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Dam Breach at Mount Polley Mine in British Columbia
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Published August 17, 2014
A breach in an earthen containment dam at a mine in British Columbia sent wastewater surging into nearby creeks and lakes.
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Unusual July Temperatures
Published August 8, 2014
If you live in the northern hemisphere, the past few weeks have been strange. In places where it should be seasonably hot, it’s just warm. In places where weather is usually mild in the summer, it has been ridiculously hot.
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Mudslide Near Collbran, Colorado
Published June 20, 2014
The Grand Mesa of western Colorado is extremely prone to landslides, and on May 25, an unusually large one sped across some three miles near the town of Collbran.
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Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn
Published May 26, 2014
Crews on the International Space Station seldom see the southern tip of Argentina and Chile in such clear weather.
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Karst Landscape, China
Published May 4, 2014
Water shaped the unique landscape of southeast China’s Guangxi Province.
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Clues for a Martian Landscape
Published April 29, 2014
Canyons on Mars show a striking similarity to a handful of canyons on Earth. Could they have had the same type of watery origin?
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Arkansas River Meanders
Published April 21, 2014
Near the city of Little Rock, the river has meandered for decades, leaving its marks across the landscape.
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Mapping Minerals with Light
Published April 17, 2014
A combo of infrared and visible wavelengths exposes the mineral geology around China’s Piqiang Fault.
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Kansas Prairie Fires
Published April 9, 2014
Prairies can’t exist without fire, so burning is essential to preserving the last remaining tallgrass prairie in North America.
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Bowknot Bend
Published March 17, 2014
The Green River in eastern Utah once carved soft sediment into meanders on a floodplain. Then the land and mountains rose and the river dug deep, preserving those meanders in stone.
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Hawaii
Published January 29, 2014
The Island of Hawaii is a vast canvas of environments from desert shores to rain forests to frozen mountain heights.
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8,000-meter Peaks of the Himalaya and Karakoram
Published January 28, 2014
The geologic story of the world’s tallest mountains is one that began some 40 million years ago.
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