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Global warming threatens Asian rice production: studyWashington (AFP) Aug 9, 2010 Even modest rises in global temperatures will drive down rice production in Asia, the world's biggest grower of the cereal grain that millions of poor people depend on as a staple food, a study published Monday warned. Researchers from the United States, the Philippines and the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) looked at the impact of rising daily minimum and maximum temperatures on irrigated rice production between 1994-1999 in 227 fields in China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines ... read more |
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Moscow (AFP) Aug 8, 2010"I would like to inform you about one more decision," Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told his cabinet at the end of a government meeting as he prepared to drop one of his trademark bombshells. Top wheat exporter Russia, Putin said, would from August 15 ban the export of grain until December 31 to keep prices down at home amid the worst drought to hit the country in decades. The an ... more  
Tori Band, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 8, 2010Fresh rains lashed flood-hit Pakistan Sunday, hampering aid efforts and threatening to deepen a crisis affecting 15 million people in the country's worst ever floods. Helicopters were grounded in the northwest while rescuers rushed to evacuate families in the poor southern farming belt of Sindh, where officials were readying for a deluge that could burst the banks of the swollen Indus river. ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 06, 2010New NASA airborne radar images of Southern California near the U.S.-Mexico border show Earth's surface is continuing to deform following the April 4 magnitude, 7.2 temblor and its many aftershocks that have rocked Mexico's state of Baja California and parts of the American Southwest. The data, from NASA's airborne Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), reveal that so ... more |
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Thousands flee as Pakistan floods spreadMehmood Kot, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 5, 2010 Thousands fled devastating floods in Pakistan on Thursday, wading through water or crammed into cars as officials warned that heavy rains threatened entire villages and that dams could burst. The United Nations rushed a top envoy to Pakistan to mobilise international support and address the urgent plight of 3.2 million people and up to 1,500 people killed by torrential monsoon rains across the volatile country. The humanitarian disaster is now into a second week and relief workers are scrambling ... read more |
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