Australia Braces For Second Super Cyclone In Two Weeks
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Australi..._Two_Weeks.html

Perth, Australia (AFP) Mar 29, 2006 - Australia braced for the second powerful cyclone to strike in two weeks as a category-five storm bore down on the country's west coast, the weather bureau reported. Cyclone Glenda was upgraded to the highest category of tropical storm overnight, meaning it was producing extremely dangerous wind gusts of up to 280 kilometers per hour (174 miles per hour).

Mega Eruption Of Yellowstone's Southern Twin
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Mega_Eru...thern_Twin.html

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One Of Earth's Oldest Quakes Took Place In Eastern India
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/One_Of_E...tern_India.html

Earth Forum Hears Dire Warnings Of Environmental Collapse
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Earth_Fo...l_Collapse.html

New York (AFP) Mar 29, 2006 - The cataclysmic consequences of unsustainable development pose a challenge to the world that will make the war on terror seem a mere distraction, a global environmental conference heard Tuesday.

Lives In Indonesia, Africa At Risk Despite Tsunami Alert System
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Lives_In...ert_System.html

Bonn (AFP) Mar 29, 2006 - Lives in Africa, Indonesia and on islands like the Maldives will remain at risk in the event of a tsumani for years to come despite an alert system taking effect in July, the head of the UN agency for disaster reduction said here Tuesday.

Britain Will Exceed Kyoto But Miss Own Targets On Greenhouse Gases
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Britain_...ouse_Gases.html

London (AFP) Mar 29, 2006 - The British government unveiled plans Tuesday to fight global warming by cutting greenhouse gases in every sector, expecting to exceed targets set by the Kyoto Protocol but fall short of its own.

Canada's New Government 'Starting From Scratch' On Kyoto Protocol
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Canadas_...o_Protocol.html

- UN Decries Biodiversity Decline, Climate Change
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/UN_Decri...ate_Change.html

Nairobi (AFP) Mar 31, 2006 - The outgoing chief of the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) on Thursday decried a steady decline in global biodiversity and lamented that the problem of climate change had yet to be taken seriously.

- Life Continues In The Shadow Of Volcano On Simmering Mount Merapi
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Life_Con...unt_Merapi.html

Babadan, Indonesia (AFP) Apr 20, 2006 - Ginem mans her modest food stall in the shadow of Indonesia's menacing Mount Merapi as usual, despite evacuation preparations feverishly underway round the nation's second most active volcano.

- Thousands Flee As Floods Threaten Romanian Dykes
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Thousand...nian_Dykes.html

- Cyclone Monica Batters Northeast Australia
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Cyclone_..._Australia.html

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- Antarctic Subglacial Rivers Are Found
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Antarcti..._Are_Found.html

London (UPI) Apr 20, 2006 - British scientists say plans are to drill beneath the frozen wastes of the Antarctic, to investigate subglacial lakes, are being reviewed.

- Scientists Penetrate Fossil Magma Chamber Beneath Intact Ocean Crust
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Scientis...cean_Crust.html

Pacific Ocean, approx 800 km west of Costa Rica (SPX) Apr 21, 2006 - An international team of scientists aboard the research drilling ship JOIDES Resolution has - for the first time - recovered black rocks known as gabbros from intact ocean crust. Supported by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), the scientists drilled through the volcanic rock that forms the Earth's crust to reach a fossil magma chamber lying 1.4 kilometers beneath the seafloor.


- Opening Of Passage May Be Tied To Antarctic Cooling
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Opening_...ic_Cooling.html

Gainesville FL (SPX) Apr 21, 2006 - Ancient fish teeth are yielding clues about when Antarctica became the icy continent it is today, highlighting how ocean currents affect climate change. University of Florida geologists have used a rare element found in tiny fish teeth gathered from miles below the ocean surface to date the opening of a passage at the bottom of the globe between the Atlantic and Pacific.


