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'Sleeping giant' glacier may lift seas two metres: study
AFP, Published on 19/05/2016
» PARIS - A rapidly melting glacier atop East Antarctica is on track to lift oceans at least two metres, and could soon pass a "tipping point" of no return, researchers said Wednesday.
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Botanists warn on threats to world's plant kingdom
AFP, Published on 10/05/2016
» LONDON - Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens warned Tuesday about the threats facing the world's plant kingdom in the first global report of its kind aimed at drawing attention to often-overlooked species.
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Waves of dead sea creatures hit Chile's beaches
AFP, Published on 04/05/2016
» SANTIAGO - Heaps of dead whales, salmon and sardines blamed on the El Nino weather phenomenon have clogged Chile's Pacific beaches in recent months.
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A year on, Asia's boat people trapped in desperate limbo
AFP, Published on 03/05/2016
» BAYEUN, INDONESIA – A year after struggling ashore during Southeast Asia's human-trafficking crisis, Sonamia and hundreds of other desperate Rohingya migrants remain in limbo, forgotten footnotes as record numbers worldwide flee violence and persecution.
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El Nino dries up Asia as its stormy sister La Nina looms
AFP, Published on 29/04/2016
» Withering drought and sizzling temperatures from El Nino have caused food and water shortages and ravaged farming across Asia, and experts warn of a double-whammy of possible flooding from its sibling, La Nina.
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Hungry penguins chase Antarctic's declining krill
AFP, Published on 08/04/2016
» ANTARCTICA - Waddling over the rocks, legions of penguins hurl themselves into the icy waters of Antarctica, foraging to feed their young.
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Parched fields force Thailand to look beyond rice
AFP, Published on 03/04/2016
» Thailand has long served as one of the globe's main rice bowls, but chronic water shortages are pushing the country to move away from a grain that dominates its fields and has defined a way of life for generations.
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Barrier Reef dissolving faster than thought
AFP, Published on 24/02/2016
» PARIS - Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR), the world's largest coral bank, is at greater risk than previously thought of dissolving as climate change renders the oceans more acidic, researchers said Tuesday.
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Dozens of whales die after southern India stranding
AFP, Published on 12/01/2016
» CHENNAI, India - Dozens of whales have died after stranding themselves on a southern Indian beach, a forestry official said Tuesday, with local fishermen struggling to save others.
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Extreme weather: The record El Nino
AFP, Published on 29/12/2015
» PARIS - Deadly extreme weather on at least five continents is driven in large part by a record-breaking El Nino, but climate change is a likely booster too, experts said Monday.
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