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  Disaster Charter Brings Satellites To Bear On Romanian Flooding

  August 14, 2005 — Teams responding to devastating flooding in Romania received assistance from orbit, with satellite images and maps of affected areas provided in near-real time following activation of the ... > full story
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  Envisat Monitoring China Floods As Part Of Dragon Programme

  August 14, 2005 — China's rainy season has led to serious flooding in the north-east and south of the country. A joint Chinese-European team is gathering Envisat radar imagery of the developing situation to give the ... > full story
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  Native Lore Tells The Tale: There's Been A Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On

  July 12, 2005 — Stories of two-headed serpents and epic battles between Thunderbird and Whale, common among Northwest native peoples, have their root in the region's seismic history. New research led by a University ... > full story
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  USGS Scientists Document Widespread Increases In Streamflow And Changes In The Timing Of Snowmelt Over The Past 50 Years

  June 19, 2005 — U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists have identified nationwide trends toward increasing streamflow in many areas of the nation since 1940 based on data collected from long-term USGS streamgages. ... > full story
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  Students Tackle Flooding In Honduras

  May 2, 2005 — Eight MIT students -- five graduate students and three undergraduates -- spent spring break 2005 in Tocoa, Honduras, working on an automated flood early warning system and visiting towns that had ... > full story
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  'Dead Zone' Area In Gulf Could Be Increasing, Researchers Say

  April 26, 2005 — The "dead zone" area of the Gulf of Mexico -- a region that annually suffers from low oxygen which can result in huge marine life losses -- has appeared much earlier this year, meaning it ... > full story
• Invasive Species
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  Beneficial Beetles Battle Pesky Saltcedar

  April 21, 2005 — Agricultural Research Service (ARS) entomologist C. Jack DeLoach, ARS ecologist Raymond I. Carruthers, and their co-investigators have found that a leafbeetle that they've investigated and helped ... > full story
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  'Dead Zone' Area In Gulf Could Be Increasing, Researchers Say

  April 13, 2005 — The “dead zone” area of the Gulf of Mexico – a region that annually suffers from low oxygen which can result in huge marine life losses – has appeared much earlier this year, ... > full story
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  Fossil Records Show Biodiversity Comes And Goes

  March 26, 2005 — A detailed and extensive new analysis of the fossil records of marine animals over the past 542 million years has yielded a stunning surprise. Biodiversity appears to rise and fall in mysterious ... > full story
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  Wetlands Clean Water And May Control Neighborhood Flood Problems

  March 9, 2005 — Constructed wetlands in planned communities can aid in surface water cleanup and flood prevention, according to Purdue University scientists who completed a five-year study on the management ... > full story

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