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MSNBC
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Water levels in the lake had been rising steadily and threatened to flood surrounding areas, prompting authorities to evacuate nearly 200,000 people already uprooted by the quake.
But Xinhua said with little rain forecast for the next several days, res..
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SF Gate
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Chinese soldiers Monday moved in to explode earthquake debris blocking a river where quickly rising waters threatened to flood disaster victims.
Two weeks after the magnitude 7.9 earthquake hit central Sichuan province, lakes formed by obstructed river..
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BBC News
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A vast underground lake that scientists hoped could help to end violence in Sudan's Darfur region probably dried up thousands of years ago, an expert says.
Alain Gachet, who used satellite images and radar in his research, said the area received too li..
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News.com.au
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SIXTY-five people were killed and seven injured in the west African state of Guinea after the truck in which they were travelling toppled into a lake.
Officials said the accident yesterday near the town of Gueckedou, about 700km southeast of the capita..
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BBC News
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Another 80,000 Chinese people are being evacuated from near a lake formed by landslides in this month's huge earthquake, state media report.
Experts fear the build-up of water at the swollen Tangjiashan lake could burst the banks, deluging the area...
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BBC News
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Troops in China are trying to clear a river blocked during the recent earthquake, amid fears millions could be at risk of flooding.
About 1,800 soldiers took explosives to the newly formed "quake lake" to try to blast away debris, state media said...
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SF Gate
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Melting ice in southern Chile caused a glacial lake to swell and then empty suddenly, sending a "tsunami" rolling through a river, a scientist said Thursday. No one was injured in the remote region.
Glacier scientist Gino Casassa said the melting of th..
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ABC News
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Two years after a teenage gunman went on a rampage at the Red Lake Indian Reservation, the community is grieving once again.
The bodies of two young brothers missing since November were found encased in ice Sunday about a half-mile from where they live..
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CNN
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Civil defense authorities in New Zealand have activated an emergency response plan after the volcanic crater lake at Mt. Ruapehu burst its banks sending a mudflow down the mountain, Australian media reported on Sunday.
There were no reports of injuries..
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Chicago Tribune
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A severe line of thunderstorms and tornados slammed through Lake and Volusia counties overnight, leaving fatalities and destruction in its path, officials said this morning...
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