Earthworms

8 Oct 2010 - I have reported earlier that the Chinese city of Guangzhou is getting ready for the Asia Games in November, but things never go as planned (as the organizers of the Delhi Commonwealth Games have painfully discovered). Hundreds of thousands of earthworms have crawled out onto the streets of Guangzhou, sparking fears that they could be harbingers of an earthquake, the Guangzhou Daily reports. Earthworms were found crawling out from the soil and many died on footpaths on Monday and Tuesday. They were found in various parts of the city, including the Yuexiu, Huadu, Liwan and Baiyun districts, but Li Jianxiong, a local earthworm expert, said the phenomenon was mostly triggered by climate change.