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(Photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)Climate Change: Its Effects On Migration, Conflict In Northern Ghana
Empty land and grass with blue sky - climate - environment...Full Story

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(Photo: UN / /Isaac Billy)Half of South Sudan facing food shortages, warns UN
File - A woman and her children are pictured on the outskirts of Fertait, a village in Jonglei, South Sudan, burned down during the recent escalation of ethnic clashes in this area, 7 January, 2012....Full Story

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NASA Astronauts Begin Training For Asteroid Mission
Share Mission to happen in 2035 | NASA astronauts are getting ready to start to prepare for what could be one of the most challenging mission to date, a trip to an asteroid. Next month they will begin a training programme that will teach them how to operate vehicles, co...Full Story
Cellphone disaster alert system to start soon
| Major U.S. wireless carriers will go live this month with an emergency disaster alert system broadcasting free text messages warning of tornadoes, flash floods, earthquakes and other emergencies. | Major carriers AT&T, Cellcom, Cricket, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, US Cel...Full Story
Storms growing more intense 
throughout state
| Increasing intense storm activity and flooding in Ohio and seven other Midwestern states are menacing enough that local authorities should take steps now to minimize their impact, two organizations focused on man-made climate change said Wednesday. | The trend of more...Full Story
Cellphone disaster alert system to start soon
| Major U.S. wireless carriers will go live this month with an emergency disaster alert system broadcasting free text messages warning of tornadoes, flash floods, earthquakes and other emergencies. | Major carriers AT&T, Cellcom, Cricket, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, US Cel...Full Story
Storms growing more intense 
throughout state
| Increasing intense storm activity and flooding in Ohio and seven other Midwestern states are menacing enough that local authorities should take steps now to minimize their impact, two organizations focused on man-made climate change said Wednesday. | The trend of more...Full Story
"Hot Front": First 90 of 2012 Friday & Saturday (thundery Saturday night)
| 70 F. high in the Twin Cities Wednesday. | 69 F. average high for May 16. | 69 F. high on May 15, 2011. | + 5 F. Temperatures through the first 15 days of May are running 5 degrees above average. |   | First 90 of 2012 possible Friday afternoon, again Sunday. | W...Full Story
Darfuri Movements Appeal to World to Save People From Famine
[Radio Dabanga] El Fasher - The leaders of the Sudan Liberation Movement factions led by Abdel Wahid and Minni Minawi and the Justice and Equality Movement have pledged a joint appeal to the international community - the UN Security Council and human rights and humanita...Full Story
Columbia Green
summerJune 29, 2011 It is going to get really warm in Columbia for the Holiday weekend. The National Weather Service, http://noaa.gov, has issued a Special Weather... Read more Helping Joplin | Disaster ReliefMay 24, 2011 My heart goes out to the people of Joplin, MO. T...Full Story
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Thu 17 May 2012
President Obama to make speech about global hunger crisis
The Examiner | With hunger emergencies ongoing in the Sahel region of Africa, Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan and other countries, President Barack Obama faces one of his most daunting foreign policy challenges. The President will be making a speech about the global hu...
Weather History: May 17: Record temps, storms, tornadoes, wind & flooding
The Examiner | Meteorological events that happened on May 17th: | Research on lightning deaths finds that most fatalities occur at the time that the storm appears to be ending. During the height of a thunderstorm most people are inside seeking protection from the...
Students in tornado-hit Ind. town await 'Lady A'
Palm Beach Post | INDIANAPOLIS — Tornadoes battered their school and homes, and spring break was spent cleaning up. Henryville has only begun to rebuild, but for one night, its high school students will get to put aside their worries for a private show by one ...
Storm conference views Hurricane Andrew's legacy
Palm Beach Post | FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The ability to predict how bad a storm will be has eluded forecasters since Hurricane Andrew made a catastrophic landfall in South Florida two decades ago and it will remain a challenge for the next chief at the Nation...
Palestinian cave dwellers caught in Israel's crossfire
The Independent | The Jabareens, though, are all too aware this rough comfort is transient. Ever since Israel declared this area a live firing zone in the 1970s, they have lived under threat of eviction. That situation is now coming to a head. | Israel's Defence Min...
Expect 3/11 aftershocks for decades
Japan Times | Aftershocks of the giant earthquake of March 11, 2011, are expected to continue for at least several decades along the border of Fukushima and Ibaraki prefectures, according to a study released Wednesday. | Aftershocks, including those that can't b...
Richard Falk: Palestinian Prison Hunger Strikes of 2012
Scoop Thursday, 17 May 2012, 9:16 am | Article: Richard Falk | Palestinian Prison Hunger Strikes of 2012 | By Richard Falk | 15 May | Ché Guevara was once asked what was at the root of his revolutionary commitment. His response, which we should all ta...
The snow must go on, Mt Hutt says
NZ Herald | Mt Hutt was to be the first ski area in New Zealand to switch on its snowmaking guns for the 2012 season last night. | A pre-winter chill in the air signalled to Mt Hutt's snowmaking crew members that their moment had arrived. | General manager ope...
Upset over cop accused of quake theft
Otago Daily Times | Earthquake-battered Christchurch residents are upset that a police officer is suspected of stealing from a quake-affected business, saying it tarnishes the disaster response by other officers. | Police revealed yesterday the constable, from the Nor...
Quake city shock over cop accused of stealing
NZ Herald | Earthquake-battered Christchurch residents are upset that a police officer is suspected of stealing from a quake-affected business, saying it tarnishes the disaster response by other officers. | Police revealed yesterday the constable, from the Nor...
Dialogue is key in Yemen
Gulf News | Yemen is struggling to find solutions to the various problems it faces — the dire state of the economy, political instability, the Southern movement, Al Houthis and Al Qaida. But bold steps are being taken by Prime Minister Mohammad Salim Bas...
Wed 16 May 2012
For Florida, there's a cost to no storms, too
Herald Tribune | FORT LAUDERDALE - Six hurricane-free years have given Florida a welcome break from disaster, but government leaders fear that the public may have become a little too comfortable. Facts | STORM-FREE TIMES | Longest periods since 1900 between strikes...
Lady Antebellum surprises students in tornado-hit town at private party
Detroit news By Dylan Lovan Associated Press Comments | Louisville, Ky. - The Grammy Award-winning country music trio Lady Antebellum performed a "mini-prom" Wednesday for students of a southern Indiana town that was devastated by a tornado in early March. | Henr...
Hurricane Andrew's legacy is work to estimate storm size
Tampa Bay Online | FORT LAUDERDALE — The ability to predict how bad a storm will be has eluded forecasters since Hurricane Andrew made a catastrophic landfall in South Florida two decades ago and it will remain a challenge for the next chief at the National Hurrica...
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