Month: September 2009

Nigeria: ‘Floods Render 150,000 Homeless’

Abuja — About one hundred and fifty thousand Nigerians have been displaced by floods due to recent torrential rain-falls

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Strong earthquake hits Albania and Macedonia

A strong earthquake, 6.0 on the Richter scale and 5.4 on the Richter scale, according to separate media reports,

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Maldives to introduce green tax on tourists

The Maldives archipelago, threatened by rising sea levels blamed on climate change, said on Monday it would introduce a

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Japan’s next PM vows tough greenhouse gas cuts

Japan's next prime minister Yukio Hatoyama delighted environmental activists but worried business leaders on Monday by vowing to slash

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Los Angeles: Post-wildfire floods and mudslide worries

LOS ANGELES – Southern California's huge wildfire has turned nearly a quarter of the 1,000-square-mile Angeles National Forest into

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Seaweed suspected in French death

French investigators are examining whether a lorry driver has become the first victim of a toxic seaweed that is

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Christians Arrested for Helping Sichuan Earthquake Victims

In a bizarre turn of the situation, two Chinese Christians and relief helpers of the Sichuan earthquake were arrested

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Climate change boosts ultraviolet risk for high latitudes

Climate change will disrupt Earth's precious ozone layer, boosting ultraviolet (UV) radiation in the deep southern hemisphere and reducing

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UK woods ‘tackle climate change’

The UK's woodlands will be "hugely important" in efforts to tackle climate change and cope with its impacts, the

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PM joins thousands in British carbon-cutting pledge

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has put his name to a campaign for a 10-percent cut in Britain's carbon emissions,

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