Experts gathered in Nepal a week ago to ready for earthquake
Nepal's devastating earthquake was the disaster experts knew was coming.
Earth Sciences
Apr 25, 2015
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Models in gas masks highlight Indonesian environmental devastation
Wearing gas masks and designer dresses, models paraded down a catwalk against a backdrop of polluted, rubbish-strewn paddy fields in central Indonesia, a colourful condemnation of the fashion industry's role in causing environmental ...
Environment
Mar 31, 2015
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No action from Shell, Nigeria on oil pollution report: Amnesty
Nigeria and Shell have done almost nothing to ease oil pollution in the Ogoniland area of the Niger Delta, three years after a landmark UN report called for a $1 billion dollar clean-up, Amnesty International said Monday.
Environment
Aug 4, 2014
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Coffee fungus raising prices for high-end blends
The U.S. government is stepping up efforts to help Central American farmers fight a devastating coffee disease—and hold down the price for a cup of coffee.
Ecology
May 18, 2014
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Indonesian miners risk lives in modern-day gold rush
In a desolate area of central Indonesia where lush rainforest once stood, illegal miners on the frontline of a modern-day gold rush tear up the earth in the hunt for the precious metal.
Environment
Oct 11, 2013
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Nearly 40 percent of Rim Fire land a 'moonscape'
A fire that raged in forestland in and around Yosemite National Park has left a contiguous "moonscape" in the Sierra Nevada mountains larger than any in centuries.
Earth Sciences
Sep 19, 2013
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Wuthnow finds resilience, opportunity in America's small towns
Small towns are home to about 10 percent of the U.S. population but continue to play an outsize role in American culture, according to Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow.
Social Sciences
Jul 25, 2013
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Wildfires projected to get more common, harder to control
Devastating wildfires the likes of which razed Slave Lake in 2011 will become more common and tougher to control, according to new research from the Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences.
Environment
Jul 22, 2013
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Student discovers floating tsunami dock on video one year later.
Oregon State University graduate student Cheryl Horton was meticulously scanning year-old video of a bird colony off Yaquina Head near Newport, Ore., last month when she noticed a strange object drifting by in the background.
Earth Sciences
Jul 19, 2013
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Hope for recovery of coral reefs hit by cyclone Yasi
(Phys.org) —Coral reefs on Australia's Great Barrier Reef devastated by cyclone Yasi were replenished by large numbers of coral larvae nine months after the cyclone.
Environment
Jun 6, 2013
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