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 April 21, 2014 |
Giant lasers could control the weather Orlando, Fla. (UPI) Apr 19, 2013 - Zeus, God of the Sky, may be out of work, as scientists at the University of Central Florida believe they've developed a technique - which involves pointing a high powered laser at the sky - to induce clouds to drop rain and hurl thunderbolts. Scientists have known that water condensation and lightning activity in storm clouds are associated with large amounts of static charged partic ... more South Sudan on brink of collapse as war rages  Upper Nile, South Sudan (AFP) April 20, 2014 - When not plotting military strategy to seize South Sudan's crucial oil fields, sacked vice-president turned rebel chief Riek Machar spends time reading the economic and political history "Why Nations Fail". Cynics might argue he would do better to simply look around his basic bush camp, where mutinous soldiers and an allied ethnic militia crammed with child soldiers ready themselves to attac ... more Guides, climbers cancel Everest expeditions after tragedy  Kathmandu (AFP) April 21, 2014 - Distraught Nepalese guides and climbers cancelled expeditions on Mount Everest Monday after at least 13 colleagues died in an avalanche, as anger mounted at poor payments for sherpas who take huge risks on the world's highest peak. Sherpas already grief-stricken at the loss of colleagues have told AFP they are considering whether to halt climbs to protest at pay and poor welfare provisions. ... more Two-thirds of underwater search done, no sign of MH370  Perth, Australia (AFP) April 21, 2014 - Two-thirds of the planned underwater search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been completed, with no signs so far of the jet, Australian officials said Monday. As many as 10 military aircraft and 11 ships are taking part in the search for the aircraft, which was carrying 239 people when it vanished on March 8 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. No debris from the plane h ... more S. Korea prosecutors turn to mobile app for ferry probe  Seoul (AFP) April 21, 2014 - Prosecutors probing South Korea's ferry disaster have turned to a popular mobile chat service to reconstruct the final moments of hundreds feared to have perished on board the sinking ship. The 6,825-tonne ferry carrying 447 passengers - mostly high school students on a holiday trip - sank off the country's southwest Wednesday, leaving 64 dead and 238 still missing. Survivors say crew ... more West Africa's Ebola outbreak prompts changes in I.Coast cuisine  Bouake, Ivory Coast (AFP) April 20, 2014 - West Africa's first outbreak of Ebola fever is bad news for gourmets in Ivory Coast, but brings respite from the hunter to species sought out for tasty meat but feared to carry the disease. Late in March, Health Minister Raymonde Goudou Coffie called for her compatriots to stop eating porcupines and agoutis, which look like large river-rats, "until we can be sure there are no risks". Bus ... more Fresh tremor rattles Papua New Guinea after 7.5 quake  Sydney (AFP) April 20, 2014 - A fresh 6.1-magnitude tremor rattled Papua New Guinea's Bougainville island Sunday as officials scrambled for news of damage and casualties following a powerful earthquake overnight that sparked a tsunami alert. The 7.5-magnitude quake struck 75 kilometres (47 miles) southwest of the town of Panguna on Bougainville at a depth of 30 kilometres around 11:30pm local time on Saturday. A tsun ... more Nepal calls off search for missing guides on Everest: official  Kathmandu (AFP) April 20, 2014 - Nepal Sunday called off the search for local guides still missing after the deadliest accident on Mount Everest killed 13 colleagues, as climbers recalled the terrifying moments when the avalanche hit. Rescuers have retrieved the bodies of 13 sherpa guides and plucked another nine to safety since an ice and snow avalanche smashed into their expedition on Friday morning on the world's highest ... more Researchers use Twitter to predict crime  Washington (AFP) April 20, 2014 - Hidden in the Twittersphere are nuggets of information that could prove useful to crime fighters - even before a crime has been committed. Researchers at the University of Virginia demonstrated tweets could predict certain kinds of crimes if the correct analysis is applied. A research paper published in the scientific journal Decision Support Systems last month said the analysis of geo- ... more