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Latest China mudslides leave 14 dead, dozens missingBeijing (AFP) Aug 19, 2010 Mudslides in a remote area of southwest China have killed 14 people and left dozens missing, state media said Thursday, while a train derailed in another flood-hit area, sending two carriages into a river. The incidents in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces came as China battles its worst floods in a decade, triggered by heavy rains across wide swathes of the country, leaving thousands dead or missing and at least 12 million evacuated. In Yunnan, more than 1,100 rescuers raced to find survivors buried ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) Aug 18, 2010More than 60 people went missing after torrents of mud slammed into homes in southwest China Wednesday as they slept, in the nation's latest disaster as it battles its worst flooding in a decade. Power and communication lines were cut to Puladi township in Yunnan province, where the mudslides struck in the early hours, a provincial government official said. Rescuers have been sent to the ... more  
Moscow (AFP) Aug 18, 2010Food prices in Russia, especially of grain-based products like bread, jumped over the last week as the effects of a record heatwave and drought fed into the economy, statistics said Wednesday. State statistics organisation Rosstat said inflation for the week August 10-August 16 was 0.2 percent and 0.4 percent since the start of the month, considerably highter than the rate before the heatwav ... more  
London, UK (SPX) Aug 17, 2010From 14 - 25 August 2010, scientists from around the world will gather in Southern Turkey to measure the spectral reflectance of a few square kilometres of salt. These measurements will have a major impact on the future of satellite based Earth observation, and will ultimately improve our understanding of the Earth's climate. For ten months of the year Tuz Golu (Lake Tuz) in southern Turke ... more |
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TanDEM-X Answers Its First Call For Crisis AssistanceBonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 17, 2010 Satellite data is an indispensable tool for quickly assessment of the situation in cases of natural or environmental disasters and for guiding emergency teams on ground. DLR's 'Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information' and many other international organizations have been using the German radar satellite TerraSAR-X for three years to rapidly obtain reliable data in all weather conditions for such crisis situations. Now, our new satellite, TanDEM-X, has also provided assistance for the first ti ... read more |
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