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Warming is accelerating global water cycle
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 5th, 2010
ScienceNews: Fresh water evaporates from the oceans, rains out over land and then runs back into the seas. A new study finds evidence that global warming has been speeding up this hydrological cycle recently, a change that could lead to more violent storms. It could also alter where precipitation falls -- drying temperate areas, those places where most people now live. Among the new study's more dramatic calculations: River runoff into the seas has been increasing by some 540 cubic kilometers per ...
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Hungary declares a state of emergency after sludge disaster
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 5th, 2010
AP: The Hungarian government has declared a state of emergency after a third person died today in flooding from a ruptured red sludge reservoir at an alumina plant. Six people were missing and 120 injured in what officials said was an ecological disaster. The sludge, a waste product in aluminum production, contains heavy metals and is toxic if ingested. Many of the injured suffered burns as the sludge seeped through their clothes. Two of the injured were in life-threatening condition. An ...