Recycling industrial waste water  Cologne, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 19, 2014 - A research group composed of Dr. Martin Prechtl, Leo Heim and their colleagues at the University of Cologne's Department of Chemistry has discovered a new method of generating hydrogen using water and formaldehyde. The generation of hydrogen from liquids is of particular interest when it comes to fuel cell technologies. The results of the project, entitled "Selective and mild hydrogen prod ... more Preparing for the next Sandy  San Mateo CA (SPX) Apr 19, 2014 - Severe weather - you can find it every day on the Weather channel, moving across America as large storms (often with tornadoes) that pose a direct threat to the lives and power supply for thousands of utility customers. A 10-day outage for 288,000 customers: The $138 million bottom line. A serious storm with major outages is expensive. Major events such as Hurricane Sandy can cost in the b ... more Potential Use of Google Glass in Surgical Settings  Oxford, UK (SPX) Apr 19, 2014 - An article recently published in the International Journal of Surgery shows the potential applications for Google Glass in the surgical setting, particularly in relation to training. Personal portable information technology is advancing at a breathtaking speed. Google has recently introduced Glass, a device that is worn like conventional glasses, but that combines a computerized central pr ... more 4,000 Peruvians evacuated from homes surrounding erupting volcano  Querapi, Peru (UPI) Apr 18, 2013 - Regional governments in the south of Peru, as well as several local municipalities, have declared a state of emergency and begun evacuating more than 4,000 citizens, as the the country's 18,750-foot-tall Ubinas volcano continues to erupt. The volcano has been smoldering and slowly erupting for a couple weeks now, but yesterday the mountain top spewed a giant cloud of ash two miles into ... more Everest avalanche death toll reaches 13 Kathmandu (AFP) April 19, 2014 - Rescuers on Mount Everest found the body of a 13th Nepalese guide on Saturday as authorities ruled out hope of finding any more survivors from the deadliest accident ever on the world's highest peak. Three sherpas remained missing from Friday's avalanche which struck after a large party of guides left Everest base camp carrying tents, food and ropes to prepare for international clients ahead ... more Magnitude 7.5 quake strikes off Papua New Guinea: USGS  Sydney (AFP) April 19, 2014 - A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 struck off Papua New Guinea late Saturday, the US Geological Survey said. A tsunami warning was issued for Papua and the Solomon Islands by the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, but it later cancelled the alert. The quake struck 75 kilometres (47 miles) southwest of the town of Panguna on Bougainville island at a depth of 30 kilome ... more 12 Nepalese guides killed in worst-ever Everest accident Kathmandu (AFP) April 18, 2014 - At least 12 Nepalese guides preparing routes up Mount Everest for commercial climbers were killed Friday by an avalanche in the most deadly mountaineering accident ever on the world's highest peak, officials and rescuers say. The men were among a large party of Sherpas carrying tents, food and ropes who headed out in bright sunshine in an early morning expedition ahead of the main climbing s ... more Thousands evacuated near Peru volcano Lima, Peru (AFP) April 17, 2014 - Peruvian authorities began evacuating 4,000 people Thursday from villages near a volcano that has seen significantly increased activity, spewing smoke and ash. In recent days eruptions from the Ubinas volcano, in southern Peru, have launched volcanic ash over a 20-kilometer (12-mile) radius, the government said. "We are moving an estimated 4,000 people farther to secure their health agai ... more | . | MORE DISASTER NEWS Sub dives deeper in hunt for missing MH370 Shot DR Congo park director evacuated to Nairobi Strong quake rattles Mexico Preglacial landscape found deep under Greenland ice MH370 search to be most costly ever at $100 mln: analysts Vietnam says 7 killed in shooting on China border China coal mine death toll rises to 20: report Iran says Arak nuclear reactor row all but resolved Water users can reduce the risk of spreading invasive species The result of slow degradation Floating nuclear plants could ride out tsunamis S. 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