200,000 killed in Haiti quake, says premier
More than 200,000 people were killed in the January 12 earthquake that hit Haiti, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said yesterday. Mr Bellerive said 300,000 people were injured in the disaster, including 4,000 amputees. Previous estimates from the Haitian government had put the toll between 150,000 and 200,000 dead. Meanwhile, the United Nations yesterday assigned former US President Bill Clinton, now UN special envoy to Haiti, to coordinate international relief efforts in the earthquake-devastated country. Mr Clinton will seek to organise a mass of aid initiatives and offers that have poured in since the quake. In another development, US and Haitian governments are holding ...
Cyber fraudsters attack EU’s carbon trading system
Online fraudsters have carried out a "widepread" cyber attack on the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the EU commission said Thursday, promising a security review. The scam involved fake emails asking users of the carbon trading registries to log on to a malicious website and disclose their user identification code and password, the commission said. With this data the cyber attackers could carry out fraudulent transactions at their victims' expense, for example by stealing carbon emissions trading certificates. "Some fraudulent transactions were carried out," but the security of the Community Registry and transaction log "has not been compromised," the EU executive assured. The ...
Earthquakes continue to rumble underneath Yellowstone
GOLDEN - For three weeks, 9NEWS has been telling you about earthquakes under Yellowstone National Park. It is one of the most intense quake swarms ever recorded in the park's history and it still shows no sign of slowing down. In fact, the activity increased during a six-hour period last night. During that time, two quakes, both nearly magnitude 3's happened within a few minutes of each other. Since the quake swarm started on Jan. 17, there have been more than 1,700 tremors recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden. Yellowstone is the site of at least three super ...
Australia: Monckton blasts unconstitutional ETS
Visiting British climate change commentator Christopher Monckton has attacked the Federal Government's emissions trading scheme (ETS), arguing part of it is unconstitutional. Lord Monckton is using a speaking tour of Australia to question the need for countries to cut carbon emissions. He told a gathering in Canberra that a provision in the ETS that allows the state to expropriate land is against the constitution. "If by some miss chance the ETS scheme proceeds any further and actually gets passed into law, the next thing that will happen is that the courts will call it in and it will be declared unconstitutional and that ...
Britain facing food crisis as world’s soil ‘vanishes in less than 60 years’
British farming soil could run out within 60 years, leading to a catastrophic food crisis and drastically higher prices for consumers, scientists warn. Fertile soil is being lost faster than it can be replenished and will eventually lead to the "topsoil bank" becoming empty, an Australian conference heard. Chronic soil mismanagement and over farming causing erosion, climate change and increasing populations were to blame for the dramatic global decline in suitable farming soil, scientists said. Food labels to show 'carbon footprint' An estimated 75 billion tonnes of soil is lost annually with more than 80 per cent of the world's ...
Philippines hit with high food prices due to India drought
The Philippines, the world's largest rice importer, said Thursday it feared global food prices would spike this year as India suffers its worst drought in nearly four decades. "There's been a big drought in India which affected half of her territory and which may affect global food prices," Economic Planning Undersecretary Dennis Arroyo told reporters. Arroyo listed the Indian dry spell as among the potential obstacles to a full Philippine recovery this year from the global financial crisis, which dragged its economic growth last year to an 11-year low 0.9 percent. He noted that the Philippines, like India a huge ...
More than 7000 escaped criminals on the rampage in Haiti streets
HAITI'S police chief says bandits are preying on vulnerable earthquake survivors, even raping women, in makeshift camps set up in the capital after the disaster. "With the blackout that's befallen the Haitian capital, bandits are taking advantage to harass and rape women and young girls under the tents," national police chief Mario Andresol said. "We have more than 7000 detainees in the streets who escaped from the National Penitentiary the evening of the earthquake. "It took us five years to apprehend them. Today they are running wild." Rachelle Dolce, who is living at large makeshift camp on the Petionville Club ...
US recommits to climate goals
The United States Thursday officially told the United Nations it will cut carbon emissions, predicting Congress would move ahead on fighting climate change but pressing other countries to do likewise. President Barack Obama's administration outlined US climate goals in a submission to the United Nations, which was requested of all nations by January 31 as part of the Copenhagen summit held last month. The United States, long the industrial world's main holdout from climate change agreements, said it would cut carbon emissions blamed for global warming "in the range of 17 percent" by 2020 compared with 2005 levels. "The US submission reflects President ...
Wild Storm leaves 8000 Australian homes without power
A WILD storm in southeast Queensland on Friday afternoon has left more than 8,000 homes without power. The hardest hit area was the Sunshine Coast and Caboolture/Redcliffe area where some 5000 homes were affected. More than 100 lighting strikes were recorded and there were reports of local flash flooding. Hail was reported at Ferny Grove, northwest of Brisbane, and 50mm of rain fell in 15 minutes at Round Mountain, Highland Plains, 550km west of Brisbane.
780,000 people dead in nearly 4,000 disasters
Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters says more than 780,000 people were killed in nearly 4,000 disasters. A United Nations report finds more people died from earthquakes in the past decade than from any other disaster. Data compiled by the Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters says earthquakes remain a serious threat for millions of people worldwide. The report presents some staggering figures in terms of the number of deaths and economic losses caused by natural disasters during the past decade. More than 780,000 people were killed in nearly 4,000 disasters. The report says these catastrophic events ...
