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Oklahoma Twister Kills 51, Injures Dozens More
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, May 20, 2013 (ENS) – A powerful tornado tore through Moore and south Oklahoma City Monday, killing at least 51 people, including 20 children. […]
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Six Die as 200 mph Tornado Howls Across Texas
AUSTIN, Texas, May 16, 2013 (ENS) – Six people have lost their lives and nearly 100 others were injured as tornadoes touched down in north-central Texas overnight. More than 100 homes were damaged or destroyed. […]
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Indian Ocean Cyclone Threatens Over Eight Million People
DHAKA, Bangladesh, May 15, 2013 (ENS) – A cyclone blowing across the Indian Ocean is expected to hit Bangladesh on Thursday, threatening the lives of 8.2 million people in northeast India, Bangladesh and Myanmar (Burma). The highest storm surge and rainfall predictions are for Bangladesh’s coastal cities of Chittagong and Cox’s Bazaar. […]
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Wildfire Out of Control in Dry Southern California
CAMARILLO, California, May 3, 2013 (ENS) – A Red Flag Warning for high fire danger remains in effect for much of Southern California due to high temperatures, low humidity and gusty winds. […]
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Ukraine President Orders Financial Aid for Chernobyl Victims
KIEV, Ukraine, April 26, 2013 (ENS) – On the 27th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych today laid flowers at the Memorial to Heroes at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. […]
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Elephants Slaughtered Amidst Chaos in Central African Republic
WASHINGTON, DC, April 26, 2013 (ENS) – Conservation groups have been forced to evacuate their staff members from the Central African Republic, where large numbers of elephants are being poached amidst a chaotic struggle for leadership of the country. […]
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Keystone XL Pipeline ‘All Risk, No Reward’ State Dept. Told
GRAND ISLAND, Nebraska, April 18, 2013 (ENS) – Opponents of TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline packed a State Department public hearing on its latest environmental analysis of the pipeline to warn that it is all risk for the United States, with no reward. […]
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Second Earthquake in 10 Days Kills Dozens in Iran, Pakistan
TEHRAN, Iran, April 17, 2013 (ENS) – The strongest earthquake to strike Iran in more than 50 years hit the border area between Iran and Pakistan Wednesday afternoon at 15:25 hours local time. […]
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Colorado River Tops America’s Most Endangered Rivers List
WASHINGTON, DC, April 17, 2013 (ENS) – “Dammed, diverted, and drained … to a trickle” and facing another drought this summer, the Colorado River tops American Rivers’ annual list of America’s Most Endangered Rivers, the nonprofit river advocacy group announced today. […]
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U.S. Nuclear Agency Warned to Expand Power Plant Evacuation Zones
WASHINGTON, DC, April 11, 2013 (ENS) – The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission should look at evacuation plans for areas beyond a 10-mile radius around America’s nuclear power plants, the independent research branch of Congress advised Wednesday. […]
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Radioactive Water Leaks From Japan’s Damaged Nuclear Plant
TOKYO, Japan, April 9, 2013 (ENS) – The Government of Japan has ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to fix fresh radioactive water leaks at its damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. […]
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Seven Dead in China as Bird Flu Virus Infects Humans
BEIJING, China, April 8, 2013 (ENS) – A new form of bird flu is alarming Chinese and World Health Organization officials. Since March 29, when human infection with the influenza A(H7N9) virus was first reported, a total of 24 cases have been confirmed; seven people have died. […]
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Power Blackout Interrupts Cooling at Fukushima Nuclear Plant
TOKYO, Japan, March 18, 2013 (ENS) – A power blackout occurred today at Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, knocking out the system that cools four pools of water holding spent fuel rods. […]
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Japan Still Suffers Quake, Tsunami Effects Two Years Later
TOKYO, Japan, March 11, 2013 (ENS) – People across Japan today marked the second anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Honshu island on March 11, 2011 with memorial ceremonies, speeches and promises. More than 300,000 people are still in temporary housing and nearly all the country’s nuclear power plants are closed. […]
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Deadly Drug-resistant Bacteria Spreading in U.S. Hospitals
ATLANTA, Georgia, March 5, 2013 (ENS) – Drug-resistant germs called carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, are on the rise and have become more resistant to last-resort antibiotics over the past decade, warns a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. […]
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Six Storage Tanks Leaking at Hanford Nuclear Site
RICHLAND, Washington, February 23, 2013 (ENS) – Six single-shell containment tanks are leaking highly radioactive waste at the Hanford Nuclear Site in south-central Washington state, Energy Department officials have discovered. […]
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BP Escapes Penalty for Oil Recovered in Gulf Spill
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, February 21, 2013 (ENS) – A federal judge has agreed with British oil company BP that the 810,000 barrels of oil the company recovered from its 2010 spill site in the Gulf of Mexico should not be part of the court’s determination of Clean Water Act penalties. […]
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Chemical Tankers Collide in Gulf of Mexico
HOUSTON, Texas, February 21, 2013 (ENS) – An oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico was averted by the quick action of crew members aboard one of two inbound chemical tankers that collided on Wednesday, approximately 70 miles south of Galveston, Texas. The early morning collision caused some internal damage to one of the tankers. […]
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Japanese Whaler Rams Sea Shepherd Ships in Australian Waters
SOUTHERN OCEAN, February 20, 2013 (ENS) – The Japanese whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru has collided with two whale conservation vessels and its own refueling tanker in Australia’s Antarctic waters, damaging the other ships. No injuries are reported. […]
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Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals Linked to Cancers: WHO/UNEP Report
GENEVA, Switzerland, February 19, 2013 (ENS) – Chemicals in household and industrial products that disrupt the human hormone system are linked to high global rates of breast, ovarian, prostate, testicular and thyroid cancers, warns a report released today by the UN Environment Programme and the World Health Organization. […]