Topic: - on November 7, 2002 at 12:09:47 PM CET
Squirrel terrorises town
A squirrel is spreading terror in a Cheshire town where it keeps attacking people. Its latest victim was a two-year-old girl, newspapers reported on Thursday. Children have been attacked, grown men chased and residents of Knutsford are fearful of letting their kids out to play, the Times newspaper said.
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Topic: - on November 6, 2002 at 10:32:27 AM CET
Lightning in Brazil sets shocking record
Tropical Brazil is the country most struck by lightning in the world and it suffers the highest death toll and serious economic damage from electric thunderstorms, new research showed Tuesday. Osmar Pinto, a researcher of Atmospheric Electricity Group with the Brazilian Institute for Space Studies which mapped lightning incidence using satellite data, said the country was struck by 70 million lightning bolts a year, or between two and three electric discharges per second.
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Topic: - on November 5, 2002 at 12:38:09 PM CET
Leonid 2002
This year's Leonid Meteor Shower is predicted to have two peaks, like last year's. The first peak should come at about 04:00 hours Universal Time (UT) on November 19 and be primarily visible from Western Europe before sunrise. The second peak is predicted to occur at about 10:30 UT and be primarily visible from North America before local sunrise. During these times, the Leonid Meteor Shower might well develop into a true meteor storm, with rates possibly exceeding those measured during last year's storm.
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Topic: - on November 1, 2002 at 6:09:59 PM CET
World Plants Near Extinction Close to 50 Pct.-Study
The percentage of the world's plants threatened with extinction is much larger than commonly believed, and could be as high as 47 percent if tropical species are included, researchers said on Thursday.
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Topic: - on October 23, 2002 at 6:44:14 PM CEST
Oz croc attack - Kraut kaput
Crocodile kills German tourist
Northern Territory police say the 24-year-old woman was attacked at a waterhole in the Kakadu National Park during a midnight swim. Investigators believe the woman, who was on an organised tour, ignored signs warning of the danger from saltwater crocodiles.
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Topic: - on October 22, 2002 at 11:14:40 AM CEST
Mystery Thai fireballs a damp squib
Almost half a million people have flocked to witness the annual rising of fireballs from the Mekong where the river snakes between Thailand and Laos, but the phenomenon turned out to be a damp squib. A four-hour downpour from twilight on Monday put the dampers on the show for most of the crowd camped out along a 10-km (six-mile) stretch of river bank opposite the Laotian capital of Vientiane.
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Topic: - on October 10, 2002 at 12:04:49 AM CEST
Kanaren: Wal-Sterben nach NATO-Manöver
Las Palmas - Das Wal-Sterben vor zwei Wochen in der Nähe der Kanarischen Inseln ist nach Untersuchungen spanischer Wissenschafter durch ein Marine-Manöver der Nordatlantischen Allianz (NATO) in dem Gebiet ausgelöst worden. Die Wale seien damals an Hirnblutungen gestorben, die sie durch "starke akustische Signale" erlitten hätten, heißt es nach Presseberichten vom Mittwoch in einem Bericht der Universität in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
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Topic: - on October 9, 2002 at 11:57:17 PM CEST
Die "Rote Liste 2002"
Fast 12.000 Spezies werden als vom Aussterben bedroht klassifiziert
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Topic: - on October 2, 2002 at 11:22:00 AM CEST
Norway's androgynous polar bears
Scientists in the Arctic region of Norway have warned that polar bears are at risk because of high levels of chemical pollution from the rest of Europe and East Asia. The bears have been found with both male and female sexual organs.
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Topic: - on October 1, 2002 at 12:37:57 AM CEST
Der Regenwurm als Katastrophenschützer
Die prominentesten Fluthelfer in den Zeiten des Elbhochwassers hießen Gerhard Schröder und Jürgen Trittin. Der wohl unscheinbarste unter den Katastrophenschützern heißt Lumbricus terrestris. Doch die Verdienste des gemeinen Regenwurms um die Hochwasservorsorge scheinen nicht mehr so recht gefragt - und das hat schlimme Folgen.
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Topic: - on September 26, 2002 at 12:25:44 PM CEST
Gans berühmt
EINE MELDUNG UND IHRE GESCHICHTE Wie ein Eskimo die Wissenschaft verblüffte In Kerrys irdischem Dasein spielten zwei Menschen eine entscheidende Rolle. Der eine wollte Kerry verstehen, am liebsten seine Sprache lernen. Der andere wollte Kerry verspeisen, am liebsten geröstet und mit Tomatensauce. So geriet Kerry, ein hellbäuchiger Ringelganter, Branta bernicla hrota , an die Menschen und wurde berühmt, posthum. Seine Geschichte beginnt an der Küste Nordirlands.
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Topic: - on September 24, 2002 at 12:19:42 AM CEST
Witch thinks positive in bid to lure ‘ghostly’ Loch Ness monster
AMERICAN scientists used millions of pounds of equipment and mini submarines. Screaming Lord Sutch used a haggis and a sandwich. But none of these heroic efforts yielded firm proof of the existence of the Loch Ness monster.
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