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River Runs Free After Dramatic Dam Explosion (Video)
October 31st, 2011
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YouTube /Video screen capture There may be no more potent symbol of our propensity to manipulate nature than a dam — and perhaps no greater testament to changing attitudes than in knocking them down. For nearly a century, Washington’s Condit Dam strangled the White Salmon River, forming a lake which profoundly reshaped the landscape and tipped the local ecosystem’s delicate balance, that is, until last week. In what may be the most dramatic dam removal operation ever caught on film, engineers blew a hole in the Condit Dam, unleashing a torrent water and setti…
Yes, We’re Still Causing Climate Change & Yes, It’s Still Bad
October 29th, 2011
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The following piece, by Dana Nuccitelli, originally appeared in Skeptical Science . Now that the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) study results are in, and have confirmed the accuracy of the surface temperature record (see here and here ), those “skeptics” who spent years disputing the accuracy of the record despite all the evidence pointing to…
Breakthrough Technology Maps Rainforests In 3D, Including Carbon Storage
October 28th, 2011
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? Carnegie Airborne Observatory, Carnegie Institution for Science Between Google and NASA, we would think mapping technology is already darn near perfect. But thanks to the work of researchers and scientists at Carnegie Institution for Science, we know mapping technology is just getting going.
