The devastation that Brazil suffered with the latest floods and mudslides has caused billions of dollars in damages and claimed the lives of an estimated 100, with 19 still missing, authorities reported yesterday. As some people had nothing to eat or drink for 4 days or even more, looting is a spreading phenomenon th... |
27 November 2008
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon argued the necessity of sustained international efforts towards averting global warming, especially now, when the state of the world economy is in a pretty rough shape and most governments are too concerned with their own problems to care about what's happening with t... |
4 November 2008
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You could be forgiven for caring less about Ensemble's last project ever, Halo Wars. After all, Halo 3: Recon, a new campaign for the Xbox 360 blockbuster, has just been announced, and it is produced by the grandfathers of the Halo franchise, the people at Bungie, so it's bound to be a great experience. Me... |
17 October 2008
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The Glen Canyon Dam situated in northern Arizona, on the course of Colorado River flowing through the Grand Canyon, is one of the biggest artificial water accumulations, with the role of generating electric energy and supplying the population with precious water during severe droughts which may eventually hit the sur... |
6 March 2008
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WORM_RBOT.HBZ is the latest threat spotted in the wild that targets the Windows systems and attempts to drop its files on most versions of the Microsoft operating system including 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Server 2003. The worm was discovered by security company Trend Micro, which wrote that it could easily reach your... |
28 December 2007
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The Biblical flood seems to have turned Europeans from Stone Age hunter-gatherers into farmers. 'Noah's Flood' originated in a real event that took place millennia ago: the flooding of the Black Sea, an inland sea wedged between Europe and Asia, caused by the rising of the ocean levels (and of the Medi... |
21 November 2007
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Following the recent flood from UK, the local Internet users found a simple way to keep the residents of the country up to date with the latest weather information: a Google Maps mashup that shows every location to be hit by water. As usual, the map is created with the recently released My Maps implemented into the G... |
25 July 2007
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Why does the world have to stand the British insular arrogance? Because of a biblical megaflood that cut the British Isles off from mainland Europe during the Ice Age. 3-D sonar mapping of the English Channel has shown that this must have occurred somewhere between 450,000 and 200,000 years ago. "It is probably one o... |
19 July 2007
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From African explorers to the Tarzan's adventures, we have heard about the mysterious elephants' graveyards. Now, researchers have revealed an Ice Age graveyard of the Ice Age's elephants: mammoths. The fossils, some of them complete skeletons of Mammuthus columbi, the Columbian mammoth, were stored i... |
8 May 2007
14:22 GMT |
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