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Number of missing in Washington mudslide drops to 13, official says
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 3rd, 2014
Reuters: The number of people missing in the mudslide in Washington state has dropped to 13, down from 20 earlier on Wednesday, incident command spokeswoman Sheri Badger said.
The reduction represents a sharp decrease from the days soon after the March 22 mudslide, when at one point authorities had received up to 176 missing person reports related to the disaster. The current death toll stands at 29.
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Amazon Studied to Predict Impact of Climate Change
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 3rd, 2014
ScienceDaily: hree extreme weather events in the Amazon Basin in the last decade are giving scientists an opportunity to make observations that will allow them to predict the impacts of climate change and deforestation on some of the most important ecological processes and ecosystem services of the Amazon River wetlands.
Scientists from Virginia Tech, the Woods Hole Research Center, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, funded by NASA, are collaborating with Brazilian scientists to explore the ecosystem...