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21.10.2009

 
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Australia set for bushfires...
Oct 21, 2009
 

Patients with leptospirosis crowd a medical center's lobby in Marikina City in suburban Manila on Sunday.
Typhoon strengthens as it nears the Phillipines...
Oct 20, 2009
 

Hurricane Rick strengthening...
Oct 17,2009


A Turkana boy holds an empty cup in a village in northwestern Kenya.

Flood warning for drought-hit East Africa...
Oct 17, 2009


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Aftershock: Workers gather at the open space outside a high rise building on Jl. Thamrin, Central Jakarta, on Friday after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake jolted the western tip of Java. Antara/Andika Wahyu

Magnitude-6.4 quake rattles Jakarta...
Oct 16, 2009


A handout photo from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority showing the oil leak

Australia fails to plug oil leak...
Oct 14, 2009


Porters remove goods from a boat on Lake Chad in 2007.
Massive African lake could dry up, U.N. agency says...
Oct 15, 2009
 

India - China climate change deal
Two of the world's biggest polluters, India and China, have signed an agreement to work together on addressing climate change..... more
Oct 21, 2009
 

5.2 quake hits Gorontalo
An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale hit Gorontalo on Saturday morning, but no damages were reported.... more
Oct 17, 2009

Green project to hit target in November
Bandar Seri Begawan - The big response and involvement of private companies to the International School Brunei (ISB) Badas 50,000 trees project has helped the forest consrvation efforts... more
Oct 17,2009
 

Quake damages dozens of houses in Banten
Dozens of houses in the Banten regency of Pandeglang were damaged following a 6.4-magnitude earthquake that rattled the western tip of Java on Friday... more
Oct 16, 2009

Quake stirs panic in Cianjur, Bandung
Hundreds of people rushed out of a shopping mall in the West Java town of Cianjur as a 6.1-magnitude earthquake jolted the western tip of Java and eastern tip of Sumatra on Friday... more
Oct 16,200

Strong earthquake hits Southeast Sulawesi
A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck Southeast Sulawesi early Friday local time, the U.S. Geological Survey has reported... more
Oct 16, 2009

Pacific Ocean temps exceed El Nino levels: Australia
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Central and eastern Pacific Ocean temperatures are exceeding El Nino levels and will remain at levels typical of an El Nino weather event until early 2010... more
Oct 14, 2009

Global hunger worsening, warns UN
Targets to cut the number of hungry people in the world will not be met without greater international effort, UN food agencies have warned... more
Oct 14, 2009

Tropical storm forms in Pacific off Mexico's Baja
The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tropical storm Patricia has formed in the Pacific, hundreds of miles off Mexico's Baja California peninsula... more
Oct 12, 2009

Strong quake off Phillipines
MANILA - A STRONG 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the Philippines early on Thursday... more
Oct 08, 2009

Tsunami warning  cancelled
SYDNEY - A TSUNAMI warning issued after two powerful earthquakes struck the South Pacific has been cancelled... more
Oct 08, 2009
 

Typhoon makes U-turn
MANILA - A POWERFUL typhoon that slammed into the northern Philippines over the weekend has made a U-turn and was being pulled back by another, stronger storm... more
Oct 05, 2009
 


Recycling pays for UK plant
Typhoon Parma closes in on phillipines
Quakes rock pacific islands
Samoa Tsunami flattens villages
Tsunamis off Samoa island chain
Typhoon ketsana hits Vietnam

Global warming could happen sooner

Dozens dead in Philippine floods
Dust storm blankets Sydney
Greenland's melt
Five reported dead in Georgia flooding
Typhoon Koppu hits Hong Kong
One dead in Greece flash floods
Six vanish in Korea flood mystery
Flooding devastates Turkey
Turks swept away in flash floods
UN warning on West Africa floods
Northern Scotland hit by floods
Million flee South China floods
Earthquake hits Indonesia

Major earthquake hits Indonesia 

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Not from My Back Yard? Homes Pollute

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Water quality improves after lawn fertilizer ban, study shows

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Human causing erosion comparable to world's largest rivers and glaciers

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Bad Breath?

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Another type of traffic stress?

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