Earth Changes
Louis Charbonneau and Aung Hla tun
News DailyThu, 08 May 2008 13:37 UTC
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations estimates 1.5 million people have been "severely affected" by the cyclone that swept through Myanmar and the United States expressed outrage on Thursday at the delays in allowing in aid.
"We're outraged by the slowness of the response of the government of Burma (Myanmar) to welcome and accept assistance," U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Zalmay Khalilzad, told reporters.
"It's clear that the government's ability to deal with the situation, which is catastrophic, is limited."
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| Survivors are seen at their home, which was destroyed by Cyclone Nargis, near the town of Kyaiklat, southwest of Yangon, May 7, 2008.
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Esteban Medel and Simon Gardner
News DailyThu, 08 May 2008 13:03 UTC
PUERTO MONTT - Chile evacuated the last military personnel from the vicinity of an erupting volcano in its remote Patagonian region before dawn on Thursday, after it spat a surge of fiery material.
But a few civilians refused to leave two villages near the Chaiten volcano in southern Chile which began erupting last week for the first time in thousands of years, a Reuters witness said.
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| Smoke and ash rise for thousands of meters through a thick layer of clouds from the crater of the Chaiten volcano in southern Chile, May 7, 2008.
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The Met Office is to warn gardeners to plan for a warmer climate by cultivating drought-tolerant plants such as palms, olives and Mediterranean herbs and to resign themselves to the death of the traditional lawn.
It believes this year will be one of the hottest on record.
The Met Office will issue the warning at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Hampton Court Palace flower show this July.
The devastating effects of natural disasters caused by climate change is hitting the poorest the hardest, a new report reveals. Of the 443,000 people killed and 2.5 billion affected by weather-related incidents in the last 10 years more than 98 per cent of them came from developing countries.
Comment: Note that this article does not include the latest disaster in Myanmar, which caused the death
of hundred thousand people.
Peter Gould has a vision of being able to grow his own fuel on his property at Terania Creek.
Mr Gould has spent more than 10 years researching biofuels and eventually came up with what he and his business partner Martin Novak, of Whian Whian, believe is the perfect solution - a plant native to both India and northern Australia called pongamia.
Beijing -- Botanists have recently discovered ancient tea trees in central China's Wudang Mountains which were an integral part of a centuries-old Taoist tea culture.
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| A botanist examines an ancient tea tree that was discovered in the Wudang Mountains on Tuesday, May 6, 2008.
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Manila - Another mild earthquake hit the Bicol region Wednesday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.
In its bulletin, Phivolcs said a 4.6-magnitude quake was recorded in Legaspi City, Albay province. The quake was felt at Intensity 3 in Irosin, Sorsogon and Legaspi City and Intensity 2 in Lignon Hill, Legaspi City and Masbate, Masbate .
Its epicenter was located 38 kilometers southwest of Legaspi City and had a depth of 22 kilometers, which volcanologists consider as shallow.
A small earthquake shook the Washington area yesterday, and some residents reported feeling tremors, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
There were no reports of damage or injuries.
The earthquake occurred at 1:30 p.m., and the epicenter was about a mile from Annandale. The Geological Survey estimated its magnitude at 1.8.
The Apiary Inspectors of America says the United States has seen a dramatic decline in the number of managed honey bee colonies since 1980.
Richard Black
BBC NewsWed, 07 May 2008 21:04 UTC
Declining fish stocks could be partly responsible for algal blooms in the oceans, researchers have found.
Scientists found that the fall in cod stocks in the Baltic Sea in recent decades increased numbers of the tiny marine plants that produce the blooms.
Comment: This article continues the "global warming" myth, despite scientific evidence that show that the planet is cooling instead of warming.