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Question

Large lake in southern Chile disappears


Reuters
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:42 UTC
A lake in southern Chile has mysteriously disappeared, prompting speculation the ground has simply opened up and swallowed it whole.

The lake was situated in the Magallanes region in Patagonia and was fed by water, mostly from melting glaciers.

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Workers from Chile's National Forestry Corporation (CONAF) stand at the bottom of a dried lake in Magallanes, south of Santiago.
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Bulb

Climate Change: Read the sunspots

Timothy Patterson
National Post
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:18 UTC
The mud at the bottom of B.C. fjords reveals that solar output drives climate change - and that we should prepare now for dangerous global cooling
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Snowman

Forget warming - beware the new ice age

Lawrence Solomon
National Post
Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:00 UTC
In the 1970s, leading scientists claimed that the world was threatened by an era of global cooling.

Based on what we've learned this decade, says George Kukla, those scientists - and he was among them -- had it right. The world is about to enter another Ice Age.
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Wolf

Prey not hard-wired to fear predators


EurekAlert / Wildlife Conservation Society
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:28 UTC
Are Asian elk hard-wired to fear the Siberian tigers who stalk them" When wolves disappear from the forest, are moose still afraid of them?

No, according to a study by Wildlife Conservation Society scientist Dr. Joel Berger, who says that several large prey species, including moose, caribou and elk, only fear predators they regularly encounter. If you take away wolves, you take away fear. That is a critical piece of knowledge as biologists and public agencies increase efforts to re-introduce large carnivores to places where they have been exterminated. Berger's study is published in the latest issue of the journal Conservation Biology.
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Cloud Lightning

90 Homes Evacuated Near Colorado Wildfire

Catherine Tsai
AP
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:38 UTC
White and yellow smoke billowed into the western Colorado sky Tuesday as firefighters battled three wildfires likely sparked by lightning that have burned at least 2,000 acres and forced evacuations of 90 homes.
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Telescope

Will Earth Need A Reboot After The Sky Falls?

Howard Dratch
Blog Critics Magazine
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:31 UTC
Earth has been hit and is constantly at risk of attack by interlopers from space. These are called "near earth objects" (NEOs). Major players are asteroids. Most burn harmlessly during their trip through the atmosphere. However, just as in the intensely mediocre films, Armageddon and Deep Impact, there is more than a zero chance that a large one will threaten earth in the near future.
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Cloud Lightning

Worst summer drought in 30 years leaves one mln people thirsty in NE China


Xinhua
Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:13 UTC
The worst summer drought to hit northeast China's Liaoning Province in 30 years has left more than one million people short of drinking water, the provincial government said.

Nearly all the 14 cities in Liaoning Province have been affected by the drought, though the situation is more serious in the northwestern and central-southern parts of the province where 88 small and medium-sized reservoirs have dried up, the provincial flood prevention and drought control headquarters told Xinhua on Tuesday.
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Attention

Tensions rise as U.S. drought worsens, threatens to spread


Chicago Tribune
Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:54 UTC
North and South Carolina are fighting over a river. In Tennessee, springs are drying up, jeopardizing production of Jack Daniels whiskey. The mayor of Los Angeles is asking residents to take shorter showers. And in Georgia, the governor is praying for rain.

More than a third of the United States is in the grip of a menacing drought that threatens to spread before the summer ends.
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Red Flag

Strong earthquake hits off Papua New Guinea


AFP
Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:22 UTC
A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Papua New Guinea on Monday but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, a spokesman for Geoscience Australia said.
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Red Flag

Moderate earthquake jolts central Iran


Xinhua
Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:19 UTC
A 5.9-magnitude earthquake shook Iran's central areas on Monday, and there was no immediate reports of casualties or damage, state media reported.

The epicenter of the tremor, which occurred at 17:59 local time (1429 GMT), was 19 km from Qom, about 150 km south of Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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