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Oasis Near Death Valley Fed By Ancient Aquifer Under Nevada Test SiteProvo UT (SPX) Jun 09, 2010 Every minute, 10,000 gallons of water mysteriously gush out of the desert floor at a place called Ash Meadows, an oasis that is home to 24 plant and animal species found nowhere else in the world. A new Brigham Young University study indicates that the water arriving at Ash Meadows is completing a 15,000-year journey, flowing slowly underground from what is now the Nevada Test Site. The U.S. government tested nuclear bombs there for four decades, and a crack in the Earth's crust known as the ... read more |
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Guatemala 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. ... more  
Vienna (AFP) June 3, 2010Floodwaters surged into a town in northern Austria Thursday as torrential rains disrupted rail services, cut a border crossing with Germany and sent emergency services on nationwide alert. The river Inn burst its banks and part flooded the northern town of Schaerding, while the mighty Danube was rising to dangerous levels, a day after floods in central Europe left three people dead. Wate ... more  
Jalay Town, Liberia (AFP) June 3, 2010Six months pregnant and with two toddlers to feed, saving the rainforest isn't top of Marita Worjiloh's list of priorities right now. A log lies smoking amid burned, jagged tree stumps as Marita tosses seeds into the fertile soil gouged out of Liberia's jungle. She knows this traditional method of slash-and-burn farming is decimating woodlands, but "if I had something to do to make money ... more |
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Canada supermarkets curb 'destructively fished' seafoodOttawa (AFP) June 2, 2010 Canada's major supermarket chains won unusual praise from Greenpeace on Wednesday for starting to rid their shelves of "destructively fished or farmed" seafood. In a report, Greenpeace ranked eight major grocery chains on their efforts to help improve the sustainability of the seafood they buy and sell. It said that "following pressure by environmental organizations and the public," retailers have started adopting sustainability policies for their seafood supply chains, and stopped selling up to ... read more |
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