wang Jingquan, head of the flood control office at the Yangtze River Water Resources Commission, told AFP. "If heavy rain hits the upper reaches of the river, the Yangtze River basin could suffer from flooding similar to 1998 ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jul 12, 2010NASA-funded researchers monitoring Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier report that a 7 square kilometer (2.7 square mile) section of the glacier broke up on July 6 and 7. The calving front - where the ice sheet meets the ocean - retreated nearly 1.5 kilometers (a mile) in one day and is now further inland than at any time previously observed. The chunk of lost ice is roughly one-eighth t ... more  
St. Louis MO (SPX) Jul 12, 2010Anyone who has seen teosinte, the wild grass from which maize (corn) evolved, might be forgiven for assuming many genetic changes underlie the transformation of one plant to the other. However, a method for exploring the genetics of domestication called Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) mapping has revealed that only modest modifications are needed to convert a wild plant to a crop plant. Som ... more 
Washington (AFP) July 9, 2010Google's "Street View" cars will return to the road next week but all wireless scanning equipment has been removed after a controversy over the collection of private information. Google said Friday that the camera-equipped cars, which drive around taking photographs for the Internet giant's free online mapping service, would resume operating in four countries next week and in others later. ... more |
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Haitian farmers reaping hard times as hunger growsCariyes, Haiti (AFP) July 9, 2010 In Haiti's rocky northern hills, Joseph Jean has planted seeds donated by a US aid group Trees for The Future hoping to reverse the deforestation that has washed away soil and impoverished farmers. Jean's field barely feeds his family and he has had to take a teaching job to make ends meet. Some aid does reach often forgotten rural communities, far from the capital of Port-au-Prince, but Haitian farmers need more, he argued. He pointed to a broken pipe that runs next to his house. Built under th ... read more |
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