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Flower - Gardening
Flower   Photos   Time   Weather   Wikipedia: Gardening  
 The News & Observer 
Your 2010 summer gardening to-do list
| Is much gardening getting done this summer? Not much, I'd say, thanks to miserably hot and humid weather that has dominated the Piedmont since early June. That's a long time to be without the stimul... (photo: WN / sweet)
A Pakistan army helicopter evacuates stranded villagers in Nowshera, Pakistan on Friday, July 30, 2010.
Disaster   Floods   Pakistan   Photos   Wikipedia: Pakistan  
 Khaleej Times 
Pakistan monsoon floods kill more than 400
Rescue workers and troops in Pakistan were on Saturday struggling to reach thousands of people affected by the worst floods in living memory as the death toll rose past 400. | Hundreds of homes and va... (photo: AP / Mohammad Sajjad)
Rainfall-monsoon -India  The Hindu 
Heavy rains forecast for next two months
| Special Correspondent | Weak systems not a matter of concern as yet: IMD | Possibility of a delayed withdrawal of monsoon into early October this year | North-eastern States saw 24 per cent deficien... (photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam)
Delhi   India   Monsoon   Photos   Wikipedia: Monsoon  
Water logged due to heavy rains - India- Monsoon  The Hindu 
Showers lead to water stagnation
| Staff Reporter | Slow progress: Water stagnating on many roads following the rain on Friday affected traffic. A scene on Poonamallee High Road. | CHENNAI: After a relatively hot day, the city receiv... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Chennai   India   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Chennai  
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A charred car stands in front of a chimney, all of what is left of a house that was burned to the ground, in the village of Mokhovoe, destroyed by a forest fire near the town of Lukhovitsy some 135 km (84 miles) southeast of Moscow, Friday, July 30, 2010. The fires have spread quickly across more than 200,000 acres (90,000 hectares) in recent days after a record heat wave and severe drought that has plagued Russia for weeks. The Star
Wildfires sweeping Russia kill at least 25
| MASLOVKA, Russia (Reuters) - Forest fires sweeping across European Russia on Friday killed at least 25 people and forced the evacuation of thousands in the hottest weat... (photo: AP / Dmitry Chistoprudov)
Photos   Russia   Weather   Wikipedia: Wildfire   Wildfire  
Potato - Potatoes. (ps1) CBC
Potato blight down dramatically
| The hot weather this summer has caused a significant drop in the number of cases of blight in P.E.I. potato fields. | Marleen Clark, who diagnoses plant disease for the... (photo: WN / patricia)
Agriculture   Disease   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Phytophthora infestans  
In this photo taken on Wednesday, July 28, 2010, a man carries his belonging on a flooded path in Changchun in northeast China's Jilin province. Gulf News
Floods dump scores of chemical containers into China river
| Beijing: Workers began cleaning up a chemical spill in northeastern China Thursday after more than 3,000 containers of chemicals were washed into a river by the wo... (photo: AP)
China   Disaster   Floods   Photos   Wikipedia: People's Republic of China  
A local resident runs near a peat fire in a forest near the town of Lubertsi, southeast of Moscow in Shatura, late Thursday, July 29, 2010. The New York Times
Heat Wave Batters Russia
| RYBKHOZ, Russia — Ivan Tyurkin trudged along a pier and surveyed the breeding ponds all around him. He did not need a thermometer to know that the water was treac... (photo: AP / Sergey Ponomarev)
Health   Photos   Russia   Weather   Wikipedia: Heat wave  
A Pakistani army soldier collects evidence at the site of Wednesday's deadly plane crash, in the mountains surrounding Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday, July 29, 2010. Gulf News
DNA tests on to identify remains of crash victims
| Islamabad: Paramedics were taking blood samples Thursday from close relatives for DNA tests to identify the remains of those who died in the plane crash in Pakista... (photo: AP / Anjum Naveed)
Airline   Disaster   Pakistan   Photos   wikipedia : Airblue Flight 202  
Local residents carry buckets of water to extinguishes a peat fire in a forest near the town of Shatura, some 130 km (81 miles) southeast of Moscow, Thursday, July 29, 2010. Peat swamps started burning in central Russia following an unprecedented heat wave. The Star
Sweltering heat breaks new record in Moscow
| MOSCOW (Reuters) - The summer heat set a new all-time temperature record in Moscow on Thursday, a leading forecaster said, adding that the unprecedentedly long heatwave... (photo: AP / Sergey Ponomarev)
Health   Moscow   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Heat wave  
