Month: November 2010

PSA Disease Attacks Kiwi Orchards

A fourth orchard has been confirmed with the kiwifruit vine-killing disease PSA. The orchard is also in Te Puke, Bay

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Haiti Cholera Toll Surpasses 800

Video Report: The cholera outbreak in Haiti is spreading. The United Nations said that up to 200,000 Haitians

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Brazil on Dengue Epidemic Alert

RIO DE JANEIRO – Health officials say Brazil is at risk of an even deadlier outbreak of dengue fever

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Third Qantas Jet Has Engine Trouble

Qantas's 90th anniversary celebrations have been overshadowed, with CEO Alan Joyce dismissing last night's mid-air engine fault on a

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Locusts Blow Into Melbourne

The Victorian plague locust commissioner, Gordon Berg, has confirmed locusts have been swept into Melbourne on unseasonably warm northerly

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Rising Seas are Sinking Kiribati

The small Pacific Island states are doing their best to keep the developed world aware of what is happening

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Sri Lanka Floods Displace 300,000

COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lanka sent in troops to rescue residents marooned in the capital Colombo on Thursday after

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Merapi Evacuees Return Home

Jakarta. Despite being advised by volunteers not to do so, evacuees in Boyolali and Klaten, Central Java, left the

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Haiti Cholera Death Toll Hits 643

The death toll from the cholera outbreak in Haiti has hit 643, as the epidemic continues to spread across

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6.1 Quake Hits Indonesia no Tsunami

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred on Friday in eastern Indonesia, the archipelago Molucelor, but no tsunami alert has been

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