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Peruvian city to be moved due to mining damage
Lima - Extreme environmental damage caused by mining has prompted the residents in the Peruvian city of Carro Pasco to move the entire town. The move was approved in a meeting of residents, national media reported Wednesday. The city is the provincia...

[Posted on : 2008-12-03 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Polar regions key to understanding climate change, scientists say
Geneva - Changes taking place in the Arctic and Antarctica, as well as the unique conditions existing at those ends of the planet, make the polar regions key to understanding climate change and a host of other topics, scientists said. Polar weather i...

[Posted on : 2008-12-03 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Iceland commission says polar bears to be shot
Reykjavik - Polar bears that drift ashore on Iceland should be shot and not offered a safe haven, a commission recommended Tuesday. The commission was appointed this summer after two polar bears landed on the northern coast of Iceland apparently afte...

[Posted on : 2008-12-02 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Death toll reaches 112 from rains in Brazil, epidemics feared
Florianopolis, Brazil - The death toll from heavy rains in southern Brazil reached 112 by the end of the week, as fears grew of possible health epidemics among more than 1 million people affected by the storms. The epidemiology division of Santa Cata...

[Posted on : 2008-12-01 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Tag team show whale rescues worth the effort
Sydney - When whales become stranded on beaches in Australia, television pictures flash across the globe of volunteers with towels and buckets keeping the hapless creatures wet and trying to coax them back out to sea. Sometimes, even before the tears...

[Posted on : 2008-12-01 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

150 whales die in Australian stranding
Sydney - One hundred and fifty whales have died in a mass stranding in Australia - almost double the original tally, authorities said Sunday. Of the long-finned pilot whales that came ashore on Tasmania's west coast, 30 were shepherded out to sea by ...

[Posted on : 2008-11-30 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Destruction continues in Brazil's rain forest
Sao Paulo - The destruction of Brazil's rain forests is continuing unabated, according to a government report released Saturday, just days before a UN climate conference in Poland. The Brazilian government had pushed for the data's release ahead of t...

[Posted on : 2008-11-29 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Chaos and fear take over southern Brazil in the wake of rain - Feature
Rio de Janeiro/Florianopolis, Brazil - The deaths of at least 97 people and the evacuations of close to 80,000 have not been the only tragic consequences of heavy rain in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. In the wake of the natural cata...

[Posted on : 2008-11-27 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

Floods, landslides kill 97 in southern Brazil
Rio de Janeiro -At least 97 people have died in flooding and landslides in a southern Brazilian state since the weekend in one of the worst weather-related catastrophes to hit the South American country in decades, authorities said late Wednesday. Th...

[Posted on : 2008-11-27 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

At least 72 dead in heavy rain in southern Brazil - Summary
Rio de Janeiro - The number of people killed in accidents linked to heavy rains in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina rose to 72 Tuesday, while several of the 30 towns affected by the disaster were starting to experience looting and sharp...

[Posted on : 2008-11-25 ] Category : [ Nature (Environment) ]

 

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