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Auckland City Council acts to remove suspect chemicals in pre-school’s soil

• Posted on October 19, 2018
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Saturday, April 1, 2006 Chemicals, which the Auckland City Council said are a suspected cause of cancer and are considered toxic, have been found in soil at a children’s playcentre in Auckland. The contamination was found at the Auckland Central Playcentre in Freemans Bay, and the Council will now spend $100,000 removing the top 50

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Inhabited tropical island lost to rising seas

• Posted on October 18, 2018
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Sunday, December 24, 2006 The Independent reports that an inhabited island has been completely submerged for the first time as a result of rising sea levels caused by global warming. The disappearance of the island of Lohachara, part of West Bengal‘s Sundarbans and once home to over ten thousand people, is a milestone in some

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Fire engulfs 140 buildings in Itoigawa, Japan

• Posted on October 18, 2018
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Saturday, December 24, 2016 A fire on Thursday engulfed at least 140 buildings in Itoigawa, Japan. The inferno injured, by varying reports, at least eight people. The coastal town in the northern prefecture of Niigata’s many traditional wooden buildings burned easily, fanned by winds of 56kph (35mph). Narrow streets hampered firefighters. “Sparks of fire flew

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Stranded Russian minisub is trapped by 60 tonne anchor

• Posted on October 16, 2018
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Friday, August 5, 2005 The Interfax news agency is reporting that a Russian minisub that was stranded underwater in the Pacific Ocean is trapped by two 60 tonne anchors. The submarine propeller has snagged on the antenna of a sonar underwater coastal defense station, (or perhaps very long low frequency arrays, which can be thousands

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US stock markets fall amid credit fears

• Posted on October 16, 2018
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Friday, August 3, 2007 The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 280 points, Friday, to 13181.91, just two weeks after soaring to a historic record of 14,000. Two other major indexes, the Nasdaq and the Standard and Poor 500, fell more than 2% in a widespread market sell-off. Shares of Bear Stearns, the largest

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German polar bear Knut turns one year old

• Posted on October 16, 2018
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Thursday, December 6, 2007 Knut, Germany’s famous polar bear, turned one at the Berlin Zoo yesterday. For the celebration he had a healthy cake with fruits and vegetables, fish and rice on lettuce topped with a candle-shaped rolling pin. The director of the zoo, Bernhard Blaszkiewitz, said: “I wish Knut that he will get as

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Category:February 27, 2008

• Posted on October 15, 2018
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? February 26, 2008 February 28, 2008 ? February 27 Pages in category “February 27, 2008”

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Wikinews interviews biologist Chris Simon about periodical cicadas

• Posted on October 14, 2018
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013 In May, periodical cicadas with 17 years life cycle emerged on the East Coast of the USA after underground development as juveniles since 1996. Researchers and scientists worked to map and study the rare wave, and the locals prepared for the noisy event. First recorded in 1666, the Magicicada septendecim species

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Digital security researchers publicly reveal vulnerability in WPA2 WiFi protocol

• Posted on October 13, 2018
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Thursday, October 19, 2017 On Monday, digital security researchers Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens of Belgium’s KU Leuven university publicly disclosed a security vulnerability in the WPA2 Wi-Fi (wireless local-area networking) protocol, which they called KRACK (for Key Reinstallation Attack). Their study claimed KRACK affects every modern device using Wi-Fi; it can be fixed by

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Heavy rains start in central and southern Chile while aftershock takes place

• Posted on October 13, 2018
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010 Heavy rains have started on Wednesday early morning through the most of central and southern Chile. At least 29 millimeters were reported by ONEMI in the Bío Bío Region in Wednesday morning; thirteen milimeters in Temuco and 8.8 in Chillán. It has been worsen by the low temperatures. The rains have