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Pakistan evacuates thousands in flooded southKarachi (AFP) Aug 22, 2010 Pakistani authorities Sunday evacuated tens of thousands from flood-threatened areas in the south but insisted that the 2.5 million people of Hyderabad were safe from the nation's worst-ever inundation. The weak civilian government has faced an outpouring of fury over sluggish relief efforts, while officials are warning the country faces ruinous economic losses of up to 43 billion dollars, ahead of IMF talks this week. The month-long floods have killed 1,500 people and affected up to 20 million ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Aug 19, 2010With the Central Pacific well within reach, SES WORLD SKIES has announced that The Nature Conservancy has secured capacity on its NSS-9 satellite to link researchers studying the Palmyra reef islands with the outside world. Located 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, remote Palmyra Atoll is a National Wildlife Refuge and part of the recently-designated Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monum ... more  
Baquba, Iraq (AFP) Aug 18, 2010Three farmers were killed and leaflets pinned to their bodies Wednesday, warning against cooperation with American and Iraqi forces in a brutal act of intimidation as thousands of US troops leave. The attack came a day after a suicide bombing at an army recruitment centre in Baghdad killed 59 people, most of them prospective soldiers, in the bloodiest attack in Iraq this year. The violen ... more  
Victoria, Australia (SPX) Aug 19, 2010A collaborative agreement between CSIRO and two German organisations is providing Australian food companies with access to a new processing technology which uses low-energy electron beams rather than heat or chemicals to decontaminate food. The agreement - with the internationally respected Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology and service company, EVONTA-Service Gmb ... more |
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Arsenic In Field Runoff Linked To Poultry LitterMadison WI (SPX) Aug 19, 2010 Fields amended with poultry litter can accumulate significant levels of arsenic, according to studies by USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and associates. These findings provide key information about the agricultural pollutants that can build up in agricultural soils over time-and possibly migrate into nearby streams and rivers. Poultry producers have sometimes supplemented chicken feed with roxarsone, a compound containing arsenic, to control parasites and promote weight gain. M ... read more |
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