- ERS-2 Helps Detect Rivers Under Antarctic Ice
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/ERS_2_He...arctic_Ice.html


- Fruitfly Study Shows How Evolution Wings It
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Fruitfly...n_Wings_It.html

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 21, 2006 - In the frantic world of fruitfly courtship, the difference between attracting a mate and going home alone may depend on having the right wing spots. Now, Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have learned which elements of fly DNA make these spots come and go in different species.

- The Laotian Lost World Of Frogs
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/The_Laot...d_Of_Frogs.html

- Malaysia Denies Capturing Baby Bigfoot
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Malaysia...by_Bigfoot.html

- How Do 10,000 Bees Agree Where To Go When They Fly The Coop
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/How_Do_1...y_The_Coop.html

Ithica NY (SPX) Apr 21, 2006 - When 10,000 honeybees fly the coop to hunt for a new home, usually a tree cavity, they have a unique method of deciding which site is right: With great efficiency they narrow down the options and minimize bad decisions.

- Flash Floods And Landslide Kills At Least 23 In Indonesia
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Flash_Fl..._Indonesia.html

Jakarta (AFP) Apr 21, 2006 - Flash floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains in Indonesia's East Java have killed at least 23 people, the state Antara news agency said Thursday as mopping up operations got underway.


- The Real Toll Of Chernobyl Remains Hidden In Background Noise
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/The_Real...ound_Noise.html

Yorktown Heights NJ (UPI) Apr 21, 2006 - The headline of The New York Times Sept. 8, 2005 editorial, "Chernobyl's Reduced Impact," indicated that the consequences of Chernobyl are now understood to be substantially less serious than previously estimated.


- New Mineral History Shows That Young Mars May Have Supported Life
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/New_Mine...orted_Life.html


- Infrared Space Observatory Provides First View Of Monster Stars Being Born
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Infrared...Being_Born.html


- Deep Impact Team Want To Go Back With A Bang
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Deep_Imp...ith_A_Bang.html

- Is Fetal Farming The Next Debate About Medicine In The 21st Century
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Is_Fetal...st_Century.html

Washington (UPI) Apr 28, 2006 - Lawmakers opposing embryonic stem cell research are preparing to offer a new proposal banning the harvesting of tissue from advanced embryos or fetuses, United Press International has learned.

- Kennewick Man Skeletal Find May Revolutionalize Americas History
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Kennewic...as_History.html

Mufreesboro TN (SPX) Apr 28, 2006 - A forensic anthropologist at Middle Tennessee State University is one of a select number of scientists to participate in the examination of a skeleton that could force historians to rewrite the story of the entire North American continent.

- Scientist Warns Of Environmental And Health Risks From Three Gorges
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Scientis...ree_Gorges.html

Beijing (AFP) Apr 27, 2006 - Rising pollution levels in China's Three Gorges reservoir are increasing the risk of an ecological and public health disaster, a leading national scientist said in comments published Thursday.

- After A Soaring Takeoff, The Kyoto Carbon Market Slams Into Turbulence
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/After_A_...Turbulence.html

Paris (AFP) May 01, 2006 - Dark clouds have suddenly gathered over the fledgling market for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, where prices plunged by more than half last week as European countries discovered they were polluting far less than they thought.

- A View Of Urban Sprawl From Outer Space
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/A_View_O...uter_Space.html

Toronto, Canada (SPX) May 03, 2006 - Recent urban development in Los Angeles is less scattered than recent development in Boston. Miami is America's most compact big city and Pittsburgh is most sprawling. Changing the number or size of municipal governments in a metro area has no impact on whether or not urban development is scattered, but controlling access to groundwater does.

- New Lava Dome Grows On Top Of Indonesia's Rumbling Mount Merapi
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/New_Lava...unt_Merapi.html

Jakarta (AFP) May 03, 2006 - A new lava dome has formed at the peak of Indonesia's rumbling Mount Merapi volcano, reinforcing indications that it may soon erupt, scientists said Tuesday.

- Threatened Plant And Animal Species Exceed 16,000
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Threaten...ceed_16000.html

Geneva (AFP) May 03, 2006 - The number of threatened animal and plant species has exceeded 16,000 for the first time, as climate change and other threats damage their natural habitats, an environmental report said Tuesday.