Two Earthquakes hit Ireland
Two earthquakes have been recorded in Co Donegal within the past 36 hours. They come less than three weeks after an earthquake measuring 1.6 was recorded in the northeast of the county. The latest events on Tuesday night and yesterday morning measured 1.5 and 1.7 respectively and were felt by residents in the Termon and Milford areas, north of Letterkenny. They were validated yesterday by the School of Cosmic Physics in the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies. But Dr Thomas Blake, experimental officer at the school, ruled out any link with the Haiti earthquake. He also said that they were not ...
Egypt’s fertile Nile Delta falls prey to climate change
The Nile Delta, Egypt's bread basket since antiquity, is being turned into a salty wasteland by rising seawaters, forcing some farmers off their lands and others to import sand in a desperate bid to turn back the tide. Experts warn that global warming will have a major impact in the delta on agriculture resources, tourism and human migration besides shaking the region's fragile ecosystems. Over the last century, the Mediterranean Sea, which fronts the coast of the Nile Delta, has risen by 20 centimetres (six inches) and saltwater intrusion has created a major challenge, experts say. A recent government study on the ...
Scientists ‘losing climate fight’
A leading Australian climate change scientist says experts are losing the fight against sceptics, who are distorting the science of global warming. His comments come as a prominent British climate change sceptic tours the country. Lord Christopher Monckton has arrived in Australia for a series of lectures and is calling for a royal commission into the science around global warming. The former journalist and political adviser to Margaret Thatcher says the production of carbon dioxide is not a major problem. He has attacked the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) after it revised a key finding in its 2007 report which wrongly ...
Sceptic opens fire on climate change
One of Britain's most prominent climate change sceptics says Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's plan to introduce an emissions trading scheme will have no effect on the climate. Lord Christopher Monckton is in Australia on a week-long speaking tour. The controversial former journalist and political advisor to Margaret Thatcher disputes the UN Climate Panel's findings that the planet is warming. He believes the world is cooling, and the Copenhagen Accord to cut global emissions is nonsense. "It will destroy the economy of Australia and it will do it without the slightest immeasurable [sic] difference on the climate," he said. "This is a policy as near to ...
Magnitude 6.1 aftershock strikes Haiti
A strong aftershock struck Haiti on Wednesday, sending people camping out in the capital's streets after last week's earthquake running away from crumbled buildings in panic. The U.S. Geological Survey said it had a magnitude of 6.1 and was centred 26 miles (42 km) west-northwest of Jacmel. There was no immediate reports of damage from the quake, which struck after daybreak. Haitian officials say the death toll from the January 12 magnitude 7 quake was likely to be between 100,000 and 200,000. Fearing new damage from aftershocks, thousands of people have been sleeping in streets in the capital Port-au-Prince since then. (Reporting by Patrick ...
Earthquake Swarms Continue To Shake Yellowstone National Park
A swarm of earthquakes that began on Sunday at Yellowstone National Park continued this morning and the magnitude of the tremors is increasing. As of 9:20 a.m. today, 424 earthquakes had been recorded in the swarm with the highest tremor at a magnitude of 3.3. So far, scientists state that although the tremors seem to be normal tectonic activity, they will continue to monitor the situation. And no, there is absolutely no connection between what is occurring in Yellowstone and the magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Haiti. The most devastating earthquake in recent history in the Yellowstone region occurred on August ...
Haiti earthquale death toll at 70,000 and rising
The latest Haiti Earthquake news has the official death toll at over 70,000 and rising. One week after the 7.0 Haiti Earthquake hit ten miles away from and six miles below the capital city of Port-Au-Prince, Haitians and people from around the World have worked to rescue people trapped below the rubble of collapsed buildings. In an email to those on The Clinton Foundation email list, Former President Bill Clinton reported: I wish you could have seen what I saw. Haitians were performing surgeries at night, without lights, with no anesthesia, using vodka to sterilize equipment. It's astonishing what they've ...
Haiti earthquake: police admit gangs have taken over Port-au-Prince
Haitian authorities conceded they had lost their battle to maintain order in Port-au-Prince after the leaders of the city's crime gangs reclaimed their old turf since being freed when the national prison collapsed last week. The gangsters have stepped into the law and order vacuum, notably in the sprawling shanty town of Cite Soleil which they dominated before being locked up following police operations supported by United Nations troops over the last three years. "Even as we are digging bodies out of buildings, they are trying to attack our officers," said Aristide Rosemond a Cite Soleil police inspector. The Haitian authorities, already ...
German solar industry faces subsidy cut
Germany, the world's biggest market for solar cells, is poised to slash its subsidies for solar power by as much as 17 percent, Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle said on Tuesday. "I envisage an order of magnitude of 16 to 17 percent," Bruederle said at an energy conference in Berlin. Electricity produced by solar power in Germany is sold at a minimum price guaranteed by the government to help producers compete with firms using fossil fuels and nuclear power that can produce power much more cheaply. This guaranteed price has already been reduced gradually -- the subsidy was already cut by 10 percent ...
Troops arrive to help Haiti
US Black Hawk helicopters swooped down on Haiti's wrecked presidential palace to deploy troops and supplies, as a huge relief operation to help earthquake survivors gained momentum. The airborne troops in combat gear moved to secure Port-au-Prince's nearby General Hospital, where staff have been overwhelmed by huge numbers of seriously injured patients. Their dramatic deployment to help speed up logjammed aid efforts brought crowds of quake survivors camped out in the park opposite the palace rushing to its iron railings to gawk and beg for handouts of food. It was the most visible and potentially sensitive deployment so far by the US military, ...
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