Photo via EyeBrazil Brazil’s proposed construction of what would be the third largest hydroelectric dam on the planet has drawn ire from environmental groups the world over. The planned dam at Belo Monte , protestors say, will flood and destroy much of the region’s plant and animal life, as well as displace the indigenous peoples there. So contentious ha… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Brazil’s Lula Slams "Gringo" Protests of Amazon Dam
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Haiti earthquake: fault visible from Space as stress had Built Underground for Decades; PHOTO A magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred on January 12, 2010, at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with major impact to the region and its citizens. This perspective view of the pre-quake topography of the area clearly shows the fault that is apparently responsible for the earthquake as a prominent linear landform immediately adjacent to the city.
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Haiti earthquake: fault visible from Space
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Commission: ‘We still don’t know’ how many contractors US employs in Iraq, Afghanistan
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AMESBURY and mdash; Firefighters from across the region rallied to support the Amesbury Fire Department yesterday when a two-alarm fire broke out in a computer recycling center at 23 Noel St. Though it was a small fire largely contained inside an enormous machine Allied Computer Brokers uses to grind up computer parts, dangerous fumes that emitted from the burning plastic sent five workers to …
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Toxic gas a concern in blaze (The Daily News of Newburyport)
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