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Pakistan orders nearly half a million to evacuateThatta, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 27, 2010 Flood-ravaged Pakistan ordered nearly half a million people to evacuate towns Thursday as the United Nations vowed to forge ahead with relief operations despite threats against foreign aid workers. Torrential monsoon rains triggered massive floods affecting a fifth of the volatile country - an area roughly the size of England - where US officials have reported threats by the Taliban. But UN humanitarian chief John Holmes pledged relief operations would continue. "We will not be deterred fr ... read more |
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Missoula MT (SPX) Aug 26, 2010Earth has done an ecological about-face: Global plant productivity that once flourished under warming temperatures and a lengthened growing season is now on the decline, struck by the stress of drought. NASA-funded researchers Maosheng Zhao and Steven Running, of the University of Montana in Missoula, discovered the global shift during an analysis of NASA satellite data. Compared with a si ... more  
Saint-Gervais-Les-Bains, France (AFP) Aug 25, 2010French authorities set about draining a lake trapped beneath a glacier in the Mont Blanc Alpine range on Wednesday to protect thousands of people in the valley below from a flood. Workers toiled at an altitude of 3,200 metres (10,500 feet), pouring hot water on the ice to make a hole through which they will push a pump and start tapping off the water that has accumulated below one of the gla ... more  
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 23, 2010Erhard Diedrich, in charge of the building of the Inuvik satellite station, returned from Canada with his colleagues, a happy man. The inauguration on 10 August was not only moving, but also marked the end of a successful first checkout phase. Over 300 passes of data have been acquired since April this year, among them 60 from the TanDEM-X satellite. We acquired a first image over the Inuv ... more |
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Russian drought to slow economic recoveryMoscow (AFP) Aug 24, 2010 Russia's worst drought on record will take a substantial chunk out of growth and increase inflation risks just as the economy manages a fragile recovery after recession, an official said Tuesday. Deputy Economic Development Minister Andrei Klepach told reporters that the drought would cut at least 0.7-0.8 percentage points from 2010 growth, in the first official estimate of the cost of the disaster. The drought has destroyed one quarter of Russia's crops, leading the government to slap a controv ... read more |
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