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Mild earthquake shakes Israel


Ynet
Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:58 UTC
Earthquake hits Israel for third time this week: The Geophysical Institute of Israel (GII) reported Saturday that a 4.1 magnitude earthquake was felt throughout the country. No injuries or damage were reported.

According to reports, the earthquake hit around 00:19 am, originating in Israel's plains area.
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Bizarro Earth

Salmon farms braced for jellyfish invasion

John Ross
The Scotsman
Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:12 UTC
SCOTLAND'S salmon producers have been put on alert due to an invasion of stinging jellyfish which have already wiped out a fish farm in the Irish Sea.
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U.N.: Greenhouse Gases Hit High in 2006

Eliane Engeler
Associated Press
Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:07 UTC
Two of the most important Greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere reached a record high in 2006, and measurements show that one - carbon dioxide - is playing an increasingly important role in global warming, the U.N. weather agency said Friday.
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Bizarro Earth

Quake hits off coast of Indonesia's Sumatra


Reuters
Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:06 UTC
An earthquake with a 6.2 magnitude hit off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island, the country's meteorological agency said on Sunday.

The quake struck 28 km southwest of Mukomuko in Bengkulu, Sumatra at a depth of 55 km, the agency said in a text message, adding that there was no risk of a tsunami.
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Bizarro Earth

Climate a threat to Mediterranean


eKathimerini
Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:36 UTC
The Mediterranean will be one of the regions of the world that will suffer most from climate change as rising temperatures and water shortages cripple agriculture and tourism, a seminar in Athens heard yesterday.

If warnings about the environmental and health repercussions of global warming have failed to convince governments to take action, threats of a serious blow to key industries may be taken more seriously, experts told a seminar on the economic impact of climate change organized by the British Embassy in association with Kathimerini and Skai.
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Cloud Lightning

Philippines, Vietnam brace for dual typhoons


CBC News
Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:42 UTC
Almost half a million people fled coastal villages in Vietnam and the Philippines on Friday as two separate typhoons roared towards the southeast Asian countries.

Typhoon Mitag, with sustained winds of 175 kilometres per hour, is expected to make landfall on the small Philippines island province of Catanduanes on Saturday, the same day Typhoon Hagibis is supposed to strike the Vietnamese coast.
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31 people on bus thought dead after China landslide: official


Agence France-Presse
Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:11 UTC
Thirty-one people, including four children, on a bus that was engulfed by a massive landslide in central China early this week are almost certainly dead, a local official said Friday.

The passengers were on the bus in mountainous Badong county, Hubei province, on Tuesday when the landslide occurred and are feared to have all died, Xinhua news agency said, citing local officials and the bus company.
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Gear

US marines join cyclone aid effort in Bangladesh


Agence France-Presse
Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:04 UTC
DHAKA - US marines arrived to bolster relief efforts in Bangladesh on Friday as concerns mounted for survivors of killer Cyclone Sidr which devastated the disaster-prone nation more than a week ago.

Navy personnel from the USS Kearsarge, anchored close to the southern Bangladesh coast, has begun medical evacuations and transportation of water to some of the worst-affected coastal areas, a US embassy spokesman said.


Comment: Sending in the US military in disaster areas is a strategic maneuver as it gives the US army a much needed goodwill and helps to build bridges with the local military forces. The goodwill is then later used as a bargaining chip when needed.

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Bizarro Earth

Earthquake hits near Aceh, no reports of damage


Reuters
Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:54 UTC


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A map shows the location of an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 which struck off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island, near Aceh, the country's meteorological agency said on Friday morning.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island, near Aceh, the country's meteorological agency said on Friday, but officials said there was no damage to nearby energy facilities and a tsunami warning was not issued.
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Bizarro Earth

History shows climate changes led to famine and war


Reuters
Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:55 UTC
A report last week said climate change will put half the world's countries at risk of conflict or serious political instability.

International Alert, a London-based conflict resolution group, identified 46 countries -- home to 2.7 billion people -- where it said the effects of climate change would create a high risk of violent conflict. It identified another 56 states where there was a risk of political instability.

Trawling through history and working out correlative patterns, the team found that temperature declines were followed by wars, famines and population reductions.
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