AGU Journalism Awards won by Margaret Munro and Dr. Richard Smith
Munro of CanWest News Service receives the David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism--News for her article on the breakup of an ice shelf, possibly from global warming. The article appeared in Montreal's The Gazette newspaper. Smith receives the Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism--Features for "Crude," a documentary film examining oil's ancient origins, its geology of formation, and potential consequences from industrial society’s prodigious oil consumption.
AFP - At least 18 people were killed and 22 injured on Saturday when dozens of homes in northern Cairo collapsed after being hit by a massive rockslide, Egyptian emergency services said.