| Tue, 7 Feb 2012 Scant hope for Philippine quake missing | Thousands of soldiers in the quake-hit Philippines Tuesday scoured villages buried under landslides, but authorities said hopes of finding dozens of missing people alive were dim. | Two days after a 6.7 magnitude quake flattened homes, destroyed bridges and triggered ... | International Humanitarian System Must Go Local To Cope Wednesday, 8 February 2012, 3:31 pm | Press Release: Oxfam NZ | The international humanitarian response system will fail to cope with the expected rise in the number of people exposed to crises unless more resources and trained people are located closer to disaster-pron... | Light snow later tomorrow, then some intense cold possible this weekend The northeastern U.S. continued to benefit from unusually mild weather on this Giants parade Tuesday, but there is a little winter weather to talk about in the near term. Don't worry though, it is nothing to write home about... A weak disturbance will move throug... | Houston TX And Vicinity Weather Forecast, Wednesday, February 8, 2012 | Discussion As I suspected, the numerical weather forecast models are slowly turning toward wetter, stormier solutions for Texas and most of the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. But before rain re-enters the picture locally, some colder temperatures are on the way which ... | Weather History: February 8: Record Temps, Storms, Ice, Snow, Wind & Tornadoes | Meteorological events that happened on February 8th: | 1835 | A severe cold wave gripped the southeastern U.S. The mercury dipped to 8°at Jacksonville, FL, and to 0° at Charleston, SC & Savannah, GA. Orange trees were killed to the roots. | 1895 | On this ... | Weather History: February 8: Record Temps, Storms, Snow, Ice, Wind & Tornadoes | Meteorological events that happened on February 8th: | 1835 | A severe cold wave gripped the southeastern U.S. The mercury dipped to 8°at Jacksonville, FL, and to 0° at Charleston, SC & Savannah, GA. Orange trees were killed to the roots. | 1895 | On this ... | Death toll tops 400 in Europe's big freeze Click to play video Video settings | Please Log in to update your video settings Video feedback | Use this form to: Ask for technichal assistance in playing the multimedia available on this site, or Provide feedback to the multimedia producers. Video feedback form Name ... | Study finds noise from ship motors stresses whales | THE steady drone of motors along busy commercial shipping lanes not only alters whale behaviour, but can affect the giant sea mammals physically by causing chronic stress, a study published today has reported for the first time. | The findings were made possible, rese... | | |
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