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Richard Lloyd Parry reports for The Times UK: "As many as ten thousand people could have died in the catastrophic storm which ripped across Burma on Saturday, and the number is likely to rise as aid workers pick their way through rubble, floods and broken roads to the stricken areas of the Irrawaddy Delta."
Russian Scientist Discovers Gassy Permafrost
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The Chicago Tribune's Alex Rodriguez writes: "Sergei Zimov waded through knee-deep snow to reach a frozen lake where so much methane belches out of the melting permafrost that it spews out from the ice like small geysers."
Hundreds Stage Anti-Pollution March in China
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Edward Wong of The International Herald Tribune reports: "Hundreds of people marched in a western provincial capital over the weekend to protest environmental risks they say are associated with the construction of a petrochemical factory and oil refinery, witnesses said Monday."
Rainforest Seeds Revive Lost Paradise
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In The Observer UK, Juliette Jowit says, "Six years ago the area around Samboja in Borneo was like much of the world's tropical rainforest: denuded. The trees had been cut for timber, the land burnt, and in place of what should be some of the richest biodiversity on the planet were thousands of acres of grass."
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