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The Appalachian Mountains run from Newfoundland in Canada to central Alabama in the USA. Certain regions of this ancient and…
In 1969 the Marcopper Mining Corporation began open-cut mining at Mount Tapian on Marinduque Island in the Philippines. Marinduque is…
On August 2 1990 Iraqi president Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, provoking instant condemnation from the international community. The UN immediately…
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The impact of human activity on the planet and the consequences of that activity going wrong are nowhere as dramatically…
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Located in Japan’s Mie Prefecture, Yokkaichi is an important industrial town noted for the manufacture of such diverse products as…
The fate of the Aral Sea has been described as the greatest manmade ecological catastrophe. Once the world's fourth largest…