- South Africa Wants To Clamp Down On Hunting
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/South_Af...On_Hunting.html

De Wildt, South Africa (AFP) May 03, 2006 - South Africa on Tuesday proposed a ban on "canned hunting", in which captive animals are killed, as well as hunting with bows, traps and dogs, in an effort to clean up the lucrative business.

- Mass Dolphin Deaths Off Zanzibar A Mystery
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Mass_Dol..._A_Mystery.html

- Floods Drive 6,000 Russians To Flee To Safety
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Floods_D..._To_Safety.html

Moscow (AFP) May 03, 2006 - Serious flooding has affected parts of Russia, and in particular Siberia, forcing 6,000 people to leave their submerged homes, the Russian emergency situations ministry said Tuesday. The evacuation of several hundred people had begun, it said. The worst flooding hit Byisk in Altay region of eastern Siberia where 1,350 houses were flooded, the ministry said.

- H5N1 Adapts To Summer, Water, Heat
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/H5N1_Ada...Water_Heat.html

Oxford, England (UPI) May 03, 2006 - The H5N1 strain of the avian-influenza virus has mutated, say scientists, although the mutation is not the much-feared change that would make the virus more easily transmissible between humans, possibly causing a pandemic.

- In The Baltics Spring And Smoke Is In The Air
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/In_The_B...In_The_Air.html

Riga (AFP) May 03, 2006 - Around the European Union's Baltic member states, one sure sign that spring has arrived is the acrid smell of smoke from grass fires in the crisp north European air. This year, in Latvia alone, the emergency services have recorded nearly 3,000 cases of people setting light to grass in unattended fields, meadows, even back gardens.

- London Mayor In No Rush To Flush
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/London_M...h_To_Flush.html

London (AFP) May 03, 2006 - London mayor Ken Livingstone lifted the lid on his toilet habits Tuesday, revealing he has not flushed the loo in 15 months. Livingstone said there was "no earthly reason" to bother if there was just urine in the bowl. He said people were misguided about what urine actually is -- and said bluebottles steer well clear of his.

Ancient Volcano, Seeds And Tree Rings Rewrite Late Bronze 'Med' History
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Ancient_...ed_History.html

New York NY (SPX) May 01, 2006 - Separated in history by 100 years, the seafaring Minoans of Crete and the mercantile Canaanites of northern Egypt and the Levant (a large area of the Middle East) at the eastern end of the Mediterranean were never considered trading partners at the start of the Late Bronze Age. Until now.

- Huge Pacific Earthquake Sparks Tsunami Panic
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Huge_Pac...nami_Panic.html

Wellington (AFP) May 04, 2006 - A massive earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 rocked Tonga in the Pacific early Thursday, triggering panic evacuations in New Zealand after tsunami warnings were briefly issued for the South Pacific. Although the tsunami warnings were withdrawn within two hours, in the New Zealand coastal town of Gisborne, more than 2,200 kilometres (1,375 miles) from the epicentre, hundreds of people fled their homes and headed for nearby hills.

- Tsunami Warnings Cancelled After Tonga Quake
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Tsunami_...onga_Quake.html

- New Lava Dome Keeps Expanding At Indonesia's Mount Merapi
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/New_Lava...unt_Merapi.html

Jakarta (AFP) May 04, 2006 - A fresh lava dome at the peak of Indonesia's trembling Mount Merapi continued to expand Wednesday, suggesting an eruption that would send heatclouds down its slopes, a scientist warned Wednesday. The new dome formed by lava outflow at the top of the mountain has been steadily expanding for more than a week.

- Worries About The Ozone Layer Are Not Yet Over
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Worries_...t_Yet_Over.html

Paris (AFP) May 04, 2006 - Optimism that Earth's protective ozone layer, ravaged by chemicals in the 20th century, may be restored within the next couple of decades is premature, according to a study published on Thursday.

