Fire pushes 3,000 people out of homes near Halifax

New Update, Halifax: 3,000 Nova Scotia residents evacuated their homes as 6 major fires are currently underway in Nova Scotia. Power outage affecting another 8,100 homes where the blaze damaged a transmission...

Drug Zometa helps fight breast cancer spread

"A drug to prevent bone loss during breast cancer treatment also substantially cut the risk that the cancer would return, results that left doctors excited about a possible new way to fight the disease. It is the first large study to affirm wider anti-cancer hopes for Zometa...

Forecast for big sea level rise

This report is could be pre-warning. The green house effect seems to be a key element in makin gour globe hot and making ice hills melt. GHE is a human made thing where industrial development and unlimited usage of petrolium come in rule the life of people.But, this is the...

CFMEU and ACF unite for action on climate change

"Date: 11-Sep-2007 In a rare convergence of interests, the mining union and environmentalists have collaborated to call for urgent Government action on climate change. With climate change set to be a critical federal election campaign issue, the CFMEU Mining and Energy...

Facebook group celebrates stepping on crunchy leaves

FACEBOOK UPDATE: Now you can add a NowPublic app to your Facebook page. Just click here. Put this in the 2007 time capsule: in this, the year of Facebook, we live in a culture that celebrates the small things....

The Seven Weapons That Changed The World

"The blood-spattered spectacle of 300 has done more than any film since Gladiator to rekindle American interest in Ancient warfare. The cartoonish depiction of the Spartan military alongside the incalculable...

US deficit is shrinking, balanced budget in one year?

"Find me a one-handed economist," President Harry Truman used to say, expressing his frustration at his economic advisers' tendency to say "On the one hand, Mr. President…, but on the other hand." This story from Christian Science Monitor is chock full of two-handed...

Global warming may destroy Amazon rainforest

Global warming could wipe out the Amazon rainforest in less than a century say Brazilian researchers:"Jose Antonio Marengo, a meteorologist with Brazil's National Space Research Institute, said that global warming, if left unchecked, will reduce rainfall and raise...

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