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 October 14, 2013 |
Mass evacuations in Vietnam for typhoon Nari Hanoi (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - Vietnam is evacuating tens of thousands of people in the path of Typhoon Nari, state media said Monday, after the powerful storm left 13 dead in the Philippines. Nari is expected to slam into central Vietnam on Tuesday morning, after ripping off rooftops, toppling trees and triggering flash floods in the northern Philippines over the weekend. "Very strong winds are expected from later Mo ... more Italy deploys drones, warships after refugee tragedies  Rome (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - Italy on Monday said it was deploying drones and warships in a large-scale high seas patrol mission to scare people smugglers amid a growing influx of asylum seekers crossing the Mediterranean. "We have given the go-ahead to Operation Mare Nostrum (Our Sea)," Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said after a government meeting, following two refugee shipwreck disasters this month. Defence M ... more Somali pirates on trial for seizing French yacht  Rennes, France (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - Three Somali pirates went on trial Monday for the 2009 hijacking of a French yacht which prompted a rescue operation by elite forces in which the skipper died. French troops stormed the Tanit sailboat on April 10, 2009 and captured the trio during a bid to free Florent Lemacon, his wife, their three-year-old son and two others. French commandos killed two pirates but also accidentally sh ... more India, US trying to hamper Pakistan quake relief: top militant  Islamabad (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - The founder of a militant Islamist group blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks Monday accused the US and India of trying to hamper efforts to help victims of Pakistan's earthquake. Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who has a $10 million US government bounty on his head, said joint US-Indian efforts to block funds for his Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) organisation were aimed at stopping its relief work in Baluchistan ... more Antarctic ozone hole linked to warming in southern Africa  Bindura, Zimbabwe (UPI) Oct 14, 2013 - A decades-long warming trend in southern Africa is likely the result of the ozone hole over the Antarctic and its effect on wind circulation, researchers say. In early summer southern Africa is affected by what is known as the Angola Low, a low-pressure system that pulls in warm air from the lower latitudes, increasing temperatures. But during the past 20 years, the researchers s ... more India cyclone survivors return home to destruction  Gopalpur, India (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - Hundreds of thousands of people who fled India's strongest cyclone in 14 years returned home to scenes of devastation Monday, as a massive relief operation kicked into gear. Teams raced to restore power and other services after the cyclone struck India's eastern coast on Saturday, killing at least 22 people and leaving a trail of destruction. Cyclone Phailin pounded the states of Orissa ... more Mali ex-coup leader moves out of army barracks  Bamako (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - Amadou Sanogo, who led a March 2012 coup in Mali, has left the army barracks where he lived to move into a new residence in the capital, defence officials said Monday. "It was necessary for the country's peace of mind that he leave Kati," a garrison town north of the capital Bamako where his headquarters were located, a defence ministry official said. "He is not going back up there any t ... more Mexico issues warning ahead of Tropical Storm Octave  Mexico City (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - The Mexican government issued a tropical storm warning Monday as Octave took aim at an already disaster-weary Mexico, while a second storm, Priscilla, strengthened far out to sea. Tropical Storm Octave, with winds of up to 60 miles (96 kilometers) per hour, was expected to approach the west coast of Baja California late Monday and Tuesday, US National Hurricane Center said in its latest advi ... more Taiwan looks to first vaccine against fatal H7N9 avian flu  Taipei (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - Taiwan is scheduled to roll out its first vaccine against the H7N9 strain of avian flu in late 2014, after the island confirmed the first outbreak of the deadly virus earlier this year, researchers said Monday. Health authorities in Taiwan confirmed in April that a 53-year-old Taiwanese man, who had been working in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou, showed symptoms three days after returnin ... more Walker's World: Is France turning racist?  