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Some parts of England are no longer in drought, after the wettest April on record restored water levels, the Environment Agency said.
Until the start of April, England had months of very low rainfall - the driest on record in some areas - which brought drought to 17 counties in southern and central England and led water companies to impose restrictions.
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Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano spewed out huge clouds of ash and fiery rock overnight, closing a local airport on Saturday 12/5/2012 and frightening nearby villagers, already on edge after weeks of increased activity.
Popocatepetl, 80km south-east of Mexico City, shook with tremors that belched out four large plumes of ash on Friday night and Saturday morning, the National Centre for Disaster Prevention said in a statement on Saturday.
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The Environment Agency has issued flood alerts for every river in Somerset after heavy rainfall.
The rain on Sunday caused Taunton Deane Cricket Club to flood and most of Vivary Park in Taunton has also been left under water.
On Sunday, 230 homes in the Midsomer Norton area and 96 homes in the Taunton area were left without power. Homes have also been flooded in Lydeard St Lawrence,... |
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Farmers in India are using the remains of their mustard plant harvests to generate eco-friendly electricity on one hand, and to provide additional income for local farmers on the other hand.
Project goal: produce electricity in India from crop waste Project size: around 5,000 farmers produce around 90,000 tons of biomass a year Backing: 500,000 euros (around $654,000) a year by the NGO atmosfair CO2 reduction: 36,000 tons
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France will soon lunch a sailboat from the 30s to explore the seventh continent by a very developed satellites. "the seventh continent" is a patch of plastic waste floating in the Pacific ocean. The size of this patch is six times the size of France.
Patrick Dixon, who was shocked when he saw the waste during his rowing race in the Atlantic ocean 2009, decided to send this scientific... |
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Brazilian authorities identified a small oil leak off the shores of Rio de Janeiro on Saturday 31/3/2012, the latest in a series of spills that has raised safety concerns over the development of some of the world's largest petroleum reserves.
The latest oil leak comes days after a Brazilian prosecutor said he is widening a probe into offshore oil operations in the wake of a 3,000-barrel spill in an... |
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Extreme weather events over the past decade have increased and were "very likely" caused by manmade global warming, a study in the journal Nature Climate Change said on Sunday.
Scientists at Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Research used physics, statistical analysis and computer simulations to link extreme rainfall and heat waves to global warming. The link between warming and storms was less clear.
"It is very likely that several... |
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The Greenland ice sheet is likely to be more vulnerable to global warming than previously thought. The temperature threshold for melting the ice sheet completely is in the range of 0.8 to 3.2 C0, shows a new computer simulation by scientists at Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Substantial melting of the island ice, located between South Pool and Atlantic... |
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The United States should do more to encourage Saudi Arabia to boost its oil production to make up for lost Iranian oil, Senator Charles Schumer said on Sunday 26th February 2012, urging renewed diplomacy as a way to ease the run-up in oil prices.
Schumer, the third most prominent member of US Senate, asked Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, to urge the Saudi government to increase production to... |
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The global environmental guide 2012 done by Yale University's environmental legislation and policies center, and Colombia University's earth science information network center, with collaboration of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and European Commission's joint research center, according to the Middle East Agency.
The global environmental guide relies on accurate information and data, and their result analysis, which are taken from specialists in concerned and statistic areas, and decision's... |
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