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U.N. condemns Australia's treatment of refugees 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Canberra, Australia (UPI) Aug 23, 2013 The United Nations Human Rights Committee said Australia must release 46 asylum seekers who have been held for more than four years and compensate them for thei...
Sri Lanka army denies involvement in attack on editor 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Colombo (AFP) Aug 25, 2013 Sri Lanka's army Sunday denied involvement in an armed robbery at the home of a journalist who has been critical of the government. But it said two military deserters were...
Switzerland and Italy growl over 'problem bears' 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP) Aug 23, 2013 Swiss and Italian officials are butting heads over how to tackle bears roaming between the two countries, in a dispute centred on balancing human and animal wel...
Japan seeds clouds to boost Tokyo rain 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 23, 2013 Japanese scientists have fired cloud seeding equipment to help top up reservoirs serving the 35 million people of greater Tokyo, officials said Friday, amid a sweltering summ...
Arctic Sea Ice Update: Unlikely To Break Records, But Continuing Downward Trend 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 26, 2013 The melting of sea ice in the Arctic is well on its way toward its annual "minimum," that time when the floating ice cap covers less of the Arctic Ocean than at any o...
Out of Africa? New bamboo genera, mountain gorillas, and the origins of China's bamboos 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 26, 2013 African mountain bamboos are something of a mystery, as nearly all bamboos are found in Asia or South America. Hidden away up mountains in the tropics where they prov...
Beetles modify emissions of greenhouse gases from cow pats 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Aug 26, 2013 Cattle contribute to global warming by burping and farting large amounts of greenhouse gases. Some of the same gases are also emitted from cow pats on pastures. B...
New risk model sheds light on arsenic risk in China's groundwater 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Dubendorf, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 26, 2013 Since the 1960s, it has been known that groundwater resources in certain provinces of China are contaminated with arsenic. Estimates of the numbers of affect...
NASA's HS3 Mission Analyzes Saharan Dust Layer Over Eastern Atlantic 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 26, 2013 One of two of NASA's Global Hawk unmanned aircraft flew over the remnants of Tropical Storm Erin and investigated the Saharan Air Layer in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean ...
Sea ice decline spurs the greening of the Arctic 25 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Fairbanks AL (SPX) Aug 26, 2013 Sea ice decline and warming trends are changing the vegetation in nearby arctic coastal areas, according to two University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists. Uma Bhatt, ...
