Iowa fertilizer spill kills nearly all fish across sixty mile stretch of rivers
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Cargo ship hits major bridge in Baltimore, triggering collapse (gifted link)
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Sulfur dioxide pumped out by the erupting volcano on Iceland is currently traveling across northern Europe – scientists concerned it could impact the ozone layer
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Connecticut, USA wants to penalize insurers for backing fossil-fuel projects
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A state of emergency has been declared in southern Iceland after another volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula – the fourth since December
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Russian ‘dark fleet’ lacks disaster insurance, leaks suggest
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Boeing is withholding key details about door plug on Alaska 737 Max 9 jet, NTSB says
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Hydropower can be an environmental and human disaster – but do the risks have to be so big?
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MH370 and the sea creatures that opened a new mystery
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What Boeing’s door-plug debacle says about the future of aviation safety
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350,000 Californians are now on the FAIR Plan, the last resort for fire insurance. Now what?
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Copenhagen is just one city among many around the world taking a novel approach to prevent repeated flooding. It is becoming a sponge.
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Crooked House: Owners of wonky UK pub ordered to rebuild
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One of the world’s biggest cities may be just months away from running out of water
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The spiralling cost of insuring against climate disasters – rising home premiums are a de facto ‘carbon price’ on consumers as extreme weather events become more frequent
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Tobago oil spill spreads to Grenada waters and could affect Venezuela
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Climate change threatens Europe’s trains, but resilience is expensive
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Iceland plans to buy out home owners in volcano-struck town of Grindavík – total cost of the buyout could be as much as $440 million
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Border collies run like the wind to bring new life to Chilean forest after fire
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Category 6 hurricanes have arrived
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State of emergency has been declared in Iceland after lava from a volcanic eruption damaged key hot water pipes
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New report shows that a crowded historic neighborhood suffered disproportionate casualties in Lahaina Hawaii fire
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The extraordinary world of fake cities, and simulated urban environments
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Attempts to plant new Joshua Trees after destructive fires assisted by load carrying camels
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US rail safety legislation still stalled one year after East Palestine Ohio disaster
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Grindavík in Iceland now lies empty. Its people have fled and are beginning to face up to the realisation they may never be able live there again.
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Seismic City by Joanna Dyl: an economic class and political history of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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Norway hit by hurricane-force winds – is climate change making Europe's extreme storms worse?
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How a huge rainfall simulator helps Japan study and prevent landslides
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A landslide of contaminated soil threatens environmental disaster in Denmark. Who pays to stop it?
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Russia State Duma to prepare statement to US Congress and German parliament regarding Belgorod plane crash
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Seaweed could save a billion people from famine after a nuclear war
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Iceland battles a lava flow – countries have built barriers and tried explosives in the past, but it's hard to stop molten rock
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Iceland residents of Grindavík, first evacuated in November, have been told to evacuate again after volcanic fissures opened
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Saving the drought stricken Panama Canal will take years and cost billions, if it’s even possible
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As Houthi missiles block the Suez, drought depletes the Panama Canal
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iPhone survives falling 16,000ft (4,876m) from airplane
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Planes collide and catch fire at Japan’s busy Haneda airport, killing five. Hundreds evacuated safely.
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Japan's 7.6-magnitude earthquake lifted land out of the sea, extending parts of its coastline by as much as 820 feet
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Powerful quake rocks Japan, nearly 100,000 residents ordered to evacuate
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Hooked on volcanoes? Tourists vie to catch Iceland's eruptions.
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The world’s largest earthquake simulator, and how it works
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After 800 years, volcanic activity has returned to Reykjanes – Andri Snær Magnason reflects on the Icelandic relationship with volcanoes
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Eruption has started in Iceland
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A man blew up his apartment in Japan while trying to kill a single cockroach with way too much insecticide, police say
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Why is the Colorado River running dry?
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‘Green roads’ are plowing ahead, buffering drought and floods
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US emergency risk index used for allocating disaster prevention and mitigation spending ignores coastal Washington tsunami risk and other predictable disasters
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The Try Guys make ramen - Without A Recipe 2023
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A matter of millimeters: the story of Qantas flight 32
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