- Is A Russian Peninsula Really Part Of North America
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Is_A_Rus...th_America.html

Seattle WA (SPX) May 04, 2006 - For many years geologists have harbored a belief that the Kamchatka Peninsula, shrouded in mystery and secrecy on Russia's east coast, actually sits on the same tectonic plate as the mainland United States, Canada and Mexico. The North America plate extends through Alaska across the Bering Strait and into Siberia, but the question is whether it reaches as far south as Kamchatka.

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- Mobile DNA Part Of Evolution's Toolbox
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Mobile_D...ns_Toolbox.html

Chevy Chase MD (SPX) May 04, 2006 - The repeated copying of a small segment of DNA in the genome of a primeval fish may have been crucial to the transition of ancient animals from sea to land, or to later key evolutionary changes in land vertebrates.

- 5,000 Indonesians Evacuated, First Lava Oozes From Mount Merapi
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/5000_Ind...unt_Merapi.html

Jakarta (AFP) May 05, 2006 - More than 5,000 Indonesians have fled their homes around simmering Mount Merapi, officials said Thursday, as the first lava flow oozed from the volcano.

- Tsunami Warning False Starts Follow Asian Catastrophe
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Tsunami_...atastrophe.html

- Experiment On Monsoon Season Rainfall Lives Up To Its 'Name'
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Experime...o_Its_Name.html

- Large Aftershock Hits Tonga A Day After Major Quake
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Large_Af...ajor_Quake.html

Los Angeles (AFP) May 05, 2006 - A series of aftershocks with magnitudes of up to 6.0 rocked the island nation of Tonga a day after a massive 7.9 quake triggered tsunami warnings across the Pacific, US monitors said Thursday.

- Nice Guys Do Finish First In Lizards' Evolutionary Race
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Nice_Guy...onary_Race.html

East Lansing MI (SPX) May 05, 2006 - Getting beaten up by the neighborhood bully so your buddy can spend time with the ladies may seem like a rough life, but that strategy not only works for some lizards, it also gives a fascinating peek into hard-wired altruism in evolutionary biology.

- China Water Project Costs Rise By 12.5 Billion Dollars
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/China_Wa...on_Dollars.html

Beijing (AFP) May 05, 2006 - The cost of China's massive project to divert water from the south to its arid north has risen by a staggering 12.5 billion dollars due to a host of unexpected difficulties, state media said Thursday.

- Worries About The Ozone Layer Are Not Yet Over
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Worries_...t_Yet_Over.html

Paris (AFP) May 04, 2006 - Optimism that Earth's protective ozone layer, ravaged by chemicals in the 20th century, may be restored within the next couple of decades is premature, according to a study published on Thursday.

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- Scientists Discount La Nina Effect On 2006 Atlantic Hurricanes
http://www.spacemart.com/reports/Scientist...Hurricanes.html

Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 05, 2006 - Recent La Nina activities in the eastern Pacific Ocean should not affect the Atlantic hurricane season this year, weather researchers reported Thursday. La Nina normally tends to increase Atlantic hurricane activity and decrease Pacific Ocean hurricanes.

Bush to nominate Myers to run US Geological Survey
By Yereth Rosen
Fri May 5, 12:22 AM ET

President Bush plans to nominate Mark Myers, a critic of Alaska's Republican Gov. Frank Murkowski's close ties with oil companies, to head the U.S. Geological Survey, the White House said on Thursday.

Myers stepped down as Alaska's oil and gas manager in October to protest Murkowski's secret negotiations with oil companies to build a natural gas pipeline. Myers deemed the concessions to major oil producers to be too generous.

Reached at his home in Anchorage, Myers said there is no link between the events surrounding his departure from the Murkowski administration and his nomination to head the USGS, a scientific agency within the Interior Department responsible for studying the American landscape and its natural resources.

Myers was one of six Alaska Department of Natural Resources deputies to resign in solidarity after Murkowski fired the department's commissioner, Tom Irwin, for criticism about the governor's fiscal terms for a $20 billion natural gas pipeline.

