Month: November 2010

Volcanic Ash Blankets Tourist Sites

Jakarta. The road to one of the country’s best-known icons, the ninth-century Borobudur temple, is covered in ash, and

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Climate Damaging China’s Crops

Climate Change could trigger a 10 percent drop in China's grain harvest over the next 20 years, threatening the

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Nigeria: 500,000 Displaced by Floods

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed that about 500,000 Nigerians have been displaced due to the devastating

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Haiti Pledges – Where’s the Money?

Video Report: Haiti has only received a small portion of aid pledged to it. What's the hold up? (more…)

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Haiti dodges Storm Disaster

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Earthquake-hit Haiti escaped a fresh disaster threatened by Hurricane Tomas, but the storm caused flooding that

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Qantas Decides to Fly to Jakarta

Qantas says it has made a careful assessment of weather conditions and will go ahead with today's flight to

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Strong Earthquake Hits Peru

A 5.0 earthquake shook Arequipa, Peru this morning. Arequipa suffered an 8.5 earthquake in 2001, and one of the

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Nuclear Waste Hits German Protest

German police scuffled with protesters as tens of thousands of people gathered in Dannenberg, northern Germany, vowing to block

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Pilot & Crew From A380 Were On 747

The pilot and crew who lived through the first Qantas engine failure were on board when flames shot out

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Merapi Forces Flight Cancellations

Nearly a dozen airlines have cancelled flights into Indonesia's main international airport after a volcano in central Java unleashed

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