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Typhoon Nestat: Flooding in Manila, 16 Killed (Video)

Massive Flooding in Manila as Typhoon Pedring Hits Typhoon Nestat (also named Typhoon Pedring) has made landfall in the Philippines, causing heavy flooding in Manila. Residents waded through waist- and neck-deep...

created by NowPublic Staff | 19 wks ago | updated 19 wks ago
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NowPublic Staff

Typhoon Nestat (Pedring) Brings Floods, Mudslides to Philippines

Typhoon Pedring Floods Philippines: Video Typhoon Nestat (also called Typhoon Pedring) is sweeping past the Philippines, bringing widespread flooding and mudslides. Over 100,000 people have gotten evacuation orders,...

created by NowPublic Staff | 19 wks ago | updated 19 wks ago
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Uwe Paschen

Haiti, Chile Earthquakes Suggest Increased Frequency: Untrue

Earthquakes, and their related natural phenomena - tsunamis, typhoons and hurricanes - like the ones that devastated Haiti January 12th and Feb 27 struck Chile with a magnitude of 8.8 on the Richter Scale,...

created by Uwe Paschen | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Cyclones Hit Philippines | People crossing flooded steets

Mritunjay

After Parma and Ketsana it's "cruel" Lupit

"Lupit — a Filipino word for cruel — is the 18th tropical storm to threaten the country this year." Tropical storms have claimed more than 800 lives till now in Philippines and as the nation tries to...

created by Mritunjay | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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denseatoms

No altruists in the storm path

Despite the truism, there most certainly have been atheists in foxholes. But it is absolutely true that there are no altruists in a storm path. Over 45 years of living on the southernmost coast of South Carolina...

opinion by denseatoms | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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denseatoms

Anatomy of a hurricane

Hurricane season comes every June through November. Though Americans dread the storms, eastern Asia and many other areas of the world, including the Baja Peninsula of Mexico, depend on hurricanes to bring...

created by denseatoms | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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First China-made 1.5 megawatt wind-power generator hits market

" BEIJING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua)-- China's first 1.5 megawatt (1, 500 kW) wind-power generator with completely independent intellectual property rights has rolled off the assembly line in the southern Guangdong province. The price was at least 20 percent lower than similar...

created by René | 4 years ago
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Japan brewer pursues 'Monster Cane' ethanol dream (Reuters)

" IE ISLAND, Japan (Reuters) - It is three meters tall and productive even in poor soil, it holds up in droughts and typhoons, and it yields twice as many stems as most sugarcane. No wonder they call it "Monster Cane." This new variety of sugarcane, named for its size as...