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The Legacy of the MegafloodGreenbelt, MD (SPX) Feb 22, 2012 Ambling through the parched and scarred landscape of eastern Washington state is the 60-mile-long Grand Coulee, the largest of the stair-step canyons that give the region called the Channeled Scablands its character. Looking out over this majestic scenery, a visitor feels compelled to throw open both arms, take a deep breath, and say, "Wow! How did this get here?" That turns out to be a deceptively simple question. It's the same one that J Harlen Bretz, a geologist from the University of Chicago, ... read more |
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  Europe Hammered by Winter, Is North America Next? For the first half of this year's winter, the big news was warm temperatures and lack of snow. Ski resorts were covered in bare dirt, while January temperatures in southern California topped July hi ... more | .. |
  Landscape fire smoke contributes to hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide Worldwide, smoke from landscape fires contributed to an average of 339,000 deaths per year between 1997 and 2006, according to new research published in Environmental Health Perspectives and release ... more | .. |
  Lava formations in western US linked to rip in giant slab of Earth Like a stream of air shooting out of an airplane's broken window to relieve cabin pressure, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego say lava formations in eastern Oregon ar ... more | .. |
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  Using the past to improve ecological forecasting To better predict the future, Jack Williams is looking to the past. "Environmental change is altering the composition and function of ecological communities," says the Bryson Professor of Climate, P ... more | .. |
  Scientists regenerate a plant -- 30,000 years on Russian scientists have grown flowering plants using seeds stored by squirrels 30,000 years ago and preserved by the Siberian permafrost, a new study showed, in what may become a key experiment in the race to revive ancient species. ... more | .. |
 Taking the Earth's pulse with new economic and environmental index A growing world population, mixed with the threat of climate change and mounting financial problems, has prompted University of British Columbia researchers to measure the overall 'health' of 152 co ... more | .. |
 Tohoku grim reminder of potential for Pacific Northwest megaquake The March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake is a grim reminder of the potential for another strong-motion mega-earthquake along the Pacific Northwest coast, geophysicist John Anderson of the University of ... more |
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Trump signs orders to boost US nuclear energy
Anthropic's Claude AI gets smarter -- and mischievious
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 Visualizations help communities plan for sea-level rise Researchers at the University of British Columbia have produced computer visualizations of rising sea levels in a low-lying coastal municipality, illustrating ways to adapt to climate change impacts ... more | .. |
  Glaciers: A window into human impact on the global carbon cycle New clues as to how the Earth's remote ecosystems have been influenced by the industrial revolution are locked, frozen in the ice of glaciers. That is the finding of a group of scientists, including ... more | .. |
  NASA Map Sees Earth's Trees In A New Light A NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth's forests. The map will help scientists better understand the role forests play in climate change and how ... more | .. |
  New York eyes shark fin trade ban A group of New York legislators on Tuesday unveiled a draft law banning trade in shark fins, saying the practice, which serves the market for Chinese shark fin soup, was decimating the ocean predators. ... more |
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 New Zealand honours quake dead, one year on New Zealanders marked the first anniversary of the Christchurch earthquake Wednesday, with Prime Minister John Key describing the disaster that claimed 185 lives as "one of our darkest days". ... more | .. |
  Nigeria's Boko Haram on the rise Nigeria's Joint Task Force in Borno state said it killed eight Islamic fundamentalist Boko Haram fighters in a shootout in northeastern Nigeria. ... more | .. |
  EP leader blasts Turk newspaper attacks Suspected Kurdistan Workers' Party attacks on Turkish newspaper offices in France and Germany are press intimidation, a European Parliament leader says. ... more | .. |
 Outside View: Santorum's quirky reasoning Rick Santorum thinks serving in government is the same as serving your country in the military in combat. He says he grew up around veterans and that was one of the reasons he decided to become a politician. ... more |
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Russia strikes Kyiv after first stage of major prisoner swap
Growing Arctic military presence worries Finland's reindeer herders
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 UN Council to increase Somalia force to 17,700 The UN Security Council will on Wednesday vote to increase the African peacekeeping force in Somalia to up to 17,000 troops, diplomats said. ... more | .. |
  Into the no-man's land of Fukushima Every two minutes on the bus ride through the ghost towns surrounding Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, a company guide in a white protective suit holds up a display showing the radiation level. And it is rising. ... more | .. |
  Development-weary Singaporeans back 'Green Corridor' The air is crisp and sunlight filters softly through foliage punctuated by pink and yellow flowers as birds and crickets supply the soundtrack for joggers, cyclists and nature lovers. ... more | .. |
 Japan clears up only 5% of tsunami rubble Japan has cleared up just five percent of the rubble left by last year's earthquake and tsunami, the government said Tuesday, amid fears it has been contaminated following the Fukushima nuclear accident. ... more |
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 UN says spring melt may cause Europe floods Parts of central and Eastern Europe paralysed by heavy snow could face further disruption and death from flooding as the spring thaw begins, the UN's disaster reduction agency warned on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Bird flu claims third victim this year in Indonesia Tests on a 19-year-old woman who died last week showed she had contracted the bird flu virus, Indonesia's third human death from the deadly disease this year, the health ministry said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Tibetans in China to mark new year in tense climate Tibetan new year is usually a time for festivities in China's ethnically Tibetan areas, but this year some are choosing not to celebrate after deadly unrest and a huge security clampdown. ... more |
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After two setbacks, SpaceX could try to launch massive Starship next week
Doubt cast on claim of 'hints' of life on faraway planet
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 China factory blast kills 13, injures 17 An explosion at a steel plant in northeastern China killed 13 people and injured another 17, a company official said Tuesday, in the latest industrial accident to hit the country. ... more | .. |
 Jonas Savimbi's charisma, brutality still haunt 10 years on Jonas Savimbi, the vicious, charismatic rebel who fought Angola's socialist government in a 27-year civil war, died 10 years ago Wednesday, leaving behind a haunting legacy of violence. ... more | .. |
  Hit hard, Seychelles seeks Indian help against pirates With its $1-billion economy losing about four percent of GDP to piracy, Seychelles has sought India's help in putting an end to this threat to trade in the Indian Ocean, particularly in prosecuting ... more | .. |
 In 40 years, US could face water crisis Global warming and climate change are likely to unfold a water crisis in the United States within the next 40 years, says a new report. It concluded that seven in 10 of the more than 3,100 US ... more |
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 Chinese tycoons snap up Bordeaux chateaux The world's largest producer of alcohol from goji berries and an elusive tycoon have become the latest super rich Chinese investors to invest in Bordeaux wine estates. ... more | .. |
 Breaking Through the Ice at Lake Vostok Europa on Earth - that's just what Antarctica's deep and dark Lake Vostok could be. A body of water the size of Lake Ontario, it lies beneath more than two miles of ice yet its waters are warm enoug ... more | .. |
 Reducing salt in crisps without affecting the taste Food scientists have found a way of measuring how we register the saltiness of crisps which could lead to new ways of producing healthier crisps - without losing any of the taste. The research by sc ... more | .. |
 Wild west approach to claiming the oceans' genetic resources must end New international agreements are required to ensure nations benefit equally from medicines, foods and biofuels derived from the ocean's untapped genetic riches, according to a panel of University of ... more |
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