A latest study has revealed that the mighty Indus River may lose 27 per cent of its flow by 2050. "Global warming is having a disastrous impact on the climate in Pakistan, especially on the Indus River, which stands...
It has been revealed that a a royal navy nuclear submarine from the UK had a leak of nuclear material on November 7, pouring liquid coolant into a river. Now questions are being raised as to why the Royal Navy kept quiet about the event."The Royal Navy is facing serious...
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Do you still think there is no such thing as Global Climate change? Here in California the truth is there for all to see."ON THE LYELL GLACIER – As melting water gushed off the ice in a tinseled maze of...
How do scientists know when to classify a species as extinct? Animals such as the Yangtze River Dolphin, the Christmas Island Shrew and the Venezuelan Skunk Frog are all extinct, or close to the brink of extinction,...
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The bizarre fall weather has continued in the UK, with a freak ice storm hitting the British town of Devon."Dozens of people, including a mother in labour, had to be rescued after a freak hailstorm left a Devon town cut off by floodwater.More than a foot of hail fell on...
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North Pacific. July 25, 2007.In the hours since the Cougar Ace rolled, the Coast Guard and Air National Guard have scrambled three helicopters from Anchorage and, in a daring rescue effort, plucked the entire 23-man...
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"SCIENTISTS have claimed a fearsome mutant fish has begun actively hunting people - after gorging itself on human corpses which have been dumped in rivers."
A three-judge panel has overturned the 2007 conviction of alleged Ku Klux Klan member James Ford Seale on a technicality. In the 20 page ruling that came down Tuesday, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed...
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The 315m-long ship squeezed through the Papenburg watergates and will debut in November as a U.S. cruise ship. The vessel cost 616 million euros with a 1,000seat theatre was helped by two tug-boats to squeeze through...
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A Mississippi snapping turtle caught in a British lake might at first seem just a strange story worth no further comment but the introduction of such alien species into the environment can have disasterous...
"The Haitians have a saying, “beyond mountains there are mountains,” meaning after each big obstacle stands another bigger obstacle. I saw the saying come to life in the town of Cabaret. It was my first trip to Haiti, a ninety minute plane ride from Miami. So close,...
A new I-35W bridge has opened in Minneapolis, 13 months after the last bridge collapsed into the Mississippi, killing 13 people and injuring 145. "Honking their horns and stirring up faint clouds of post-construction...
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Just keeping everyone up to date as Lake Okeechobee continues to dump east and west upsetting coastal residences and environmentalist. "By Ed Killer (Contact) Sunday, September 14, 2008 TROPICAL FARMS —...
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Hurricane Ike hit Haiti with torrential rains and sent floodwaters flowing into homes killiing at least 58 people. Reports also state that the flooding has also caused a bridge to collapse that was the last land...
After the worst flooding to his Northumberland in 50 years, a massive cleanup effort has begun in North England."More than 1,000 properties were affected, with Morpeth being hardest hit as about 400 people were moved...
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