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A surfer takes advantage of large waves caused by hurricane Irina which is sitting some 200 nautical miles off Durban on Monday.
SpaceRef reports: The current forecast is for the Irina to curve towards the south, then make landfall in southern Mozambique within the next 96 hours (by March 7) as a weak Tropical Cyclone. The storm is predicted to primarily be a heavy rainfall event, although high and/or damaging winds may also accompany the rain.
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Cyclists power lights on an installation depicting a Baobab tree part of a renewable energies display on Durban's beachfront during the COP 17 / CMP 7 United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference 2011 in Durban, South Africa, 29 November 2011. COP 17 is the 17th session of the Congress of the Parties (COP) comprising 194 countries meeting to discuss the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) between 28 November and 09 December 2011.
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Oxfam (a confederation of 15 organizations working together to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice) activists stage a protest aimed at the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, South Africa, on Nov. 27. Inspired by the Occupy Wall St. movement, protesters calling for "climate justice" are set to gather on Nov. 28 at the opening of UN climate talks in Durban, organizers say.
AP reports:
Amid fresh warnings of climate-related disasters in the future, delegates from about 190 countries were gathering in Durban for a two-week conference beginning Monday. They hope to break deadlocks on how to curb emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants.
Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. climate secretariat, said Sunday the stakes for the negotiations are high, underscored by new scientific studies.
Under discussion was "nothing short of the most compelling energy, industrial, behavioral revolution that humanity has ever seen," she said.
Read the full story here.
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Fishermen remove sardine from their nets during the annual sardine run at Warner Beach some 40 km (25 miles) north of Durban, June 28, 2011. The east coast of South Africa sees an annual migration of sardines shoaling up the coastal line.
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Fishermen remove sardine from their nets during the annual sardine run.
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Fishermen bring in the nets during the annual sardine run.
Here's a story about the sardine run and another about the hazard presented to swimmers by sharks feeding on the sardines.
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