Video: What exactly happened at Chernobyl?
On April 26, 1986, the Soviet Union's Chernobyl Power Complex nuclear reactor 4 exploded.
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News tagged with catastrophic events
Researchers find mechanism that ties human-caused air pollution to catastrophic floods in southwest China
Following the trail of the 2013 Sichuan flood in southwest China, researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and their collaborators found that heavy human-caused air pollution over the Sichuan Basin just upwind ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 09, 2015
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Following Neanderthals' footsteps to learn how they lived
Like modern humans and primates, Neanderthals—our closest evolutionary cousins—are thought to have lived in groups, but their size and composition have been difficult to infer from archeological and fossil remains.
Archaeology
Sep 10, 2019
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How the dinosaurs went extinct: Asteroid collision triggered potentially deadly volcanic eruptions
It's almost 40 years since scientists discovered what wiped out the dinosaurs: an asteroid hitting Earth near modern-day Mexico. That was it, or so we thought.
Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2019
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Ground shaking during devastating flood offers new insights
A devastating wall of water gushed down the Bhotekoshi/Sunkoshi River in Nepal on July 5, 2016. It came from a lake that had been dammed by a glacial moraine, but the dam broke and discharged more than 100,000 tons of water ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 04, 2018
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Technology to help weather bushfires, floods and more
While technology can't prevent catastrophic events, a CSIRO report released in Canberra today reveals how emerging technologies help emergency services better manage natural disasters and minimise their effects on people, ...
Engineering
Nov 21, 2012
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Unravelling the reasons why mass extinctions occur
Scientists from the University of Leicester have shed new light on why mass extinctions have occurred through history—and how this knowledge could help in predicting upcoming ecological catastrophes.
Ecology
Sep 06, 2018
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Post-disaster optimization technique capable of analyzing entire cities
Some problems, says Paolo Bocchini, cannot be solved through intuition.
Engineering
Aug 24, 2016
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The art of the Roman deal
Romans are depicted as slashing and burning their way across countries in order to secure their empire. But a University of Michigan archeologist suggests that the Romans may have trapped more flies with honey.
Archaeology
Jun 26, 2019
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Permo-Triassic biodiversity patterns could offer a window into our climate future
A new study by the University of Leeds and University of Oxford has examined spatial biodiversity patterns across the Permo-Triassic mass extinction event. (c. 252 million years ago). The Permo-Triassic mass extinction represents ...
Ecology
Jun 17, 2020
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