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Expert: Guatemalan disaster not a sinkholeGuatemala City (UPI) Jun 3, 2010 A Guatemalan geologist said the massive hole that opened up beneath Guatemala City's downtown is not a sinkhole but instead a "piping feature." Geologist Sam Bonis said a sinkhole is defined as an area where bedrock has been eaten away by groundwater and the 100-foot deep, 66-foot wide hole that opened up during the weekend in the capital does not qualify, Discovery News reported. He said the hole is instead a "piping feature" resulting from the pumice fill, ash flows from ancient volcan ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) May 31, 2010Hurricanes, air quality and Arctic ecosystems are among the research areas to be investigated during the next five years by new NASA airborne science missions announced. The five competitively-selected proposals, including one from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., are the first investigations in the new Venture-class series of low-to-moderate-cost projects established la ... more  
Honolulu (UPI) May 29, 2010 Shark conservation groups are praising Hawaii, which has become the first U.S. state to ban the sale, possession or distribution of shark fins. Violating the ban could prove expensive. The new ban orders state restaurants to stop selling shark-fin soup by July 2011, or face fines of up to $15,000 for a first offense, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin reported. The fines rise to $35,000 ... more  
Canberra, Australia (SPX) May 28, 2010The climate of the Pacific region will undergo significant changes as atmospheric temperatures rise but scientists can not yet identify the influence it will have on the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) weather phenomenon. This is a central finding of an international science review by the World Climate Research Program's Climate Variability and Predictability Pacific Panel, published i ... more |
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Washington ethanol offer scrappedWashington (UPI) May 28, 2010 A Memorial Day discount of 54 cent-a-gallon on ethanol planned by the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association in the U.S. capital was scrapped due to unspecified "political" influences, the industry group said. The purpose of the promotion, at two Capitol Hill Exxon gas stations, was to draw attention to the 54 cent-per-gallon tariff on imported ethanol, the Brazilian association, known as UNICA, said. Eliminating the tariff, UNICA maintains, would help reduce price volatility in the et ... read more |
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