January 11, 2012
Many rice farmers work under the mistaken impression that regular insecticide applications are necessary to attain high yields. However, decades of research by scientists around the world has shown that healthy and productive rice crops can be produced with little or no insecticide applications in most years. Nonetheless, farmers continue to apply dangerous chemicals [...]
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October 27, 2011
A worker checks pipes and valves at Amaal oil field in eastern Libya October 7, 2011. Abdula Altako was killed in March guarding the oil field he worked for, one of the first but by no means the last of Libya’s oil workers to die defending the country’s lifeblood. Abandoned by their foreign owners during [...]
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April 18, 2011
Shawtna Mathews, 13, pictured on April 17, 2011, after a tornado destroyed her home in Gloucester, Virginia. US authorities Monday rushed aid to southern states after powerful tornadoes cut a path of death and destruction, killing at least 45 and reducing entire towns to piles of rubble. The tragedy began late Thursday in Oklahoma, where [...]
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March 14, 2011
An "SOS" signal is written on the sports field of a high school after the magnitude 8.9 earthquake and tsunami struck the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan March 13, 2011 A hydrogen explosion rocked the earthquake-stricken nuclear plant in Japan where authorities have been working desperately to avert a meltdown, compounding a [...]
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March 12, 2011
Houses swept by a tsunami are seen as residents walk in Kesen Numa, Miyagi prefecture March 12, 2011 Japan scrambled on Saturday to reduce pressure in two nuclear plants damaged after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck its northeast coast probably killing at least 1,300 people. A day after the biggest quake on record in [...]
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March 11, 2011
Natural gas storage tanks burn at a facility in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, Japan March 11, 2011 The biggest earthquake on record to hit Japan struck the northeast coast on Friday, triggering a 10-meter tsunami that swept away everything in its path, including houses, ships, cars and farm buildings. The Red Cross in Geneva said [...]
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February 25, 2011
Rescue workers are seen digging at the site of the collapsed CTV building in quake-hit Christchurch on February 24, 2011. New Zealand warned frantic relatives to brace for the worst Friday as toiling rescuers failed to find any more survivors after a devastating earthquake left at least 113 dead. As rain hampered the painstaking search [...]
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February 3, 2011
A satellite image obtained from the US Naval Research Laboratory shows Cyclone Yasi approaching the coast of Australia on February 2, 2011. Australians voiced relief and surprise after one of the world’s most powerful cyclones spared the nation’s northeast coast from expected devastation on Thursday, with no reported deaths despite winds tearing off roofs and [...]
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January 14, 2010
A man calls for help while being trapped at the Port-au-Prince University, after a major earthquake struck, in Port-au-Prince in this January 13, 2010 video grab Traumatized Haitians slept out in parks and streets on Thursday, fearing aftershocks to the catastrophic earthquake that flattened homes and government buildings and buried countless people. Tens of thousands [...]
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December 19, 2009
Abandoned shrimp ponds in Phuoc Thai Commune in Dong Nai Province. With the waters of Thi Vai River beginning to clear up after MSG-maker Vedan was forced to stop discharging untreated effluents into it, farmers living along its banks decided to shift from breeding fish to shrimp. Still hurting from losses inflicted by Vedanâs pollution [...]
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