Topic: Oceania
Floodwaters feared to have claimed the life of a young boy cut the southern Australian town of Horsham in two Tuesday as Canberra urged big business to dig deep for the disaster's victims.Prime Minister Julia Gillard turned to corporate Australia for help ...
Interruption in supplies is forcing consumers – particularly in China – to look for alternative suppliers as far away as the U.S. and CanadaYou may have heard by now about Australia’s flash flood that left 10 dead and 78 missing today. That ...
The US space agency said Thursday that a particularly strong La Nina weather pattern of cooler water temperatures is fueling heavy rains and floods in Australia."Although exacerbated by precipitation from a tropical cyclone, rainfalls of historic proportion in eastern Queensland, Australia have ...
More heavy rains were forecast for Australia's northeast Friday, threatening to worsen flooding after besieged Rockhampton cut supplies to "irresponsible" residents refusing to leave.In a severe weather warning, Canberra's Bureau of Meteorology said predicted heavy rainfall in parts of Queensland, "with the ...
Heavy rains threatened further flooding in Australia's drenched northeast Thursday as besieged Rockhampton cut supplies to "irresponsible" residents who refused to leave water-bound homes.Torrential downpours could cause flash-flooding and worsen existing floods, the weather bureau said, as water levels slowly started to ...
Twenty people are missing after a supply ship sank about 80 miles (130 kilometres) from the Marshall Islands capital Majuro early Saturday, officials said.The 90-foot Jeljelet Ae was eight hours into a 200-mile open ocean journey to outlying Likiep Atoll when the ...
Boy scalded head to foot in fall into New Zealand geothermal hot poolAn eight-year-old New Zealand boy is fighting for his life after being scalded head to foot when he fell into a geothermal pool which could have been as hot as ...
Researchers identified Wednesday a previously unknown relative to the Neanderthal who lived in Asia 30,000 to 50,000 years ago and interbred with the ancestors of Papua New Guinea inhabitants.Scientists were able to extract the entire genome of the group known as the ...
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US scientists received $1M prize from European foundation for work on childhood developmentTwo American scientists received a prize of 1 million Swiss francs ($1 million) Friday in recognition of their decadeslong research into childhood development.The Zurich-based Jacobs Foundation awarded the money to ...
