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African lake warmest in 1,500 yearsProvidence, R.I. (UPI) Jul 21, 2010 Africa's Lake Tanganyika, the second-oldest and second-deepest lake on Earth, is warmer now than it has been in 1,500 years, scientists say. Experiencing unprecedented warming during the last century, the lake's surface waters are the warmest on record, LiveScience.com reported Wednesday. The warmer waters are linked to a decrease in the lake's productivity, affecting fish stocks depended upon by millions of people in the region, researchers say. Rift lakes like Tanganyika are cre ... read more |
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Rome (AFP) July 19, 2010Relief is in sight for African farmers struggling to fend off ravenous elephants and other wildlife looking for a free lunch in their fields, the UN food agency said Monday. "To the family concerned, the loss of a patch of maize to raiding elephants can mean the loss of their food supply for a year, the difference between self-sufficiency and being destitute," the Food and Agriculture Organi ... more  
Singapore (AFP) July 19, 2010The Singapore government vowed Monday to improve drainage and step up alert systems after parts of the city-state were hit by flash floods over the weekend, damaging homes and businesses. Yaacob Ibrahim, the environment and water resources minister, told parliament it was "unrealistic" to expect Singapore to be completely flood-free but said the government would review major drainage systems ... more  
Nicosia (AFP) July 19, 2010Turkey signed an agreement Monday with the the breakaway Turkish statelet in Cyprus on a long-standing project to build a pipeline under the Mediterranean to supply water to the island's north. The framework agreement envisages pumping 75 million cubic metres of water a year to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) through a conduit running from Mersin on Turkey's Mediterranean coas ... more |
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A Puzzling Collapse Of Earth's Upper AtmosphereHuntsville AL (SPX) Jul 16, 2010 NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet's atmosphere. High above Earth's surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called "the thermosphere" recently collapsed and now is rebounding again. "This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years," says John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab, lead author of a paper announcing the finding in the June 19th issue of the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). "It's a Space Age record." ... read more |
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