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Today Enviroment Pollution ED-20100805-27289-BGR Bulgaria Black Sea North-east of Varna and east of Kavarna Oil spills near the Bulgarian Black Sea coast line to the north-east of Varna and east of Kavarna had been detected and reported, a monitoring group said on August 4 2010. According to the results of satellite monitoring of Black Sea waters, "significant oil spills were identified in Bulgarian and Romanian shelf waters, in particular, near the port cities of Varna and Constanta," a statement said, while other oil spills were also reported. According to latest information, as of August 5, the total area of identified oil slicks is more than 10 square km, while the distance from oil slicks to the Bulgarian shoreline is about 30km, the group said. Based on type of pollution, the environmental project said that the oil spills had the character of marine spills. http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php Today HAZMAT HZ-20100805-27284-CHN China Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Wuzhou City Today Flash Flood FF-20100805-27283-PHL Philippines Province of Maguindanao Maguindanao-wide Today Flood FL-20100805-27290-PRK North Korea North Korea on Thursday reported widespread damage from floods with more than 5000 houses and a sizeable area of farmland destroyed, threatening to exacerbate the communist state's food crisis. "It has been ascertained that torrential rains in July did a great deal of damage to people's living, railway transport, agriculture and other economic sectors," Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said. Some 5,560 houses were destroyed, along with 360 public buildings and factories, it said. There were also fatalities, KCNA said without elaborating. "Efforts have been made to heal the flood damage in the affected areas," it said. After decades of deforestation, North Korea is particularly vulnerable to flooding. In 2007, it reported at least 600 people dead or missing from devastating floods. The latest torrential rain has hurt agricultural production with some 14,850 hectares of farmland "submerged, buried or washed away", KCNA said. Aid groups have warned that the North's chronic food shortages will worsen this year. South Korea suspended an annual rice shipment to its impoverished neighbour in 2008 as relations soured. A North Korean currency revaluation last November, designed to flush out entrepreneurs' savings, backfired disastrously, fuelling food shortages and sparking rare outbreaks of unrest. The country suffered famine in the mid-1990s which killed hundreds of thousands and it still grapples with food shortages. The UN children's fund estimates one-third of children are stunted by malnutrition.