<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f674d7f7-960c-488f-86b7-bda15df951ba/F08F7D06-B616-44FD-8460-815FDD8D4E1A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10599932&pnum=0" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10599932&pnum=0" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nzherald.co.nz</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10599932&pnum=0"><H1> Aussie dust storms may help save planet </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10599932&pnum=0"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nzherald.co.nz/img/2B31E2CF-F913-4D90-8DCC-AECBE6D5F519" alt="Sydney was covered by an estimated 5000 tonnes of red dust last week, blown in from parched areas in Australia's interior. Photo / AP" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10599932&pnum=0"><P>Saharan storms are thought to be responsible for spreading lethal meningitis spores throughout semi-arid central Africa, where up to 250,000 people, particularly children, contract the disease each year and 25,000 die.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10599932&pnum=0"><P>Some scientists sought to attribute the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak to a giant storm in North Africa that carried dust and possibly spores of the animal disease as far as northern Britain only a week before the first reported cases.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10599932&pnum=0"><P>"Soot - or black carbon - accounts for anywhere from 10 per cent to more than 45 per cent of the contribution to global warming," said Achim Steiner, director of the UN's environment programme.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10599932&pnum=0"><P>"It is linked to accelerated losses of glaciers in Asia because the soot deposits darken ice, making it more vulnerable to melting."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10599932&pnum=0"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="Watch: Dust storm blankets parts of Australia" target="_blank" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/video.cfm?c_id=2&gal_objectid=10599932&gallery_id=107634" class="mediaMediumPre">Video</A> <A target="_blank" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/video.cfm?c_id=2&gal_objectid=10599932&gallery_id=107634">Dust storm blankets parts of Australia</A> <SPAN class="mediaInfoMedium">(1:28)</SPAN></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10599932&pnum=0"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="View: Sydney's red haze" target="_blank" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/image.cfm?c_id=2&gal_objectid=10599932&gallery_id=107575" class="mediaMediumPre">Photos</A> <A target="_blank" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/image.cfm?c_id=2&gal_objectid=10599932&gallery_id=107575">Sydney's red haze</A> <SPAN class="mediaInfoMedium">(39 pics)</SPAN></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10599932&pnum=0"><UL class="linkList"> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10599757">Another dust storm hits Sydney </A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10599532">Storm's red dust reaches NZ </A></LI> </UL></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10599532" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10599532" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nzherald.co.nz</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10599532"><H1> Storm's red dust reaches NZ </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10599532"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nzherald.co.nz/img/6E523212-0855-49D0-9969-3D81FFF40D7B" alt="This satellite image shows the red dust that blew across New South Wales mixing with heavy cloud over the Tasman. Photo / NASA" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F08F7D06-B616-44FD-8460-815FDD8D4E1A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

New from the makers of Clipmarks:  Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!