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Lori Dengler | Dams and earthquakes: Water hazards don’t just come from tsunamis

Dams are important. In California, they generate 15% of our energy. They also provide storage for much of our drinking and ...
The Australian

2010 'one of worst' years for disasters

The devastating earthquake in Haiti a year ago accounted for about two-thirds of the toll, killing more than 222,500 people, according to the Belgium-based Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of ...
The Straits Times

Spain calls wildfires one of its worst disasters in years

MADRID - The Spanish government on Aug 26 described wildfires that have swept the country as one of the country’s worst environmental disasters in years, as it approved relief measures for affected ...