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Costa Concordia Recovery, Cleanup Halted by Bad Weather
Mon,30 Jan 2012 02:46 PM PST
Yahoo! Contributor Network - Recovery and environmental efforts on the capsized Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia were suspended Sunday after the ship shifted position more quickly than usual. Officials said divers would be incurring too much risk by staying inside the wreckage, according to The Telegraph. Full Story | Top |
German beer drinking slide stopped by warm weather
Mon,30 Jan 2012 08:42 AM PST
Reuters -  BERLIN (Reuters) - A steady slide in beer consumption in Germany was stopped cold last year thanks to warmer weather, the federal statistics office said on Monday. German brewers sold 98.2 million hectoliters of beer last year, down by just 0.1 percent in 2011 after dropping by an average of two percent every year since 2006. Beer consumption in Germany had fallen in all but two of the last 10 years. Despite Germany's reputation as a nation of beer lovers, young people are turning away from the national beverage in favour of other non-alcoholic beverages, brewers say. ...
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After the wreck, cruise ship crew hanker for the sea
Mon,30 Jan 2012 08:37 AM PST
Reuters -  ROME (Reuters) - Hours after the Costa Concordia's captain had abandoned ship, and after helping dozens of passengers to safety, Carlos Garrone stripped off his clothes and plunged into the freezing waters off Giglio island and rescued a drowning fellow crew member. As the operation to salvage the massive cruise liner moves forward, its pace governed by the vagaries of the winter weather, passengers are lining up to claim to compensation. But like several of his shipmates, and despite the trauma of the midnight wreck, Garrone has no plans to leave his job. ...
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Republican Like to Watch The Weather Channel
Mon,30 Jan 2012 07:18 AM PST
The Atlantic Wire - Ads for Romney, Gingrich, and other candidates showing up on cable stations as apolitical as The Weather Channel tell us not only that, for whatever reasons, its viewers tend to be Republican, but that 2012's presidential campaigns are the most sophisticated yet. Reporting from Tampa, The New York Times' Jeremy W. Peters runs down how candidates are divvying up television airtime in Florida. ... Full Story | Top |
4 dead in freezing weather in Serbia, Bulgaria
Mon,30 Jan 2012 03:39 AM PST
Associated Press -  Heavy snow and freezing weather led to four deaths and left two people missing Monday in Serbia and Bulgaria, prompting authorities to close down schools and introduce emergency measures.
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Fukushima pets in no-go zone face harsh winter
Mon,30 Jan 2012 03:19 AM PST
Reuters -  FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Dogs and cats that were abandoned in the Fukushima exclusion zone after last year's nuclear crisis have had to survive high radiation and a lack of food, and they are now struggling with the region's freezing winter weather. "If left alone, tens of them will die everyday. Unlike well-fed animals that can keep themselves warm with their own body fat, starving ones will just shrivel up and die," said Yasunori Hoso, who runs a shelter for about 350 dogs and cats rescued from the 20-km evacuation zone around the crippled nuclear plant. ...
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The nation's weather
Sun,29 Jan 2012 02:14 AM PST
Associated Press -  A strong winter storm over the Northwestern U.S. is Sunday's main weather story. A broad low pressure system spinning over the Gulf of Alaska will push eastward and into British Columbia. This will push a trough of low pressure onshore that will extend into the Pacific Northwest.
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Can NATO force weather France's faster exit?
Sat,28 Jan 2012 11:38 PM PST
Associated Press -  France's call for a speedier NATO exit from Afghanistan reflects the depth of war fatigue in the West and raises fears that other countries in the U.S.-led coalition will succumb to rising political pressure and pull their troops home early.
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Salvage crews suspend work on capsized cruise ship
Sat,28 Jan 2012 06:19 AM PST
Reuters -  GIGLIO, Italy (Reuters) - Salvage crews preparing to pump thousands of tonnes of diesel fuel and oil from the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship off the Italian coast suspended work on Saturday because of bad weather that could last into next week, officials said. With heavy seas and strong winds set to continue, work on removing more than 2,300 tonnes of diesel may be held up for days, according to a spokesman for SMIT, the Dutch company that is managing the operation. "Starting operations depends on the weather conditions," Martijn Schuttevaer told reporters. ...
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Screwy Weather Makes New York Look Amazing
Fri,27 Jan 2012 02:47 PM PST
The Atlantic Wire - A look at the calendar reveals that it's late January, but to look around New York, you'd think otherwise. Today has been an absolutely nuts weather day with a warm thunderstorm followed by an amazing sunset inspiring seemingly everybody in the city to tweet pictures. Full Story | Top |
Dominion Resources 4Q profit falls 33 percent
Fri,27 Jan 2012 09:36 AM PST
Associated Press - Electricity and natural gas utility operator Dominion Resources Inc. said Friday that fourth-quarter earnings fell 33 percent on mild winter weather and weaker margins on power generation. Full Story | Top |
Arctic ice melt lifts hopes for Russian maritime trade
Fri,27 Jan 2012 09:07 AM PST
Reuters -  SEVERODVINSK, Russia (Reuters) - When severe snowstorms prevented life-sustaining fuel supplies from reaching the frozen Alaskan town of Nome, U.S. officials turned to a Russian company for help. The relief mission through perilous, ice-choked seas was the first mid-winter fuel delivery to western Alaska, capping a year of pioneering shipping as oil and gas development and climate change increase traffic along northern trade routes sought by centuries of Arctic explorers. ...
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