Roads closed, homes evacuated in central Ontario flooding
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Huntsville :: AL :: USA | updated 2013-04-20 11:18:27 -0700 | green-news
Communities across central Ontario are warning people to stay away from rivers and creeks, saying water levels are high and waterways are dangerous. Two large towns which are important centres for cottage country Bracebridge and Huntsville have declared emergencies after...
Monsanto accused of violating bio-safety rules
Source: The Hindu
Bangalore :: India | updated 2012-11-01 21:15:05 -0700 | business-news
Monday joined hands with Greenpeace and sought an immediate ban on all open field experiments of Genetically Modified (GM) crops in the country by Monsanto (a bio-technology company), in the wake of alleged violation of bio-safety norms by the multinational...
Pakistan to build more nuclear plants
Source: BNO News
Islamabad :: Pakistan | updated 2011-08-27 23:09:05 -0700 | political-news
Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Monday announced that Pakistan will build more nuclear plants to meet its growing energy needs. According to the APP news agency, Gilani remarked that Pakistan's nuclear program was purely for peaceful purposes...The...
Sand storm near Germany's northern coast causes highway pileup, leaving 5 dead
Source: Macleans
Berlin :: Germany | updated 2011-06-09 04:22:08 -0700 | travel-news
Police say a sand storm near Germany's northern coast has caused a highway pileup that left at least five people dead and many others injured. Rostock police spokesman Volker Werner said 17 vehicles caught fire after the multiple crash Friday...
EIA gives mixed report on Algerian natural gas
Source: United Press International
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-05-23 03:07:20 -0700 | green-news
A terrorist attack in January and steady field maturation are harming Algeria's natural gas potential though shale is promising, a U.S. report says...Energy Department's Energy Information Administration reports that Algerian natural gas production has been in decline since 2005 because...
Pak-Iran Gas Pipeline project to be completed before 2014
Source: pakistantimes
Islamabad :: Pakistan | updated 2011-12-28 10:40:15 -0800 | business-news
Dispelling the foreign pressure over Pak-Iran Gas Pipeline Project, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Dr Asim Hussain on Thursday informed the Senate that work has been expedited on the project and said that it would be completed by end...
Ten killed in Darjeeling bridge collapse
Source: Time of India
New Delhi :: India | updated 2011-12-27 19:16:29 -0800 | political-news
Ten people were killed and at least 60 injured in a bridge collapse in Bijonbari area of West Bengal's Darjeeling district on Saturday evening, according to an official. The Border Roads Organisation-built wooden bridge gave way on Saturday evening when...
Earthquake rocks Delhi, NCR
Source: Rediff
New Delhi :: India | updated 2011-11-08 06:19:51 -0800 | political-news
Hi Guest rediff.com web Earthquake jolts Delhi, NCR Earthquake jolts Delhi, NCR Last updated on: September 07, 2011 23:39 IST Share this Ask Users Write a Comment Print this article After a bomb blast at the high court in Delhi...
Two hops for trans-US solar plane
Source: BBC
Cincinnati :: OH :: USA | updated 2013-06-14 06:12:25 -0700 | green-news
A solar-powered plane aiming to cross the US coast-to-coast has set off on its fourth leg, from St Louis, Missouri, to Washington DC. But the Solar Impulse team made a last-minute decision to stop over briefly in Cincinnati, Ohio, because...
North Korea almost done building new reactor. Is that a big deal?
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Pyŏngyang :: North Korea | updated 2013-05-24 05:41:18 -0700 | green-news
While all things in North Korea are cloaked in secrecy, it appears that this new reactor could produce material for nuclear weapons potentially expanding North Korea's small stockpile. Is North Korea almost done building a new, experimental light water reactor...
Bangalore to face dark side of the Telangana agitation
Source: Daily News & Analysis
Bangalore :: India | updated 2011-11-28 07:37:34 -0800 | political-news
The ripples of Telangana agitation have reached the shores of Bangalore...Coal supplies from Singareni coal fields and Nagpur have been hit due to the rail roko agitation in the Telangana region...If normalcy is not restored, load shedding will be inevitable...
Ship with 50,000 tonnes petrol to berth today: Dr Asim
Source: pakistantimes
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2011-08-16 05:28:41 -0700 | business-news
Federal Minister for Petroleum Dr Asim Hussain has assured that petrol shortage would be ended within two to three days as a ship carrying 50,000 tonnes of commodity would arrive today, Wednesday. Talking to a private television news channel Geo...
Emergency Alert Issued For Chemical Leak in Bay Area
Source: KION
Santa Cruz :: Bolivia | updated 2011-01-11 04:07:47 -0800 | technology-news
Calif- An alert has been issued by the Emergency Alert System, EAS, about a chemical incident at the Tesoro refinery in Clyde. There has been some sort of chemical leak and a fire at the refinery. Residents of Clyde and North Concord...
SE Missouri man dies in boating accident
Source: SF Gate
Charleston :: SC :: USA | updated 2013-05-27 16:27:54 -0700 | green-news
Mo. (AP) The Missouri Highway Patrol says a 64-year-old man has died after falling from his boat in a Bootheel fishing lake. Sikeston resident Oscar Shannon was pronounced dead around 2 p.m...Authorities say Shannon had been fishing on Upper Big...
Northeast reels from third weather disaster this year
Source: USA Today
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2012-01-01 13:52:49 -0800 | travel-news
A rare October snowstorm this weekend slammed areas that were hit hard by flooding after Hurricane Irene in August and Tropical Storm Lee in September. The snowstorm, coming on the heels of those two storms and an earthquake, tops "a...
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