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May 15, 2013
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Meet America’s first climate refugees
The people of Newtok, Alaska are living a slow-motion disaster that will end, very possibly within the next five years, with the entire village being washed away. Continue reading
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Cotton offers a new ecologically friendly way to clean up oil spills
With the Deepwater Horizon disaster emphasizing the need for better ways of cleaning up oil spills, scientists are reporting that unprocessed, raw cotton may be an ideal, ecologically friendly answer, with an amazing ability to sop up oil. Continue reading
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Questions still unanswered following Exxon oil spill
It has been more than a month since the Exxon Mobil tar sands oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas and residents and investigators are still waiting for answers to basic questions about the disaster. Continue reading
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Chinese boat crashes in protected coral reef… with thousands of illegally killed pangolins on board
It was already bad enough that a Chinese boat crashed into the Tubbataha reef, a protected coral reef off the coast of the Philippines, but what the coast guard found inside increased massively the size of the environmental disaster. Continue reading
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Affordable bamboo housing floats when it floods
Severe flooding is a major concern in many parts of the world, but this low-cost bamboo house may literally help its inhabitants keep afloat during a disaster. Continue reading
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Few effective, evidence-based interventions to prevent posttraumatic stress disorder, review finds
A new review summarizes the results of a systematic review of clinical interventions for adults exposed to at least one traumatic event such as war, a natural or human-made disaster, motor vehicle accidents, community violence, sexual assault or domest… Continue reading
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Living through a tornado does not shake optimism
Even in the face of a disaster, we remain optimistic about our chances of injury compared to others, according to a new study. Residents of a town struck by a tornado thought their risk of injury from a future tornado was lower than that of peers, both… Continue reading
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Robots with lift: Researchers use combustible gases to power leaping machines
Using small explosions produced by a mix of methane and oxygen, researchers have designed a soft robot that can leap as much as a foot in the air. That ability to jump could one day prove critical in allowing the robots to avoid obstacles during search… Continue reading
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Scientists discover how chromosomes keep their loose ends loose
We take it for granted that our chromosomes won’t stick together, yet this kind of cellular disaster would happen constantly were it not for a protein called TRF2. Now, scientists have discovered key details of how TRF2 performs this crucial chromoso… Continue reading
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Asteroid deflection mission seeks smashing ideas
A space rock several hundred metres across is heading towards our planet and the last-ditch attempt to avert a disaster — an untested mission to deflect it — fails. This fictional scene of films and novels could well be a reality one day. But what ca… Continue reading
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Eye-Catching, Disaster-Resistant Earthbag Homes for Post-Earthquake Haiti
How one crowdfunded organization is using earth building techniques to build impressive and durable structures for Haiti. Continue reading
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Oceana Launches Expedition to Learn Long-Term Effects of Gulf Oil Spill
Photo via Southerntabitha As BP pushes hard to shift attention away from the spill itself and on to clean-up and wrap-up efforts, Oceana has launched an expedition that will study the long-term effects of the disaster on the Gulf’s flora and fauna. Ho… Continue reading
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