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The story of Noah building an ark to save his family and save thousands of animals from a flood which destroys all life on earth is an epic from many people's childhoods. It's a wonderful story found
Rising Seas, Development Predicted to Cause More Flood Disasters The Tropical Storm Harvey in the Unites States and the monsoon in South Asia have again shown how dangerous and destructive floodwaters can be. More than 1,200 people have died across I
A doctor vacationing on the Riviera met a lawyer friend and asked him what he was doing there. The lawyer replied, I'm here because my house burned down, and the insurance company paid for everything. What are you doing here? That's quite a coinciden
The annual monsoon rains have unleashed flooding in several parts of India, killing nearly 1,500 people and leaving millions of others homeless. The worst affected region is the eastern state, Bihar, where a river burst its embankment, last month, a
Study: Rats Pose Plague Risk in Croplands Efforts to boost food production in East Africa may increase the risk of plague. A new study says the conversion of natural lands into croplands in Tanzania has been accompanied by a large increase in the rod
Pre-Listening Vocabulary accustomed to: used to tirelessly: without tiring; for long hours surge barrier: man-made protection built to keep the sea from flooding onto the land valve: a device that opens and shuts; changes the direction of fluid Nethe
Drylands Vulnerable to Climate Change Researchers warn that the worlds drylands are being severely affected by climate change. They say that could harm the livelihoods and food security for billions of people. Scientists describe the projected effect
蓝调天后的唯美新单:Katie Melua - The Flood 英国爵士蓝调歌手Katie Melua拥有一种独特的嗓音,柔媚复古,性感妖娆。这首The Flood是今年她推出的新单曲,声线飘渺流畅,优美得让人想飘起来。MV也
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 22 August 2007 The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is appealing for $5.5 million to head-off a potential health crisis in flood-stricken North Korea. The Swiss agency reports North Korea's healt
DAVID GREENE, HOST: One of the very first moves by the new Republican Congress was to make it easier to transfer ownership of federal public lands in the West over to states. And the state of Wyoming has become a flashpoint in this debate. Lawmakers
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 16 October 2006 An international campaign to draw attention to the huge agricultural potential of the Sahel drylands of Africa is gaining ground, with a recent workshop in Niamey, the capital of Niger. The campaign seeks to
The Flood Katie Melua Broken people get recycled and I hope that I will sometimes be thrown over pathways what I thought was my way home wasn't the place I know no I'm certain nothing's certain what we are becomes our prison my posessions will be gon
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 18 October 2007 The United Nations Children's Fund says hundreds of thousands of flood victims in North Korea are in a fragile state and need emergency assistance. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva that UNICEF says food,
By Jamila Trindle Mianyang, Sichuan Province, China 06 June 2008 Three weeks after the earthquake in China's Sichuan province displaced five million people, a few hundred thousand have had to move again - out of the way of a dammed river that poses
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 18 August 2007 International aid agency Oxfam says poorly built flood defenses in South Asia may have aggravated the intensity of the recent flooding in the region. It calls for a reassessment of flood policies in the reg
CHENGDU, July 11 (Xinhua) -- More than 220,000 people in southwest China's Sichuan Province have been evacuated from low-lying areas following a flood that struck the disaster-prone region on Wednesday, local authorities said. The flood, the third in
Flood pools to be built in Beijing after deadly storm BEIJING, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Authorities are planning to build 20 underground flood pools in downtown Beijing to improve the Chinese capital's flood-control capacity after a devastating rainstorm
YICHANG, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Continuous flood peaks have left over 600 ships stranded on sections of the Yangtze River near the Three Gorges Dam in the city of Yichang in central China's Hubei Province. Since early July, continuous flood peaks have h
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BEIJING, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The national flood and drought prevention office has warned that severe floods are more likely to occur this year due to markedly increased rainfall, according to Sunday media reports. Floods may cause greater damage this