Irwin said in a memorandum that the governor's concessions would shortchange the state to the benefit of ConocoPhillips, BP and Exxon Mobil. Murkowski reached an agreement in February with major oil companies but the contract has not been released for public review.




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- Japan To Capture CO2 At Australian Power Plant In World First
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Japan_To...orld_First.html

Tokyo (AFP) May 05, 2006 - A Japanese consortium hopes to capture carbon dioxide emissions at an Australian power plant by 2009 in a world first that would be a major step towards battling greenhouse gases responsible for global warming, a report said Thursday.

- World-Leading Microscope Shows More Detail Than Ever
http://www.spacemart.com/reports/World_Lea..._Than_Ever.html

- 5,000 Indonesians Evacuated, First Lava Oozes From Mount Merapi
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/5000_Ind...unt_Merapi.html

Jakarta (AFP) May 05, 2006 - More than 5,000 Indonesians have fled their homes around simmering Mount Merapi, officials said Thursday, as the first lava flow oozed from the volcano.

- Experiment On Monsoon Season Rainfall Lives Up To Its 'Name'
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Experime...o_Its_Name.html

- China Environmental Woes Threaten Social Stability
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/China_En..._Stability.html

Beijing (AFP) May 05, 2006 - China's environmental woes are becoming an increasing threat to social stability, with over 50,000 disputes and protests related to pollution recorded last year, state press reported Thursday.

- China Water Project Costs Rise By 12.5 Billion Dollars
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/China_Wa...on_Dollars.html

Beijing (AFP) May 05, 2006 - The cost of China's massive project to divert water from the south to its arid north has risen by a staggering 12.5 billion dollars due to a host of unexpected difficulties, state media said Thursday.

- Alert Status Remains Same For Indonesian Volcano
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/No_Need_...an_Volcano.html

Jakarta (AFP) May 08, 2006 - Geologists said there was no need to raise the alert status for Indonesia's Merapi volcano nor evacuate tens of thousands residents on its slopes despite the continuing lava flows.

- Lights, Cameras, Quake! Wooden 'Earthquake' House Undergoes Seismic Testing
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Lights_C...ic_Testing.html

- ESA To Host Atmospheric Science Conference
http://www.spacemart.com/reports/ESA_To_Ho...Conference.html

Paris, France (ESA) May 08, 2006 - ESA will hold a five-day Europhysics Conference at its ESRIN facilities in Frascati, Italy in May 2006, for data users, scientists and students working in the field of remote sensing of the atmosphere.

- New Technology In Effort To Conserve Wildlife.
http://www.spacemart.com/reports/African_W...Technology.html

- Dome Shape Of Indonesia's Merapi Changing Quickly
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Dome_Sha...ng_Quickly.html

Mount Merapi, Indonesia (AFP) May 09, 2006 - A new dome at the peak of Indonesia's simmering Mount Merapi was changing quickly Monday and more ominous lava oozed down its slopes but residents were not ordered to evacuate, a scientist said.


- 102 Dead After Four Months Of Heavy Rains In Colombia
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/102_Dead...n_Colombia.html

Bogota (AFP) May 09, 2006 - Heavy rains and flooding since the beginning of the year have killed 102 people and damaged thousand of homes across much of Colombia, according to state rescue agency Socorro Nacional. On Sunday, four more people died in a landslide in a poor Bogota neighborhood, and much of the capital remains under emergency warning due to elevated river levels.


- Strong Quake Hits Indonesia's Bengkulu Province
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Strong_Q...u_Province.html


- 15 Years On, Life Returns To Site Of Deadly Philippines Volcano
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/15_Years...es_Volcano.html


- The Secret Lives Of Sea Slugs
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/The_Secr..._Sea_Slugs.html

Woods Hole MA (SPX) May 09, 2006 - It turns out that the sea slug isn't really that sluggish after all. So says the first broad field study of this charismatic orange creature's behavior in the wild, which was just published in the April 2006 issue of The Biological Bulletin.


