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Japan summer heat wave blamed for 66 deathsTokyo (AFP) July 27, 2010 A blistering summer heat wave in Japan has sent 15,000 people to hospital with heat stroke and caused at least 66 deaths in the past two months, the government said Tuesday. Japan has baked since the rainy season ended in early July, with the mercury hitting 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) or higher at more than 90 percent of nationwide observation points Sunday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. In the week to Sunday alone, 9,436 people across the island-nation were taken to hospitals an ... read more |
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Luanda (AFP) July 6, 2010Luanda's general hospital has evacuated 150 patients over worries that the four-year-old, Chinese-built structure could collapse, state radio reported Tuesday. The patients were evacuated after the discovery of "deep cracks in the walls of the paediatrics and gynaecology wards", the report said. The eight-million-dollar hospital was built by the China Overseas Engineering Group Company ( ... more Carbon monoxide kills nine miners in China
Beijing (AFP) July 5, 2010Nine miners died from carbon monoxide poisoning over the weekend at a colliery in central China, state media reported Monday, in the latest accident to plague the notoriously dangerous industry. Three miners died in the pit, while six others who were initially rescued died later in hospital, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing Liu Xianghua, the deputy director of the coal mining ... more Biodiversity's Holy Grail Is In The Soil
Ancon, Panama (SPX) Jun 30, 2010Why are tropical forests so biologically rich? Smithsonian researchers have new evidence that the answer to one of life's great unsolved mysteries lies underground, according to a study published in the journal, Nature. "We've known for a long time that tree seedlings do not grow and survive well under their mothers or other adult trees of the same species," said Scott Mangan, postdoctoral ... more |
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