Toxic cloud alarms south Sweden
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An acid leak threatened Helsingborg in southern Sweden - but officials say the risk has now diminished.
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The warning system worked perfectly. From sensors far offshore, Japanese meteorologists detected a tsunami headed toward the southern island of Ishigaki in March 2002 and quickly warned residents of the possible danger.
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By Erik Robinson and Jose Paul Corona, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep. 8--Just because Southwest Washington is due for a little rain this weekend, don't expect area firefighters to breathe easy.
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Two environmental outfits, Western Resource Advocates and Environmental Defense, have issued a study called "Climate Alert: Cleaner Energy for the Southwest." Predictably, the groups oppose the construction of a planned new $3.8 billion, 1,500-megawatt coal-fired electric plant near Ely.
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HELSINKI, Finland US embassies in northern Europe say they have received &quot;threat information&quot; and are urging Americans living in the Nordic and Baltic regions to be cautious.
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A violent rainstorm swept across Denmark, south Sweden and Norway on Saturday afternoon, causing seven deaths and over 200,000 families in blackout.
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As concern about global warming ripples across Sweden, the average citizenâs relationship with comfortable â and highly polluting â cars is becoming strained.
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Kiruna, a mining town in north Sweden, has been invaded by thousands of rats thought to have crossed the border from Norway with garbage shipments for the local recycling centre, officials say.
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RALEIGH, North Carolina  - Thousands of people in Apex, North Carolina, were ordered out of their homes on Friday after a late-night fire at a hazardous waste plant sent a toxic cloud over the Raleigh suburb, emergency officials said.
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Federal officials have stepped up the alert level on Mount Saint Helens in southwestern Washington state. The Level Three alert indicates a possible threat to life and property.
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Contaminazione in un edificio di Amburgo
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jan. 31--The breakdown of a pump and an alarm system sent sewage into a Lake Wylie tributary, contaminating a cove near a residential area in southwestern Mecklenburg County.
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Scientists are now eyeing dust clouds as possible suspects in transcontinental spread of diseases.
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A Norwegian town was evacuated Friday morning when ammonia began leaking into the air from an animal feed firm.
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While much of Sweden is usually gripped by freezing temperatures and heavy snow in December, the south of the country was enjoying its mildest start to the month since 1953, meteorologists told Swedish radio.
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A portable sensor array measures air quality to discern the causes of asthma attacks.
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Swedish researchers say short but intense workplace pressure boosts by a factor of six the chances of a heart attack within the following 24 hours.