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Pakistan flood toll tops 1,100 as cholera emergesPeshawar, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 1, 2010 The death toll from Pakistan's worst floods in living memory topped 1,100 on Sunday as outbreaks of water-borne disease emerged and penniless survivors sought refuge from the raging torrents. More than 1.5 million people have been affected by monsoon rains, flash floods and landslides in the northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and at least another 47 have died in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, officials said. Thousands of homes and vast swathes of farmland have been destroyed in a region ... read more |
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Madison WI (SPX) Jul 27, 2010NASA scientists improved watershed pollution monitoring models by incorporating satellite and ground-based observations of precipitation. The NASA data replaces weather station observations, and will allow states to monitor non-point pollution and improve water quality. The research team, led by Joseph Nigro of Science Systems and Applications, Inc., incorporated two NASA products into a c ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 26, 2010Antarctica may not be the world's largest landmass - it's the fifth-largest continent - but resting on top of that land is the world's largest ice sheet. That ice holds more than 60 percent of Earth's fresh water and carries the potential to significantly raise sea level. The continent is losing ice to the sea, and scientists want to know how much. Antarctica's ice generally flows from the ... more  
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 26, 2010Researchers have aged dated a very important group of meteorites with far greater precision than previously possible by using a different type of radioactive dating on a particularly difficult type of specimen to study. The project found that the asteroid from which ureilite meteorites are derived differentiated - or separated into parts of different composition - within 5 million years of ... more |
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Using Oilseedrape And Sunflower Oils To Produce Fuel And Feed For HerdsMadrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 27, 2010 The oil extracted from oleaginous plants can be used as a fuel for agricultural vehicles without any reduction in their performance - thus enabling farmers to have greater energy self-sufficiency. Besides this, a sub-product known as oilseedcake is extracted, and which is optimum fodder for animal herds, given its significant protein and fatty acids content. The Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development -Neiker-Tecnalia- is investigating of the use of the oil for fuel and the stor ... read more |
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