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| Farm structures, fence, trees and brush go up in flames on rural property near Ordway, Colo., on Tuesday, April 15, 2008. What started as a grass fire southeast of the small town in southeastern Colorado quickly grew into a massive blaze as high winds fueled flames and destroyed houses and agricultural ground.
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Firefighters were hoping rain and snow Wednesday would help them quell blazes that scorched thousands of acres, forced hundreds of residents to evacuate and left three people dead.
Six teenagers and a teacher have been killed in a flash flood on a river in New Zealand. The river level had risen sharply in half an hour, sweeping some of them downstream through a gorge.
A group of 12 students and teachers were on an outdoor leadership course when they were hit by floodwaters late yesterday in the Mangetepopo Gorge, in an isolated area near the centre of New Zealand's North Island.
Sylvia Westall
ReutersWed, 16 Apr 2008 19:27 UTC
Vienna -- Scientists are developing a tsunami warning system for the Mediterranean region which they said on Wednesday should be ready in 2011 and could save thousands of lives.
A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sulawesi island on Thursday but there was no tsunami threat and no immediate reports of damage, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said.
Cleveland, Ohio - Researchers from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo have discovered a rare giant turtle in northern Vietnam - a find that carries great scientific and cultural significance. Swinhoe's soft-shell turtle was previously thought to be extinct in the wild. Three other turtles of the species are in captivity, said experts from the Zoo's Asian turtle program.
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| This undated photo provided by the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo shows a captive Swinhoe's soft-shell turtle from Thanh Hoa province in Vietnam. Zoo researchers recently discovered one of the rare giant turtles in the wild in northern Vietnam.
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Rudy Trevino
KIIITVWed, 16 Apr 2008 22:42 UTC
Killer bees in Kingsville apparently living up to their name. The Africanized insects swarmed a neighborhood leaving one man seriously injured and killing at least five dogs.
As Jesse Rios was recounting his harrowing brush with the killer bees Monday afternoon, we came under attack.
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Araneda, A., Torrejon, F., Aguayo, M., Torres, L., Cruces, F., Cisternas, M. and Urrutia, R. 2007. Historical records of San Rafael glacier advances (North Patagonian Icefield): another clue to "Little Ice Age" timing in southern Chile? The Holocene 17: 987-998.
The first uniform statewide earthquake model forecasts at least one big one in next 30 years, says a new study.
The world's beaches and shores are anything but pristine. Volunteers scoured 33,000 miles of shoreline worldwide and found 6 million pounds of debris from cigarette butts and food wrappers to abandoned fishing lines and plastic bags that threaten seabirds and marine mammals.
A report by the Ocean Conservancy, to be released Wednesday, catalogues nearly 7.2 million items that were collected by volunteers on a single day last September as they combed beaches and rocky shorelines in 76 countries from Bahrain to Bangladesh and in 45 states from southern California to the rocky coast of Maine.
Last year on Earth Day, we were treated to a full-page homage piece that honored the environmentalist cabal.
