The heat is on as forest fires rage in Australia
Sydney - More than 1,000 volunteer firefighters backed by 70 aircraft were tackling more than 100 forest blazes in Australia's parched south-east Sunday. Temperatures topped 40 degrees in Sydney and across New South Wales as emergency services warned...
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2009-11-22 ] Category : [
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Australians warned of 'catastrophic' fire danger
Sydney - More than 1,000 of Australia's volunteer firefighters were in action Saturday as crews battled 60 of forest blazes in the sweltering south-east where a decade of drought has left tinderbox conditions. A total ban on open fires was declared i...
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2009-11-21 ] Category : [
Environment ]
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New incident at world's largest nuclear plant in Japan
Tokyo - Smoke rose Thursday from a currently closed nuclear power plant in Japan, but the operator said there was no radiation leak and no one was injured. The smoke emerged from the brake of the hoisting function of a crane in the turbine room of a ...
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2009-11-19 ] Category : [
Energy (Environment) ]
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Japan hunting whales again for 'scientific purposes'
Tokyo - A Japanese whaling fleet left for the Antarctic on Thursday. Greenpeace activists said they displayed a banner in front of the Nisshin Maru factory ship bearing the slogan Yes We Can, from US President Barack Obama's election campaign, and ...
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2009-11-19 ] Category : [
Nature (Environment) ]
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