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The Day the Sun Brought Darkness

The Day the Sun Brought Darkness (w/Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 1

On March 13, 1989 the entire province of Quebec, Canada suffered an electrical power blackout. Hundreds of blackouts occur in some part of North America every year. The Quebec Blackout was different, because ...





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Filipino troops try to keep volcano evacuees safe (AP)

Filipino troops try to keep volcano evacuees safe

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Police and soldiers donned Santa hats and red clown noses and belted out songs in crammed evacuation centers in hopes of keeping 47,000 displaced residents from sneaking back to their homes on the ...


Most of 47,000 Filipinos safe from raging volcano (AP)

Most of 47,000 Filipinos safe from raging volcano

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- Almost all of the 47,000 residents living on the slopes of a rumbling volcano in the central Philippines have moved to emergency shelters, and lava and earthquakes Tuesday heralded what officials ...


Philippine volcano gets louder, could blow up soon (AP)

Philippine volcano gets louder, could erupt soon

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(AP) -- Philippine troops on Monday pressed the last 3,000 villagers who have refused to heed government warnings to leave the danger zone around a volcano that experts say is ready to erupt.


Major volcanic eruption feared in Philippines (AP)

Major volcanic eruption feared in Philippines

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Philippines' most active volcano could have a huge eruption within days, officials warned Sunday after detecting a drastic surge in earthquakes and eerie rumbling sounds in surrounding foothills. ...


South China Sea Bridge

China Building 30-Mile Bridge Connecting Hong Kong to Guangdong Province

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 3 weblog

China Daily reports the commencement of the 30-mile Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the longest sea bridge under construction world-wide. The six-lane expressway will cut travel time from three-hours to around ...


More Filipinos leave homes as volcano spills lava (AP)

More Filipinos leave homes as volcano spills lava

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Security forces in army trucks Friday sent about 3,000 residents outside the danger zone surrounding the smoldering Mayon volcano, which looked set for a major eruption after days of shooting ash ...


Fertilizer use not always helpful in revegetation efforts

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Companies and communities trying to restore vegetation on damaged northern landscapes should think twice about using fertilizer to stimulate growth according to new research published in the November issue of Arctic, Antarctic an ...


Proximity to convenience stores fosters child obesity

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Childhood obesity is directly related to how close kids live to convenience stores, according to the preliminary findings of a major Canadian study presented at the Entretiens Jacques-Cartier in Lyon, France. The ongoing ...


Surveying bird biodiversity from space?

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A fundamental rule of wildlife ecology says that diverse habitats foster greater biodiversity: The Amazon has far more species than Greenland. But how do habitat and biodiversity relate in a state like Wisconsin, ...


Netherlands to slaughter more animals in Q fever epidemic

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Netherlands stepped up measures Wednesday against the world's biggest Q fever epidemic that has killed 10 humans, by ordering the slaughter of over 30,000 animals, a press release said.



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