Month: December 2011

Drought Kills Half A Billion Trees

The massive drought that has dried out Texas over the past year has killed as many as half a

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Iceberg Stops Centenary Plans

An iceberg nearly 100 kilometres (60 miles) long was Wednesday preventing tourist ships from reaching Antarctica to mark the

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40 Years To Scrap Fukushima Plant

..TOKYO (Reuters) - Decommissioning Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will take three or four decades, Japan's government said on

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Taiwan Culls 1000’s Pigs

Taiwanese authorities said Thursday they had slaughtered nearly 1,000 pigs following the island's worst outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in

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Pilbara Hits Trough Record Heat

A town in Western Australia's Pilbara region has been feeling the heat, sizzling through the second-hottest December day ever

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Philippines Appeal For Flood Aid

The United Nations is calling for about $28 million in funding to help those affected by last weekend's devastating

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Scientists Create Killer Bird Flu

A Dutch laboratory claiming to have developed a deadly strain of bird flu wants to publish its research, sparking

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Philippine Death Toll Hits 1,000

More than a thousand people are dead or missing after flash floods that ravaged the southern Philippines, the government

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Small Quake Rattles Lancashire GB

A small earthquake occurred in Lancashire over the weekend, seismologists have confirmed. The British Geological Survey (BGS), which records all

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650 Dead After Philippine Typhoon

Philippine rescuers have struggled against mud, fatigue and the stench of death to help dazed survivors of devastating flash

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