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Devastating Earthquake May Threaten Middle East's Near Future, Geologist Predicts


Science Daily
Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:12 UTC
The best seismologists in the world don't know when the next big earthquake will hit. But a Tel Aviv University geologist suggests that earthquake patterns recorded in historical documents of Middle Eastern countries indicate that the region's next significant quake is long overdue.

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Damage in Jerusalem's Old City following a July 11, 1927, earthquake. One of the first earthquakes on the Dead Sea Fault to be recorded by modern seismographic techniques, it reached 6.2 on the Richter scale. The epicenter was in the northern part of the Dead Sea.
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Forest fires rage in some areas of Indonesia


Xinhua
Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:52 UTC
JAKARTA - At least 1,736 separate fire hotspots have been detected in Kalimantan island and South Sumatra province of Indonesia over the past week, officials said.

In Kalimantan, where 1,370 hotspots have been found, haze from the forest fires has begun to disrupt flights at Syamsuddin Noor Airport in Banjar Baru city in South Kalimantan, the Jakarta Post daily Friday quoted head of the South Kalimantan Environmental Impact Management Agency Rahmadi Kurdi as saying.
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Indonesian villagers brace for potential volcanic eruption


Agence France-Presse
Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:24 UTC
Indonesian residents living near a rumbling volcano in East Java have begun evacuation drills, officials said Thursday as they warned activity was increasing at the site.

Volcanologists lifted an alert for Mount Kelut to the third of a four-level warning system last Sunday. Hiking the warning to the four level means scientists fear an eruption is imminent.
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Update: Typhoon Lekima pounds Vietnam, 3 dead


Agence France-Presse
Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:18 UTC
Typhoon Lekima smashed into central Vietnam overnight, flooding thousands of homes, disrupting air travel and leaving at least three people dead and 58 injured, officials said Thursday.

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Warning issued as Typhoon Krosa heads towards Taiwan


Agence France-Presse
Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:10 UTC
Weathermen in Taiwan on Thursday urged ships and residents to take precautions against Typhoon Krosa which is gaining momentum and heading towards the island.

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South America chokes as Amazon burns

Daniel Howden and Jules Steven
The Independent
Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:06 UTC
Vast areas of Brazil and Paraguay and much of Bolivia are choking under thick layers of smoke as fires rage out of control in the Amazon rainforest, forcing the cancellation of flights.

Satellite images yesterday showed huge clouds of smoke and much of the Amazon basin burning as fires, originally set by ranchers to clear land, have raged into the forest itself.
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Flashback So how did An Inconvenient Truth become required classroom viewing? Even climate change experts say many of the claims in Al Gore's film are wrong.

Kevin Libin
National Post
Mon, 21 May 2007 05:37 UTC
First it was his world history class. Then he saw it in his economics class. And his world issues class. And his environment class. In total, 18-year-old McKenzie, a Northern Ontario high schooler, says he has had the film An Inconvenient Truth shown to him by four different teachers this year.
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CNN Meteorologist: 'Definitely Some Inaccuracies' in Gore Film

Paul Detrick
NewsBusters
Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:11 UTC
CNN Meteorologist Rob Marciano clapped his hands and exclaimed, "Finally," in response to a report that a British judge might ban the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" from UK schools because, according to "American Morning," "it is politically biased and contains scientific inaccuracies."

"There are definitely some inaccuracies," Marciano added. "The biggest thing I have a problem with is this implication that Katrina was caused by global warming."
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Another warm winter seen for much of U.S.


Reuters
Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:08 UTC
Long-range weather forecasts are predicting a warmer than average winter with less precipitation for much of the United States except the Pacific Northwest.

"It will be a lot like last year but the climate models are even more in agreement now than they were last fall," said Mike Halpert, head of forecast operations at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center.
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Landslide in San Diego, California Damages Homes and Road

ALLISON HOFFMAN
Associated Press
Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:20 UTC


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In this image taken from video from XETV chunks of a four-lane road are damaged in the La Jolla section of San Diego, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007.
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