Paris (UPI) Oct 14, 2013 - The stunning success of France's anti-immigrant Front National Party in winning a regional election Sunday with 54 percent of the vote reflects a growing frustration with conventional politics across Europe. The vote was the more striking in that the country's ruling Socialist Party didn't field a candidate and urged its supporters to vote for the conservative candidate to block the FN' ... more Water and lava, but - curiously - no explosion  Buffalo NY (SPX) Oct 14, 2013 - Rocky pillars dotting Iceland's Skaelingar valley were projectiles tossed into the fields by warring trolls. That, at least, is the tale that University at Buffalo geologist Tracy Gregg heard from a tour guide and local hiker when she visited the site on two occasions. But Gregg and a colleague have a new explanation for the presence of the lava formations - this one also unexpected. ... more Want ripples on your icicles then add salt  Toronto, Canada (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Though it's barely the beginning of autumn, scientists at the University of Toronto are one step closer to explaining why winter's icicles form with Michelin Man-like ripples on their elongated shapes. Experimental physicist Stephen Morris and PhD candidate Antony Szu-Han Chen were spurred to investigate by the ripples that appear around the circumference of icicles that occur naturally. I ... more Complex relationship between phosphorus levels and nitrogen removal in lakes  Minneapolis MN (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - In the land of 10,000 lakes, one lake has been the starting place for research with implications for big lakes around the world. According to a study published online this week in Science, University of Minnesota researchers, building from studies of nitrogen levels in Lake Superior, uncovered a good news/bad news scenario for lake health that has long-term, global implications for pollution con ... more Football-shaped particles bolster the body's defense against cancer  Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Researchers at Johns Hopkins have succeeded in making flattened, football-shaped artificial particles that impersonate immune cells. These football-shaped particles seem to be better than the typical basketball-shaped particles at teaching immune cells to recognize and destroy cancer cells in mice. "The shape of the particles really seems to matter because the stretched, ellipsoidal partic ... more 3D model reveals new information about iconic volcano  Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - The volcano on the Scottish peninsula Ardnamurchan is a popular place for the study of rocks and structures in the core of a volcano. Geology students read about it in text books and geologists have been certain that the Ardnamurchan volcano have three successive magma chambers. However, an international group of researchers, lead from Uppsala University, Sweden, has now showed that the volcano ... more First test of Venice's 5.4 billion euro flood barriers  Venice (AFP) Oct 12, 2013 - Flood-prone Venice on Saturday carried out the first test of its 5.4 billion euro ($7.3 billion) barrier system known as "Moses", designed to protect the Renaissance city from rising sea levels. The ambitious engineering project involves installing 78 mobile barriers divided into four sections at the three inlets to the Venice lagoon, with the largest inlet divided in half by an artificial i ... more Residents willing to pay for water improvements  Urbana IL (SPX) Oct 14, 2013 - Managing storm-water runoff in urban settings is critical to keep basements dry, streets clear and passable, and streams and rivers healthy, but how much are homeowners willing to pay for it? A University of Illinois survey of randomly selected households in Champaign-Urbana concluded that people are willing to pay to reduce flooding in their own basement, but they may also place a high va ... more | . | MORE DISASTER NEWS More than 500 million people might face increasing water scarcity 13 dead, millions without power as typhoon hits Philippines WHO launches drive against mercury thermometers Strong quake strikes near Crete, material damage reported Quake hits southwest Pakistan: officials Japan nuclear export parts not safety checked: report IAEA to advise Japan on Fukushima clean-up Nuclear power still key to Japan energy mix: officials UK energy sector expecting 'massive' international investment Thousands protest against Areva in Niger Austrian leaders hail EU decision on nuclear power subsidies Northwestern Researchers Develop Compact, High-Power Terahertz Source at Room Temperature Killer Indian cyclone wreaks havoc, 1 million evacuated Indian weather office wins battle over cyclone forecasts Strong quake strikes remote Pacific islands US, Vietnam sign civil nuclear deal S. Korea finds forged reactor safety documents US data collection opens doors to abuse: report 3-D printed microscopic cages confine bacteria in tiny zoos for the study of infections Extrusive volcanism formed the Hawaiian Islands University teams with industry to build deep-sea submersible Mongolia's 'eco-Nazis' target foreign miners Minamata mercury treaty signed at UN conference |
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