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UK: Deadly floods after storms in Surrey
A seven-year-old boy has died after he was found by rescue crews evacuating flood-hit homes in Surrey. The parents of…
Kiwi’s key to ancient seas
Research by an Otago University geology student has uncovered a strange pre-Ice Age world, where primitive porpoises and baleen whales…
Week in Weather – What’s been Making Headlines this week
With Waitangi Day falling on Thursday, most of us have had a shorter week than usual, but that doesn’t mean…
USA – Power still out for half a million after storm
Bob and Debbie Burns endured three dark and powerless days after Hurricane Sandy. When the lights went out this time…
USA – California drought sparks fears for future
In November 1913, engineer William Mulholland opened a sluice gate to inaugurate the Los Angeles Aqueduct – built to carry…
Australia – QLD town runs out of water – prepares to evacuate
After two years with virtually no rain a Queensland town is planning for the possible evacuation of its entire population…
Video: How will the universe “die”?
Everybody dies. The universe too? Well, probably. What are the current theories about the end of everything? And how creepy…
Indonesia – Search continues for the dead and missing
Search and recovery teams on Monday resumed their perilous task of looking for victims from the recent volcanic eruptions of…
Indonesia – Volcano claims 15 lives
Jakarta, Indonesia — The 15 victims simply couldn’t outrun the searing debris that billowed out of Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung. Plumes…
And the world’s most polluted city is…
It may seem an academic argument when you’re wiping sulphate-saturated tears from your eyes, or coughing up a lung while…