- Bats Use Guided Missile Strategy To Capture Prey
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Bats_Use...pture_Prey.html


- First Frozen Cloned Pig Embryos Available Worldwide
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/First_Fr..._Worldwide.html

- Russian Ecologists Despair Over Lack Of Govt Vision
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Russian_...ovt_Vision.html

Moscow (AFP) May 09, 2006 - Russian environmentalists heaved a collective sigh of relief when President Vladimir Putin ordered a change in the route of a new oil pipeline to reduce the danger of it polluting Lake Baikal, one of the great ecological wonders of the world.

- China's "Cancer Villages" Pay Heavy Price For Economic Progress
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Chinas_C...c_Progress.html

Liukuaizhuang Village, China (AFP) May 09, 2006 - Sitting on his bed in his spartan house in one of China's so-called cancer villages, a 77-year-old retired cadre sheds tears as he speaks of the pollution he believes is killing him. "I just hope I can die sooner. I gave my life to the Communist Party yet I have nothing now, I have nothing to leave to my own children," the man said, tears rolling down his cheeks

- Indian Heat Wave Kills 53
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Indian_H...e_Kills_53.html

Lucknow, India (AFP) May 09, 2006 - The death toll from a blistering heatwave across India climbed to 53 Monday and weather forecasters predicted worse to come with temperatures already above 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). Six more people had died "of heat stroke in the last 24 hours taking the toll to 25," in Uttar Pradesh said state police official Mukesh Singh.

- Pakistan Heatwave Claims 31 Lives
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Pakistan...s_31_Lives.html

- 'Powerful' Volcano Eruption In Russia's Far East
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Powerful...s_Far_East.html


Moscow (AFP) May 10, 2006 - A volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula in far eastern Russia erupted Tuesday in a powerful explosion that spewed smoke and ash up to 15 kilometers (nine miles) into the air and sent red-hot lava flowing down the volcano's slopes, news agencies reported.


- Merapi's New Dome Has Ample Space To Develop
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Merapis_...To_Develop.html

Yogyakarta, Indonesia (AFP) May 10, 2006 - A new dome at the peak of Indonesia's simmering Mount Merapi is growing rapidly but has ample space to develop before it turns unstable, a geologist said Tuesday.

- Jordan River Could Stop Flowing
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Jordan_R...op_Flowing.html

Washington (UPI) May 10, 2006 - If Jordan and Syria execute their plan to construct one more dam on the Jordan River they will reduce the water flow to little more than a trickle, fear environmentalists and politicians familiar with the region.

- Hu Orders Officials To Ensure Water Safe After China Mining Disaster
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Hu_Order...g_Disaster.html

- Fresh Quake Rocks Kamchatka Peninsula
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Fresh_Qu..._Peninsula.html

Vladivostok, Russia (AFP) May 11, 2006 - An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale rocked Russia's fareastern Kamchatka peninsula early Wednesday, hitting the same area where powerful tremors struck last month, an emergencies ministry official said.

- US Officials Urge Storm-Weary Americans To Brace For Hurricane Season
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/US_Offic...ane_Season.html

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- Indonesian VP Orders Evacuation Of 17,000 Around Indonesia's Merapi
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Indonesi...ias_Merapi.html

Jakarta (AFP) May 12, 2006 - Indonesia's Vice President Yusuf Kalla on Thursday ordered authorities to begin evacuating some 17,000 people from around the slopes of rumbling Mount Merapi which has been spewing more lava and smoke.

- Abominable Flowering Plants Mystery May Have Been Solved
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Abominab...een_Solved.html

University Park PA (SPX) May 12, 2006 - Researchers from the Floral Genome Project at Penn State University, with an international team of collaborators, have proposed an answer to Charles Darwin's "abominable mystery:" the inexplicably rapid evolution of flowering plants immediately after their first appearance some 140 million years ago.

- First New African Monkey Genus In 83 Years
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/First_Ne...n_83_Years.html

- Slovaks Spray As The Capital Fights Mosquito Invasion
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Slovaks_...o_Invasion.html