Devotees being carried on ponies to the shrine of Hindu God 'Shiva' during the annual Amarnath Yatra (Pilgrimage), some 14 Km from Baltal in Indian-administered Kashmir on June 16, 2009,Some 600,000 pilgrims are expected to visit the holy Amarnath Cave this season where a Shiva Lingam, an ice stalagmite shaped as a fallus and symbolising the Hindu God Shiva, stands for worship. The Lingam which forms naturally every year in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, measures 12 feet in height, the Shrine Board authorities said. Deccan Chronicle
Amarnath yatra suspended for the second day from Jammu
Amarnath yatra suspended for the second day from Jammu | Share ARTICLEURL | Authorities have suspended the Amarnath yatra from here for the second consecutive day on Thur... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar)
Kashmir   Photos   Religion   Weather   Wikipedia: Amarnath Temple  
DNA India
Amarnath yatra suspended for the second day from Jammu
| Jammu: Authorities have suspended the Amarnath yatra from Jammu for the second consecutive day today as a large number of pilgrims were stranded at Baltal and Pahlagam ... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar)
India   Jammu   Photos   Srinagar   Weather  
In this photo taken on Wednesday, July 28, 2010, sand bags are used to block the flood water outside women's house in Changchun in northeast China's Jilin province. Al Jazeera
China flood death toll nears 1,000
| China's worst flooding in more than a decade has killed nearly 1,000 people across the country and stranded tens of thousands in the northeast without power. ... (photo: AP)
China   Environment   Flood   Photos   Wikipedia: People's Republic of China  
Pakistani rescue workers look for survivors at the site of plane crashed in Islamabad, Pakistan  on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Khaleej Times
Investigators seek clues to Pakistan air crash
ISLAMABAD ' Pakistan on Thursday observed a day of mourning for the 152 people killed in the country's worst aviation disaster, as rescue workers searched for the aircraf... (photo: AP / Mohammad Sajjad)
Airline   Disasters   Pakistan   Photos   Wikipedia: List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft  
Climate Change Storms & Hurricanes
- Climate change fans are heating up
- Labor's great climate change choke
- Making sense of the impasse on U.S. climate change policy
- Great Barrier Reef corals unveil sea level and climate chang
Barack Obama features in banned commercial from dutch online shop Wehkamp
Obama must take a lead on climate change âEuro" and soon
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- Madagascar rain forests, US Everglades in danger
- BP oil spill: A Louisiana tragedy
- Wildfires sweeping Russia kill at least 25
- Weather History: July 31: Tropics, Record Heat, Severe Storm
A camp is seen on an island near cypress trees killed by saltwater intrusion in wetlands near Houma, La., Wednesday, July 28, 2010.
BP oil spill: A Louisiana tragedy
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Floods Droughts
- Over 900 dead as floods sweep Asia
- EU gives Pakistan 30 million euros in humanitarian aid
- Death Toll Rises to 800 as Floods Hit Pakistan
- Rains recede, but take 3 more lives
Heavy rains lash North India, three die in UP
Heavy rains lash North India, three die in UP
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- Booze drought on verge of breaking
- Drought-resistant shrubs require little maintenance
- After record highs, many NC counties in drought
- Tough road for Ford Kenseth hopes to end victory drought at
In this photo taken on July 18, 2009, a wind turbines are seen at the Da Bancheng Wind Farm, south of Urumqi, in Xinjiang, China.
U.N. ends Kyoto CO2 offset drought ahead of key meet
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Environment Pollution
- Turbines Too Loud for You? Here, Take $5,000
- India Digs Under Top of the World to Match Rival
- Environment needs new consciousness
- Engineers prepare to seal ruptured oil well
 The President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam viewing through a telescope while visiting the Philippine Science High School in Quezon City in Philippines on 6 February 2006 - india - hires - am1
Science group: Sharing knowledge key to helping gov't
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- China setting milestone as economy passes Japan's
- The importance of sustainable buildings in our health and co
- Warmers heating up again!
- House approves oil spill bill; stalled in Senate
Air Seychelles Boeing 767-200
Air Seychelles prepares for EU carbon emissions scheme
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Wildlife Natural Disasters
- Saving Wildlife From A Midwestern Oil Spill
- What is the latest on the hippo die-off in Uganda?
- Wildlife at risk from Michigan river spill
- Wildlife rescued in Michigan
Hippopotamus
What is the latest on the hippo die-off in Uganda?
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- Too humid? You prefer Dust Bowl?
- Death toll in Pakistani floods surges past 800
- Tracking Gulf's Fate as Slicks Recede
- Death toll in Pakistani floods surges past 800
Vladimir Putin
Putin plans emergency meeting on forest fires (Roundup)
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