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China mudslide rescue hopes fade as toll tops 700Zhouqu, China (AFP) Aug 11, 2010 Hopes of finding survivors of China's worst mudslides in decades faded Wednesday as the death toll topped 700, with more than 1,000 people still missing under an avalanche of rock and sludge. More than 10,000 soldiers and rescuers combed through the mountains of mud that buried a remote area of the northwest province of Gansu at the weekend, but 72 hours after the disaster, the window of survival was quickly closing. Authorities were increasingly focused on relief efforts, with hundreds of medic ... read more |
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Tori Band, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 9, 2010Landslides raised the death toll in flood-hit Pakistan on Sunday, cutting off roads and hampering aid efforts as rescuers battled to beat rains exacerbating the country's worst ever floods. Washed-out roads in the northwest made ground access to many of the 15 million flood victims impossible and many helicopters were unable to fly as heavy rains persisted, cutting off the entire Swat valley ... more 
Seoul (AFP) Aug 8, 2010Floods caused by torrential rain have washed away homes, roads, railways and farmland in North Korea, state media said Sunday, without giving a casualty toll. "Water damage restoration work is underway in... areas struck by continuing torrential rain," the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported, adding authorities were holding emergency meetings on aid for those affected. Th ... more  
Saint Petersburg (AFP) Aug 7, 2010A leading crop diversity group Saturday sounded the alarm over plans by real estate developers in Russia to destroy one of the world's most valuable crop collections. The Global Crop Diversity Trust said real estate developers were planning to build houses on land occupied by the Pavlovsk Station, whose hundreds of hectares of fields house Europe's largest field fruits and berries genebank. ... more |
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NASA Images Show Continuing Mexico Quake DeformationPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 06, 2010 New 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 some faults in the area west of Calexico, Calif., have continued to move at Earth's surface, most likely in the ... read more |
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