"Chantal leaves 'havoc' behind in Newfoundland
Ken Meaney
CanWest News Service
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Tropical storm Chantal dropped nearly 100 millimetres of rain on Eastern Newfoundland (Tom O'Keefe,...
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"Tropical storm Chantal swamps Newfoundland
CanWest News Service
Published: Wednesday, August 01, 2007
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. -- Tropical storm Chantal pounded Eastern Newfoundland Wednesday with nearly 100 millimetres of rain that flooded highways and left homes in danger of being...
"The head teacher of a secondary school forced to close by flash floods after torrential rain will not re-open until after the summer holidays.
Pupils were sent home from Prestatyn High School in Denbighshire at lunch time after water rose up the drains during the one-hour...
Off the coast of Tanzania, fisherman have landed a coelacanth, just the latest in a string of ever-more-frequent encounters with these holdouts of oceans past."Fishermen in Zanzibar have caught a coelacanth, an...
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The fourth west Pacific tropical cyclone of the year formed on Sunday south of Guam. Typhoon Man-yi, the name of a reservoir in Hong Kong, was located 1485km east north east of Manila at 0700 Manila time this...
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Hurricane season has officially begun, and Tropical Storm Barry is wasting no time. In this case, though, Florida could really use the rain. UPDATE:"Tropical
storm Barry weakened into a tropical depression as...
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An inland Tropical Storm Warning has been issued for interior Central Florida including Polk, Desoto, Highlands and Hardee counties. This area was hard hit in 2004 with three hurricanes including the fierce "Charlie" that crippled infrastructure and did billions in damage. It...
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"The first named Atlantic storm of 2007 crept in today well before the season's official June 1 start, raising the question of whether global warming is responsible for the early arrival.
Flowers, tree leaves, birds and other signs of spring have appeared earlier in recent...
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Global warming might not fuel more intense hurricanes in the Atlantic after all. Despite increasing ocean temperatures that feed the monstrous storms, climate change may also be ramping up the winds that choke...
Unlike normal jellyfish, which drift in the ocean current, box jellyfish are active swimmers that can rapidly make 180-degree turns and deftly dart between objects. Scientists suspect that box jellyfish are such agile because one set of their 24 eyes detects objects that get...
A report set to be released by the UN reports that global warming may pose a short-term benefit for people living in the northern hemisphere, like Canada and Russia. Our crops and tourism might improve for a brief...
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It's nice to see at least one of these old time hotels survive the purge of Vegas style. Sometimes bigger is not better."LAS VEGAS - After the Tropicana Resort & Casino opened 50 years ago, it was...
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"#1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media
Sources:
Buzzflash.com, July 18, 2005
Title: “Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax, and Why Corporate News Censored the Story”
Author: Elliot D....
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" Thousands of runners will hit the streets for Sunday’s Tropical Marathon, which means commuters should expect extensive street closures and Metrobus detours.
The Tropical Marathon will interrupt regular Metrobus service and cause various street closures in Downtown Miami,...
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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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