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Rising Sea Levels Could Disintegrate Antarctic Ice Sheet

...rn Antarctica and Greenland is swelling oceans, so eastern Antarctica could easily experience such calving again, Mackintosh said. "The sheet is so large that even small changes in it can have a significant impact," he added. The study has however, not predicted how much sea levels would have to rise bef...

Chinese City Turns Off the Air-con

...heit), state media reported. Nanjing, capital of eastern Jiangsu province, is the latest city to set a limi...ar. The move comes after Beijing and Yangzhou, an eastern city, recruited "energy police" to check whether energy consumption in buildings met national standa...

Human Trafficking Booming in Eastern Europe, but Governments Dont Seem to Care

...u. The small breakaway region of Transnistria in eastern Moldova is outside the central government's control and remains a significant source and transit area for trafficking in persons. When concerned non-governmental organizations seek to take a hand and stem the burgeoning human trafficking, they dont...

Avian Flu Seen in Others Birds too

... in the southern state of Bavaria and three in the eastern state of Saxony. The disease has been found in geese and turkeys on farms in Hungary, the U.K. and the Czech Republic this year. The three birds discovered near the German city of Nuremberg June 24 are the European Union's first cases of H5N1 in wild...

Potentially Lethal H5N1 Bird Flu Resurfaces in Europe

...here in Dresden last August, killing a swan in the eastern city's zoo. The only incidence of the feared virus on a farm in Germany was reported in April 2006, after which more than 21,000 poultry were killed. Worldwide the virus has killed 191 people out of 313 infected patients, according to the latest ...

Dutchman Rebuilds Noah's Ark to Spread His Faith

...rdam. After Rotterdam there are plans to go to the eastern Netherlands to Arnhem and then on to Germany via the Rhine. The small entrance fee visitors pay is helping Huibers realise his next goal: a bigger ark the actual size of the ship described in the Bible. "That's my dream and I'm looking forward to...

Global Warming To Effect Eastern Coast Of India

...ther events like storm surges and cyclones. In the eastern coast, the vulnerable districts include Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapara in Orissa and Nellore in Andhra Pradesh and Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu....

Deadly Virus Hits Popular Lake in US

...pecies of fish, Staggs said. What weve seen in the eastern Great Lakes is large numbers of fish of a number of different species have died. Koerner also wonders about the virus economic impact. Lake Winnebago, Lake Poygan, Lake Winneconne and Lake Butte des Morts make up the interconnected Lake Winnebago...

Invasion of Cicada Hordes Feared in US Midwest

... called periodical cicadas, are only found in the eastern half of North America. The annual, or dog-day cicadas, that appear every summer are common around the world. The last massive emergence of periodical cicadas was in 2004, when Brood X emerged after 17 years underground in parts of 15 Eastern states...

Bird Flu: Bangladesh Situation Serious, Indian on High Alert

...rd flu-affected countries, both on the western and eastern borders, India is on high alert, officials said in New Delhi. "India has intensified its surveillance along the borders particularly after bird flu outbreak in Bangladesh, Myanmar and its continuation in China, Pakistan and Afghanistan," Central Anim...

China Claims Viral Outbreak Contained

Around 900 persons in the Shangdong province of eastern China have been afflicted with hand, foot and mouth disease, but the outbreak has since been contained, state news agency Xinhua has reported. About 470 patients had recovered by Friday last and another 393 people mostly children were still sick...

14-year-old Killed in School Shooting in Canada

...to students and staff. Three high schools in the eastern province of Nova Scotia were evacuated after reports of bomb threats. A 14-year-old in the eastern province of New Brunswick was arrested after an explosive device was found in his school, and six te...

British Doctors Want Indian Immigrants Screened for TB

...f the world where the disease is common, including eastern Europe. Mayur Lakhani, chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said: "My sense is that the health community has taken its eye off the ball a bit in relation to TB. We shouldn't think that this is a disease of the past." Lakhani s...

Blue Moon at Midnight from June 1

...ivity in western Canada created a blue Moon across eastern North America in late September 1950. In the aftermath of the massive eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in June 1991 there were reports of blue moons (and even blue Suns) worldwide. The phrase "Once in a blue Moon" was first noted in ...

Ostracized HIV-affected Widow Turns to Begging

...in Mumbai, died of AIDS March 15 last year in this eastern Indian coastal state. Sukanti realized then that she was HIV positive, and so was her younger son. Villagers and even her in-laws immediately began boycotting her. Dilip Kumar Parida, a social activist, said the locals believed that AIDS is transmi...

Genes may Have a Role in Learning "tonal Languages"

...guage just as successfully as roughly contemporary eastern Mediterranean societies with non-tonal languages," Ladd said. However, Crespi considered that the lesser intricacy of non-tonal languages could present a selective advantage. "Adoption of a simpler language might be 'easier', allowing for faster ...

Top Iraqi Shiite Leader Returns Home

...ry 23, Ammar al-Hakim was detained by US forces in eastern Iraq and held briefly after his road convoy came back over the border from Iran....

Panama Official Arrested Over Tainted Medicine Deaths of 100

... said that toothpaste produced by two companies in eastern China and exported to Panama contained levels of the toxin that were not harmful to humans, Wei said. Some of the toothpaste was then re-exported to the Dominican Republic. No reports of poisoning from the toothpaste have yet surfaced....

AIDS Incidence in India Far Lower Than Previously Estimated New Study

...of sexual networks that are common in southern and eastern Africa, in which both men and women often have two or more occasional but regular sexual partners over long periods of time. Also, outside of prostitution, transactional sex between teenage girls and older men in return for money, food or clothes is ...

Make-or-break Exams Stress China Youth

...gths in pursuit of a smooth gaokao. Parents in the eastern province of Anhui successfully lobbied for an airport in the tourist city of Huangshan to alter flight paths so that planes did not distract students taking the test, Xinhua reported. Countless students are renting rooms near test venues or followi...

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