Jun. 22, 2006. 04:53 PM
ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - The Earth is running a slight fever from greenhouse gases, after enjoying relatively stable temperatures for 2,000 years.
The National Academy of Sciences, after reconstructing global average surface temperatures for the past two millennia, said Thursday the data are "additional supporting evidence ... that human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming.'' |
By Peter Bacque
Richmond Times Dispatch June 22, 2006 PERFECTLY STORMY: No fooling, the United States really does have the world's worst weather, scientists and forecasters say.
Hurricanes, tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, blizzards, floods and droughts, the U.S. has them all -- in more manifestations and more abundance than anywhere else on Earth. Rambunctious weather comes from mixing together hot and cold air, moisture and terrain in the right combinations, and the United States regularly provides them. In a typical year, the U.S. is battered by direct hits from about two hurricanes (and a major hurricane every other year; 1,000 tornadoes; 5,000 floods; 10,000 violent thunder storms; and drought somewhere. |
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Thu Jun 22, 2006 TOLEDO, Ohio - Powerful storms raced across the upper Midwest, toppling trees and power lines and flooding streets, basements and a hospital lobby, where workers pumped out several inches of standing water.
Five inches of rain fell in a five-hour span in the Toledo area Wednesday night, while tornadoes were reported in Michigan, and 56 mph wind gusts and golf ball-size hail pelted northern Ohio, the National Weather Service said. |
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June 23, 2006 LUBBOCK, Texas -- A sandstorm blinded drivers on a Texas Panhandle highway Thursday evening, causing a series of accidents that left one dead and 12 injured, authorities said.
Twenty-seven wrecks occurred in an 11-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 62/82 shortly after 5 p.m., said John Gonzalez, a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety. |
AP
Thu Jun 22, 2006 WESTMINSTER, Colo. - A motorcyclist died after he was struck by lightning while riding in rush hour traffic between Denver and Boulder, police said.
Witnesses reported seeing a flash of light shortly before the motorcyclist struck the center divider on U.S. 36 Wednesday, police spokesman Tim Read said. Gary Missi, 46, of Longmont was pronounced dead at the scene. A coroner's investigation was under way to determine whether the lightning bolt, the collision or something else caused his death, Read said. The lightning blasted a 4-inch-deep hole in the highway and sent chunks of asphalt hurtling across the highway. |
By AMANDA LEE MYERS
Associated Press Thu Jun 22, 2006 SEDONA, Ariz. - The commander of a crew battling a wildfire near Sedona called Thursday "a critical day" for stopping the blaze's advance, while in Colorado, cooler temperatures and higher humidity were expected to help crews fighting an 11,800-acre fire.
The 3,260-acre blaze just north of Sedona has forced the evacuation of roughly 460 homes and businesses. None has been lost, but officials warned that more homes could be in danger if crews can't stop the fire's northern advance. |
By NINIEK KARMINI
Associated Press Thu Jun 22, 2006 JAKARTA, Indonesia - Soldiers pulled bodies from villages razed by floods and landslides in central Indonesia on Thursday, bringing the death toll from days of heavy rain to more than 200 people, officials said. Another 135 people were missing.
At least two roads were blocked by landslides, and water and mud reached almost 7 feet high in Sinjai, the hardest hit district of southern Sulawesi province, where rescuers scrambled to evacuate survivors. The number of dead climbed to 201 and hopes of finding the scores of people still missing were quickly fading, said Dadang, an official at the island's disaster relief coordination office who goes by one name. |
Created: 23.06.2006 12:19 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 12:19 MSK
MosNews Oil spills and pollution from war-ravaged sewer systems are threatening the environment in Chechnya, one of Russia's richest natural habitats, the international environmental group WWF and Russian officials said.
"Environmental monitoring in Chechnya, especially in the rivers and other bodies of water, shows their terrible state, particularly due to leaking oil pipelines and a sewer system that has not worked for years," the AFP news agency quoted Oleg Mitvol, deputy director of the state environmental control committee, as saying. |
Friday, 23 June 2006, 09:08 GMT 10:08 UK
Italian scientists have discovered a huge underwater volcano 40km (25 miles) off the southern coast of Sicily.
The base of the volcano - named after the Greek philosopher Empedocles - covers an area larger than Rome. The volcano is higher than the Eiffel Tower in Paris, with one peak just seven metres below the sea's surface. |
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