"by Patrick J. MichaelsGreat Miami Hurricane of 1926. If it occurred today, it would easily cause twice as much damage as 2005's vaunted Hurricane Katrina.
Patrick J. Michaels is a senior fellow in environmental...
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"As climate change legislation hopefully gets bogged down in a do-nothing Congress that continually punts on major issues of the day - keep your fingers crossed! - America's courts are likely to become the real...
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"HUNTINGTON -- A catastrophic failure Thursday in a Crandall Canyon mine tunnel killed three men, injured six others and cast grave doubt on whether a rescue mission to find six missing miners could ever resume.
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"An ancient forest of cypress trees, estimated to be eight million years old, has been discovered in Hungary.
Archaeologists found the 16 preserved trunks in an open cast coal mine in the north-eastern city of...
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Those men, their families, I can't imagine what they are going through."Drill reaches Utah mine chamber where 6 trapped
James Nelson, Reuters
Published: Friday, August 10, 2007
HUNTINGTON, Utah -- Rescue crews drilled into a deep chamber where six miners are trapped in a...
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In a first for a major television series, agent Jack Bauer will come out with all barrels blazing against global warming next season in Fox Networks hit series 24. Bauer, played by actor Kiefer Sutherland, is set...
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Breaking news from Utah...6 miners have been trapped in an underground coal mine shortly after a magnitude 4.0 earthquake caused a collapse. Emery County Sheriff rescue workers are rushing to ...
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"Rational approaches to save the planet are resolutely opposed by the US (the world’s worst greenhouse gas polluter) and Australia, the country with the highest annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution, and...
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It's hard not to connect the dots when all over the world, citizens are reporting wild weather outbreaks.Take a look at the photos sent in by Nowpublic member Rikx from Newcastle in New South Wales in Australia....
Recall notice from RC2 Corporation, manufacturing of Tomas the Tank Engine and Friends wooden vehicles and train set components...."In cooperation with the CPSC, RC2 has issued a voluntary recall on June 13th,...
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This is an update of some prior postings: a massive storm continues to besiege Australia's Southeastern coast, resulting in fatalities, power outages, flooding, and gale-force winds."At least six people have been...
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Looks like the ship was empty, giving big windage on exposed sidesLive coverage (real Player) - source ABC News Thanks for the additional image unofficialsquaw - the ship looks like it is right on the beach...
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There is a deadly secret lurking behind all the gabble
gobble going on around the world today about global warming. The
knowledge is seeping through to us turkeys that our planet has at...
created by ngungun | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 548 views | 5 recommendations | 2 comments
"An innovative method of transforming coal waste into a powerful new energy form has been developed by a team of scientists based in Northern Ireland.
They have come up with a chemical formula which, when added to coal sludge, produces fuel pellets which can be burned in...