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Reforesting rural lands in China pays big dividends, researchers say

An innovative program to encourage sustainable farming in rural China has helped restore eroded forestland while producing economic gains for many farmers, according to a new study by Stanford University researchers.

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created May 11, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Colorado mountain hail may disappear in a warmer future: study

Summertime hail could all but disappear from the eastern flank of Colorado's Rocky Mountains by 2070, according to a new modeling study by scientists from NOAA and several other institutions.

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created Jan 08, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Floods show what lies ahead for sinking Bangkok

The Thai capital, built on swampland, is slowly sinking and the floods currently besieging Bangkok could be merely a foretaste of a grim future as climate change makes its impact felt, experts say.

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created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Melting snow threatens spring flooding in north

(AP) -- The Red River of the North along the Minnesota-North Dakota border faces the nation's greatest threat of spring flooding, the government said in it's weather outlook Thursday.

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created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1